My third blogiversary came and went with nary a good wish from any of my blog buds. Three years of slaving over the printed word. Three years of deep thinking and profound insights. Does anyone thank me? Nada. So, as I did last year, I am going to go begging.
I, your humble Lingamish, singer of Cyber-Psalms and chief priest of the lingapotamus cult would like a blurb from my readers. Just a simple blurb to put on my forthcoming book, “The Lingamish Century.” This book is going to contain one hundred posts from this blog. Not just the best posts. But the worst posts as well. The funniest. The stupidest. The most visited. The most controversial. I’ll be giving you some peeks at this book in the next ten days.
But I want those blurbs!
To make it interesting I’m going to provide some guidelines and also a challenge.
First the guidelines:
Your blurb can be stated using any one of the following templates:
- Lingamish is the _______ blog in _________.
- Lingamish is the _______ of _________.
- Thanks to David Ker’s blog…
- Or make up your own.
Now for the challenge:
If I receive 100 blurbs before January 1, 2009, I will read the REB version of the Bible from cover to cover next year. Gasp! That’s right. The knuckle-dragging neanderthal of Bible translators reading a lace-collared, toffee-nosed Bible translation! Explosions might occur. Dangerous scenes might ensue. All this can be yours for the price of 100 blurbs.
A few rules:
- I reserve the right to delete any comments that I deem inappropriate (but I would rather have you be rude and funny rather than boring and nice).
- No one person may submit more than five blurbs.
- I reserve the right to change the rules along the way.
Now for some stats in celebration of my blogiversary:
- Total views: 200,840
- Busiest day ever: Monday, May 26, 2008 (2,648 views)
- Average views per day: 2006: 95; 2007: 173; 2008: 350
- Total posts: 1,091
- Total comments: 6,047
- SPAM comments blocked by Akismet: 65,592
How judicious is it to write more than 1,000 posts in three years? Well, my favorite stat is not visits or views but comments. 6,047 comments! Half of those are probably me, but still 3,000 comments from my beloved readers. Makes me feel all warm and gushy.
So, get with it. Write your own blurb here: Blurbs and do your part to celebrate this blog while also forcing me to read the entire REB in 2009. You have until January 1, 2009.
P.S. I will be giving out prizes for my three favorite blurbs.
David Ker is biblioblogdom’s Erma Bombeck!
Lingamish is the hippoest blog in the bibliopotomusphere!
David Ker? Who the devil is that?
Lingamish, you are shameless–you know that, don’t you? And I have every right to speak since I’ve been blogging almost twice as long as you have and I’m almost twice as old as you. (Well, I’m SURE I feel twice as old as you.)
But I must ask–was does “toffee-nosed” mean? Is it anything like red-nosed, as in reindeer?
I can now beat you on all the (post-2006) stats except for the number of posts. That’s probably because of Todd Bentley, although it was Benedict and the Antichrist that gave me my busiest day at 4,594. But I really don’t know why my boring blog has attracted more attention than yours from less posts (629), because …
Lingamish is the most provocative blog in the multiverse!
How can I beat that to give another four blurbs? But I do want to get you to read REB.
Peter, the answer is obvious.
“Lingamish, you are shameless–you know that, don’t you?”
Thanks, Thainamu. That’s a great blurb. You’re 80?!?
Toffee-nosed
Reading Lingamish makes me want to wallow in a wadi of words!
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I came to Lingamish for the insight, but I stayed for the hippo pictures (and vice versa).
Lingamish, you are my Velvet Elvis, my Blue Like Jazz, and my Why Men Hate Going To Church, all wrapped up in one. You drive me back to my Bible every time I read your blog.
Lingamish: Three years of blogging and no Apocalypse yet.
“Lingamish is a must-read for all who love each other, hate each other, or simply co-exist. Don’t leave home without it.”
Now I leave you to try to make sense of that blurb
, because I’m not sure about it.
I can see that my weirdness has attracted a weird crowd over the last three years…
* Lingamish is the leviathan of biblical blogs. (Job 41:1
“Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?)
* Thanks to David Ker’s blog…the bug zapper light in the jungle of biblical blogs.
Rjayr
Lingamish: There aren’t 100 readers so the 20 of us who do are obliged to write 5 blurbs each. Here’s my second-
Lingamish: The one advantage of reading David’s blog is that it keeps one from eating too much.
I’m scarfing peanut M&Ms at the moment. If you only knew how much weight I’ve gained in five months.
Lingamish makes toffee-nosed blogging seem almost normal…
…sometimes.
Lingamish is almost always stimulating and never (or at least not too often) really silly.
Lingamish makes coffee seem lace collared.
I know how much weight you’ve gained in five months.
Lingamish the only blog whose writer gains weight at the expense of his readers.
See Jim’s offering above and David’s reply.
Lingamish the only sharp, witty and profound biblioblog NOT to properly appreciate the REB.
That’s my five, I’m off home for a rest
it’s up to the rest of you to finish the job!
Lingamish: He’s not N.T. Wrong. Probably.
Thanks to Lingamish, I only have 1435 minutes a day to kill.
Lingamish, always Wrong but never NT. (Does that count as number two of my five?)
Perhaps I should turn that last one round for a real endorsement:
Lingamish, always NT (or OT) but never Wrong.
I’m getting nervous here.
Yeh, Qaya, I like that second one better…
Lingamish makes bombastic Bible bashing seem boring.
Read Lingamish because has the courage to admit he hates slogging through the original Biblical languages as much as you secretly do!
Lingamish is the peanut M & Ms of biblioblogging.
Yeah, obvious, but that’s my five, and I’m sticking to them. This blog melted in my hands. Ewww.
Lingamish is the lentil soup of the Internet. You know it’s good for you, but you’re not exactly sure why…
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