Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Please define "mouthfull"

I get lists of 10s of thousands of expired domains every day. I don't look at all of them, but I do have to look at some, and last week I had one of those moments where it was like a light was shining on a single domain name: Mouthfullofspiders.com.

So I can't lay claim to inventing the domain name. Someone else did that and I very much admire their creativity, or sickness as it may be. I would like to know the history of the domain someday. Was it ever a real site? Was it just a blog like this one?

I like this domain because it can be so many different things to so many different people. Did you know there is a type of fish that keeps it's fry in it's mouth for some period of time to protect them? So the image is not so much one of spiders invading an oral cavity with harmful intent. Or one where spiders are breeding/hatching in a place most unlikely. No, we really cannot be sure and should not judge too quickly until we can acquire more information.

It's really the quantity of the spiders that I am disturbed by, not the location. Is it a nasty little swarm of pinhead-sized crawlers? Thousands really, that have found themselves in a damp, dark spot? Or just a few large eight-legers? It's plural, so their has to be at least two. Maybe two of the large kind...? Yeah, just two spiders and that's all that will fit. Heck, they might not even had enough space to turn around...

MFOS is about surrealism I guess. It's a creative outlet with no useful purpose or commercial potential AFAIK.
(hris

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