Do Not Fear Potatoes

Seven people found my blog yesterday using those search terms: do not fear potatoes.

Do people really fear potatoes? According to some random seach engine question and answer thingy, there’s not even a word for potato phobia.

The second most asked question about potato fear was this:

I didn’t realize I wrote much about potatoes, and I have no idea how entering those terms would lead a person to my blog. But since you’re here, I want you to know this–

Potatoes make good detectives . . . because they always have their eyes peeled.

*swish*

Oh–and you shouldn’t fear them. Feel better?

Well you may want to fear that one. That one is definitely not sweet.

I’m hoping now that I’ve mentioned “do not fear potatoes” a number of times, this blog will appear higher in the results for that extremely popular search.

This is why I’m now also mentioning my second most popular search terms from yesterday: gonorrhea tonsils.

This is actually a thing, I am horrified to have found out. It is contracted by putting your mouth on something that has gonorrhea.

Like a potato? you wonder, your fear of them beginning to resurface.

No, probably not. Really, you do not need to fear potatoes.

Only in this instance:

While I may not be an expert in this particular area, my advice to you is to refrain from putting your mouth on something soaked with gonorrhea.

Most of my other search terms had to do with Fifty Shades of Grey. There was one that stuck out from the pack.

I believe this is the title of a new rom-com starring Katherine Heigl. I cannot wait to see it. I think Gerard Butler plays one of the vaginas.

If you search for 27 types of vagina, my blog comes up pretty high in the results as does an article about 8 types of vagina from a man’s perspective, which I would only recommend reading if you contracted tonsil gonorrhea from potato salad. You’re already feeling pretty bad at that point.

Dearest Reader: Speaker7 is attempting to write a post every day in November so she doesn’t have to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This is the thirteenth post. She does not fear potatoes, but does fear gonorrhea tonsils. 

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273 Responses to Do Not Fear Potatoes

  1. Elyse says:

    Oh, you get all the good search terms. This is my most interesting one: “”sex talk” whatcha thinkin whatcha drinking? hey baby” Now given that I don’t write about sex or talk and only occasionally about sex. I think Google has some ‘splainin’ to do.

  2. My favorite new one from yesterday – “sex painy porn”. Also “crack whore opened”. Sadly, with 50 Shades, Google probably doesn’t have to explain. This is a brilliant idea – you could get the rest of the month’s posts with these.

    • speaker7 says:

      I know. I get so many about vaginal balls, butt plugs, what did christian mean when he says he likes to hurt brown-hair girls, etc. The list is endless. And nearly as imcomprensilbe as the books.

  3. And I thought my search terms were bad. You win. All I get are things like ‘sex in the bathroom with Kenny Chesney’.

    By the way, I think this post a day thing you’re doing is your true calling. Do it all the time.

  4. My best search term is “Kelly Ripa having sex with Michael Strahan” – except I DID write about that. Boring.

    • speaker7 says:

      I did have to look up Michael Strahan because I have no knowledge of the outside world, but that sounds like a pretty good post. And I guess something people are interested in since they are searching for it.

  5. Addie says:

    I’m glad to know I can go back to eating potato salad, since I don’t have tonsils, I can’t catch anything.

    PS Is Potato Salad being used as a euphemism?

    • speaker7 says:

      I don’t know if there is such a thing as gonorrhea tongue and I’m not going to search for it because my internet history is horrifying enough.

      You could be right about the euphemism thing.

  6. You’ve got to be proud- it’s almost like you have a potato, gonorrhea and vagina brand. Le Clown would be proud.
    I get a lot of hits for ‘glory hole’ – it’s a keeper.

  7. Bruce Ruston says:

    great post but still groaning at the potato jokes peeled indeed :D

  8. Four hits for the tonsils? Nice!

  9. twindaddy says:

    I wish my search terms were as cool as yours.

  10. Two different people found my blog through a search for “spanking Sarah Palin.”

    A) Don’t search for that.
    B) Uh, me? Google, you think I’M the resource for Kinky Palin fetishists?

