Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Oddest Search Results Linking to Reason Gone Mad

Looking over some reports on site traffic, I found that two visits resulted from the Google search "Stephen Hawking posters." (With quotations, it's the first search results listing. Without quotations, it's third.)

I wrote a piece about Stephen Hawking last year with a joke about fan posters, but I suspect someone was *really* looking for Stephen Hawking posters. For a dorm-room wall? Instead of Farrah Fawcett? (I'm dating myself here -- age-wise, not, uh, you know, "dating" myself, because that's both weird and inexplicable.)

And will you look at that: An actual Stephen Hawking poster for sale.

Confession: On the wall of my freshman-year dorm room, I had a poster of a kitten dressed up in biker gear. I thought it was ironic and funny, but in retrospect, it was pretty unfunny. I'm confident my taste and humor style has matured in the years since.
CUT TO: Shein's bedroom wall, where you'll see a poster of a kitten hanging by its front paws on a branch above the slogan, "Hang in there, baby!"

CUT TO: Shein writing a blog post that includes reference to a poster that he doesn't really have.

CUT TO: Seriously, I DO NOT have that poster of a kitten hanging on a branch. Come over and see if you want. The only posters I have in my bedroom come from Successories.

CUT TO: No, actually, I don't have those either.

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