Mannikin Hotel

Crispy decapitated amputees and fuming black males: 1st Floor;
Full-scale Barbies, accessories and original packaging: 2nd Floor;
Miscellaneous torsos and body parts: 3rd Floor;
Tanning Party on Four.

You REALLY don’t want to know what’s on the upper floors, and the basement is just disgusting.

[Image from somewhere in here.]

“Ah, er, Honey, I think the dough has risen…”

“…from the Dead.”

[Image from here.]

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

Humor-Blogs.com

 

 

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

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More after the break.

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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.]

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Sushi for Squirrels

Sometimes you’re just hungry enough to eat it.

One story I read about the phrase “to eat crow” claims it went back to the War of 1812. Because there were no grocery stores on or near the battlefields (let alone anywhere), an occasional cease fire allowed the combatants to go hunting, while at the same time respecting the battle lines.

Seems that one of the rebels crossed that line while hunting for food, and shot a crow. A Brit caught him at gunpoint in British territory and disarmed him. The Brit, commenting that the Yank was not respecting the ceasefire, told the Yank to get the bird, and take a bite. The Yank, at gunpoint, did as directed.

As the cease-fire rules were still in effect, the Yank commented on the Brit’s firearm, that it appeared to be of very high quality, well machined, good stock, etc. The Brit, honoring the cease-fire, was flattered, and allowed the Yank to inspect his weapon.

The Yank then turned the weapon on the Brit, presented the crow (with one bite out of it) and said, “Okay. Now finish it.”

[Image found 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.]

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.)]