Blogdaughter Machelle of Quality Weenie has her shiny new MuNu blog up & running.

Update your bookmarks.

If you use the handy Bad Example Family Blogrolling Blogroll, this has already been done for you.

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My first bloggreatgrandson.

Spurs of Pull My Finger started out as a guest blogger for Sissy of And What Next..., then got left holding the bag while Sissy moved to MuNu.

Now he's got out on his own with his own site that he can screw up to his heart's delight without having to worry about "what will blogmommy say?".

Let's take a peek...

Takes the "traditional sucky first post" to a new extreme by using it to cat-blog.

Gives some thanks to all those who helped make his move possible and explains that the cat pictured in the first post threatened to eat his face unless she was featured prominently on the new site.

Or something like that. I kinda skimmed that post...

Says something clumsy, yet heartfelt on the occasion of Memorial Day, and also had the courtesy to point out someone saying something less clumsy.

Threatens to jump out of an airplane if we don't start reading his blog.

Or something... I skimmed again...

Asks for suggestions of good books to read. Buried under suggestions like Capt. Kirk under Tribbles.

Something about Deep Throat and 64 baseball teams.

That was either mega-TMI or I *really* need to stop skimming.

Anyway, Spurs, 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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Blogdaughter Machelle of Quality Weenie... well, I'll let her explain:

I turn *coughcough38coughhackweezecough* this Friday (May 27th).

I am giving you a whole week to find the perfect gift for me, size doesn't matter (wink,wink)
Not sure what to get me, I don't think you need a hint but for the absent minded here's one.

I like men in work boots.

I want pictures of men in work boots.

So make my birthday and feed my obsession with work boots, trackback or email me your best pictures!

I'll post the pictures after the holiday and tell the tale of how much I enjoyed them over the weekend.

Since she has that gorgeous cleavage shot in her comments window, the LEAST you can do is feed her fetish a little bit.

With something like this:

Or maybe this:

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1 *drool*

Posted by: Machelle at May 26, 2005 07:39 AM (ZAyoW)

2 Machelle, I'm on the same link as you but I could do without the work boots, so I'll take whatever you pass on. :-) Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokanangel at May 26, 2005 10:15 AM (PEKrh)

3 Ah, you see Cindy, it's the work boots that do it. Ya I know, strange fetish.

Posted by: Machelle at May 26, 2005 01:50 PM (ZAyoW)

4 Personally, I can do without the boots... and the shirt. ;-)

Posted by: Boudicca at May 26, 2005 04:22 PM (z7nbM)

5 Hot Damn!! It's a birthday present for ALL of us!!! WooHoo!!

Posted by: Tammi at May 26, 2005 06:21 PM (iKFQk)

6 I'm so glad Machelle has a birthday!

Posted by: Susie at May 26, 2005 09:56 PM (V1YvO)

7 I tried, but the GM1 refuses to pose. Coy bastard.

Posted by: LeeAnn at May 27, 2005 09:06 AM (v9jcm)

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Bloggranddaughter VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks, who left the following comment in the coveted #200 spot:

**Help** I got Jeff’s letter.. about 2 weeks ago. I was out of town. He was BEGGING for snail mail. Please take the time to send a postcard to him. His whole letter is posted BELOW this comment party. But here is his ’spam proof’ snail mail:

PFC Harr, Jeffrey E
E CO 3-10 (2nd PLT)
SPAMPROOF 495 Iowa Ave SPAMPROOF
SPAMPROOF FLW, MO 65473 SPAMPROOF

Does anyone know an EASY way to grab all these comments and print them out? I know how to ctrl-a, ctrl-c and put them in word… but then the format is screwy. Any help would be appreciated.

Poor guy's stuck in Army boot camp with no snail mail, his comment party's bogged down, Bug doesn't know how to grab 200 comments for printing, and I've just been bitten by a moose (comment #199)

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLP!!!1!!

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Go play with him over at Oh-Dark-Thirty.

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

[see comments 166, 167, and 176]

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Blogdaughter Pam of CampHappyBadFun has moved over to her new MuNu site.

Update your blogrolls. I've already added her new place to the Bad Example Family Blogrolling javascript.

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Can be found here.

From Blogdaughter Boudicca of Boudicca's Voice.

I guess when you have two blogfathers, you just have to make the best of it.

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1 That's so sweet! You're a good mom, Harv....

