Tom, at The Funny Farm, has a select list of fine quotes from Olympic athletes and broadcasters. This is probably the tamest:
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”Most of the rest are on the risque side.
S. Y. Affolee saw her doppleganger today.
Some years ago I moved into one unit of a small duplex. The other unit was unoccupied.
One day I came home from work to find some folks moving furniture, etc., into the empty unit. It was another guy, Dan, moving in and I swear I was looking at myself.
A few months later someone knocked on my front door. I opened it and the woman who was there broke into a big smile, “Hi, Dan. I wasn’t sure whether this was your door!”
It was his mother mistaking me for him.
Have you met your doppelganger?
Folks riding Washington’s ferry system will be subjected to an increasing number of vehicle searches. Here is one reaction:
In the interest of national security, I understand the Washington State Patrol is instituting random car searches at our ferry terminals (“Feds order new level of security for ferries,” Times page one, Sept. 29).
And so while they are busy trampling our rights by digging through our possessions, I hope they regret ever encountering my car.
I have a family and I have not seen the floor mats of my car since 2002. A single road trip requires at least six stuffed animals, 10 pounds of books, a box of crayons and a note pad for my child. My husband takes at least three coats, a hat and an extra seat cushion.
Added to that pile, which is now threatening to swamp the aforementioned kid in the back seat, are my backpack, clothing, a first-aid kit and occasionally a wetsuit. I have not mentioned the trunk.
That is because a mouse has taken up residence in it � we’ll call him “Kenny.”
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On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s 21 top referrers for the month of September (there was a 3 way tie for # 19). Number 21 produced 11 referrals compared to 9 for number 21 in July.
July churn: 11 blogs dropped and 7 new ones added compared to 5 and 10 in August.
Overall traffic was up about 15.1% from August and up 202% from September 03 (no I do not expect the year to year growth to continue at that rate). I am also seeing an increasing number of visits from folks who have bookmarked Modulator and I thank all of you for visiting!
Top Referrer: Resurrection Song! Thanks, Zombyboy.
Top search phrase/word: live strong wrist bands
Most popular post: Live Strong
Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
Again, thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, Bloglines, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.
Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
I’ll post links to sites that have Friday (or shortly thereafter) photos of their chosen animals as I see them (no photoshops and no humans).
Leave a comment or trackback to this post and I’ll add your site to the list. If there is interest I’ll keep this as a weekly feature.
Last weeks edition is here.
Cats