Whinnied googlebomb

October 29, 2001 10:54 AM

Daypop shows "whinnied" as the fourth most searched term today. Searching for this term produces three measly hits. What's up with "whinnied?"
posted by shinybeast to general weblog-related at 10:54 AM (79 comments total)

Sounds like horseplay to me.
posted by hijinx at 12:27 PM on October 29, 2001

Oh, groan!
...
*stifled chuckling*
posted by gd779 at 1:08 PM on October 29, 2001

I oat to know better...
posted by shinybeast at 1:26 PM on October 29, 2001

I oat to know better...

You'd be a foal not to.
posted by iceberg273 at 1:36 PM on October 29, 2001

Somebody's horsing around.
posted by Carol Anne at 1:52 PM on October 29, 2001

Would you people stop gelding the lily?
posted by anapestic at 1:53 PM on October 29, 2001

Mustang in there if you wanna find out, shinybeast.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:54 PM on October 29, 2001

This thread's gonna give me nightmares.
posted by ColdChef at 1:55 PM on October 29, 2001

The whinnied movement started here.

It's related to "Google bombing." Since Google works on the principle (among others) that a site that is linked to by many other sites is more likely to be a better result, and so puts such linked-to sites at the top of its results, then, if you get people to use a word, name or phrase, in association with a certain URL, Google will be increasingly more likely to return that URL at the top of it's list. So you could spread the meme that Andy Pressman is a talentless hack, for example.

(Sorry for the incoherency of the post. I've been off my feed lately due to a bad case of hoof-and-mouth and having to curry favor with my professors for mid-terms, but I'm almost on the last lap of the exams, even if I am feeling a bit sulky).
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:58 PM on October 29, 2001

Let's handle this with some equine-imity, people.
posted by mw at 2:03 PM on October 29, 2001

Thanks, Mo. Hopefully now it's only equustion of time before this thread finally rides off into the sunset....

(god that's bad)
posted by mattpfeff at 2:03 PM on October 29, 2001

Now that's some good old-fashioned horse-sense. We should probably take a yea or neigh vote to continue; otherwise we'll have to pony up and think of more equine puns.
posted by mrmanley at 2:23 PM on October 29, 2001

You know, I used to be into sadism, necrophilia, and bestiality, but then it got to be sort of like beating a dead horse.
it was the best i could do, but that was apparently not enough to prevent me from actually posting it, please forgive me
posted by Sapphireblue at 2:37 PM on October 29, 2001

i hate to nag, but aren't you all putting the cart before the horse?
posted by heather at 2:59 PM on October 29, 2001

Thanks to Mo, I won't have to get Fetlock (or whatever his name was) on the case.
posted by shinybeast at 3:22 PM on October 29, 2001

Geez... My last post was crop. You canter ase something after you've posted, eh? Dam!
(Appaloosa baby, so why don't you kill me?)
posted by shinybeast at 3:44 PM on October 29, 2001

I like this thread. I usually bridle at someone's comments, but this thread got off to a good start right out of the gate. Everyone's always jockeying for the best jokes, but we really took off with flying colors this time.
posted by Mo Nickels at 7:54 PM on October 29, 2001

Horsefeathers!
posted by fidelity at 8:21 PM on October 29, 2001

Enough horse-talk. Can't we talk about kitties insteed...?
posted by jpoulos at 9:07 PM on October 29, 2001

Nah, kitties give me the trots...
posted by fooljay at 11:14 PM on October 29, 2001

You know, fooljay, sometimes life just isn't farrier.
posted by shinybeast at 11:58 PM on October 29, 2001

And Leon was the first trot to sing "Baby it's colt outside" to Lenin. Sorry, I canter help it.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:24 AM on October 30, 2001

Tsk. Can't think of any.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bridle ...
posted by walrus at 3:35 AM on October 30, 2001

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Guess I gotta pony up my offering as well. Whinnied a bit of ASCII round here.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:18 AM on October 30, 2001

stavros, you should have made the horse of a different color.
posted by Opus Dark at 4:34 AM on October 30, 2001

I don't get it - what's the mane issue here?
posted by Hankins at 8:26 AM on October 30, 2001

Wow. I was gone for a while.

What triggered all this?

I slay me.
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:55 AM on October 30, 2001

I duuno, but will the person hoof finds out let me know, too?
posted by mw at 9:03 AM on October 30, 2001

shiny, do you really have to stirrup all this controversy?
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:22 AM on October 30, 2001

Kafka, it behoofs be to say, he did.

someone please kill me now
posted by tj at 9:42 AM on October 30, 2001

They shoot tjs, don't they?
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:46 AM on October 30, 2001

We've got to tackle these puns right now.
posted by walrus at 10:07 AM on October 30, 2001

They shoot tjs, don't they?

Are you suggesting that that last joke came up lame?

posted by mattpfeff at 10:09 AM on October 30, 2001

Neigh, it's being suggested all these jokes are lame. So lame, we deserve to be shot and put out of our misery.
posted by Dagobert at 10:15 AM on October 30, 2001

I think we're all just chomping at the bit for an opportunity to make jokes until we're horse.

And since we're all jockeying for position here, let me throw in a tangential music recommendation.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:33 AM on October 30, 2001

how about a slogan?

