Some folks end up here with the strangest searches… let me show you what’s in the logs:
the bachlorette spoilers: Yes, we were sworn to secrecy, but the world needs to know– she’s a guy.
jonathan taylor thomas naked: Okay…
eliza duchku: Close, try again.
bad living conditions of late 1940 s chicago: No idea.
teen titans naked: Ooooookay…
what endangers the american aligator: I know we engage in sewer talk around here, but other than that, I don’t see the connection.
eliza kushdu: Closer, at least this time you have all the right letters…
naked aerobics: This is turning into a trend, isn’t it?
jews are evil: What’s amazing to me is that there were 14 searches on that term that ended up here.
eliza dukashu: It’s Dushku! Dushku! Can’t people spell anymore?
keira knighly: Guess not…
ian somerhalder naked: ..unless you’re looking for naked pictures. I guess it helps somehow…
general wesley clark shirtless: …and it makes you politically active?
Come back next time, when we gaze into the abyss and do this all over again.
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You do realize that by posting these examples, you’re increasing the odds that people searching the internet will come here looking for that type of stuff?
–Daniel M.
The bad living conditions of 1940s chicago forced the teen titans to strip? or did the bachelorette spoilers force Wesley Clark to remove his shirt?
Mr. Hauman wrote:
“eliza dukashu: It’s Dushku! Dushku! Can’t people spell anymore?”
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, they can’t. Something interesting that I’ve noticed is that if you can see the way they misspell and listen to their speach patterns you will spot a consistancy. It’s like they spell with their own personal accent. If you’ve ever received a letter from a native of another countryafter you have spoken with them you may understand better what I’m refering to.
Let me know if there is a search for “short angry misanthropic bald sarcastic guy.” That way I’ll know if THEY really are looking for me.
Salutations,
Mitch
hmmm…Strange. I think I have both posted here about JTT naked (on Smallville) AND used that search.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Wow. This cracks me up.
And I thought I got weird searches on my site…
Long answer: No, they can’t. Something interesting that I’ve noticed is that if you can see the way they misspell and listen to their speach patterns you will spot a consistancy. It’s like they spell with their own personal accent.
Umm.. that’s interesting. BTW, it’s speech… not speach and consistency … not consistancy.
But you’re right, I did notice a pattarn.
Out of curiousity, when they search for Peter David, do they end up here or at the website for the guy selling sports pins?
EClark wrote:
“Umm.. that’s interesting. BTW, it’s speech… not speach and consistency … not consistancy.”
Ok, you got me. At least I didn’t say “irregardless.”
I am suprised, however that you missed “native of another countryafter you have.” The fact that I’m considered a ‘fast-talker’ in conjunction with the error I indicated backs up my statement.
By the way, Would the definition of ‘speach’ be speaking while chewing a soft-skinned fruit ?
Sal Yoo Tay Shunz,
Mitch
I’ve gotta confess something – this is all my fault.
All I’m willing to say is that my Master’s thesis got a little off track. It started with a study of eliza dukashu, a slumlord in 1940s Chicago, and how she contributed to a mass-die-off of alligators, and I can’t really explain what happened after that.
Lee Houston, Jr.: “Out of curiousity, when they search for Peter David, do they end up here or at the website for the guy selling sports pins? “
Here.
Hey, how did I wind up here? I was looking for the David Peters webpage…
In a slightly related vein, I occasionally type in “Peterdavid.com” and get a picture that always makes me think that PAD moves surprisingly well for a big man.
Wow.
Just…
…wow.
😀
Umm….. uh…. yeah.
Something tells me I don’t want to know any more than that. *eek*
\\Posted by Ben Grimm:
I’ve gotta confess something – this is all my fault.\\
Hush, you. You’re dead.
Mitch there has a decent point…I was talking to a friend on AIM earlier today, and she mentioned that her mother was not one to “wander around amiously.” So I called her up, and that’s the way she says it.
Eye wood ugri. peepull kennot spel ne-moor.
Seriously though, our schools are doing a horrible job of teaching, which is of course their primary objective. Or maybe that is their only objective… Either way, the point is that our schools have dropped the ball on Language Arts. They have screwed up elsewhere as well, but Language Arts is what is being neglected the most.
Yeah, but English spelling hasn’t really gone with the English language since The Great Vowel Shift, people get careless typing even when they CAN spell (probably because of Spellcheck, that evil thing, and because they know it doesn’t matter that much), and spelling is one of those random skills that seems mostly independent of both education and intelligence…I used to get the website of the guy selling pins all the time. Now I just know where to go without having to search. Hooray for me!
Carrie
I just blame it on the fact that we have a horrible language. 🙂
I think that some people just don’t care. I work with someone who is the WORST at spelling. And the kicker is she reads a lot. I don’t think I’m the best speller out there (or the most bestest grammaticaly), but geeze mon! I wish I could say it was close to being phonetic, but she’s written some puzzlers that even she couldn’t figure out. And she’ll just shrug her shoulders as if it doesn’t matter. It seems to be a speed issue too. You’ll read something she wrote, then ask her to spell it — to actually THINK about it, and she can do it, or at least better than before.
