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Subject: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:06 PM If there has been a previous thread on this, then it was before my time. I am reliably informed by one who should know that "ego-surfing" is the geek term for searching on your own name on a search engine. I searched "Murray MacLeod" on Google and discovered that I was co-writer of a 1967 Top 40 hit, "Sunshine Girl", I have played session guitar on a couple of Loggins and Messina albums, and had minor supporting roles in episodes of "Kung-Fu" and "Colombo". I also hold down a job as a Senior Police Inspector in Ontario, as well as running a marine charter enterprise in the Western Hebrides. Anyone else have any surprise information to share ? (Hint: Google is by far the best search engine to use for this purpose) Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Brendy Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:14 PM Check it out!! B. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,#1 Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:21 PM I found out there was more than one me that way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:22 PM There's only one of me. But I was frightened at how many web pages I showed up on. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Naemanson Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:28 PM I am amazed. I am apparently a baseball player for the Auburn Tigers, a chantey singer with Roll & Go, a second grader in New Jersey, an actor in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers, the vocalist and artist for Torn Apart, a "metallic hardcore" band, a member of the Mudcat Café, and a member of Just Us, a folk duo with Pat Gardiner. I am not amazed that there are others who share my name but that in the above list there are only three that are NOT me.
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Bagpuss Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:31 PM Most of the hits I got were actually me, but I found out I am also a basketball player in the US. Bagpuss (AKA Katy Kiernan) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:38 PM Holy Keerist Brendy! You look a LOT younger in your photo! Oh yah, lucky me. I share names with a far-right author and teacher at ultra-conservative Bob Jones University! That's bad enough...but I even got an e-mail from one of his ex-students. I can only hope that a few commie pinko folksingers have sent CDs to HIM for radio airplay! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: SINSULL Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:41 PM i AM vp OF THE cIVIL sERVICE wORKERS uNION. aND A mUDCATTER |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Brendy Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:47 PM That wouldn't surprise me, Rick, as it was taken 7 years ago!! If it's the photo that you mean..that B/W one where I'm in the middle of eating a toasted sandwich, and the shutter went down in mid-chew. Isn't it terrible what they put up on the Internet these days? B. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:50 PM I haven't done this for some time. As I have an unusual surname, which is also a UK and Irish placename, I have used it as a test of any new search engines I come across. There are now many more people in the US than the UK with the surname and on the only time I stayed in the eponymous village I met some Canadians with the same name. Judging from the entries in various library catalogues they were a Dissenting lot in the 17th Century (no change there then!) and wrote a lot of Dissenting Tracts and got shipped out to the colonies! Americans tracing their ancestry sometimes contact me having found my name as it is on our institutional webpages. Investigating the family history will be one of my retirement projects (so Herself tells me, to save me from sitting around all day listening to music!). All I have so far are photos of a road sign, village sign, factory chimney and barely legible gravestone in the local church. RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: KingBrilliant Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:54 PM Wow - there are tons of Kristin Kings, but not many Kingbrilliants. (there's a couple of f**kingbrilliants - but that's just going too far innit ? :) ) Didn't find any "amoret king"s but plenty references to hammerite (of course). AND - I found out that free community events will "mark king" holiday - blimey!!! Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:05 PM I have searched some of the better known Mudcat names and been amazed at their list of talents and accomplishments, but I will leave it to them to post. I once made the mistake on another forum, of making a joking reference to a member whose name was David Berkowitz. I don't ever again want to go through the agony I felt when he emailed me and recounted tales of his school-days. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:35 PM Confident that I would find no other versions of myself, with my unusual last name, I was intrigued to find the following: Under David Oesterreich A recipe that I had posted for Bacon Avocado & Cheese Omelets with Tomato Sauce. This was far enough back that I'd forgotten the recipe. It was on an old pre-web BBS mail forum called Cuisine. A few postings I had made to Banjo-L, the banjo-player distribution list-really me. Then I found that I was an rally driver, driving a Corvette, at least back in '97-98. Under the name Dave Oesterreich I'm a right-handed male (thank God!) volleyball player in Austin. Don't know what state. Another show-up as a rally driver. Banjo-L postings again--me. And under D. R. Oesterreich No luck. The D period R period became DR, and as DR Oesterreich I'm a researcher, probably an MD, in Germany and/or Austria. All these entries in German. Fitting, I suppose, since "Oesterreich" is the German word for Austria. DAve Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Bert Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:41 PM All the "Bert Hansell" postings were me. I didn't know that I was a Jedi Master though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: SINSULL Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:45 PM Gee Bert, I did. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:48 PM There are hundreds and hundreds of me, and most of them (me) are far more successful and accomplished than me. (*sigh*). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Don Firth Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:57 PM There are a few guys out there named Don Firth, most of whom are not me. One is a woodworker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, and has a website called "Grampa'a Workshop." Another is into BeOS and shows up on discussion forums. Yet another is a high-powered executive somewhere, but I wasn't able to figure out what company or what he did. Bingo! One was me, in a long list of jazz and folk musicians who performed at the Llanhngaelhyn Coffeehouse in Seattle in the Sixties. Further on, I got into a large list of fan sites for British actor, Colin Firth. No relation, as far as I know. Lots of geographical locations, but no Firth of Don. Oh, well. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:57 PM But precious few as charming Carol. Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: sophocleese Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:05 PM All I can discover is that I perch in a lot of family trees. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Art Thieme Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:36 PM Well, there sure is more stuff on me than I ever would've suspected! I'm gonna print some of it out and stick it in my "ego box" along with old posters & press stuff. It'll be a sort of time capsule for our new granddaughter if she ever wants to know what I did with my life. Ya know, it was a bit like alchemy. I picked and sang into the wind-----and came home with the rent---and a million bucks worth of memories. Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:58 PM I don't want to talk about it........ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Lady McMoo Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:04 PM A word of caution about what you say! I once descibed something as a "dog's dinner" in a conference and a search on "dog's dinner" now brings up my name and faithfully transcribed words all over the net! mcmoo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:07 PM Under Matt Richards: --I have my own website, www.mattrichards.net and work for Intel --I'm the president of a Energy company --I'm an acoustic fingerstyle guitar virtuoso --I'm a hockey-obsessed University of Syracuse student --I hold the 2nd best track record in the 5000 meters at Lynchburg College --I'm an attorney in Singapore --I'm also a damn good baseball player at North Central College in Illinoise...well I was...in 1987!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:10 PM Boy, Matt, you sure keep busy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: kendall Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:14 PM I gotta check this out..brb |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:14 PM Yeah, especially since I was 8 in 1987! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:24 PM Awww... Rick. Thanks |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:27 PM Rick, you forget that no one is as radiantly beautiful as Carol! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: kendall Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:29 PM According to this, I'm 27, and a hockey coach! I didnt realize that there was so much info on me out there. Nuff to make one paranoid. Should I assume that there is only one other Kendall Morse out there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:29 PM **Blush** Thanks Matt |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:46 PM She's especially beautiful when she blushes, don't you think? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:53 PM Alex, you got a camera hidden in my apartment that I don't know about? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:56 PM Oh I agree, definately, Alex! Her photo belongs in an art gallery! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:58 PM Come on, Spaw, I have checked you out already. Confess or be "Outed". Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: mousethief Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:00 PM If I did, do you think I'd admit it? I may look stupid (okay, I look like a total idiot) but I really aren't that much so, stupidly-wise speaking. