One in Adelphi, Maryland, one in Wildwood, Florida, one at the US National Arboretum with a grandfatherly interest in many more around the DC area (unless noted, pictures are taken the day of post)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Loropetalum 'Petite Delight'....hmmm....French pornography???
Remember the early days of search organs when it didn't matter what you searched for, porn sites constituted a significant percentage of your results? Well I had a flashback this morning. I was trying to make size-wise sense out of the many cultivars of Loropetalum. I have the feeling that some rearrangement of ours might be in order if I only had an idea of their relative ultimate sizes. I read Dirr who, helped a bit. Then I Googled a few cultivars. One, 'Ron's Black' doesn't even seem to exist. I moved on. 'Petite Delight' is one of a series of cultivars so I figured I'd get a useful hit or two among the drek. First I tried just "Loropetalum Petite Delight'. Much confusion and many irrelevant sites. So I searched the exact three word phrase; I put it in quotes: "loropetalum petite delight". WOW! My French is not good. I get petite, and, I think petalum (though even in English there occasionally a sense of thinly associated sexual reference). Hey delight speaks for itself but it's that prefix loro that must have done the trick: Four pages of results and every one was a pornographic site????
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3 comments:
"search organs"? Was that a Freudian slip?
;-)
I think somehow that phrase got grabbed and added to those lists of random words that are used by spammers and I guess by porn sites to try to get around certain filters. Maybe this explains it better:
http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe/data-and-research/bayesian-poisoning-in-web-sites/
I gues it was a slip; I noticed it as I was typing and restrained myself from pointing it out!
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