Tag: awesome

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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The Museum of Lost Toys

On a dark and freezing morning during the winter of 2015, a plastic baby doll head left behind by the outgoing tide caught my eye. I pried it loose from the frozen sand and took it home. This began my slide down the flotsam rabbit hole. 

First, I only collected toys, but the collector in me inevitably took over and my toy collection grew to include shotgun shells, shoe heels, combs, old pipes, toothbrushes, balls of fishing line, and on and on and on. Soon, my yard was a plastic graveyard.

I’ve discovered that like things float together. Some days I might find 6 or 7 tennis balls, other days the wrack line is a trail of colorful bottle caps. Once, two Monopoly houses washed up on the same day about a half a mile apart. 

All these items individually don’t say much, but together, they tell the story of all of us; what we value, consume, discard, hold nostalgic. – Corinn Flaherty

Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities

[via Mme. jujujive.]

Gary’s in a damp parking lot and he’s getting down to business.

Couldn’t save this for the Saturday Matinee post for obvious reasons.
The video is the full album; click the forward buttons to find your favorite.
More about Gary, aka Gary Solo, aka Dr. Gary Soloman here.
[h/t Pam M. via FB.]

UPDATE:
Gary’s at No. 8 on this album cover rating site. Let’s get him to No. 1. He deserves it. https://classicovers.sprucemoose.digital/album/getting-down-to-business.html

Monsterbug Rat Rod

[Photos found here & here, no other info. More rat rods in the Archives.]

Japanese Pigeon People

In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

[Found here.]

…To Be Wild

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.

[Ads from 1947 found here and there.]

The Best of BOLLARDS III

Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS I & II.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Association™.

Imagination Transportation

Things I Have Drawn imagines a world in which the things kids draw are real. What started as a silly little project between dad, Tom, and his 6-year-old son, Dom, soon had Dom’s younger brother, Al, joining in the fun, and more recently has turned into something much much bigger, with parents sending their kid’s drawings in from all over the world.

[Images from Things I Have Drawn via here. Click on any image to enlarge. Related posts here and here.]

All Grown Up.

[h/t Pam M.]

Somebody’s Future Wife

[Found here.]