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I Wanna Be Like Mike…

I’ve mentioned in the past that I know a lot of people named Mike. When we were at SXSW, all of the Mikes there ended up with nicknames so that we could keep them straight. Coffee Mike, Moose Mike, Beta Mike (also known as Mike the Lawyer), Disney Mike, and the list went on.

So it shouldn’t be a surprise that my latest spam had a subject line of “Mike Wants You to See This”. I figured that Mike probably saw something that he knew I would be interested in and sent me an e-mail about it using the “E-mail to a Friend” options that some sites have. Nope. It was spam, and I was suckered in to opening it. This weekend, I’m installing iHateSpam after reading Jennifer’s testimonial about it. The softwares is free after rebate on Amazon right now, so if I like it I’ll order a full copy. I’m still waiting on the pointers from Matt on anti-spam tactics too. Have any tips that you want to share?

I am going to win this battle. Oh yes, yes, I am.

By Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

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If my hubby and I ever come to one of these bloggy conventions, we need a nickname for him, too. *Pony-Tail Mike*?

Actually, people usually call him *Murf*. I call him *sweetest*, but I’m the only one that is allowed to do so! And since there are so many Christines out there as well, I could just be C-Murf!

As for spam, I use Spam Inspector (http://www.spaminspector.com/). I am more than happy with it! 🙂

youm are adumb bitch lose some weight -practice yoga you dont even need to go to the gym- sincerley 2600 the person that just fucked up your life forever whichprobably isnt too long

Thanks freak for your input … now is there some reason that you think you’ve fucked up my life? Because you know what? You didn’t. Why would a whacked comment from someone that is too chickenshit to leave their real name or contact info bother me? Especially someone that can’t even spell? Whatever.

Life is gooooood! No freak like you is going to bring me down.

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I Wanna Be Like Mike…

Could someone please explain to me why there are so many male bloggers named Mike? I know it’s a common name, don’t get me wrong – but there are an unusually high number of blogging Mikes. Almost all the male bloggers I know are named Mike. So if you are a Mike and you are about to blog – please make sure you have a cool domain name, because you will forever be referred to by it. We have:

:: Aka Cooties Mike
:: Barkingmoose Mike
:: Coffee Corner Mike
:: Drowsy Central Mike
:: Hoopty Mike
:: Mike of Mike’s Blog
:: Mike Frohme, aka Ciscley’s Mike
:: Mike McBride Online
:: Mundane Mid-Life Michael
:: Nasty Bastard Mike
:: Nerdboy Mikey
:: Oddfellow Mike
:: Perpetual Beta Mike

There are even some I didn’t know about before tonight:
:: Cold Fury Mike
:: I.Me.Michael Mike
:: Michael Brown
:: Michael Sanders
:: Mikeintosh Mike
:: PC Mike
:: Otherside Michael

I’m just positive I’m leaving someone off of this list. I know I am… so remind me who it is. (Edited: It was Nastybastard Mike that I left off, because Coffee Corner Mike and Barkingmoose Mike were IM’ing me as I wrote the post & I was distracted.)

Meanwhile, I should go join the Other Christine’s new Blogging Christines webring! I wonder if the other Pink Christine or Kristine with a K have joined yet? (Heck, even Chris and Chris can join!)

By Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

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Want to know what’s really shocking? I read this post and giggled, “Ha, ha, great minds think alike. I just wrote about that last month.” So I looked in my archives to find the link so I could update that post with a link to your URL and I found it and did a double take at the time stamp.

I posted this back in JUNE! Where the hell have those four months gone!

I suppose this might be a good opportunity to say that ste is short for … well, not michael, but it *could* be. 🙂 I prefer to think that I’m different from the pack! 😉

I think, that when your name is Mike, you go through life hearing all of the bad references to that name in popular culture. (the above reference to Gatorade commercials being a prime example, also the song “Mickey”, “Michael motorcycle”, etc., etc, etc.) After a childhood full of listening to and being referred to by these sorts of things you just can’t take it anymore, something snaps and you have to shout out to the world that “I am just not another Mike, I am a human being!”

Hence, we blog… *L*

What about this Chris? Am I not allowed to join the right? 🙁 I know, I need to get a better address than duke.usask.ca/~che434/blog – that’s a mouthful and not something anyone wants to remember.

Oh no! You can join too, Chris! Those were just the only Chris’s I could think of in a flash off the top of my head. (You’re right – I can’t memorize the long URL – I can memorize uffish.com) There are other Christines too that I could add to that list. Hmmm… I might just have to make a K/Chris(tine) list next week!

Add to that the fact that I have dated 7 Mikes. Seven! And I don’t mean casual, flippant, one time dates either. 7 Mikes. Wow, I didn’t realize there were that many until I stopped and counted! Damn!

So, umm, if you’ve dated 7 Mike’s already, is it possible that you’re only putting this list together for future possible blogger-romancing? Oh man I don’t think my wife’s gonna like me being on it if that’s why! *LOL*

Well good, seein’ as how so many people seem to approve of the name Mike, I move that everyone having a child for the remaining months of 2002 name their child Mike (male or female – yes, it’s an acceptable female name. Remember Michael Learned, the actress?) We lost out to Jacob last year. I wanna be #1 again!!!

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