  11. How could someone possibly fear potatoes?? My only fear associated with potatoes is the fear of not having ENOUGH potatoes. That’s a very real and legitimate fear. 27 types of vagina really does sound like it should be a dreadful Katherine Heigl film. I will await its release this spring.

  12. jmlindy422 says:

    Generally I get sicko people searching for information related to seeing their son’s penis. I did, indeed, write about accidentally walking in on my son and seeing his penis. He locks his door now. My best search term ever, though, is “chris hayes shirtless.” I’m very pleased with that one. Oh, and I fear potatoes, but I fear so many things that it’s expected that potatoes could freak me out.

    • speaker7 says:

      I will try not to write about my son’s nakedness to avoid that. I can’t say the same about Hugo, although he doesn’t have a lower half so I guess that wouldn’t be a problem.

  13. ravinj says:

    This post was so funny, I actually laughed out loud.i second the idea that you post every day forever.our art least until I’m done with finals.

  14. Wait, wait, wait. You can get gonorrhea on your tonsils? I have a few phone calls to make…

  15. Ah, search terms. Love ‘em. My recent include ‘garls love pising mut boys’ (?! Is this some slang I don’t understand? I’m a foreigner!)

  16. artsifrtsy says:

    I just checked my search terms – my top one for the week is “sydney upside down by arkansas shutterbug” I’m puzzled.

  17. Lyssapants says:

    Change your blog name to Attack of the Killer Potatoes.
    Maybe you’ll up your blog hits!

  18. ruleofstupid says:

    “true jackson jackson and jimmy have sex” – which is disturbing.

  19. Blogless wonder says:

    NoMoPoTaTo

  20. Maggie O'C says:

    Fat Sister Farts. That’s mine.
    Gerard Butler plays one of the vaginas. hahahahaha

  21. My search terms are dreary compared to yours. In fact ‘dreary’ was one of the search terms along with anal annihilation, sterile coyote release and oceans of dollars.

    Since ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ was a movie, perhaps ‘Attack of the Killer Potatoes’ can be the sequel.

  22. Storkhunter says:

    My search terms are weird, “what is count of fucking storks during sex,” “challenge accepted porn tube,” and “muscle men dolls sex.” Do I need to start worrying about my blog content?

    • speaker7 says:

      No. I would say your content is just what it needs to be. Would you mind if I also wrote a post about muscle men dolls sex?

      • Storkhunter says:

        Be my guest. Although I think you might have kinda mentioned your cardboard muscle men in today’s post.
        I’m in the middle of creating my own weird search terms post, but go ahead. I’m actually looking forward to see what you will …erm … do with a muscle men doll sex.

  23. List of X says:

    my favorite recent search term was “is barack obama going to get re-elected?”. There isn’t anything wrong with this search term, except that someone searched for it 3 days ago.

  24. vyvacious says:

    I love this!! Cracked up the whole way through!! :P

    Dang it, I have no weird search terms yet… :(

  25. notquiteold says:

    I am proud to say I have never feared potatoes. No, wait. I feared lumps in mashed potatoes as a kid. Terrified, actually.

  26. Margarita says:

    Congratulations! I have a nice potatoes au gratin bubbling away in the oven even as I write! xoM

  27. Grumpa Joe says:

    This is the most hilarious and most bizarre article and worse yet comment thread I have ever read.
    Nice work.

  28. I’m not sure what’s more hilarious – the post or the comments. So, equal belly laugh ratings for both. I’m pretty new to this and as yet unable to report on any mindboggling search terms … I feel all left out :-(

    • speaker7 says:

      This is my advice. Try a post about potato salad fear or gonorrhea tonsils, and I guarantee your search terms will perk up. Better yet, try a post on “potato salad gonorrhea.”

  29. ivfmale says:

    My top search is “Cock tese” for people looking at puppy pictures.

    But the other day I received:
    “give injection needle to my wife as a punshment” :shock:

    Some people need serious help.

  30. thekittchen says:

    This made me laugh out loud. Search terms just fascinate me! I doubt I will ever look at potato salad the same way again…

  31. Rae says:

    Wow! Just, wow.

