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Google your name

  • 11-05-2004 12:17am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭


    I decided to google my name and see what results came out. Because my name is a very rare Irish name there wasn't too many results but the result that popped up a few times was this:
    Children were "terrified" on visit to church

    :(


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    god almighty.....thats worse than http://www.gerryoconnor.net/donalweb/booking.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    hmm, seems like I play Midfield for Wellington, NZ

    or, if I had a B as my middle initial, I'd have a PhD.

    or, I'm a Business Objects Systems Engineer.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I come from Sutton. I typed in my name and, most prominently, got a stupid guy in RTE. There were a few others as well. The most disappointing part was that, though I only got about fifteen or so names that matched in full, one of them was a completely different guy who also lived in Sutton. I felt so non-special :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    I'm an NFL player and........this


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭niallith


    i play for some carlow/kildare gaelic team ???
    http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/2000/08/11/story9284.asp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭aodh_rua


    I'm currently the top me - but it's a constant battle with agriculture professor in Newcastle and a health food guru in the States!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Originally posted by niallith
    i play for some carlow/kildare gaelic team ???
    http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/2000/08/11/story9284.asp

    well there a lot of things we don't know bout ourselves :dunno: mar shampla i'm a Irish Traditional Musician


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭IDM


    I'm a famous australian country music singer & I used to play for Tranmere Rovers.

    How am I supposed to beat out a famous musician for top spot on Google ? Anybody have any ideas ?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    Originally posted by IDM
    Anybody have any ideas ?

    Launch a porn site dedicated to your boxers :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭IDM


    Oh I've got a classic 'Name Googling' story. I've known this for a while (hehe) but recently one of my girlfriend's friends googled herself only to find that she shares her name with a hollywood pornstar. Hehehe. She was a little traumatised, I think. Class imo :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    I typed in my name, Paul Connolly, and I strangely appear on the front page, although not on top.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭robbie1876


    Wow, I've had some spectacular deaths. First I died when I drove my SUV in a stationary truck. Then I came off a speedway bike while in competion. But the favourite time I've died so far is receiving a high voltage electrocution while DJ'ing !!!!!! What a cool way to go....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by robbie1876
    receiving a high voltage electrocution while DJ'ing

    next time you're giging, be careful...drinks and keyboards don't mix well :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    I ran for laois offaly constituency as an independent and failed to get a seat.

    i guess being five years old didnt help


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭Deadwing


    Oh man i win. Apparrently ive been convicted for the shocking and gruesome murder of my wife and daughter, and then escaped by jumping off a speeding train, for i am..EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!

    Also im played by sean bean...i think he captures my rugged good looks well :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭gobby


    Looks like im a coal engineer. my expertise's are:

    Coal Chemistry
    Coal Petrography
    Coal breakage and grinding
    Coal washability
    Minimisation of coal fines

    not so sure what the last one is supposed to be


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    i

    publish a crime magazine
    am a scientologist
    am a politician in the american house of representatives
    and died on the titanic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    I get around, in my spare time I'm church vocalist, a baptist, ex president of some other religous organisation (must be the same guy), one of the all time leading scorers for the Falcons football team yet at the same time hold the record for the most interceptions thrown, came 3rd in the CoolRunnings Catch a Leprechaun :confused: 30k race in the 200lbs and over category but best of all I'm the hidden identity of a Masked Wrestler !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭catho_monster


    hehehe

    started off well, giving a belly dance for salvador dali at the age of 2

    am a research student in Modern European History and Eurodoctorate participant in UCL

    Professionally, i am concurrantly the Vice President of the Middlesex Public Library and a Captain of the Airforce Association Reserve Advisory Council.

    (No wonder i always felt the urge to regress to my childhood)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭banbutcher


    well it seems that i have a number of professions, one being a Lake Fork Bass Fishing guide and another being a 1st year pediatric doctor so all in all im rather proud of myself!! ive acomplished alot in my short time on this planet!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭Agent7249


    As a yank:
    I'm a player for harvard in basketball and also captained in american football for harvard and Won some prized writing $h!t€ on genetic mutations.

