On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:46:44 +0100, "Siderius Nuncius"
 wrote:

>
>"Robin Fairbairns"  wrote
>>
>> no, it's because i'm a useless physical wreck.
>
>But you're *our* UPW, Robin.
>
>And anyway, I'd quibble with the "useless" if I weren't reluctant to start
>another argument on umra.  :o)

Oh, _I'll_ argue against that one any day.

AFAIC I 'd start with the fact that he's a lot taller than I am and
can see better than I can, so if I can't reach something or I've
dropped a contact lens I can say "please will you come and be a tall
person/a sighted person", and I'd work up from there.

Besides, I thought the initials UPW sounded vaguely familiar so I
googled for them (how do you google? On something or for something? By
with or from? Or do you just google it?) and found I had a choice
between a guy with amazing teeth promising to Unlock the Power Within,
and Ultimate Pro Wrestling. I'd expected something academic like
"University of P**** at W****". However, the two I found seem to fit
TNMF/UPW well enough.

He's actually quite a useful physical wreck and we're still laughing.
xx
lff

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>In message , Linda Fox 
> writes
>[]
>>googled for them (how do you google? On something or for something? By
>>with or from? Or do you just google it?) and found I had a choice
>[]
>I'm sure that enough examples of all have appeared in print that all 
>will be in the next edition. (FWIW, I think I usually google _for_ 
>something, if I'm looking for it; I might occasionally just google it if 
>I was investigating a concept, though I think I'd still google _for_ it. 
>I don't _think_ I'd ever google _on_ something, but I've seen that often 
>enough. [Certainly never By with or from (-:!]

I would distinguish  between googling something, and googling *for*
something.  The former, to me, suggests simply typing it into google
and seeing what you get ("Google me and you'll find that I don't turn
up until the third page") while googling for something suggests
compiling a search query that will produce the desired result (if you
want to google for TA, you should probably include 'radio' as well as
'archers'."

Googling from would perhaps indicate either the particular computer,
or the particular home page you used ("I googled Zola from .fr which
avoided a lot of pages about Chelsea.")
-- 
Stephen

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:08:07 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>Ever heard of googlewhacking? (And how long before Googl- loses its 
>capital G?) It was a sport a year (or three) ago where the aim was to 
>create search criteria - ideally just two words - which generated one 
>and only one hit; using ones you knew of was cheating, and I think you 
>were supposed to post the results somewhere, such that your success was 
>yours alone (because if anyone else used the same search they'd hit what 
>you hit plus your post). Let me see now, Elgar hearthrug - no, 28 hits 
>(via AltaVista anyway) ... [As a phrase - 0 ...]

I hate to be pedantic, but I think a GoogleWhack has to start from a
Google search. Dave Gorman wrote a book about GoogleWhacking, and had
a stage show based on his adventures of GoogleWhacking and going to
meet the people whose web pages had turned up GoogleWhacks. At the
time he had one himself (Francophile Namesakes).

-- 
al
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