Take off your coat and stay awhile
22 August 2003, 10:22
There is no need to wonder why I do this, for it is a blessedly welcome labour. This is how people are getting to my site. They are as trick-or-treaters on All Hallows’ Eve, their visits brief (and occasionally scary) but all conferring some unknown meaning…
Aug 25: Wow, these are way less interesting than the stuff from Aug 23 (see BONUS, below). I’m sensing a growing panic about university residences, and wanting to get the crib notes for assigned reading. Better you than me!
10 most recent referers (as of August 25):
- a world lit only by fire book notes > Books
- pam
- nicola gunn, edmonton > Fringe
- farming beetroot > Hair
- john keats, understanding la belle dame sans merci > Books
- beetroot
- gage ubc > Housing (Six women to one bathroom? Cramped!)
- a world lit only by fire > Books
- beetroot picture
- falassarna sex on the beach > Travels (We were BODY SURFING, okay? Aug 24)
The hits
The most recent 5 hits are given for each page, as well as the best search terms of all time:
togs < white cotton hippie blouses, coast guard jacket, dye beetroot, suede shoes and black tights, colour guard leotard (best: harem jeans)
diggings < ubc residence pictures totem, used kids quad in abbotsford, ubc area roommates, bachelor suite apartments in edmonton, jasmine apartment edmonton (best: crescendo and italian textbook)
do < how to braid hair, hair disaster pics, braid hair care, hair pics, purple hair colour (best: men hair barette)
links < 44dd, toothpaste for dinner, dan savage, vacation cartoons, legend of the red dragon (best: housewife comix)
books < a world lit only by fire (honourary mention)
Greatest, in order of -ness
- pinko fries recipe > Rootin’ (June 23)
- coast guard reefer jacket > Duds (~July 12)
- hawkers wares poem > To market (July 25)
The misses
You know them. They’re the people doubtless surfing from work, looking for pictures of women (and now men) in sexy clothing or provocative poses, but not wanting to see actual skin. These, the prude smurfs, got here with:
- form fitting skirt pics
- tight jeans contest
- tight fitting jean pics
- strappy sandals pics
- tight jeans kung fu
- romance novels vibrator
- men with lipstick prints all over
- short skirt pics
- tight skirt jeans
- daisy dukes pics
- silk stockings pics
- parent directory + scoop neck
Kicking around
Statistics! As of Aug 25, this site has been graced by:
- 11 pr0n lamers (latest: “porno gay”)
- 2 people looking for William Manchester’s popular history, A World Lit Only by Fire
- 2 people looking for views of the Netherlands’ Ijsselmeer on the web
- 2 people scoping out tattoos of dragonflies
- 2 people wanting to learn how to braid hair
- 2 people unaccountably searching for “beetroot in hair”
- 3 savage love fans
- 4 harem pants shoppers and 2 palazzo pants shoppers
- 2 people shopping for cotton broomstick skirts
- beetroot count: 9
BONUS: Less recent (Aug 20 – 23):
- sixpack bikes > Workout
- isabelle barbat > Fringe
- webcam ijsselmeer > Travels
- elvis recipes > Feast
- dragonfly tattoo gallery Southeast
- webcam costa brava > Game show / Travels
- photographs of beetroot
- how long does it take from chilliwack to coquitlam > Travels
- berke breathed, douglas adams > Elvis
- ishbadiddle > Apocrypha
There are also some older referers. (Sorry, accidentally deleted a page, so one intervening page (#70) is missing.)
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