Internet Oddities

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Very rarely do I look at my statcounter (I started the blog to keep 6 friends from hating me for the volume of email I’d be sending them otherwise; all other readers are lagniappe), but when I do: strange.

Key Words first-time visitors searched to find me:
missing genitals Nigeria
fatwa against Pope (more on that momentarily)
rueful red
wheat and weeds (amazing number of searches for that phrase)
william wordsworth our tainted nature’s solitary boast
why mommy is a republican
founders of slavery
first frost Maryland 2006
when demosthenes speaks
nihilism
necrophilia (jiminy!)
blame Bush
Sinatra-songs-for-swingin-lovers

Sites which referred people to me (not counting my blog "community" --just sites which have no logical connection):
Romanian-poets.blogspot.com
Mehparen.blogspot.com (Turkish site)
Hottie189.blogspot.com
Several Spanish-language sites.

Furiners Multiple hits from:
Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia (Hi, Brett, who’s your friend?)
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Germany
UK (‘Lo, Red)
Italy
Mexico
Paraguay
Philippines (I’m big in the Philippines, oddly. Several regular readers. Helloooo, Manila!)
Tanzania
Turkey
Uganda
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Zaire

Uncomfortable amount of traffic (reached by search on fatwa against Pope) from:
Egypt
Indonesia
Iraq
Qatar
Saudia Arabia
UAE