  32. Yay for FP!

    My search terms this week are “Nobodys perfect clishe” and “im a passive aggressive husband.” Also “failed ua because i flushed toilet,” but I may have actually done that.

  33. peachyteachy says:

    I have a long-standing relationship with the potato, have blogged about it (The Sanctity of the Spud http://wp.me/p2bGLu-3w-) but don’t believe that I have been discovered via potato search. . .It is my belief that potatoes are intrinsically funny. Great to see the spud in its rightful place.
    Also, ewww.

    • speaker7 says:

      I am outraged that you have not been found via the potato search term. Your potato post brought a tear to my eye.

      • peachyteachy says:

        There are few things more satisfying than having a total stranger be outraged on one’s behalf. Unless it is a significant other. Then, it’s just frustrating. In your case, I am compelled to follow your blog.

  34. gizmosdad says:

    Reblogged this on Gizmosdad's Blog and commented:
    The War On Potatoes continues. This would quite illegal in Wyoming.

  35. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed, Speaker!! You’re so clever.

  36. Just Be. says:

    That potato picture is hilarious.

  37. This is possibly one of the funniest posts i’ve read. I can’t stop giggling at the potato. Great work and thanks for sharing!!

    • speaker7 says:

      Thank you. It may be the first time wordpress has featured a freshly pressed post on potatoes that also happened to include gonorrhea tonsils. Does it feel like history is being made? Probably not since history deals with big timey things like war and stuff.

      • Dounia says:

        You could say that wordpress history is being made. That way you’re not competing with the big timey things, and you seem more humble, yet still worthy. Does that seem like a good compromise?

        Oh, and this post was awesome. And the comments were awesome. Not only do you make people laugh, you make them interact too. So well done, you. *applause*

  38. Maggie O'C says:

    Congratulations!!! Is this your first time? Or did you get one for every single 50 Shades post?

  39. Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is freaking hilarious! But I think I might trump your potato….possibly. My favorite search term getting to my blog is: “Orphan the Toe”. :)

  40. Reb says:

    Do NOT google image search gonorrhea tonsils. Do not.

  41. Speaker, they’re saving the 50 Shades series for something bigger. I am sure of it.There is a whole bag of potatoes in my pantry and I am going to go roast those fuckers just in case. Congrats on the FP!

  42. Thanks for the advice re: gonorrhea. That is noted

  43. Thanks – enjoyed a chuckle from your blog. Keep it up and congrats on being freshly pressed.

  44. Melanie says:

    I could have gone my whole life without ever learning there is such a thing as gonorrhea tonsils, but I couldn’t have gone my whole night without the belly laugh that gave me. I’m glad I’m not the only one who enjoys the strange search terms that send people my way. For me it’s the public’s unending curiosity for bestiality. I use the F-word from time to time (ok, often, very often) and with donkey in my title…well, you can guess.

  45. kevin meyers says:

    It’s always great fun to look at the search terms that bring people to my blog. Some of my favorites:
    What is pexting (indeed! inquiring minds want to know)
    Lions playing with humans (pervert!)
    naked ecuador men (see previous)
    turbo beaver denali
    3rd world plane
    photos of small wrecked planes (does someone collect them or something?)

    But I don’t think I could have written a post as funny as you about any of this. Thanks for the laugh.

  46. I’ll never eat anything soaked in gonorrhea again!

  47. Seriously funny! My top search phrase: big momma’s

  48. Dena says:

    Ha! This is the funniest thing I’ve read in so long. As a matter of fact, this morning I did fear my own potatoes (they were growing sprouts and I had no clue what was happening) and a long Facebook discussion was had over the safety (and fear) of my potatoes. Fantastic timing, though I do fear anything soaked in gonorrhea, potato or not, but I’m happy to report that my potatoes are only growing sprouts and nothing more.

  49. blogless wonder says:

    Have a happy gonorrhea-free birthday, Speaker7, and congratulations on getting Freshly Pressed! (It’s about time!)

  50. Tiana Feng says:

    Lol I love digging through my search terms <3 cute post

  51. Ellen Kay says:

    I love potato salad!

