Looking through my sometime data file , I find a lean called “ good data link ” that I do n’t even call back compose . It contained many classic internet site and rum stories that hold up over time . Sadly , many of the websites that hold them did not defend up over time , but the most memorable of them live on elsewhere . If you ’ve not run into these stories , posts , and websites before , you are in for a delicacy .
1. Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine
Alex Morando put up a lover web site calledThe Rockford Files Homepage , about the TV showThe Rockford Files , starring James Garner , which pass from 1974 to 1980 . Private police detective Jim Rockford had a cheap but state - of - the - artDictaphone answering machineat his dwelling house , and each episode would start with a subject matter that had nothing to do with the plot , but often loan a humorous detail to Rockford ’s life history . The pageJim Rockford ’s Answering Machinelists every message air out during the serial publication six seasons .
The heavy icon are no longer linked to the audio files , but you may still toy the audio file fromthis Sir Frederick Handley Page . Also enjoythe show intro .
2. Tugboat vs. Bridge
It ’s the report ofa boat being pulled totally under a bridgeby floodwaters . You may have seen the pictures elsewhere , as they have been passed around for age . Captain Michael L. Smith piloted the gravy holder that function through the bridgework just out front of the pictured Motor Vessel Cahaba — before the drawbridge die . Smith tells the fib to accompany the picture , with inside information . It happened in the late ‘ 70s . The captain of the tugboat , Jimmie Wilkerson , has since die , and the bridge deck is no longer there , but thanks to an unidentified photographer and internet meeting place we can still wonder at the escapade .
3. The Exploding Whale
In 1970 , an eight - ton whale go on the Oregon sea-coast . The State Highway Division decided the unspoilt way to dispose of it was to dynamite it . Well , at least that would flex it into smaller pieces . They gravely misjudged the amount of dynamite needed , and the leave explosion became legend due to the rainwater of rotting heavyweight sum rained over the gathered crowds and as far as a quarter knot off . Yes , there were cameras recording the carnage .
The event has an total internet site calledThe Exploding Whalededicated to file away all uncommitted data about the explode giant of 1970 . It debuted in 2005 , and is still being updated with whale detonation news . It is rarefied that a undivided - subject site is reliably updated that long , and the ten - year - sure-enough existing website is a replacement for a previous internet site , so it is really quondam that that .
4. Longmire Does Romance Novels
pass water play of the cheesiness of romanticism novel is jolly common , even among readers who savor them . But the first creative person who went viral with the idea was Mark Longmire back in 2005 . He bought up a bunch of used romance novel andwrote new titles for thembased on what the blanket looked like . He order the joke jolly much wrote themselves .
5. The Backstroke of the West
When movies are interpret into other languages without studio oversight , as in bootlegs , the caliber can vary from passably decent to unfathomable . Jeremy Winterson pay off handgrip of a Chinese corn liquor ofStar Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sithin 2005 . It was dub in Chinese , so he watch it with the hilariously inaccurate ( and sometimes NSFW ) English subtitle . The title of the pic was translated toThe Backstroke of the West . Winterson posted the funniest screenshotsin a legendary post that afford birth to theDo Not Wantmeme . In 2009 , Winterson postedan update versionwith even more pictures .
6. The Tommy Westphall Universe
Tommy Westphall was a minor grapheme on the TV seriesSt . Elsewhere , a medical dramatic play that aired from 1982 to 1988 . In the final sequence , it is suggested that the entire series was all a figment of Tommy ’s imagination , revolving around the infirmary building inside his snow globe . The Tommy Westphall Universeis a TV hypothesis thatties various TV series togetheraccording to their characters ' relationships with each other and withSt . Elsewhere . The graphshowing those relationships is massive , and would be much bigger if there had been any updates since 2007 . The theory has since been add on by the"Munchiverse,“which connects even more series together , name after the case of Detective John Munch , played by Richard Belzer , who appeared in quite a few series .
7. The Worm Within
Chris Bishop
The Worm Withinby Vincent Eaton is the story of the cestode he caught in Belgium and the effort to rid himself of it . The prose is very explicit and elaborate . Whether it gross you out or not , you will empathise with his despair as if it were your own . The story also spurs readers to partake in the storey of their own intestinal sponger and other distress , which can be read in27 pages of submissions .
8. Dogs in Elk
Anne Verchick told this story in 1999 on a Salon assembly that is now defunct , but it ’s so rummy and such a classic that it ’s been enshrined in other place . She post thatshe was having some bother with her dogsand expect for advice .
The carcass belonged to an elk . The story gets better . The veterinarian stop by , mainly to express mirth at the mess , and the frank ended up trying to get the carcase into the house . Verchick imprecate thatthe taradiddle is 100 % trueand registered astonishment at how pop the thread had become . In her creation , it was just another routine adventure with her hot dog . you’re able to see the pumpkin pictures mentionedhere . This is one time we are happy there are no picture of the original upshot .
What classic tales and site would you add to this list ?
