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Graphics From Recent GoodCleanWholesome Fun Posts

GoodCleanWholesome Fun¹ Has Been Especially Graphic Lately

Some of the photos displayed recently at GoodCleanWholesome Fun are not only impressive as standalone pieces but also connect to slide shows filled with similar items. Also posted are items about Sweet Baby James, the sexiest music videos ever shown (according to Nerve.com), lying voters, economic analysis of quality art, and an especially puzzling headline from CNN’s Headline News.

As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun.

The Links

Far From Conservative - Provocative Art From the London home of Roland Emmerich

Quandary for Hebrew - How Would Isaiah Text?

My Belt Sander Can Beat Your Circular Saw

Ford Speeds Up Production of a Blind-Spot Mirror

Latin American Art at LACMA Gets an Installation Makeover

Decorative, Yes, but Why Does It Merit This Show? - The Glass Art of David Chihuly

U.S. Olympic Training Features A New Requirement: Etiquette 101

James Taylor’s “Covers” Album, Takes on Leonard Cohen, Buddy Holly, Dixie Chicks

The 50 Sexiest Music Videos of All Time

When Voters Lie To Pollsters

The Best Art Of The Century? According To Times Used In Art Books?

“The Victim Of A Miracle Fall” - Huh?

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun↩

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Below you’ll find a few recently posted selections from the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog.¹ As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun.

And, GoodCleanWholesome Fun is now comment-capable. Once I added a few snippets of code from a company that does nothing but handle comments to the GCWF template, those comment dialog boxes appeared like magic.

The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Posts

• Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now: Vignettes drawn from the poetry of A.E. Housman (also shown are “To an Athlete Dying Young” and “Yonder See the Morning Blink”) displayed in Legos. Is that cool or what?
• “[The sonnet is] a small vessel capable of plundering tremendous depth.” From WSJ’s book review of The Making of a Sonnet
• Skeptic’s Anthem. YouTube rendition by singer/songwriter Bob Carroll of The Skeptic’s Dictionary, who has set Dylanesque lyrics to the music of Leonard Cohen’s Tower of Song to form the titular “Skeptic’s Anthem.”
• “Sexual promiscuity is rampant throughout nature, and true faithfulness a fond fantasy.” From New York Times article, In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy.
• “Poor Leonard Cohen, he had a tippy tummy.” James Reaney writes about Leonard Cohen’s participation, as a young man, in a panel of poets, spotlighting an account of his queasy stomach.
  
  
  

• America’s Top Dog. The Wall Street Journal sends a reporter across the continental US looking for the best hot dog.
• Top Secret Recipes Recipes for famous foods from commercial establishments. The recipe featured on this date is the perfect complement to the best hot dog from the previous post - the burger referenced in the radio commercial, “In-N-Out, In-N-Out, that’s what a hamburger’s all about.”
• Yeah, but he’ll never be as popular as his sister, Debbie Does Dallas Deep Throat Devil in Miss Jones … The “15 Craziest Personal Names” opens with “James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond,” the name chosen by a “James Bond fanatic” (lucky guess).

Sombrero Galaxy (Click on image to expand)

• Hubble Space Shots - The European Edition. The photo above is “The Sombrero Galaxy,” one of the literally 100’s of awe-inspiring shots housed at the European Homepage of NASA/Hubble Space Telescope.
  
  
• Bad Baby Names - A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names
• If Celebrities lived in Missouri…

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun↩

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I’ve changed the arrangement of WhereTheHeck, the Google-powered search engine for the Heck of a Guy Blog and, now, for the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog.¹

Clicking on the sidebar link, either WhereTheHeck Search on the sidebar under “Search Options” between “Archives” and “My Other Sites,” or the WhereTheHeck tab at the top right of every page, now whisks the browser to a site that looks and operates like the model displayed beneath the horizontal bar at the end of this explanation.²

The significant operational change is that the WhereTheHeck Search Engine now offers the choices of searching the Heck Of A Guy Blog, the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog, or both simultaneously.

Regardless of which search box is used, the search results are now shown on Here It Is, which is a HeckOfAGuy Blog page instead of a Google-hosted page as before.

