The .Gif Friday Post No. 928 – Heavy Metal Cooking, A Lucky Day & Planned Destruction

[Found here, here and here.]

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 18 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 2025 – 18th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,973 posts in our archives, +11K comments and +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. Unfortunately WordPress has modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.” “NA” is “Not Available.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!



No. 11 / NR / NA – Trotify


No. 10 / NR /  NA – Doodle Challenge Accepted


No. 9 / NR / NA – Google Street View


No. 8 / NR / NA – The Essence of Doggo


No. 7 / NR / NA – Chat-N-Chew Cafe, Wing ND


No. 6 / NR / NA – Vomit Clocks


No. 5 / 6 / 60 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 4 / NR / NA – VW Lead Sled Beetle


No. 3 / NR / 374 – A Hindu God


No. 2 / NR / 360 – Halloween Costume Suggestions

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

Unreal Abandonment

Posted on 26 February 2025, with a rank of 1 / NR / 104, this collection of computer-generated abandoned houseboats got a surprising amount of attention in a relatively short amount of time.

Top 5 Audio posts for the 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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Miscellaneous Oddities

[From Unusual Images.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 908 – Down In Front, Battlefeets & The Violent Ems

[Found here, here and here.]

Ray the Bass Man

THE POT OF LUNKER BASS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Raymond Gauthier has reached the end of the rainbow and has been justly rewarded with the fisherman’s pot of gold in these lunker bass caught on Toledo Bend Lake. On July 3, 1973, while fishing near Pendleton Bridge he hauled in 7 bass that tipped the scales at 56 pounds even. Since then he has caught 63 bass in a 2 acre area. 20 of these weighed over 6 pounds each, 20 more weighed over 7 pounds each and 12 of these weighed over 8 pounds each with the 2 biggest weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces each. Since then he has caught many more in the same weight range that have not been mounted.

[Postcard with caption found here.]

Easter Lamb Cakes

[Found here. Related post here.]

The Essence of Doggo

One is a dog. The other is a portrait of a dog.

[Found here.]

Zuma, Man of Mars

Zuma, Man of Mars (c. 1950) – Professional wrestler aka Carl J. Engstrom. Professional career: 1948 – 1963.

“In 1950, the world of wrestling was introduced to a masked competitor that called himself ‘Zuma, Man of Mars.’ Also known as ‘The Great Zuma’, the man entered the ring wearing a long cape secured with a chest plate bearing the letter ‘Z,’ and an otherworldly headpiece with an antenna-like top that concealed his face. Zuma gained popularity on the wrestling circuit during his debut year, garnering attention for being quick on his feet and winning the majority of his matches. It was that fancy footwork—and a striking resemblance—that ultimately unveiled the true identity of the mysterious Martian to be Carl J. Engstrom, a DePaul student and former star boxer for the university.”

[Untinted image found here, story here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 874 – The Restless One, Raising Puppies & The Competition

[Found here, here, and I lost the source of the PB&J race.]

Stonefinger

“To the person who left a painted rock that looks like a severed finger on the Arroyo Verde hiking trail, you’re my kinda people! I put the rock back to freak out the next passerby.”

[Found here, h/t Kirk W.]