Happy New Year’s Eve

Tacky Raccoons Be Crawlin' 300

Another year has passed and we’d like to thank those who took precious minutes out of their lives to visit Tacky Raccoons. We don’t know who you are, but we know where you live.2014 Tacky Raccoons MapThat image may or may not impress you, but there are 196 Countries in the world and Tacky Raccoons has been visited by inhabitants of 199 of them. Go figger.

Muchisimas grassyass to those of you who clicked the “like” button and/or who linked to this site – it reminds us that we’re not alone with the Russian bots. As for y’all who took time to leave comments, donkey shane:

adminlmg, alifemomentAmateur Cookazmrmacs,
Bruce Thiesenbrunobluesman, Calo,
Czechpoliada_truth36DanDanielDaveEzekiel Fish,
gpcox, Irrelevant, IzaakMak, John M.,
josephfromspainJust A Simple Guykateybensonksbeth,
LC Aggie SithLemur KingLFFLlulu,
MackerMarc-AndréMeh…, Midwestern Plant Girl,
Nate Lenzoddboxcomics, Oh, THAT Brian!, Paulo,
Peter B, raincoaster, reretro, RiverUnderWater,
RobinKaty, Russell LeisenheimerScout Pagetsharylahr,Soylent GreenThe Necromancer, thenoveilst, Thom Hickey,
Tony McGurk, V.E.G., VE, Veronika Pommer, virgil & wheels.

May you all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. –Bunk

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Christmas In The Heartland

Christmas In The Sticks

[Found here.]

The Day After Christmas on the Starship Enterprise

Star Trek - The Day After Christmas

The entire crew went shopping on planet Khanada.

[Found here.]

A Quiet Christmas Morning

Christmas Morning 2Merry Christmas to you and yours. –Bunk

Hot Christmas Decorations

firemans-xmas-lights

[Found in here.]

So Mum Said, “Shaddup and go get a Christmas Tree,” and Dad said, “You heard your Mum.”

Christmas Tree 1Christmas Tree 2Christmas Tree 3 Christmas Tree 4

And Dad said, “You heard yer Mum.”

[Found here.]

Christmas In Portland

Christmas In Portland

#DarthVader caroling with flaming #bagpipes in a #kilt while on a #unicycle in #Portland. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from #Twitter.

[Found here.]

Merry Christmas to the U.S. Military

dont-say-christmas-army

[Image from here, related to a ridiculous story from Christmas 2013.]

Saturday Matinee – Carol of the Bells, Little Drummer Boy & Sleigh Ride

The music for “Carol of The Bells” predates the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, is based upon a Ukrainian traditional chant that predates Christianity, and celebrates the New Year… in April. The original lyrics for the song describe a swallow flying into a house and promising good fortune because lambs have been born, and compliments the master of the house for having a wife with dark eyebrows (at least according to Wiki).

There are exactly 15 Pas, 18 Rums and 63 Pums in the lyrics to “Little Drummer Boy.” If you delete the spaces between the pa-rum-pa-pum-pums, there are exactly 21 Rumps. I can’t stand that song because it doesn’t stop when it should (just as the “Twelve Days Of Christmas” made it’s point on Day One).

It just doesn’t seem like Christmas until I hear The Ronette’s version of Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.”

Have a great Pre-Holiday Weekend, folks, and don’t fight over parking spaces. I was there first.