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When you own "odd" domains you become accustomed to getting rather odd emails. Some of the emails are genuine. Some are simply weird.

Armchair.ie has nothing to do with furniture. You don't need to be a genius to realise what the site is all about, yet every single day for the last two weeks I have got an email from a company in China offering me furniture. It's not random furniture either. Each email has included a photo of the piece of furniture in question and they've all been some form of armchair.

Of course with some of the other domains that I own the emails are even more bizarre.

People seem to have issues typing email addresses, so I get emails destined for variants of the domains that I hold. (I usually let them know they've made a mistake)

The oddest one to date has been about an outstanding invoice for condoms! Since they wouldn't accept that I had nothing to do with the domain's former owner I ended up disabling all email for that domain.

When I was in Paris a couple of weeks ago I spotted several large billboards from the local authorities advocating the use of condoms and safe sex.

I don't think I've ever seen similar ads in Ireland.

Now I'm not a big Digg user, but this post caught my attention.

It seems that Ireland is the most expensive place to have sex, since the price of condoms is so insanely high.

Grandad ruined my afternoon. Well he didn't really, but he did reduce me to fits of laughter.

One of his recent posts is based on search engine queries (adult content advisory I guess).

Do I need a big cock? That depends. Do you have a big hen?

That hurts!

I checked my own stats from January 1st 2007 to July 4th 2008. Seemingly over 286 thousand visits from search engine users with over 86 thousand keywords / phrases!

What were they looking for? If you skip the mundane stuff there's very little else left.

There seem to be quite a few people looking for "porn" and "bizarre questions". They might want to hook up with the people looking for "irish sex sites".

The rest of the search queries are really really boring. Maybe I should spice it up or something?

You'd have to be living on another planet to have avoided the current runup to the US presidential elections.

If you want to freak out your friends you can now get a Barack Obama mask or even a John McCain one.

Of course if you did get one of those masks, would you have any friends left?