Yes, it really, truly is:
Damn. I' still laughing.
Posted by hugh macleod at January 18, 2006 9:25 AM | TrackBackHere is an interesting read on the current state of this blonde joke and how it propogated. Apparently, I'm node 35.
Lastly, these jokes tend to attrack a lot of commenters with two digit IQs. Beware.
Posted by: Alex at January 18, 2006 10:02 AMI am a bit hungover, but is this not just a bit shit?
I am unsure.
Posted by: Damian Jennings at January 18, 2006 10:21 AMdamn, this is annoying. Not that this was the first time i saw this, but it's still annoying the hell out of me.
I am reading your feed in _my_ freetime, using _my_ energy, and you're essentially wasting some of that with this kind of posts. Should I unsubscribe now?
Posted by: Hauke Rehfeld at January 18, 2006 11:48 AMHauke, I laughed when I first saw it. Why not you?
I thought it was clever and ingenius.... which is why I shared it with everybody.
Posted by: hugh macleod at January 18, 2006 12:31 PMMy IQ must be too low to access the joke. Firefox doesn't handle it very well at all, and it crashes my IE. This is giving me a flashback to my childhood where everybody else would be laughing at something but nobody would tell me the joke.
Posted by: EI at January 18, 2006 2:21 PMI'm desperately trying to find you funny...but you're not. Half the stuff you write is a wank. Like most of us bloggers I think you like the sound of your own voice too much. But you're probably a great bloke to have a drink with. Less is more.
Posted by: lambe, paris at January 18, 2006 3:04 PMWow, Lambe, surely it would be easier to just go read a "truly funny" blog instead? One that matches your exacting standards more closely?
What, are you a masochist?
Posted by: hugh macleod at January 18, 2006 4:48 PMPeople really need to lighten-up. It's a joke. When did everyone get so serious?
Posted by: David Paull at January 18, 2006 5:17 PMDon't all bloggers like the sound of their own voice? Isn't that why people blog?
Posted by: EI at January 18, 2006 5:42 PM... and after all it brought me back to your page.
shall i surf again?
It's the first time that I see something _first_ in the Spanish-speaking bit of the blogosphere and somewhere else, only later. Unusual.
Posted by: Nia at January 18, 2006 5:47 PMscoble's link is broken so it sort of comes to a quick dead end...
Posted by: cynthia at January 18, 2006 6:19 PMGreat fun. Good one Hugh.
Posted by: Andrew Toomey at January 18, 2006 8:46 PMI am not ashamed to say I got sucked in for longer then I should have. My only defense is that I'm tired and feeling poorly. Very funny though!
Posted by: Meredith at January 19, 2006 3:08 AMI'm a blonde with (evidentally) a 2 digit IQ and wondered for awhile...did I miss something? But now I get it. ha ha ha and one more ha!
It is funny (sort of), it is marketing (of a type), and I do love lots of the links you provide.......but, being a regular viewer of your site I do wonder - where is your trust with your customer? Where is the love?
Posted by: dawbie at January 19, 2006 5:26 AMI'm a blonde but I don't mind reading blonde jokes (though I don't see anything funny in most of them).
But your link to the joke doesn't seem to work properly. I clicked all the links I could find but I couldn't get to the joke.
I seem to be going round in circles. And I wanted to get to the joke because you said it is the best ever.
Can you fix your link please so I can get the joke?
Posted by: Blondie at January 19, 2006 10:57 PMHey HUGH, you no more my hero since you didn,t reply my email.
Posted by: AGRADA at January 20, 2006 12:18 AMlambe is my idol
Posted by: Cali-where we love everything English at January 20, 2006 7:04 AMreplied to you, Agrada
Posted by: hugh macleod at January 20, 2006 9:45 AMIt's probably more fun if you don't get it right away. Oh well.
Posted by: Guy at January 20, 2006 2:59 PM
So the "blonds" just keep clicking the link and then reveal themselves on your page while meanwhile increasing the number of hits to the participating pages. Isn't that a tad depressingly manipulative?
Steve, I don't honestly think "increasing traffic" was the main factor driving this.
Posted by: hugh macleod at January 22, 2006 7:47 PM