    In irish:
    I'm a sub for the under 18's mayo team in gaelic football.
    In the Irish Amateur boxing association I beat someone called John Joe Joyce.
    Ugh im a part of the kerry mountain rescue team.

    bloody hard enough to get any info whatsoever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭Kobie


    Actually it's a good idea to Google yourself from time to time - it's not unknown for potential employers to Google their candidates to see what they've been up to. I really don't know what the hell they'd make of you lot though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Here
    I have a 2 year contract with Derry City!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭jd


    Dead
    from
    Cancer

    but

    slept with
    Nigella Lawson :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭m4cker


    I am on kilkenny city council.

    but am also an artist want to see my work.http://www.theartbusiness.com/Artists%20Web%20Pages/andrewmcguinness.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭UnrealQueen


    Fcuk! Im famous;)

    Im a Canadian constitutional law expert.
    PM Pierre Trudeau is famous for fathering a child with me.
    I do professional canoeing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 bubblymc


    I've had a quiet life

    "your search did not match any documents"

    :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Johnny Versace


    "Wanted for master minding the 9/11 attacks"

    ...

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Boro


    Im in Days of Our Lives :)
    Andrew is the eldest son of Kimberly and Shane Brady. When he was born they believed he was Victor's child because Kimberly had slept with Victor to secure Shane's freedom, and it wasn't until long after the baby was born that they learned the truth. As a baby, he was kidnapped by Emma Marshall, and adopted by Paul and Barbara Stewart. Even after Barbara realised he was Kimberly's son she chose to keep him, but luckily Shane discovered the truth. When Kimberly and Shane divorced, she took the children and left Salem.

    Man i have a mixed up life!

    Rather worryingly i am also the commissioner of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services (ADAS) for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    I was shot dead by the IRA in 1991, although the previous owner of the house was the intended target :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Epitaph


    Well I was an Australian bushranger when my grandparents weren't yet born, so me = teh win :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    Nearly all my googles actually refer to me :( I blame an Irish forename and a Swedish surname


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    I work for a tourism promotion board and I have an identical twin sister!

    But, apart from that, I am myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    I'm the Master of the Universe.

    I win.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,580 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    me and again

    and then stuff re: my cycling results

    before my family kicks in, advantage of unusual name


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭The Clown Man




  • Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭penguinbloke


    I own a Mace in Clonakilty and am a world famous guitarist.

    but it took me till page 9 to really find myself, I'll have to do something about that...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭The Clown Man




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Originally posted by Johnny Versace
    "Wanted for master minding the 9/11 attacks"

    ...

    :D

    so you live in Dublin Osama?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I'm lead dancer of Riverdance
    economist
    involved in 'women in ICT'
    2002 UCD entrance scholar
    playing gaelic football in Carlow
    working in UCD's international office....
    I found myself on the 3rd page, and again on the 6th for something different.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Johnny Versace


    Originally posted by quarryman
    so you live in Dublin Osama?

    I'm here on holidays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Squall


    I

    am head of the molecular signaling department at host defenses
    Own a dental practice
    am an economist for the UWS
    am a dance musician
    have a phd in social science
    received a Medal of Honour for gallantry in action :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Originally posted by Johnny Versace
    I'm here on holidays.

    where bouts are you in Dublin, wanna meet up and terror people?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭KlodaX


    I don't exist. I even tried with my middle name.

    KlodaX comes up with boards stuff.... but I seem to be the only one with my real name.

    I'd better leave a mark so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Syd_Vicious


    I'm a highly qualified barrister orignally from Australia now teaching in the University Of Virginia in the States
    I'm a player on a US fresh college basketball team
    I'm a sales agent for the Heartworks company in the North
    I'm a swimmer with the Bury swimming club in England

    and finally

    I'm the head of the Department of Energy in the US Government :ninja:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭spoofilyj


    got me!!! four times... i mean come on there is no one else on the net with the same name as me i find it a bit hard to believe!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    He(I) wrote his(my) PhD on "The inter country diffusion of pharmaceutical products", but his(my) research during the past 20 years has focused on topics within the field of resource and environmental economics. Topics investigated include: optimal timing of gold mining; the payoff from oil and gas exploration; management of outdoor recreation; opportunity cost of landscape preservation, fisheries management; national sustainability indicators; non market valuation of improved water quality; productivity of endangered species programmes; evaluation of vertebrate pest control projects; infrastructural requirements of tourism; New Zealander's perceptions of the environment....

    I'm very busy.... damn him(me)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin




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