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:05 PM Well Carol, you may find us saccharine...but at least you know we're not gay! Here's one of the weirdest aspects of checking yourself out on the internet. Just typing in your name will get you X amount of stuff....but put it in a phrase (any phrase) and countless other crappola comes out! I've found reviews of albums and concerts that I didn't know existed. Quite a while ago I did some book illustrations that I'd forgotten about....THE NET FORGETS NOTHING! One little folk club in England has archived everyone who so much as tripped over their stage...so there I am with at least 40 musicians who are currently DEAD! Even found my late father scattered through Pharmaceutical stuff. Discovered he was Pharmaceutical executive of the year one time. Couple of tears from this end. I don't know about you Kendall, but the IFFY reviews don't do much for the ego. I WOULD like to know what Catspaw found though. Matt...the great thing for you is that you're young enough to still BE all those things! Rick Fielding (not the fundamentalist from Bob Jones U.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:19 PM Acoustic fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Matt? Sure you didn't type in Mc -something ? Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Hawker Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:26 PM I tried my real name rather than my Mudcat name and guess waht! I exist, Both as a musician and photographer! I am also apparently the clinical director of a pharmacy, a doctor...... And most sadly of all...... DEAD! And no-one told me! - I'm off to haunt the bedroom! Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Helen Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:34 PM A gospel singer; character names - 1 in a tv series, one in a movie; cast on a show recording, singing with my sister Ann (without an e - they misspelled it); in a news item showing sheer stupidity about not leaving my home in severe forest fires; artist of pen and ink drawings in a book about Philadelphia; author of children's books; academic at an Oz University - I once nearly got away with charging my hotel bill to her because the incompetent hotel people had used some sort of credit database when I made the reservation and hadn't checked if it was me; past president of a music club in Florida; I've had more husbands than I can count and produced lots of offspring over the last couple of centuries, and died at least twice in the last couple of years; school teacher, member of boards of directors; have a gymnasium named after me... The list goes on and on. But beat this one, you guys!! I declined an invitation to spend a week in Hitler's mountain retreat (invited because I was white and not Afro-American). Helen
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:34 PM I doubt it, Murray, it said #1 he was YOUNG and #2 he is influenced by jazz, classical, and Spanish Flamenco. He plays the classical guitar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Helen Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:39 PM I think when I did this search a few years ago I found out that I had been taken to court by my neighbours for playing the same Whitney Houston track, very loudly, over and over, 24 hours a day. Now *that's* me! [Whitney Houston - no way] Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:39 PM Ouch, Matt that was a dirty punch. McM is almost twenty years younger than me, so that makes him extremely young by my reckoning. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:49 PM To all of you saccharine, heterosexual guys who have said nice things about me on this thread... I think you're all terribly sweet, and I want you to know that you've made my day. Carol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Alice Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:58 PM try searching on www.dogpile.com You will get google's results and many, many more. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:20 PM We live to serve you, Carol! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:05 PM Alice, I don't think so. I tried my name and found zilch. They give the results from four other search engines, but not from Google. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:28 PM (...ahem. Um, Matt. You haven't seen my calendar picture already, have you?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:53 PM Thanks Alice. Few things I hadn't seen before, plus one hell of a lot on Rick Springfield, Softball, and sisters who take naughty photos! Glad I bought a computer! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Matt_R Date: 03 Apr 01 - 11:00 PM Oh my God...no not yet Carol. I think I will faint if I see it! You are glorious enough with clothes ON! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Amergin Date: 03 Apr 01 - 11:04 PM Well, let's see....I found out I was a 15 year old movie critic from Manitoba....found that I deserted from the 2nd Infantry (Company F) on April 10, 1844....found that I was born in 1775....am in some drama club....that I was a high school wrestler in 1998....that I was charged with burglary and assault in Akron, Ohio....that I was a fullback in a college football team...that I was in the 1st Regiment Michigan Sharpshooters during the Civil War and died in Andersonville Prison, May 24, 1864.....
