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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

I tend to stay in my own exclusive little circle on the internet - well, if you wander anywhere unknown, all kinds of strange things can pop up in your way and distract you from all the interesting personality tests you're in the middle of taking, and the next thing you know there's a virus on your computer that is trying to put smiley faces on all of your emails in outlook... which has happened to me. So, I try to go where I know it will be safe, and the naked pictures of Britney Spears will be kept to a minimum (there's a phrase that's now going to be getting me a lot more hits).

So until today, I didn't know about Rance. Rance is, apparently, a A-list celebrity with an incredibly popular weblog, where he gives out shady, coded details about himself and annoys most of North America by not telling them who he is. In all the searching I've done, so far he's been identified as Owen Wilson, Ben Affleck, Benicio Del Toro, George Clooney, Jim Carey or Andy Kaufman. (Can't be Andy Kauffman, though, obviously. Firstly, because he already has his own blog here and secondly because he's been dead for the last 20 years). I'd love to think that Rance is Ben Affleck. But he's too retarded. The most convincing theory I've heard thus far is that it's written by an advertising copywriter. It's disappointing, but a bit like the Belle De Jour weblog, which is obviously faked.

[Side note: Mind you, a lot of the Belle De Jour is a Fake speculation seems to rely on the fact that the Gender Genie says that it's being written by a man, rather than a woman. I tested the Gender Genie on my last three longer blog entries - they want over 500 words a pop. Here are the results:

Entry dated 19th May:
Female Score: 815
Male Score: 1134
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Entry dated 17th May:
Female Score: 1153
Male Score: 1618
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Entry dated 14th May:
Female Score: 1154
Male Score: 1604
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Dude. That is harsh.]

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