Finding Glen's Life

Just in case my Mum is still losing sleep, I feel I should point out that, although I’m sure there are a few different ways of solving last week’s puzzle from the Standard, Mr. Gates and I decided that in order to use 9, 2, 3, 17, 35 & 70 to make 754 you do this…

9+2=11

11 times 70 = 770

And that

3 times 17 = 51

51-35 = 16

Which should just about mean that

770-16 = 754.



So why have I written that out? After all, you’ve either figured it out yourself or lost interest right?

Well the answer is Google.

Or more accurately Google searches.

For the first time in ages I had a sneaky look at my stats today ,and right at the top of my “recent keyword activity” was that same puzzle.

Someone out there actually visited my site after specifically searching for “make 754 using 2 70 35 9 3 17”. How funny is that? They actually hit the Internet to try and find an answer to the quiz in the paper – is that at least slightly cheating more than using Excel?

I nearly choked on my cup of tea laughing.

What kind of person is so desperate to fill in their puzzle page on the way home, presumably to impress their wife with their superior intellect, that they do an emergency Google to find the answer?

Then it hit me – the kind of person who would do that is the kind of person who might just laugh at my jokes – you know, somebody with special needs! My usual target audience in fact…

So with that in mind I thought I’d quickly post up the answer in the hope of enticing him back – come back and read me Sir, next week I will be giving out the answer to 2 across and the easy Sudoku.

I’m happy to report that after seven months I am still getting many precious hits from people who have searched for “Sexy Bears”, heaven knows what they were actually looking for, were they happy or sad when they read this post do you think?

Regular hits are still coming in after searches for “Emily Blunt Topless” as well as “G-string of the day”, and I’m absolutely certain that those guys go away more than a little frustrated (and somewhat gutted if they are a bit trigger happy).

Flittner’s Barbers is still a very ‘hit’ friendly search result – which is good because that post is pretty much the only one that might actually be of use to the person that found it. I’m basing that on the fact that it was simply a review of a barber shop (yeah I don’t know how I got away with that either).

The scariest hit I ever had is still the result of a search entitled “Glen Staples wife photo”, which is just plain worrying, though she is pretty sexy at the end of the day, so you can hardly blame them.

So there it is, this is the level I am aiming at and frequently falling short of.

Ah well, que sera sera, as they say…

Did I ever tell you about photo I took the time I slept with a naked Robbie Williams?

Well I say slept, actually I mean 'met' – sorry, there may have been a typo there.

And actually, if I’m honest, Robbie wasn’t actually naked as such.

I did take a photo though, and actually I have told you about it before too – here, so I’m sorry if this hasn’t turned out to be quite as exciting as you hoped.