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Anecdotes

Posted on December 1, 2007 by under Web.    

File this under web discovery.

I may be one of the few I know who love hearing and reading anecdotes. Whenever I say the word, people always seem to respond with a puzzled look. A whatta? It may just be that I’m not around the right people. Whatever the case maybe, I have found kindred spirits online. Anecdotage.com is a web site devoted to preserving and sharing anecdotes. Their mission is to be the world’s widest collection of celebrity anecdotes.

I discovered the web site while researching information on French cultural anthropologist Clotaire Rapaille. I am currently reviewing his book, The Culture Code and thus, needed to do some background reasearch on the author. Discovery of the web site told me that there are other people out there who enjoy anecdotes. I am not alone in this world. LOL.

Then again, the web site could just be an extension of the public’s fascination with celebrities. This could simply be another way to obsess with celebrities. However, I choose to think that my initial assessment is true.

Here’s a good one.

“Hugh Massingberd, a former editor of the obituaries page of the Daily Telegraph, recalled the unwieldy challenges posed by a refusal to capitulate to the seductions of the posthumous parallax [a bending of life histories toward all that is light and wholesome, away from anything that might reflect unfavorably on the dead].

“‘One day, an injunction arrived from on high that we were to make a point of including the cause of death,’ he reminisced in The Spectator [in 2001]. ‘As it happened, a candidate for the morgue of the morrow, a priapic jazzer, had handed in his dinner pail after a penile implant had unfortunately exploded. We duly complied with the editorial diktat.'”

It has been reprinted here without permission but I am linking back to their web site (Anecdotage.com) so hopefully they won’t mind it. It is free word-of-mouth, buzz advertising after all. I hope you enjoy their web site as much as I do.

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  Anecdotage by The Philippines According to Blogs  on December 1, 2007

[…] I may be one of the few I know who love hearing and reading anecdotes. Whenever I say the word, people always seem to respond with a puzzled look. A whatta? It may just be that I’m not around the right people. Whatever the case maybe, I have found kindred spirits online. Anecdotage.com is a web site devoted to preserving and sharing anecdotes. Their mission is to be the world’s widest collection of celebrity anecdotes. Read more >> […]

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