It’s an honor to be the first of your “weird little internet friends” to join the celebration of your blogaversary, TBogg. I will now light the candle I have placed on this Hostess Cupcake, and pour some Virginia Gentleman bourbon into a Flintstones glass (got them with Welch’s grape jelly a few years ago), and let the revels begin.

TBogg, the internets needs bright fiery voices like yours. Well, I do, anyway.

I still check http://thepoorman.net/ regularly hoping The Editors will come back.

swears, ad hominems, uncalled-for characterizations, irresponsible speculation, grossly unfair attacks, gratuitous trolling, cruel aspersions, as well as video clips of Bile Monster Michelle Malkin trying to leap higher than three inches off of the ground while wearing someone’s creepy idea of a Catholic school girl cheerleader costume.

It’s pretty much why we come here.

And as for fading away like the legendary Billmon, I happily refer you to

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126460/-Dotty-Harry

And I believe I’ve been dropping by two or three times a day since way back when.

What a long strange trip it’s been.

If it wasn’t for the snark and the shakira (not to ignore the contributions of the lovely and talented bassets) AND the great introduction to new (to me!) music, the intertubes would be a sadly dimmer place.

Not to poop (see what I did there) on the celemebrations here BUT…I miss Steve Gilliard – because he would have absolutely LOVED the antics of the GOP, and would have loved seeing the backs of bush & cheney.

I’ve been able to stop myself from hitting the play button on that vid even after all these years. Huh, I seem to not be so masochistic — waddyano.

Thank you for being and writing, Herr Bogg. My buddy Steve turned me on to you 5 or 6 millenia ago — I’ve started each day with your cheery, snark filled take on the world ever since.

Thanks for all of your work. You’re among the best in many ways. Carry on.

Tonight after I finished putting my kids to bed I went and trolled the Beitfart Big sites. When I finished there I played some StarCraft 2, drank some really good beer and listend to the Replacements while I got my ass handed to me most likely by a 12 year old Korean boy. I then hit the usual websites I peruse before going to sleep with TBogg’s being the last.

Creature of habit and all…

I always go to bed chuckling after reading you and for that you have my eternal thanks.

Thanks, Tom.

Keep up the great work. We appreciate all you do.

The leggy and bootilicious Mrs TBogg notwithstanding, only 53% of your readers are really your “wierd little internet friends.” The other 47% just come here in the hopes of getting a cyber-coupon for free government cheese.

If you’re taking notes, I’m partial to artisanal Vermont chevres.

Oh, and thanks for the writing, the cursing, and the erudite headlines ‘n’ shit.

As long as the cray-zees abound we need the snark of Mr tbogg (though can ya bring back Shakira as an antidote to above vid? Please?)

Seriously, although I realize you deserve a life, don’t even think about it. Where would I get my weekly bassets, because let’s face it, I’m not buying one. You really do get the last word and my appreciation!

Love ya Tbogg. Here’s to another ten.

Don’t you damn well dare.

Unlike Billmon – WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND WE WILL FIND YOU.

So, stick around, take ur licks and ur kisses and we’ll keep snarking with you. Well, with you and the Dogz.

According to Moore’s Law, 10 years is like…divide by 1.5…carry the 6…sheesh.

Well, anyway it’s a long time to do any one thing but a REALLY long time to do something consistently well. Good on you and should you choose someday (as you will) to go gentle into that good night, your legacy is secure.

Thanks.

Sooo…BRIBERY!!! And other forms of SKULLDUGGERY!!! is how Jane operates! She must enjoy seeing her legion of followers get trolled on a regular basis. What a sadist!
Or maybe it’s the traffic…

Either way, glad you’re staying. There would be one less reason to turn on the ol’ laptop with you gone.

Whew, I thought this was goodbye at first. Thank you for getting out of the boat for us all these years! You’re the 2nd site I check each morning (Facebook is first, sorry). I can’t imagine starting my day without a dose of your intelligent snark. Thanks, again.

Thanks so much for what you have done, TBogg.

I’d tell you to stop being funnier and more talented than the rest of us not-as-smartassed bloggers, but then you’d deprive us. So I guess keep on being funnier and more talented than the rest of us…and from a semi-professional standpoint how I loathe you for it. ;-)

Seventy dog years of snark ain’t enough.

Ah, how fondly I remember discovering the weapons-grade snark on your site, all those years ago. You’ve added such joy to the life of this cubicle monkey. Hard to believe it’s been ten years. But as someone just said: here’s to ten more. Thanks, Tom, you’re one hellova writer.

Thanks for not going Galt on us, though the 70 page good-bye would have really been something to look forward to.