"Just say 'whoa' "
posted by mattpfeff at 10:34 AM on October 30, 2001

If it's so lame, why are we continuing this? I don't have a glue.
posted by mw at 10:38 AM on October 30, 2001

Not to stick my neck out here, but I'm pretty sure we're coming into the home stretch now, mw.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:48 AM on October 30, 2001

Yeah, the rest is just window dressage.
posted by liam at 10:54 AM on October 30, 2001

i'm a bit saddled with work and really shouldn't draft a post to this thread, but i'll just have tell my secretariat, vis-a-vis, that i need to tack on one more thing to his todo list and there will be no cutting out early today. i hope he doesn't lunge at me.

(i am so sorry...)
posted by modge at 11:08 AM on October 30, 2001

That's really beyond the pale, modge.
posted by mw at 11:15 AM on October 30, 2001

Quite a slipshod affair really.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:23 AM on October 30, 2001

yes, perhaps it's time to put this thread out to pasture.

(although i think it was doomed right out of the gait.)
posted by modge at 11:29 AM on October 30, 2001

Don't be filly.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:35 AM on October 30, 2001

Looks like time is running out... Got a horse pun? Quit stallion and post it now.
posted by shinybeast at 11:41 AM on October 30, 2001

Careful, Modge might have horse sense-itivity.
posted by liam at 11:41 AM on October 30, 2001

ok, we better rein this in before it chaps someone's hide. my arabian friend thinks this may be a discussion halter. (although i have a feeling it will just spur even more silliness.)
posted by modge at 11:53 AM on October 30, 2001

As much as I deride this thread, how saddle be to see it end.
posted by mw at 12:14 PM on October 30, 2001

Pretty much a one-trick pony then?
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:20 PM on October 30, 2001

"dressage." liam, you are a stud.
posted by jpoulos at 12:53 PM on October 30, 2001

not to further hobble the thread, but i was just hoping he would make an appearance before those four guys from the apocalypse show up.
posted by modge at 12:53 PM on October 30, 2001

"People yak-it-ti-yak a streak
and waste your time of day,
but Mister Ed will never speak,
unless he has something to say..."
posted by liam at 12:55 PM on October 30, 2001

jpoulos: my friends put me out to it.
posted by liam at 1:02 PM on October 30, 2001

trick or treat
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:43 PM on October 30, 2001

boo!
posted by modge at 2:04 PM on October 30, 2001

wow, modge. That was eerily reminiscent of the old Rumple Minze posters of the anatomically unlikely polar bear-riding amazon...or did I dream it?
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:25 PM on October 30, 2001

hmm, have you been drinking rumple minze? maybe to wash down those, you know, horse pills?

(are those crickets i hear?)
posted by modge at 3:06 PM on October 30, 2001

Terrible things can happen under the influence of Rumple Minze.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:34 PM on October 30, 2001

Dam, sires! I know you're all jockeying, but I think you're parlaying it into something more sinister. There is no tote board here on Metafilter. There's no need to win, or to place yourselves above others only to show that you can be funnier. Hay, if you want to mount some campaign to prove yourself a stud, don't let the gait hit you on your way out.

This is exacta what we don't need here and I doubt that Matt would be happy to know that this is what he groomed us for. Foal yokes only breeds mutuel contempt.

Withers your decency?! Your fodders and mudders would be ashamed...
posted by fooljay at 3:45 PM on October 30, 2001

Hat off, fooljay. Hilarious.

Go baby go.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:54 PM on October 30, 2001

Funny stuff, fooljay. I suppose you're paddock yourself on the back right now...
posted by shinybeast at 4:28 PM on October 30, 2001

Well, i know I'm about ready to pommel him silly.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:39 PM on October 30, 2001

Whirlaway, whirlaway home.
posted by bjgeiger at 6:09 PM on October 30, 2001

and it's fooljay by a nose to take the breeder's cup!

(this can't go on furlong, or can it?)
posted by modge at 9:42 AM on October 31, 2001

Nah, Matt will rein us in sooner or later...
posted by fooljay at 12:32 PM on October 31, 2001

Yes, that was yours... :-)
posted by fooljay at 12:33 PM on October 31, 2001

my head hurts!
posted by modge at 12:56 PM on October 31, 2001

and yes, that last post was entirely pun free. i'm not about to swayback into this madness...
posted by modge at 1:00 PM on October 31, 2001

I think modge is unstable.
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:48 PM on October 31, 2001

maybe i am, but you aren't going to corral me into admitting it.
posted by modge at 2:05 PM on October 31, 2001

You're driving me buggy! We'd better crop this discussion short.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:32 PM on October 31, 2001

i almost took offense that you would think me unstable, but i consider anyone who still hangs around this long after the horseflies started buzzing around the carcass a pal o' mino.
posted by modge at 2:59 PM on October 31, 2001

Why the long face over these puns? Afraid you’ll be sued for palamino?
posted by Davezilla at 4:12 PM on October 31, 2001

Whoa!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:29 AM on November 1, 2001

Get hip(pocampus).
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:09 AM on November 1, 2001

esurio esurio hippos!

(ok, my latin sucks)
posted by modge at 9:53 AM on November 1, 2001

Open the gait for the clean round, lest the hoarse pun-spinner be taken for a thoroughbred after a night of debauchery in jumping order.
posted by ed at 4:57 PM on November 1, 2001

horsefeathers.
posted by bunnyfire at 4:17 PM on November 2, 2001

I don't think we can burro any deeper into this one.

Sorry, kind of a mule variation there.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:39 AM on November 6, 2001