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The good people over at Beyond Madison Avenue have alerted me to a new blog, AdVerbatims, that bravely chronicles the sometimes sublimely ridiculous things said to and by marketing and communications professionals. If you work in these industries, or if you work in any profession that sometimes makes you feel stupider at the end of the day than when you started, you will appreciate AdVerbatims. Or it will make you cringe. Or cry. But it's good to know that others are crying with you.
[flickr thanks to bloglily]
I have recently discovered the pleasures of GoogleWhacking.
It's not what you think.
The concept is deceptively simple: type two completely unrelated words into Google and hit search. You will have achieved the coveted "pure whack" if your words produce exactly one result. It's hard. Really hard. Almost as hard as scoring 830 points in Scrabble.
I spent a good twenty minutes typing in the most obscure words in my vocabulary (ex. titmouse and connubial), but couldn't even find a combination that produced less than 10 pages of results. Nabokovian and Chiclet produced one result, but was disqualified because neither word is in the official GoogleWhack dictionary (go figure).
It's on, bitch.