We, the moochers and the takers and the people who do not produce our own snark and bile, salute you.

Now, where’s my welfare check?

Well…. I need you. If I can’t find a demonic anti-conservative ridicule machine, I’m not sure I can make it through the day.

Jane, using a heady mixture of flattery and charm, convinced me to keep on doing this because America needs me.

I think it went something like this . . .

TBogg, if you retire, Jonah Goldberg wins. Erick son of Erick wins. Sarah Palin wins. Tucker Carlson wins. David Brooks wins. Pam Atlas wins. Tbogg, if you retire, Peggy Noonan wins. Ann Althouse wins. *pause for that to sink in* If you want to set off a “heh indeedy” party in Glen Reynolds’ office, well, just go ahead and hang up your keyboard.

But *cue the trumpets, playing softly as she speaks* . . . It. Doesn’t. Have. To. Be. That. Way.

Imagine a post, that sounds like a retirement speech. *trumpets begin to grow in volume* It starts by remembering the old days, and raises a glass to your minions of followers. It speaks of the things missed, and wistfully notes the passage of time and L&T Casey growing up before your eyes. It speaks of the bassets, and everyone reaches for their hankies.

Well, not everyone. *trumpets suddenly stop playing* Imagine the hearts of rightwingers everywhere, as they start to dream. “Could it be? Could Tbogg be saying goodbye? Really?” Imagine them setting down their pictures of Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Palin, imagine them reaching for fresh bags of cheetos and new boxes of white zinfandel. Imagine their hearts beginning to swell and their lungs beginning to fill with air as the cheers of celebration fill their minds.

And then imagine utterly crushing them. *cue Shakira dance*

That Jane sure has a way with words. Glad you listened to her, TBogg.

And what Attaturk said.

I’m imagining the music track as a trumpet transcription of “Yakety Sax, larghissimo to begin with, building to vivace.

Thanks for hanging in there Tbogg. You’re my first stop in the morning. You and your faithful commenters have allowed me to chuckle (and occasionally squirt a little of my own bile and venom) at the idiocy which might otherwise result in a blown head gasket or something.

Thanks for taking us to the circus to see the clowns almost everyday!

no real good reason to be inside all the time

It’s dangerous outside. Just ask Breitbart…

To quote Mickey O’Neill:

You’re not going anywhere, you thick lump.

You stay until the job’s done.

Thanks for all the words, and puntuation marks &c. There aren’t enough monkeys and typewriters in the whole world to replace you.

Sorry TBogg, it appears you may have been given a LIFE SENTENCE:

Tebow hasn’t ruled out a run for office

TBogg – thanks for all the laughs and insights!

Just another heartfelt thanks. You, your family, and your faithful minions (even the trolls) make my life better.

But you ARE doing the kumbaya-bullshit, right here. And southern california would be completely useless–but wonderfully sunny, and I would still live here–without you. Thanks, neighbor!

From the comments at that link:

smartbutlazy says: Sep 19, 2012 7:53 AM

Of course he might RUN for office. He sure couldn’t PASS up the opportunity.

*rim shot*

Ten years, huh? Goddam wunnerful ten years, it’s been. Your little piece of internet candy has been lifting me up for quite a while now, and helps me avoid the deadly self-medication (good whiskey, good heroin, good whores) that caused me so much trouble in the past. And I’m not even a dog-lover. But for you, I could be.

Thanks, man, I needed that.

I think we could let our esteemed host hang it up when we inaugurate President Dr. Jill Stein. Because then all would be well in the world and we could all ride our sparkle ponies off into the sunset together, singing kum-ba-yah.

You cannot write that Mittens on Newt piece and then threaten to leave. It would be worse than getting all hot and bothered with chunky Reese Witherspoon and then withering on the vine, so to speak. Or something.

Congratulations on surviving 10 years. And America does need you. If you pull a Billmon (I’m still mourning that) I will come out there and cut you myself.

What a relief that you’re staying on — we need humor to get through the days and nights! Thank you for spotlighting the absurdities.

Dodged a bullet, we did.

Here’s to 10 more.

Tommy

I first stopped by when James Wolcott gave condolences for Beckham, I kept coming back to find if Fenway was doing better and then kept checking in every Thursday. It did take me a few months to notice you did something besides have Bassets and I keep coming back now as it’s nice to see someone who is a bigger, more eloquent smart ass than, well, anyone I know. I’m glad you’re sticking around too.

Congratulations for sticking it out. As someone who remembers you from Table Talk, and the CNN forums before that, it’s incredible how much you’ve grown as a writer, but stayed the same as a funny as hell guy. You need to keep going. America needs the snark.