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: katlaughing Date: 04 Apr 01 - 12:43 AM Well, this one will please Wolfgang to no end, I am at Harvard in the Division of Applied Sciences! I also died in Lousiana in 1957 and 1999. I have over 25 years experience in healthcare management in Nursing and administrative positions and been an RN since 1973 and am a VP on charge of medical underwriting or some such. In '01, I also placed 30th with a time of 20:03 at some thing at Yale. I also found my mom's obit. with my name in it. Found my tune in the Mudcat Songbook and a couple of genalogical queries I'd posted. Those were all on Kathleen LaFrance. There used to be someone who had that as a dotcom who sold used books and antiques in California, but I couldn't find it this time. If I search on Katey LaFrance, all of my writing stuff shows up, as well as some stuff I wrote about my brother and his music. That was a fun search as I found someone included a quote from one of my articles on their favourite quote page! Don't even know where they found it! I searched for Kat LaFrance and came up with zilch. LOL... Roger the skiffler, if you want any tips on searching for family on the net, holler. I've been at it for about 3 years, online, now and had some success. The other night I was talking to Aine, who said she'd never been able to find any on her family name, online. While we were talking I came up with several, including a family discussion group. Sorry for the Thread Drift. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: katlaughing Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:01 AM Cripes! There's a lot of Catspaws out there, let alone on his real name! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: KT Date: 04 Apr 01 - 02:34 AM Hey Murray! Thanks a lot!! I have spent hours over the last couple of years, searching for an old friend using those people search sites. I typed in my friends' name on google and whatya know?? Reunion!! Thank you!!
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 04 Apr 01 - 04:49 AM I've just succumbed again using my full name and apparently I have Corvette dealership in the US! What really gobsmacked me was it turned up a recent article by an American academic that actually cited one of my articles written 20 years ago when I was still ambitious and wrote for the professional press (well at least for the one journal in the field that actually paid its contributors). I was surprised mainly because: 1) Hey, it was 2O years ago; 2)The journal was not one of the respectable peer-reviewed ones, it was much more "popular"; 3) My articles were usually cynical, practicalrather than theoretical and tried to be humorous, and, well, you know my attempts at humour! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:00 AM PS, thanks, kat, for the ofer. I have recently reestablished contacts with my cousins, all already retired, after many years and some of them have started on this. My Dad, bless him, is no help. He remembers every detail of his WW2 experiences (and very boring they were!) and recounts them at every opportunity but can't remember the names of his grandparents or uncles and aunts. If we turn up anything on the treasure in the West Indies one ancestor left behind (allegedly)after fleeing to Canada in the 18th Century (probably for telling bad jokes!)I'll let you know... RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Apr 01 - 06:12 AM Okay, I searched under my Mudcat name and found the two words in a number of archaeology reports and a page of Tristram Shandy, but never used as a name. Under my real name (the shortened version I'm known by), however, I exist as me on the University departmental web pages, but am also found not as me on a pile of geneology pages, as a neurology consultant and as a biologist. Oh, and as a character in "Snow in August", whatever book that is. When I search with my full name I don't exist in cyberspace, so it's nice to be unique. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Gervase Date: 04 Apr 01 - 07:05 AM The trouble with having a weird name like mine is that there's bugger all else that shows up that isn't me in various incarnations (mainly lunatics squirelling away old cuttings to serve their own deranged theories) - apart from some bloke on a TV programme called "Survivors" who sounds a total pillock. Rather poignantly though, I did find someone with exactly my name who died at the age of four, complete with a photograph of his parents, which was rather affecting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Les from Hull Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:16 AM Well, that was mildly fascinating. Apart from the real me I was pleased to find myself as a Scottish Animal Rights Activist, surprised to learn that I had fought in Vietnam, amazed to find that I was a professional photographer, but annoyed to discover that I was also a drummer. I also seem to have died quite a lot. Ego-searching for my partner, I find that she co-wrote a song with Nanci Griffith. She never told me that! She's also a Scottish novellist and the Secretary of the North California Dachshund Club. But her major achievement must be coming second in a Hog Calling contest (ages 6-12) in Smyth County, Virginia. I suppose if I searched under the names that we were registered with at birth, we may end up being several more completely different people. Les |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:25 AM Aha - following your lead, Les, I checked for my Other Half who NEVER uses the internet, to find that he is apparently a bit of a sporting hero from Munster, but even more strangely he is online as himself as the archaeologist on a big project he was working on last year. I disn't expect to see him in his wee hard-hat, poking at the ground in cyberspace. This is fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Peg Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:32 AM no one else with my name out there...but a search on a search engine DOES indeed turn up a lot of pages with ME on 'em! (Not as many as the days when I worked for an erotica magazine; got way too much unwanted, creepy email then) My surname is not common; and since it is Italian (Aloi) and "Peg" is kinda Irish, well, it is also a strange combination... Theer are a few more Alois out there than I would have thought, though, including Santa Aloi, a well known performer and teacher of dance in Canada...
