Fact O' The Day
fancy?
This can't be a good thing, but if you Google "examples of fancy writing," guess what the first hit is? That's right.
Try it.
Comments
Re: Fact O' The Day
Am I the only one curious as to why Ben is sitting at work Googling the phrase 'examples of fancy writing'? Not enough in the local paper for ya?
Posted by:
Raja
at November 01,2007 12:25
Re: Fact O' The Day
Hah. I loves me some fancy writing.
My stat tracker can show me how people found the blog. Most of the time it includes someone searching for "bullrider ross coleman girlfriend" and I've no idea who that is. This -- "examples of fancy writing" -- was a first.
Posted by:
ben
at November 01,2007 12:54
Re: Fact O' The Day
Don't make fun of Ben for wasting time at work. I'm an equal procrastinator.
When I typed "Grangrey" into a Google search, the sixth entry was for monkey pictures. So this website is directly associated with fancy writing and monkey pictures. Talk about variety!
AB
Posted by:
ARB
at November 01,2007 13:50
Re: Fact O' The Day
I'd almost forgotten all about Ames. Whatever happened to him, anyway?
Posted by:
Bill M.
at November 01,2007 14:24
Re: Fact O' The Day
Adam's post has me wondering: If you have an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters would they eventually create examples of fancy writing?
Posted by:
Raja
at November 01,2007 16:09
Re: Fact O' The Day
Another Google search (I swear, happened today) that yeilds Gangrey as the first hit:
"a free game that you could dress up dolls and work at the same time and after payday she could go do her nails"
What does that even mean? Who is searching for that?
Posted by:
ben
at November 01,2007 21:43
Re: Fact O' The Day
Oh, Ben, you and your avatars.
Posted by:
CLK
at November 01,2007 21:52
Re: Fact O' The Day
The last one sounds like a professor or teacher checking a student's work for plagiarism.
Posted by:
Matt Tullis
at November 02,2007 07:18
Re: Fact O' The Day
So, um, Ben... as the founder of Gangrey, what else does your stat tracker tell you? I didn't realize there even was such a thing. So... if I'm having an OCD day and I check Gangrey maybe, uh, 20 times or something... do you have a page that tells you stuff like that? (Please say no, please say no.)
Posted by:
Erin
at November 04,2007 10:41
Re: Fact O' The Day
Not only that but it probably checks how many times we link to our OWN stories. Not that I would ever do that.
FYI, Ben came and wowed the crowd at Creighton University in Omaha, Ne., Saturday. He advised the journalists present to "try to make your morons human," "it can't be a story about nothing" and "be a vacuum."
He did not specify Dyson or Hoover.
Posted by:
CLK
at November 04,2007 14:52
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