BTW–I went to the SD Public Market last week, and it is really, really, cool.

Speaking of the dogs, does anybody else here get misty eyed when an internet stranger loses one of his dogs? Oh, just me?

Yeah, you’ll cut him and Mrs TBogg will leave once those Soros Dollars stop flowing in….

Good lord how I envy the folks with 10 years of memories of yr somewhat popular blogging. I can’t remember how long I’ve been hanging around the House of Low Jumping/basset blogging/Shakira’s ass/that one band’s videos that are really good/etc. but I’m up for as much more as you care to deliver.
Relatively earnest thanks.

Yeah, sure do. When I get the chance I give out this link too. One of the greatest speeches in history:
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/vest.htm

We love you Tom, and your weird little family too!

You scared me there for a minute, TBogg. This place is my first stop every day. The only way I can tolerate this nation’s craziness is to know that you are taking note and, somehow, making it funny. Thank you.

(Also, thanks for the Malkin video. Every time she tries to make that spastic “S”, I laugh out loud.)

This. This is why they invented teh internets, and I for one think it makes it all the more enjoyable. Thanks, Tbogg, for always providing laughter when it’s needed and snark when it’s craved; amazing commenters with incredible insights (well, and smoothJazz). And last but not least, puppies because… puppies.

Don’t ever leave us — we’d be all lost and lonesome out there.

Whew. Thought it was a goodbye and crazy thoughts went through my head, like, do I vote for Romney and hope he wins so the crazy factor goes up tenfold and Tbogg CAN’T resist sticking around?

Thank you, your wonderfully patient wife and daughter, and all the other witty folks in the comment section over the years.

I fully expect to see a similar post, circa September 2022, explaining that, though exhausted, you will be soldiering on.

Huzzah, sir.

TBogg, you contribute. Without your always provocative reporting, I would still not know about the useless feeders Megun McArgle and Russ Buttface .

So let the snark continue! There is another victim of Mitt’s off the record comments, sex fiend hedge fund manager Marc Leder.

Before Mitt Romney spoke at the fundraiser, guests were reminded that Mitt Romney’s comments were off the record. Those present were asked not to repeat his remarks to the press. Feder believes that the video was made by someone who was hired to work the party. He is in the process of narrowing down the suspects and is contemplating contacting law enforcement…

They suggest that the reports of debauchery were exaggerated. They admit that there were barely clad pretty women dancing at the party. But they don’t understand the blow-back to Marc over the activities of his guests, who are consenting adults.

As one friend noted, “Marc was not in the pool.”

Another friend sympathized with his plight. He said, “His wife cheats on him with the 23 year old tennis pro, so he lets off a little steam. Yet, he is the one that is vilified.”

I, too, still regularly check The Poorman, only to be saddened that “The Revolution Will Be Televized” post still commands top spot.

Mr. Bogg, this internet would be a decidedly less entertaining milieu with you retired. You are a voice of snarky reason in a world gone mad!

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo) and says “Thank You!” America (or at least your faithful readers), does indeed need you.

What can I say except whew, what a relief! For a minute there I thought you were actually going to close up shop (on the principle that anything I really, really like always gets discontinued or cancelled). I’d like to thank Jane for whatever eloquence she brought to bear, and to thank YOU for helping me stay sane when faced with the general evil and stupidity of the loudmouthed and greedheaded wingnuts. Oh, and thank Mrs. TBogg for generously sharing you with us, your weird Internet friends. Really — tell her we appreciate it!

Yours may not be the first stop I make in the toobz, but it is far and away my favorite. On Thursday nights, I race home from work to catch the latest pics of the boys, and when Breitbart chose to decorate a sidewalk, yours was the site I came to for the scoop. You make me cry (I love your dogs like I love my own), you make me laugh (George Tierney, Jr, of Greenville, NC comes to mind), you piss me off ( I really do not flippin *like* Obama, but unfortunately, you iz right), and I would truly hate to do without you.

Happy Anniversary!

Tom, I remember you at Salon, and all I can say is, please stay around, basset poop and all.

Yours is my favorite voice on the intertrons! Thanks for all the hard work and biting sarcasm.

I have stolen more than a few pithy one liners and passed them off as my own. So thanks for that too.

can we get t-shirts that read “One of Tbogg’s Weird Little Internet Friends”? Cause that would be, you know, awesome…

Thank you for risking your sanity!!!! on a regular basis to find the conservative zeitgeist and bringing it back for a proper mocking.

…And the beat down you have laid?

Thanks for sticking around!

Thanks Jane for talking him back.

