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Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at September 19, 2005 8:35 AM

A couple of my recent ones have included "funny orgy" and "people eating crap".

Make of that what you will.

Comment from: John Lynch posted at September 19, 2005 8:55 AM

So wait, if I type "superhero porn" into google, I'll eventually find Websnark!?

Comment from: kirabug posted at September 19, 2005 9:02 AM

Wow. The weirdest I've gotten so far this month is "surreal costume". My all-time (9 month) favorite is "is it normal for a carpet to lose so much carpet fuzz".

Comment from: Kate Sith posted at September 19, 2005 10:28 AM

Back when I did Business as Unusual? "Tony Danza porn".

Yeah.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at September 19, 2005 10:43 AM

winnie pooh coloring mspaint

paul bunyan literary anomaly

webcomic prison

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at September 19, 2005 10:46 AM

Oddly, my biggest search string on dvandom.com is "Hello Kitty". Mind you, a huge chunk of the traffic to dvandom.com is Google's various image snaffling bots. And I have a picture of a Transformer (Ravage) with a Hello Kitty Pez head attached.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at September 19, 2005 11:14 AM

WHAT puts the lotion in the basket? ARRRRGH. NONSENSICAL LINE FROM MOVIE I WILL NEVER SEEEEEEE.

Comment from: Tice with a J posted at September 19, 2005 1:23 PM

Lotion, basket...what?

Comment from: Zaq posted at September 19, 2005 1:25 PM

I feel your pain, Weds. I've never seen the source of that either, and can't ge any two people to give me the same answer as to where it originally came from (or the entirety of the quote, for that matter. Almost invariably, I'm given half a sentence with an implication that I know the rest... frustrating.)

Comment from: Merus posted at September 19, 2005 1:34 PM

As far as I'm aware it's spoken by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer, in Silence of the Lambs, and goes something along the lines of "it puts the lotion in the basket, or else it gets the hose again". It's a threat. I'm not entirely sure about that, as it's most definitely an Internet meme by now and thus is probably heavily paraphrased, but I believe that's the source.

Similarly, the occasional appendage of "Electric Boogalo" that you see on titles on the Internet that no-one ever bothers explaining comes from the movie "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogalo". The movie was basically divided down the middle for time purposes and split into two films, kind of like Kill Bill, and somehow it's become an internet meme for whenever someone titles a 'sequel' to something when they just could have appended it to the end of the first one.

Random people coming here from Google, you now have an answer to go on.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at September 19, 2005 1:36 PM

It comes from The Silence of the Lambs.

The "it" refers to a woman, who is being dehumanized by a tormenter. For reasons I really don't want to get into, the tormenter wants the captive (who is in a pit) to have moisturized skin, so the tormenter sends lotion down in a basket. Once the woman has used the lotion, the tormenter calls down in a freaky-ass voice "It puts the lotion in the basket! It puts the lotion in the basket, or it gets the hose again!"

It's one of the four creepiest moments on film I've ever seen. And no, I haven't the foggiest idea why so many people A) search for the phrase and B) get led to me with it.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at September 19, 2005 1:53 PM

Most of my interesting search strings are porn-related. This probably has to do with writing multiple editorials on sexuality in video games.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at September 19, 2005 2:40 PM

It's not so much not knowing the source (I knew, but I had to ask Eric what it was a couplefew weeks ago, when I didn't -- I thought it was some sort of screwed-up Gollum reference) as knowing that I will never see the source, and therefore fail to resonate with it.

Because, dude? NO. I am SO never watching a movie where the guy who played Chef Brockett does his part for the advancement of the bukkake agenda.

Comment from: quiller posted at September 19, 2005 7:41 PM

OK, now I'm not sure what Wednesday is referring to.

But Silence of the Lambs was a great thriller. I enjoyed the fact that while I was able to guess a lot of the scares, it was approximately half a second before they actually happened so there was no time to actually prepare myself. Plus a lot of good acting.

Comment from: sqbr posted at September 19, 2005 9:11 PM

I'm pretty sure there's a lotion in the basket scene in "Joe Dirt". Not having seen "Silence of the lambs", up until now I had assumed it was just another misfired attempt at surreal humour :)

Whether "Joe Dirt" is more or less disturbing than "Silence of the lambs" is an interesting question...

Comment from: The Matt Who Is posted at September 19, 2005 9:16 PM

The most porntastic I've encountered was "hard hunk stories." You can imagine the company we're keeping there.

We get a whole lot of "Wonka," and "Oompa loompa," but given the popularity of Chocolypse Now, that's not really a surprise.

Matt
www.likelystories.com

Comment from: mckenzee posted at September 21, 2005 4:04 PM

I tend to get "surreal tattoo" and "clown bondage".

Comment from: Major Teroh posted at September 22, 2005 8:43 PM

There is a song by a group called ( I belive) Greenskeepers that uses the scene in question for the video. Very disturbing but I can't find a link at the moment

Comment from: eforhan posted at October 27, 2005 11:40 AM

I did a search for that phrase ~because~ of that video (I've never seen Silence of the Lambs). Here it is:

">http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/09/a_brief_disturb.html

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