Thongs, kidnapping, and cat bites: Weird ways people found my blog

10 Jan 2012 9 Comments

by meganfinley in the internets Tags:

Inspired by my friend Drew’s blog, here is a roundup of the weird, and some down-right disturbing, search terms that lead people to find my blog:

  • papua new guinea tsunami receding water
  • my personal+blog+wordpress+kidnapping (wait, WHY plus kidnapping!?)
  • are you finished with those arons
  • thong shows
  • arson campaign map (I don’t think that arson needs campaigning)
  • cat bite wound gone numb (you should get that checked out)
  • photos of weird chicken eggs
  • chris o’dowd school (I want to go to there)
  • bony sandler (is that Adam’s brother?)
  • good morning sad roses photo (just added “Good Morning Sad Roses” to my list of band name ideas)
  • i wanna be the ugliest (and it brought you here!? Aw, sad roses :( )
  • dogs on crack
  • man in thong with guns (what is with people and thongs? I have no thongs here people, move on)

The Funk’s 2011 year in review

31 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in the internets

Aw, wasn’t that nice of WordPress — they sent me a year in review on Funk in Deep Freeze. There were a few things that surprised me. First check it out…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Okay, here’s what I found surprising:

1. More people got to this blog because they were searching for my college buddy, and amazing musician, Aaron Arntz. What’s up with that Aaron?
2. One of my top viewed posts had absolutely ZERO comments.
3. After posting my top five blog posts, WordPress prompted me to “Consider writing about those topics again.” One was the shark attack, one was about spotting WeHo’s “tranny on a bike” on Christmas, one was our engagement story and the other two were shopping posts. Guess which topics are kinda’ hard for me to write about again? ;)

What the hell Grandma!?

02 Feb 2010 2 Comments

by meganfinley in the internets Tags: , ,

For some reason my sister’s Facebook page is a magnet for incredibly strange exchanges. I have no idea why. Actually, I know why… because my family is SUPER weird…

no thanks…

14 May 2009 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in freaky, the internets

…and don’t want to. 

yikes.
You gotta be kidding me with that name “hotguy4you2rideon.”

LOL Shark

26 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in freaky, the internets Tags: , ,

My friend Alex just emailed me this photo from a blog called FUCK YA SHARKS…

Can’t argue with that. Except that Aaron hates Starbucks. 
But anyway, how weird is that!? Aaron’s on the same level now as an LOL Cat.

I Feel OBSESSED

25 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in the internets

Today my husband came home and introduced me to my new favorite website-

www.wefeelfine.org

It’s a veritable catch-all for human emotions available online in awesome, bouncy, wiggly interactive displays. According to the website’s Mission statement this is what is happening- Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices.

screen shot from the website’s interface – all of those little click-able dots are human emotions
Basically it’s a nosy shut-in’s wet dream and I feel okay with that. :)

the worl for skilletgirl

13 Apr 2008 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in idiots, philosophy, the internets

I have to share with everyone something that has been giving me endless amounts of amusement… the wonderful world of Skilletgirl.

I found Skilletgirl on a photography sharing website called Flickr. I upload most all of my photos on to my Flickr account. I also belong to a few dog-themed groups. A couple of days ago, I saw a posting entitled “The worl for dogs” in one of those dog-themed groups. Confused, I clicked on the title and to my delight found this…

skilletgirl on public parks
This posting both angered and fascinated me. As an English major I was furious! There are so many mistakes on so many levels! This posting was like an horrific accident on the side of the road where bad grammar collided with a big rig carrying a shipment of homonyms on the Syntax Highway. And that, folks, is why I could not look away. In fact, I found myself having to find out more about this Skilletgirl…
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