Friday, June 10, 2005

GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME

N and I were discussing boy's names which would be unlikely to transfer well to dogs. I decided to try a few of these in Google by looking for hits for 'my dog XXXX'. In each case, I tried to find a name that would have less results.

1 'my dog Steve' - app. 25 hits
2 'my dog Tyler' - 78
3 'my dog Jeremy' - 12
4 'my dog Christopher' - 6
5 'my dog David' - 10
6 'my dog Nigel' - 16
7 'my dog Trevor' - 17
8 'my dog Thurston' - 4
9 'my dog Wayne' - 3
10 'my dog Darren' - 1
11 'my dog Murdo' - 0
12 'my dog Roddy' - 4

Results have been cleared where possible of repeat mentions of same pet, and mentions which turn out to be things like 'I love my dog Steve said to Lisa'.