My site was getting inexplicably more popular since last friday with those first-time visitors. It was briefly a mystery until I looked at the keyword analysis:
jon heder - car wreck
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old snapshots of wisconsin
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jon heder is dead
napoleon dynamite car wreck
jon heder dead
pitching machine accuracy
improve science
jon heder car wreck
jon heder wreck
true image
jon heder died in car
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schindler's list pictures
Pitching machine? Schindler's list? WTF? At any rate, I got to thinking about this and can just imagine some punk elementary kid in a lunchroom telling some gulliable, unpopular kid about how Napoleon Dynamite died in a car wreck. The gulliable kid, immediately picturing a body bag zipping up to cover Napoleon's dead, agape mouth, runs from the table crying loudly. After getting home, the kid weeps to his mother about how Napoleon died. The mother, who always forwards the chain e-mails she receives without question, calls her friends up who repeat the news to their children. Thusly it begins.
Snopes has an amusing writeup (with Mormonism!). There's also a web page dedicated to the subject that begs the question: Why is bambi dancing in the background?
Posted by eric at February 22, 2005 09:34 AM