you probably thought i was kidding February 20, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : (pointless) humor, fun with google, the idiot box, ye olde sporte , trackbackLadies and gentlemen, I did it.
I just submitted the form to register for the upcoming tryouts for Rockstar Curling. The registration form asked me about things like my previous athletic achievements and why I think I could be a great Rockstar Curler (Answers: I played a year of JV hockey in high school, and I think curling is underappreciated as a ridiculous-looking sport and I want to bring national attention to its merits, respectively, tongue planted firmly in cheek). I also may or may not have an RSS subscription to the Rockstar Curling blog.
I was mostly kidding when I filled out the form, but at the same time there’s definitely a part of me that thinks it would be totally sweet to go to Lake Placid and learn to curl for free and become an obscure, useless television star.
In other news, I’m irrationally amused by Google search terms. Here are the two winners of today so far.
-“is Ryan Seacrest vapid?”
Even though this one’s a plant by my sister, I still think it is search-term gold. It’s an excellent question and a thoroughly comedic sentence. The answer, my friends, is a resounding “yes”.
-“lobsters having fun”
I’m relieved that someone out there is concerned about whether or not lobsters have fun. The first Google result defines “fun” in a way I wasn’t quite expecting, but the first Google image result is even better:
Anybody see any lobsters in this photo?
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Ok. I thought I was the only one who has always been inexplicably drawn to curling. I’ve spent countless hours sitting there, wide-eyed in front of the TV, watching those people use that little scrubby-thing on the ice, and thinking, “I can do that!”
I want to try out, too! Pick me, pick me!
Er, I wonder if you have to know anything about curling? Something tells me “little scrubby thing” isn’t exactly technically correct.