And WHAT a boy!

Blogless Peter, who's been writing terrific gun-related posts (and several other goodies which you can find in his category) has thrown caution & common sense to the wind and started his own blog:

Shakey Pete's Shootin' Shack

Love that name. Sounds like he should have the building next to Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon with that moniker.

Let's take a look at what my swaddling-wrapped baby boy has posted:

He forgoes the traditional sucky first post in favor of the less-sucky (ok, completely non-sucky) "about me" type post. This line strikes me funny:

Thinking of Harv as a Blogfather is difficult though, being as how I'm older than he is.

Don't worry about it, Peter, half my dang blogfamily is older than I am. Ain't no big deal :-)

Next he does some thoughtful analysis on strategies for taking out Iran (if & when it becomes necessary). Very well written & cogently argued.

I'm gonna LOVE reading his stuff on a regular basis. It's going to be a better blogosphere now that Peter isn't sneaking around in people's comments, wasting good writing where the virtual sun don't shine.

... um... this is the part of the post where I usually invite the new kid to pick up a logo & blogroll the Bad Example Family. However, since I volunteered to do Peter's blog-decorating for him (and maybe teach him a few html tricks along the way), I'll just skip to the big finish:

All you Bad Example dogs go sniff Peter's butt & say "Howdy".

And Peter...

Welcome Home.

Oh yeah... The best part... I caught him before anyone left a comment using Blogger, so he's pure Haloscan from the get-go.

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I added a direct link to Jeff's comment party at Oh-Dark Thirty to the Bad Example Family Blogrolling blogroll, since everyone's going to be headed there every day, anyhow.

Now naughty adventure is just one click away.

Also, the party was crashed by a bunch of crazies who got there from the Carnival of the Vanities.

The more, the merrier.

Looks like there's going to be a camel-roast, too.

Don't ask.

Just go.

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*WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!*

We interrupt your regular blog-reading to bring you this important news announcement:

Tammi got the job!

TNT just got off the phone with her, but can't blog about it because Blogger sucks.

*WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!*

We now return you to your regular blog-reading, already in progress.

[a public service of That Thunder-Stealing Bastard Harvey. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved]

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Last year, I wrote a post about how to start blogging. At the beginning of it, I mentioned that I was inspired to write it because Jay Tea of Wizbang failed to give advice on blogging to someone who asked for it.

Turns out that the person who didn't get her advice at Wizbang found it here, used it, and has now become by latest blogdaughter.

Say howdy to Firstbrokenangel of AAFFLLAACCKK, who I'll just refer to as Angel, since it's shorter and I'm lazy.

I count Angel as a particularly bright feather in my cap, since she's been a comment... whatever the opposite of a troll is... since Al Gore invented the internet. Just try Googling "Firstbrokenangel" and you'll get over 100 hits. She's been EVERYWHERE.

And you know how I like girls who've been around ;-)

Let's take a look at my new baby, shall we?

Well, she didn't take my advice about the first post needing to suck, because she starts off with a very personal & gut-wrenching piece on the Terry Schaivo case. It's not an easy one to read.

There's a post asking for a little tech help. Don't worry Angel. Plenty of geek in the family.

Assorted news items: Lance Armstrong, Mussaoui, a cop killer, BTK, a missing prosecutor, some news from Iraq, remembering Oklahoma City.

Lots of Pope-blogging.

A very sweet thank-you note to me.

And most important of all...

She has LLAMAS! Real, live LLAMAS! Seriously! Freakin' LLAMAS!

We need pictures, darlin'.

See my post about ImageShack.

Now that that's done, Angel's first assignment is this: go visit your blogbrother Jeff's comment party & misbehave.

After that, Angel, you can pick up a Bad Example Family logo from this post, and you may, if you wish, blogroll the rest of the Bad Example family using the handy blogrolling javascript, although neither is a requirement.

Meanwhile you can look forward - with either anticipation or dread - to regular visits and comments from me.

Welcome home.

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In Oddybobo's introductory post, I neglected to mention that she already has a blogson, The Babaganoosh of Mitsurugi's Baba Gannouj (who I will start calling Baba, because it's easier & I'm lazy).

Who will be a good fit into the Bad Example Family, since not only does he know what the "Puppy Blender" is, he can tell better stories about him than I can.

Funny guy, this one.

See?

Anyway, Baba, you can pick up a Bad Example Family logo from this post, and you may, if you wish, blogroll the rest of the Bad Example family using the handy blogrolling javascript, although neither is a requirement.

Meanwhile you can look forward - with either anticipation or dread - to regular visits and comments from me.

Welcome home.

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Blogson Jeff of Oh-Dark-Thirty is going away to Army Boot Camp and has requested that we keep his blog warm by holding a comment party. Fortunately, he's left us some supplies:

- 1, Industrial Strength Foam Rubber Slip and Slide Super Fun Park
- 455 Gallons, Institutional Pudding in Chocolate, Tapioca, and Vanilla
- 675 Cases, Cold Beer including Guinness, Harp, Bass, Czechvar, BeckÂ’s, Pilsener Urquell, and some hometown Penn Dark and Penn Gold
- 145 bottles, assorted Tequilas, Whiskeys, Scotches, Vodkas, and Gins
- 17, Rotating Hotel Lovebird beds, complete with ceiling mirrors
- 15, live Canadian Moose
- 11, Go-Karts (with optional German Spike Helmets from WW1)
- 9 sets of Twister (Naked and original versions)
- Direct hotlines to the local Fire house and Club Erotica, downtown
- Various “supplies” and “equipment” (wink wink, Harv)
- 4,390 pounds, Fresh Fruit - oranges, apples, mangoes, passion fruitsÂ….
- 7 Hot Tubs full of flavored brandies
- The Swedish Bikini Team

Plus, he's promised special prize if we can meet the following goals in the next 4 months:

- 1000 Comments
This may be a lofty goal, but hell, let’s set ‘em high….
- 50 Different Commenters
- 75 Trackbacks from Different blogs
- 2 Gnome Sightings
- 4 Celebrities (Minor or Major) leaving a comment

Let's see what we can do.

