The Intro to “The Prisoner.” Great ’60s spy/spook/paranoia TV show about freedom. No. 6 never gives up his ethics, even when given the opportunities. There are way too many politicians these days, and too few are No. 6’s. [Yeah I know, it’s a link repost. It’s still great, though.]
While you’re all waiting for that .gif file to load, at precisely eight minutes and eight seconds past eight o’clock this morning, today’s digital date and time wiil be was 08/08/08 08:08:08.
And since she’s back in the news again for actually memorizing 30 seconds worth of lines, here’s The Many FACE of Paris Hilton:
[Tip o’ the tarboosh to Phreak 2.0 for the Tour de Paris.]
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Folks– Here are the posts that got the most traffic in our first glorious year. Keep in mind that these are not necessarily the best because some posts are sleepers… more recent posts get penalized in that respect. (We’ve extended the Top Ten to the Top Eleven, because No. 11 is our personal favorite.)
Click on each image to link to the original post. Here we go.
No. 11 – Herd of Indricotheria Captured
No. 10 –Lol Ferret, Episode 1
No. 9 – Bloody Mushrooms With Teeth
No. 8 – “SO WHAT! LOOK WHAT YOU’RE WEARING!”
No. 7 – Here’s to Your Nulls, and more…
No. 6 – Hermann Reiche’s Contribution to the World
No. 5 –Pirates Attack Venice with Rabbit
No. 4 – Faith Enhancer
No. 3 – Batmobile Babe Magnet
No. 2 – Nice Stained Glass?
AND THE NUMBER ONE POST, with 14,916 hits in one day, and over 60,000 total, is:
Thanks a wad for all your goading encouragement this past year, and we really appreciate the comments (especially the thread on this one.) Y’all make me feel like a hundred bucks.
Here’s TACKY RACCOON’s Very First Post from 3 August 2007. I didn’t know what I was doing at the time, and I’m still not entirely sure that I know now.
The image of the laughing (?) raccoon is from (appropriately enough) SayNoToCrack, Anita Bath’s original clean humor website. She got me started on all this absurdity, then I stepped in it and tracked it all over the carpet.
Thanks gobs for all your encouragement, help, and stuff, and especially for all y’alls comments and linkoids. Do we keep on keepin’ on?
In no particular rank or order, thanks to Anita Bath, Ben Dover, sarahenity, Diesel, Miss Cellanea, Marshal Penguin, Alpaca the Awesome, Angry Duck, M.Wolfe, SpartanWolf, VE, raincoaster, Phil Cordery, Amy Oops, Casual Jan, archiearch, Dan Rockhopper, Kitty, PlaneTross, Tony, SinisterDan, Bobby Bieber, yellowjkt, Janessa Vapors, Slippy Lane, Wendy, Dolph, Bonnie Phumph, suchabastard, Gregoire, Necromancer, Lannie Foosers, Cheese Duck, S. Le, Pete Aldin, Tooncie Crumbler, Queen Rosebud, The Hypocritical One, Valdoor, kanadianbakin, Fake, Howlin’ Betty, tbonky, Damon, Chiqui, Jody Foster, Robert Foster, Foster Brooks, Albert Brooks, Lonnie Brooks, Brook Shields, Cheesy007, Shar Pei, Kung Pao, Chez Yuan, Stiletto, Walter C., and way too many others to name…
Like James S., Wheels, nothere, Pancho Opcionweb, Rickspoems, Feng, Cornel, jah, sandy, Weird, Tanja Forster, osa glass, Courtney M., Mishele, Jack, Ben Vereen, Fluffman86, Nick Adams, Monique, wrekehavoc, Vincent Castro, tara, James, KFC Rules, Saha, Layla, indianamatt, hustler 1, Fritz, DUDR_1, Beeper, BB King, Albert King, Albert Alligator, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Philip Johnson, Robert Johnson, Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry, Haile Berry, Barry Mann, Barry Goldwater, Chuck Norris, the Captain and Toenail, Walt Kelly, Kelly Blue-Book, Booker T., Mr. & Mrs. T, T-Bone Walker, Johnny Walker, Walker Texas Ranger, Jim Baldwin, johnrobert,Frankie, jayle, Tarlow, Elle, Butch, Sue Dunham, ineedacar, GH, Mark, Moon, l3utterfish, Moneymoose, tarbabyjim, RosebudDLS, Meg, minotaurny, B Dear, Jeff, anomalous4, Criss Angle, Reuben Miller, fenderflip, Alex, Nessa, Trailer Thoughts, Haus Cremlingen, Girl Fren, Jayne, Lee, Gumpy Weeblers, and the very first commenter on this website, BOSSY.
Thanks also to Eoin Shaloo for helping me with my irrational and compulsive research for this post.
Rock n’ Roll Spy Dudeness: Johnny Rivers’ Secret Asian Man.
Here are a few others you may or may not recobanize:
Paranoia on free broadcast analog TV. The intro to “The Prisoner” starring Patrick McGoohan was the best of the best. Explained everything you needed to know to understand this excellent series… sorta.
Tacky Raccoons 
