IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 17 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 2024 – 17th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,594 posts in our archives, +10.8 K comments and over 3.1M 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 2024).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

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



No. 11 / NR / NR – This is Robert. He wants to meet you.


No. 10 / NR / NR – Meme Peeps


No. 9 / 7 / 97 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 8 / NR / NR – Horrorchids


No. 7 / 3 / 48 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 6 / 6 / 63 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 5 / 2 / 75 – St. Pancras Hotel


No. 4 / 4 / 95 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 8 / 34 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


No. 2 / 5 / 38 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals

And the No. 1 Post for the past three freakin’ years:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/28 – Number One for three years in a row AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[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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Rhonchisonant Hot Links

Theme to the Green Hornet, Al Hirt (1966) The melody, titled Полёт шмеля (Flight of the Bumblebee), was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. It was jazzed up for The Green Hornet TV series theme by arranger and trumpeter Billy May.

Pipe jazz.

Tiny tools.

Bites Guide.

Eggs of film.

The perfect toy.

Glassy beasties.

A.I. ballet [h/t Pam M.]

Airpods Max headroom.

Norty Blues Episode 74.

Bád fada báite Cé Essex.

Rev. Peyton, Fishmancer.

Good dancer / bad dancer.

One second per day for a year.

Mama Colugo [via Bunkerville].

Kinetic mask [via Mme. Jujujive].

Reaperman [via Memo Of The Air].

Secret Service Girl [Full song here].

Major Taylor [h/t Queen Hepzibah].

Dark Horse, Dead Ringer and other phrase origins.

Free at no extra cost [via The View From Lady Lake].

Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, 2024.

[Top image: Protest goon outside of the 2024 RNC National Convention.]


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Jasperated Hot Links

Heartbreak Stroll, The Raveonettes (2003) Award winning indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark, The Raveonettes are Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. From the album Chain Gang of Love, the lineup includes Manoj Ramdas on guitar and Jakob Hoyer on drums.

Gigs.

Big fish.

Not today.

Bunkie Life.

Naked ‘pacas.

Yo-Yo for ducks.

Baby Got Back (ASL).

In memory of Laika.

Poster [via IDHMGO].

Norty Blues Episode 73.

On the roof of the Rijksmuseum.

Pork roll, egg & cheese flavored vodka.

Mysorean Rockets [via Memo Of The Air].

Sad and Worried Animals [via Mme. Jujujive].

Belton’s 1785 semiautomatic rifle [h/t Andy R.]

If a Little is Good, More is Better and Too Much is just right.

Trump looks ridiculous with that bandage.” [via Bunkerville]

[Top image found here, story unknown.]


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Dacnomanic Hot Links

Stardust, The Benny Goodman Sextet (1939) One of the most popular versions of Hoagy Carmichael’s 1927 classic, with Benny Goodman / clarinet, Fletcher Henderson / piano, Lionel Hampton / vibraphone, Charlie Christian / guitar, Artie Bernstein / bass, and Nick Fatool / drums.

Aw shoot.

Skunk sounds.

Thracean coffee.

Pictures of chocolate.

It’s not about the nail.

Norty Blues Episode 72.

America’s deadliest beach.

The party is in your stomach.

The Sultan of the Squeezebox.

Kowloon Walled City cross section.

Proving a negative [via Bunkerville].

Makin’ wheels [via Memo Of The Air].

About the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.

The best Chinese lost tire ballad you’ll ever hear.

Stainless steel aircraft carrier [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]


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Obnubilated Hot Links

 

New Life, Little Johnny Christian (1983) John Christian grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi singing gospel in local church choirs. He was 15 in 1951 when he left for Chicago and joined The Highway Q.C.s, a post-WWII group with an ever-changing lineup that launched the careers of many gospel and soul singers. Tire of touring, Christian sang and played bass guitar in bar bands around the Chicago area, eventually forming his own R&B group,  The Chicago Players, in 1968. [More at the link at top.]

Eat me.

Birdhat.

Florida man.

EMTs & BFGs.

So many signs.

Dining Lounge.

White Pocket AZ.

An 1838 shoeshine.

Norty Blues Episode 71.

Watterson’s musing [thread].

This behavior is unacceptable.”

Shell station in a grocery store.

R. C. Anderson, Psychic Bullfighter.

The life of a modern cowboy [via Bunkerville].

Animation vs. Geometry [via Memo Of The Air].

To the Red White and Blue [via Feral Irishman].

All the little birdies go tweet tweet tweet [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Japanese decoy tank constructed from lava rock, Iwo Jima, WWII (colorized); Decoy Warfare: Lessons and Implication from the War in Ukraine, USNI Proceedings April 2024.]


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Floccilating Hot Links

Kiss My, Sean Healan Band (2008)
Nice groove from New Mexico singer / songwriter Sean Healan.

Bartkira.

A rescue.

Sarah’s Attic.

Make it count.

No gold for you.

Scout was a ham.

Norty Blues Episode 70.

The Master of Photoshop.

Still my favorite Norm joke.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

The white line is lava [via Mme. Jujujive].

The longest green light [via Bunkerville].

Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.

MPGe is how far an EV can go on a “gallon of electrons”.

Photos by a NYC nightshift cabbie [via Memo Of The Air].

Will Bradley & Ray McKinley: Best of the Big Bands [free download].

[Top image: Sock puppet by Natalie Karine.]


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Scapulomancing Hot Links

Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”

Ant baths.

Marli Toys.

GPS Doodles.

And Yet Again

Map of Sounds.

Be the capybara.

The USS Harder.

Who’s That Lady?

Restored campers.

Create a password.

LBCP walks around.

Norty Blues Episode 69.

A Latvian Solstice serenade.

The Death of Poor Joe (1901).

The Witches Tower of Dayton.

Applaud as if your life depends on it.

Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].

Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].

Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]


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Patroclinous Hot Links

Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.

#12.

Not a fish.

A new knot.

The Cats of Etsy.

OMG. She gets it.

I Am Joe’s Budget.

FKB closing credits.

Arrested for DUI & DIC.

Norty Blues Episode 68.

Hey Dad where are you?

Modern kitchens of yore.

Spın̈al Tap discusses jazz.

A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.

Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].

Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].

Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].

Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].

De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].

Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].

[Top image found here, colorized.]


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Dégringolade Hot Links

I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.

THIS KID.

Minibago.

Keepsakes.

Hippo eyes.

Just peachy.

Barbados & cricket.

77% plus correlations.

Norty Blues Episode 67.

More about Robot Archie.

Cousin Eddie’s rust bucket.

The 1917 Scenic Spiral Wheel.

Robbie Shilstone’s animations.

Old trains & obscure locomotives.

Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).

Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].

Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.

25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].

More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.

The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]


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Notonectal Hot Links

Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.

Sound up.

Doodletown.

Huggin’ Molly.

Nerve-wracking.

Running in circles.

Trees eating things.

Harmonized sirens.

The pace of the race.

A long pregnant pause.

Norty Blues Episode 66.

Electoral College Forecast.

Pretty little flapping things.

The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].

A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].

We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.

The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.

Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].

[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]


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