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Misspelling of a shortened word for googolplex. First, a definition of googol and googolplex.
goo·gol
The number 10 raised to the power 100 (10<SUP>[SIZE=-1]100[/SIZE]</SUP>), written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
goo·gol·plex
<DL><DD>The number 10 raised to the power googol, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10<SUP>[SIZE=-1]100[/SIZE]</SUP> zeros.</DD></DL>
I googled and got this:
Origin of the name "Google"
"From time to time I read or hear stories of the origin of the search engine and company name "Google" that are incorrect, which prompts me to write this brief account, based on my understanding of the genesis of the name. The source of my information is my friends and colleagues from Wing 3B of the Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford University, where Google was born.
In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." Larry's office was in room 360 of the Gates CS Building, which he shared with several other graduate students, including Sean Anderson, Tamara Munzner, and Lucas Pereira. In 1997, Larry and his officemates discussed a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology. Sean recalls the final brainstorming session as occurring one day during September of that year. Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol." Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997)."
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BuckBackHome
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I'm not telling "football" fans that. Those fans are nuts. Hell, they even shoot players and refs in S. America if their team loses.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Yeah. Check this out:
Some old version of the Bible, Genesis, Chapter (something), Verse (something):
And on the seventh day, God rested, and he got bored. So he came out of retirement for a couple minutes and said, "LET THERE BE FOOTBALL!!!" But no one really knew what football was. People started kicking stuff around and throwing other stuff back and forth and scoring points. But God knew that it was all stupid. The people (I don't know how many people there were. Was it just Adam and Eve?) were eager to please God, but they didn't know how. God lost his patience and quickly smote all those who sucked at his game of football. All that was left was Adam and Eve. Adam, in his haste to not be smoted, picked up the weirdest-looking ball he had ever seen, and ran around, trying to avoid God's smotings. Eve, also not wanting Adam to be smoted, started cheering for him to survive. God's attempts to smote Adam failed, and Adam reached the endzone safely, and Eve cheered loudly. God awarded Adam one point for every day he had to work (6) and gave Adam a chance at an extra point, if he could kick the ball through the uprights. Back then, however, the field goal was 75 feet off the ground and the uprights were only 3 feet apart, and Adam went for 2. He failed. God won 761-6.
What church do you guys go to? Don't they teach you this stuff? Mine does.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Yeah, but the New Testament is much boringer than Old Testament. Except for the Book of Revelations. That's been written by someone who was drunk or stoned or something.
And the NCAA boned Jesus pretty badly with that deal. They were pretty pissed off because first, he didn't even want to play football. He was all into teaching love and happiness. But they knew that with him on the field, there'd be fewer unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and roughing the kicker penalties would be basically eliminated. Besides, Jesus was even more Reggie Bush than Reggie Bush is.
So during Jesus' 2nd year at Nazareth U. he's finally convinced to play football. He breaks all the school records for football, and wins the Heisman as a sophomore. The NCAA fears that he will entire the draft early, so they take his Heisman from him. Jesus, of course, forgave them.
Just before the next season is supposed to start, comes the infamous event that methomps was talking about. But I have the sneaky suspicion that the NCAA maliciously blinded that guy just before stepping into the street where he got hit by a truck. Jesus, being the poster child for being helpful, cured the guy of his blindness, mended his broken neck and ribs, and even found a tumor in the guy's lung and healed it. Jesus was 5 minutes late to his Intro. to Nuclear Physics class, and was shut out, and he missed his class. Jesus, of course, forgave them.
A couple of years later, Nazareth U. went on 2 years post season probation because the head coach bought a pizza for one of his players who was having a rough time dealing with the fact that his father was eaten by lions in the Roman Coloseum.
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