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If you're standing in the middle of a forest and a tree falls on your head, and you say "Oh fuck! My fucking head!" and there's nobody there to hear you say it, does it really hurt?

by Jason Roth

Alternately, one might say, "If you laugh at your own joke, and no one else finds it funny, is it really a joke?"

Since four people in one day have expressed their disappointment or outrage at Google for their e-mail to me, I thought it might be fair to Google, as well as to everyone who didn't have the pleasure of getting hit in the head with the proverbial tree, to point out one particular sentence of that e-mail:

"We appreciate your participation in this program, and would enjoy hearing any feedback which you believe might help us to improve our quality of service."

Is this the type of sentence someone might write to a "potential predator"?

Perhaps I shouldn't spill the beans, and perhaps people will criticize me for doing so. But Google is taking enough shit for tracking our every move not to deserve this. "This" being my made-up shit about them tracking our every move.

Of course, I do greatly appreciate that none of the four above mentioned individuals actually thought that I was a child molester. It is my sincerest hope in life that people not think of me as a child molester. Therefore, I will continue not molesting children in an attempt to retain my current standing a person who does not appear to molest children.

It does bother me somewhat, however, that four people thought I searched for the phrase "sex videos" five times on Google, along with "buttocks" twice and "breasts" twenty-seven times. Using Google for porn? How pedestrian.

(Please note that the preceding sentence was not an inside joke about a foot fetish. I don't want to start any more rumors, for Christ's sake.)

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