Oh, How I Long To Click On These Tempting Advertisementicals

Excelsior, by Bret Harte

“Clickest not,” Google sayeth again and against. “For to click an advertising link on thine own Blogger blog would be a most heinous, treacherous untruth, great and sobering.”

And I lookest upon the decorous link for “Cartoon Animals” and the comely “Dog Leg Problem Remedy” and, with a great sighing, I say, “I do not, Sirs and Madams Google. Nay, I do not click. For I have signed with my penmanship hand a legal document agreeing thusly.”

So I type this unto you: Will thouest not click in my stead, so that in the year of our Lord 2025 I may behold a $100 payment of advertising revenue?

Thankest thee.

Above: Typical advertisement witnessed on the Small & Big blog, for Excelsior Statuary Bust Washers & Laborers, Inc. Well no, the illustration is actually from Bret Harte’s book, “Excelsior.” This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Verily, henceforth and forthwith, I shall clicketh upon thine ads(ooo!;-), with great zeal and fervor.

Fer real, lady! Ima gone do it to it!
April 25, 2010
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