Gah!
I just had a very weird experience.

A number of years ago I was joking around with Richard and I commented that I should make my online persona a rapper named Tucatz (because I have two cats), only have it be a nerdy clueless white guy (like me) pretending to be a hiphop homie in order to be cool (not so much like me). It got to be something of a joke, with me doing gangsta finger signs and the whole bit.

Well, over time I've used the name Tucatz on a lot of places, just as a simple but unusual name. It's sort of my default name to use, a remnant of an old inside joke that I doubt Richard even remembers anymore.

I just did a Google search for that, and found that most of the hits I got were NOT me. Apparently others have taken that name and run with it.

Just when you think that you're utterly obscure and not noteworthy in any way, something like that comes along and reminds you what a small place the Internet can actually be...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 23 Oct 2009, 4:37, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hmm...
I just searched for Theophilous Thunderwulf (that's what my username was before I changed it to celebrate the great religous festival of halloween) and I appear to be the only one in the whole of Internetland...
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Fri 23 Oct 2009, 13:34, Reply)

I can empathise with that.
I coined my name around 15 years ago to use as a pseudonym for various musical endeavours and then adopted it as my screen name as my interest in the internet waxed.

I've always been quite proud of the fact that Google searches for Rotimer only returned results that related to me.

No longer though! Bloody World of Warcraft had to create a character named "Lieutenant Rotimer" and now my 10 pleasing, previously unique results are lost amidst over 9000 references to WOW.
(Rotimer was micturating windward at, Fri 23 Oct 2009, 16:39, Reply)