Best blonde joke causes traffic jam

by on January 28, 2006

When I linked to the “best blonde joke ever” I never expected it to become one of the biggest traffic generators I’d ever seen. Yesterday alone 4,713 people visited here because of the joke and the traffic hasn’t seemed to go down.

It got so heavy that Shelley Powers broke the original joke (it used to go on for seemingly forever through blog after blog). Her servers were just seeing an exponentially increasing load so she did something even funnier. She turned the link back to me. So, now I became the joke and it was quite circular. You could count your “blondeness” by how many times you clicked around the circle before you figured it out.

Anyway, here’s a blog that explains a little bit about how the joke evolved.

  • Paul Fabretti
    Am I the only fool in the blogoshpere who has spent more time following everybody else's links to this joke yet mever actually read it!!!
  • nice joke!
    ;>)
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  • Sorry Robert, all that clicking was me. Am I'm not even blonde, unless you count my graying.
  • al
    Similarly I followed oh so many links and still haven't read the joke. This is my biggest pet-hate of the blogging world. Linky Linky Linky. It's not worth posting if you can't link somewhere else it seems. Just like a computer with no real information setting up flags pointing to stuff, this blog is becoming similar.
    Now you post a link to how the joke came about?
    How about posting the joke.
  • Haha, great joke. How blond am I for figuring this out in one link? (ok, I peaked at the second one to verify my theory.)
  • ameet
    any one tell me the particular of the traffic jam
  • Anthony (from school,pat scobl
    lol. Wow i went around a while before i finally figured it out. Thanks for a good laugh.
  • A while back I joined in the linkage storm for a stupid blond joke. Since then I have seen thousands of loads a day on that page (peaking at around 7,000 unique visitors a day and never falling to less than 1,000 unique visitors a day), making it my se…
  • Alyssa
    Ummm.
    I don't get any of the stuff that all you other people wrote..?? Does that mean I'm a blonde?
    I just came to this website because I thought it was a blonde quiz. Umm.. okay.
  • James
    HAHA!

    It took me a while to figure this one out....definitely a brilliant joke. Has fooled so many, yet continues to do so....my admiration goes to the creator.
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