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Millions of Blondes

Asides, Humor

I’m not going to particpate in it, but the “best blonde joke” (example) thing is driving thousands and thousands of hits every day to WordPress.com. It’s traffic on par with a front-page Digg, just constant and steady. Where did this thing come from??? (Continuing my tradition of being a month late to internet trends.)


11 Comments

  • Stephen Pierzchala — January 24, 2006 @ 2:44 pm

    You’re lucky…it took me six months to understand this tagging thing, and a year to get Del.icio.us.

    I blame it on the kids…

    smp

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  • Ryan Waddell — January 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

    Like most horrendous memes, it (this time, at least) originated somewhere in Livejournal. However, I originally saw it on message boards about 3 years ago.

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  • Matt B. — January 24, 2006 @ 3:27 pm

    Doesn’t really appeal to me… :S

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  • Chris Meller — January 24, 2006 @ 7:48 pm

    I say you block all that traffic, Matt… We’ll teach those stupid blondes a lessone one way or another! :)

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  • anonymuis — January 25, 2006 @ 10:02 am

    yes sir, livejournal user has started it, hehe!

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  • JBChris — January 25, 2006 @ 2:17 pm

    I did some looking into it – my guess would be that if you dig down to the roots it originated with a blog entry that looked similar to this:
    (this isn’t going to show up right because of the html)

    Q: How do you keep a blonde busy for hours?
    A: Click Here!

    The link was passed on and eventually evolved to where it didn’t link to the original joke but just the link to the link to the link…

    I know that’s not what you asked about but I’m very anilytical and I had to think it through. :-)

    It is pretty obvious that it originated on livejournal but I saw it first on xanga a few weeks ago.

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  • e — January 25, 2006 @ 5:46 pm

    must’ve been the bleach seeping into my head, because it took me about 5 clicks to figure it out. DAMN YOU, MATT!
    (even now i’m not sure if i get it…) :(

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  • Sebbi — January 25, 2006 @ 7:05 pm

    Yeah, it originated somewhere at livejournal and then circles between 5 or 6 blogs which are the source of this evil ;-)

    But it works … soon there will be no usable results if you search google for “blond joke” oder “blondinenwitz”. These jokes will be gone for ever, because if Google can’t see it, it doesn’t exist!!! :-)

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  • Gregory — January 27, 2006 @ 7:37 pm

    I saw that joke on LiveJournal about 2 years ago, at least.

    Scary. Eventually every blog in the world will have done it ;)

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  • Gregory — January 29, 2006 @ 1:21 pm

    Of course… in theory you could follow it and find the source.

    Anyone fancy trying that? ;)

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