And it's not a blogchild this time.

Long-absent despite my incessant nagging (and thus still a milk carton kid) Blogdaughter Sally of Whimsy Capricious and her husband Alex of Alex in Wonderland are 22 weeks into brewing up a new offspring.

Thought you'd like to know.

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Bloggreatgranddaughter Tink of Tink's Tribulations needs some scrapbooking help:

I need songs, specificially songs that begin with N, P, Q, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z; where either a verse or the chorus would be appropriate for a young girl.

I personally don't know a lot of music appropriate for children. Those of you with more class, please feel free to chime in.

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As regular readers know, I try to encourage good writers and frequent commenters to start their own blogs, and - consequently - I have a lot of blogkids. Many of whom have blogchildren of their own.

Unfortunately, sometimes things don't always work out. A new blogger may start out with great enthusiasm, but - for whatever reason - doesn't develop the same obsessive-compulsive desire to blog that I suffer from.

Sometimes these folks just quit blogging.

Which makes me very sad.

And torn.

Because I don't want to de-link them - they're FAMILY for cryin' out loud! - but on the other hand, I've pretty much given up hope of them coming back, and the blogroll IS a little bloated... besides, a lot of the active kids use the official Family blogroll, and is it REALLY fair to keep all those dead links on it?

So I've decided to do something about it. A new blogroll just for the blogspawn who haven't posted anything in the last 6 months.

The list of the missing.

The Bad Example Family Milk Carton Kids.

The offspring that are no longer with us, but whose absence leaves an empty, aching hole in my heart.

If they post again, I will - with great rejoicing - put them back on the Family blogroll.

I hope they do.

Meanwhile, for those using the Bad Example Family blogroll, you won't have to skip the non-posters and 404's anymore. But if for some reason you'd like to include a list of the missing somewhere on your sidebar, here's the Blogrolling code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?
r=64a82ee75946298cde968c000df9a238"></script>

(Code divided for display purposes. If used, put all of it on the same line)

And if you ARE one of the Milk Carton Kids, all I can say is...

All is forgiven.

Please come home.

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1 Awwwww... Now see? That's what makes you such a fine patriarch. That, and the scotch and cigars... ;-)

Posted by: Richmond at January 06, 2007 09:55 AM (e8QFP)

2 You're such a good dad! We'll have to think of a great Father's Day present for you. *grin*

Posted by: Teresa at January 06, 2007 10:11 AM (gsbs5)

3 Yeah, good luck with that.

Posted by: _Jon at January 06, 2007 10:26 AM (AqumQ)

4 It's sad, but sometimes you just have to let go.

Posted by: Contagion at January 06, 2007 11:04 AM (MsT2U)

5 Blow me....

Posted by: Madfish Willie at January 06, 2007 04:24 PM (qsZy2)

6 DAAAAAD I'm HOOOMME......HEH who's that smelly hobo In my bed...IT'S HAMMER TIME.WHACK..WHACK..BUDGEN...SMACK. Clean up-Isle three.

Posted by: blogless brother at January 07, 2007 04:52 AM (ogDGO)

7 Thanking you Harvey. What WOULD we do without you? ;-)

Posted by: Tammi at January 07, 2007 08:25 AM (3UQTn)

8 Jon of Ponytailed Conservative shuffled off his mortal coil, did he not? I wouldn't put it past you to try raising the dead just so you could have a separate "Bad Example Zombie Bloggers" blogroll

Posted by: Graumagus at January 08, 2007 09:06 AM (Rayvs)

9 Every now and then I have to delete inactive bloggers. I leave the links up there, keep checking, but after so many months, I figure they've probably moved on to other things and given up blogging. *sigh*

Posted by: kate at January 08, 2007 05:21 PM (cG4Xd)

10 Cute!

Posted by: pam at January 09, 2007 04:36 PM (l6NIn)

11 Well, it's a good thing it only took me a MONTH to post something!

Posted by: Ktreva at January 09, 2007 08:14 PM (MsT2U)

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Bloggranddaughter Mrs_Who of House of Zathras has ditched Blogger for a fancy Wordpress blog with her own domain.

She's also changed her name from Mrs_Who to Mrs. Who - I have no idea if it's a witness protection thing, or what.

Anyway, update your bookmarks.

If you're using the Bad Example Family javascript, it's already been done for you.

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