Doppellgangers

listmaker · Post by **listmaker** » 04 May 08 4:57 pm

Interesting. My caching name brings up endless pages - I didn't check that aspect before choosing a caching name.

My real name brings up precisely 3 results - 2 book reviews written for a former employer, and a letter to a newspaper.

If I search my first + maiden name, nothing comes up. Maiden last name alone brings up heaps about a Russian violinist to whom I was somehow related.

First name alone produces pages of results, including a page with my name on it in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA

As well as being an acronym for something to do with an enzyme, there's also an open source, cross-platform media center: http://elisa.fluendo.com/

Bet my parents never imagined all that way back when they named me!

Dippedidooda · Post by **Dippedidooda** » 04 May 08 5:31 pm

My real name brings up 700 000 results, about such things as "my" gold-medal winning Olympic swimming career, "my" Wedding and Portrait Photography business, "my" career as a research scientist, also a singer, a doctor who is an Australian of the Year recipient, a convict transported to Norfolk Island for theft of a piece of printed cotton, a yoga teacher...(only up to result 30)...but nothing that I could find about the real me...it seems I"m dead common!!!!!!!!! Maybe that's why I chose a caching name that's a bit unusual - just caching stuff in those results. Phew!!!

psychokat · Post by **psychokat** » 04 May 08 7:51 pm

This is an evil thread. Last time I googled my name I found I had been nominated for an award for a story I had published. I didn't win, thank god. Now I find I've been nominated for another one. Now I'm going to be stressed out until I don't win again. At least this time the list is huge. It's a bit too strange to see my name on a list with people who's books I actually go out and buy

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There are 427 000 hits on my name and I'm a lawyer, an american sailor, a irish school girl, an irish shop keeper, an award winning playwright -definately not me I couldn't handle the pressure- and a lot of old ladies. But the real me is on the first page.

traineediplomat · Post by **traineediplomat** » 04 May 08 7:52 pm

I have 137 matches with my real name. Some are me on geneaology sites, my workplaces organisational chart (which I am at the bottom of one of the 'rungs" and a couple of presentations I have done to small pacific islands in my job! (thanks to a donation of sporting equipment etc etc..)

I'm also apparently a real estate agent, getting married in Utah, a reservist for the US Airforce, a left-handed baseball pitcher and even cooler a Bioterrorism emergency trainer.

Under the login name it's all geocaching!

Post by **CraigRat** » 04 May 08 9:09 pm

I get #1 for my real name!
Then it gets interesting..... Theres directors of finance companies, Church Leaders, HAM Radio guy....
Kind of freaky!

My Online Name, however is pretty much all about me.... oh , and it solved why I can't register CraigRat.com...turns out I already own it.... oopsies!

crew 153 · Post by **crew 153** » 05 May 08 7:52 pm

My real name only comes up with one result when I was in a tenpin bowling team for the Queensland Corporate Games back in 2003.

My caching alias is also the name of a scouting group in Pennsylvania.

ArgusTuft · Post by **ArgusTuft** » 06 May 08 3:25 pm

Real name? Big mobs including a world champion karate type person
Cache name? Very little but I did find reference to my long lost sibling, Gungus

If · Post by If » 07 May 08 9:18 pm

I've delved a bit deeper into the thousands of entries I came up with for my name

I am also a cop or at least was a copper till recently in Byron Bay. That's close to home

Geocaching Australia

Doppellgangers

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Doppelgangers?

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