Have you ever wondered exactly what the majority of people who visit Ephemeron.net via search engine come here looking for? Is it information regarding the beautiful photographs on our sister site, or the beautiful girl who takes them? Perhaps our reliable, up-to-the-minute news items in respect to the true whereabouts of Dick Cheney? Maybe the final vestige of information for the few remaining Roy Scheider fans? It seems as though these would all be valid answers, but they’re unfortunately wrong. No, the majority of visitors who find us through a search engine come here looking for Rickey Smiley.
Who’s that, you ask? You’ve never even seen any mention of someone by that name on these pages? Well, you might have, had you been keeping an eye on the “Recent Comments” section. You needn’t look too hard – they’re typically the ones characterized by stunted grammar and emphatic requests for complimentary mp3 files.
You see, Rickey Smiley is a comedian known for his prank telephone calls, and he did in fact appear on this blog some seven and a half months ago for a notably limited engagement. Of course, anyone who’s visited here on even a semi-regular basis knows it isn’t exactly the place to come seeking out further samples of Smiley’s material. And yet, despite the fact that the one file offered was removed some time ago, there still appear regular requests for more to this day, with replies directing people to his official website and shameless begging from Rickey himself seemingly having no effect whatsoever. In fact, I’m sure this particular entry won’t do the least to deter the constant appeals, and I’m really only writing it to draw attention to the humorous nature of the situation.
Smiley himself is somewhat to blame, however. Anybody performing a search and misspelling his name as “Ricky,” a mistake probably to be anticipated, will be led to an official site that doesn’t exist. Apparently Smiley’s publicist couldn’t figure it out, either. And when rickysmiley.com failed, one of the next best things was Ephemeron.net. Clearly, what Rickey needs to do is cut his losses and make his name easier to spell, especially for those amongst his fan base who seemed to be having considerable difficulty typing out so much as “hello.”
Rickey Smiley’s real site, for one last time, is http://www.rickeysmiley.com.
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Amen
They just don’t listen, do they?
Oh well.