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11:53 December 31st, 2008

Have a Real Stupid New Year!

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , ,

Blog Guy, Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to more absurdity in 2009.

Many thanks, italic font-using stranger! This is a good opportunity to thank our many readers, and show a holiday group shot of the whole Oddly Enough blog staff.

Wow! What do they all do?

You name it! Eddie designs our logos, and…

You have a logo?

Well, not yet. And Cleo does our publicity…

I’ve never seen any publicity.

And Shelby handles sponsor relations.

I don’t think you have sponsors.

Ah, I think I see where you’re going with this. Okay, so it’s a big boondoggle for my family and friends. Shoot me.

Hey, that one guy looks like Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela!

That’s Herb. He gets that a lot. We call him “Mr. President.”

Okay, this is turning really stupid.

Before it does, let me thank the readers who pushed our pageviews into the millions and joined a Facebook Oddly Enough Blog Network with more than 1,100 members, and helped get this blog featured in Neatorama, Weird News, Urlesque, Mental Floss, Dumb as a Blog, Famous DC, Fark and many, many, others.

Awesome! What’s the coolest thing that happened to you in 2008?

That’s easy. My blog showed up on a list of “100 Blogs that will Make You Smarter.”

Will it really?

Well, you’ve read down this far. Don’t you feel smarter already?

More stuff from Oddly Enough

Above: Sporting’s players celebrate their first goal against FC Basel (FCB) during their UEFA Cup third round soccer match in Basel February 21, 2008. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Below: Presidents from Latin American and Caribbean nations pose for the Summit of Latin America and Caribbean nations group photo, December 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar

7 comments so far

Thanks for the shout out to our Dumb Blog, Robert!

Merry everything and a Happy New Year! Here’s wishing you all sorts of love and oddities in 2009. :)

- Posted by Susie

Thanks, Susie! Here’s hoping you have your dumbest year ever!

- Posted by Robert Basler

hey for once the entire article wasn’t a loud of crap…love the blog by the way. you actually made tenth in news

- Posted by Steven

Thanks for the dumb laugh!! :-)

- Posted by Frances

Happy New Years, Robert! I know I’m definitely smarter now than I was a second ago.

Oh - and you don’t look a thing like Hugo Chavez, Herb.

- Posted by Fortunalee

Fortuna, thanks for all your comments and the peanuts. Happy New Year!

- Posted by Robert Basler

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