Last month this goofy little blob of babble was featured in an article by Lisa Casinger in Home Accents Today. In the story, Lisa mentioned how I walk a tight-rope about what is and isn’t appropriate for a work-related blog.

I’m about to fall off that tight-rope.

Yesterday I was checking out the stats page of our web-site. (That’s the page that gives a breakdown on “hits” to the site, i.e. what pages are popular, what days and times people are checking us out, from what state/country, etc.)

My FAVORITE stat, however, is the “search string.” The search string tells us what subjects/phrases are being searched that bring people to our site. For a while now we’ve had two phrases that always appear in the top 20 referral strings…”bare boys” and “boys bare.” It’s sad and funny at the same time. As y’all know, Beau and I did that fund-raising calendar in 2004 that Keri made cheeky fun of by titling on our site: “Boys Bare All for the Arts.” So somewhere out there in the big wide world of the internet, some poor schmo’s are typing “boys bare” and coming up with a picture of me and Beau. Talk about crushing disappointment…homescapescarmel.com is NOT exactly going to fill the needs of people searching for titillation.

But my new all-time favorite “search string” popped up yesterday. When I painted that dog for the Carmel Arts fundraiser, I named him Canadae Pangaea (basic translation: “word-wide dog”) and nick-named him “Candy Pants.” On the progress page for ol’ Candy Pants, I ended the commentary with a little faux sentimentality about how I would miss the mutt and Keri hacked in a “sniff.”

So what’s the inappropriate search string that should never be mentioned on a work blog?

Someone found homescapescarmel.com by googling “pants sniff.”

It’s a crazy world out there.