The Google Effect
October 7, 2004

I'm still trying to decide if I should be happy or worried that people sometimes google my name. I mean, afterall, I google friends' names all the time just to make sure they're living. I guess until I see "Ambra Nykol sucks" or "Ambra Nykol's SSN and phone records" as a search term on my referrer log, then I'll think the best and not the worst. Call me a nerd, but my daily (and I mean DAILY) comic relief is reading the list of Google, Yahoo, and other search engrine referrals to this site. But one in particular today totally had me laughing, and I just had to share it with the people:

"How to slipper my bad child"
For the civilized, let me *learn you: "to slipper" means "to spank". Among some of the more frequent searches that lead people to nykola.com:
- "shoe buying addiction"
- "Kerry is my homeboy tshirt"
- "Removing dreadlocks from cats"
- "men wearing womens jeans"
- "men in tight jeans"
I sincerely hope they found what they were looking for.

*It's time for me to finish the Nyktionary. You know it's bad when you start using slang to define slang. In anycase, the vernacular translation makes different verbial use of "To learn", which means to school, to educate, to enlighten.

Posted by Ambra at October 7, 2004 2:51 PM in Blogging
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"Removing dreadlocks from cats"

This is too much. I have finally been inspired to hook up sitemeter on my blogger account.

"to slipper" means "to spank" ie to spank with a slipper. My moms choice of weapon when a switch wasn't handy. (She could also throw it) cue the theme from "Good Bad & the Ugly"

Memer, I'm with you on the dreadlocks thing. I'm still laughing as I type this.

I love my cat, I really do. And I love her even more now that I realize, for the first time, that I have never even had to contemplate removing dreadlocks from her.

Sometimes, we need little jolts like this to make us realize how good we have it.

Haha. I get some google searches about athiesm coming to my door, but the most common is "hardees mechanical bull". I said some stuff about that commercial and now I get a hit or two a day from it.

Okay yes BH I should've made that clearer "to spank with a slipper".

My mother on the other hand, used whatever was handy, no matter how ridiculous (e.g. a pillow).

HEHEHE, this post was my entertainment of the day. :) The "removing dreadlocks from cats" thing really has me confused though. Giving a cat dreadlocks would be some sort of talent! And a weird one at that...

Hmmm... ;)

Aw man, you missed your chance!
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