Googlewhacked.
Thanks to the gentle coercion of a friend I've been pushed into the world of Googlewhacking and not spent a minute at the computer that could be called productive ever since. Luckily I've not spent much time at the computer at all, so I'm not as frighteningly in need of outside stimulus as you might think. Still, it's an addicting task.
The idea is to enter a couple of words into the search engine at Google.com, without quotes, and if only one webpage comes up with those two words - you've found yourself a Googlewhack!
Since being distracted by the idle pastime I've gone through such strange combinations of words (lugubrious maelstrom, quiescent fop) that Sir Alfred Dictionary, the inventor of the English word in 1905, will be spinning in his atomic fortress in space at the very thought of it all.
So far all attempts have been futile. I came close with 'tenebrous hasselhoff' which resulted in two pages on this vast web, but then realized Hasselhoff isn't so much a word as it is an off-putting man in orange trunks who enchants Germans that don't know any better. Like the Pied Piper in a way, only Hasselhoff saves the people that mercilessly throw themselves into the sea in a bid to escape his singing.
I digress...
...Actually, this is exactly my problem; being totally unable to stick to the job at hand. I'm so easily drawn into a world of weirdness, eager to read pages holding my dreamt-up phrases, that I forget to forge onward and find myself reading up about the mating habits of a band from Muskogee called 'Bill Murray's Prostate' (Once again, this wouldn't count for a googlewhack because it's a name, but how often does the chance to type out 'Bill Murray's prostate' appear in a lifetime?).
WAIT!
Wow. I really didn't expect that. Um. That sort of makes this entry defunct, because I was going to go on and on about never getting one. Um. Yeah.
It's silly that I'm impressed by this, right?
Someone else give it a try, it'll stop me from feeling like such a lifeless geek.
The idea is to enter a couple of words into the search engine at Google.com, without quotes, and if only one webpage comes up with those two words - you've found yourself a Googlewhack!
Since being distracted by the idle pastime I've gone through such strange combinations of words (lugubrious maelstrom, quiescent fop) that Sir Alfred Dictionary, the inventor of the English word in 1905, will be spinning in his atomic fortress in space at the very thought of it all.
So far all attempts have been futile. I came close with 'tenebrous hasselhoff' which resulted in two pages on this vast web, but then realized Hasselhoff isn't so much a word as it is an off-putting man in orange trunks who enchants Germans that don't know any better. Like the Pied Piper in a way, only Hasselhoff saves the people that mercilessly throw themselves into the sea in a bid to escape his singing.
I digress...
...Actually, this is exactly my problem; being totally unable to stick to the job at hand. I'm so easily drawn into a world of weirdness, eager to read pages holding my dreamt-up phrases, that I forget to forge onward and find myself reading up about the mating habits of a band from Muskogee called 'Bill Murray's Prostate' (Once again, this wouldn't count for a googlewhack because it's a name, but how often does the chance to type out 'Bill Murray's prostate' appear in a lifetime?).
WAIT!
Wow. I really didn't expect that. Um. That sort of makes this entry defunct, because I was going to go on and on about never getting one. Um. Yeah.
It's silly that I'm impressed by this, right?
Someone else give it a try, it'll stop me from feeling like such a lifeless geek.