Category: Link Dump

Conquest of the Planet of the Hot Links

Kinda disturbing image above from here.  It wasn’t disturbing at all in 1968, when french-kissing ape-girls for luck was a universally accepted practice.  (I did it, too, but only with the older ape-girls.)

THIS is absolutely the worst version of Flatt & Scrugg’s “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” I’ve ever heard.  [Found at Strider’s Journal.]

Bunk he likes flash game this.  Miss Cellanea from.

This is just fascinating and odd.  Link found at Miss Cellanea also.

Tacky Raccoons translated into Romanian??

“Where Is Bob?” is a bizarre story of a psychotic IT manager.  Read it in sequence from the first post.  [Linked from Mental Floss.]

Get With.

Dolores Aguilar’s Obituary.

Disco squid, link found at sqdsnuh.

All Shatner all the time.

Hunting for the tire motherlode.

If you Google “Power Possum” you get this site from the EPA.

How to catch a gar jugging.

I Was A Teenage Hot Links

She wants you to right-click on her.  Now.

Chuck Norris vs. Nancy Pelosi.

The Intro to “The Prisoner.”  Great ’60s spy/spook/paranoia TV show about freedom. No. 6 never gives up his ethics, even when given the opportunities.  There are way too many politicians these days, and too few are No. 6’s.  [Yeah I know, it’s a link repost.  It’s still great, though.]

Sunday is FUNDAY! from FinPeng.

Make your own KFC Cardboard Colonel.

Smelly Board Game via RGS.

I don’t play flash games, but some of these look pretty good.

Mighta posted this link before, but here it is again, just in case.

Fly around until you realize that there’s only one lake.

Fly a balloon – This one’s been around a while, but it’s still clever.  Click the link and ride.

Lotsa “Crappy Album Covers” here.  Don’t miss “Fun With Joyce.” (Related posts here and here.)

Vinyl Abuse has some interesting figurines for some not so interesting prices.  Worth a look, though.

Here’s an archive of links about B.O.

Dionne Warwick’s Cosmic Peephole.  Really.

Webpost titled “Moms with IBS.” I don’t know why it was linked to this post, but Barrack works in mysterious ways.

How to get to anyplace in the world in 42 minutes.

Homer-Blabs.com

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

 

 

Bride of Hot Links

The Undramatic Chipmunk found via cnet.

Lotsa odd facial hair here.

Build you own virtual star and watch it grow old.

Unintentional Goatse proves that there is indeed a website for everyone.

How to confuse an idiot: here (from Phil’s Phun).

Websperiments.

Try out the Uglifier. On yourself.

Winter in Russia.

The first ButtBerry Award, here.

How to deliberately create an unsuccessful blog, by Slippy.

Always dry, always excellent:  Futility Closet.

Ditto Hanuman. I don’t know where he finds these gems.

Garfield-Garfield from SNTC.

Speaking of lame comic strips:  Marmaduke Explained shows us all where we missed the humor.

And finally, here’s the correct response to every New Yorker Magazine caption contest.

Arte y Pico Award

Tacky Raccoons Central was just notified that my fellow blogger and good ‘ol boy from down under Aussie Phil presented us with the coveted Arte Y Pico Award.  Here’s how it works.

If you receive this prestigious award, upon acceptance, you are required to post these original rules:
1) You must pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, based upon creativity, design, interesting material, and that also contribute to the blogger community, no matter what language.
2) Each award must have the name of the author with a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Award-winners must show the award and put the name and link to the blog that awarded it.
4) Award-winners and the one who has given the prize must show the link to the Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) These rules must be included in your post.
Since there is a limit of only five blogs that I can nominate out of many that I visit regularly and some have already been nominated, please do not feel slighted if I left your excellent blog off the list.
Statistics should catch up with you within a few generations of this post anyway.
So here we go, in alphabotanical order (no drumroll, just rimshots):
And to top it off, we’re all invited to Phil’s Phun House this weekend to celebrate. Don’t show up empty handed, and make sure you leave the toilet seat up after you’re done peeing on it.

Hotski Linkskis

Amazing mnemonics are archived in the comments section here, including this excellent non-sequitur from Miss Cellania:

“Thirty days hath September
April, June, and no wonder
All the rest eat peanut butter
Except Grandma,
She rides a bicycle.”

I’m not related to Bunk Johnson as far as you know, but you can hear, here.

Visit the exact center of the internet. Be sure to click on it.

Dr. Diabetes (via Diesel).

Les Swazzo’s DooWop Cove Radio has live DJs with a wide variety of tastes/programming style from early ’50s through the ’60s. Excellent, and if you send in a request, tell Les that Bunky sent you.

THIS is one amazing web page. By the time you read this, I’ll have already stolen and posted some .gif’s from it. Simple, but with animations en masse.

See the Tacky Raccoons website as a map. Then load up your own and watch it bloom. [via GrowABrain].

Odd forest of Plantage.

Giant squidgoatse… here.

Make your own animated kaleidoscope.

