It's very annoying when you have an idea for a great post in your head and somewhere during the course of the day it vanishes. Of course, I know I should have written it down before I forgot it, but this time I didn't. Some master post gone for good.
Meanwhile, it's that time again: the checking-up-on-of-the-HitTail-Top-Ten.
Of course there are plenty of old favourites here (sorry, acne treatment reviews hasn't made it yet, for all those who think it should have). In order, they are:
1. athletes hand - sans apostrophe, as you might expect.
2. mike crowl - surprise, surprise - and sans capitals.
3. the great divorce notes - a perennial. One of these days I'm going to put some real notes about the Great Divorce on here.
4. googleads.g.doubleclick.net - a total newcomer, which meant nothing to me. I checked it out on the Net, and it brings up the I'm Feeling Lucky page on Google. Hmm. Can I really have been the end result of so many lucky searches?
5. nintendo jewellery - with jewellery spelt correctly, you'll notice.
6. brent stavig - our old friend whose main claim to fame now seems to be the fact that he turns up on my blog!
7. james berardinelli - considering that I haven't mentioned James' name for some time on here, it's interesting that he still gets on this list.
8. karl maugham - only because I misspelt his name so often.
9. shrinking shirts - a constant problem for people, obviously.
10. athletes fingers - just in case you missed number one on the list.
Those who only made it into the top twenty are a real mixed bunch:
mikecrowlsscribblepad.blogspot.com - why would anyone actually search on that?
athlete hand
postile
lesley martin euthanasia
the great divorce chapter summaries
henry lewis gates
here lies eric ambler
religious jeans
crowl
john gray philosopher
I know I've written about all these, but surely other people have too? I'm not going to go further down the list, but Chrissy Popadics only made it to 21st place this time, and how do you pronounce Boise, 22 - and 26 and 28 and at least once in each of the next decades as well. The people of Boise must wonder why the name of their town is such a problem for the rest of the world. Maybe it's time to change it.
3 comments:
Might I be so bold as to clarify the question of the "correct" pronunciation of Boise?
Those of us who live here pronounce it "boy-see" and we fancy ourselves as being able to determine who the "outsiders" are because they pronounce it "boy-zee."
...though I know plenty of people who grew up here and use the [less snotty and more common] "boy-zee" pronunciation :)
Ah, a shibboleth, eh? :)
Well, glad to have the pronunciation finally settled for us wot live so far away from it. We'll practice it so we have it note-perfect for when you arrive...! LOL
Haha, that sounds PERFECT. That way you as well can sound like the rest of us snobs!
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