"Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.


As above, so below - the behavior of the microcosm invariably reflects the behavior of the macrocosm.

Think I can find a couple more ways of saying it? I'm referring, of course, to the politics of alltooflat page viewing as examined from a historical perspective. In the earlier, halcyon days of this websites life (Ah! The spring of 2002, when all things were funny and our bandwidth was unused, and free of charge), it was France that gave us the most hits. But then, as they are wont to do, the Germans saw that their neighbors to the west had foudn something good, and they wanted in.

Now, you look at the statistics, and you can see that the Germans come in at the number two spot for domain extensions overall (second only to .com). France is battling it out for the number 8 spot with the Netherlands, and is only beating Austria by a hairsbreadth. The Netherlands, for gods sake! Has a population of 16 million, to France's 60 million!

But I digress. Not that I have any problems with Germans (and not that I particularly care for the French), but I thought it was something worth mentioning. My biggest issue with the entire situtation is that, when it was the French that loved us so much, I could liken myself to Jerry Lewis. I am baffled when it comes to creating a German analogue to the Alltooflat / Lewis analogy."