This is a new thing I’ll be doing on the blog. Well… anything I put on the blog will be new by default, seen as it has only been up for a few days. Anyways…

Graphs FTW

I’ve always been quite a big fan of numbers, statistics and graphs. I’ve always liked measurable things and enjoy insight graphs in particular give.

To support this interest and enlighten others to the marvelous world of graphs, I’ve decided to make my own graphs by the help of Google Trends, and give my own logical explanation to the images you’re going to be seeing.

Anyway, enough small talk. Let us get down to business.

George W Bush vs Bucket

Popular surveys will have you know that - soon to be former - American President, George W Bush, has lost most of the support from his fellow countrymen. Thraxy.com has decided to do its own investigation into how bad the situation actually is.

I’m sorry to inform that it’s worse than I originally had thought:

As the graph explains, President Bush’s popularity is steadily falling, while the opponent, the bucket, is on the rise. The spike in popularity in August/September 2004 has been explained (by sources that have chosen to remain anonymous) to be due to an incident where the US President, George W Bush, choked on a golf ball at Camp David, as an encore to his 2002 breathtaking publicity stunt. The popularity soon wore off though, as people once again turned their attention to the common household bucket, in search of spiritual guidance and leadership.

Bush has been cast out, even among his own. Here are the visual aids from Texas:

As you can see, the bucket is also taking Texas (home of GWB) by storm, and there’s no stopping it (blue line indicating GWB and red line indication the bucket).

Watch out Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain. There is a 3rd contender. He has been around for years. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO, it’s the BUCKET.

Who knows… we might be taken by surprise at the next US election :D

Paris Hilton vs That’s Hot

As some of you might know, media darling and hotel heiress, miss Paris Hilton, acquired the trademark for the phrase “That’s Hot” on Feb. 13, 2007. Thraxy.com has decided to follow up on her tremendous success. The result of the detective work was shocking to say the least:

The graph shows miss Paris Hilton’s popularity steadily falling, while her trademark (That’s Hot) is non-existent.

Thraxy.com therefor has to conclude: Paris Hilton… not so hot.

Coca Cola vs Pepsi

Here’s one that’s very important and interesting to all us geeks trying to slug it out on the interwebz. What’s the beverage of choice?

As we can see, the competition on “Geeks Favorite Beverage” is fairly close, with Coca Cola in an insignificant lead. One has to ask oneself though, “is this really relevant at all?”.

Here’s what separates the pros from the n00bs:

Need I say more?

Education vs Pimp vs Gangsta

Being hip, cool and down with the various groups/units/evil cults has always been important to a lot of individuals (ironically this doesn’t show much individualism), but how important are these acceptance tools in the eyes of civilized society? Thraxy.com has looked into how high pimps and gangstas measure against the gift of education.

Thraxy.com has run into some rather interesting development on this one:

The graph shows education being on a constant downwards curve, which does seem a bit disturbing. Pimps and Gangstas seem to be very stable though (while at a lower level), apart from a brief period in November 2007, when the demand for pimpin’ suddenly shot through the roof, due to a shortage of bitches and ho’s. Two days later, that demand was fulfilled by a pimp named Tom at a rather well known Online Escort Service. Thanks Tom.

If YOU are a pimp, you’ll find the following fact interesting:

It is better to be a pimp in the UK than in Pakistan.

If you are a gangsta: Sorry, your number was not picked at this moment in time. Better luck next time.

This concludes Graphs FTW for now.

Thanks for participating, and Thraxy.com hopes to see you next time, for more fun and games.

And they all lived happily ever after

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