Happy Labor Day!
Category: Retro & Vintage
The Influence of the Pueblo
The Sign of King Nosmo
[Image and comment from Fengtastic.]
Miss Blank
Not much explanation is necessary for these, unless you have dirt on the babes that you wanna share.
Miss Darby’s Restaurant.
Miss Arthur Godfrey Road.
Miss Auto Show 1965 is really Miss Van Nuys, standing next to Mr. Scissors who is cutting off the last of her tentacles.
Miss WSTC Alumni 1948.
Miss OCT 60.
Miss Somethingorother 1946, Taylor, Texas. (Standing on stilettos in dirt, her name is Flo Kruger, age 16.)
Miss Lightning-Bolts-Coming-Out-of-Her-Head 1963.
[Images from Square America and here, here & here.]
Saturday Matinee: Sheep, Rutles, Spinal Tap & Paul Simon
Deep down, humans are basically herd animals; subconsciously we like to be part of a group. We all want to belong and to be accepted (no matter how bizarre the requirements for joining that group) as part of the herd.
This clip from Alan Funt’s Candid Camera shows this absurd detrimental human trait in action:
[Found at the always excellent Neatorama; Utoobage link here.]
Some of y’all prolly never heard of the Rutles, and for good reason. The Beatles blatantly stole their style and wind throughout the 60’s and into and out of the 70’s. All the girls in Bunk’s elementary school screamed whenever a picture of Stig was posted on the school restroom door. Honest. [Utoobage link here.]
This is another great band you may have missed if you blinked. Here’s Spinal Tap’s classic from 1967: (Listen to the) Flower People. My sister had this 45 rpm (only one she had) and played it non-stop. Gawd I hated these guys.
I remember the day I bought this album. It was a spring day, I had laundry to do and didn’t have any quarters, so I cashed in a bunch of albums and bought this, putting off the laundry for another week.
Although I had mixed feelings about the 1960’s Simon and Garfunkel thing, this was just Simon, and chicks digged him. Anyone who can toss lyrics like “I can call you Betty” and “roly-poly little bat-face-girl” into the same pop song and get away with it amazed me. It also has one of the greatest looped 3-second bass riffs I’ve ever heard.
It wasn’t until I saw this video that I realized just how tall Paul Simon really is. [Utoobage linkoid here.]
Saturday Matinee: Black & Blue Danube Waltz, Jambalaya, Boil That Cabbage Down & an awful day.
Spike Jones & His City Slickers were amazingly talented but very corny.
Homer & Jethro grew up on corn, and were musically talented as well.
The Smothers Brothers sing “Boil That Cabbage Down” that includes the history of the Trans-Continental Railroad.
Rodney Carrington‘s song about an awful day (and it’s worse than finding pumas in the crevasse).
BOOGAH BOOGAH BOOGAH!
Rear Exit No.2
“Daddy! Daddy! Were you watching? I’m an elephant poop! Watch me! I’m gonna be a BIG elephant poop! Watch me!”
Climbing up into its butt and being elephant vomit just can’t be nearly as much fun.
[Image from here. Related post here (and for his birfday, Phil gets a free pass through the pachyderm, in the direction of his choice).]
“Ah, er, Honey, I think the dough has risen…”
Tacky Raccoons’ First Year: The Top 11 Posts
[UPDATE 3 AUGUST 2026: TOP HITS FOR OUR 19TH GLORIOUS YEAR – HERE.]
[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
[Updated for missing images 3 August 2026.]
