Okay, folks, now you can
get your world champion search string listed for free at The Middlewestern's World Champion Search String Compilation (see the end of the adjacent left-hand column). You simply submit to me by e-mail the most outrageous search string which actually brought a reader to your site. The standard you have to beat to get listed with the World Champions is my own "shelf life of prune juice." There is only one judge of whether your search string is more outrageous, and that would be me, and while I'm easy, there's no appeal. The honorary first position on the list goes to Chris Clarke at Creek Running North with the search string "elko+bar+bathroom+girlfriend". Have at it.
Just showed up in my logs: "uintatherium shelter"
Posted by: Chris Clarke | March 12, 2005 at 12:24 PM
Chris, I just listed "uintatherium shelter" with the champions, along with "kansas banjo players" that came in here today....
Posted by: Tom Montag | March 12, 2005 at 06:54 PM
How about "wine of cardui"?
I took a photo of a wall painted with a now-faded patent medicine advertisement, and posted.
Apparently someone was looking for just that thing, and found me.
Posted by: Lori Witzel | August 27, 2006 at 06:06 PM
A lot of these would either make great names for bands or for songs. On the order of the Minneapolis jazz punks Happy Apple.
e.g.:
"the world begins and ends in your combover"
"please refrain from fronting"
"koala bear wearing your corporate logo"
Or Grifters
"felt tipped over"
and
"get outta that spaceship and fight like a man"
Posted by: two dishes | August 16, 2007 at 07:37 AM