February Searches

Long time readers of my daily meanderings know that since I am a geek without a life I have a fascination with how folks arrive at this site. I get about 500 visitors a day and I am always curious as to how or why they stop by. No. I don't know why I am curious, I just am.

Typepad has a feature that allows me to track how folks bounced over here. The vast majority arrive through internet searches - the most from google. I've been following this with fascination for more than 2 years now (on an aside, if you see my life, please send it home. PLEASE).

February started off with a slew of searches for Valentine's Day (Valentine's dinner, Valentine's martini, how to tell my Valentine that I love them) and then ended up with searches about the Olympics. These were combined with the usual 'stephen harper scandal' searches, kids doing homework, perverts looking for celebrities in underwear, and someone looking for pictures of parsley - about 2000 times! It made for an interesting month.

That aside. . . my favourite search terms for the month of February were:

january 7, 2010 Jerry's blog

This caused me a wee panic. Had I offended someone with that particular post? Was there something in my post for january the 7th that was being investigated? I immediately went back to my post about Paul's slicing off his finger. HUH There was nothing there that would result in litigious action. This was one of those situations where I wish I knew who had posted this so I could ask 'what gives?'

tattoo on amputated finger

Funny that this followed the previous search. No, Paul's finger didn't have a tattoo. Nor was it amputated - well, at least not on purpose. It is all better now, another crisis adverted and another situation where we both said 'thank god for public health care

rants on bacon

Silly, silly, silly searcher. Bacon is wonderful. One does not rant about wonderful things. The only possible rant could be that you consumed pounds and pounds of the stuff because it is so wonderful and had to be transported to a hospital on a flatbed truck once the paramedics arranged for a crane to hoist you up and out of your house.

Dragon’s breath blue cheese

I understand that some folks don't like blue cheese. They are idiots. I don't care, it is my blog and I shall call them like I see them. If you don't like it go a read someone else's blog about knitting or corn husking. If you don't want opinions don't visit. I digress. Where was I? Oh . . . people hating blue cheese. Idiots. And there he goes again . . .

Anyway. I understand that some don't like blue cheese. I appreciate that it has a strong scent and flavour. I'm not sure I'd say it tastes like dragon's breath. Not that I know what dragon's breath tastes like - but it has to be vile.

If the name of the company who makes said cheese is called Dragon's Breath than kudos for a brilliant marketing strategy!

I want some!

is tom brokaw Canadian

I laughed at this one. Brokaw did a piece for NBC that was designed to explain Canada to American viewers. The segment was played during the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Some south of the 49th parallel were clearly puzzled. Certain Americans who shall not be mentioned like to be critical of Canada for vile the crimes of independent thought and for being somewhat liberal in our collective actions. Brokaw presented an opposing view . . . Canada as a friend and strong supporter of the US. The only solution - Brokaw had to be Canadian himself. Why else would he be so 'pro-Canadian'.

The sad thing was that 100s of people searched for this. Those pesky right-wing nutbars south of the border do reach a wide audience . . . sigh

valentine cinimon candies hurt mouth

Someone had an unfortunate Valentine's Day. Poor thing.

timothy bancroft-hinchey is an idiot

It turns out that nutbars live everywhere. This is the idiot who was so brutally critical of Canada during the Olympics. He used the paragon of journalistic integrity, Pravda, as his pulpit. Lots of folks googled for information about him. Happily most included the descriptor 'idiot' 'pinhead'  . . .

Russia is number 1" tee shirt

Shame that anything was farther from the truth. Especially at the recent Olympics. GUM likely has about 1 million of these in a 95 % off bin in Moscow.

art of displaying chicken salad on plates

Poor thing. Chicken salad is not art. It is wonderful, home comfort food. One doesn't display that on a plate. One eats it. Keep your art on the wall. No doubt this was Paula Deen and she had just used up a gallon jar of Cool Whip.

Rice steamer risotto

Stop it right now. Search no more. Risotto is a classic Italian dish that takes some attention. Once does not dump ingredients into a steamer and pull a risotto out at the other end. Anyone attempting to cook a risotto in a steamer should be banned from the kitchen - henceforth all of their meals are to be purchased from Sizzler.

fun facts about stephen harper

No. There aren't any. Do not waste electricity trying to find some. There isn't anything fun about Harper.

Comments

[sandi @ the whistlestop cafe]

I believe the person searching for rice steamer risotto buys the frozen risotto at TJ's.
faster is not better~ unless you are talking olympics.

[Marta]

Those are hilarious. Brokaw was born in South Dakota - Isn't that Canada? Sure looks like Saskatchewan ... or is it Manitoba... just kidding - :)

[Eden]

I always enjoy your "Searches" entries. :)

[Candi]

LOL>art of displaying chicken salad on plates.

Good list~

[JDeQ]

I am afraid that we know that person Sandi - how sad.

To some it is one and the same I'm sure Marta!

Thanks Eden.

I bet Palma could do that candi!

[Annie]

Hilarious as always! Something very funny and poignant about the "hurt mouth" one. And pictures of parsley?!

Venice in June! Lucky you!

[Anne]

Well the blue cheese search wasn't me, but...I can tell you that dragon's breath blue is produced in Nova Scotia by That Dutchman's Farm (formerly named That Damned Dutchman, but alas they removed the colourful language a few years ago!) I had lunch recently at a place that serves a pear/blue cheese pizza using the dragon's breath. I'm not a blue cheese fan, so found the cheese too overpowering. It seems to be very popular though.

http://www.thatdutchmansfarm.com/pages/DragonsBreathBlue.aspx

[JDeQ]

It is official then Anne - I shall have to come to Nova Scotia! I LOVE blue cheese.

Only for a day trip Annie - it will be a challenge to decide what to spend my time doing! SIGH