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I happened to be trying to catch up on a few blogs I’ve been missing lately due to my ridiculously hectic life (note to self… sometimes you have to say no otherwise they think you’re easy and seriously, being easy when it comes to doing stuff for everyone else is way less fun than being that other kind of easy) and I happened upon the blog of that Saskatchewanian extraordinaire… bluepaintred.

So it seems she’s been replacing her text blogroll with a photo blogroll, and to do so has been sneaking to our blogs at night and stealing pictures.

Metalmom’s comment to the post was this:

“I like this idea. Now the illiterates will be able to look through for the best pictures!”

I checked to see if she’d crept into my blog yet, noticed that she had… and quite frankly, my image there (a scaled down version of my header) looked…

b o r i n g.

This cannot be allowed. Fracas boring? How on earth will all her readers know they can find sexy bras, sexy shoes, posts about crotch shots, strippers, cold hard nipples, blog teasing, all manner of talk about naughty things (that would be where the cold hard nipples would come in) and if truth be told… an awful lot of poking fun at Daddypapersurfer?

I considered bribing her to change the photo, but what to bribe her with? She already has a considerable stock of penis soaps and sexy underpants. We know this from that time she accidentally sent a pair to school with her young son. I’m sure the parents on that PTA are still a little leery when she volunteers to “chair” anything.

But I digress.

I decided instead, to make up a new image to save her the inconvenience of my whining, and offer it here instead, along with her very own post and plug for all of you to go over and vote for her at Fuelmyblog. I’m not sure if she’s received her snorgtee yet, because being from Canada… we just always expect to have to wait two years longer than anyone else to get stuff here. Bluepaintred… please, pretty please… use this much more exciting image of my green lips in your blogroll!

So anyway, would you all please go vote for her at Fuelmyblog, and in your comment with your fuel, don’t click the “I like the blog” or the “I like the posts” button, click the one to add a comment, and type in “Please change fracas’ image in your blogroll so she’ll stop whining about it!“

I promise you it will make me really happy.

Happy fracas posts things that make everyone else happy too.

And yes… I am a blog-tease and that’s why I shouldn’t have a boring picture anywhere.

Merci.

In 1912, a cookie was born that would become the best selling cookie of the 20th century.

Oreo.

The year was again, 1912. The day, March 6th. On this day, the first Oreo cookies were sold and we who 96 years later, increase our blood sugar by scarfing them down as cookies, pie crust, snack bars, truffles, ice cream, pizzas and even deep fried, should stop for a moment and say:

Happy Birthday little fella… we love ya.

From WikiAnswers: 

Oreos were introduced by Nabisco Corporation, an American company, in February 1912 mainly to target the British market, whose biscuits were seen by Nabisco to be too ‘ordinary’. ^[2] Originally, Oreos were mound-shaped and available in two flavors; lemon meringue and cream. In America, they were sold for 30 cents a pound in novel tin cans with glass tops, which allowed customers to see the cookies.

A newer design for the cookie was introduced in 1916, and as the cream filling was by far the more popular of the two available flavors, Nabisco discontinued production of the lemon meringue filling during the 1920s. The modern-day Oreo was developed in 1952 by William A Turnier, ^[3] to include the Nabisco logo.

There are many theories pointing to the origin of the name ‘Oreo’, including derivations from the French word ‘Or’, meaning gold (as early packaging was gold), or the Greek word ‘Oros’, meaning mountain or hill (as the original Oreo was mound shaped) or even the Greek word ‘Oreos’, meaning beautiful. Other theories are that the ‘re’ from cream was ’sandwiched’ between the two Os from chocolate, or the word ‘just seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds’.

Oreos are very similar to the Hydrox cookie manufactured by Sunshine, which was introduced in 1908, leading to speculation that Oreo obtained the idea from Sunshine. Having lost market share to Oreo for years, Hydrox cookies were withdrawn in 1996^[4] (and subsequently reintroduced under the Droxies name three years later).

Today, fracas celebrates the birth of the Oreo cookie, by offering you all things Oreo. Please don’t lick the screen. (Well, ok.. if you have to, go ahead.)

1. Nabisco World’s Oreo Page
2. Recipe: Fried Oreo Cookies
3. History of the Oreo Cookie at About.com
4. Recipe: Homemade Oreo Cookies
5. Crocheted Oreo Cookies
6. Pimp That: Oreo
7. Recipe: Oreo Cookie Recipe Page
8. Oreo at Wikipedia
9. Recipe - Yummy Oreo Cookie Bars
10. Play Online Oreo Shuffleboard
11. Oreo Cookie Turkeys
12. Video: Oreo Cookie Coma
13. Oreo Cookie Eating Contest Rules
14. Oreo Video: Goodbye Art
15. 2007 Oreo Jingle Contest Winners
16. Oreo Moon Phases Activity
17. More Oreo Videos

And finally, here’s Weird Al Yankovic’s Oreo Song…

[Oreo Images: Thrifty Fun]