I understand this is a tad anticlimactic, since we’ve already announced this blog’s most popular posts for all of 2008.

But for you folks who wager on the best of the month, and you know who you are, these were the five most popular posts for December.

Naturally I was disappointed that my post on tipping your favorite bloggers wasn’t in the top five, but the readers have spoken.

Happy New Year to all, and please remember: friends don’t let friends not read this blog!

5. Trust me, you don’t wanna see this…

4. A large coffee and 60 drums of Napalm, please!

3. Your call is important to us…

2. Palin’s a MAVRIK! What’s that?

1. Revenge of the jacuzzi floozy!

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Paris Hilton: REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Sarah Palin: REUTERS/Hans Deryk

Britney Spears: REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Jacuzzi model: REUTERS/Mihai Barb

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It was a great year for really stupid stuff. Absurdity and irony abounded, and traffic to the Oddly Enough blog was measured in the millions. We asked a bunch of famous people their opinion of Oddly Enough, and the satisfaction in their faces here is all the reward this simple, honest blogger needs.

Here are two top ten lists for 2008. The first were your ten favorite posts.

Below that, I’m offering my own favorite ten for the year, like anybody cares.

Readers’ top ten favorites

10. You’re kind of a quiet guy, huh?

9. Somebody! Help me take this thing off!

8. We’re worried about your daughter

7. And the fastest-growing stupid sport is…

6. I wish to file for 82 divorces, please!

5. Sarah, time for another big hug!

4. That just seems creepy!

3. Oh sure, Mom, you saw WHO?

2 Toss another noun on the noun, mate!

1. When models dress themselves

Blog Guy’s own top ten favorites

10. Hooray for the red, white and bleu!

9. Politics 2008: the MONSTER movie!

8. Grandma, here’s your pail of Blackberries!

7. Do you have the May issue of Nose-Picker?

6. It’s like surf ‘n’ turf in a bag!

5.Sound of Music Sequel: Nun with a Gun!

4.Hey! Are you wearin’ Lollipop’s underpants?

3.Please look at me, senator!

2.What? You’ve never seen underwear?

1.I wouldn’t be caught dead in that dress!

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Goofy Face Museum and Doughnut Shop

Blog Guy, give us the list of the most popular items in your blog for November. A lot of us continue to wager on this stuff, and all my Christmas money is riding on this!

Okay, if  you were smart enough to figure out that Barack Obama was a pretty big story in November, you’re halfway there.

Here’s the top five list, and three of them - including number one and two - were Obama-related.

Yippee! I win! Little Timmy and what’s-her-name can have a Christmas! But why are you illustrating this item with Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show photos?

I’ve got thousands of these things. What else am I gonna do with them?

5. Sir, your glasses will be ready in 1162

4. You see this doorknob, Barack?

3. The hassle of sex? Not again!

2, Is that Obama in a mullet haircut?

1. We’re worried about your daughter!

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Victoria’s Secret models at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2008 in Miami Beach, Florida, November 15, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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This blog did VERY well in October. Thanks for coming, and please keep coming back with your friends.

Special thanks to all of you who linked to us from your blogs, and who shared my stuff via Mixx, Neatorama, Fark, Digg and so on.

For those of you who wager on the top five posts, and you know who you are, here they are:

5. Hi! You must be here for the um, um, um…

4. Hey, what do you think THIS button does?

3. She’s what you want in a laptop!

2. You got HOW DRUNK last night?

1. Toss another noun on the noun, mate!

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A model presents a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld for French fashion house Chanel during their Spring/Summer 2009 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris October 3, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

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Many readers have asked why I still haven’t posted the list of this blog’s top five reader favorites for September. To quote them verbatim, they say, “Bob, why haven’t you posted the monthly list of reader favorites for September?”

Of course the answer is I’ve been extremely busy writing about the political campaign and international fashion. But I know that many readers wager on this information, so here goes:

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5.  Sarah! Time for another big hug!

4. I wish to file for 82 divorces, please…

3. Oh sure, Mom, you saw WHO?

2. That just seems CREEPY!

1. When models dress themselves

REUTERS photo by Michael Caronna

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Blog Guy, did I miss it? Have you announced the top five most popular items in your blog for August? I stayed home Labor Day Weekend just for this!

You didn’t miss anything - it was very close this time, and knowing that some people bet heavily on these results, we reran the data just to make sure.

Once again, a diverse spread of topics, from bicycle trees to tips on looking like George Clooney, to stuff from the Olympics. You may now collect your winnings.

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5. Mmmmm, ripe, juicy bicycles!

4. Stuff they don’t want you to see

3. Even better-looking in person!

2. I’m dropping my pants…

1. A very goofy photo opportunity!

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Okay, you’ve had plenty of time to place your bets - which we don’t condone - so it’s time to reveal this blog’s most-read posts for July. There is no common thread except weirdness in general. It appears my readers have a healthy range of interests, from Hitler decapitations, to bikinis, to stupid fashions.

If you’re reading these results on a sandy beach using a wireless device, stand up now and shout, “Is everybody here a member of the Oddly Enough blog network?

5. I can text-message with my bosom!

4. Suddenly she recoiled in horror…

3. Attack of the 50-foot bikini model!

2. Just pull the trigger - aiming is overrated!

1. Big furore over waxy fuehrer

Most popular from past months

A model shows a creation from the label ‘Susanne Wiebe’ during ‘Fashionweek Berlin Spring Summer 2009 ‘ in Berlin, July 17, 2008.  REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

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Blog Guy, me and my friends don’t read books at the beach any more. Instead, we use wireless to surf your blog and read it aloud to each other. It’s a great way to attract chicks. 

I wanted to be sure I had your most popular posts from the month of June. What were they?

These were my top five most popular posts for June. I’m using an unrelated photo because, well, do you want to see Victoria’s Secret models, or some guy with needles all over him?

5. And the fastest-growing stupid sport is…

4. Enjoy your lavish 38-cent lunch…move along…

3.  ‘Lock and load’ means it’s safe, right?

2. Toilet’s broken… Next one’s 210 miles south!

1. Yeah? Could a stupid guy do this?

Victoria’s Secret Angels pose during a 2008 appearance in New York. REUERS/Brendan McDermid

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I’m as surprised as anybody, but not a single item about Victoria’s Secret made it into the top five postings for this blog in May!

Oh sure, everybody will have a theory on that, but personally I think it was because we didn’t have a single post that even mentioned Victoria’s Secret.

Apart from that, the most-visited items had absolutely nothing in common. A mango-eating contest, a dead writer’s skull, a bra with a difference, and so on. See for yourselves:

5. The whole mango fandango!

4. Stupid story gets much stupider

3. Take off your blouse, babe, I need to charge my laptop!

2. Sir, that carry-on bag is too large! Sir!

1. Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you…Oh, it is?

Models from Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, 2007. REUTERS photos by Mario Anzuoni

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Blog Guy, I’ve seen readers mention wagering large sums on the most popular items in your blog, but I didn’t believe it until now. I’m in Las Vegas, and the gaming in a classy casino has stopped while we await your April results.  My money is on that emaciated model.

Ouch, I hope you hedged your bet a bit. Yours was number three. The top item was $60,000? I only parked for an hour!, about a new kind of urban car parking being tested. The post was very, very popular.

But if that was number one, why are you illustrating these results with a Victoria’s Secret model from the second-place item?

Oh, get real. Here are the top five:

5. Babe, can we skip this museum?

4. 75 MPH? Must be a school zone!

3. The bride’s shoulder blades were stunning…

2. News is skimpy on the bikini beat

1. $60,000? I only parked for an hour!

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