The old Pimp My Ride entry has reached 200 comments and I think that’s quite enough. The joke grew old ages ago and this whole thing is screwing up my site statistics. It was all well and good when people thought I was Xzibit but now they are starting to think I’m Westwood and that’s just not on.
So, apparently that entry comes first when you google for “please mtv pimp my ride,” although I am not sure whether that is the cause of the comment onslaught or merely an effect of it. Also, I found out that I’m not alone. Second on that Google search is an entry on Avoiding Life, the blog of an English teacher in Japan. He mentioned PMR, he got the comments. He closed comments at 151 and was even concerned enough to post instructions on how to apply correctly on his last reply. He even got a cherry-on-top on his meta entry! Finally, I should mention that this Fufurasu/PMR affair didn’t go unnoticed. Compatriot Thomas wrote about it on his blog, Anatomy of Melancholy, a while back.
Now, more importantly, if you are in Athens and not sure what to have for lunch when it’s “hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum” outside, I recommend the gazpacho at healthy fast food purveyors Body Fuel.
Comments
I think you did the right thing. Now people can stand back and consider what a strange document it is, and wonder how much longer it would have gone on.
I think I’ll try the Body Fuel place tomorrow!
[…] A little over a year ago, I wrote about a blogger who was getting strange comments from people who thought he could pimp their ride. (When the comments reached 200, he closed the post to more comments.) Strangely enough, a year later, I got two elegant cries for help too. (See comments at the bottom.) […]