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I get a Scottish lawyer and a bit part actor from Coronation Street. The real “me” gets a mention on page 2, but I do get on the first image page along with this fat knacker and a kid with pencils up his nose.

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Posted : 15/08/2011 12:30 pm
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Can't believe there's a Scottish lawyer called Harry the Spider?


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:32 pm
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My own name is the same as a moderately successful UK road cyclist so all I get is how many races he's won and the occasional muppet from Wiggle asking me if I'm [i]the[/i] * ***** 🙂


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:33 pm
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i have done this and he is a famous Scottish surgeon or a sexual health clinic in Chelsea.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:33 pm
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There's a Scottish solicitor called Craig McTits.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:35 pm
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I get me and a Canadian musician of the same name.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:36 pm
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I died in 2007 at the age of twenty, having fathered a few kids. 😯


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:37 pm
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Somebody with my name murdered her husband ! I get the press reports if I google myself. (let that be a warning etc etc)


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:37 pm
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I get me at Nº1.


 
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There's a Scottish solicitor called Craig McTits.

Is that a statement or a question?


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:37 pm
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I have an unusual name, so the first hit on Google is me (my G+ profile). My Facebook page is on the first page of results, so I'm not difficult to find.

The other results are really just misfires and different results, in Google's 'did you mean something else?' stylee.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:38 pm
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An image search brings up a twelve inch willy.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:38 pm
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I get me!

And worryingly images of me! (no "12 willy")


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:39 pm
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I'm one of the original game creators for the ZX Spectrum.
And extremely cool and handsome to boot!
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Hmm, I also [url= http://www.lythamstannesexpress.co.uk/community/announcements/in-memoriam/derek_brewster_obituary_1_3528332 ]died[/url] on June 30th this year. 🙁 )


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:39 pm
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That's a fact* Harry.

*that I made up a few minutes ago.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:40 pm
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First 5 results on web search are some dh race pictures, then my g+ profile, then the phone number and addresses of two people with the same name. Some obituaries, and then my fb page.

Images search, of the first 15 results, 10 are of me, all of which are biking related.

Do I win?


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:42 pm
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If you google Craig McTits you get this!

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The other week I made up a story that the lead singer from Terrorvision was servicing a gearbox on our factory floor. Now, according to the internet, he is!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:42 pm
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I appear to share my name with a team member of Omaha Rollergirls, a roller derby team. I think I've been using the name longer though.

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Oh, the other name, the one I use "OUT THERE". Pretty pointless, for I am legion. Politicians, footballers, actors, professors, loads of us.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:45 pm
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I the one and only * ***** that Google throws up. I am unique and I claim my five pounds.


 
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Depending on how you (miss)spell my surname you get one nice bloke and 4 rather nasty blokes. I however don't seem to exsist.

I think I'm the lucky one..


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:46 pm
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I'm invisible. Like a ninja.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:51 pm
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Well I certainly can't find myself but this cheeky chappy appears a few times on page 1 of images

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Posted : 15/08/2011 12:51 pm
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i am a millwall footballer born in 1985.


 
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Apart from one imposter who throws in a middle name, it would appear I am unique!

My (123people.co.uk) Tag Cloud is interesting too....

McElroy Cerebral Palsy Flickr Bike Nikon Chase Zante Scotland JustGiving Bobath Scotland Holiday Local SCOTS Messages Andrew OUTDOORSmagic Zakynthos Aspergers Anyone Challenge Lowe Club Alpine Reviews ADVENTURESS News Bag Studios Julie Berghaus


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:54 pm
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Due to my odd surname, a google image search generates lots of photos of small children taken by proud parents!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 12:59 pm
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i'm a prominent american civil rights dude from the 60's (although the surmane is americanised, i.e. spelling simplified).


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:21 pm
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Apparently I was a character in The Victor comics from 1914 to 1918

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Posted : 15/08/2011 1:24 pm
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I am unique. I see my HtN result, a work reference and links through to my facebook activity.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:27 pm
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I'm a chief inspector of the poolice which is pretty ironic!

