Eek!
 

Hi all

You know how sometimes you do a search on the Internet just to find web pages to see there is a web page that has mentioned you or your web page but that you didn't know about (sometimes you find some interesting surprises).

I did a search on "FFhound" to see if anyone else had mentioned my nickname.

This was the result
http://www.usatoday.com/life/travel/...000/ltl260.htm

The article is from last year and makes a brief mention of ffhound. I didn't even realise I had been indirectly mentioned. Mileageaddict and Milesnut also got mentioned (as well as Randy).

Would this article have been printed in the paper version of USA today?

cheers Peter

3 Stars Are Born. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Be a long time since Peter was in a dark tavern in Boston methinks?!

This bit interested me. Wonder what the hits are now in 2001?

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~ Glen ~

[quote]Originally posted by ozstamps:

That's about 160,000 hits a day? Surely this can't be correct? There couldn't be that many lurkers.

cheers peter

[This message has been edited by ffhound (edited 02-20-2001).]

I only trust statistics that I falsify myself.

I am pretty sure that the figures given are correct ... BUT that every time you hit another forum and from topic to topic is counted.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Well Doc, I and Rudi make up 159,000 of the 160,000 in that case.

Peter,

Congratulations on your 15 seconds of fame.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

Regards, one of the lurkers http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Hi again

(Thanks for the kind comment Maggie)

But wait there's more...

Seems I made the Wall Street Journal today!
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/...9876130731.htm

"Bargains aren't all that uncommon," says Peter Berrett, a top-tier United flier from Victoria, Australia, who has joined in an ongoing online discussion about the ual.com incident. Last year, Mr. Berrett says he took advantage of a legitimate United promotion that offered a round-trip ticket for travel between Auckland, New Zealand, and Melbourne, Australia for $53. The regular fare on this route would have been close to $800"

It's a great article however there's just one problem.

As far as I know I'm not or ever likely to be a top tier United flier. I've no idea where Ms Costello got that idea. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

Perhaps United know something I don't?

cheers Peter

ps I must remember to keep an eye on the cover of Time Magazine http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif




[This message has been edited by ffhound (edited 02-21-2001).]