Graphic of the “Here It Is” search results page

As indicated, the Here It Is page includes links back to the index pages of the Heck Of A Guy Blog and the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog and a reminder that using the “Back” button will return the browser to the user’s original page as well as the results of the search, which will be displayed below the “Results” heading.

The Here It Is page will also show context-related ads placed by Google in exchange for use of the Google search technology. Other than the use of the Google search process, Heck Of A Guy and GoodCleanWholesome Fun receive no compensation from the ads.

Check out the WhereTheHeck Search below.

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Where The Heck Is It?

Search The Heck of a Guy Blog³

Search The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog

Search BOTH The Heck of a Guy Blog AND The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog

To go …

• Back to the previous web page, use your browser’s “Back” key or click Go Back
• To the Heck Of A Guy blog’s front page, click Heck of a Guy
• To the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog’s front page, click GCW Fun

Footnotes

1. Because this search engine is Google-dependent, only those pages of the Heck Of A Guy Blog and the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog that are indexed by Google show up in the search results. As it turns out, Google does index the overwhelming majority of pages at these sites (on the day this was originally written, for example, the Heck Of A Guy blog has 967 Total URLs, 943 or which were indexed), some may be missing and some newly published sites may not be immediately indexed.↩
2. There is also a search box near the top of the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog that operates in a manner identical to the “Search The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog” box.↩
3. The Wordpress search for the Heck Of A Guy Blog is also available in the sidebar of every page.↩

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If it’s been a while since you’ve checked the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,¹ well, what the heck is going on? Look at what you’re missing.²

Left: Camouflaged Cuttlefish. See Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters
Right: Uncamouflaged Brides. See The Bride Wore Very Little

A Sampling Of Recent Good Clean Wholesome Fun Posts

• Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters (New York Times)
  Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus, squid, and the like) mimic rocks, diverse patterns, ripples in the water, and more. Must be (barely) seen to be believed.
• The Bride Wore Very Little (New York Times)
  Brides (your wife, the girl next door, your daughter, and the like) mimic burlesque shows. Must be (barely) seen to be believed.³
• It is what it is, a sports cliché for our times (Slate)
  “It is what it is” is the pervasive sports cliché of the day but given that it fits every occasion, can anything stop its spread to every aspect of our conversations?
• Taking Play Seriously (New York Times)
  A cogent essay presents potential role of play in childhood development and implications for parents and schools.
• Bug off: Steer clear of the top sources for germs
  Which bathroom stall is least contaminated? Which elevator buttons are be be avoided? And even more.
• Love Mattress lets couples cuddle comfortably (Iconoculture)
  Do you wake up from spending a night with your sweetie with an appendage numb (no, not that appendage)? This might be the fix.
• Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location (New York Times)
  Subway semicolons set sentence syntax straight.
• The Best Food Movie Ever Made
  Prize awarded by chef; seconded by Lady Lawanda.
• Most Expensive Cars In The World: Top 10 List 2007-2008 - Super Cars
  If your kid is attending one of the (previously posted) World’s Most Expensive Universities, now he can drive there in one of the World’s Most Expensive Cars.

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun↩
2. As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun↩
3. An aside to Very Very Good Girl: Even before this feature on revealing bridal gowns appeared, I had come up with the idea that, as Avuncle of the Bride, I could assist your fulfillment of the traditional “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something salacious, … ” checklist by popping for an artist to paint temporary, tastefully trashy tattoos for the bridal party and the parents of the bride and groom. I thought it would give a little edge to the ceremony if, for example, your dad had a cobra head tattoo on the side of his face as he gave you away. And why carry a bridal bouquet when your mom could wear an ink version of one? I hadn’t suggested it to you yet because I had broached the notion to Lady Lawanda, who was surprisingly resistant, but once she sees this article and the potential excitement a well placed tattoo of, say, mating panthers on your back framed by the folds of your gown, she’s sure to come around. Given the amount of ink on almost every basketball player on TV this year, it’s clear that this is a must for fans, so for SportsBizPro, I’m thinking a sports theme would be ideal, e.g., maybe the emblems of all his favorite teams surrounding a stadium view of a soccer game being played. Or something with snakes.↩

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