  52. Masala Chica says:

    You are hilarious. I haven’t laughed at a post that hard in a while. I was trying to explain it to my husband who is in the other room but he couldn’t understand an effing thing I was saying. The funny thing was, I was JUST looking at my search terms. The most popular search terms for my site? pre-teen models. WTF? Now I feel like some weird porny site for wackjobs scouting for little pretty people. You have a new follower!

    • speaker7 says:

      It is hard to explain potato fear and gonorrhea tonsils especially if you’re shouting from another room. Next time, hold his hand and look deeply into his eyes, and he will understand why this is such an important topic. Thanks for the follow!

  53. I’ve had “photographs of prawns”……..make of that what you will! A truly unexpected and hilarious potato post, congrats on the Freshly Pressed!

    • speaker7 says:

      I think I smell the next big Christmas calendar. Do they still make calendars and people give them as presents? I don’t know, but I would definitely buy one filled with pictures of prawns.

  54. Game Delver says:

    I love reading search terms. A few weeks after I started the blog, I kept noticing things like ‘the game delver’ and ‘delver the game’. Fearing I had treaded on someone else’s names I did some google fu of my own. Turned out it was a game simply called ‘Delver’.

    I bought it and reviewed it immediately.

  55. GalOnTrip says:

    i didn’t know how strange “search terms” works could be until you post this. whoahaha, that’s funny! may be it simply compiles words that sounds effortlessly hilarious. and vagina, gonorrhea? i guess these topics are much more popular than we think…. ;)

  56. Mei says:

    Omg this was the best laugh I’ve had all month! Thank you so much. LOL!

  57. I’m Irish. My relatives feared a life without potatoes, but I don’t fear them. I loathe them. Thanks for making me eat baked potatoes three times a week Mom. What’s next? Meat basted in gonorrhea? Candy with razor blades?

    Congrats on the fresh press!

    • speaker7 says:

      Mmmm…meat-basted in gonorrhea…. wait, what did I just write? I’m feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment.

      • Happy Birthday Speaker! BTW I can’t keep up with you now that you blog every day. At all. Or Jen. Or Alice. Can you please go back to being lazy, like me?

        BTW, my husband and Chad Kroeger (of Nickelback) share your birthday.

      • speaker7 says:

        I feel your pain. I can’t keep up with myself either. Every day, I’m like “Frack! I have to write another fracking post! Frack balls.”

        I am honored to be in such good company…well except for Nickelback cuz that band blows frack.

  58. Gosh, my most bizarre search term has been “world war ii celestial chart nude ed link.” I am positive that the words “celestial” and “nude” do not appear in my blog, much less “ii.” Congrats on getting freshly pressed and on evading the novel writing chore.

  59. Kerry Dwyer says:

    Well that was interesting. I haven’t looked much at search terms to my blog. Nothing as amusing as gonorrhoea tonsils but I did have ’1400′s Sluts’ . That was the most interesting. I am not afraid of sluts or potatoes. The possessive ‘s’ worries me. I tried it on Google but couldn’t find me, I wonder how many pages it took.

  60. prosemachine says:

    Oh, so having gonorrhea tonsils isn’t normal? I’ll see my way out…

  61. Mind-boggling … oh and I LOVE potatoes.

  62. dhonour says:

    Perhaps we could push for ‘tater ‘fraider’ to enter the lexicon. Good stuff!

  63. Dawn Akemi says:

    I get some crazy search terms in my blog too. In fact, someone(s) found my blog with, “naked japanse women waiting tables in bar .com,” yesterday AND today. There’s nothing naked in my posts, I assure you (sorry if this disappoints :-) ). The internet is a wild frontier. But, go figure. LOL!

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  65. Angie Z. says:

    Yeeeeeeeeees! I just knew you were going to get Freshly Pressed soon. I just had a feeling. That, and my second highest search engine term Tuesday was Speaker7 Freshly Presses potatoes. Congratulations! But sorry about the gonorrhea. :(

    • speaker7 says:

      Thank you my BBFF. You have a gift that should get you a Nebraska version of the Long Island Medium, but instead of speaking to dead people, you can let bloggers know when wordpress will press them.

