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Hello Dave,
I'm Wilfrid and I recently started a blog about self storage facilities. The url is http://aventuraselfstorage.com I'm looking for reciprocal link partners and I'd like to know if you'd be interested. If yes, please link to me using Aventura Self Storage as anchor text and send me your desired anchor text so I can link back to you.
Sincerely,
Wilfrid

Update: I submitted a comment, but as you can see below they have higher standards than this blog.

This is — seriously — one of the best blogs about self-storage in the Aventura area that I have ever seen. Bravo!

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Comments

[Siouxie]

HUH?

[Siouxie]

...you would most likely draw blank stares...

*stares blankly*

[Siouxie]

*el hat tricko*

[gfunksizzle]

I hope to God this doesn't trigger rule 34.

[ron]

Dear Wilfred,I won't be visiting your interesting blog about self storage in the near future,except by mistake.I'd rather talk to Barry Manilow,in person, and surely you must know how much we love Barry here on this blog.So sorry.I hope you don't lose your nose for business over this rejection.

[Annie Where-but-here]

To paraphrase Ben Franklin - 'when everyone links the same, no one links very much.'

[Steve Haller]

Just write back and tell him Thanks but I already have a self storage facility, I call it my office at the Herald. Show him a few CrapCam shots of the place and he'll go away.

Unless you think there's a book in this somewhere...?

[crossgirl]

wait a minute....! that isn't a humor blog. and yet, so much potential.

[oneblankspace]

Ok...so his blog has a copyright date of c2007...yet...there are no posts older than the current month?

At least it didn't say ©19107.

[Siouxie]

Dave, we all appreciate your lack of high standards.

[Margaritaville]

I can contain my excitement.

[Punkin]

I am in the market for a place to store myself.

[Margaritaville]

Maybe that means you have to drink in moderation before they will allow your comment.

[Meanie the Blue]

In my area, there was a facility with a huge neon sign that had one letter burnt out around Christmas time. It read " elf Storage".

No, I have no plans to submit this anecdote at Wilfrid's blog.

[Clankazoid]

I dare them to go back in time and try to explain " self-storage blog " to people in the 1950's.

[Jeff Tompkins]

The comment is awaiting moderation? We're all awaiting the moderation of that comment. Post it, Wilfrid, you coward!

[Jeff Tompkins]

Uh, one more thing. If you leave a comment, make sure to use a made-up email address. Check out their Privacy Policy (which I read looking for something weird/funny/bad, and which I found):

From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above.

You have to CALL Wilfrid if you don't want him giving out your email address to marketing groups. HA HA. No.

[MartiniShark]

This is one of those ideas that once initially executed causes everyone to say to themself, "Why the hell didn't I start a blog about self-storage facilities?!

[Siouxie]

I'm going to go out on a limb here...I think Wilfrid is single.

And just think, Aventura is just a short ride from me.

yay.

[BoscoH]

I posted this:

Can I store any kind of document? Does it matter if they are on a Mac or Windows? Sometimes, when I take a Word .doc file from the Mac and bring it over to Windows, the fonts get screwed up. Does your storage unit solve this problem?

[Siouxie]

Dave!! congratulations! You made it!

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Dave // Feb 20, 2009 at 12:07 am

This is — seriously — one of the best blogs about self-storage in the Aventura area that I have ever seen. Bravo!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yay, Siouxie. I bet he furnishes his basement apartment with quaint oddities left over from his storage business. What a catch!

[BA]

A comment before its time.

[Siouxie]

Annie, SO much better than long ear-hair guy.

[Wilfrid]

Hi everyone,

Dave's comment has been duly approved :-)

It's not very often that I am the butt of such an (admittedly) funny joke, so I'll take it all in stride...

@ crossgirl. Yes, it has a copyright date of 2007. I bought the domain as it was expiring and totally missed this one.

@ Jeff. I used one of those online automated privacy policy generators. Will correct it.

@ Siouxie. I actually AM single. I guess this is what happens when you have too much time on your hands :-)

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yes. And it's just a matter of time before he shows up here and discovers how hot you think he is.

[SW]

Aventura information superhighway
In the sunnnnnnnnshine...

