Pranks like this are amusing, takes very little effort, allows many people to participate, and allows cooperation to develop. It also presents a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the difference between the generations that grew up with the net all around them and those who didn’t. Perfect for young and not so young activists with a sense of humour.

Perhaps that ability to cooperate in a gentle joke is what annoyed the humorless wing-nuts the most. I often get the impression that they are too anti and angry much of the time to cooperate on anything positive, let alone cooperate on a joke.

It was good finding a site that did the rankings by country. That was the fifth one I tried, and the only one that did the task cleanly.

But what was interesting was that the google bomb was even featured in the countries I listed within the first 100. I’d take a bet that it wasn’t remotely there 18 months ago. In the nz ‘world’ it was somewhere between 20 and 30 in my vague recollection.

Seriously, Iprent, you got it right when you said, “it may be juvenile even at my advanced age”. Yeah – it is. Amusing? Yes, in the same way fake vomit and whoopee cushions are, I guess, to certain people.

I’m just surprised that anyone who wants to be taken seriously as an activist, like rocky apparently does, would waste their time on infantile little stunts like this.

Captcha: minds (as in maybe you should find something more worthwhile to occupy yours with …)

The keyword ‘clueless’ looking at http://www.johnkey.co.nz on google.
From the US – 98th.
From the UK – 48th
From Aussie – 64th
From India – 65th

And then I ran out of tries. Useful site – http://www.kpmrs.com/

I’ll update the post

Just to keep the ball.

[lprent: That is the unsubtle approach. Try using title='clueless' as an additional tag. ]

prentice at 108pm ”
Are you equating a google-bomb on John Key with some of the vile rumors that the wingnuts were pushing around about Helen and Peter? Should I go back and display what you thought was ‘humour’ in 2007/8?

I suspect you need to get a bit of perspective about the difference between humour and unsubstantiated and vile speculation.
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so predictable prentice, here you pop an eyeball just like i said. you want unsubstantiated speculation, REMEMBER H FEE prentice

I suspect you need to get a bit of perspective about the difference between humour and unsubstantiated and vile speculation.

Lyn has been somewhat busy over the last few months. So I’m doing most of the household chores like cooking, rubbish, dishes, and washing. Well apart from cleaning – she thinks that my cleaning standards leave a lot to be desired.