Having so many websites I do get a lot of email from people all over the world. I’ve been writing ‘Meanwhile‘ since 1997 and have a website since about 1996. Search for ‘Simon Jones‘ in Google and of the 21,100,000 instances it finds I am usually second or third in the listings.
Most emails I get are in connection to one of my sites. Point and Click America is a very popular site due to it No2 listing in Google when one searches for ‘Pictures of America.’
Last week I had a girl email me and request pictures of me shirtless. She claimed she’d seen some in a newspaper and confessed to finding me “a bit of a dish” and this was the reason she “had to” ask. I emailed her back and told her that as far as I was aware I hadn’t been photographed shirtless for a while, and if I had it was unlikely that a national paper would have been interested in any such pictures anyway. Turns out that she was actually looking for pictures of the England cricket player called Simon Jones.
Today I had a declaration of undying love from Claire. I read the email (below) and racked my brains for any Claires who may have made my acquaintance. I can’t remember any and I’m pretty sure if some girl was in love with me I’d know. Or at least you’d hope so wouldn’t you. I emailed her back and simply said “I hope you find your Simon, Claire. I guess we’ll never know.
Below is the result of your feedback form on Point and Click America. It was submitted by
Claire (pussinboots1011@hotmail.com) on Friday, September 30, 2005 at 13:36:32
————————————-Message: i now know that simon jones is the love of my life and I’ve lost him! I’m searching the internet to try and find him i don’t think that you are the right simon jones but you are simon jones and i have to try. if your the right one, you will know who i am and i would love it if you replied, if your not sorry to have bothered you and best of luck for the rest of your life x
Found the site via: Search engine
From: United Kingdom
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REMOTE_HOST: hostd.ssha.co.uk
REMOTE_ADDR: 193.129.184.173
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
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Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 6:47 am
Thank you Anatomicsd.
Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 4:55 am
Oh my.How ummm……..ummm….desperate.I don’t mean that in any derrogatory way…..I just mean that seems like an incredibly desperate attempt to find someone….I wonder how many Simons she emailed?A movie in the making….But probably a cheesy Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan kind of movie…
Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 6:45 am
Great Websites.
Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 7:46 am
awe… you’re so famous….
Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 8:22 am
3rd – soNOTcool2nd – CrazyWomanWriter1st – soNOTcool:-)
Wrote the following comment on Sep 30, 2005 at 6:12 pm
What? You’re not at number 1? You are for me, at least. :-D
Wrote the following comment on Oct 4, 2005 at 11:35 am
hahahahaha