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Like my illustrious colleagues Andrea, Allan, Eric, Ike inter alia, I too am a nobody.
A weakling weighing ninety-eight pounds
Will get sand in his face when kicked to the ground.And soon in the gym with a determined chin,
The sweat from his pores as he works for his cause…
Ahhh, those Rocky Horror days… the newspapers, the water pistols, the singalongs…
I’ve always been a nobody. Last one picked for the scratch games of cricket and football in the neighbourhood; the one boy left leaning against the wall as the girls from the ‘all girls’ schools picked other boys to dance with at those horrendous school-organised torture sessions called ‘dances’; I was the last of our gang to get married (by about a decade)…
I’ve had more jobs than the Strumpette has had… well, let’s just say I’ve ‘probably’ done more jobs than her. Well, you know what I’m alluding to…
Well-meaning folks used to say, behind my back (I heard them when I listened to the bugs I’d planted on them), that I couldn’t organise drinks in a brewery, or I couldn’t organise something in a brothel (I can’t remember what).
On the internet, too, I am a nobody. Nobody reads this blog (at last count about 115 fellow nobodies, plus 13 nobodies who subscribe via feedblitz email), around 250 nobodies listen to my podcasts when I release them.
To relieve the boredom of my otherwise gray, meaningless, featureless and pathetic little life I read the blogs of other nobodies, like those on the right hand side of this blog (down a bit) and a few more besides.
But in a perverse, pathetic little way I am proud to be a nobody. [Update:] After all, I could be called ‘Badger Dan’, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone 
Nobodies of the world, unite!
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Andrea Weckerle 04.07.06 at 6:34 am
Another confirmed Nobody, yahoo!
Sab 04.07.06 at 12:08 pm
Me, too, me, too.
Ike 04.07.06 at 2:37 pm
Hey! Nobody is allowed to change the picture in the button…
…um…
…er…
…never mind.
Eric Eggertson 04.07.06 at 5:55 pm
Lee: This blogging thing can be isolating. You write and link and comment and read and all that stuff. Sometimes the connection is immediate, but often there’s only an indirect connection, or none at all.
I begin to understand why folks arrange geek dinners. The act of getting together in person makes the online experience a bit less solitary.
Allan Jenkins 04.08.06 at 8:56 am
If I’d known you were a nobody, I’d have asked Stinky to lounge on the futon of Antipodean Communication.
Dan Hill 04.08.06 at 10:31 am
Hello, I’m Badger Dan and I’m a nobody…
Is someone getting paid for organising this group therapy session?
Lee 04.09.06 at 7:16 pm
ha ha ha, Dan!
Group Therapy Session is a superb thought! Now, I wonder if there’s a way to ‘monetize’ it…
And as for Allan, well… Stinky is under my control anyway, so is Lenny, so they do as I tell ‘em. They’re even bigger nobodies than YOU (which is saying something!)