weird comments

for the record, i think comments are quite fun. but i’ve been getting some rather odd ones lately. someone recently posted a comment to a post from last year where i had announced IHOP’s free pancake day. for some reason, they thought this was an official IHOP site, so they proceeded to explain why their city (located in middle of nowhere, Oklahoma) should get an IHOP. To be fair, it was a very good explanation, and hell if i were an IHOP executive, i would strongly consider putting a location where the writer described. It’s just that i’m not. And this is not an IHOP site. it’s my personal blog…

and frankly, that isn’t really the weirdest thing one could come across on the internet. I’ve come across many odd emails when i was answering webmaster email at the Daily Bruin. 0_o some are nutcases, some are misguided. the saddest one was from a kid in Uruguay who wanted information on how to be a firefighter in the United States. I didn’t really know what to tell him. i was tempted to look up the information for him myself, but there were too many messages like that to deal with.

cheesy anthro student note: gee, it really matters what context communications take place in.

so i’m glad people are finding my site, and maybe finding some sort of use for it, albeit not quite what they’re looking for. no, this site does not have porn, sexy bikini asians, or naked pictures of jennifer lopez. (oh no, i’m going to trigger the search queries~! aah!!) yes, all those words have appeared in various posts of mine, but not in succession or in that order until now. so please, this isn’t what you’re looking for. do move on and find what you’re really looking for.

IHOP’s site can be found at www.ihop.com. You can contact them at www.ihop.com/contact.html.

have a nice day!