Nudeist Colony Seventeen: Not Your Father's Nudeist Colony
I doubt your father had a Nudeist Colony, but even if he did this was certainly not it. This Nudeist Colony is 100% mine. Interestingly enough however, this is not the Nudeist Colony you're used to if you're a Lemon Party regular, and really, who isn't a Lemon Party regular these days? Ronald Reagan isn't, but that's because he's dead. Same goes for Rodney Dangerfield and the vast majority of the popes. Tupac's excuse is that he's pretending to be illiterate to make for going to school at the Baltimore School for the Arts, which would have otherwise ruined his street cred.

Anyway, normally I use this weekly column to list some of the most amusing referrer logs of the prior week. That is to say the web pages through which people came to this very site. Usually I give some explanation that all users are assumed to be English-speaking Americans using Windows and Internet Explorer unless otherwise indicated, and I post my snarky comments after each entry.

This is not that kind of Nudeist Colony. As the title suggests, this is also not your father's Nudeist Colony. This is a never before seen departure from our normal Nudeist Colony agenda. Today I'm going to tell you about my favorite group of readers, who only recently discovered the site. They are the men, women, and children of Dragone.net, and they're all Italians.

Let me show you how it all began:

Thu Dec 30 15:01:15 2004
Italian (Italy)
host110-113.pool80117.interbusiness.it
80.117.113.110
http://lemonparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.it/

Seems innocent enough. Someone from Italy hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" (technically "mi sento fortunato") and searched for "Lemon Party" or "Lemonparty" or some other words to that effect. Regardless of the precise nature of the search our fearless Italian friend ended up here. That's where it could have, perhaps even should have ended. Yet this particular Italian was able to understand the first front page entry, which happened to be "Lord of the Leaves: Episode Two," and understood it. Not only was the article understood, it was also enjoyed. I would have preferred that each of our readers took the threat of the squirrel menace seriously, but a fan is fan. In the next few minutes several referrer logs showed up that looked much like this one.

Thu Dec 30 15:02:42 2004
Italian (Italy)
ppp-166-172.26-151.libero.it
151.26.172.166
http://lemonparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.dragone.net/chat/loader.php3?From=index.php3&L=italian&Ver=H&U=Silmarwen&R=DiscussioniGe

We ended up getting about a dozen hits that originated in the chat room of Dragone.net. I, as a Lemon Jockey, and as the editor of this blog took it upon myself to find out the exact nature of this sudden popularity. There was only one hitch: I did not speak a word of Italian. With the aid of the incomparable Freetranslation.com I was, however, able to sign for an account at Dragone.net and enter the chat room. With some difficulty I managed to get my point across and had a lovely talk with one of the nicest groups of people I've ever encountered on the Internet. A user named OKI_FAB was able to dredge enough English to speak to me in that language while I limped along in my wretched excuse for Italian. The members of Dragone.net were ecstatic to befriend someone from half way around the globe and equally excited to meet a Lemon Jockey.

Thanks for reading, and for talking with me OKI_FAB, SirKhaas, Silmarwen, Mara, Cyan Dragonbones, Mad Master, olidammara, Il Teurgo, and everyone else from Dragone.net.



And remember the guiding light, lest we forget the glory that be Lemon Party.
Because your blog sucks.
- posted by Odovaucer @ 6:05 PM