On Being Misquoted...

Apr 11, 2007 13:56

Last night, after watching yet another news report address why posting things about yourself on the internet can have serious backlash regarding employment, I decided to google myself. There's not much out there, and I'm hard to locate unless you add secondary key words like "astronomy" since there exist many other with my name in the world. I didn ( Read more... )

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qtheallpowerful April 11 2007, 21:27:21 UTC
I've googled myself. They can't find me. But they come up with my cousins.

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sakai_yukari April 11 2007, 23:09:27 UTC
lol. Dan pointed out that I do like to use the word "horrendously" often.

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spiletta42 April 11 2007, 23:28:54 UTC
Well, I just mentally sorted out all of the fictional characters I've ever used in a fanfic by whether or not they would use the word 'bunk' when not referring to a type of bed.

I blame you.

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spiderfaerie April 12 2007, 05:49:19 UTC
Heh, yea, moorpark did something like that when I was Pres of AC. Yup apparently anime club officers somehow became consenting police officers.....

Sometimes I want to smack school journalists. And dammit I'm allowed to say that, I was one!

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amaitanpopo April 13 2007, 02:05:16 UTC
this sounds like a quote from a harry potter book or something... for some reason i cant shake a british accent...

i cant find my self on line...

i love you icon, i am watching sg a right now- where did you get that icon, i need one. : )

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readingroses April 14 2007, 16:25:18 UTC
I got horribly misquoted in first year in the university paper and came off sounding like a politically clueless and socially unaware individual. A two minute soundbyte interview turned into a a representation of a whole demographic, one which I don't represent. It kind of pissed me off. (Granted, this paper has been sued for this kind of inaccuracy before, so what does that say?) As a result, I've sworn off quotations and interviews since then.

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