Fountains Abbey Cistercian Monastery
North Yorkshire, England
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Sunday, 4 April 2021Remember Always – 7 December 1941
Monday, 7 December 2020
In a flooded drydock, the destroyer USS Cassin lies partly submerged and leaning against another destroyer, the USS Downes, with the battleship USS Pennsylvania relatively undamaged in the rear, following surprise Japanese attack. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Navy)
[Image from USNI Proceedings January 1961. Related posts here.]
OUR 12th BLOGIVERSARY = 13 YEARS OF STUFF!
Monday, 3 August 2020On 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. It’s our 11th Anniversary, because this:
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2020 – 12th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 5,099 posts in our archives, 9,002 comments and 22,991 “shares” 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.
–Previous 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 2020).
“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/411 – Open Your Mouth, Stick Out Your Tongue and Say, “Hot Links.”
No. 10/NR/189 – How To Draw Elbows: A Tutorial
No. 09/10/259 – The .GIF Friday Post No. 472 – Cooler Pwnd, Dance Hard & Warehouse Windsurfing
No. 8/NR/93 – 11 September 2001 – Never Forget.
No. 7/5/17 – Meet The Beetles
No. 6/NR/225- Cliffside Path, China
No. 5/2/15 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 445 – Demolition Demon, Roll Survivor & Rock This Way
No. 4/6/28 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!
No. 3/NR/9 – An Expensive Ignosecond
No. 2/NR/117 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 421 – 15mph Stupid, Googly Eyes & Still Life With Monkey
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
Posted on 18 July 2016, this wins with a score of 1/3/44. It made 1st Place in record time (well done, Redditors!)
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Bunk
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