  66. muddledmom says:

    I don’t even know what to say. So funny. I don’t think I wanted to know about gonorrhea tonsils. Now I do. I will focus on potatoes instead because, really, I am not afraid of them. I am very afraid of gonorrhea tonsils. Congrats on FP!

  67. I myself kinda experience gonorrhea tonsils..This is really true, I got it from a girl with several sex partners. It takes more a week to get healed.

  68. Haha–love it! Isn’t it funny, the search terms that lead people to your blog? It’s good b/c you attract more viewers and possibly followers, but if often you are left scratching your head wondering, “what the heck?!”, as in the case with the gonorrhea tonsils! :D

    Congrats on being FP!

  69. I hate when people use this but I think it is appropriate–BAHAHA! This post was smashinly brilliant!! I got quite a laugh, congrats on FP!

  70. This is brilliant. You made chuckle! That’s very random. I would like to see Gerad Butler play a vagina. Think it would be a hit in Hollywood.

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  72. Thank you for making me laugh. Great post!

  73. mdprincing says:

    pretty interesting statistics and damn fun

  74. eao says:

    one of my favorites recently is “music video 90s woman sings in a castle with gnome”. i just don’t know what to do with that one. other winners include “visual feminizing curves butt” “paget brewster dressed” and “matthew gubler + “speaks too”"

  75. Jeez whiskers, how many comments did you get here?
    Actually, when I read this headline on my twitter feed, I immediately thought of something Bill Bryson wrote about potatoes, which I now googled. Could possibly explain where the search comes from??? Awesome post, btw!

    “Potatoes, the other great food crop,of the New World, present an almost equally intriguing batch of mysteries. Potatoes are from the nightshade family, which is of course notoriously toxic, and in their wild state the are full of poisonous glycoalkaloids — the same stuff, at lower doses, that puts the zip in caffeine and nicotine. Making any wild potatoes safe to eat required reducing the glycoalaloid content to between one-fifteenth and one-twentieth of its normal level. This raises a lot of questions, beginning most obviously with: How did they do it? And while they were doing it, how did they know they were doing it? How do you tell that the poison content has been reduced by, say 20 percent or 35 percent or some other intermediate figure? How do you assess progress in such a process? Above all, how did they know that the whole exercise was worth the effort and that they would get a safe and nutritious foodstuff in the end?”

  76. I’m new to this so I don’t have any weird or demented search terms to report, but I have just had one of the best laughs ever! Keep rockin’, Seven. And congrats on being Freshly Pressed! You deserve it.

  77. Eri Berry says:

    Hahaha! Very weird, but funny. I love the interwebz…

  78. sweetmother says:

    alright, this is hilarious. how many fps is this now? 7? i’m waiting for you to hit lucky number 7. xoxoxo

    • speaker7 says:

      This is the second. The first one was about my incredible smarter, more successful older brother. And now gonorrhea tonsils. I think I’ve hit the pinnacle of my writing.

  79. tabbymilton says:

    hahahahaha! so funny! Maybe the reason I don’t really like potato is because sub-consciously I fear them…

  80. coffee2words says:

    Reblogged this on coffee2words and commented:
    PSA: The dangers of potatoes… You have been warned!

  81. Janet says:

    You now realize I’m going have to go and search all those terms myself (instead of writing for NaNoWriMo).

  82. This is brilliant ! are you actually serious about the search terms ? Needed a good laugh

  83. Leah says:

    “Hikonyan sex” was my weirdest one. I also get a lot of people looking for AKB48 girls in lingerie…

    (Btw, love the Fifty Shades reviews. What a crap book.)

    • speaker7 says:

      I don’t know what either search term means, but I am intrigued. You should see the weirdness I have gotten in search termdom from my Fifty Shades recraps. People are sick.

  84. SocietyRed says:

    Way to go. You fucking rock.

  85. Stephanie says:

    Congrats on the Freshly pressed! And happy birthday!