Don't have a common name either.


 
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I am a dashingly handsome WWII flying ace. Me in my spitfire:

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Posted : 15/08/2011 1:34 pm
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Blimey, he shot a few down didn't he!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:38 pm
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I the one and only * ***** that Google throws up. I am unique and I claim my five pounds.

Just like me. And DruidH. And the Portly one.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:40 pm
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Steve Martin? dont think I'll bother.......


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:44 pm
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I am the twenty-first ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named after a naval aviator who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at the Battle of Midway during World War II.

Cool - i'm a USS Warship 🙂


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:46 pm
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All my images searches seem to suggest that male pattern baldness is not in fact genetic, but down to one's moniker.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 1:51 pm
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lol i get : Skin Camouflage Consultancy.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:03 pm
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Apparently I'm a dab hand at making violins... who knew


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:05 pm
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I seem to do marketing for Tesco.

I must get round to have myself hunted down at some point.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:33 pm
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I am a bible basher in the US of A


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:37 pm
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I make niche electronic keyboards


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:41 pm
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I played Major League baseball for some big teams including St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
Though I shot myself in the heart december 13th 1910.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:54 pm
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Hmm Top story is a scottish gangster in a road rage murder (nice).. 3 pages in and no sign of me.... my name is more common that I expected (even the FB page that comes up on page 2 isn't mine)


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 2:58 pm
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Hmmm... the real me comes up 1st and 5th on the google images (in Singletrack pink camo! 😉 ), and 2nd on the google web offerings. Could be worse!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 3:07 pm
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apparently I died in a freak horse accident in Paignton !!!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 3:16 pm
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I played Major League baseball for some big teams including St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.

You play baseball for two football teams? That [i]is [/i]impressive.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 3:17 pm
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With the exception of endomondo, facebook, linked in andtwitter got this.. [url= http://www.rootsandrain.com/rider11790/emyr-griffiths/results/ ]Race Results[/url] which shows have crap I was. Found a few pictures of me too but they're ones off facebook


 
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ok I am on the 192 page (off the first google page), though even on there, there is another person with the same middle inital who live locally before me.... very common indeed.

Nothing on google images.. though someone (NOT ME!)
"can proudly tell the world he owns a patent for "a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer which plays a melody or voiced message when during intercourse the contacts of the sound-playing unit are closed and the transducer is activated." It's all about free love—you can record whatever music or sound you want, be it "Danger Zone" or "Thriller."
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I just get [url= http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mike+mctimoney ]lots of me[/url], helped by a pretty unusual surname.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 3:44 pm
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I'm a US senator.

My maiden name brings up more of 'me' - my blog, credit listings for the games I've worked on, etc.


 
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Hey Cougar just quoting wiki. 🙂

Though further wiki work reveals that there was a New York Giants baseball franchise though they moved to San Fransico after 1957 season, similarly Brooklyn Dodgers moved to LA at the same time.


 
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As far as I'm concerned my name is the best for googling as far as the world of biking goes. I invented the best bearing system for hubs which has been copied the world over. Unfortunately I also died recently. Also unfortunately I cannot afford any of my own products with my name on.


 
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I'm a prominent member of the NRA..... until I blew my head off with a shotgun!


 
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I get my website. 🙂


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 4:11 pm
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I was found dead two years ago in a north american river. At the time of my tragic death I was ten years older than I am now. Despite this setback, I also appear to be pursuing a career as a nuclear physicist.


 
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I have same name as a very famous and rather handsome young surfer. (I once had a facebook friend request from a young and sadly mistaken American surf-betty.) Also the keyboard player from 'Grand Drive', and the legendary motormouthed horse racing man on BBC. One of the first people I ever looked after as a young care assistant was a semi-reformed gambling addict: he didn't find my name at all funny.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 5:04 pm
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Though further wiki work reveals that there was a New York Giants baseball franchise though they moved to San Fransico after 1957 season, similarly Brooklyn Dodgers moved to LA at the same time.

