Notice the BBC most-emailed stories summary below:

And when was the 'goat marriage' story written?

If you said Feb. 24, 2006, then the chévre is on me!

Adam Curtis, BBC Online's world editor, blogged in September about the story's periodic revival.

If you really want to indulge your inner Web geek, check out the Beeb's 'most popular now' page. You can find the top emailed and most-read stories, see how relatively heavy or light Web traffic to the Beeb is from various world regions, and get a regional breakdown of the emailed/read stories.

As I'm typing this, the most popular story is US sex abstinence classes queried. Traffic from North America was 19 per cent above normal.