IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2023).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!


No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod


No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings


No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks


No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


 No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever



No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals


No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel


And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[Note that I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Flagitious Hot Links

Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.

Elephants.

THIS PARROT

The Field Trip.

EatSleepDraw.

The Honeymoon.

The Human Camera.

Arthur’s in the tank.

No explanation wanted.

The Amazing Jonny Kim.

CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]

If you’re happy and you know it

The origins and methods of Woke.

Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].

Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)

Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].

The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]


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Haplographic Hot Links

If I, Ko & The Knockouts (2002) Cover of IF I – OH I by Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959) “Ko & the Knockouts formed when Ko Shih [aka Ko Melina, Ko Melina-Zydeco] was bartending at Detroit hot spot the Magic Stick and had been the bass player for the Come Ons, was approached by Long Gone John of Sympathy for the Recording Industry to put a song on his upcoming compilation of Detroit bands.” [More here.]

We vs. They.

Shoona horse.

Makin’ the balls.

Bollard got skillz.

Nightmare school.

Tetris block names.

How records are broken.

Pet snorks [via Mme. Jujujive].

It’s even more creepo with sound off.

The Clark’s Cove Guano Company
[via Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge].

Beyond 3D sidewalk art [via Bunkerville].

Ancient Egyptian egg ovens. [h/t Paul Y.]

Ragtime Rockabilly Disco [via Memo Of The Air].

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Making shokuhin sampuru [via Nag On The Lake].

[Top image found here. Comic book source unknown.]


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Meconomancing Hot Links

One Way Out, Elmore James (1960) James recorded the song in 1960 but it wasn’t released until 1965, two years after his death; Sonny Boy Williamson II covered it in 1961 (released in 1962);  in 1965 G. L. Crockett reworked it and recorded It’s A Man Down There. There have been many covers since, with The Allman Bros. Band‘s 1971 version being the best known.

The Sightseers.

Have some Chet.

Pop Tartsand more.

Discover New Mexico.

Kasey Kasem’s Top 10.

17 TIMES! [h/t Pam M.]

I Mess With The Fishies.

Home Depot tips in Portland.

Don’t go here and don’t do that.

Corn snake boobs [via Neatorama].

Skibidi Toilet explained [h/t Gord S.].

Johnny Sang Barbie [via Memo Of The Air].

Gladys Ingle & the 13 Black Cats [via Bunkerville].

Bagel reviews [via Mme. Jujujive. She knows where to find excellent music].

Added to blogroll: Archie Archive’s Norty Blues. Nice eclectic collection from 1920s to the present, with brief commentary.

[Top image: The Ugly Grouper, h/t Gus_802.]


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Rectitudinous Hot Links

Luisa Bodem competes during the women’s long jump event at the German indoor athletics in Leipzig, Germany, Feb. 19, 2017.

Crazy Rat, The Violetz (2014) Neo rockabilly / psychobilly band from Japan.

Boops.

Inky Dink.

Slap battle.

Um, Vermont

Magic manholes.

Some nice trains.

Van T. Barfoot vs. the HOA.

Work smart [via Bunkerville].

The pants see through your lies.

Abacusynth [via Memo Of The Air].

I Got Drunk And Slapped Me A Midget.

Zulu pronunciation tutorial [via Mme. Jujujive].

I’d buy this dumpster a beer for a story [via This Isn’t Happiness].

You already know what’s going to happen and you’re gonna watch it anyway.

[Top image found here.]


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Pantagruelian Hot Links

Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.

Seahorse.

It was hot.

Dot Matrix.

Quiet modesty.

Do the Electric Clam.

Advertising honesty.

The cause of the fires.

Chiropractors be like..

Lab-grown meat looks real.

Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.

250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].

A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].

The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]


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Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.

Foraminiferous Hot Links

Cruisin’ For A Love, J. Geils Band (1973) One of the greatest bar bands to hit it big (timeline of band members here). Guitarist John Warren Geils Jr. passed away in 2017 at 71.

Good morning.

Anatidaephobia.

His name was Eugene.

Pretty sure I need this.

The Art of the Drive-By.

Bishop’s got the moves.

This dog [via Bunkerville].

Draw Logos From Memory.

Pretty sure I need these too.

The plateau that disappeared.

Building Barbie [via Mme. Jujujive]

Blunting the Tip of the Spear [h/t Kirk W.]

Ray Jessel‘s 2014 performances of What She’s Got [NSFK].

North Korean anti-American propaganda art, 1950-1970 [NSFK].

[Top image:Apocalyptic play house, Lazio, Italy, via Google Maps Street View via Neil.Fun h/t Memo Of The Air.]


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Temerarious Hot Links

RIDE!, Dee Dee Sharp (1962) Before going solo at 17, Dee Dee Sharp provided  vocal backup for recordings by Lloyd Price, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Jackie Wilson, and Chubby Checker (Pony Time). Sharp’s song made it to No. 5 on the charts. (BTW, pony was hokum for something else.)

Campin’.

Here is a tree.

Still not still life.

THIS needs video.

Bigass water pistol.

Rain storm and Sun.

Popple bocket alum.

Bassed [h/t Danny D.].

Dance of the Bedbugs.

Pretty sure I need this.

Eggshell solo [h/t Gord S.].

FATE [via Memo Of The Air].

Selfies of the past & future.

Ecuadorian woman got woke.

Doggie Sang Bass [via Bunkerville].

Designing a VR vehicle in real time

Whisper ‘Puss’ and a ‘Mew’ came in reply.
[Story here, via Mme. Jujujive.]

[Top image: “Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) steams in formation during a multi big deck event on June 8, 2023. US Navy Photo” via USNI.]


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Lecanoscopic Hot Links

Bring It On Home, Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963) This classic was written by Willie Dixon and recorded in 1963 (with Matt “Guitar” Murphy) but wasn’t released until three years later. Led Zeppelin covered the song on their album  Led Zeppelin II (1969). In 2017 Randy Newman wrote Sonny Boy, a song about Rice Williams’ theft of the original Sonny Boy Williamson’s identity.

The Pit.

The Caveat.

Yo-Yo Show.

Raccoon boop.

It’s a good day.

The customers.

“No one is safe…

How to trombone.

Flight of the Bumble.

Horking up a hairball.

This cop & this trucker.

Retrogressive landslide.

Cards Against Humanity.

The “Certificate.” [h/t Kirk W.]

Spy hatchlings! [via Bunkerville]

I need just about everything they sell.

1954 Buick Wildcat II [via Memo Of The Air]

Best Use of Thermochromics Award [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Doggo McMuffin found here.]


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Fissicostated Hot Links

1447 OH-73, Rarden, Ohio.

Background Music For Your Personal Movies
from Kodak Sound-8 Vol. 1 (1961). Music for any occasion.

This bike.

Trapdoor.

Octopolis.

The Airtag.

Hellhounds.

What is this?

Stump rocks.

Beans on toast.

Living Zen garden.

15 seconds of Jerry.

Beer & potato chips.

Chicago’s Wooly Mammoth.

English to Yinzer translator.

Fump Flork is my Don Martin sound effect name.

Body Based Units of Measure In Cultural Evolution.

The Bonnacons were disgusting [via Mme. Jujujive].

RED – Two months in two minutes [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here. There’s a cool Victorian house 1/4 mile to the east on the right.]


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