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HAL: Good morning Dufe.  What are you doing? Dufe: I'm writing my blog HAL.  Just like I do every day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. HAL: That's a lot of work Dufe.  A lot of writing. Dufe: I wouldn't say it's "work" HAL.  After all I don't get paid for it.  But I enjoy writing.  I like to share my sense of humour with folks, to see their comments and respond to them. HAL: How many posts have you shared with your readers, Dufe? Dufe: Funny you should ask, HAL.  Last week, after more than 3 years in cyberspace, I passed a milestone: 2001 posts! HAL: Congratulations, Dufe, that's a lot.  Perhaps I could sing you a song.  Would you like to hear it?  I only know one song: *sings*  ...Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, I'm half crazy all for the love of you... But why are you marking your 2001st post? Dufe: Because, HAL, this bit wouldn't have worked otherwise.  After all, it wasn't 2000 A Space Ody...

Well, that was one hell of a week of self-indulgence! In case you missed it, here are the links to the retrospectives I shared this week, leading up to the 2nd anniversary (or as they say on the interwebs: blogoversary) of this blog, today... Monday - Blogoversary Week Tuesday - Blogoversary II - Bacon and Beer Wednesday - Blogoversary III - Politics Thursday - Blogoversary IV - Battle Of The Sexes Friday - Blogoversary V - 60s It was a lot of fun going back and re-discovering some of the gems I'd posted over the last 2 years in the areas of humour, including political humour, advertising and rock n roll music from the 60s - the three main areas nonamedufus concentrates on. Also in the last several weeks, I changed the layout and colour scheme of my blog, "dropped" my Entre Card widget, and brought nonamedufus on-line on Facebook. I hope you like the changes. So to my loyal visiters, voyeurs, blog roll peeps and commenters - "Thanks" for dropping by these last...

Last November I introduced a weekly feature to the blog called "60s Fridays" in which, heading into the weekend, I posted music videos from the peace and love decade. It's funny to look back on the music, the lyrics and the fashion (particularly the hair!)from this era and laugh today at what we took so seriously back then. I've posted the odd birthday and obit in rock n roll but mostly I've focussed on what once were my favourite songs by my favourite groups from, as George Harrison says, "all those years ago". Adding to the mirth in watching these videos is that most are in black and white and many are "staged". Yep, it seems lip-synching is a time-honoured tradition, long before Milli Vanilli. Here are a few highlights... Tomorrow: Happy Blogoversary

A lot of the stuff I've shared with readers over the past two years had to do with the differences between men and women. What is it with the portrayal of men vs, women on the internet? Believe me, if there really was a battle of the sexes, the women would win hands down every time. Here's just a few of the men/women items I've posted since April 2007... Tomorrow: The Best of 60s Fridays

It's been an interesting time to be a blogger over the last couple of years and follow politics both north and south of the border. So much has happened. And there was so much for editorial cartoonists and internet wiseacres to work with. Two of my favourite editorial cartoonists are Cam of the Ottawa Citizen and Aislin of the Montreal Gazette and both are represented here. There's just far too many pictures and cartoons to include them all, but I did manage to come up with a fairly decent overview of 3 key events. In the States, the administration of George Bush and his motley crew came to an end... And America went through primaries, conventions, presidential debates and an election - a process that seemed to last almost forever... In the end, change came to America but so had a recession... In Canada, we didn't have nearly the same level of drama (or money) as American politics. But we had an election too that saw the same plodding, doddering minority government r...

What 2 things set a guy's heart a-flutter? Love and marriage? A horse and carriage? Betty Jo and her sister Flo? A big screen TV and sports channels free? Nope none of the above, although Betty Jo and her sister Flo watching sports with me might be interesting. But I digress. Nothing gets those juices flowin' and those brain cells explodin' more than bacon and beer. I think it must be a guy thing, or something utterly pavlovian, but I know my tongue simply starts droolin' when I see bacon or beer. And over the last two years I've done plenty of droolin' as the following highlights will attest. Next: A look back at political humour

Happy Blogoversary...to me! Two years ago this week, this blog was born. It started out as "Just Cruisin'" and yours truly was known as the Greying One . The blog helped me through 7 months of chemo-therapy and a stem cell transplant, documenting my journey but also sharing humourous items from e-mails and the internet that struck my fancy. It wasn't quite as good as the drugs, but it was theraputic nonetheless. Once I'd 'just cruised' into recovery the blog morphed into nonamedufus and it focussed less on health and more on humour, advertising and music. And what started as an information source for family and friends - perhaps a dozen or so people - has turned into a blog frequented by 150 or so folks daily. So as we head towards the true anniversary of April 25, later this week, I thought I'd highlight some of my favourite posts from the last two years. So sit back and enjoy! Here's the first ad I ran on April 25, 2007... Given the state of ...