Posted by: Susie at May 11, 2005 10:44 PM (IPJ6q)

2 That was so hilarious....and so you!

Posted by: Sissy at May 11, 2005 11:45 PM (uXS+O)

3 Hmm...So Harvey's a mom...Hmmm...

Posted by: Ogre at May 12, 2005 06:29 AM (/k+l4)

4 Great card, Bou! Damn, that was funny... especially when you consider the facts.

Posted by: That 1 Guy at May 12, 2005 07:05 AM (6krEN)

5 mahn, and just when I thought I was starting to understand my blog-parenting lineage this happens...

Posted by: Contagion at May 12, 2005 07:10 AM (Q5WxB)

6 Good on Bou and Good on you! And remember Blogfathers Day™ on June 19th, guys n dolls! http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2005/05/unconscious-parenthood.html http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_thirdworldcounty_archive.html

Posted by: David at May 12, 2005 09:20 AM (ACL5/)

7 Good on Bou and Good on you! And remember Blogfathers Day™ on June 19th, guys n dolls! http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2005/05/unconscious-parenthood.html http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2005/05/blogmothers-day.html

Posted by: David at May 12, 2005 09:21 AM (ACL5/)

8 And he teases ME about breastfeeding???

Posted by: Ponytailed Conservative at May 12, 2005 12:22 PM (Mu8gg)

9 Bou was a bottle baby ALL the kids were. Go to Madfish Willie's & check his sidebar. You can see for yourself...

Posted by: Harvey at May 12, 2005 02:43 PM (tJfh1)

10 Happy, uhhh... Mother's Day... I... uhhh... Poor man's trackback (that damned "s!te.com" issue): http://driveyours!te.com/blog/perm.asp?pl=5/12/2005%201:52:05%20PM REPLACE THE EXCLAMATION POINT WITH AN "i"

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at Jeff of Oh-Dark-Thirty's comment party.

I hope no one takes advantage of me in my vulnerable condition...

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So here's the deal. Long lost blogson Madfish Willie of Cyber Saloon fame came wandering back from the desert recently, rail-thin, sunburnt, snakebit & generally lookin' like somethin' that Michael Moore just finished sitting on, and he says to me, "Harv, I've had a vision. God has called to me and told me that I need to start a penguin ranch. See? Here's a picture:

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"So anyway," continued the Bartender, "I don't want the bar fallin' apart in the meantime. So here's a pile of cash I got from selling my first herd of penguins. I want to hire YOU to be the new Human Resources director at the Saloon. Find some guys - or even broads, I don't give a f*** - to work as part time bartenders to keep the place going. If any of 'em are worth a shit, I might even toss 'em the keys to the Saloon if they want to take it over."

What's a blogpappy to do?

So I crammed the wad of filthy, birdcrap-smellin' bills in my pocket and took the job. I'll be slingin' drinks over there from time to time, myself. Meanwhile, I'm lookin' for new talent. Here's the requirements:

Must be able to tell Jokes... Dirty Jokes... Really Dirty Jokes... Lame-Ass Jokes... Limericks... etc.

Politcally incorrect preferred.

Ability to insult customers a plus.

Must be talentless hack who think they are funny [See Bad Example].

Leave e-mail address in comments and my Bar Manager, Herbey, will set up interview and give you a set of keys.

UnEqual Opportunity Employer - If I don't like you - you're fired!

Obviously "ability to use a spellchecker" ain't on the list.

So if you're not offended by lewdness, nudity, foul language, drunkenness, blasphemy, or - better yet - ANYTHING, leave your resume in the comments, post it at your blog, e-mail it to me at harvolson-at-gmail.com, stuff it in a coconut and tie it to a swallow's leg... whatever.

I'll get back to you ASAP or whenever I'm done scratching my balls. Whichever comes first.

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1 I can do that part-time! I get tons of jokes that fit all those billets. If MW will have me, then I'm game! Wait... maybe that didn't come out right... I didn't mean 'have me' have me, like in the Biblical sense... or did I?

Posted by: Boudicca at May 09, 2005 06:18 AM (z7nbM)

2 Oh, I'd love the chance to fuck up that piece-of-shit blog of his! Plus insult his readers? Oooh yeah! Sign me up! (Part time, of course.)

Posted by: _Jon at May 09, 2005 07:21 AM (grH7t)

3 an African swallow or an American swallow?

