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How to Get Rid Of…

John Fea   |  October 21, 2010 Leave a Comment

According to this wonderfully revealing post at Cockeyed.com (HT: First Thoughts), most people who type “how to get rid of…” into Google want to get rid of the following:

fruit flies
a hickey
stretch marks
love handles
blackheads
fleas
acne
hiccups
bed bugs
acne scars

Check out this post to learn what most people want to

“conceal” (a handgun, dark circles, a pimple, a knife)
“determine” (bra size, ring size, GPA, square footage)
“enhance” (breast size, photos, brown eyes, memory)
“explain” (death to a child, how much you love someone, gaps in employment, divorce to children, being fired)
“buy” (a house, gold, stocks, a used car, a foreclosed home)
“fake” (sick, a pregnancy test, cry, your own death, a british accent)
“get” (pregnant, a girl to like you, rid of fruit flies, a passport)
“grow” (weed, taller, hair faster, a beard, shrooms)
“load” (a muzzleloader, a dishwasher, music on ipod)
“perform” (oral sex, CPR, an exorcism, a seance, hypnosis)
“ruin” (someone’s life, a car, someone’s reputation, a relationship)

OK, readers: Let’s analyze the lists.

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