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Van Damme v Seagal, who would win?

This is my fave post for ages, with the best vids ever, so I will leave it here another day!

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This vitally important topic of van Damme v Seagal was discussed at great videographic length over at Brohans. In my humble opinion, Seagal would give van Damme a good hiding without breaking into a sweat. Sorry to everyone with a soft spot for pretty boy and a dislike of the grimacing pony tailed fat man! I sort of have an argument to back up that bold statement.


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MyBlogLog Sunday, a Technorati fiddle?

I was looking around the internet at different Technorati gaming strategies. There are some clever folks out there. One by one they seem to hit a wall, though, and Technorati puts their foot down. I don't know if they all deserve Technorati's wrath, but secretly (or not now I am going to reveal all!) I don't much care for winning by any means. It is why I have never won much, I guess!

Is Ed a link love whore?


It got me thinking that perhaps MyBlogLog Sunday was considered in that sphere of link love influence. Every Sunday, I record the last 10 MyBlogLog bloggers to visit the Pisstakers before I hit blogging mode. When I have also picked out a witty comment of the week from a MyBlogLog visitor, I write a slightly witty mini review of each site with plenty of links included.

Admittedly, Technorati does like The Pisstakers a little more each day, but for the most part, to any cynics out there, the only hidden agenda in the MyBlogLog Sunday idea is that I am promoting (in a mini way) the MyBlogLog community members who can be bothered to visit The Pisstakers on a traditionally quiet Sunday. In turn, some alert their visitors to my site and traffic comes back my way. So, from where I am sitting, I don't see myself as a link lover per se. I simply thought that writing and linking and interacting with people, not robots and scripts, was how the internet worked!

Looking out from my ivory tower, the feature seems to be a welcome addition to the blog world, MyBlogLog themselves are supportive in their quiet way, and people with sweet teeth love the prize of 1lb of gummi bears. (That mighty prize plus indepth review, goes to the top referrer amongst the 10 mini reviewed bloggers.) All told, this weekly feature has helped create some buzz. but has not artificially inflated rankings for The Pisstakers, at least I don't think it has. Others may think different? Let me know.

A MyBlogLog fiddle?


I haven't really thought of MyBlogLog Sunday as a way to game MyBlogLog either. I had about 40 contacts at the start, and am adding about 10 a week. Not exactly going well if I am trying to get in the top 10!

Remember, any blogger who writes a post about MyBlogLog Sunday or mentions their mini review, should tag it in Technorati. I will find it and you will get a second link - amidst a real sentence or two!

Oh yeah, when I review blogs on Sundays, I do spend time looking around, usually start on the homepage, go to the About Page and then on from there. I also try to find the good bits, but if there aren't any, I will say so too. As we all know, love hurts sometimes!! See you tomorrow.


We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase mybloglog sunday . It is a win-win, perhaps!

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MyBlogLog Sunday 5: gummi bear & review winner Update

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After great debate and hand-wringing, Polli has magnanimously surrendered her gummi bears and review prize to a worthy runner-up, Linda at Are We There Yet?

(Polli's real motive was to pass on the cost of gummi-related dental work to someone else and Polli is now eating the last of her pink gummis with toothbrush in hand and a smile of relief on her face.)

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Put death on the curriculum

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When I was at school, back in the day of Latin plus metalwork for boys, cooking for girls, we used to have assemblies. You know, where the whole school would meet up, bleary eyed first thing in the morning to fidget and elbow and hit each other while the head droned on about the latest timetable changes, canings, sports results... But once a month, a teacher had to give a talk to the mob.

One guy really had us listening hard. He starts,
"Over the next 10 years, half of you will be married, half of those will end up divorced and regardless of whether you get married or not, 5 of you will be dead!"


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White men in Wawa

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True life is always better than fiction. In the wake of the Imus racist language fiasco, I was in Wawa buying some milk colored milk and tan colored bagels. The person behind the counter was a female homo sapiens whose ancestors originated from African America.

She pressed some buttons on her register and the screen didn't display what she expected. After a few seconds she started to get flustered, looking embarrassed, staring at the screen. Then the electronics kicked in and all was well.

In relief she burst out, "
I was just goin' to say to bring the white man in the coat to take me away. I mean, the men in the white jackets, I mean, oh, I don't know what I mean."

It was funny, we both laughed,

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Some painters are stupid, some aren't.

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On construction sites they say, "If you can piss you can paint." As someone who used to teach trade apprentices how to paint, I sort of disagree. My stock reply to shut them up was, "If that is true, paint the toilet bowl so it doesn't peel."

I know how to paint glass and plastic and I know most people wouldn't have a clue how to go about it - especially hairy assed builders.

Once we had an apprentice
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MyBlogLog Sunday 5: gummi bear & review winner

Sunday's mini review extravaganza is at the bottom of this homepage!
1lb of gummi bears + indepth review goes to whichever of the 10 blogs featured last week refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers up to midnight Saturday this week.

Unless one of last week's bloggers owns Stumble Upon, the winner is Polliwog's Pond. Yay!

Again, congratulations, Polli, the technique to post and refer your many fans to The Pisstakers last week has worked!

Please bear in mind, I only have the mighty Awstats to go on, not a crystal ball, so, as long as the traffic comes direct from your domain, it will be registered.

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Of cats and men

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The Egyptians revered cats, treating them like 4 legged gods. On reflection, I don't think I have a trace of Egyptian in me.

To be honest, I am not an animal lover, but before animal lovers go nuts and tune out... if it makes you feel any better, I had a massive debate with some religious nut whose views on dominion over animals made me glad I am not into religion.
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MyBlogLog Sunday 5

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