[Ads-l] to drunk-Google [Re: another one for the files]

Wed Oct 7 02:31:06 UTC 2015

Urban dictionary has an entry for a related expression plus a
combination "droogling":

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drunken+Googling

[Begin excerpt]
Drunken Googling

Usually means looking up (and/or trying to contact) exes using Google
after drinking droogling, but in the broader sense, is any online
activity taken on after drinking.

Man, my ol' lady is going to kill me. I downloaded all this porn after
a night of drunken googling.

by Planet-38 May 02, 2009
[End excerpt]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: to drunk-Google [Re: another one for the files]
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>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> =
> wrote:
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>> This is an awesome combination!
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>> Looking at =E2=80=9Cdrunk Googling=E2=80=9D, I found a citation as far =
> back as October 2005:
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>> 1. =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__anchorbutt.blogspot.=
> com_2005-5F10-5F01-5Farchive.html&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3D=
> wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DqlO88dXVubV-WD7tcG9joYbyHs=
> xZfsEgz7keaYKfUYw&s=3Dz3kpdtNaMMhncbYr3cjWTMJ3l7DhApYHKUmsN2snrE4&e=3D=20=
>
>> i was drunk googling trying to find that insane site Mani found years =
> ago with the terrifying dog outfits.
>>=20
>> 2. April 26, 2006
>> =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__exaltedkarpoozi.live=
> journal.com_10204.html&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu3=
> 9hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DqlO88dXVubV-WD7tcG9joYbyHsxZfsEgz7k=
> eaYKfUYw&s=3DBXKIV3rTZzHSYqcLo4Wyo665SUP4oc0gCGi3OZTUpzw&e=3D=20
>> Better to write it and leave it posted online for you to stumble =
> across while drunk-googling yourself when up too late with a sick child.
>
> That one is especially nice:  is it "to self-drunk-google" or "to =
> auto-drunk-google"?  The latter sounds too much like we're talking about =
> someone who drunk-drives, so better stick to the former.
>
> LH
>>=20
>> 3. October 14, 2008
>> =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__blog.thephoenix.com_=
> BLOGS_sandbox_archive_2008_10_14_mega-2Drobo-2Dthunder-2Dphone-2Dquery-2Dd=
> runk-2Dgoogling.aspx&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39h=
> B2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DqlO88dXVubV-WD7tcG9joYbyHsxZfsEgz7kea=
> YKfUYw&s=3DJXyYD1vmACL9hW00nr313MhFV2Y82lgLtEe2bZ3KJ9o&e=3D=20
>> Mega Robo Thunder Phone Query - Drunk Googling?
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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>> Learn Ainu! =
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> s=3DJx861LqAhCqIpkiEMwCVu8aDson5lMo9jWYFsbjyu8k&e=3D=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Il giorno 6 ott 2015, alle ore 18:45, Laurence Horn =
> <laurence.horn at yale.edu> ha scritto:
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>>> =3D46rom a 2014 novel, _Missing You_, by Harlan Coben; the =
> protagonist has =3D
>>> apparently come across a dating site photo of her former fianc=3DC3=3DA=
> 9:
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>>> It had been eighteen years. She had drunk-Googled him a few times, =
> but =3D
>>> there had just been a few old articles he'd written.=3D20
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>>> There aren't a whole lot of other instances of "to drunk-Google" =
> (upper- =3D
>>> or lower-case G) that I could find by (sober-)googling, but perhaps =3D=
>
>>> unsurprisingly one comes from an earlier (2008) Coben novel, _The =3D
>>> Woods_, although that time he must have felt he needed a full =3D
>>> explanation:
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>>> She knew that Paul was a door best left closed. But she had gotten =3D
>>> drunk=3DE2=3D80=3D94big surprise=3DE2=3D80=3D94and while some people =
> =3DE2=3D80=3D9Cdrunk =3D
>>> dialed,=3DE2=3D80=3D9D Lucy had =3DE2=3D80=3D9Cdrunk Googled". =3D20
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>>> So we have "to butt-dial" and "to drunk-google" (not to mention "to =3D=
>
>>> drunk-drive").  The real skill is butt-googling an ex-flame.  Takes =3D=
>
>>> practice!
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>>> LH
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>>> =3D20
>>>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:56 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> =3D20
>>>> "I can ride horseback" isn't clear enough, I guess.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Youneverknow.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> --=3D20
>>>> -Wilson
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