Weird Google searches (part 5)

In the past I've looked at amusingly weird Google searches such as 'Why is Santa fat?' and 'My PC is on fire'.

"I'm not an alco... *hic* alco... *hic*
alcoholic songbird! I'm an alcoholic owl!"

This week's blog post features a slight variation on the theme. Instead of looking at intentionally weird Google searches, this week I take a look at a selection of perfectly normal search terms which some internet users didn't quite type correctly.

1) To Kill A Mockingbird

There's nothing weird about searching for To Kill A Mockingbird, and in fact it's a very popular search term with an average of 450,000 searches per month.

Not quite as popular, but still clocking in with a rather impressive 12,100 searches per month, is the search term 'Tequila Mockingbird', presumably from readers who obviously think the book is about an alcoholic songbird! Apparently, a significant number of readers also seem to think the book is an instruction manual, judging by the 27,100 searches each month for 'How To Kill A Mockingbird'.

Silly tautologies (part 3)

Regular readers of the Charles Fudgemuffin blog will be aware that when a blog post gets several views I often like to 'listen to the market', and feature a follow-up blog post on the same theme.

Tautology = Needless repetition

My 'silly tautologies' blog posts have received quite a lot of page views, so with that in mind, this week's blog post is another collection of silly tautologies*.

* I'm sure everyone already knows, but just to clarify, a tautology is a needless repetition of a word or idea in an unnecessarily repetitive manner.

1) DC Comics

The 'DC' in DC Comics was originally short for Detective Comics, so the full name of DC Comics is Detective Comics Comics!

Five stupid sayings (part 5)

The English language has many silly expressions, and I've highlighted some of those expressions before on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog.

This swan is certainly having a good go
at trying to wrap its head around it!

This week I add five more stupid sayings to that ever growing list of silly expressions.

1) "I can't wrap my head around it."

This is a saying which is used to mean, 'I can't understand it,' but taken literally it's a rather bizarre saying.

Of course you can't wrap your head around something. The toughness of the human skull kind of makes that a bit tricky!

April Fools Day pranks (2021 edition)

Devious deception for the purposes of spreading misery and evil are definitely bad, and should always be frowned upon.

However, good natured pranks which the recipient finds amusing are a nice way to bring more smiles into the world. Here are a few pranks from this year's April Fool's Day...

1) Mashed Potato flavour ice cream

Mash Direct started the day by announcing an exciting new mashed potato flavour ice cream! Perhaps even more disgusting was their carrot and parsnip flavoured ice cream, and to complete the disgustingness they also revealed their new gravy topping! Gravy on ice cream? I don't think that's going to catch on.

It all sounds absolutely minging, but thankfully it wasn't real, and it was purely an April Fools Day prank.

Mashed potato flavoured ice cream ... mmm!

Get it while it's warm!