Monday Immaturity Blogging

I don't come into the office every day, but perhaps I should, for if I hadn't come in today I wouldn't have been turned on to the obscene URLs concept. Basically, some organizations have names that, while totally vanilla and inoffensive, don't translate well to the space-free domain of the URL. Consider, for example, Pen Island "the best pens on the internet" and available at penisland.net which if you, like me, have the emotional age of a twelve year-old will find hilarious.

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Comments

I blame it on the Great Underscore Shortage.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | April 14, 2008 3:24 PM

Settle down, Beavis!

Posted by Shawn | April 14, 2008 3:25 PM

I don't get it.

Posted by Mike Hunt | April 14, 2008 3:26 PM

Ha! They had to settle for penisland.net because I registered penisland.com in 1994!

Posted by Tony | April 14, 2008 3:27 PM

It would be funnier if most of the websites, like www.penisland.net, weren't fake.

Posted by Nathan | April 14, 2008 3:29 PM

Don't worry, Matt, a lot of people are turned on to obscene URLs.

Posted by Tel | April 14, 2008 3:29 PM

"molestation nursery" bwahahahahaha

Posted by Draft Michael Goldfarb! | April 14, 2008 3:31 PM

Ah, Matthew's pandering to his readers again.

I like it. I like it.

My small penis jokes are slowly deflecting the great tanker that is the blogosphere.

Tomorrow, we conquer the world, Pinky!!

Posted by Don Williams | April 14, 2008 3:32 PM

To give proper credit: most of the items from the link were presented on an episode of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" that aired about a year ago.

Apparently, politically-savvy NPR listeners also enjoy this sort of low humor--I know I laughed pretty hard at it.

Posted by James "Hugh Jass" Gary | April 14, 2008 3:34 PM

Wait, www.penisland.net is fake? What can you believe in anymore???

Posted by Just Another Greg | April 14, 2008 3:34 PM

Wait, www.penisland.net is fake? What can you believe in anymore???

Posted by Just Another Greg | April 14, 2008 3:37 PM

Sounds like more fodder for the war of semantics between Trebek and Connery.

Posted by cmholm | April 14, 2008 3:53 PM

Thank goodness for the Internet; otherwise it might take up to three years for jokey lists to percolate through to everyone.

Posted by RSA | April 14, 2008 4:00 PM

You shop names don't typically end in "Island"?

I think the ones that are real have realized that hyphens exist.

Posted by KCinDC | April 14, 2008 4:15 PM

hahahahaha!

Posted by sherifffriuitfly | April 14, 2008 4:23 PM

When I'm online, I generally use a nom de plum, but my real world persona is a business consultant. For my consulting biz I own the following url: www.analyticeconomics.com. For completeness, I thought of what sorts of abbreviations for this site would make sense, and I thought of two. I reserved one of them: www.analyticecon.com, which redirects to the main site.

The other shortened version of www.analyticeconomics.com that came to mind is still available should anyone want it.

Posted by Mike Kimel | April 14, 2008 4:25 PM

MY apparently didn't look at Pen Island website very carefully. He might have seen this:

"Whether you're looking for a long and skinny pen, a thick pen, a fountain pen that squirts ink, or even a black pen, we have just the one for you."

Not that subtle.

Posted by vanya | April 14, 2008 4:32 PM

Welcome to the internet, would you like to learn about caturday?

Posted by bago | April 14, 2008 6:25 PM

Is Penis Island anywhere near MILF Island?

Posted by Reality Man | April 14, 2008 10:37 PM