This week's Washington Post word contest (the Style Invitational) is about Googlenopes. Apparently this word was already in existence, for those of you who have been following the thread on "How Are New Words Added to English?"

A Googlenope is a phrase which yields no Google hits when entered with quotation marks. Until now of course. They're on the Post's website and ours.

Some of the winners:"All the girls loved my Camry" "Museum of Suburban Culture" "Fox News is more accurate than" "The weapons system came in under budget" "Three-star Scottish cuisine" "Cheney's crisis of conscience" "Once again, my husband was right and I was wrong" "That controversial Gilligan's Island episode" "Utah's biggest party school" "President Bush carefully considered" "Poems about hirudiniasis" "Darfur condo rentals" "One sexy imam" "Honest electable Democrat" "Honest electable Republican"

"Superiority of federal administration"

Don't they automatically destroy themselves as soon as they are recognized on a site like this? I already found a hit for "All the girls loved my Camry".

I found one for "The weapons system came in under budget".
But it was very new.

"DarksidZz gets laid"?

"Paris Hilton wins Nobel Prize?" :)

Hehe, good stuff. Thanks for sharing, Fraggle. :)

I particularly like "Darfur condo rentals". :D

"philosophical implications of rap "
"meaning and purpose in rap lyrics"
"the thesaurus and the rap lyric"

"wisdom in the bureaucratic approach "

It started to get too easy. Along the way, though, I chanced on something maybe more of a challenge: a phrase that returns exactly one hit.
Two that did:

"advantages of federal administration"
"the Tao of rap"

"scientific evidence for god discovered"

"sciforums voted most congenial"

"where not to purchase viagra"

"Superiority of federal administration"

Competence of

What's the point of these? It's not like they're special, I get tonnes of these that have no results :/

What's the point of these? It's not like they're special, I get tonnes of these that have no results.They're supposed to be entertaining. Of the thousands that were submitted to the Washington Post weekly word contest, I found the winning entries were fairly amusing and listed a few in the opening post. I.e., the idea that no one has every found the Toyota Camry to be a babe magnet, or that Dick Cheney has never had a crisis of conscience. We're not all quite that creative.

They're supposed to be entertaining. Of the thousands that were submitted to the Washington Post weekly word contest, I found the winning entries were fairly amusing and listed a few in the opening post. I.e., the idea that no one has every found the Toyota Camry to be a babe magnet, or that Dick Cheney has never had a crisis of conscience. We're not all quite that creative.

Haha, okay, so the whole idea that no one else has thought it before?

"DarksidZz gets laid"?
LOL. I wish it were true, though. He'd finally stop bitching about it all the time.

Haha, okay, so the whole idea that no one else has thought it before?No, not just that. It has to be funny. The idea that a boy would even assume that buying a Camry would attract girls is sad humor because he is so clueless. The idea that Cheney could have a crisis of conscience is dark humor because he was born without a conscience.

No, not just that. It has to be funny. The idea that a boy would even assume that buying a Camry would attract girls is sad humor because he is so clueless. The idea that Cheney could have a crisis of conscience is dark humor because he was born without a conscience.

XD I see....

In the Sunday,8/5/2007,Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten had a follow-up column to his original Googlenopes column. He mentions a new website, at googlenope.com, which is a reader contest on these. It's pretty clever; definitely worth checking out.

Here are some more great Googlenopes I happened to come up with:

1. world's sexiest leper
2. whale snot recipes
3. the supremely macho Barry Manilow
4. nuclear winter snow angels
5. Socrates vs. Megalon
6. The Church of Gabby Hayes
7. oral sex with rattlesnakes
8. Al Qaeda gift baskets
9. Versace burkha
10. Iron Maiden polka music

There were also a couple of disturbing Googleyups:

1. nuclear-powered prostate
2. household uses for phlegm
3. diamond testicles

Scientology is the path to enlightenment.

:D

No offense, Dinsdale, but I don't find those particularly creative. I think a really good Googlenope should be something that someone would actually say, and that is theoretically possible, but is considered actually false by many people. Thus, "honest, electable Republican/Democrat" or "Cheney's crisis of conscience". The humor comes from the fact that you'd think someone must have said such a thing at least once on the Internet, and therefore Google would see it and return it as a result.

I think a really good Googlenope should be something that someone would actually say.I don't know, I think maybe that can be compensated with sufficient creativity. The Googlenopes from the Washington Post in the OP seem to be a form of sarcasm.

"All the girls just love my Camry." Nobody ever said that and that's why it's amusing. Sarcasm can be partisan of course, I'm sure there are six or eight people in America who believe Cheney has a conscience. But there's nobody who thinks a Camry is a babe magnet. It's probably in the owner's manual under Specifications. "Babe Magnetism Coefficient: N/A."

Don't they automatically destroy themselves as soon as they are recognized on a site like this? I already found a hit for "All the girls loved my Camry".

true dat
once the spider hits the quote, it morphs into a googleyups

I believe a spider has hit this thread. My Scientology Googlenope now yields this thread as the only search result. That was quick!

This week's Washington Post word contest (the Style Invitational) is about Googlenopes. Apparently this word was already in existence, for those of you who have been following the thread on "How Are New Words Added to English?"

A Googlenope is a phrase which yields no Google hits when entered with quotation marks. Until now of course. They're on the Post's website and ours.

Some of the winners:"All the girls loved my Camry" "Museum of Suburban Culture" "Fox News is more accurate than" "The weapons system came in under budget" "Three-star Scottish cuisine" "Cheney's crisis of conscience" "Once again, my husband was right and I was wrong" "That controversial Gilligan's Island episode" "Utah's biggest party school" "President Bush carefully considered" "Poems about hirudiniasis" "Darfur condo rentals" "One sexy imam" "Honest electable Democrat" "Honest electable Republican"


This really sucks bigtime!