My Favorite Search Terms Part 5
November 29, 2009
A repeating effort to chronicle the odder search terms people use to find my silly little blog.
Today’s search term: I Want To Go Blueberry Picking Today Jim
In so many cases search terms lack the needed punctuation or emphasis to truly unravel the deeper meanings. I can most assuredly agree with this eager web fruit searcher that picking, once imagined, must happen now. Today. Immediately!
You can pick your friends. You can pick your fruit. But if your friend is named Jim, perhaps you can’t normally pick the fruit today.
Now, this Jim. What can we claim to know about him? I think that he is the oppressive sort. The kind that likes to keep sweet rewards tantalizingly close, but very much out of a person’s immediate reach. ”Perhaps tomorrow we can pick blueberries,” he might say as he begins further scheming.
A word of caution to Tantalus Jim. These sweet treasures that you keep so close and yet so far, create powerful longings. I suggest that you hire Oompa Loompas. Once tasted at long last, after years of teasing denial, intense desire, covetous imagining, these blueberrries will cause a person to over consume.

Other Search Term Mysteries:
Part 1 Where Do Eggshells Come From?
Part 2 Blindfolded Honey On Tongue
Part 3 How Do You Get Suckers Off Of Tom?
Part 4 Pole Been Eatable
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Nell Jean | November 29, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Searchers do ride in on some bizarre terms, do they not? Top search terms finding my blog have been for ‘Pride of Barbados’ — a popular plant; ‘Rabbit Tobacco’ which is I’m sure usually a real disappointment and ‘How to Hem Blue Jeans,’ the most practical of searches. There are two ways to hem Jeans, neither of which I enjoy doing. My fav involves using a hammer to flatten those awful seams.
Nell Jean – Secrets of a Seed Scatterer
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Elephant's Eye | November 29, 2009 at 4:49 pm
My weirdest keyword searcher ever, so far, is, how do elephants attract their prey? I long to be able to answer, but we can’t!
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sjones71 | November 29, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I love it! How do elephants attract their prey. Hmmmm…
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Barbara | November 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm
LOL, love your search term series.
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sjones71 | November 30, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Thanks Barbara! It’s fun to write and it has become my favorite report to check on the website…
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Thomas | December 31, 2009 at 9:54 pm
WOW! This is a really interesting post. I’ve often wondered the same thing when I come across a seed company I’ve never heard of while googling. It’s interesting that these large seed conglomerates will go to such lengths to appear more “mom and pop”, as if they know that people hate them.
Great detective work! I wish someone would put together an internet database containing such information.
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sjones71 | January 1, 2010 at 12:29 am
Thanks Thomas. I think that there are some pretty good online resources for this kind of thing. I’m going to try and track down the definitive seed info site and post it asap.