At some point last week (apparently August 21st), while I was helping with hurricane recovery efforts in St. Lucia by ensuring that no toddlers would stumble upon dangerously full bottles of rum on the beaches, our 1st "blogday" occurred. It's like a birthday, except there are no embarassing considerations about the fact that, yes, at one time your parents had to dance the forbidden dance in order to make it all happen. Most likely your parents dancing the forbidden dance had little to do with the creation of Her Loyal Sons at all. And for that, we can all be thankful.
Frankly, we think the term "blogday" is lame, so we promise not to use it again until our 5th. At which point we plan to get Congress to recognize HLS for our important contributions to... something.
Anyway, some stats, facts, and thoughts:
- We've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 52,000 unique readers. And, amazingly, most of you come back to read more.
- Our most popular story of the year was "When Buckeyes Attack." But that was released long ago, and Biscuit's interview with Tony Roberts is catching that quickly, despite being released just a couple of weeks ago.
- Other than people reading the site by finding us directly, our top source of traffic has been BGS. Thank you, BGS.
- Someone is reading us, or has read us, from Antarctica. Hello, Antarctican Dude!
- "Funny" is an art, and it's best form is simple.
- Up to this post, HLS has made 660 posts.
- Upon those posts, our readers have left 1,832 comments.
- Also upon those posts, spammers have left 28,526 pieces of spam.
- In late September of 2006, we had 200 readers in one day, and we all thought that was pretty darn amazing. Heh.
Thanks to you, readers, for giving us here at HLS a reason to wake up in the morning. If it weren't for your enthusiastic rate of 2.78 comments per post, we'd feel like nobody was really paying attention.
By Adam August 27, 2007 - 4:57 pm
Make that 2.79 comments per post. You’re welcome
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By Pat August 27, 2007 - 4:59 pm
Congrats. Keep up the good work guys.
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By The Biscuit August 27, 2007 - 5:39 pm
If we eliminated our own comments I bet we come down to a sub-2-performance in terms of comments.
But it’s not our fault that our writing is so fundamentally awe-inspiring that people are unable to type for long periods after reading our infinite wisdom-filled online ramblings on the University of Notre Dame football team which we all know and love all the time even when it’s raining cats and dogs and monkeys.
Solid run-on. Nice.
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By Bad Kermit August 27, 2007 - 5:42 pm
Oh, thank God. Now I have a reason for eating that whole cake earlier this week. But what happened to the candles, Q? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CANDLES?
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By domer.mq August 27, 2007 - 6:08 pm
The candles are there, BK. The candles are there.
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By The Biscuit August 27, 2007 - 8:30 pm
See? Without us there are 2 comments. Now 6. Extrapolate it and we average 1/3 of our 2.78. Less than 1. Sad.
How can we draw in more conversation? I want to hear from the PEOPLE. Holla!
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By JR August 27, 2007 - 9:01 pm
Way to go! Keep up the good work – HLS is definitely one of my favorite blogs.
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By KathND August 28, 2007 - 2:12 pm
You guys have a great blog! As proof . . . today’s my birthday and I’m hanging around my computer commenting on your blog. Either your blog rocks or my life is really lame
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