courier mail mysteries

Attention Queensland – Thank You For Your Prompt Response

12:46PM Jess McGuire | I should start writing open letters to assorted States and Territories more often, as I managed to get an answer to today’s earlier enquiry astoundingly quickly! Regular viewers will recall that I demanded answers as to why an 18 month old report on Jennifer Aniston’s then blossoming relationship with a British model/bricklayer had suddenly rocketed to the top of the Courier Mail website’s Most Popular Articles list. Much thanks and appreciation to John Grey, editor at couriermail.com.au, who promptly offered up a satisfying response in the comments of the post. Says John: I might be able to offer a clue. We are getting traffic to that story from search.live.com image searches for Mr Sculfor. For some reason, when they get to the search results page, people want to click on the image of this semi-naked young man. I doubt they’re all Queenslanders. Ha! Well, that clears that up. Well done, everybody. Thank you John, and Queenslanders may resume their interweb surfing without fear of Defamer Australia questioning your actions. We’ll put this one down to a flash mob of The Gays seeking hot photos of a nearly naked male model, I reckon. Or maybe news that Paul Sculfor is moving in with Cameron Diaz has inspired the image search frenzy. Whatever. (resumes Googling nudie pics of assorted celebrity boyfriends) PS: To commenter Chris McCulloch – if you are a male who loves Ladyhawke and Alphabeat, you are probably one of the aforementioned Gays. Which doesn’t bother me in the slightest, please forward relevant contact details to my “people”. More »

Attention Queensland – Is There Something We Should Know?

10:01AM Jess McGuire | Occasionally I like to peruse the Today’s Most Popular collection of stories on news.com.au which lists the articles getting the most hits according to particular News Ltd sites. I was intrigued to see that the Courier-Mail’s second top story fifteen minutes ago (it’s now moved down to the number four spot) was something called Jennifer dates British brickie.. I thought to myself “Hmmm, are we talking Jennifer Hawkins? Has she ditched Jake Wall? This could be good! Or maybe it’s Jennifer Lopez! After all, she and husband Marc Anthony have been spotted without their wedding rings!” I clicked on the link – only to discover that the piece is about Jennifer Aniston and British model Paul Sculfor. Weird. Are they back together? Has she ditched John Mayer? Then I looked at the date of the report… June 06, 2007 11:00pm. Queensland, why have you suddenly gone mad for an 18 month old article about Jennifer Aniston’s love life?! I need answers! More »