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It's a Perfectly Legitimate Question. How DO Koalas Get Chlamydia?

Nov 18, 2009
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Television, WTF?

We expect to find odd things on the internet. It's a given. It is, arguably, the entire point of the internet.

But we expect to find it in less familiar precincts. We don't expect to from zero to surreal just by visiting the familiar or the banal — the CNN, the weather.com, your personal home page.

Or Google.

Yet Google is, increasingly, bizarre, even before you clink on any of the freaky links it spits out for you. Case in point: Google's auto-complete feature, which offers you popular searches based on the letters you have typed into the search bar so far, increasingly suggests that the internet is made up exclusively of dadaists and deviants. (As if you didn't know).

Have no idea what I mean? Visit Autocomplete Me, where they offer some of the best examples.

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  1. Chris Berez  •  Nov 18, 2009 @10:59 am

    I'm not going to lie. "I hope you get sexually violated by a pterodactyl tonight" is hands down the greatest sentence I have ever read in my entire life.

  2. Contracts  •  Nov 18, 2009 @1:44 pm

    I wonder if 4chan or Something Awful is behind some of these.

  3. Bruce  •  Nov 18, 2009 @10:22 pm

    Did the finale to that story get any coverage in the rest of the world? Sam the koala, given a drink by a firefighter during last year's fire season, died of chlamydia a few months later.

    I clearly use search terms in a different manner than most others as those all look like stream on consciousness poetry rather than search requests.

  4. mojo  •  Nov 19, 2009 @8:47 am

    Did Texas just outlaw marriage?

  5. Roger  •  Nov 19, 2009 @12:03 pm

    The National Novel Writing Month pep talk letter that was just sent out has a throw away line about koalas having Chlamydia. I’m sure that the rush to Google for clarification is skewing the results.