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:33 AM Peg - you worked for an erotica magazine? What a fantastic job! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Troll Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:14 AM I do not exist- cybernetically speaking. (This is a recording) troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:20 AM I found myself under my email address, at Mudcat resources and my ICQ profile page, lol. I looked under "Matt_R" and found that I have released several albums since 1996, including "Bomb Shelter" and "Summer Grooves 1999/2000"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: jeffp Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:36 AM I learned that I am a Diversity researcher, the new bass player for the BellRays (a hard-rock band), a sufferer from sleep apnea, I run a site selling country music on vinyl, I'm on the sociology faculty at Georgia State University, a contributor to the Home Brew Digest (that one is really me), a refinery employee at Phillips 66, a board member of the Destiny Yacht Club, the VP of Henkel Corporation in Charlotte, NC, and writer of a few tunes in the Mudcat Songbook (again really me). No wonder I'm so tired! Thanks for the suggestion. This was really fun! jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: fat B****rd Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:16 PM during family tree type research on the web i've found to my amazement that i'm sveral sorts of scientific persons and a complete B****rd of a German Officer in the 1914-18 war. all i really wanna do is be the slim athletic and sexy B***rd that lurks inside me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 04 Apr 01 - 04:50 PM I've got a Brigadier General with my name who isn't me. I really like that one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: mousethief Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:07 PM This is sort of related: I did get an email from a woman in Argentina asking if I was the Alex Riggle she had spent a glorious year on the beach with. I wrote and told her it must have been somebody else (I had to -- I had my wife translate her note in the first place!). Well, either it was somebody else, or I did spend a glorious year on the beach with a Latin woman and then the whole thing was somehow erased from my memory. Which seems totally unfair, don't you think? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Metchosin Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:16 PM Oh wow! Fun! I found out that I wrote a report on adult illiteracy, am an international admissions coordinator for a community college in the US, a school delegate from the Orkney Islands, winner of a poetry contest in 1999 and that Betty Davis starred as me in a movie. One of these is true. But better still, my husband developed a famous apple variety in Scotland which bears his name. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:20 PM Glad to see everyone is having fun, and KT, I am delighted you found your friend. I must try that myself, I have lost touch with several old friends from Scotland. There are still plenty of skeletons in the closet, however. Keep the revelations coming. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Lonesome EJ Date: 04 Apr 01 - 06:58 PM Apparently I am 1) An accomplished Blues/Soul vocalist whose most recent release was Hot and Steamy 2) Realtor of the Month in Missoula Montana 3) A star shortstop for the 1915 St Louis Terriers 4) A well-known Atlanta Braves Sportscaster 5) A powered parachutist 6) Dutchess County Chess Champ for 1999 7) Reverend of the Redding Chrsitian Fellowship Church in Redding CA but no record of the REAL me in the first two hundred hits, dammit |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: alison Date: 05 Apr 01 - 01:45 AM Well it surprised me to find out how fit I am!!!
I am perhaps the most physically fit player on the team … with excellent all-around field hockey skills … will be a key corner 'hitter' for the Maroons this season … possesses a hard drive … I also play for the Roanoke women's tennis team in the spring … was the captain of the field hockey, basketball, and tennis teams at Bow High School . I also play varsity girls soccer.
I was also a surviving identical twin who unfortunately died at a young age of cerebral palsy.
I am Alumni Officer, (whatever that is) at the University of Waerloo, Ontario, Canada. I have a Bachelor of Math (Business Administration Option) And Music Joint Honours, University Of Waterloo.
