Retro Yakking

Clarkietron welcomes you to this super special Sunday post!

Well, would you look at that? Another Sunday has rolled around before I even realised it was Friday. Which it isn’t, so I guess that didn’t really make sense.

Anyway, it seems I haven’t actually done a proper blog award shout out in ages. This was brought to my attention recently by Wiggy, who was so kind as to include me in a list of his favourite blogs and also nominate Retro Yakking for a Best Blog Award. To him, I am grateful in more ways than one; firstly, it’s a pleasant reminder that some people actually do read Retro Yakking; secondly, for being such an awesome blogger and providing some much-needed entertainment.

Now it’s my turn to nominate fifteen of my very favourite weblogs for the very same award, so here we go…

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Harry Yack once again welcomes all his readers to this small corner of the web known as the crazy house Retro Yakking. It’s Sunday, a day of rest and Formula-One-watching in the Yack household, but most importantly, it’s Shout Out day.

In the last few weeks you may have noticed one or two new sites added to the blogroll - that’s the list of links on the right hand sidebar. I highly recommend perusing that list, as all the sites on it come Yak approved and are more than mildly mirthsome, I’m sure you’ll agree.

But now, a word for some of my very favourite websites, places on the internet that I find myself visiting more and more often of late. Yup, it’s the return of the ever-so-tasty Jacket Potato Awards.

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For those of you that subscribe to the traditional holiday newsletter, Happy May Day!

Enjoy your dance round Maypoles and stuff if you still do that, and have a cup of tea or something on me. Remember, it’s Friday and there’s a long weekend in prospect, so enjoy this mid-spring double header while it lasts.

To this end, it’s time for a Retro Yakking May Day hawg roast, an event held in conjunction with humorbloggers.com. Well, it had to be a pig roast didn’t it? What else could it be with all this talk of dirty swines? All the guests are here and the barbecue is sizzling away - mainly because of the rain that’s extinguishing the flames.

Oh well, damp pork is still good pork, right? And who cares that the shed has just gone up in flames, because… oh, everybody’s gone. Well, more for me!

The purpose of this roast is to raise a toast to a fellow Humor Blogger, as in, someone that visits the Humor Bloggers website.

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Yes, it’s Retro Yakking’s very own brand spankin’ new awards thingy. It’s a bit like the Tesco Value Lemonade Awards, but with a difference… it’s, like, a jacket potato. That, and I need an excuse to catch up on my shout outs.

These blogs are a cut above the rest and come highly recommended by the yakster himself, Mr. Harry Yack.

Yes, our bonkers bovine buddy has been let out of his pen just for this weekend to run his hairy paws along the vast expanse that is the world wide web and report back with his very favourite pages.

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Oooh, look! Once more, it’s time for a shout out to all my readers in Internetland. As you know, the Yak values you all more than Tesco Value Lemonade, Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls and lobbies put together (all in one pan). Subsequently, I would like to reward you all with an imaginary Nutri Grain: flavour of your choice!

Thanks to you, the humble reader, Retro Yakking is beginning to cause ripples in the fabric of the web, touching four corners of the earth with its informative and not-at-all infantile news reports and features. As a result, this very blog has been the subject of attention at a few other websites you may or may not know about.

Get on with it, you smelly northern halfwit

Methinks this is an apt point at which to unveil another set of Retro Yakking Tesco Value Diet Lemonade Award (gasp!) winners.

• Exaggeration is a useful skill to learn when attempting to achieve anything in the creative business. In general, people are drawn to over-the-top comments that draw discussion rather than subtle, dry humour similar to that peddled by a certain yak. One thing’s for certain, Larry at the aptly named Exaggerator blog can never be deemed guilty of erring on the subtle. In recent times, I have been enjoying his thorough examination of spam emails and growing collection of lolcat images.
• Collecting funny and interesting stuff from the Internet is the precise function the weblog was created for. G. Samuel Blog will be pleased to see his invention being put to good use by Melissan, proprietor of what I would call a proper blog in Why Be Normal. A mixture of personal thoughts, rants, and images you may find noteworthy, this site is an effective extension of Melissan’s character. Good show.
• Continuing along a similar theme, Matt Stratton’s Good Old Rock has the same kind of feel about it, but with a more technical edge. The blog is not only a reflection of your life, but a way to live it also - this really comes across in Matt’s blog, which is both helpful and informative in equal measure. There’s even the odd quirky post about unicorns thrown in here and there…
• When I am old, I want to spend all my time sat on the front doorstep shouting at passing vehicles. No surprise, then, that I like Crotchety Old Man, which I recommend if only for the wonderfully competitive caption competitions. In some ways, I’m a lot like a grumpy old man before my time, complaining about anything and everything.