When I say I found stuff on the lot worth sharing, I don't mean the real lot. Just one of the "lots" I'm hangin' at in my "retirement".
Anyway,
"This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address occur during the same week. It is an ironic juxtaposition of events -- one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the other involves a groundhog."
The little piece of paper didn't say who said that. S'pose I should look it up, it was obviously somebody smart.
I'm sure many that visit this site are going to say "WTF? What's this doing here?" but this video needs to be exposed as many places as possible. I love this country with all of it's flaws so I'm going to do my part to spread the word.
Please watch the vid and then, you can bitch, about me putting it here if you want.
Yes, if I get the opportunity to vote for him, I will.
The words I know, and the meanings I associate with those words, really affect my thinking, I guess.
My handle on at least a hundred forums, member sites and sultry other get rich quick, sell marketing to marketers programs out here on this midway is "stillgreen".
So much for lurking, huh?
I don't find it so odd that I use that name. I've only been out here on the cyber-midway for a few years and I'm still as green as if I'd first bailed the counter yesterday.
What I do find odd is that not once have I heard a comment such as "Ahh, still new at this, eh?"
Myself, my knee-jerk mental response the the word "green" is the thought "new".
Back in the day, for a few weeks I alibied for a Mom & Pop operation that had a few joints and a couple of kid rides.
I should have said a Mom operation because the mama wore the pants in that outfit. She wore them tight too :)
Ms. Debbie was a tough lady to work for. You definitely didn't want to get loose with your stock and I don't even wanna tell you what happened when she caught an agent red-handed going south one time.
Anyway, on that show, whenever we wanted to encourage a buddy to work a mark a little stronger we'd always say "Make Mother Proud of You". It was a pretty popular phrase then that you heard in common conversation and meant just about the opposite of what we meant by saying it.
You don't hear that saying much anymore, do you?
I wonder what we'd have to say now, "Make Yourself Proud of You"?
I was interested in knowing if you could see a temporary traffic spike at Alexa. Alexa calls itself the "web information company" and aims to rank every site on the Internet on how well it's doing traffic-wise against every other cyber-joint. It's an interesting concept but not necessarily practical according to Stan Schroeder and others.
In the case of Welcome to the Fair, I'd say that Alexa has done a pretty good job of recording traffic spikes though I have no way of knowing if their representation is accurate as to number of views.
Anyway, it's all very interesting out here on this midway they call the Internet, isn't it?
Alexa seems harmless enough and yet they just got me for $23.95. Stick around to find out how.