[NotSoShyJan]

"an unexpected arrival of a baby" ? Isn't it usually possible to realize a baby is going to arrive?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Oh, hey. Wilfrid's here. Who'da thunk it?

[Meanie the Blue]

Personally, I'm trying to cut down on moderation.

[silver]

Woah!! You actually read this blog, Wilfrid?? That either raises or lowers you immensely in our eyes!

[Horace LaBadie]

Can we store persons other than ourselves?

[Siouxie]

LMAO funny...I just posted this Wilfrid.

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Susy // Feb 20, 2009 at 2:36 am Your comment is awaiting moderation.

My friend Annie will like to know if you’re single.

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[Siouxie]

Wilfrid, Once you've made it to Dave's blog...you're in the big leagues. Consider yourself lucky!

And welcome!

[Annie Where-but-here]

NSSJ - babies are unexpected in self storage facilities.

[Wilfrid]

Susie,

If your friend Annie runs a blog about 19th Century furniture that SHOULD be kept in a storage facility, then she's my soulmate and I can't wait to meet her :-)

[SW]

Hi, Wilfrid -

When you received/approved Dave's comment, were you aware it was THE Dave?

[Cat R]

Hey, Wilfrid. I always wanted to know -- what are some of the more -- unconventional -- items somebody has attempted to store in one of those facilities?

Whut? You guys want to know too -- admit it.

[Wilfrid]

SW,

His email was in there :-)

[Annie Where-but-here]

Wilfrid, this blog will do wonders for your business. Among other things.

[Wilfrid]

Cat R,

I'll have to get back to you on that one, lol...

Maybe email it to Dave when I'm done ;-)

[Siouxie]

I feel like such a matchmaker.

[Annie Where-but-here]

"On the next episode of CSI Aventura...."

[Siouxie]

Cat, I was going to ask a follow up question. What is the storage life of AA batteries. For those unusual items.

[Will]

Self storage? All storage is self storage. I choose to move stuff or I choose to let it sit where it is. If you let it sit, it's 'storage'. If you move it, then you are moving it to a place where it becomes 'storage' If someone else moves it... that is stealing.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Don't be coy, Siouxie. You know the answer to that one already. Remember all the research you did?

[Wilfrid]

Ok guys, I'm trying to keep up here, lol... Either leave me the comments here OR on my blog, not both, PLEASE :-)

Just so Mike doesn't feel left out. He posted:

So like, if I want to put my dog in self-storage while I travel, can friends come by and drop off food and water for him every few days? It might be less expensive than putting Fido in a kennel for a week.

(And he doesn’t bark, I promise you!)

And of course, as we're always trying to get new business, I offered:

Drop by and we’ll arrange something, lol… Right off the top of my head, I can suggest that your friends each get a unit and store the food and water there. The staff on the premises will take care of the rest.

Notice that EACH friend has to get their own unit to store food for Mike's dog...

[SW]

Wilfrid -

Other than for being a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, columnist, and humorist, Dave is best known for his heretofore steadfast refusal to endorse any storage-facility blog. Even when offered the senatorship of Illinois in a quid-pro-quo, tit-for-tat, you-wash-my-back-and-I'll-was-yours in exchange for an endorsement of Blogo's Blog. Your blog must be really good.

[Wilfrid]

LMAO @ SW

[Siouxie]

heh...I got posted. Thanks, Wilfrid. You're a good sport.

[Cat R]

Guys need their space. Remember this episode?

[Me nie the Blue]

I'm kind of hesit nt to store entire documents until I'm comfort ble with the f cility, so for now I'm gonn  st rt with only  's.

[Wilfrid]

Me nie,

I'm sure it's possible for me to hire someone who will rewrite your documents to strip them of the offending letter :)

The only trick is, bring your Discover :-)

Obviously, c sh, Vis , meric n Express or (God forbid, this one has 2 's) M sterC rd won't cut it, lol

[Meanie the Blue]

Please lock me away
I won't forget to pay
All the fees, as my keys blog out my loneliness
I don't care what it costs, I'll stay lost
Stored in Aventura

Birds sing out of reach
And never mind the beach
I'm OK, here I'll stay blogging my loneliness
Don't hesitate if you must moderate
On my comments above

[danceswithvowels]

Wilfrid, you got room for any extra bits over by there? Bits are really tiny, so they don't take up much room, unless there's like some ridiculous quantity of them.

