The Searchers...
Sarah Palin, meatballs, Leonard Cohen and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã make particularly odd bedfellows but they are among the most searched for terms on Google in 2008.
The search engine has just The Google Zeitgeist for 2008 and some of it is 'zeitzy' I don't even know what it is. For instance who or what is a 'friv'??? Turn out it's an online gaming thing.
The fastest rising foodie items turn out to be cupcakes, meatballs and then surprisingly lemon posset making it into the top ten. Strange...
Not as strange as next door where Richard Gordon is presenting Sportsound while wearing a woolly hat and scarf. On the sports news I've just heard that 'freezing conditions have disrupted the football calendar'. Didn't realise it meant in the studio as well...
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At 10th Dec 2008, norriemaclean wrote:Quite right that Leonard Cohen is up there.....
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Comment number 2.
At 10th Dec 2008, Scotch Get wrote:Looks like the Soviet command centre at Stalingrad. :-D
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At 11th Dec 2008, Rich wrote:What in the world is a posset?
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At 11th Dec 2008, Scotch Get wrote:RichMurrayNC,
I confess it's not a word with which I am familiar, but according to Collins English Dictionary:- n. a drink of hot milk curdled with ale, beer, etc. flavoured with spices, formerly used as a remedy for colds. (of unknown origin).
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At 13th Dec 2008, gordor70 wrote:I had a cold!!!!
Just as well I wasn't doing anything embarrassing ... you realise you infringed my image rights contract by taking that photo Bryan.
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At 13th Dec 2008, Scotch Get wrote:gordor70,
I've been pestering Mr. Zycinski with demands for a repeat of 'Bampot Central' but he claims to be tied up in red tape. (I assume it's a Polish thing).
I feel sure that if you exerted your considerable influence we could resolve this difficulty to everyone's satisfaction.
i.e. mine.
Thanking you in anticipation, E. Scrooge
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At 13th Dec 2008, norriemaclean wrote:Is he not supposed to be perched up on some sort of precarious...well perch at a football stadium during the show. I feel cheated having radiated sympathy over the years. Hes watching on the telly!!
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At 13th Dec 2008, Glen Miller wrote:Loved his Doctor books.
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At 13th Dec 2008, Scotch Get wrote:Perhaps 'Doctor on the Ball' inspired the career change. :-D
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Comment number 10.
At 13th Dec 2008, Glen Miller wrote:Looking at the picture again - he's not the Flash Gordon Mad Mac alludes to on the next thread is he?
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Comment number 11.
At 13th Dec 2008, madmacfraeclydebank wrote:Next Weeks #41.. It's Wendy you want.
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Comment number 12.
At 14th Dec 2008, Glen Miller wrote:You're right - I can't get used to him not being Walter - there was something fishy about it.
I don't really want to hear it , of course - I was just trying to be clever.
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