Posted by: phin at May 09, 2005 08:46 AM (Xvpen)

4 I don't care where she's from - as long as she swallows...

Posted by: _Jon at May 09, 2005 08:57 AM (grH7t)

5 O.....M.....G!!!

Posted by: michele at May 09, 2005 09:14 AM (ht2RK)

6 Aheh. Heheh... He said "swallow." Heheh. Hehehehhehe. (PS - Your comment thingie wouldn't let me use my email address, because it has "index" as part of it.

Posted by: Dana at May 09, 2005 10:32 AM (UlC9+)

7 If black birds have black babies and white birds have white babies, what kind of bird has no babies? A swallow. Wow, my jokes suck worse than the Bartender. I MUST be qualified to moonlight for Madfish Willie. My profanity will need an upgrade, though, if I'm to maintain the quality of his blog.

Posted by: physics geek at May 09, 2005 12:13 PM (Xvrs7)

8 I once knew this guy whose wife never came home one night. By the third day the guy was a total wreck, and he could hardly walk to the door when the police showed. But he had to know, so he steeled himself and opened the door. The cops told him "We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news concerning your wife. You want the good news or the bad news??" Fearing the worst, he asked for the bad news. "Well", the cop said, "The bad news is that we found your wife. Her car went off the the end of the pier, and we found her body wedged behind the steering wheel. The good news is that there were eight HUGE lobsters feeding on her corpse, and a mess of the tastiest crabs I've ever boiled chowing on the bits the lobsters hadn't got to yet." Horrified, the distraught husband screamed "You bastards! If that's the good news, what the hell is the fucking GREAT news?!?!" With a smile and a cheery voice the officer answered "We're pulling her back up again tomorrow!"

Posted by: Graumagus at May 09, 2005 02:04 PM (Cayrz)

9 Wow. That was a bit much even for me. /shrug

Posted by: _Jon at May 09, 2005 02:29 PM (grH7t)

10 Herbey... put Geek on the payroll... you'll have to hire that turd _Yon as a barback though... let him caarry out the trash, clean up the toilets when they overflow, and wipe up the puke... that'll learn him... [What the fuck was the crack about the spell checker for?]

Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 09, 2005 07:25 PM (MEfjQ)

11 Bartender, you shit! How dare you leave us this long?? [/rant] Why not a group blog? Bou would even out the guys nicely...

Posted by: pam at May 10, 2005 09:23 AM (l6NIn)

12 [What the fuck was the crack about the spell checker for?] Because you missed the second "i" in "Politcally" And because I'm a fuckin' dick.

Posted by: Harvey at May 10, 2005 05:36 PM (ubhj8)

13 I'll have you know that i was the County Spekling Bee champeen in grade skrool...

Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 10, 2005 07:25 PM (MEfjQ)

14 Pam: we can do a groupthingy only if Herbey will be the Pivot Man of our little cirle jerk...

Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 10, 2005 07:26 PM (MEfjQ)

15 OOOO! I get to even out guys! I think I can try my hand at that...

Posted by: Boudicca at May 10, 2005 07:35 PM (z7nbM)

16 geez. All the good jobs are taken.

Posted by: chris Muir at May 11, 2005 07:14 PM (g/gbg)

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Blogdaughter Tammi of Road Warrior Survival is now Tammi of Tammi's World.

Update your links & bookmarks accordingly. If you use the Bad Example Family blogrolling code, this has been done for you.

Meanwhile, there's a blogwarming party at the new place that has a picture of a half-naked fireman in it, for those of you who are into that sort of thing.

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Blogson Peter of Shakey Pete's Shootin' Shack has a new grandson.

Good thing he doesn't know the secrets to using ImageShack yet, or he'd be torturing us with pictures already.

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The gold-hearted and gracious Pixy Misa - omnibenevolent Emperor of MuNu - has graciously assented to nominate the entire Bad Example Family for inclusion in the MuNu empire. If you're on the Family blogroll and would like a Movable Type based site with free hosting on the MuNu servers, leave a comment at the above link expressing your interest.

Now, you don't HAVE to accept, and you don't HAVE to move if you don't want to. If you're happy & cozy where you're at, that's fine. Or if you're still overwhelmed by even a relatively simple Blogger site & want to continue to get your feet wet over there, that's understandable. You don't have to say yes right now. We'll wait until you're ready. No one's feelings will be hurt.

However, if you're sick of Blogger's orneriness and want something more versatile, this is a good time to speak up.

