I’d love if you’d post some of your favorite posts or moments from IMAO from the last 15 years in the comments. I’d put up some of my own, but I’m afraid it would be like the Simpsons where every one would be from the first few seasons.
Anyway, what do you fondly remember about IMAO? I did love doing the podcasts with SarahK, Harvey, Spacemonkey, and Lair, but man were they a lot of work.
Specific examples would include “Obama keeps getting his head stuck in a bucket. This is a known problem”; the riffing on “Obama ate a dog!”; and Carpenter’s “YGDFT!YLTATSOTE!”.
More generally, “15 Fun Facts About . . .” “Q and A” articles, and Random Thoughts are always good, because of the time and thought that go into them.
Oh, and “Frank Responds to Spam.”
I agree…your random thoughts are mostly good and worthy of copying and pasting. And I liked it when you came out with your Confederate bust pic. š
I always liked the Daily Fred Thompson. I just wished we had voted for him.
http://www.imao.us/archives/cat_fred_thompson_facts.html
I’m with the “more Random Thoughts” crowd.
Oops. That was supposed to go under Cliff’s comment.
Dubya in a disco dance-off against Satan for the future of America. And the running Rumsfeld Strangler gag. Really, all of In My World. The Know Thy Enemy feature. And the tour of the 50 states thing kept me coming back, although it got a bit repetitive sometimes.
And whenever I drop by, I’m hoping to see a shiny new Random Thoughts post. Even if it’s just a few lines long.
Coincidence. I posted about IMAO.US (over at blog.dilbert.com) and sarcasm free of the chains of subtlety earlier today, with a recommendation to check out “In My World” and “Know Thy Enemy”. Good stuff.
How could I have forgotten the estimates of odds in match-ups between various entities and Aquaman?
Or the updates on what Science! tells us today.
Is the debate over on whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie?
I used to think ‘Die Hard’ was a porno.
Yeah, who knew?
And, thankfully, there was this literally-reassuring post after Obama’s reelection:
Let’s not forget that FrankJ is a darn good theorist (philosopher may be too high-falutin’ a word for his comfort) in addition to humorist, verbal stylist, and satirist.
The podcasts. My favorite episode was the one were you went back in time.
And the “Fun Facts about”.
And Harvey’s Facts about the states.
Let’s see: I first came here as a result of Frank’s famous post about Glenn Reynolds maintaining his prodigious energy by putting puppies in blenders, turning the blenders on, and then consuming the result (I was Silicon Valley Jim back then). I’d regard that as a real highlight. Like many others, I have fond memories of the Chronicles of Dubya, including the Rumsfeld Strangler and Buck the Marine. I liked that Dubya always called Karl Rove “Rover” and Alberto Gonzales “Speedy”. I still laugh at the memory of one episode in which Dubya was wearing Curious George pajamas and commenting on how good pudding cup time is. It’s been fun watching Frank morph from a bachelor wooing the lovely SarahK to a father of three.
I think the most fun, though, has been reading the comments. There have always been some extraordinarily funny people here (and “always” means that many of the commenters here are as funny as anybody).
I liked the Straight Line of the Day contests (and Anonymiss’s cookies).
I also remember some cool postings by famous t-shirt babe SarahK.
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I thought the “lolbama!” Sunday posts were fun!
Lolbama and lolterroritz !
Frank Responds to Spam, the occasional stick figure cartoons (or did I just dream them?), and especially Lolbama & Lolterizts, as they often inspired me, but I didn’t envy the amount of editing, soliciting, and other hassles that obviously were involved in publishing them.
I also like the posts of videos that show how things are made. I know I could probably find these myself, but Harvey picks good ones!
That’s why I post them – because you COULD find them, but you’d have to go through the same weeding & winnowing process I have to. About 80% of the videos I watch turn out to be junk and never make it on the blog. What you see here is the B+ and above material that I find.
I love Moon Nukers too much to have them have to sift through the F list.
Harvey, your efforts are appreciated!