Tuesday, July 29, 2008

quote of the day (July 29-30, 2008): Welcome Back QOTD(er)

So after our short-lived begging for more readers last week, we saw a short-term bump of 50% daily visitors. Sadly any of those new readers who came after Wednesday of last week was stuck looking at that unfortunate Estelle Getty/Marisa Miller mashup (QOTD's $0 software budget doesn't allow for luxuries like Photoshop), since it took us a full week to start quoting again.

Anyway, we're back from the beach, rested, happy and ready to quote.

Sadly, not one desperate soul fell for the bait and searched on "Jessica Biel naked". Or anyone else naked, for that matter. We're going to have to get a lot more creative to start driving the big numbers and making the large advertising bucks.

But that's for another day.

Since the Quotemaster General has gotten the opportunity to participate in a tryout, er, fantasy camp with the St. Louis Cardinals' Busch Stadium tomorrow afternoon, the attention around QOTD Headquarters is on our nation's pasttime. So, with thanks to alert reader Mike Klein for the suggestion, we're going to run some great baseball announcers' quotes. In honor of the team that's going to allow me to defile their field with flailing attempts to hit a baseball, we'll start with the Cardinals' long-time color commentator Mike Shannon and a few of his all-time classics:

"A hit up the middle right now would be like a nice ham sandwich and a cold, frosty one."

"It's raining like a Chinese fire drill!"

"He ran to second faster than a cat in Chinatown."

"Well, folks, this game began as a tiny worm and is blossoming into a large cobra."

"I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world...except for China where they have all those derelicts." After broadcast partner Joe Buck suggested that Mike meant 'dialects', here was his response: "Yeah, dialects! That's what I mean. But they've got a lot of derelicts too!!"

Here you see some Chinese derelicts, preparing to knock over a local liquor store.

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