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I had no idea...

Heh...so I did mine here, and it was only a couple, from here.
Then I did my real name and was pleased that none of the 8507 results were actually me.

I like the ironic twist of googling yourself on Bing.

um....i HIGHLY advise you NOT to google lucimay. and if, by this post, you are so tempted, do NOT, i repeat, DO NOT click on any of the sites. (unless, of course, you are interested in tranny booty!!)

Oh god I couldn't help myself, ha. Yeah, take Luci's word for it, folks.

i KNEW someone would be tempted!!

A disturbing number of people name their animals Aliantha -- cats, dogs, horses.... Also, "Aliantha" is apparently WoW slang for some sort of behavior I don't really get.

Looks like someone just having a joke at the expense of someone who uses the name for their character. (Urban Dictionary lets just anyone post a definition of anything.)

My name just comes up as a bunch of people's surnames. I got a hit on my blog recently from someone searching "murrin 1997 george dragon".

so i tried...

dennisrwood

That's weird. When I google for "dukkhawaynhim" or "dukkha waynhim", it mostly just links me to some lame site called Kevin's Watch.

dw

aliantha

In World of Warcraft, an MMOPRG, to "Aliantha" is to link your loot or gear in chat to an almost obsessive number of times.

Hey guys I just got this Staff of Foobar. It goes nicely with my Hat of Ears and my Boots of CrapKicking.
Wow, she is really being an Aliantha tonight...

that's utterly bizarre. i've never ever seen anyone use that in game in the 3.5 years i've been playing. i can't suss out the context or why anyone would refer to it in this way.

my only guess is that it was the name of a toon who, in chat (trade chat, general chat) did this gear linking obsessively and it became a server-wide saying, and then migrated from server to server as people who said it migrated, until it was game-wide. (people server hop quite a bit and also have toons on several different servers at once so it's not unlikely that it could happen this way)
but as i said, i've never heard anyone say it.

It doesn't need to be particularly widespread for someone to decide to put it on urban dictionary - usually words there get put on because someone just came up with them and want to try to spread them.

lucimay wrote: but as i said, i've never heard anyone say it.

Me either...I'm just off-topicing here for a second...I just realized I played longer than you, just quit more often if you're at 3.5 years. I just always thought you and Murrin were "since creation" folk...but I really wanted to say it cracked me up that they finally got Chuck Norris to do an ad for them [at least it was the first I'd seen with him just before xmas time.]

And of course, back on topic, I had to check lucimay search. Definitely a few "YIKES!"

Unsurprisingly, when I Google Image "MellowCat"... I mostly find pictures of cats. Well, that was anti-climatic.

Murrin wrote:I like the ironic twist of googling yourself on Bing.

Indeed.

Mine just comes up with people named Mary. Sometimes preceded by Ms. or Miss.

I got... a bunch of ferns, which makes sense because Sorus is also a botanical term. There was also a furry wolf/unicorn hybrid and an ostrich with a dinosaur head, but all in all it could've been a lot worse.

Sorus Chatelaine gives mainly various Gap book covers, and several links to KW.

I've never heard Aliantha used in a WoW context either - sounds like an inside joke in someone's guild or something like that. Not ours. I encourage you to join our guild and redefine your name's reputation.

I got this interesting result in images:



The Hunchback of Notre DAME starring LON Chaney.

Unsurprisingly:
Menolly brings up Pern images.
o-gon-cho brings up the Kyoto "White Dragon/Songbird of Sadness" legend.
And Illume Eltanin brings up mostly images I posted on Facebook.

drew: .44 seconds; 9,800,000 images of Drew Barrymore, and 1 of Drew Carey.