Apparently I have Special Interests in Cross Stitch and Crafts, and as a vet I have done research into bovine rotavirus.
I also win medals for the Sussex County Interscholastic League Girls Swimming team (Freestyle)
I have also made a video POWER AEROBICS & POWER MAT SCIENCE.
And then again there's my own site
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Amergin Date: 05 Apr 01 - 01:50 AM Well, Alison, I was hoping that link would go to your peepshow site...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Peter Kasin Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:28 AM My double was awarded an Eagle Scout badge! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Jim Krause Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:38 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Jim Krause Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:41 PM eegad, I don't know why I bother to show off i always end up embarrassing myself hesaysmutteringindistinctivelytohimselfsheeshjim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Bert Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:48 PM Thereyar Jim! that better? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Jim Krause Date: 05 Apr 01 - 05:39 PM Thanks Bert. You'd think for a guy who's written and re-written as many webpages as I have, I would have gotten it right the first time. Pass the humble pie, I'll have it a la mode this time. Jim Incidentally, on another thread, I saw some pretty fancy table codes. Tried to steal 'em, and in the maze of other stuff, ultimately couldn't find 'em. They sure were fancy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: hesperis Date: 05 Apr 01 - 06:36 PM Well, it seems that I am a flower (hesperis matronalis), a butterfly (speyeria hesperis, or Northwestern Fritillary) and a dinosaur (megalosaurus hesperis)! Hmmm, it seems I am also another butterly, from Peru this time... (callicore hesperis). A pedigreed Labrador Dog (MOORMAN'S HESPERIS) Some Russian page I couldn't read had a reference to me... A couple of things from French literature... Western Least Bittern, some kind of bird (Ixobrychus exilis hesperis). I am the capital city of Hesperia, population 3500. I am a Dragon. A TSR "Krynnese Red Dragon" to be precise. I have something to do with traditional morrocan embroidery... and organ transplants... and Manitoulin Island... This one is pretty cool, it seems I am a character in some fantsy world: http://www-ensimag.imag.fr/eleves/Laurent.Luciani/palladium/rifts/hesperis.html (It's in french, though.) And, that hesperis wears clothing with *Serpents* on them... interesting.
And this one is closest: Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Philosophy - Master Index - HESPERIS HESPERIS (page 1 of 1) Hercules, 58: this," she said, "forget it not." And lastly Hesperis came, the wonder of the evening star, and Hercules, 76: an apple marked with the golden word Service. Hesperis, the evening star, the star of initiation, --------------------------------------------------- I am a Genus. (They could have put the "i" in it... *sheesh*) Hmmm, on page 14 of the search, there was finally something by the real me! ...I gave up at page 17. 3800 pages, no way am I going to get through all those! The interesting thing is how many of these had something of interest to me, and how well this name actually reflects my personality... Strange. ~*sirepseh*~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: hesperis Date: 06 Apr 01 - 07:58 PM Waah! I killed it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Helen Date: 07 Apr 01 - 12:12 AM As hesperis says: "The interesting thing is how many of these had something of interest to me, and how well this name actually reflects my personality... Strange." When I first did this kind of search I had vague ideas of writing it up as a fictional story, about parallel lives living in the same world at sometimes overlapping and sometimes disparate times. Tempted even more now, unless this becomes a Mudcat challenge and you all beat me to it. Hint, hint.......hint......hint, hint, hint....... Oh, never mind, I'll do it myself. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: pattyClink Date: 07 Apr 01 - 11:02 PM Cool! I was surprised to see I'm usually a musician. I have a band called Goats Don't Shave, and elsewhere I play harmonica with my nose I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP, also I play jazz in Massachusetts. And I also kibitz music as an arts reviewer in Michigan. But I was in the 452d Bombardment Group in WW II, and I install irrigation in Texas. I recently resigned a seat in the Irish Dail, but I'm still a councillor in Rothesay. We are a fierce and warlike race of strange musicians! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: CarolC Date: 07 Apr 01 - 11:13 PM Interesting points hesperis and Helen. I used to be a wildlife rehabilitation worker, then a zookeeper, then a weaver/fiber artist. I notice a number of artisans and wildlife experts amongst my namesakes. I hadn't thought about it like that until you brought it up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:59 PM Im an author,I wrote Gods Gift. