Depends on the definition of hummer

This week a story that I posted on Peeling Wallpaper almost a year ago suddenly became popular. I had a clue that something was up because I received a few new comments on the piece. More than one comment on a ten month old story usually means that someone has unearthed it and left a link on a forum somewhere.

The story in question was called A Prius meets a Hummer at the gas pumps. On Wednesday of last week it received over 2,000 hits. It’s received probably a thousand more since then. That’s a lot of hits for my blog! What’s interesting is that most of those hits came from one source. A porn site. Well, in fairness, not so much a porn site as a porn forum. Yes, you will find the occasional porn imagery there, and there is a search engine to help you find more of it, but mostly the site is a forum for politics and social commentary (‘cause, you know, after the sex is done, you gotta talk).

It’s difficult to say if the link to my Prius-Hummer story originated at this porn forum. By the time I became aware of what was going on, I found links to the story on a dozen forums – most of them non-porn, mainstream sites. So where did all of this start? Who was the first to find it? What was the original Google search?

I thought for awhile that it might have started with a Google search for “hummer.” Not the vehicle Hummer, but the…well, you know, sexual reference. Or maybe you don’t. (If you don’t know, you can find a definition here.) Anyway, I don’t think “hummer” was the original Google search because my story is nowhere to be found when searching on that word alone. Now, type in “asshole Hummer driver” at Google and my story is the number one hit!

It’s just an interesting aside, all this. Another example of internet wildfire. Indeed, this one is nothing compared to Birdie’s Pledge of Allegiance story. That one literally shut down the Salon blog server for several days! Something the rest of can only strive for…