Bore or Boor?

Posted on January 3, 2003 in Whines

Natalie wrote about feeling “intimidated” by the more than 30 responses to a post she made the other day.

Thirty? My record is what — 8 or 9?

I must be the only blogger the number of whose posts exceeds the number of his comments. As of this moment, the figures are:

Entries: 600 Comments: 552 Authors: 1

How do they do it? Or should the question be, am I such a prick and a pedantic middle-aged parasitic aarkvark that no one wants to talk to me? I often see long exchanges on other blogs (and I sometimes take part), but it’s a rare day when words pass between me and a visitor more than once.

I have theories:

• I’m dull as all hell
  
• I’m unfriendly
  
• I have a beard (not cutting it off)

• I have a penis (not cutting that off, either)
  
• I’m below the level of conversation
  
• I love my wife and that just disappoints all the would be suitors
  
• I talk religion and politics too much
  
• I’m just too much of a kook
  
• I talk about depressing things
  
• I don’t make any sense to anyone but myself
  
• I’m a whiner
  
• I’m unoriginal

Ah sigh.

Is this a fishing expedition for comments? You betcha. Will the number exceed zero? Um, possibly not.

blu, you are my only peer it seems at times.