Can you believe it? It was fifteen years ago this week that the blog Harvey & Friends (also known as IMAO) was started. I thought it would be neat to look at a timeline of all the important events in IMAO history.
A TIMELINE OF IMAO
2002 – Noticing a dearth of political opinions online, Frank J. started a blog on blogspot and named it IMAO for reasons long forgotten. Frank J. soon posted the treatise “Nuke the Moon” which many say led directly to the Iraq war, causing him to be considered a war criminal in many circles.
2003 – Frank J. wins the Pulitzer for his expose on blogger Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, explaining why local dogs had gone missing.
2004 – IMAO jumps the shark with its coverage of the 2004 race of W versus some random New England elitist everyone has already forgotten. Frank J. held a t-shirt babe contest in a surprisingly effective ploy to get a date.
2005 – Frank J. gets married and immediately stops being funny. He tried to compensate by turning IMAO into a group blog, though it’s really just Frank J. posting under a bunch of really fake sounding names like “spacemonkey” or “Harvey.”
2006 to 2015 – It gets to be kind of a blur at this point. I remember something about Fred Thompson. Ask Harvey.
2016 – Donald Trump seizes the Republican nomination and renders political satire redundant.
2017 – This post.
Well, that’s it. Quite a history. And who knows what will happen in the next fifteen years? Probably the complete collapse of this country and the outlawing of free speech — but they’ll forget to outlaw blogs since that was like this fad from years ago that everyone had forgotten about. Then IMAO will be leading the resistance — as long as there is still some money to be made from GoogleAds.
Thanks for fifteen years, everybody!
Very odd that you started it all right after 9-11. There has to be some sort of collusion here. A Liberal Special Prosecutor is sitting at his desk right now waiting for a phone call from Chucky Baby Schumer to get started….
Sigh, I remember when the best straighline of the day response got cookies. Without Walnuts.
Your anti-bacon bigotry is showing-I like to get bacon!
In that case!
15 years of Hippie Punching!
May there be many more.
Somewhere in there was also “not sorry” Risawn, space monkeys and lasers, Sarah Palin, some Colt .45 shooting, an e-book about Obama the Greatest Everything Evar, Rowie, a couple of kids, and making fun of John Kerry. Plus Tea Parties, something about somebody musing on a mountain somewhere, hate filled Lefties and hippie punching. I only comment once every fourteenth blue moon, but I’ve been lurking here the whole time.
Yeah, I don’t know what happened to blogs. Social Media, and people being too lazy to read more than a short paragraph. I’m down to about 10 regular readers I think, from several thousand.
What on earth was that with the name?? Some kind of auto-fill hiccup.
And happy pre-birthday to SarahK.
2004
I still remember the bit about Kerry calling OnStar when he lost
I kinda miss ScaryEvilMonkey. He was da best. That, and Hillary Clinton Fun Facts (I forget the actual name). If I was prone to drinking milk and reading IMAO, there would have been milk shooting from my nose after reading many of those posts.
Little known fact (i.e. completely made up), many of the Hillary Clinton Fun Facts posts serve as raw material for Frnak’s book coming out later this year. ;p
No, thank YOU, sir, and your merry band of ribald jesters for providing comic relief through all these years!
… I don’t think Rihar is ribald….