PAD, those are all searches that have delivered people to this site?
Oy. I’m not even sure I want to know how.
Re: Spelling:
My dearly beloved is a programming engineer, one who specializes in object-oriented programming, and he can’t spell any given word the same way twice. I assume that his spelling skills while he’s coding suddenly function, or he’d never have attained his current position. Also, he occasionally chucks an extra syllable into a word while he’s speaking it aloud — not a stutter, just a random additional syllable. It occasionally makes my head hurt.
(But, in revenge, I do admit that I have horrid handwriting. =)
Re: Searches:
I wonder what’d happen if this blog, Dave Barry’s blog, and Diane Duane’s blog compared notes. Well, okay, besides *that*; in regard specifically to the weird searches, can we figure out a pattern that leads seekers of naked post-Prohibition misspelt alligators to the blogs of movie novelization authors? Or something?
Long answer: No, they can’t. Something interesting that I’ve noticed is that if you can see the way they misspell and listen to their speach patterns you will spot a consistancy. It’s like they spell with their own personal accent. If you’ve ever received a letter from a native of another countryafter you have spoken with them you may understand better what I’m refering to.
I know what you mean. I can’t spell nessecery to save my life…
As to naked titans… Just stick a picture of Cyborg up. He’s always naked…
I assume that his spelling skills while he’s coding suddenly function, or he’d never have attained his current position.
*chuckle* From what I remember of object oriented, it’s more of a case of only needing to be able to spell a select set of words; the rest you can make up as you go along.
But spelling is vital as a programmer. When I was in college for programming, I had this Cobol program (don’t ask) I was trying to error check.
I sat, staring at the thing for 20 minutes, right where the error was supposed to be.
Had a friend do the same thing, he couldn’t find it either.
Left, came back 15 minutes later, and spotted the error right away: I misspelled the same word twice about 6 lines apart.
Figures, eh? 🙂
My personal best in COBOL was 143 errors, stemming from forgetting one semicolon in the DATA-DEFINITION section.
In object-oriented programming, you only have to spell each word once, really. After that, everyone swipes each others’ code wholesale (they call it “sharing resources…). 🙂
Diane Duane has a blog??
My blog gets lots of odd internet searches, too. “cool websites for an 8 year old girl”, “hot frat boys with no shirts on”, “narrow bathroom storage stand” and “sexy bloody pictures” just to name a few.
My boyfriend wins, though. Someone found his site by searching for “šlûŧŧÿ asians” He’s #1 if you search in MSN. He had to do a screen grab of the search:
http://www.deanwelsh.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/šlûŧŧÿášìáņš.jpg
An old friend of mine is one letter removed from sharing a name with the actress Jennifer Love Hewitt. When I looked my friend up some time ago, I was astonished just how many people had misspelled the actress’s name to match my friend’s.
Quoth Laylaa @ 03/05/2004 10:49 AM ET:
Diane Duane has a blog??
So I hear, yes. I even remember that she’s visited this “strange searches that lead people to me somehow” topic before, but of course now I cannot find the particular article.
On the plus side, you have some fun reading ahead of you, and maybe you’ll spot it! Heh.
MYSTERY SOLVED
If you know anything about how search engine s work, you’ll figure out WHY PAD’s site pops up from time to time on some weird searches.
Search engines look for keywords that have been used on a website and when if finds one it archives the address of that page where it found it. So if you want to know who responsible for the bad spelling that leads to this site, well, umm, it’s us.
Believe it or not someone has used the misspellings of Eliza Dushku’s name on this site. To bear out my theory, I chased down the misspelling for “Eliza Kushdu”. It led back here to a discussion we were having involving last year’s final season of BuffY. Some one name “Scott” mispelled her name. BTW, it was the only webpage archived with that spelling. And because we’ve used the name several more times since then, the next time the search engines archive this site, the name wll pop up several more times.
Doesn’t the USA PATRIOT act require that the FIB be immediately notified of the ISP of anyone requesting pictures of Ge. Clark shirtless??
If not, it dámņëd well ought to!! 🙂
(Three posts in a row – am I going to be in trouble now?)
Being the weird little pervert I can be, I tried one of the searches. Turns out that if you use Google and search on “naked teen titans”, one of the pages that comes up (well down the list) is a NotePAD entry from July of 2003, featuring a lot of people complaining about the “Teen Titans” cartoon. One rebuttal claimed that the complainers mostly wanted to see what they were familiar with from the comic – “lots of lean, hard bodies, and a nearly naked Starfire having sex with Nightwing.”
Now, personally, I like the cartoon, and I’m highly amused by the super-D moments – on the other hand, I’m not averse to watching Starfire humping Nightwing… ;->
Hey Jarissa
I found the Diane Duane blog!
I guess I also have to start reading this one too, my friend keeps sending me here 🙂