Yes it's nearly the end of 2024 and The Curmudgeons Inc.ⓒ has decided to bring you the highlights from this blogging community.
Let's look at Robert's blog first.
Robert changes his blog frequently, perhaps believing that the Google Police are after him. When following links placed by Richard on his blog:
or by me on my blog:
the links take readers to either of these blogs:
Rob was chuffed to receive positive feedback for his comment on Trent Horn's page. It was rather a long comment and the love hearts gave him a buzz. He didn't expect love hearts for this blog, however. For some reason he couldn't fathom, lapsed Catholics and heretics who had renounced their faith, couldn't stomach Catholics who hadn't. As Trent Horn had said in the video "I'd rather be a naive member of the elect than a calumnious member of the damned".
Next up is Richard's blog.
Richard hasn't changed his blog title, layout or, let's face it, its content for a couple of decades. It still looks like this:
with its redundant sub-title "the original bass-bagging site" as if anyone in their right mind would create another on.
Even after Richard deleted his entire blog (twice) he came back to using the same old name and format.
In 2024 the posting record looks like this:
Yes, I know that it's hard to read and the use of a silly turquoise blue colour on a brown background makes it impossible to establish how many posts were published on each of the months. Perhaps he's embarrassed at the lack of frequency and has deliberately done this.
Extensive forensic investigation has established that the 2024 total of posts is 300 if anyone is interested.
Let's have a look anyway to see if there was a highlight. Don't go away - it won't take long.
Dum de dum de dum de dum .... Hey! There was one.
The Curmudgeons Inc.ⓒ judging panel though being unable to award high points for its modern layout, prose-style, edgy photography, originality, humour and sophistication nevertheless found that the content was memorable, particularly the use of 'Pete' and 'The Curmudgeon'. For this we approve and are eternally grateful. So grateful in fact that we award a deserved second place to Richard's Bass Bag for posting highlights in 2024.
If it makes you happy, go for it Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon).
This then leaves my own blog to investigate.
Let's face it - it's a classic.
The title is clear and consistent so that readers (already in single figures now) have no confusion as to the blog's provenance or content. The layout remains classic yet contemporary and has clever snippets of information on the home page to alert readers to new events or to any additions and alterations.
Let's look at the 2024 record:
Wow! 403 posts to date and December hasn't ended. This is going to be a challenge finding the ultimate highlight because there will be so many of them. It's best that you leave it to me to trawl through. Why don't you make a cup of tea, have a nap or a game golf golf or something and pop back later.
Whew! That was a lot of reading but I narrowed things down to 390 and eventually came up with the ultimate winner. Here it is:
"Well done that man. I knew that you had what it takes. I look up to you."
- Father McCann.
8 comments:
Only two grammatical mistakes. Not too bad and nothing that proofreading couldn't have fixed.
Thanks Dad.
Hang on I'll just go back and see what the point was...there again I want to go to bed and play 'The Forest'... maybe just a quick look at RBB.
Does playing 'The Forest' in bed involve putting up tent poles under the sheets?
Just asking for a friend.
'The Forest' is the best first person reality/survival game out there.
Don’t forget to wrap your Stars and Stripes security blanket around you while playing it then.
First typo, "with its redundant sub-title "the original bass-bagging site" as if anyone in their right mind would create another on."
Second typo, "have a nap or a game golf golf or something and pop back later."
I thought that all forms of golf were golf.
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