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It's a bit ironic in a special paradoxical math like way (like [0]) that if someone discovers it and posts it online it'll instantly (ca. HTTPS vs. HTTP, other encryption, whether or not someone sees the page, etc.) be wrong by definition. It's like figuring what do you call an UFO that has been identified.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

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I am suddenly nostalgic for the Googlewhack fad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

"A Googlewhack is a contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks that returns exactly one hit. A Googlewhack must consist of two actual words found in a dictionary.

Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site."

Does anyone remember a comedian that did a comedy special many, many years ago centered around Googlewhacks? I remember he got a tattoo of a Texas ID on his arm.

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