10th January 2008

I like refrigerators

Earlier in the week I took a spin at an old classic, “Bill Evans, the boy with no body” to enter a contest where Dan Perry is giving away a Google Refrigerator. My attempt wasn’t too original as all I did was remake a classic email from years gone by. That being said, I had another one in the hopper and which also not to original, but if you’ve been around the web for a while you’ll remember it. It’s based on the classic, I like Monkeys, which till this day is still probably the funniest things I’ve ever read. I don’t know why it strikes me so damn funny but it does.

Without further ado, here’s my plea for a new refrigerator because I Like Refrigerators.


Google Refrigerator
Dan Perry was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like refrigerators.

I took my 200 refrigerators home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn’t adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the refrigerators were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta’ dropped dead. Kinda’ like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap refrigerators.

I didn’t know what to do. There were 200 dead refrigerators lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn’t work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet refrigerator and 199 dead, dry refrigerators.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead refrigerator in the toilet and I didn’t want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two refrigerators at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn’t all go bad.

I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet refrigerator in my toilet, two dead, frozen refrigerators in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred refrigerators in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn’t improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my refrigerators and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my refrigerators. I felt better.

I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn’t allowed to dispose of charred appliances. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn’t take that one either. I didn’t bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn’t know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.

I like refrigerators

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7th January 2008

The man with no refrigerator

-inspired by Billy, the boy with no body.

My name is John Honeck.

I am a very sober little man. My mother is typing this for me, because I can’t. She Is crying. The reason she is so sad is because I’m so sober. I live without a Google refrigerator. It doesn’t hurt, except when I try to drink warm beer.

I have an artificial refrigerator. It is bucket filled with lukewarm water. Its the best I could do on account of me having no money or large AdWords accounts.

I would like to have a real Google refrigerator, but I need more links to this web site, or this one, or is it this one? The soberness has made my head clear and I cannot even think straight. I can barely work because nobody designs websites while sober. I just looked down at my lukewarm bucket of water. I am sad again.

I hope you will help me. You can help me if you leave a comment or link to those websites, then write an email to everyone you know telling them to do the same. Forward it to people you don’t know, the too. Mr. Schwartz said that for every person you forward this email to, Larry Page will team up with Microsoft and send a referral to Dan Perry. With those referrals, Dan Perry will collect links from bloggers all over America.

Every time you forward this letter, Dan Perry can get more links and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please help me. I am so sad and and I want a Google refrigerator. I don’t want my beer to get warm before the super bowl.

If you don’t forward this email, that’s okay. It just means you’re a mean and heartless bastard who doesn’t care about a poor little man with only a lukewarm bucket for a refrigerator. If you don’t it will stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach, hoping you die a long slow, horrible death and then burn forever in hell. All of your links will be nofollowed.

What kind of cruel person are you that you can’t take five freakin’ minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame about Ignoring a poor, sober thirty-nine-year-old man? Please help me.

I try to be happy, but it’s hard. I wish I had a kitty. I wish I could drink with a kitty. I wish I could drink with kitty that wouldn’t chew on me and try to pee in my lukewarm beer bucket. I wish that very much.

Thank You,

John “Shakes” Honeck


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16th October 2007

Faking Googlebombing for fun

Google uses the links pointing to a page to help decide what the page is all about, even so much to as return a page for a search term even if the term is not on the page.  It’s been termed the Google Bomb.

An actual Google bomb may take many well placed links to fuse, but you can fake just such a Google bomb if you’d like to  scare some unsuspecting webmasters into believing that they’ve got some bad anchor text out there.

Let’s say we’d like to pull a fast one on our favorite black hatted red crab and make him think that some people may consider him a black hatted spammer.  You could edit the cache link to include the search terms of your liking, and get a cache with the anchor text highlighted (for example).

sebastians-pamphlets_black_hat.png

Note that Google inserts the following copy near the bottom of the cache header, “These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: black hat spammer”

Sebastian is way too smart for this to work, but I’m sure you can have fun with it on some other sites.  As an added bonus, the page view should show up in the server stats with the search term, and excellent idea if you know someone who watches their logs religiously.

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17th July 2007

Google Nude Stuff

I’ve joined the ranks of Vanessa Fox in her dominance of the Nude search results.

Today in my logs an interesting search referral, [google nude stuff]. I currently rank #6, which is great, but I have a long way to go to beat Vanessa who has the much coveted indented result with two URLs.

You strive and you strive and then one day you get there and don’t know what to do with the success.

Thumbnail saved for eternity.

google-nude-stuff.png

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6th June 2007

Twitter: The new all purpose word

Twitter, the social cross between IM’s and blogging, is so buggy and frequently screwed up that I’ve started to use it as a euphemism for one of the English language’s most versatile words. Therefor, I offer this as a guide. (how’s that for branding?)

