Bucky Buscadero, SASS #73085 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Another thread got me wondering. If you wanted to name a fictional character with an everyday "normal" name, and were also of a sensitive nature that didn't want to offend anyone who ever new a real person by that name, could you come up with one? I thought a minute and made up a name I had never heard of - "Bartholomew Jones". I just Googled it and came up with over 7 million hits. So here's the challenge: Invent a name. Google it. First name that returns fewer than 500,000 hits wins. Only 1 rule (so far, but I am sure some devious minds will induce some additions): The name cannot be so over the top as to be unbelievable . Bucky Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 gabby winklestein - 505 results, first try. Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Do I win? Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Hanger #3720LR 770 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Here ya go. Abagail Snuffbucket Abagail is normal or common. Went to school with a kid with last name Snuffbucket. Google Search brings up 7 and none related. Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 gerry markinson - About 103,000 results, took a few more trys to get this one. Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Nice one Cliffy! Link to post Share on other sites
Bucky Buscadero, SASS #73085 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 gabby winklestein - 505 results, first try. Grizz, no fair using the "Easy Button". That was too quick. I either made the rules too easy or Grizz is a whiz. We have a winner, folks. Link to post Share on other sites
Bucky Buscadero, SASS #73085 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Here ya go. Abagail Snuffbucket Abagail is normal or common. Went to school with a kid with last name Snuffbucket. Google Search brings up 7 and none related. That is a more than honorable 2nd place. Only missed first place by a post. Most unusual name I ever came across - while working as a drug store courier in college, had a customer named - Human Klump! Always wondered what the story was behind that name. Bucky Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Bucky, ask my family or close friends, google and I are tight. I seem to have a knock of finding things when others come up empty. Link to post Share on other sites
Stubborn Dutchman, SASS # 61363 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Try this one; Buford Dippler 4 results but none connected Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Hanger #3720LR 770 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 By 16 minutes, Grizzly Dave is first to post his name with less than 500,000 hits. Good job Dave. Congrats! Link to post Share on other sites
Tucker T Fudpucker 16 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Tried a name that I made up years ago and can find the first and last name but not together. Grezilda Ekendorf. Now Abigale Snufflebucket that's funny I don't care who you are!! Tucker T Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 962 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 a hint I often forget is to put quotes around your search string plain old Grizzly Dave products lots of results but "Grizzly Dave" comes up with far fewer weeding out pages that have both words, but not together. Link to post Share on other sites
Jittery Jim Jonah, SASS #64913L 21 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Wilford Snickle 0 hits on google! Wilford was common in the 19th century in England... JJJ-D Link to post Share on other sites
Old Scatterbrain 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Here ya go. Abagail Snuffbucket Abagail is normal or common. Went to school with a kid with last name Snuffbucket. Google Search brings up 7 and none related. Sounds like a Dickens character. Link to post Share on other sites
Jittery Jim Jonah, SASS #64913L 21 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Turns out the whole family is nowhere to be found>> Wife: Ima Snickle Son: Bennie Snickle Daughter: Irma Snickle JJJ-D Link to post Share on other sites
Aunt Jen 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi guys. Mind if I come in an sit a spell? Names: Quasi realistic? Gertie Mae Weinstein, no hits at all. However, I have a sense of humor about me, so I think up other, more descriptive names: Gretta Guff, none Colonel Bark, 508 Officer Steel, 38,200 Abby Crabbe, 31 John Smith, 14,000,000 Hilly Whimsy, none de Jarno "Grill" Hammeister, the third, earl of Ground Beef, Sussex. None Mildred Stearns (school marm), 1,000 Sheriff Hardass, 9 There's a start. Hope they didn't put you to sleep. Aunt Jen Link to post Share on other sites
Bucky Buscadero, SASS #73085 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi guys. Mind if I come in an sit a spell? ...... de Jarno "Grill" Hammeister, the third, earl of Ground Beef, Sussex. None ..... Now That's some name! Makes me imagine someone that knows his food! Link to post Share on other sites
Old Scatterbrain 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I googled my own name and only got 76 hits. That should be worthy of an honorable mention or something. Link to post Share on other sites
Hardin Morningwood 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Does it count if the name you create only comes up with hits related to you creating it? Link to post Share on other sites
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 7,133 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Cliffy, We had a shooter who went by the alias of Bill Snuffbucket. Great name, great guy. Cancer got him last year. AM Link to post Share on other sites
Forty Rod SASS 3935 8,048 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I Googled a character from my books, Cherokee John Diamond. John Diamond (Without the nickname in front) has over 7,000,000 hits, but Cherokee John Diamond had fewer, and was the second entry listed with a reference to Cavanaugh: The Last Bounty, my second book. The first also didn't have "Cherokee" in front of it. I don't win, but I got major bragging rights. Link to post Share on other sites
Blasted Cap 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 0 hits on Samantha Fatherlos. That is my real last name, seriously. Just added a first name that has never been used in the family. Link to post Share on other sites
Sheriff Oso, SASS #57788L 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Genuine real name (my own dear mother's) Doris N Watson ZERO hits on Google Link to post Share on other sites
Sheriff Oso, SASS #57788L 0 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 my own nickname (not SASS alias) netted 3, one of which was me. Reedotorpedo Link to post Share on other sites
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