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On my usual "lets see what's happened over the weekend" trawl this morning, I noticed two things:

1. Somebody's submitted the little parody I wrote about Guy DiRito as part of this thread on my behalf... even to the extent of knowing that my philbo_baggins messageboard handle is "Phil Alexander".  Well, thanks, but you could at least have allowed comments so I could add this as a comment to the parody...

2. Last two days have seen nineteen votes added for "I Hate Britney Spears", which seems a little excessive for a parody that's been around for eighteen months - average for the new votes were 2.5/2.9/2.9, so they're not all from a 1/1/1-merchant, but it looks to me like someone's trying to knock the stats down with 1s, and someone else is trying to balance that with 4s or 5s... I guess I'll have to ask if Chucky wouldn't mind checking whether they all came from the same IP address.

Phil
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if someone posted your parody without your approval, I can remove it.

I'll check the IP addresses, but I have a feeling some Britney fan found it, and reposted it to a fan board or something.  The comments they're leaving are probably showing up in the latest comments, generating more interest in it, etc.

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if someone posted your parody without your approval, I can remove it.
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Please do.  If I'd wanted it posted, I'd do it myself.  Thanks, Chucky.

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I'll check the IP addresses, but I have a feeling some Britney fan found it, and reposted it to a fan board or something.  The comments they're leaving are probably showing up in the latest comments, generating more interest in it, etc.
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I was wondering that, especially given the low-but-not-all-ones votes and the general inarticulate nature of the comments (must admit, I've googled and turned up a surprising number of references, but nothing obvious)... but for a song that's added fifty votes in ones and twos since I started tracking in April to get nineteen new ones overnight seemed a little more than I'd expect.

Phil

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Please do.  If I'd wanted it posted, I'd do it myself.  Thanks, Chucky.
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Done, at least they credited you. Maybe Lays Tostitos was so happy to have a parody written about him, he posted it for you?

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I was wondering that, especially given the low-but-not-all-ones votes and the general inarticulate nature of the comments (must admit, I've googled and turned up a surprising number of references, but nothing obvious)... but for a song that's added fifty votes in ones and twos since I started tracking in April to get nineteen new ones overnight seemed a little more than I'd expect.
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well, I grabbed it real quick, and they're all unique (and definitely not from the same ISPs)... so someone must have passed your parody around to try and denounce your <sarcasm>Britney love-a-thon</sarcasm>.

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Done, at least they credited you. Maybe Lays Tostitos was so happy to have a parody written about him, he posted it for you?
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Thanks - I'd probably not have spotted it without it coming up in my little app... I wonder if any of my other throwaways have turned up uncredited?  (no, I can't be bothered to look...)

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well, I grabbed it real quick, and they're all unique (and definitely not from the same ISPs)... so someone must have passed your parody around to try and denounce your <sarcasm>Britney love-a-thon</sarcasm>.
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Must have been by email, then (or not reached the google search engines if it's a newsgroup)

Still, it's propelled the song up to the 30s in the all-time charts, so I guess I should be pleased ;)

Phil

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maybe it has something to do about the recent article on the front page about anti-britney sites and what will come up if you do a google search for "i hate britney spears"
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Ah... methinks you may have something there, young Ethan.

Now all I have to do is hope that there's worldwide front page articles about broken computers, and "Mend My PC" will be up there, too :-)

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Ah... methinks you may have something there, young Ethan.

Now all I have to do is hope that there's worldwide front page articles about broken computers, and "Mend My PC" will be up there, too :-)
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with that logic, Im surprised Bare Celebrities hasnt gotten more publicity then lol .......


unfortunatly, this might mean that A plea for the Spice girls to get back together will never get another vote lol

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with that logic, Im surprised Bare Celebrities hasnt gotten more publicity then lol .......
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ROFL!

Having said that, I wonder if anybody does do a google search for "Bare Celebrities"?

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unfortunatly, this might mean that A plea for the Spice girls to get back together will never get another vote lol
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Though at least my prophecy was wrong: now that S-Club 7 have split up, we don't have seven different Ex-Club 7 members doing solo numbers :-)

Phil