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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 15 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 2022 – 15th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 5,860 posts in our archives, 9.7K comments and over 2.8M 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 2022).
“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11/2/35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No. 10/NR/423 – Monetary Disfigurement
No. 9/NR/17 – Meet The Beetles
No. 8/NR/352 – The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel
No. 7/NR/405 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 377 – Break Dance Bear Classic, Morticia & Gomez Dance Hard & Buster Keaton Escapes From Himself.
No. 6/NR/258 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 606 – The Twerk Police, A Dumpster Dumper & A Chilla Gorilla
No. 5/8/36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks
No. 4/NR/82 – Professional Shadow Puppetry
No. 3/NR/14 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 445 – Demolition Demon, Roll Survivor & Rock This Way
No. 2/3/47 – Pelicans Trying To Eat Other Animals
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/NR/58. That’s a hella score for barely one year since posting it AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.
This year it occurred to me that I might add one more category – AUDIO.
For several years I’ve been posting .mp3 files of rare (and not so rare) recordings, along with a few oddities. The most popular this year was a stunner; I found a recording of an agitated penguin and slowed it way down.
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.
Little Porky Peeper
In the mid-19th Century, not long after the invention of photography, John Benjamin Dancer (1812 – 1887) began printing tiny photographs onto glass slides at his studio in Liverpool, England. In Paris, René Dagron (1817 – 1900) wondered how to circumvent the need for an expensive microscope to view them. In 1859, Dagron patented the first Stanhope lens mounted with a mini-photograph.
He named it after the magnifying device invented 50 years earlier by Charles Stanhope, Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816). In the late-18th century, Stanhope invented lenses which allowed all sorts of “viewers” to house images in secret. Stanhopes, also called Bijoux Photomicroscopiques, became known as ‘peep holes’, ‘peep-eye views’ or ‘peeps’.
And this little piggy had a secret…
Vintage Christmas Cheesecake
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21 Retroweeners
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Unfortunate Ads
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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 14 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 2021 – 14th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 5,466 posts in our archives, 9.4K comments and over 2.6M 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 2021).
“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/393 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 627 – Ms. Iron Pants, Beer Bobbles & Diving Miss Ditzy
No. 10/NR/380 – Doktorskaya kolbasa
No. 9/NR/397 – R.I.P. Erdélyi Tamás, aka Tommy Ramone
No. 8/NR/44 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks
No. 7/11/411 – Open Your Mouth, Stick Out Your Tongue and Say, “Hot Links.”
No. 6/4/26 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!
No. 5/NR/267 – Swiss Fish Ladder
No. 4/NR/46 – Tweety Bird Dead at 67
No. 3/NR/NR – Pelicans Trying To Eat Other Animals
No. 2/1/35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
I found a button hole.
Posted on 23 November 2020, this wins with a score of 1/NR/54. Another surprise dark horse entry, it made 1st Place in a mere eight months. Amazing.
All but three dropped off the list from last year.
Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.
Bunk
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Newswomen in Boots
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Keleusmatical Hot Links
Guitar Boogie Shuffle, The Virtues (1958)Recorded as Guitar Boogie Shuffle in 1953 by both The Esquire Boys and The Super-Sonics, Frank Virtue (aka Frank Virtuoso) was 35 when he recorded this cover of Arthur Smith & His Crackerjacks 1948 hit Guitar Boogie.
Now about this QAnon business…
Banjo Boy. (It’s not who you think it is.}
The first “toy” to be advertised on TV.
A bored Viking traced his feet 1100 years ago.
Why is that person running? [h/t Feral Irishman]
What Did Jack Do is 17 minutes of pure David Lynch.
Top image: The missus was about to pitch these cool shades, and my new mask stops BBs at 800fps, so it ought to be able to stop a flying ‘Rona. I’ll test it out at the clinic on Monday.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 