valley of the cheesemongers

<stream type=”consciousness”>My brother is a web analytics specialist, and we were discussing the recent spate of traffic to chezJoel.com. I facetiously referred to “anawebalitics.” Transcript of our conversation follows (”Dysprositos” is me):

[09:00] mymo: Webalitics. I like that
[09:01] Dysprositos: it sounds more like a religion than a science
[09:01] mymo: First Church of Christ Webalitics
[09:01] Dysprositos: you just unleash the power that already resides in your website
[09:01] mymo: Or the story of the webalitic at the pool of siloam
[09:02] mymo: Take up your statistics and wlk
[09:02] Dysprositos: pool of siloam…I said bethsada in my loneliness blog…
[09:02] Dysprositos: it was siloam, wasn’t it
[09:02] mymo: bethsaida, siloam who knows
[09:02] mymo: a quick internet search would reveal
[09:02] mymo: the answer
[09:03] Dysprositos: y
[09:03] Dysprositos: funny thing is, I did look it up int he bible but didn’t notice
[09:04] mymo: well I didnt see your mistake in the blog either
[09:04] Dysprositos: it’s under articles
[09:07] Dysprositos: http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=JOHN+5:2-4&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on
[09:09] mymo: http://www.bible-history.com/jerusalem/firstcenturyjerusalem_pool_of_siloam.html
[09:09] mymo: looks like you were right
[09:10] Dysprositos: siloam was the water supply. no way they’d let cripples bathe in it
[09:10] Dysprositos: stirred or not
[09:10] mymo: lol
[09:11] Dysprositos: dude from near the end of your URL: “Josephus frequently mentions Siloam, placing it at the termination of the Valley of the Cheesemongers or the Tyropoeon Valley …”
09:11] Dysprositos: what is the a cheesemonger?
[09:11] mymo: CHeesemonger
[09:11] mymo: my lovely cheesemonger
[09:12] mymo: cheese sellers
[09:12] Dysprositos: I’ll wait for yoohoo
[09:12] Dysprositos: no doubt, but it makes me laugh
[09:12] mymo: yeah, it is funny
[09:12] Dysprositos: I didn’t know it was a word in common usage
[09:12] Dysprositos: sounds like an insult
[09:12] mymo: well, common is a stretch
[09:13] Dysprositos: of course, “monger” on the end of anything sounds vaguely like an anti-capitolist slur
[09:13] mymo: lol
[09:13] mymo: Kerry is such a wafflemonger
[09:14] Dysprositos: but does he have his own valley
[09:14] mymo: Probably could afford one
[09:15] Dysprositos: yeah, but consider, being a wafflemonger almost means you need several valleys, and the mountains in between them
[09:16] mymo: yeah
[09:17] Dysprositos: Fid and I have been discussing why cheesemonger might need their own valley

I’d just like to point out that I thought I needed to offer a correction for my “On Loneliness” article, but, it turns out I was right all along. However, in the course of almost submitting a correction, I misspelled “Bethsada” and discovered that the once mighty Cheesemongers Local 427 had, at one time, their very own valley. Suck on that, Kerry.

Mymo’s blog can be found here.</stream>