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Billy the Bus Date: 12 Jun 01 - 10:46 PM Haven't played the game in 5 or 6 years, when I used to check for alter-egos of our Lions Club members. There was a lot less on the web then, so I'd just start with the surname. Once, while I was building a wedding card for a lass who was marrying one of our members, she asked about the Net and how I found these often hilarious snippets. "Simple, watch this.." I said, went on-line, and typed her surname in the AV search box - AV all-but had a hernia... I ahdn't thought of the consequences of a simple surname like "Cumming"...;) Must check my own doubles again.. Cheers - Sam
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: MarkS Date: 12 Jun 01 - 11:13 PM I never knew I got around so much. With a real name like Mark Schlageter, you wouldn't think there could be many more like that, but, apparantly I am also a rock musician, a designer of computer graphics, an accountant, and a photographer. My real persona is posted there too, from my employers website. Its kind of scary. Everywhere you go in cyberspace you do leave footprints and tracks. No wonder screen names are so popular. Mark Schlageter er MarkS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: RangerSteve Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:39 AM I both teach and attend a number of colleges and universities, of which Princeton and Notre Dame are the most prestigious. I play college and high school football, I wrestle and run track on the college level. I wrote something about the Louisiana Purchase. I am a bankruptcy lawyer. I am a 1st sargeant in the US Army. I play guitar and am lead vocalist in a Texas group called the Rachels. I am an executive in countless boring companies, however, I have posted a resume looking for a job as bartender on a cruise ship. I wrote something called Destitution of a Rural Education. I am a professional skate boarder. But best of all, I am wanted by the LAPD for murder. (I should be considered armed and dangerous. Do no attempt to apprehend me by yourself. If you see me, notify the proper authorities). In real life, I'm a cop. I can't wait to print out that wanted poster and put it up at work. I should add that I am one ugly murder suspect, but quite a handsome football player at Arizona State. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Peg Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:47 AM I found myself in the unusual position of searching for my own obituary on the Net recently; when a friend atteding the funeral of an old college chum of ours reported that at least one of our friends thinks I died in January! Turns out it was a woman from my college class with the same last name (and my mother's first name and initial). We met a couple of times; our paperwork sometimes got crossed in the campus mail. The similarities do not end there. Her father's first name is the same as my dad's middle name; we both have brothers named Robert; and she had a twin, as did my father. Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Sorcha Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:56 AM I don't exist, at least under Given, Middle, & Maiden. Don't exist under Given, Middle, Maiden, Married or G,M, Married. Haven't tried with just middle initial...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: vectis Date: 13 Jun 01 - 06:30 PM I'd never thought of looking for me on the net - usually use a mirror. It was a shock to find out that I am a crack addict, a Utah pioneer, several authors throught the centuries and that was just page 1!!!!!!! I got almost 150,000 hits. I'm DESOLATE I didn't realise just how COMMON I am. Maybe I can claim that one of my namesakes owns my speeding tickets...... Now there's a thought:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 13 Jun 01 - 07:42 PM Interesting footnote to my initial posting. Two weeks ago I got a delightful letter from a couple in Seattle containing the lyrics to the 1967 hit "Sunshine Girl" saying that they had been lifelong fans and asking me to autograph the lyrics and return the SAE, if I was in fact the same Murray MacLeod who had written the song. For a split second I considered making their day, but of course I phoned them and wished them luck in their continuing search. I should have asked them how they had traced me down. I know you can get Yellow Pages online for anywhere in the USA (or anywhere else for that matter), but how would somebody in Seattle go about uncovering a private address for somebody in Miami? Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Helen Date: 13 Jun 01 - 07:45 PM LOL, RangerSteve. I'd like to see that wanted poster in the Mudcat photo resources page, just for a laugh. You could delete your real name if you wanted. