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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Do you have a bed made out of buttermilk pancakes?

When you begin typing text into the search box in Google it automatically makes suggestions for you. Type in "libraries are" and among the suggestions you’ll find "libraries are important" which, in terms of the number of results, happens to outnumber those for "libraries are obsolete" by more than 20:1, which is encouraging.

Sometimes you get some quite bizarre and amusing results, as highlighted the Autocomplete Me site. Like how on earth do the following figure in Google's autocomplete results:

Type in I punched a and in fourth place with over 19,000 results comes I punched a whale right in the face.

On the Canadian version of Google, try I have a b and you'll get, with 19,400 results, I have a bed made out of buttermilk pancakes.

Go figure.

But at least sanity rules somewhere. Top of the pops on a search for Harringay is:

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Try "Do I have" and look at the 10th suggestion!
Also try the top hit for "I really"
"I really" That is seriously weird.
If you pursue the google link, sadly it's demystified. It was a line in the film 300.

And the buttermilk pancakes turns out to be a kids' book......
That doesn't de mystify it for me...or else I missed something in History class.

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