Of course, first I have to humiliate myself in public to win Phin's assent (per his comment at Ellis Island) by posing with Snooze Button Jim's Blue Footed Boobie, so don't click this link, because it WILL hurt.

NOW can I get a YAY at Ellis Island?

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1 Wow, and I thought I was a sicko for suggesting it. Well hereÂ’s to another couple of years of therapy.

Posted by: phin at May 03, 2005 10:15 PM (DGPlf)

2 Ouch!!! Oh my eyes!!!

Posted by: Teresa at May 03, 2005 10:39 PM (nAfYo)

3 Wow! That's like moving from the swampy trailer park to the kingdom! Or like those that live in the trailer park winning the lottery! Whatever it is, I'll take it! I've already started packin' my shit! Color me ready to go!

Posted by: Sissy at May 03, 2005 11:56 PM (I1rPn)

4 Don't go! Pixy is a soical... a scilai... a slocai... ahhhhh... Just go already!

Posted by: Ponytailed Conservative at May 04, 2005 06:06 AM (Mu8gg)

5 I'm all up for a move. Blogger has been giving me fits for the last month.

Posted by: Contagion at May 04, 2005 07:37 AM (Q5WxB)

6 I see TNT was gettin a bit rough with ya eh?

Posted by: oddybobo at May 04, 2005 07:42 AM (6Gm0j)

7 Congrats family!!! I'm really excited. I know I've not been happier. In my previous 2 incarnations I was frustrated, miserable, anti-social, humorless and very, very, angry. Welcome to those "who are movin' on up"!

Posted by: michele at May 04, 2005 09:58 AM (ht2RK)

8 BTW, Harvey, put your shirt on and stop being an exhibitionist!

Posted by: michele at May 04, 2005 09:58 AM (ht2RK)

9 I'm very dissapointed, Harvey. The Blue Footed Boobie was supposed to be used for good, not evil.

Posted by: Jim at May 04, 2005 10:55 AM (tyQ8y)

10 Good... evil... I'm the guy with the blog :-) Oddy - yeah, TNT has a wicked follow-through at raquetball, and I tend to do whatever it takes to hold center court - we connect from time to time :-)

Posted by: Harvey at May 04, 2005 03:49 PM (tJfh1)

11 O_O *dies*

Posted by: Baba at May 04, 2005 04:27 PM (2Sfuq)

12 You're a fucking putz... why couldn't YOU nominate them... lazy asshole....

Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 04, 2005 05:47 PM (MEfjQ)

13 Oh boy! I think I'd better wait just a while, though. Maybe a decade or two while I learn barely enough to be considered ignorant.

Posted by: Peter at May 04, 2005 06:27 PM (nwTw3)

14 Peter... I'd stick with blogger now if I were you. It's a lot to learn to switch and blogger is more user friendly. You have haloscan comments. When I was on blogger, I just wrote all my posts in word and then copied and pasted them all to my blog file. I still do that. Old habits die hard.

Posted by: Boudicca at May 04, 2005 06:44 PM (z7nbM)

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...over at blogson Jeff's comment party at Oh-Dark-Thirty. Here's some photographic evidence courtesy of Spamusement

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Speaking of Jeff, bloggranddaughter VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks has his first letter home.

Hey _Jon! He has less hair than you, now!

*runs*

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Andrew (aka Aris_Ravenscroft) has been commenting here at Bad Example for quite a while, but he never left a URL with his comments, so I always assumed he was blogless. Turns out he was only MOSTLY blogless, since he did have a little sumthin'-sumthin' over at LiveJournal. So, with some prodding from me and a little help from Miracle Max (aka Blogger), he's become my latest blogson over at Custos Honor.

Let's take a peek...

He opens with the traditional sucky first post, which doesn't suck nearly as much as he claims. Guess he just sucks at sucking.

He introduces himself good & proper and explains his blog name.

He laments the lack of a National Sword Association to help protect his right to keep and bear pointy things. I'm not making fun of him, here. I seem to recall a Supreme Court case from the 1800's that specifically found that "arms" in the 2nd Amendment covers swords and all means of self-defense.

Part one of an intriguing fictional adventure.

And he tells us that he'll be entering the Marines on May 23rd. He also describes his plans for keeping us updated in his absence.

The boy's got writing talent and I look forward to reading what I can from him before he runs off to serve his country. I'll do what I can to keep the homefires burning while he's away.

Andrew, 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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