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Jeri Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:07 PM AltaVista has only one page on me. It helps to have a name that's a bit uncommon. They even have me in an article related to my former life here. Google has 5 pages, but the last 3 are mainly because my first and last name show up in different places on the pages. The last time I checked, Alan of Oz's Midi Page was in the hits - one hit per song I'd sent. They don't seem to show up now, but I looked important for a little while! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: katlaughing Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:17 PM Sorcha, darlin'...I just put your married name, no middle initial in google and came up with a bunch, the first of which says you are an outstanding coach in Florida! RangerSteve, that is hilarious. I think Helen's idea is a great one, too! Let's see that mug!:-) Murray, if you go to Yahoo and then click on their People Search you can find a lot of people that way, street addys and all. Sam, did ya see the Billy Bus in Portland, Oregon? stillkatafteralltheseyears |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Murray MacLeod Date: 13 Jun 01 - 10:05 PM Well, slap ma thigh, you're dead right, Kat I just input my name and bingo, up it came, address, phone no. and all. Thank God I am the world's least paranoid person. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: English Jon Date: 14 Jun 01 - 08:22 AM Hmmmm. I seem to be Senior Consultant with a London based IT company, a member of Beccles Rugby Team and "The Madhur Jaffrey of English Folk" Very odd. EJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Helen Date: 14 Jun 01 - 06:46 PM English Jon, if you change your name to Jon English then you would be a famous Oz pop singer from a decade or so ago. Also played Judas in JC Superstar, was in a Gilbert & Sullivan production a couple of years ago, and wrote a really nice folksy song & tune called Six Ribbons for an Oz historical tv show called Against the Wind. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Wavestar Date: 14 Jun 01 - 06:50 PM I'm mostly me, but also a Seminole girl in Florida, who recently recieved a reward, and a five year old in Texas who was a flower girl. I'm uncommon. Most results were really me. Wavestar, on the other hand, was a music group in the eighties. I never knew. -J |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: ddw Date: 15 Jun 01 - 12:49 AM That's spooky! Of the David Whitakers out there, two are university profs (never made prof, but did teach in one for a couple of years), one is a writer (I'm a journalist), one is president of a television station in Wisconsin (I worked in radio and TV before switching to newspapers) and a couple are involved in music and acting — both of which are interests of mine. Looks like some power keeps those of us with my name in a pretty tight little box. david |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: WickedLad Date: 15 Jun 01 - 01:46 AM lots of my pages out there scary actually I am the director of a phone company son of a 2nd Lt in the revolutionary war a baptist pastor an exhibitor of show llamas am buried in Alexandia national cemetery I am on both sides of a supreme court case
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Amergin Date: 15 Jun 01 - 02:30 AM i went looking for a texan cousin of mine by the name of bill lair....and i found several articles and book reviews mentioning him.....but then that's not all that surprising....he was a CIA operative who ran Operation Momentum in Laos....he also formed and became an officer in the Thai Paru.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: GUEST,Dita (at work) Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:10 AM Searched Dita on Google not expecting to find much since I had created Dita from the initials of a song title, only to discover that in addition to being a Mudcatter I am also A porn star who An Fetish star A hockey store Chairperson of PPBI Darwin Information Tying Architecture I'm not unique after all, love john. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: English Jon Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:31 AM Your Australian then, Helen? EJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: Burke Date: 15 Jun 01 - 03:26 PM Most of the 36 on Google were me. I found out I'm one of 38 women profiled in: SHE DOES MATH: REAL-LIFE PROBLEMS FROM WOMEN ON THE JOB. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 1995. I do computer science and computer graphics. I'm surprised, I thought I was unique.
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Subject: RE: BS: Ego-Surfing From: RangerSteve Date: 15 Jun 01 - 08:37 PM Helen, I don't know the process for putting a photo on the mudcat resource page. I also don't know the website the wanted poster was on, but it belongs to the Los Angeles PD and is on their "most wanted" list. The offenders name, and mine, are Steve Garcia. |