Mark, you were wise to let Lauren post this on your blog.

Lauren, great post. I got a great laugh out of it, and yes, it is just a variation on a very old theme.

Knife Storms? Is that an “Adventure Time” reference??

Perfect analogy! I love it, I for one think “potty mouths” can be very direct & to the point!

Great post and extremely creative!

What is the difference between link bait and a clever headline? That designation has a negative connotation and always grinds on me. And what useful links will likely derive from this post? Plumbers?

This post is just meant to be fun for a Friday. Ironically, when I publish a funny post or a guest article, the links and traffic always take a dive, as do my top post and Ad Age ratings for the blog. But I still do it because I think there is value in providing entertaining reading now and then and an audience for young bloggers I believe in. I don’t systematically blog for the numbers, the SEO, the links, or any other angle except to provide commentary that is interesting to me, and hopefully to you. Sorry. that link bait thing just hit a hot button! : )

Loved it, Lauren!

I also had to re-read that link bait comment. This is an entertaining post. I think we can all tell it was just that – and there’s only one way about that! Great job Lauren (and Mark).

Lauren, This is a very creative post and made me actually crack up at my desk. Mark, the writing’s on the wall- your daughter rocks.

Writing’s on the wall? Ha!!!! Very good.

Nathan- to such well informed tv watchers like yourself, Knife Storms is totally a reference to Adventure Time. But when written on a bathroom wall and with no knowledge of who wrote it, it might just mean that there will be a knife storm today

Thank you!

And ironically, everyone reads what’s written on the walls of the stalls. It’s almost guaranteed that if you put it up there.. it will be read. And an equally larger chance that it will generate reaction. So.. could writing on the bathroom wall be the true attention grabbing marketing strategy??

The essence of guerilla marketing … as long as you have a product that can’t be traced back to you so you have to clean it up!

My reaction is more of a tangent to this point, but it’s something that has been eating at me all weekend. I tend to follow people on Twitter and in the blogsphere that offer me greater insight and knowledge into certain fields than I would be able to discover on my own at this juncture of my life. However, I found it quite appalling to witness the proverbial ‘crap’ being flung around regarding this weekend’s events by some folks whom I’d come to respect dearly.

Makes me think back to my days in college. I didn’t attend the most prestigious university by any stretch of the imagination, but each student certainly had to prove their worth to gain admittance. But just like the social media junk that I saw over the weekend, our bathroom stalls were uniformly desecrated with preposterous claims, slanderous remarks, bigotry, and so on.

Thus it raises the question is social media better than the bathroom stall or just more widely disseminated. I say better, but at times, I think it’s prone show its ugly bathroom stall side of 15 seconds worth of irrational thought and garbage.

Great insight, Lauren!

Listen Mark, I like your writing and enjoy your articles but I think you need to give Lauren the keys to the kingdom. Analogizing a grungy bathroom with Social Media is Genius. Thats capitol G.

True. Still, I would like to think that “Jake the Dog” or “Fin the Human” wrote it though…

Great post by the way. A fun read indeed.