The Denny Family Curse
April 29, 2006
No, its not one of those “you get a disease and your arms fall off” kinds of curses – that would suck, but its nothing compared to The Denny Family Curse. So how did the Denny’s come to have a curse on them I hear you ask? Well – sit down, drink your slushy and let me tell you.
It all started in 1959 when Danny’s Donuts changed their name to Denny’s Restaurants. Like many curses the Dennys of the time didn’t take it seriously until out of the blue it struck.
You see, for the last couple of months I’ve been getting Technorati search hits on RSS feeds about people called “Mitch” going to restaurants called “Denny’s”. Sure – I get the lions share of hits, but what is the deal with this Mitch guy – why on earth would you go to a Denny’s restaurant anyway?
Grumble.
April 29, 2006 at 12:00 am
That reminds me of the Google spike I attracted when I foolishly published a post entitled something like “Fooling around with the Atom API”.
Apparently a lot of people were Googling for “fooling around”.
Ick.
April 30, 2006 at 12:00 am
With two sons in the family business with me, I was furtunate to have a slightly obscure name. This meant we could grab it as a domain name. See <a href=”http://www.fitzsimon.com.au“>http://www.fitzsimon.com.au</a>
At one point, <a href=”http://andy.brisgeek.com“>Andy Fitzsimon</a> handed a business card to Dr Paul Campbell of Ice Media. Paul saw the domain name and said <em>Man! I wish I could have done that. Damn that American soup company!</em>
April 30, 2006 at 12:00 am
Yeah Mitch, that must be a toughy. Ever heard of a car called the Magna?
It’s not that I get incorrect hits, but in the real world, everyone spells your name incorrectly…
July 20, 2006 at 12:00 am
http://qgrubnoh.com/amyn/bgko.html
July 20, 2006 at 12:00 am
http://qgrubnoh.com/amyn/bgko.html