[Siouxie]

dances?? now why would you be wanting to store your dangly bits?

[danceswithvowels]

Well, Siou, so they don't dangle so much. Duh.

But other dinky questions come to mind:

Unassertive after a long ~ Self Storage In Aventura?
Nefarious travel agents ~ Reevaluating seafronts?
Greatest nonvisual fear ~ Flat arses aren't in vogue?

Clearly, there's more to this game than I'd guessed.

[SW]

That was a stretch, meanie, but I like it.

"Your waiter is accommodating a Martian."

--cut line from Star Wars' famous cantina scene.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Maybe they get in the way of his dancing.

[Siouxie]

*snork*

dancingwithdanglies??

It's been fun! Another long day of crunching the numbers awaits...Nite folks. Sweet dreams ;-)

[Cheryl Howard]

*not admitting how much I have laughed on this and the storage blog blog*

(Not sure this Lancome is waterproof and I don't dare turn on the web cam to find out)

[SW]

Wilfrid, have you spent a lot of money "branding" your business yet? Cos if not, you might wanna consider renaming it something with a kinder, gentler set of initials.

[BoscoH]

Wilfrid, while you're hear, you should ask us about search engine optimization. If you look up the term "oosik" (an acronym for "walrus penis bone"), Dave's blog comes up in the top five. We could do the same for you and "oosik storage" (people need a place to store their walrus penis bones). Just ask.

[Just Ducky]

When the room’s filled inside with stuff you can’t abide
That’s self storage

When your spouse draws the line at your Princess Di shrine
That’s self storage

Cells with things, rings and springs and swings, rings and springs and swings,
Plus a broken umbrella
And you’ll pay just a bit a day, just a bit a day
To that nice storage fella!

[SW]

Storage
People who need storage
Are the luckiest people in the world

Square footage
Needing more square footage
Not quite holding our naugahyde
Stuff all the seats inside,
Cramming more recliners
And sofas

Packrats are very special people,
They're the mustiest people
In the world.
With one unit
One air-conditioned unit
A deep freeze is there with your stools
Two birdbaths, power tools.
No more clutter and dust
But just be a person who needs storage
People who need storage
Are the mustiest people
In the world

[Wilfrid]

SW,

Leave it to Internet surfers to point out stuff like that, lol

Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it... LMAO

This one is my favorite so far, I don't think it can be topped :-)

[Wilfrid]

BoscoH,

I don't think I'm THAT interested in oosik storage :-)

My site comes up in the top 5 if you google aventura self storage and that's good enough for me ;-)

[Alfred]

I think it necessary that I should point out that there is no relation.
To the point that I live on the exact opposite side of the country. I guess I am the anti-Wilfrid. I have no problems with this, and wish Wilfrid the best of luck with his self storage.

[ron]

It is now light enough for me to see as I go to play in the newly fallen snow.I have a large amount of it that needs to be moved from point "a" to point "b".
There are no self storage fcilities in sight.None moved into the area during the night.I am going to check first thing every mornng for them from now on.

[queensbee]

will you store my summer clothes in the winter?

[Nurse Tammy]

As we have obviously garnered most of the world supply of snark on this blog, we may yet need a place to store the overflow...

[crossgirl]

hell, here in the swamp we just put things in the yard and if they're good things, we might cover them with a tarp. what's that cj? no, no, i'm not talking about you honey.

[Horace LaBadie]

I believe that the Mexican Stew Maker was a big fan of self-storage. Also of 55-gallon drums of caustic soda. Which could be self-stored. This could be a big selling-point for the service of self-storage in Aventura. I don't know if he has a blog to which you could link, however.

[pogo]

Alternate use of self storage: Back in the early 80s, there was a bookmaker in Alabama who bought two Radio Shack computers. He kept one in his home, the other was kept in a self-storage unit with power and a phone line. When he took bets, he connected via modem and kept all his "business records" in the facility. In those days there was almost zero chance he would ever be caught with the evidence.

[Moon]

Wilifrid would be a "SHE", right?

[oneblankspace]

The link to the second page of comments seems to be missing. Will this get me there?

[oneblankspace]

The link to the second page of comments seems to be missing.

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