IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 13 YEARS OF STUFF!

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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. It’s our 11th Anniversary, because this:

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2020 – 12th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are  exactly 5,099 posts in our archives, 9,002 comments and 22,991 “shares” 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.

–Previous 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 2020).

“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/411 – Open Your Mouth, Stick Out Your Tongue and Say, “Hot Links.”


No. 10/NR/189 – How To Draw Elbows: A Tutorial


No. 09/10/259 – The .GIF Friday Post No. 472 – Cooler Pwnd, Dance Hard & Warehouse Windsurfing


No. 8/NR/93 – 11 September 2001 – Never Forget.


No. 7/5/17 – Meet The Beetles


No. 6/NR/225- Cliffside Path, China


No. 5/2/15 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 445 – Demolition Demon, Roll Survivor & Rock This Way


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No. 4/6/28 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!


No. 3/NR/9 – An Expensive Ignosecond


No. 2/NR/117 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 421 – 15mph Stupid, Googly Eyes & Still Life With Monkey


And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:

Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil

Posted on 18 July 2016, this wins with a score of 1/3/44. It made 1st Place in record time (well done, Redditors!)

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

Bunk

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Malacophilous Hot Links

You Tell Her – I Stutter, The Georgians (1923).
The Georgians were a subset of the Paul Specht Orchestra. Specht had a gig at the Hotel Alamac in New York City in 1920. The orchestra played music for dancing in the ballroom and afterwards a smaller version of the group that went by the name of the Georgians played in the cocktail lounge.

The Wrestling Match.

It’s Gonna Work Out Fine.

Mission Impossible Theme.

The Good The Bad & The Ugly.

C D B. D B S A BZ B. I 8 D BZ B.”

Comparison of Quetzalcoatlus vs. Cessna 172 .

Black Mambo Dog Hats are sold out… thank God.

Metallic Pony Ant workers are gamergates and can reproduce without Metallic Pony Ant queens. BTW, their painful sting might kill you.

[Top & bottom images from Children of the Streets (London 1954).]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


Buy Me Some Peanuts & Hot Links

Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth (1908). Kevin MacCleod, Wurlitzer organism, date unknown.
Download 1908 .mp3 version here.

ICYMI.

Moondog: Pygmy Pig.

This is child abuse [NSFK].

Tea Towel 5DDDDD Cat Blue.

If birds had arms… [via].

If a bunch of other birds had arms

Everyone should learn to drive a truck in WWII.

A confectioner and a dentist invented cotton candy.

In 2010, Walter Frederick Morrison was cremated and his ashes were molded into several Frisbees.

I had a red Pluto Platter (like this one) when I was a kid. Worth $500-$600 today.

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” –Dr. Anthony Fauci 08 March 2020.


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


Tasty Meat-Stretching Hot Links

Dancing In The Dark, Sousa’s Grand Concert Band (ca. 1897).
Columbia Recording Company, Cylinder 8353.

Smile!

Open the schools.

The Loop of Death?

The Oddfellows Band of Portsmouth Ohio.

Vandalizing vandalism can get you arrested.

Maybe it’s a good thing that he can’t get next to you.

Do not mock the wheelstop. People actually got paid for this.

The Top Trending Google Searches in Every US State Throughout the 2010s.
[Top image from here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


Heterochromatic Hot Links

Hot Mamma, Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra (1930)

The Arc Of The Penguin.
The Range Of The Penguin.
The Aim Of The Penguin.
[h/t Geoff]


Q: Do lizards dream?
A: Don’t know, but a lot of people are trying to find out:
Partial homologies between sleep states in lizards, mammals, and birds suggest a complex evolution of sleep states in amniotes.

[Found via here, via here.]


[Found in this Wonderful Vat Of Knowledge.]


The biggest sandwich of the world.

Here Is Your Redpill. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Google “National Heterochromia Day” and scroll down to the images. I’m 3rd from the left.

[Top image: Lt. Col. Randy “Laz” Gordon, accomplished test pilot, engineer, and F-22 Raptor squadron commander lectures at MIT.


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


Thalassocratical Hot Links


Ada Jones Nix On The Glow Worm Lena,  (1910).


Pool hustle.

This took only 60 days.

Fordite, aka Detroit agate.

9-1/2 minutes at Irwindale.

Twitter flagged this as “potentially sensitive content.”

The maximum incremental domino size is approximately 2.

Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians.

“What does Independence Day mean to you?” This is disturbing.

[Top image from here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


Corn Crackin’ Hot Links


Eubie Blake The Chevy Chase (published 1914)
Modern recording played from the score.

Eubie Blake once said that the first time he heard the term “Rock and Roll” was in a cathouse in 1898. It was an early jazz piano style designed to keep the customers moving along.


HEHEHE.

The Stencil.

1934 DeSoto.

Bat Chain Puller.

The Diesel Brothers.

Hot Wheels xylophone.

Repotting Mammillaria.

Drive-In Haunted House.

Milton Friedman answers a hipster.

Guy REALLY doesn’t want to wear a mask.

How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by Police.

Chuck Jones’ rules for writing the Road Runner cartoons [via].

Mr. Jones looks like an interesting movie. It’s based on the 1933 diaries of Gareth Jones.

The People’s Liberation Army reported that 57% of its candidates in one city failed their physicals due to excessive drinking, video gaming and this.


“The key of postmodernism as a social philosophy is that whether a claim is true or not doesn’t matter and misses the point. All that matters is how that claim can be used politically.” –James Lindsay


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


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Querimonious Hotlinks

Unknown orchestra, unknown song, late 1920s jazz.

Frogmouth.

She ran, etc.

Haircuts for dorks.

An inconvenient truth.

Around the world on a Honda.

Need a secret hand signal? Here you go.

A popular treat was renamed to remove a racial epithet.

Scranton Hiny Hiders is NOT the name of a bottom-ranked Pennsylvania football team.

East Overshoe Scorpions is/was the name of a Pennsylvania football team according to a college roommate from Pittsburgh.

[Top image: spam email. He just did something he’s proud of.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Original Djungelvrål Hot Links

Perry ComoThe Theme to Chaz (1969)

Kill Haole Day.

Leafblower [via].

Roll cloud rocks.

I Want Some Of That.

Who was Quentin Dean?

V8 Massey Ferguson MF-350.

Got Batgirl? Then you need this.

Interactive geographic clipping is kinda cool.

The total lunar eclipse of 1 March 1504 was historic.


Malaco Djungelvrål Swedish licorice is not for the timid.

Licorice is an herb that grows in parts of Europe and Asia. The root is used as medicine. Licorice root contains glycyrrhizic acid. Glycyrrhizic acid can cause complications when eaten in large quantities.”

[Top image from here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

 

What if this was YOUR house Hot Links

The Will Bradley Trio – “Down The Road A Piece” (1940)

A hair knot.

Virtual Flies.

Virtual Turtles.

Cristobal Livel!

Caught the limit.

Art appreciation.

Elvis live in Bangkok.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. [Update – Story has been unverified]


Women’s Rugby Haka.
Him: ” I want to break up with you.”
Maori girl: “You don’t want to break up with me.”
Him: “I don’t want to break up with you.”


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


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