Usually, I don’t like for my three word titles to include names. At times I have gotten both product and place names in my suggestion box. Sometimes I just don’t use these entries while other times I try to work around them a bit. I have to confess that I’m kind of a tag whore. I have a boat load of tags. It’s not good SEO; if I were trying to make this blog a successful site I would focus all of my articles around a handful of keywords and work to rank high for my most used keywords. But honestly, that wouldn’t be very much fun for me and as I’ve mentioned before having fun is my primary objective in blogging and social networking. And I thought it would be a hoot, to use these words that my friend Holly Jahangiri suggested, and tag this post with the name of Apple’s latest best selling phone. (If that tag is what drew you to this article, my apologies. I don’t do phones.)
I was a bit surprised that very few pictures of eels turned up in my image search for these words. Even more oddly, not a single image of a phone turned up. But when I came across the image at left, on a blog post titled Chinese Successfully Test Penis Attack Eel, I knew right away I would have to use this image, if for no other reason than to be able to tag this post with the long tail keyword ‘penis attack eel’. For someone like me who collects unusual tags, this was just too good to pass up. The thought of an eel, which is already a bit icky to begin with, being trained to infiltrate men’s penises is, to me at least, not something I care to contemplate long enough to write about it.
While I have heard from several readers who were a bit critical that sometimes these posts are not really about the selected words, or that I write, as today, a paragraph using each word rather than a cohesive post about all three words, this criticism has never risen to the level of vitriol. Frankly, avoiding vitriol and anger is one of the main reasons I try so hard to avoid discussing politics online. It’s just too easy to get oh so angry, and I frankly don’t want to spend my time being pissed off.
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Thanks so much. I’ve added these three words to my list.
Very rarely for me, I am rendered speechless by the main image of your blog (not the one you picture, the one you also do not care to contemplate). So I have shared on G+, where I am sure there will be fellow lovers of language who will enjoy the unlikely but seamless association of images that you have produced, apparently without strain.
For another three words, how about:
scapula, pate and cordwainer?
Holly says the real problem with things like the eel thing, is that once seen they can not be UN-seen. (She actually got me to google and look at a picture of a “split penis”– yes it was every bit as icky as it sounds. Thanks so much for giving me three more words, none of which I hope will have any icky images associated.
Hmmm Thx for the info about the eels!! I will swimm with a condom
That’s one approach that might be effective. (wearing a condom while swimming)
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added these three to my list. Thanks so much, Doug.
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(I have this vision of a huge herd of deer, stealthily swimming across Lake Michigan en route to the Windy City, Thanks so much, I’ve added these to my list.
Very good post!
Word – Reason – Plan!
and another draft in the hopper. Thank you, Alexander.
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Thanks so much, Dan. I’ve added these three to my list.
Alan I think this post could win a record for SEO tagging!
I have also been moved from a vague dislike of eels to to real anxiety about the buggers.
Just don’t go swimming, except in chlorinated pools, Harold
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Thanks, Kamal. I’ve added these three to my list.
i was actually expecting the article to be about the early music scene in London – or a review of the latest novel from Graham Swift – aah well
Hope you enjoyed the surprise, John.
A shuddering thought but then I was reminded about the “Dreaded Candiru AKA Penis Fish” http://voices.yahoo.com/the-dreaded-candiru-aka-penis-fish-myth-horrible-503397.html
eeew. thanks, I think. (that article scared me, honestly)
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Thanks so much, Lindy. I’ve added these three to my list.
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Men, Women , Wine,
always and interesting combination
Thanks Geoffrey. These three should make for an interesting post.
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and three more for my list. Thank you Aviva.
Well, I read the blog post – it’s propaganda and anti-propaganda gone wild. Or, I should put something we all understand – it’s discrimination and political incorrect. The man would be buried if he’s a journalist (or politician, public figure). No source cited (with verifiable link) and it’s all hearsay. Garbage, if I could say.
I am not one to argue for political correctness, but Nicolas I believe you are dismissing something that actually is true.
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Thank you so much for being a regular reader and re-blogger, Charles.