In language, “twitter” falls into many grammatical categories.

  • Twitter can be used as a verb both transitive (he twittered her) and intransitive (she was twittered by him).
  • a active verb (he really gives a twitter),
  • a passive verb (she really doesn’t give a twitter),
  • an adverb (she is twittering interested in him) and
  • a noun (she is a fine twitter).
  • an adjective (she is twittering beautiful).

As you can see there is a whole lot of real versatility with “twitter”. It pops up everywhere. Besides its sexual connotation, this lovely word can be used to describe many situations:

  • GREETING - How the twitter are you?
  • FRAUD - I got twittered by that crook;
  • DISMAY - Oh, twitter it!;
  • TROUBLE - I’m twittered now!;
  • CONFUSION - What the twitter?!;
  • AGGRESSION - “Twitter you!”;
  • DISGUST - “Twitter me”
  • DESPAIR - Twittered again!;
  • PHILOSOPHY - “Who gives a twitter?”
  • INCOMPETENCE - “He’s a real twitter-off”;
  • DISPLEASURE - “What the twitter is going on here?”
  • NUMEROLOGY - “Sixty-twitterin’-nine”;
  • LOST - “Where the twitter are we?”
  • DISBELIEF - “Untwitteringbelievable
  • RETALIATION - Up your twittering a$$!”
  • REBELLION - Twitter it!;
  • DISPLEASURE - What the twitter’s going on?;
  • SATISFACTION - twitter me again!

Also as:

  • DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY - “He’s a twitterin’ a$$hole!”
  • TO TELL TIME - “It’s six-twittering-thirty.”
  • PREDICTION - “Well, I’ll be twittered!”
  • A POLITICAL STATEMENT - “Twitter Washington”
  • INCESTUOUS - “Mothertwitterer”
  • A PUT DOWN - “Twitter off, buster!”
  • ALL ENCOMPASSING - “Twitter ‘em all!”
  • GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS - “Twitter the IRS”
  • A POKER HAND- “A royal twitter”
  • TO START A RELATIONSHIP - “Let’s twitter now!”
  • AS AN ACCEPTANCE - “Twitterin’ eh!”
  • ENJOYMENT - “Twitterin’ Wow!” ”
  • A CLOSING - “Twitteringly yours”.
  • MATERNAL - “Mothertwitterer”

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17th May 2007

The web’s long memory

Every so often you do something silly. Something that is normally below your supposed level of maturity. If that something happens to be published on the internet it just may be there for a long, long time to come. Then one day you are reading your feeds in Google Reader and come across a post that promises to be sprinkled with fart jokes and your past rears up and bites you.

There are a few ways one can handle news from the past. 1) you could deny it 2) blame it on the cat/dog/son or 3) you can own it. I choose to own it. Without further ado…

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27th April 2007

Obfuscating your links

I’ve heard some concern over people being worried about being penalized for buying links by Google. I found this incredibly germane to our conversation due to my recent sale of over 10,000 PageRank 8 gmail links. So here’s a quick-n-dirty method to put some distance between you and the Paid Link.

  1. Go get yourself a Twitter sign up.
  2. Tweet a quick note with the link to your site. For example this test which links back to this site.
  3. Then buy a link to that specific Tweet. You can find the permalink by clicking on the time link next to it.

The permalink page doesn’t have a nofollow tag on it either in the link or the META. Twitter doesn’t use a robots.txt. The tinyurl utilizes a 301 permanent redirect to the resulting URL.

While you are sending link love to your Tweets, make sure to put a good site in your profile that could also use some links, as that is also shown as a real link.

Viola! there you have it, an easy way to buy 3-way links to your site. Oh it may take a bit longer for you to get the Google Juice, but hey if your buying high quality PageRank 8 links in gmail, they’ll push through quickly.

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28th March 2007

Adam Lasnik - Photo Hunt

We’re going to play a fun little game like Photo Hunt. With two world-famous jet setting Googler Adam Lasnik photos.

I’ll give you a hint, in photo #1 Adam is holding onto a drink, in photo #2 he is holding the Google Phone.

There are 8 subtle differences, get ready to play!

Photo 1 (stolen from Danny Sullivan)

Adam Lasnik

Photo 2 (stolen from somewhere I don’t remember)

Adam Lasnik aka Bob Denver

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21st March 2007

Wiki taking over Google?

This is just strange, strange, strange…but funny, it even includes the words “Butt Munches” which means its gotta be good.

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23rd February 2007

Just one more and I’m going home

Odie got fired for ordering too big of cups which reminded me of an image I got in email a few decades ago, it has to be one of the funniest pictures I’ve ever seen I just love the exasperated look of the fella on the right.

One more

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