{"id":263,"date":"2005-01-30T18:48:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=263"},"modified":"2005-01-30T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T01:48:29","slug":"hoover-really-sucks-em-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/01\/30\/hoover-really-sucks-em-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoover Really Sucks &#8216;Em In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110713253619118780--><\/p>\n<p>This is the funniest damned thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in a blog &#8212; a brand new comment to an months old <a href=\"http:\/\/globalchicago.net\/weblog\/2004\/11\/work-as-practice.html\">posting<\/a>.  The good news is that I&#8217;m well on my way to having my <a href=\"http:\/\/jstrande.typepad.com\/100bloggers\/\">100bloggers<\/a> contribution written!  The bad news is I have to admit that my favorite posting in more than 18 months of blogging was written by somebody else! What do you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Found your site on the web because you mentioned &#8220;Hoovering.&#8221; My Hoover just went out. I know it is a faulty connection, because it went out repeatedly in my hands when I wiggled the wire to the switch. So, all I need to do is open it up and resecure the wire, right?  <\/p>\n<p>Well, the Hoover is plastic, so it snaps together, and I&#8217;ll be danged if I can&#8217;t get it open to at least look and see if I can see a loose connection. But noooooo. . . . .<\/p>\n<p>The manual on the web shows how to snap it together, but does not show how to &#8220;unsnap&#8221; it. I bet I can lug this thing to a shop, and if they are not too busy, will charge me $50 for a simple screw tightening, but will have to wait two weeks (if they don&#8217;t forget about me) to justify the 50 buck charge!<\/p>\n<p>So . . . . . . I had this brilliant idea after I realized that your blog site was not a Hoover repair site!<\/p>\n<p>What if, . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Someone turned their blog site into a repair chat room!!!<\/p>\n<p>Somebody probably had the same problem and found a way around it. They would probably be willing to share it with others, just so that lazy repair man can&#8217;t rip off other unsuspecting blokes for 50 bucks or so.<\/p>\n<p>Think of all the traffic it could generate. Think of the advertising royalties. Think of all the satisfied people.<\/p>\n<p>The site would not have to be up-dated. New visitors would write of other ways to solve the problems. The old solutions could be archived &#8220;for ever&#8221; in case the new way wasn&#8217;t quite as good, or models changed, etc. The site would take care of itself. It is just a self generating chat room!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m laughing my arse off&#8230; and on a real practical level, this is exactly the shape of thing that sCNN is just now seeking to create, for a different kind of equipment.  I feel the same way about wasting energy on 501c3 status as this guy feels about wasting money on hoover repairs!<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, just hours before this came in, I&#8217;d really run out of gas and started to doubt the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\">sCNN<\/a> process.  In some crazy twisted way, going forward now makes just a wee bit more sense again.  I&#8217;ve no idea where this came from, crazy old friend or crazy new, but it sure did the trick for me last night!  Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: checked the stats, and sure enough&#8230; I&#8217;m #2 on msn.com <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&#038;q=hoover%20repairs\">search<\/a> for hoover repairs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the funniest damned thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in a blog &#8212; a brand new comment to an months old posting. The good news is that I&#8217;m well on my way to having my 100bloggers contribution written! The bad news is I have to admit that my favorite posting in more than 18 months &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/01\/30\/hoover-really-sucks-em-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hoover Really Sucks &#8216;Em In&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}