Cool animation.
Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life
The Ramones: Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Tom Waits: Downtown Train
And now for our Feature Presentation:
ATTACK OF THE KILLER PARASITES!
[Tip o’ the tarboosh to the entirely bitchin’ Miss Cellanea.]
Category: Cool
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post – Ya gotta see this one
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.]
Tacky Raccoons’ First Year: The Top 11 Posts
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2025: TOP HITS FOR OUR 18TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2024: TOP HITS FOR OUR 17TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2023: TOP HITS FOR OUR 16TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2022: TOP HITS FOR OUR 15TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2021: TOP HITS FOR OUR 14TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2020: TOP HITS FOR OUR 13TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2019: TOP HITS FOR OUR 12TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2018: TOP HITS FOR OUR 11TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2017: TOP HITS FOR OUR 10TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2016: TOP HITS FOR OUR 9TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2015: TOP HITS FOR OUR 8TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2014: TOP HITS FOR OUR 7TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2013: TOP HITS FOR OUR 6TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2012: TOP HITS FOR OUR 5TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2011: TOP HITS FOR OUR 4TH GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2010: TOP HITS FOR OUR 3RD GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2009: TOP HITS FOR OUR 2ND GLORIOUS YEAR HERE.]
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.
Your Pal, Bunk
ONE YEAR! ONE MEASELLY FREAKIN’ YEAR!
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.
Cordially & Sincerely,
BUNK & THE FAMILY STRUTTS
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Saturday Matinee – Sneakers
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.
TGIF: The .Gif Friday Post No. 41- HoverDucky
Bunk’s Second Ride: Pre-Babe Magnet
Definitely not a babe magnet, but at that age I wasn’t interested and didn’t care.
I remember cruising around a lot in this rockin’ mobile (in my mind, in the basement, in my underwear) with the (imaginary) wind blowing through my flattop, and every station on the (pretend) radio playing either “WipeOut,” “Beechwood4-5789,” or “Witch Doctor.” No commercials.
And I’d completely forgotten about all of that until I slowly cruised through a Russian website. As soon as I spotted an Original BunkMobile, I jammed my right foot through the cardboard box brake pedal, broke the the toilet plunger dowel that served as an emergency handbrake, and I spun out on Dead Man’s Curve. With quick reflexes, I recovered in time to right-click and click “Save Image As.” No injuries, no damage; brakes are good, tires fair.
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But that was my second ride. My first ride was a chrome steel tube framed chair that hooked over the back of the front seat of Poppa Strutt’s 1960 Chevy BelAire.
The red-vinyl seat came equipped with a cloth cinch-belt, a little plastic steering wheel with a horn that Pappa Strutts dismantled before I knew that it was supposed to beep, and absolutely nothing to anchor the car seat to the car.
It was designed so that on an emergency stop, the Lil’ Roadmaster Car Seat launches Lil’ Roadmaster into the rearview mirror to prevent Lil’ Roadmaster’s noggin from penetrating the windshield. Pure efficient genius.
Which brings up a good question: Why aren’t we all dead?
[Image from here.]
Variegated Loch Ness Buttberry
The exotic Variegated Loch Ness Buttberry should not be confused with the domestic Struttsiani Bunkisasi Buttberry, pictured below, as they are a distinct and separate feces.
[Top image: BOSSY. Bottom image, well, they both are, aren’t they.]
Tron Turtle
I don’t recall where I found the link to Dave’s site, but this image jumped out at me. After I dried myself off, I axed him about the colors, and here’s his response:
“Thank you for the feedback! It is funny that you see amazing color where I see too much green and blue! I don’t think the turtle was fluorescent; and while I don’t recall it being quite as bright greenly splotched, the camera often sees things differently than we do underwater, particularly when a flash is used. This is because water “absorbs” the colors of sunlight, the deeper you go, and thus things do not look as colorful in natural light to the diver. However, if you are close enough to use a flash, the white light from the flash “adds back” the color that has been filtered away from the sunshine.”
Adjust your nitrogen level, Dave. It’s a great photo. Just don’t lecture me about ugly dogs, okay?
[More amazing underwater photos of underwater things can be found at One Diver’s Perspective.]
Bunk’s Money Saving Tips: How to Save Gas
Oil prices are up. Propane prices are up. Methane prices are going up, too, so save it for a rainy day. Don’t keep ’em bottled up inside, collect ’em all and cash ’em in! Register a brand name like I did (Jumpin’ Jack Flashizza™) and wait for the FartMart to open a retail outlet near you. Then you can barter your best SBD BarnBurners in bulk and get paid for your flatulence daily, weekly, or monthly as required.
Just another Money Saving Tip for loyal readers of Tacky Raccoons.
[Image from here. Nice find, Planetross.]
Humor-Blogs.com (and if I don’t start getting some hits from Diesel’s website I’m gonna drop the widgets.)
[UPDATE- I think I got the link to Humor-Blogs fixed. Try it out and get Tacky Raccoons back into the top 10% – Bunk]
[UPDATE 2 – The link still doesn’t recobanize the post source. (The guttural non-fricative “grrrrg” comes to mind.)]
Tacky Raccoons 