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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote2005-08-08 03:23 pm

Google spoils all my fun

In principle it ought to be a good thing that, when you think of a really appalling pun, you can type it into Google and find out whether it's original or not. In practice, it so often isn't that it's just disheartening.

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[identity profile] keithlard.livejournal.com 2005-08-08 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I think this is an update of Nietzsche's remark that ""Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good."

[identity profile] mwk.livejournal.com 2005-08-08 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a truly awful pun. The VatICANN will be on to you for that.

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2005-08-10 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*snork* ROFL. Well, tenth to the pun isn't so bad. Of course, sometimes it doesn't work; I tagged a friend 'loquaitious of borg' which I thought was very clever, but came across it in a web comic the next day.

It's some kind of cosmic law that by solving some problems google makes more problems; omniscience can suck :)