Never noticed this before, but did today, and it drew a smile. The generic example for White Pages isn’t John Doe or Joe Doakes, but Jon Snow.
I might even have “liked” it had there been a button for that purpose…
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You know nothing about how to contact Jon Snow
I’ll bet you can’t find Jaqen H’ghar on WhitePages.
“A girl cannot look up a man. A man is not listed…”
A man WAS listed, but then another girl started stalking a man, and a man learned his lesson…
A man posts a blog. A reader doesn’t comment. A man becomes frustrated.
Seriously, one day I need to do a closer study of how people interact with the blog. Late last week, I was frustrated for most of a day because no one was commenting on a VFP (or was it an Open Thread). Today, all the comments are on that very post from last week.
The ways of the commentariat are mysterious…
Not every posts generates the same volume of comments. For instance, this post is a joke. It’s a funny joke that I like, but I don’t really have anything to say in response other than maybe “Nice find.”
Also, certain comments spur other comments. When you don’t generate a few comments, it’s hard to break the ice.
Yeah, I know there’s no there there. Or here. But usually someone is game for some back-and-forth on Game of Thrones.
But it wasn’t just that this puffery wasn’t getting any comments. It was just weird to me that a timely post last week that drew no comments at all for at LEAST 17 hours is generating fairly lively comment THIS week.
Also, I’m surprised no one had anything to say on the piece about the “LIKE” button on Facebook, since quite a few of my readers are active on FB, and some have more than once bemoaned the lack of a “LIKE” button here on the blog… Admittedly, that post is based on news from last week (which made me hesitate to use it), but that doesn’t seem to stop anyone on the VFP.
And yeah, I realize that comments draw comments. Which is why, if a post is just sitting there, I will try to persuade people there’s some action going on by posting a comment or two myself. And it’s not just setting a decoy. In this case, I suggested some ways that people might have fun with the GOT thing by suggesting a gag or two based on another character.
But I guess that can be desperate and lame. As I was doing it, I suddenly flashed on the scene in the first episode of the original British “The Office,” when David Brent kept making jokes rather than dealing with an employee dispute. He, too, seemed lame and desperate as he tried to think of another pun based on desserts…
Like Jon Snow, she knows nothing…
Which reminds me, I miss Ygritte.
Sure, they had a problematic relationship, but she was very appealing. I mean, for a Wildling.
I think I heard that Ben Carson says a Wildling shouldn’t be allowed to become president…
VW’s corporate suicide, The Papal visit’s epic shutdown of NYC, Russians in Syria, refugee chaos in Europe, the Chinese economy, what to do about Ukraine, our military’s shameful permissiveness of Afghani abusers, the LexCo coroner cat, why did the FBI arrest Dylann Roof’s redneck friend and not his parents instead?, is Ben Carson a reasonable sounding imbecile despite his medical degree and suave verbal delivery?, did gay marriage laws open the way to adoption of medical marijuana laws by the states?, while heart attacks are bad for your life in general they turn out to be not so bad for one’s sex life all seem like possible topics to get past last Thursday’s VFP.
I don’t like Facebook. If they added a “dislike” button I would want to see it first on Facebook’s Facebook page.
Thanks, Mark. Of course, I didn’t have a lack of topics. Just a lack of time the last couple of days. I’ve had good ideas for several posts that would take more time than I have. Some days I just need to accept that and put up an open thread, but sometimes that just feels like giving up…
Which is stupid, I know. But being a blogger is an affliction, and almost none of the impulses involved are rational…
But thanks.
I’m working on remixing your first sentence Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” style. Please standby.
Trump Momentum, Clinton’s Pay, Red Bernie, Greeks will stay,
Interstellar, Glen McConnell, Justice Kennedy
Bobby Jindal, Doctor Carson, Huckabee, black church arson
Pope is here, Pope is there, GOP Majority
Greece stays in, Server Gone, FBI, Jeb Bush Yawn,
Lindsey, drones in the sky, and California’s really dry
Janet Yellen, Vaccine, It’s ok to be a queen
China’s Fall, Roof’s friend jailed, Scotty Walker Goodbye
Yes, yes, I know. It’s not chronological. But I ain’t Billy Joel, either.
I love it!
Now that’s the kind of relevant commentary I expect a post such as this one to inspire…