Primrose Road

And the winning search that brought someone to Primrose Road in the month of January is ....

peple with low iqs [sic]

5 percent of visitors to Primrose Road in December got here via a search for "plagiarizing hilarious," which makes me think I should start a blog called "Hilarious Plagiarism" in which secondary school and college-level teachers share the most hilarious instances of plagiarism they've ever encountered.

Though I think there already is a site for that. Hmm.

75 percent of all searches that led people to Primrose Road in the first third of the month of October contained the terms "Greenblatt" and "Colbert." Which is understandable, because that was rather awesome.

Also:

- "biblical allusions sonny's blues": dear Googling college student, my blog is not a legit source, kthx
- "publish america dozier internet" : sounds like the unholiest marriage ever
- "the use of astrology in hamlet" : Saturn in the eighth house means that sparrows will fall out of the sky
- "what is the molecule in gunpowder" : ask your local homeopath to prescribe you some
- "yuntif" / "meaning of yuntif" / "what does yuntif mean" : gut yuntif, of course, is a Yiddish curse meaning "may your Sukkah be filled with mosquitoes this year."

A message to whomever found this site by searching for "evaluate quote from hamlet denmark's a prison":

1. Unless you're discussing some type of cultural phenomenon or reactions to a current event, blogs are not good sources;
2. Ask a librarian at your school what JSTOR and Project Muse are and proceed to USE them;
3. Ask your teacher/prof to review the concept of close reading with you and proceed to close read the scene in which Hamlet claims that "Denmark's a prison";
4. If for some reason you simply copied and pasted into your paper what you found via Google, remember that your teacher/prof ALSO HAS GOOGLE (that's the wonder of the WWW) and can easily catch you in the act.

Thanks. :)

This month, someone arrived at Primrose Road via a search for hamlet generating facility.

I wonder if Hamlet generating facilities can generate more Hamlet generating facilities.

At some point during the last three days, someone arrived at Primrose Road via a search for the phrase

"prostate squib"

, which I believe resulted from someone looking up prostate cancer treatments produced by the Bristol-Meyers-Squib pharmaceutical company, but still.

I am, as always, fascinated by the number of people who apparently find Primrose Road via searches for the phrase "Saturn in the eighth house." And I'm pretty impressed that someone got here simply by searching on the word "Jews." But one search term this month by far takes the cake:

"romantic hilarity"

We've discovered a new genre.

It's only three days into the month of May, and there are two utterly awesometacular search phrases that pointed people to this blog thus far:

1) shakespeare's life experiences
2) florida is another country

In the fifth grade, our teacher asked our class if any of us had ever been to another country. One girl excitedly raised her hand and shouted "Florida!"

I wonder what it says about my site, readers, and/or the Internet that for the third month in a row, the most visited page on Primrose Road is a news item I posted back in August about a twelve-year old boy in court because his father wants him to undergo circumcision against his will.

According to this site's traffic details for February thus far, someone got to Primrose Road by searching for the phrase "my homework." So Google recognizes personal pronouns now? Perhaps I should search for "my dissertation" and copy and paste the first page that comes up.

Other good ones: "william shakespeare ducky," "cansts," "false doctorates baptist." Looks like somebody's preacher is in trouble.