Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
“Pearls Before Swine” is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephen Pastis. It first caught my attention in the Orange County Register Sunday Funnies, with a hilarious logo showing the main characters, Pig, Rat, Zebra and Goat as the Ramones. I’ve been following it ever since.
IMO, it’s not laugh out loud stuff (sorry Stephan) but some of it is very clever. When the strip began foundering, Pastis introduced a new group of characters to the mix: crocodiles.
The bumbling crocs speak in broken English, and spend all their time trying to dupe the smarter Zebra into letting them eat him. Pastis was way too subtle for me, until I spotted a not-so-subtle commentary in Pastis’ new storyline:
I don’t think I need to point out the symbolism here. On Monday 7 June 2010, Pastis continues:
Pastis deserves commendations for his subterfuge. Now, Stephen, about that elephant…
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Tags:Commentary, Israel, Palestine, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010
I never take a challenge sitting down, so when Steamboat McGoo spotted a black racer on his chimney and asked for estimates on its length, how could I refuse? After all, my ancestors specialized in reptilian length prognostication.
S. McGoo rewarded me with the honor of posting my snake calculations DIRECTLY UNDER HIS BANNER HEADER. (Click on the image unadulterated big to make it.)
Such an honor bestowed requires reciprocity, so I’ve added Aaardvarks & Asshats to our glorious blogroll. You goo, McGo!
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Tags:arithmetic, award, black racer, calculation, chimney, length, Math, McGoo, snake, Steamboat
Posted in Awards, Bizarre, Blogroll, Contributions to the World, Cool, Food, Humor, Real News, True Stories | 5 Comments »
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Shortly after 1AM this morning, PST, Tacky Raccoons received our 500,000th visitor with open arms, confetti, little cheap plastic tooty horns, whatever was left in the fridge, and the promise of complete anonymity. Thanks, Mystery Vistor!
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Lookee to the right and there’s a new link where you can go to nominate some great blogs, or click on the logo above to see the other categoricals. (Thanx to *ahem* Lanny Foosers for nominating Tacky Raccoons.)
I sincerely request that y’all help to nominate any and all on our blogroll as well. –Bunk
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Tags:2009, boogah boogah boogah, nominations, Weblog Awards, wocka wocka wocka
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Monday, 19 October 2009
Folks–
On 21 December 2007, the record was set for the amount of traffic in one day, with almost 15K. That record was broken yesterday with over 20,500 hits.
Thanx to the folks who linked on Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Twitter and Facebook, and thanx also to our regular visitors. Y’all made my day.
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Late breaking news: WordPress is having a contest, and this post is our official entry (taken from a screen shot of a previously posted .gif below the break).
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[Update: After reconsideration, we decided to delete the poll. It was pointless, as we'll never have a "tip jar" on this site.]
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Tags:.gif animation, Blog Traffic, WordPress Contest
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Thursday, 30 July 2009
I never turn down awards, even from Archie. He and I don’t see eye-to-eye on basic economics and politics.
I don’t recall exactly, but I think we had a cordial discussion on whether a janitor should be paid the same as the owner of the company that employs the janitor, and I said no. Regardless, Archie’s basically a good guy with a cool blog.
Since I don’t wear perfume, I’ll pass on this prized and coveted award to:
Amy Oops
Raincoaster
Nurse Myra
VE
Feng
and Nick.
[Thanks, Arch: All in fun, dude!]
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Tags:The Manly Blogger Guy Award
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Sunday, 26 July 2009
…but Planetross IS.
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Tags:a hand made aboriginal novelty fake turd, aboriginal, boomerang, fake, handmade, handmade aboriginal novelty fake turd, novelty, turd
Posted in Awards, Bizarre, Humor, Real News, Stupid, True Stories | 7 Comments »
Sunday, 19 July 2009
On 27 May 2009, Tacky Raccoons offered a creative challenge that apparently stumped all of our readers, except for one. That challenge was met by a man of good honor, obsequious habits, and great initiative. Above is the original image from here. Below is the excellent modified and annotated image from VE:
Of course, I gotta add my own snarky takes as well, below the break.
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Tags:civil rights, moonbat, morons, posters, protester, slug and snail eater, stinky
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Kudos to Stephan Pastis.
Tuesday, 8 June 2010“Pearls Before Swine” is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephen Pastis. It first caught my attention in the Orange County Register Sunday Funnies, with a hilarious logo showing the main characters, Pig, Rat, Zebra and Goat as the Ramones. I’ve been following it ever since.
IMO, it’s not laugh out loud stuff (sorry Stephan) but some of it is very clever. When the strip began foundering, Pastis introduced a new group of characters to the mix: crocodiles.
The bumbling crocs speak in broken English, and spend all their time trying to dupe the smarter Zebra into letting them eat him. Pastis was way too subtle for me, until I spotted a not-so-subtle commentary in Pastis’ new storyline:
I don’t think I need to point out the symbolism here. On Monday 7 June 2010, Pastis continues:
Pastis deserves commendations for his subterfuge. Now, Stephen, about that elephant…
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Tags:Commentary, Israel, Palestine, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
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