hey, i just noticed my sitemeter recorded the two hundred thousandth visitor this morning. the lucky winner was recorded at 8:23:55 this morning from IP address 71.193.99.# in niles, michigan. congratulations 71.193.99.#! you win an all-expense paid rubber hose shopping spree.* in the next 15 minutes, you can click on all the links you find here, absolutely free! seriously,** it's on the house.
well, not to burst ole 71.193.99.#'s bubble, but i actually didn't get around to installing the sitemeter until a couple of weeks after i set up this site. that means there's probably dozens, well, maybe a dozen, hits that are not accounted for in the official tally. so anyone who visited this site before 8:23 a.m. this morning could be the actual 200,000th visitor. so if you read this and suspect you could be the actual 200,000th hit, give yourselves a hearty pat on the back. the pat is also absolutely free!
alright, so not to burst yet another bubble, but in all honesty i suspect that i haven't really had 200k different people visit this place. a good 30% of the hits are probably just from golden boy checking in every 20 minutes to see what kind of leftist tripe he can find here to get excited over. i'm pretty sure that most of my hits are from a fairly small group of people who i either know in real life or have gotten to "know" online. think of it as a super-exclusive club (so exclusive that you have to at least know how to use google to find this place). it's people like you who have made rubber hose the media sensation it is today.
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* offer not valid in MI.
** not intended to be taken seriously.
