MORE CHAMPIONS GO TO RETIREMENT

They go to retirement

shivering and wet from the Illinois River; they go with grindstones and used cows; but mostly - as usual - they go naked and farting.

Bootstrap Analysis recently gave our list of Champions a little attention in his post "getting googled," for which we're grateful. Bootstrap thinks his own list is "insipid" by comparison, yet he gives us such search strings as "ivory blather" and "what causes a vurp," both of which would make my list, I think.

In the comments to Bootstrap's post, Andy G. of milkriver mused that:

"as for midwesterner's battle with a certain word, one has to think that it is being blogarithmically enhanced on google by its repetition so many times in their hall of fame, and in the retirement posts. they may indeed have the highest density of the word on any website in the world."

Yeah, it's starting to look like that, Andy. All you have to do is get one farting and one naked, and you get them all. I get so many search strings with "naked" in them right now that I put up only about one tenth of the new ones. There seems currently to be less interest in farting right now, whatever that means in the great scheme of things.

Andy has succumbed to the urge to post his own list of interesting search strings, with commentary. While he mentions our list of champions, he doesn't name us; and he declines to use a "certain word" from our list, saying "I won't use that word here because i don't want their people finding me."

I have to tell you, Andy has put up an interesting list, including such creatures as "livery billed woodpecker," "ivory nosed woodpecker," "salamander puppets," and "peter jennings' gay lover." His favorite of his search strings might be: "are you a loud to have your pitcher taken on the lipizzan stallions." His list is a hoot. Go take a look.

Finally, here's the next troop of Middlewesterner Champions going into retirement. Enjoy:

• "shivers when bladder fills up" - The Middlewesterner
• "really naked females" - The Middlewesterner
• "what is a used cow" - The Middlewesterner
• "if wanting to visit Hofn or Husavik which country would you travel to" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked fundraiser" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked women driving semis" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked family business" - The Middlewesterner
• "world champion farting" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked nude girl on farm tractor" - The Middlewesterner
• "we found a large red bird that looked like a cardinal but was maybe 12 inches long from beak to tail in Michigan" - The Middlewesterner
• "running snowblower naked" - The Middlewesterner
• "grindstones, for sale" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked woman on the illinois river" - The Middlewesterner
• "girl nude on country road pasture" - The Middlewesterner
• "naked, corn, alabama" - The Middlewesterner

Comments

[Chris Clarke]

Haven't played this in a while. Here are todays' best from my blog:

guano in sacramento california
amish lovelock
blue collar idiots buffalo new york
coyote with pickle jar on head
japanese giantess ass sit on tiny men

[tony g]

thanks for the mention -- sorry i missed naming you somehow, i'll go back right now and correct that . . .

my best for today:
pompadour and sideburns love feet nylon

tony g from milkriver

[Tom Montag]

Chris--"amish lovelock" conjures all sorts of possibilities, from a hold you use when "bundling" to a chastity belt of some sort....

[Tom Montag]

Tony, thanks. You've gotta keep watching those search strings to see what winds are blowing across the universe. "Naked" is hot right now; "How tall is President Bush" waxes and wanes. It waxed recently, and is waning right now, and I couldn't begin to guess why it's one or the other.

[Nuthatch]

I've only really had one thought-provoking one lately, "impressive movements." Of what kind, I wonder?