Michael Phelps – An Experiment

Baltimore’s own Michael Phelps broke the world record in the 400-meter at the Olym­pic Trials yesterday.

Now I could care less about the Olym­pics, which are being held in a place where the words human and rights rarely go together, but it is con­ve­nient for this easy, end of the wee­kend, care­free post of insignificance.

Some time back, three years of so to be exact, I wrote a post con­tai­ning am AIM someone sup­po­sedly had with Michael Phelps. In that same post I refe­ren­ced pubic hair. I believe I was com­plai­ning about peo­ple tal­king about pubic hair during final exams at school.The two items were not rela­ted. They just hap­pe­ned to be in the same post.

I recei­ved tons of hits from that post, much of the searches were for “Michael Phelps”, some for “pubic hair”, but sur­pri­singly many – more than one would ever guess any­way – were for “Michael Phelps pubic hair”.

To this day ( con­si­der I only check my stats a cou­ple of times a week and can only see the last 100, because I am cheap and will not pay to see more ), I find hits for Michael Phelps pubic hair. I’m not sure if they think I have pho­tos, or if they are trying to purchase some of his pubic hair.

Either way, I ima­gine his pubic hair is more valua­ble after yes­ter­day, so this is just a bur­ning the mid­night oil expe­ri­ment. Just to see if there will be a pum­ping of of the volume of searches for Michael Phelps pubic hair.

peace

Share This
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • SphereIt
  • Mixx
  • FriendFeed

32 Comments

  • I remem­ber you men­tio­ning this once before. I’m sure there are peo­ple loo­king for that very spe­ci­fic term. You’re pro­bably right they are loo­king to buy some. peo­ple are strange, it’s a fact.

    Now if you could only get a hold of some of his pubic hair you’d be in the money.

    He’s bound to pass through again on his way to China. You should give him a shout out — “YO MP, I’d like a hand­ful of.….….….….….….….….. wait swim­mers shave their whole bodies don’t they?

  • This is me resis­ting the urge to per­pe­trate a goo­gle­bomb =P.

    Though in any case I’m sure you’ve moved your­self up the list of results

  • You should try statcounter.com — you get more stats for your cheap­ness: “Highly detai­led Analy­sis of your last 500 pageloads”

    I never wrote about pubic hair so I am pro­bably mis­sing out on a lot of poten­tial traf­fic. I still get the most hits from strip poker sto­ries searchers (about 1/3rd). My most biza­rro search hits among the last 500 page­loads were:

    frenzy girls at chow­time na
    wiki­pe­dia sha­ving a goat
    fist moon por­tu­guese charms
    nute­lla in outer space
    rapid­fire moto zen ecuador

    • I’ll look into it. Franky site­me­ter is easy and I don’t really care that much. I had woo­pra which was quite exten­sive but it see­med to hang my page. Con­si­de­ring the searches, I might be net­ter off not knowing.

  • Hy this is what i call SEO scre­wing the ori­gi­nal posts and dis­pla­ying un rela­ted posts just for mani­pu­la­ting key­words. What do u say i think its worng

  • Exce­llent sug­ges­tion for my next eBay fraud.

  • This is right on so many levels.

    That ebay fraud thing sug­ges­ted above has me thin­king as well. You can sell anything on ebay even Michael Phelps pubic hair. I think you’d be able to get it pretty easily. Like casey said, swim­mers have very little use for hair.

    You rea­ders are very sick peo­ple coo­per. ;)

  • I get hits all the time for peo­ple loo­king for Cho­co­late Cove­red Coc­kroaches, and Live Nude Girls.

    Con­si­der your­self lucky.

    • I’ll have to come over and check out the coc­kroaches, I’ve no inte­rest in live nude girls at this time.

      The searches are enter­tai­ning but at times disheartening.

  • Funny, all my searches are for black dres­ses. ;)

  • You shoulda made this post on your Dar­fur site. Think of how high your digg or tech­no­rati ratings are now.

    As for Phelps’ pubic hair… unless someone knows how to test it for DNA, how would they ever know if it’s ori­gi­nal? Or his?? And it’s about as sick as that guy who scoo­ped up Obama’s half-eaten break­fast in Scran­ton a few months ago and pos­ting it on eBay.

    • Obviously someone is loo­king for it.

      I agree it is rather.….well not exactly sick more odd really. I’m sure they want washed pubic hair.

      I’ve come across those old con­tai­ners peo­ple used to save hair in from the late 1800’s. With the hair in them. At auc­tions. That is pretty gross too, come to think of it.

  • uh I get all kinds of sex and things peo­ple don’t talk about because yick searches but never pubic hair

    And they don’t help your “ran­kings” Might yours as you actually do thibgs like com­ment on more than five blogs :) I’m res­taint these days

    • I’ve always got­ten pubic hair searches — I can’t ima­gine the disap­point­ment when peo­ple get here. I really would pre­fer to look at the searches and care less about the ran­kings. I love when peo­ple come here searching for fun with rape to find what I really write about it. It is the least I can do to spit in the faces of the predators.

  • Michael Phelps and others are going to bene­fit from their spee­dos (http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr69.htm) + (http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1342932/speedos_super_suit_raises_controversy/index.html).

    I have a slight pro­blem with this: it is essen­tially tech. doping. Some swim­mers get­ting “an edge” due to their country’s par­ti­ci­pa­tion on the Olym­pics. This edge is in the same vein as ste­roids, HGH, EPO and other medi­ci­nal ploys to gain an “edge.” Now, we cru­cify this (in the media) but don’t worry too much such tech in swim­ming. This doesn’t change ever…athletes will do anything to get ahead — maybe not ini­tially, but soon enough they will relent, espe­cially after a com­pe­ti­tor beats them..consistently.

    Yes, it is pretty ashame this gets so much atten­tion while other stuff doesn’t merit a whiff of interest.

    Thanks for the invite to twine…

    I am thin­king of con­ver­ting my word­press blog — and wor­king out the fee­lings I have about blogging…I’m so wishy washy. (Can you say bipolar???I thought you could.)

  • I’m not so sure I’d get all up in arms about a hi tech swim suit. After all at least for our ath­le­tes here it is all about the money and teh fame and they will do anything they can to win. I ‘m not sure I blame them I just don’t care enough about The Olym­pics in general.

    • It is not so much get­ting wor­ked up, but when .05 of a second is sig­ni­fi­cant in swim­ming, and a suit can dec­rease drag just a bit, it is the same as the guy who gains .01 second on his bat swing through muscle and sweat, and well, ste­roids. (If you believe the media and think it doesn’t take a natu­ral gift to hit a ball period.)

      Blog upda­ted.

      Happy 4th weekend!!!

  • I was just doing an Inter­net Search for Cooper’s Pubic Hair + Lan­ded HERE!! ;PPP

    Acu­tally I’m having trou­ble get­ting into my New Speedo LZR trunks it’s cinching my crotch + i was won­de­ring if U could give me a hand + Zip me!!

    ;) ) xoxo Peace*

    • ” Cooper’s Pubic Hair + Lan­ded HERE!! ”

      Well I should hope so. There is of course no other Cooper.

  • Haha! I also laugh at some of the terms that send traf­fic my way. The latest one: he chea­ted =[ spar­letta No idea how that wor­ked as Spar­letta is a South Afri­can cool­drink. Maybe I should go for the pubic hair option in future.

  • haha! that’s insane. I can’t believe that peo­ple even think to search for that!

  • Oh! And I LOVE the women for obama icon that comes up on your com­ments. Now that? is fabu­lous :-)

  • Trying to figure out why peo­ple search for things is a full time job. Some­ti­mes I think they do it because they can.