Another Disappointed Googler

6 Responses to “Another Disappointed Googler”

1. suzi Says:
   December 30th, 2003 at 9:36 pm

   What does your blog title mean anyway? I took Latin in high school, but that was a long time ago. I can sort of figure it out but not completely.

2. Xrlq Says:
   December 30th, 2003 at 9:41 pm

   “Damnum absque injuria” is Latin for “damages without injury.” As a legal phrase, it means “yes, you were harmed, but no, you don’t have a cause of action.”

   The current title, “damnum cum injuria” is a joke name based on the regular title. Cum means “with,” and in the non-legal sense I can’t really claim to be “absque injuria” until I’ve fully recovered from the accident I had three weeks ago. At this stage I’ve recovered just enough that “damnum cum wimpia” might be a more accurate title.

3. kiril Says:
   December 31st, 2003 at 3:33 pm

   I, too, know about disappointed googlers. :-)

   I own a pussy cat, and write about him a lot, and well, a lot of googlers are very disappointed for obvious reasons. :-)

   When it’s not the pervs, it’s the Yugio, Ugio, You gee, oh, never mind…..

   Anyway I get hundreds of disappointed googlers who think I know squat about the cards and game.

   All I did, a year ago, was write a story about a father and his son, in my cashier line at work. The son wanted the cards, and loudly let us know, but I helped Dad distract and fool him into thinking the cards were bought.:-)

   Looking at my stats and the search terms that bring folks to my blog is a very fascinating and amusing pasttime. :-)

   Hope your recovering continues its positive track!

4. triticale Says:
   December 31st, 2003 at 7:48 pm

   As for disappointing the perves by posting about your pets, more than one person has deliberately configured the page bearing the picture of a damp feline so as to draw in such searchers.

5. Kiril Says:
   January 2nd, 2004 at 12:05 am

   Well, for my part, I can’t help it if folks obsessed with a card game come to my blog and are disappointed.

   I also refuse to let political correctness deter me from writing a piece about my cats, and using a word that has been associated with the critters, for more than a century, in a piece or in the description of an archive CATEGORY on my blog.

   It is NOT about luring visitors to my blog.

   It is about the freedom to express oneself in ones writing, whether seriously, or with a peculiar a sense of humor.:-)

   If you have stats to look at you would see that one has to do nothing at all to end up with people who have done weird searches stopping by for a peek, and being disappointed. :-)

   Sorry, but that’s their problem, and not mine. :-)

   I’ve had one person, this past year, publically attack me on their blog, and also privately in e-mail, in an attempt to intimidate, and bully me because they disagreed with something I wrote in a political satire.

   The C word, P word, and a number of others only known to George Carlin will always offend someone, when viewed in a context unintended by the writer, and will always bring unwanted visitors to ones blog, but that doesn’t mean writers should never use them.

   So, I hope readers continue to, um, come to this blog, just as I hope cat lovers visit mine. :-)

6. suzi Says:
   January 2nd, 2004 at 9:43 am

   Thanks for the translation. I thought there was something else besides the Latin translation of the words. Now I know the legal meaning too. I’m glad you’re recovering.

   As for the disappointed web surfers, too bad for them. Not your problem.