Words For Your Enjoyment: Lost Words
July 28th, 2006
No, this isn’t a post about Lost.
Instead, today’s post will serve to announce that my still-new book The Lost Blogs has done so well out there in the real world that it looks as if we’ll be moving into the land of “Second Printing.” Which is a good thing. Which makes me happy. Which makes me want to give away free First Edition signed copies of the book.
So today, for your enjoyment, that’s just what we’re going to do. But with a twist.
But instead of sending you off on a scavenger hunt throughout the Blogosphere and instead of asking you to be the first person to be lightning-quick e-mailer amaze-a-tron, I will instead ask you to read the following paragraph:
Pay attention here’s the thick of the plot, I pulled up to the orner at the end of my block and that’s where I saw tis beautiful girly-girl walking, I picked up my car phone to perpetrte like I was talking. You shoul have seen this girl’s bodily dimesions, I honkd my horn just to get her attention she said ‘Was that for me?’ I sad ‘Yeah’ she said ‘Why’ I said ‘C’mon and take a ride with a hell of a guy.
Did you read it? Did you notice there were letters missing? Well, if you take those missing letters and rearrange them into a word, then plug that word into the handy-dandy search bar at the top of this blog — only one post will show up in the search results.
Submit the title of that post via the WFME contact form and the first five people to do so will receive a signed first-edition copy of the book from yours truly. But here’s where it gets even more interesting. If you’ve already won a copy of The Lost Blogs (in which case you can’t win another copy of it to keep things fair) — you can win a signed-copy of my first book Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America, One Letter At A Time.
God, it’s like Christmas up in here, isn’t it?
Good luck. God speed. Get going.
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Update 9:14AM PST: You people are fast! Congrats to the following readers for winning signed copies of The Lost Blogs. They are: Jenifer, Sarah, Nathanael, Melanie and Mark K..
As for the solution. I’ll let you all discuss. And major props to the people who kept searching “HI DANCE” and “ICE HAND.” How I wish there was a post related to either of them.
We have two winners. Three left.
Comment by Pauly D — July 28, 2006 @ 8:24 am
finally i win at something!
Comment by sarah — July 28, 2006 @ 8:27 am
And then there were FOUR winners. One left.
Comment by Pauly D — July 28, 2006 @ 8:56 am
Thanks, Pauly!
Comment by Calico Jack — July 28, 2006 @ 9:10 am
Woohoo!!!
I was wondering if you were gonna track all the messed up words people searched.
Comment by Mark K — July 28, 2006 @ 9:19 am
I’m very sad right now. I had my heart set on winning and I was minutes too late with my submission :*(
Comment by Eve — July 28, 2006 @ 9:26 am
I was WINNER #1 - I rock! Or, I am a big geek. Either way, I scored a copy of Lost Blogs, suckas!
Comment by Jen — July 28, 2006 @ 10:36 am
DUDE! You spelled my name wrong! It’s with one N!
Comment by Jen — July 28, 2006 @ 10:37 am
I totally thought it was ICE HAND. (Part of your “If I Was a Hotshot Rock Climber” post?). You should write about ice hands. That would rock.
Comment by Melanie — July 28, 2006 @ 10:49 am
Thank you - do what you will with that extra N.
Comment by Jen — July 28, 2006 @ 10:59 am
Jen - I’m here for you and your missing N.
Comment by Pauly D — July 28, 2006 @ 11:04 am
That thing looks like a mole. What the heck is it? Never heard of one before.
Alas, leave it to WFME to educate me.
Comment by Kevin — July 28, 2006 @ 12:35 pm
I can’t unscramble under pressure. I too tried tICE HAND, HI DANCE, HEAD INC and CHAINED. So what the hell is it?
Comment by Jeff — July 28, 2006 @ 1:21 pm
Jeff - I’ll tell you this. It’s a real word. It’s an animal. There was a post specifically about this animal.
Comment by Pauly D — July 28, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
Well, I didn’t play because I bought a copy of The Lost Blogs. And as much as I would have loved to know how to harass Corporate America, I just couldn’t unscramble the mystery word. I had kids tugging on my limbs and an impatient boyfriend waiting in the car, yeah, that’s it.
Comment by Alison — July 28, 2006 @ 9:24 pm
if you love things that eat ants, you will love this animal!
Comment by sarah — July 29, 2006 @ 8:49 pm