IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 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 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M 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 2023).

“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 / NR – Staredown on the Pequod


No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings


No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks


No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


 No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever



No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals


No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel


And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[Note that 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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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Saturday Matinee – The Avalanches, Chain & 12BBB

The Avalanches are, um, different, in a Devo kinda way. According to the Wiki, The band is an exponent of the plunderphonics genre. [h/t Sol L.]

Chain performed their hit single Black ‘n’ Blue on the NWS9 (Adelaide Australia) program Move (1971). Frontman Matt Taylor sounds a lot like Alex Harvey with a dash of Bon Scott and why they didn’t get more exposure in the US is a mystery.

12BBB aka The 12 Bar Blues Band was the winner of the Dutch Blues Foundation Award for Best Dutch Bluesband 2010.

That’s gonna be it for now, as the Utoobage is currently frozen, or maybe it’s just  my browser.  No idea why, but be back here tomorrow and we’ll do something different – as usual.

[Update: MS360 decided to jump into action without my permission, dropped a bunch of crap on my toolbar, so I disabled it. Then I found it had corrupted FireFox. A reinstall fixed it.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 813 – Meet the Wipers

[Found here, here and here.]

The First Stock Photo

[Found here.]

More Rat Rods

[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]

Almost Lunchtime

[Found here.]

Hey babe.

Chicks dig me.

[Found here.]

Flagitious Hot Links

Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.

Elephants.

THIS PARROT

The Field Trip.

EatSleepDraw.

The Honeymoon.

The Human Camera.

Arthur’s in the tank.

No explanation wanted.

The Amazing Jonny Kim.

CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]

If you’re happy and you know it

The origins and methods of Woke.

Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].

Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)

Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].

The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Betwixt (2023), Reverend Peyton, Eliza Stark & the Dappers, and The Marcus King Band

Betwixt (2023). Animated short by Matt Semke, music by The Breaking Glass Trio . [h/t Mme. Jujujive]

“I thought I’d post this up in case anyone needed any cheering up today. Please like and share if it makes you feel good. This is a cover of the South African Artist, Hannes Coetzee’s song Mahalla. Music is life. Love and blessings to you all.” –Reverend Peyton

Eliza Stark & the DappersThe first and only rockabilly band based in Montenegro.

The Marcus King Band  hails from Greenville, South Carolina. A fourth-generation musician, Marcus King started learning guitar at age three or four and has played professionally since he was 11.

That’s it for now. Have a great weekend, stay cool, and we’ll think about things tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 812 – Wakeup Machine, Testing the Hitch & A Fluster Cluck

[Found here, here and here. The Wakeup Machine is the work of the amazing Simone Giertz, inventor and breaker of things.]