Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

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Squag! Squag! Squag

Erm no. That wouldn’t be a duck with a bad cold. Squag is a derivative of Tag + Squat. And what would that be, you ask? Well, I didn’t know till this morning. That was when I became the first victim of the first round of Squaging.

Am I making sense? No? Here, I will let Brico, popularly known on my blog as The Nut, describe in simpler terms.

Squag: (verb); to willfully direct via a blog post a high number of commenters toward a randomly chosen blog to comment without leaving clear direction of their source for the purpose of surprising and confusing the blog’s author; example: Chandrachoodan was squagged on April 18th when Bricotrout of The Rusty Nut asked his readers to visit his site and comment.

No. That didn’t make much sense to me too. So here, I will give you a rare look at the thought-process that started it all

I’m inventing a blog term ‘Squag’ (a derivitive from tagging and squatting). It’s similar to being tagged but much nicer. You all have the opportunity to partake in the first ever squag! read on…
This is what I did: I went to the blog Selective Amnesia http://www.selectiveamnesia.org (cut and paste the address into your browser please). It was a long haul. I purposely went to a site that was ten times removed from my linked blogs. This is how I got there: Kalani > Foxi > Mental Nurse > Waffle Mania > Scary Duck > Jerry Chicken > My Blog Itches > The Pissed Kitty (which I had to laugh at because there – 8 times removed – was a link to webmiztris, damn shes popular! coughslutcough) > Aussie Guru > Selective Amnesia.
I purposelfully picked out a site that was somewhat interesting and had relatively few comments (i think it averages 1-2 per post?) What I want everyone to do is Tuesday, go to his site and comment appropriately and respectfully on his most recent post. Include in your comment that you found your way there from ‘The Nut’ . The key is not to refer to me by whatever name you link me. So everyone just say The Nut. He’ll hopefully get some 20 or more people that he doesn’t know suddenly commenting saying that some place called The Nut mentioned him.
He’ll be intrigued for sure and make some kind of effort to find this place. I want to see if he’ll be able to find it

Got it? Well, good for you. So now, we go say our thanks to the guy who will battle International shipping rates and world-music labels to send me a CD of tamil film music (like I didn’t have enough already)
We should all thank him too, for sending me 5-6 new readers, who have all promised they will come back.
So, that’s that. All’s well that ends well, what?