Tired: Doing a google on your own name.
Wired: Reading a Googlism on your own name.
Expired: Looking up your name in a phone book.
What is Googlism? The best why to find out is to explore, but more or less, it uses the “collective” wisdom of the Google API to extract a list of statements found about a given name. (Tip of the blog hat to Bryan Bell). It is meaningless, strange, not of any identified use… but fascinating.
Among my own bizarre namesakes:
alan levine is a recognized leader in marketing
alan levine is a business manager at law engineering and environmental services
alan levine is chair
alan levine is the director of marketing
alan levine is director
alan levine is a balding man in his late forties dresses quite well and has a new rolex watch on his wrist
alan levine is struggling to say something positive about his city
alan levine is de drijvende kracht achter computer
Hey that Rolex is used!
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How about using Googlism to assist the creative juices when coming up with a humorous list of falsehoods for a game of Truth and Lies. Works well as an online icebreaker.
Excellent Idea! So easy to do.. like guess which is me or not?