Classic Elegance/Wal*Mart Pricing.

**Less than a million dollars!**

At least it wasn’t priced at $999,999.99.

Stats

I was just looking at the stats for my blog, I decided to check out where most of my traffic is referred from.  Other than my own URL (srossi.net) and Google, Writer’s blog (157) and Carmi’s blog (125) are the top two places people come to my blog from.  Thanks.

It still amazes me that for the day, week, month and all time my People of Wal*Mart post from over a year ago still ranks as the most viewed post.  That’s why you see me tag my posts with Wal-Mart and walmartians every now and again, just messin’ with the masses.

As for the countries that I get the most viewers from, the USA tops the list.  Throughout the categories (day, week, month, all time) Canada and Russia bounce back and forth between 2nd and 3rd place.

80 to 85% of my audience come to me from Windows, 10 to 15% from Macintosh and the rest seem to be different types of cell phone platforms, except for one page view from a Nintendo Wii.

45 to 50% are viewing my blog on Internet Explorer, 25 to 30% on Firefox and 10 to 15% use Safari.  I have had 33 page views (<1%) on something called Jakarta Commons-HttpClient, whatever that is.

So, there’s a little trivial statistics on my blog.

WAL-MARTIANS! Run for your life….

There seems to be a new past time in town – taking pictures of the weird people in your local Wal-Mart.  There is also a website dedicated to these pictures.  I’m posting a few of the funnier samples I found, but I did only get through 3 of the 30-something pages they have.  The captions come straight from the website, I didn’t make them up.  Click on the logo to the left to go to the site.  Be warned, there are some with vulgar words (on t-shirts and car bumper stickers) and adult themes.  Be prepared.

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Waldo is so much easier to find when he’s out of the closet.
California
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Somebody come here and pick up my jaw, I can’t seem to find it now that my eyes popped out of my head.
Pennsylvania

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There should be an application process in order to procreate.
Texas

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If a cheetah and a leopard decided to mate, this would be the result.
California
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How could you ever, ever, ever ever ever, E…V…E…R. think this is appropriate to wear in public? WOW!
California
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Ohhh, I'm SCARED! Wal-Mart is making money!

Ok, you all know (or at least most of you do) that I'm not a big fan of forwarded propaganda emails. And this is no exception, other than the fact that it may be true. But so what? Wal-Mart makes money. Because Wal-Mart makes money, Wal-Mart grows. Same with McDonalds, Starbucks and Barnes & Noble. But for some reason when Wal-Mart does it's some sort of communist plot to overthrow the American way of life. Yeah, right. Wal-Mart is making tons of cash BECAUSE of the American way of life.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm NOT a fan of Wal-Mart. Mainly because it's not worth wading through hoardes of unwashed Americans in sweat pants, down their narrow, dirty isles (eisles? eyeslieyes? I dunno) to stand in their 30 minute lines just so I can save a buck or two on a canned ham. But anyway, here's the gloom and doom-all I gotta do is hit 'forward' and send it on email that I got the other day. Didn't make me hate Wal-Mart any more or less, but did make me wonder if people actually think before they send these on their merry way to gum up my inbox.

For some reason when anyone talks about things like this I think
that the next villain for James Bond will be the CEO of WalMart...

--HOW BIG IS WAL-MART? This should boggle your mind (and scare you
too)!

• 1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every
  day.
• 2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
• 3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day
  (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
• 4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears
  + Costco + K-Mart combined.
• 5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest
  private employer. And most can't speak English
• 6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the
  World.
• 7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway
  combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
• 8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought
  bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
• 9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the
  world.
• 10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906
  are S uperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
• 11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will
  occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5
  billion.)
• 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a
  Wal-Mart
• 13. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street!