Very cool, if true

budgie_uk posted today about a blonde joke he'd heardm with a link to it.  I clicked the link, clicked the link on the second page, and realised it was one of those infinite chains, where each level just says "click here to see the funny joke" and the first entry is 5000 entries down.

So, having nothing else to do except tidy the flat, I decided to see how deep it was.

The trail left LJ, wandered around various blog sites, back to LJ, back off LJ, then back onto it again, and onto the LJ of theferrett - back in December 2003!

So I followed it a few more links, and discovered an infinite loop going:

theferrett
samverick
mistressxenobia
laurapink       
fuzzyduck
ribbitrules
boredom_strikes
elfiepike
ktnb
stoptocheer
dmlaenker
shawnj
theferrett (go back to top of list)

leaving me wondering, how did this get started, and was it originally an infinite loop?