I am on my computer, reading a blog. Mrs. Bad Astronomer is in the living room on her computer, doing some online shopping because she is renovating the Little Astronomer’s bathroom.
She shouts at me.
Mrs. BA: Phil! Guess what?
Me: What?
Mrs. BA: I did a Google search on "astronomy shower curtain" and guess whose page came up first?
She knew very well that I knew very well the answer to that.
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August 3rd, 2006 at 12:49 pm
I’ll bet all the other Astronomy-shower curtain sites are really jealous!
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
page dropper
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Why do the strains of a certain Carly Simon hit go through my head?
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:24 pm
We can help Mrs. Bad Astronomer a little.
shower curtain
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Or how about this one?
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Hey! My comment didn’t appear in Firefox(SPAM filter blocked it). I try it from Opera and it says it has detected a duplicate.
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Anyway, now that I know comments work in Opera, here’s yet another link Astronomy Bathtubs
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait… Little Astronomer has her own bathroom? Fascinating! I must visit this mythical land of “California” where the ground moves and every child has her own lavatory!
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Well, it turns out those previous links were to ebay items already sold. Here is one curtain
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm
I wonder if The Little Astronomer has to clean her bathroom on her own. It’s very important to take care of your own bathroom, very important. A clean bathroom creates atmosphere for innovative thinking. No doubts there.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:37 pm
If she buys one, I recommend you remove Lenin.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:58 pm
All of those shower curtains have five-pointed stars! Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Astronomy! Stars don’t have points!
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Unfortunately, my friend, you also rate highly on other searches
LINK
which may be a good thing… or not.
Link edited by The Bad Astronomer so it wouldn’t run off the side of the page.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:04 pm
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August 3rd, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Hahaha!! Boy oh boy, Google is interesting.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Regarding bath room accessories, I always wanted my own Black Hole.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:07 am
you also came first on ‘ghost shower curtain’!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Re the “star:”It is a shame that designers repeat the same trite symbols in much of the products designed for sale to the general public. The ubiquitous “star” along with these other symbols even appears in jewelry – earrings, pendants, etc. – studded with expensive diamonds and sold by “celebrity designers” to the rich and famous. Such symbols of kitch like the star, the crescent, the cross, the “smiley” face, the X shape, the “daisy” and the “rose” flower shapes, and so many others are so ingrained in our lexicon of “artistic stuff” that they will probably never disappear or lose appeal. Just look at the tattoos shown on the Discovery Channel’s “Miami Inked” or the variations on the human skeleton which decorate so many “custom” motorcycles. (Of course, many of those symbols are copyright-free.) The technology exists today for putting accurate images of the planets (or anything) on shower curtains – or anything else; but there wouldn’t be much of an interest in such an item – except for a limited few folks, of course. The familiar images would surely prevail. Perhaps, as more and more of the “real” as captured by Hubble and other improved telescopes comes into the public”s focus, folks might abandon these old, overworked images and accept some really new designer fashions – at least in shower curtains.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
hehe, and now with this post, you’re the first and second result
August 4th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Celestial Shower Curtain would have been a better search input.