Monday, January 10, 2005

I Googlewhack-ed yo Mama...

I spent Saturday night getting my mind blown out of my skull. I attended Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, a two-hour forray into one man's journey to dig himself into debt and to bring Googlewhacking to the world. Mr. Gorman tells a story in a 2 hour monologue about receiving an advance to write a novel. Using that advance and rather than actually write said novel, Dave engaged in a life-altering quest filled with suspense and coincidence to meet 10 Googlewhacks in a row before his 32nd birthday. Now, before Saturday, I knew nothing of this Googlewhack phenomenon. Now, I know too much. Googlewhacking exists as the quintessential slacker's playtoy.

The Urban Dictionary defines the term "Googlewhack" as:

insipid yet obsessive challenge to enter exactly two words found in a common english dictionary into the google.com search engine that will return exactly one result.

This phenomenon, reported in random periodicals, apparently has rules, which include:
- two words ONLY
- words must be recognized by a dictionary (online or print)
- NO Names
- Googlewhack can't exist as part of a list on a web page

In the spirit of procrastination, I uncovered my first two Googlewhacks at work today, which were:

esidualray enokidakeway

ackadazicallay utterbay
Is that Pig Latin? Yes. If I wrote the words, Google would cache (aka remember) them and they'd no longer count. Yep, that's how cool the show came off for me. You should see it.

(ed. note: Oejay Arnevicusgay, a teacher at a Technical High School in Brooklyn, keeps a substantial amount of pornography on his computer. Go ahead, Google. Cache that.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The second one doesn't work.

Ian MacAllen said...

If i could only read Pig Latin, I'd be tempted to foil your master googlewhacking plan. But alas, for your sake, I can barely read English.