> Reading the site journal about weird searchs leading to rinkworks, I got curious about how everybody got here. Me, somebody sent me a link to the dialectizer, I checked it out, then checked the rest of the site out later when I was bored. Pretty boring.

At first, one of my "friends" started making fun of me by taking every email message I sent out and dialectizing it into Jive and sending it back. The annoying thing was, we had been carrying on what I thought was an intelligent discussion, and he started doing this as his only response, rather than being rational. Eventually, though, he passed along the URL from which he was getting this. I took a look, made a mental note that it was interesting, bookmarked it, and forgot about it.

About a month later (I would guess) I was reading a Dilbert List-of-the-Day about pranks to pull on one's boss. One of the submitted entries was "Anything from the Computer Stupidities web page" and so I did a search for "Computer Stupidities" and found a wonderful little page. It got updated about a week later, and it took me a couple of weeks to read all of them, so I checked back regularly for more updates. Not many were coming around then, though, so I started looking at Things People Said, since the link was right there. I started checking TPS regularly as well.

One day, I finally noticed that the domain for the Dialectizer was the same as for CS and TPS. I realized that I now had two examples of good things to come from the site, so I decided to see what other hidden gems might be lurking. I found all sorts of good stuff, and started out waiting for the other shoe to drop--surely a site this entertaining couldn't be COMPLETELY free. At some point, I was going to have to sign up for something and start getting spammed, or pay some money to access the full features. I'm glad that I turned out to be wrong about that. :-)

Don "I think I have told this story before in the Forum" Monkey