slashdotted!

now we're not quite as web savvy as some of the sketch groups out there (ahem, elephant larry and killing my lobster), and as such we don't have sky-high hopes for our web site as far as traffic goes and what not. we thought we were doing pretty good, pulling in a solid 2-3 GB of traffic a month and getting a couple thousand visitors. then this happened.

over 21 GB of traffic in one day (our monthly limit is 20). i used our webalizer to investigate the matter in more depth and found that, all of the sudden, the Bush and Satan videos were very, very popular. how popular, you ask?

now i don't think these sketches suck or anything, but 1500 times? in one day? something was fishy, so i kept digging and came across the referer list. and lo and behold...

it's the french! the french version of the excite video search engine viewed our bush and satan videos a collected 3000 times. since i'm all about the french, i'll take it. but since i have to pay overlimit fees on our bandwidth, i won't. i think it was some kind of malfunction somewhere along the line (seeing as the videos were played 3000 times with zero visits). anyway, technically speaking this is above even my head. if there are any web geeks out there that can explain what happened and can tell my what to tell our web host so i don't have to pay for it, i'd appreciate it. and if by some chance the french really do love us that much, let me just say:
Merci, mes bons amis. Je toujours ai cru que votre pays était mieux que le nôtre, et maintenant j'ai la preuve ! Cette marque il que nous aimons jerry lewis à vous ?