Father: …you know, it’s a funny thing, dear … all the naughty words sound woody.
Mother: Really, dear? … How about tit?
Father: Oh dear, I hadn’t thought about that. Tit. Tit. Oh, that’s very tinny isn’t it? Ugh! Tinny, tinny …
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Woody and Tinny Words sketch 1974
A couple of days ago Iowahawk one of the funniest men on the net noted that when he included the word “tits” in a post the engagement of said post skyrocketed.
As I’m semi retired from blogging posting only occasionally and doing a lot of rewrites of old songs to into hymns (an Elton John one goes up this weekend) I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if he is correct.
Because my web traffic is less than a 1/20 of what it was when we were a top 100,000 site in the world (as I recall we reached top 88,000 at our peak if such a thing is true the numbers for the site in general and this post in particularly will be much higher than normal.
Does it really matter? Not really, but I remain curious about stuff I have that magpie mind that The Doctor is accused of having, maybe that’s why the show appealed to me so much.
Anyways in order to provide a control for this test I’ve avoid other “woody” words that might apply confining the post simply to the word “tits” knowing full well that it might scare Carol Cleveland’s character from the room.
If you don’t get the reference, here is the sketch
It’s one of the better sketches from the final season.
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