- One of the behind the scenes features of the blog is a list of what search phrases people are using that lead them to Collateral Damage. Among these are four great band names:
- the beer needs me
- potato gun danger
- weasel words
- atkins will kill you
- Media Orchard writes the truth: Verbal Clues That a Reporter Doesn’t Like You (although I would lose the word verbal as all these clues are written, not spoken.)
- Man busted for using coffee shop’s free wireless signal? Alexander Eric Smith of Battle Ground, WA, was charged with theft of services — for taking something that’s free? The manager of the Brewed Awakenings coffee shop said that for at least three months Smith would come and sit in the business’s parking lot for hours at a time, using the store’s wireless service for free.
And there really is no legal charge for being borderline creepy, something that your humble correspondent is very grateful for.
Collateral Damage 
Yeah, you caught me — I wanted to take that headline back as soon as I pushed “publish.” Then I convinced myself that people would think it was an intentional play off of “nonverbal clues” — the term I obviously had in my head at the time. No such luck.
What about issuing a citation to the coffeshop owner for that awful name. Puns should be banned. It’s almost as bad as the dog salon I pass during trips to NW Florida: Clippingdale’s. Ugh.
When puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns. Not saying that’s a bad thing, just pointing it out…