  86. Mihir Bhagat says:

    Great post I stumbled upon in Freshly Pressed. Quite Humorous :-D

  87. I just want to let you know that potatoes are my greatest fear.
    My absolute number one search term is “blue personality”. I really don’t know anything about blue personalities, but I feel like I should become a personality expert.

    Some of my more random terms are things like:
    anorexic vampire
    calories in blood (I see a theme here)
    twilight vs batman (Batman, by far)
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (I’m not really sure what someone would be looking for where they simply type a ton of Zs into a search engine)
    you are a great man (I always thought I was, but it’s nice to have it confirmed)
    manga sex (At first, I thought I had no manga sex on my blog, but I was wrong)

    • speaker7 says:

      I bet the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz was a cat. Do you write about anorexic vampires? Because I now want to read about them. Maybe you can do an anorexic version of Twilight?

      • Alas, just in a single post. But if I ever become patient enough to write a whole novel, I’m sure I can write one about anorexic vampires that would be better than Twilight. (Not that this would take much.)

  88. Gone a couple days and a new FP piece! Congrats! =D Also, hilarious and well-deserved ^.^

    I think my favorite search term was, “sexy ankles”. Not as good as yours – but apparently on the way there, hahaha

  89. Addie says:

    My own story: Someone Googling “grumpy is my name attitude is my game” and finding their way to my site.

  90. I’m not quite sure why you came up in the list of “Blogs I follow” when I have never read your blog before..however, I must say your entry was extremely entertaining :) [I am new to wordpress so excuse my ignorance if there was a reason you came up in my reader] I may just have to read some more :)

  91. woom1983 says:

    Amazing lol, as an IT geek I have to say it `s brilliant :-)

  92. acflory says:

    Awesome! And grats on being FP’d!

  93. elliotclaire says:

    Haha! Hilarious! Following you now. :=)

  94. Potatoes will go down your throat and choke you up!

  95. pegoleg says:

    Hey, I know you! Congrats on the FP. Gonorrhea tonsils? Can I have a side of fries with that instead of the potato salad?

  96. william12k says:

    Laugh… Now I know why I NUKE the Hell out of my Potatos… I have to KILL EM ALL!!!!

    What I want to know is how STD can be attached to potato (or should I be afrade?)

  97. Michelle says:

    Bizarre and hilarious- thank you!

  98. Ok, so I don’t fear potatoes. But I do fear mashed potatoes. Do you really expect me to trust something of such a weird, gooey, mushy consistency? I think not. Who knows what’s going on in there.

  99. Reblogged this on Tammy J Rizzo and commented:
    I had briefly seen the Search Terms thingy on the Site Stats page, but I had no idea what it was good for. Now I know. Well, sort of. My search terms aren’t very interesting, yet, but then, I’m still fairly new at this blogging stuff.
    Congratulations on the Freshly Pressed! I’m following, now!

  100. Quite refreshing. I am glad to have read this as I no longer will fear potatoes or gonna rhea tonsils, and for this i thank you!

  101. jkc216 says:

    What a brilliant idea! I just started a blog…although I want mine to mainly focus on running, and I am trying to figure out how to get people to at least view my blog! Your search terms will certainly rack up the viewers, as is evident by the amount of comments! haha

    • speaker7 says:

      There must be some way to connect running to the fear of potatoes to increase your viewership. Maybe a post about why you run and you can mention that you are not running away from potatoes even though some people fear potatoes?

      • jkc216 says:

        haha true. This will take some creative thinking :) . Potatoes are feared by some in terms of “adding Calories” to their diet. However, they are a great source of nutrition. But those are in scientific terms…and I may not get a huge following if I talk nerdy often! haha!

  102. My funniest search term is “mulled bile content”. I am sufficiently disturbed.

  103. tarrtarr says:

    this is freakin’ hilarious!

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  105. Bubba & Mama says:

    You can save money on google words without trying :)

  106. I’ve re-blogged this – thanks, Seven.

  107. “Electro Ejaculation in Sheep” – don’t ask because I don’t know…

  108. Tracy says:

    I stop reading blogs for two months and look what happens! I miss Freshly Pressed gonorrhea. I will never take my eyes off the internet again.

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