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Seems I've been remiss in my blogfatherly duties.

Oddybobo of Boboblogger once blamed me for the fact that she started blogging, and I tried to overlook it. But since she's a regular commenter at a lot of my blogfamily's sites, and seems to fit in so well with the whole naughtified zeitgeist, I think it's time to bring her into the fold.

One of my points of hesitation was that she'd been a little... mysterious... about her gender. Dropping a few hints here & there, but still, no definitive statements. So would it be blogson? Blogdaughter? Blogmichaeljackson? Very confusing.

However, with this post, she came solidly out of the gender closet. Being an expert on things mammary, I can say without hesitation that those are definitely boobs, and not moobs.

So, since the paternity tests are a bit ambiguous - by which I mean that I don't specifically recall telling her to start blogging before she took the plunge - I'm adopting Oddybobo as my newest blogdaughter.

Oddy, you can pick up a Bad Example Family logo from this post, and you may, if you wish, blogroll the rest of the Bad Example family using the handy blogrolling javascript, although neither is a requirement.

Meanwhile you can look forward - with either anticipation or dread - to regular visits and comments from me.

Welcome home.

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Over at Drunken Wisdom.

Oh no,
there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla!

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Over at Drunken Wisdom.

Something silly.

Something substantive.

Something that might actually be Eric, although with only 5 sets of ellipses, it could be T1G.

All I know is that I didn't write it.

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Blogson Jeff of Au Fait is now blogson Jeff of Ponytailed Conservative.

Even though he has no ponytail.

Because he cut it off to donate it to Locks of Love.

I've adjusted the Bad Example Family javascript blogroll accordingly.

If you have him hardcoded, it's the same URL, just a different name and a new site design.

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Over at Drunken Wisdom.

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Blogson-in-law Alex of Alex in Wonderland has moved into his shiny new MuNu home.

Change your bookmarks accordingly.

And does anyone know how to make that re-direct script thingy so that you're automatically sent from his old blog to his new one?

Anyway, I'm going to have him double-listed on the Family 'roll for a few days to give everyone time to catch up.

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Blogsons Roger & Chuck BOTH said nice things about my anniversary.

Awwwwwww...

Two other things I'd like to mention... First, at the end of every post, Roger always gives himself a new nickname, so the site's worth visiting just for that.

Second, having ridden public transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area, I found Chuck's comic today VERY amusing.

Oh, and you guys should go to Haloscan and get trackbacks. Not the comments, just the trackbacks.

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Matrix Edition

Over at Drunken Wisdom

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Blogson Jeff of Oh-Dark-Thirty will be entering the Army on April 21st, and has two requests:

Proposal 1: I propose to turn the last post before I leave into some kind of MEGA comment party. I expect it to be possibly the grandest, rowdiest, and generally worst-behaved comment party in the history of the blogosphere.

Proposal 2: I propose someone take it upon themselves to be my blog-in-absentia. This would mean you’d give me your mailing address, and I’d write you letters from the army. You’d get all rights to post them on your site, and I’d get to blog still… remotely. Let me know if you’re interested, preferably through e-mail. (On the right, make sure to remove the “_NOSPAM_” before you mail it.)

The post linked above isn't the official party post, but feel free to go over there and get warmed up, if you'd like. I'm a little f'd up on heroin at the moment, so just ignore the drooling guy in the corner.

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Bloggranddaughter ArmyWife of ArmyWifeToddlerMom is celebrating her 14th wedding anniversary on the 13th.

Go congratulate.

Meanwhile, I couldn't decide what to get them, so I just got them one of everything.

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Just saw the news from bloggranddaughter Lee Ann of Lee Ann's View:

Darling Hubby's Bone Marrow Biopsy results this afternoon. And the results????? DH's biopsy shows 98% donor cells and 2% his cells.

What does this mean in normal english? It means that they take a 95% as a 100%, our doctor has never seen a number this high!

What does this mean? IT MEANS THIS IS WORKING! IT'S DOING WHAT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING! IT MEANS THE DONOR CELLS ARE TAKING OVER, KICKING BUTT AND KILLING OFF THE WEAKER CELLS THAT ARE NOT EFFECTIVE

Of course the only reason I actually care is because this means I can start prodding Dogger to get a blog ;-)

Anyway, go whoop it up in Lee Ann's comments.

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Blogson Johnny-Oh of Closet Extremist called me & TNT on Saturday to wish us a Happy Anniversary. His blogdaughter Sarah the Penguin of Because We Have Thumbs was also kind enough to wish us happiness.

I only mention this because Johnny-Oh FINALLY got around to performing his blogfatherly duties of making sure that Sarah had a contact e-mail listed on her sidebar and I promised that I would do MY part if he would do HIS.

Kids.

Sheesh!

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