02.08.2006
What the Dooce?
I started writing about something very serious and political, and you won’t like it. I’m still going to write it, and you’re still going to read it. But before I do, I have a question.
I just found out that this site gets an average of almost six thousand hits a day.
Who the bleedin’ hell are you people?
I mean, I thought only my mother, my husband, and five or six other cashews in the peanut gallery were reading this thing . . . and I wasn’t even very sure about my mother or my husband.
My best guess is that the neighborhood squirrels are using my writing to track Goblin’s location. If I had thought that six thousand actual people are clicking here daily (sometimes seven or eight thousand), I would have started a pyramid scheme ages ago.
Now everyone send me five dollars.
posted by
David at 9:57 PM
Of course I read your website!!!! I check it a couple of times a day!!!! This entry was very funny!!!
posted by: Mom on 02.08.2006 at 10:49 PM
$5 gets you dinner and game night at my place - and I only live 4 blocks from you (2 south / 2 west). $10 ?? well, that would involve Goblin privileges and she would have to negotiate (or better yet - reciprocate).
Actually, I click on your site 6,000 times a day.
posted by:
Crash on 02.09.2006 at 12:16 AM
Crash: ooh you are such a porky pie-er! I know you are coz I click on at least 3,000 times a day myself.
Broadsheet: As I recall an evening in your very charming company comes in at a lot more than $10!! Worth every cent though.
David: I think your mother is just saying that to be nice. It is the sort of thing they do; like sending Valentine's cards when one is a high school. (Sorry David's Mom but your game is up!)
posted by: campbell on 02.09.2006 at 5:21 AM
Yeah, I have to write one of those unpleasant political things, too, because unfortunately people remembered my last one.
I'm pretty sure I know a way to NOT get 6000 hits per day, though...
Also, I believe you meant, "What the Dooce?"
FIRST!!!!
posted by:
jwer on 02.09.2006 at 8:58 AM
Mom: How do I know this is really you?
Broadsheet: We're still talking about you paying me, right? :) Bring on the games!
Crash: Really? Because I thought you were too busy doing something else six thousand times a day.
Campbell: You are old and wise, so you just may be corrrect.
Jwer: Yeah, we also remember you didn't finish it. As for that other thing, I don't know what you're talking about. Isn't it funny what one's fingers will type when one isn't looking?
posted by:
David on 02.09.2006 at 9:04 AM
This is really your mother--Mother Nature!!! AND, I still do send Valentine cards to my kids and now their kids!!!! It's a mother thing!!!
posted by: Mom on 02.09.2006 at 9:48 AM
That's a lotta clicks. Are you really that funny?
posted by:
Mush on 02.09.2006 at 10:47 AM
Hey, it was hard. He's really very stupid, and his speechwriters are a special kind of evil... Pleh.
posted by:
jwer on 02.09.2006 at 1:49 PM
Can I send you five frittatas instead?
posted by:
David on 02.09.2006 at 2:21 PM
Hello, I am one of the people you definitely don't know is reading. Probably because I've never commented...
Anyway, I'm a 24 year old English teacher, and I live in Jerusalem, Israel.
I'm trying to think of anything else interesting about me, but I'm not sure there is.
posted by: Sharon on 02.09.2006 at 3:24 PM
So sorry ... it could've been me. I've been trying to open right-side-up-rhinosaurus - up to hundreds of times hourly.
posted by: barb on 02.09.2006 at 11:32 PM
It's me, your mom, your hubby, the cashews, and 5,991 other people. (Not necessarily in that order:).)
posted by:
Kitty on 02.10.2006 at 3:19 AM
I read it too! sometimes, I even make comments. Will you take yen?
posted by:
gregorio on 02.12.2006 at 3:22 AM
I read it too! sometimes, I even make comments. Will you take yen?
posted by:
gregorio on 02.12.2006 at 3:22 AM
I'm your best friend....
posted by: js on 02.13.2006 at 10:50 PM
Mom again: If you are Mother Nature, I'm not quite sure what that makes me.
Mush: I make no claims.
Jwer again: I would also like to be stupid with evil speechwriters. Talk about your road to success.
David: It would have to be on dry ice or something.
Sharon: It is very nice to meet you. I am also 24 and live in Jerusalem, Israel.
Barb: It's a natural mistake.
Kitty: Such precision. I can't help but think you have a future in demographic studies.
Gregorio: I can never keep track of whether the yen is rising or falling against the dollar.
JS: Thank you. I'm sure you know the universal law which states my best friend is required to paint my kitchen. I'll have the brush ready.
posted by:
David on 02.14.2006 at 12:57 PM
I read you--wandered over from Faustus's place a long time ago.
The reason I never comment is because I have no desire to ever end up painting your kitchen.
posted by:
bitchphd on 02.15.2006 at 11:06 PM
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