New talent spotted: Cool Aggregator has a good eye for quality webmining; he linked to TR. (Y’all should follow his example and link here, too.)

Jen at Casual Slack has a nice tribute to Mel Blanc, who would’ve been a h-h-h-h-undred years old Friday 20 May 2008.

Go for it, dude. Macho Macho cones here.

Wanna be part of a new Guiness World Record? Click here for details. I’m in.

ATTENTION WORDPRESS BLOGGERS: RIPOFF ALERT: As this website is approaching its domain name renewal date, we received a notice via snailmail from a company called “LibertyNames of America” of Niagra Falls NY. They offered to renew the domain name for $29.00 for a year’s registration. WordPress offers the same renewal for $15.00 via email notice with link to PayPal. Sump’m just don’t feel right. If you’ve received a similar message, let WordPress know.

[Update:  Apparently this is a common scam, discussed here.]

I Go Pogo!

Attention POGO fans! Click the image fo’ de tails!

One of the best comic strips ever. God bless Walt Kelly.

Son of Hot Links

The management at Tacky Raccoons is proud to announce that the lovely and talented Jen of Casual Slack fame has whelped a new blog: Retro Tavern.

PhotoBlog of derelict/abandoned Insane Asylums (Asylae?) here.

Richard Thompson does a great cover of a not so great song here. His “Wall of Death” (originally recorded with future ex-wife Linda) is classic.

Please “Do Not” look at this link.

Brief summary of the basics of the Retroencabulator in layman’s terms, a veritable primer on Advanced Tublication, here. All it needs is a Buettner variable switch on the barraic capacitor.

It’s really not THAT complicated. Cool B&W photos of US teenagers and their woe-quotes here via here.

Obnoxious TV show from the UK (heh) featuring “Bunny Boiler.” (Kinda PG-sumpm.)

Live sidewalk cover of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Wrong Trousers. And they’ve got a studio version here.

The Idiot Test. Not here, there.

Russia likes Tacky Racoons (and some of you folks on our blogroll, too). The translation for TR reads, “New Resource. It is interesting.” Good enough for me. Here’s the list.

Looking for new humorz? Diesel has 819 sites listed (with a mysterious rating system based on flux) at Humor-Blogs. Bunky is very pleased to be stirring up flatulence within the 90th percentile (but not enough to be dancing around in his chonis). Sign up as a member if you haven’t already.

[Previous Hot Links here.]

Hot Links

How many wrong predictions about the future of the internest can you find in this Newsweek article from 1995? (Note that someone updated the post in 31 January 2008… what did it say before?)

Quick! Call 911!

Fail. You. Here.

Things that spill from trucks.

Dogs in cars. Nothing else.

Cats in cars. Just to be fair.

Lots of really RED things.

Urban mythbuster SNOPES deBunked.

The worst “50 Greatest Bands” compilation I’ve ever seen; all the wrong ones, and all out of order.

Aussies have always had my respect, but they’ve also puzzled me, until I read this. Now I’m just confused.

Someone else besides me knows who the Stoop Down man is. It’s Chick Willis. Here he is rockin’ out to the sitting dead.

When someone axes me what station I listen to online, I tell ’em either Jango or Seeqpod, depending on my mood. Both are cool. Seeqpod (beta) has a lot of mislabeled and dead links, but doesn’t pester you to sign up like Jango does. They both do the same thing, different ways.

Long tongues. Really.

Did we mention the Popularity Dialer? I thought it was clever, but the FCC shut it down while appeals are being filed.

Forget Waldo. Where’s LEON? He’s here.

[Letterman “whoa” .gif from here.]

Hot Links

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Although Bunk would prefer that y’all stay here, sometimes it’s necessary to open the door a crack and let ch’all go out and play. Just be back here by midnight.
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The Rock-A-Teens, 1959, “WooHoo” here.

The 5678’s “WooHoo” here.

Clever advertising here.

Photos found at a swap meet of an unknown family who probably owned a liquor store here.

Coffee, oddness and live podcasts at Rockhoppers. Get wired and laid back at the same time.

I don’t know why you’d want to do it, but if you have to, here are step-by-step instructions on how to “Purple Wash” your dolls.

I reuse my calendars. mini-contest-best-short-joke.

Some websites are updated every 60 seconds. One of them can be found here.

Funky time wasters here and here.

The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art here.

Speaking of Fabric Brain Art, check out Clay Pigeon. Kinda like the Onion, only better.

A very addictive time waster here. (I gave up after level 16.)

How many of States in the USA have you been to? Give your answers here and it’ll show you a map of them in case you forgot where they were.

Tuscan Whole Milk 1 gallon 128 fl. oz. is still available at Amazon, with over 900 great customer reviews. (Caution: If you read the reviews while drinking a tall cold glass of it, Tuscan Whole Milk will come out your nose.)

Much absurdity may be found here from Bunk’s previous life as a stray poster for SNTC. In those days Bunk only posted once every coupla weeks or so, before he jumped face-first into the blogpool with Tacky Raccoons.