Bloody Americans and their fool names. You'd never catch us doing that.

Erm.

*coughs*


 
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Apparently I'm a famous photographer, an English Hockey player and I'm the six times mountain running champion.

Actually I appear more on google than anyone else with my name which is nice.

This is my favourite image of me on the images page.
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I install gas boilers in Wallasey (which is actually not far from where I was born)
The real me doesn't appear on at least the first 3 pages, in images I'm not sure I remember growing a beard and putting on 10 stone!
My wife however died in 1710 and it seems she was having an affair at the time as some other man (not me) is mentioned and images also brings up a picture of her headstone
At least that's the lack of bedroom activity explained... And her smell 😉


 
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I used to be much harder to find on Google, because my great (great?) uncle devised a form of chiropractry so there just used to be loads of results for chiropractors called Mike.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:18 pm
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I'm a rather famous American literary figure. But then I knew that already.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:18 pm
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My name pops up in a BMBO report at the bottom of page 2 and quote "a name to watch in the future"!. Nothing on the first page.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:29 pm
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I'm a failed and quite honestly appalling popster who didn't quite make it into Girls aloud. I still appear to be trying to break the Market, albeit badly. Very badly.


 
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I get a famous tenor saxophonist, a Geordie with a site dedicated to the Curch of Jesus Christ and a DH MTB racer (not me)

Image search shows a photo I took at result No 5 though (twas on the BBC flood report)


 
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I command starships.

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Just done mine and i get a certain famous action/spy type character goes by Bulldog lol.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:38 pm
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my linkedin profile is first, then an irish cyclist


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 7:42 pm
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I used to play drums in BLACK FLAG with HENRY ROLLINS!!! 8)


 
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Wow, I just googled again for another look. Apparently I am also a jail guard who did naughty things with an 'evil' inmate! Blimey.


 
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My names so common it's not worth even trying to find a mention on about the first 200 pages!

Though surprisingly I'm on the first page of images as a picture from my FlickR of one of my cameras is used as an example on camera-wiki 😉


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 9:32 pm
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I'm a flute maker, a cinematographer, and ex-Conservative MP of Leigh.

No wonder I'm so tired.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 9:37 pm
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I'm a breed of horse 🙂 🙂


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 10:15 pm
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I get my website.

Same here. Bit of a surprise.


 
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i get a murder who did his wife and kid... I didn't do it though, and although i plead my innocence I was convicted for life and have appealed.

I personally appear on page 3 of google just after

"****: Psychopath -- Science & Technology"


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 10:53 pm
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I have a very crap 1st class batting average from 1880

http://cricketarchive.com/Players/37/37045/37045.html


 
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I am a sword maker in Edinburgh, funny thing is I actually know the chap, haven't seen him for 20 years, he used to call into my mums house for a cup of tea on a Saturday morning after riding from Glenuig to Fort William on his honda c90, that had a leopard skin seat cover and he had a fox tail stuck on to the rear of his helmet!


 
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Me = Snowbombing head honcho


 
Posted : 16/08/2011 7:09 am
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I'm a heating engineer from Sunderland, should come in handy!

And on a cooler note

…* ** is THE MAN behind plans to create the biggest falconry breeding centre in Scotland

Go me!


 
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I am a contemporary pianist with my own web site. 8)

I am also an Australian actor who died in 2005. 😥


 
Posted : 16/08/2011 7:45 am
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Apparently for the 2011 season I'll be driving a 760bhp Benetton B199 F1 car in the new BOSS GP series.

Last season I won the championship, with 7 pole positions & victory in half of the races. I also broke an unprecedented 5 Outright Lap Records on my way to the title, achievements that lead to nominations for numerous prestigious awards. Better year than I remember!!


 
Posted : 16/08/2011 8:04 am