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[bunsen_h]

If Google has only one hit for a phrase, it's called a "Google whack".  Is there a term for a phrase that has no Google hits, even though there should be some?

I'm not sure exactly what sparked the idea; probably a combination of trying to identify the mushrooms that are growing in our back yard, and reading a letter from a gay dad to a gay man's remarkably intolerant parents, and then my brain did its usual bouncing around.  But... no hits at all for "Amanita Bryant"?

I expect that there will be, if-and-when Google indexes this post.  Anyway.

(As it happens, though A. phalloides is responsible for about half of all fatal human mushroom poisonings, and the various Amanita species collectively about 95% (per the always-reliable W'pedia), a number of the Amanitas are not only edible but commonly eaten.  Not to be confused with the unpalatable and toxic Anitas.)
 

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting question. But as you say, there will be hits for everything uploaded to the web sooner or later. It's just a matter of how much interest there is in any given thing.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Dayum, that takes me back. (Are you old enough to remember the "Suck a fruit for Anita" T-shirts? Each bearing a perfectly innocent image of an orange, of course.)

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I don't recall them, so either before my time or outside my space. I don't think I understood what all of the fuss was (supposed to be) about, at the time; I'd have been too young or too naive. And none of it affected me, or anyone I knew, so I didn't have any reason to pay it any attention at the time.