Haha the best part was the double "with" typo at the end.

Man. Damn typos.

Uhm, yeah, so, that's something I do when I'm not on Metafilter, is go out and make random (generally topical) comments on stuff I find. It's writing practice. Plus I link back to my mefi user page, which is all part of my master plan of getting the #1 google result for "loquacious". The highest I've been so far is #2, briefly, then they changed the pagerank rules and I dropped to like 5th or 7th for a while. Bastards.

That? Was a masterpiece.

An excellent piece of deep snarkery, loquacious. You should've entered John Scalzi's "write a scathing review of a future book I write" contest.

And, loq, there is no shame in being behind the dictionary definitions of your nick on Google, but what is with the current loquacious #3? A former blog at greenspun.com which now says only "This service has been disabled due to tens of thousands of postings by spammers." Yes, but without all that spam, that blog never would've been #3.

This prompted me to Google myself and I discovered to my delight that I am currently my highest ranking for "wendell" EVAH. I'm #4! I'm #4! Right behind the Town of Wendell, North Carolina, Wendell August American-made Giftware and Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition. And ahead of Wendell, Idaho, Wendell Castle Art Furniture, Wendell, Massachusetts, Wendell Willkie and Nobel Prize Chemistry Winner Wendell M. Stanley. Considering I've only updated the wendellwit.com blog like three times in the last month, I am awestruck. (but then, this isn't the first time Google has rewarded me for NOT blogging... hmmm) I'd be happy to just be ahead of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ask Wendell the Worm on the Discovery Kids site.

Of course, the Google search for wendellwit is all about me, since I have to use that as my nick anywhere I can't get 'wendell', but the front page includes profiles at a couple forums where I'd forgotten I was a member. I'm glad Google loves me, but I still don't trust them.

I still say that one of those girls is going to grow up and marry Dennis Rodman. the other will marry Rosie O'Donnell.

::Copies, pastes into personal collection of favorite quotes::

That was awesome, loq.

Good god. That thread started in December 2004.

[ Which, now that I really read what roofus wrote, has already been pointed out. ]

Also, I used to be #4 in a Google search for deborah. I'm not sure why because my blog usually had somewhere between 50 & 100 daily readers. That really isn't much for such a high ranking.

Good god. That thread started in December 2004.

I know. Can you imagine if the Metafilter thread for [that dumb band] stayed open for over two years? It'd have lke 20,000 posts by now and would have sparked several major land wars in Asia.

And thanks for the kind words. I was particularly proud of the "fundaments-cartographer" bit.

Also, I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see my name all up in 50s B-movie lights... LOQUACIOUS vs. THE NAZIS!

*calls up languagehat and Ethereal Bligh on red Batman style hotline phone*

loq: "Yo."

l-hat: "This had better be good. I'm almost done with the NY Times crossword puzzle."

EB: "I was taking a bubble bath, goddamnit."

loq: "Dudes, we got Nazis. Nasty little infestation down in some old-quarter BBcode-mill."

l-hat: "Again!? Haven't these tools ever heard of sitebans or access control?"

EB: "Let 'em rot. I got a new ducky. I wanna use it. Tonight. Really, why should I care?"

loq: ""Prussian Blue""

l-hat: "You're fucking kidding me."

EB: "Let me get my hat."

Ha! I can totally see that happening.

*misses EB*