I’ve got a Cafe Press account – easy-peasey.

I think I’ve been coming to this joint for about 9 of the last 10 years, and honestly don’t know what I’d do if deprived of my snark/Basset/L&T/Mrs T fix—probably take to the streets and start assualting random goopers with a baseball bat, rather than laughing at them.

I don’t know how you’ve managed to do it, Tom, but I dearly hope you’re able to continue for a long while yet.
Thanks, bro.

As one who blogged a lot for eight years, ten years is a massive accomplishment.

You are amazing. You’ve brought it for ten years without respite or serious time off. On behalf of all the other pigs, I’d like to bestow upon you the medal of Hero of the Animals, Second Class. (It should be First Class, but then, as you know, we’d have to kill you later.)

Writing (and especially writing the funny) is hard work. Some days you stare at the blank screen until blood comes out of your forehead (ave Gene Fowler). Other days it just happens, like a reflexive half-volley goal into the top right-hand corner of the net. TBogg, don’t let those Blank Screen days persuade you you’re burning out – nobody can do this 24/7. Take a time out and don’t even look at the tubes for a couple of days. Spend a whole afternoon photographing the boys. Take Mrs. TBogg to see Unlimited Midget Wrestling (you know she wants you to(o)). Order some phlogiston from Amazon.

Well, you get the idea. Throw yourself a changeup. Refresh, recharge, rewrite. We’ll be waiting patiently.

Yay!

That is all.

Ten years burning down the road? Wow…I think it was Atrios that initially pointed me here all those years ago, but I stayed for the snark and the bassets.

And thanks to Jane H. for convincing you that our nation needs you.

whew. You scared me there for just half a second.

Proud to be a “weird little internet friend” because it’s better than the alternative, which would be, um? Pathetic little pasty-faced, bloated rightard troll?

A big thank you to Jane for blackmailing you her marvelous powers of persuasion.

Still love ya from the ancient of times. Glad you’ll be around. Sorry that you stopped stalking Peggy Noonan.

Yeah, you and me both.

The void created by TBogg’s departure would probably have caused the internet to implode.

What? Ten fucking years?
Know how I will celebrate?
No, not that. Sicko.

Keep on keepin’ on Tbogg! You are totally my favorite person ever on the whole internet. Really – my day would suck so much more without you. LOVE YOU !!!

Mr. tbogg you have kept me sane (no small task) & I am grateful you’ll still be here.

I’m a sparklepony addict with a great need to be centered, which you do resoundingly supply. Plus I’m surrounded by rethuglicans.

Thanks for making my day brighter.

Always take care of yourself first.

Happy Anniversary! Keep ‘em coming!

This happy birthday ecard just caused chaos here at the home office … the Jack Russell (in the bedroom next door) reacted immediately and the Lab (who is largely deaf frevvinsake and was out in the yard) louder and longer. Take it as a well-deserved tribute, T. Foolery, but get ready to bale fast.

I knew it, today is not just “Talk Like A Pirate Day” or my birthday, something important happened today in history as well.

Thanks for the yrs. of amusement & inspiration, but now you can’t quit before Shakira quits The Voice.

One of your many weird (though not so little) Internet friends,
M.B.

Time really flies when you’re having a good time. And, man, it must be crawling if you’re Mitt Rmoney.

Just had to drop in and say thanks for providing much needed snark sammies over the past decade. I think you helped keep me sane in the times of Bush/Cheney and the Republicon attempt to rewrite recent American history. Certainly cheaper than group therapy.and funnier to boot.

Think MM has a TBogg voodoo doll that she uses daily to vent her frustrations? I do.

You one of the greats at what you do…

Happy birthday, Mr. Bogg! Has it really been 10 years?

You are a treasure & absolutely invaluable here at FDL. No Bilmons allowed.

We adore you, the basset hounds, the lovely Casey and the uber-hot Mrs. Bogg. Here’s to another 10 years.

Damn, I’m old enough to remember when that Malkin video was new.

Must be respirator & walker time.

Thanks, TBogg, for the years of fun. No one makes me laugh quite like you do.

Happy 10th blog birthday, TBogg!

Okay, I now forgive Jane for bringing you over here where a bunch of strangers found you and started invading our little private snarkfests.

At first, I was just wondering why did Tbogg, who was just fine, go over to FDL which is a very different thing than a Daily Dose of Snark. I’m old, and a lot of change to my favorite stuff tends to get me off-kilter. Then everything was just the same and life was good. Then one day a whole bunch of commenters who obviously did not know Tbogg jumped in and started carrying on like somebody farted at their dinner table. And I got off-kilter again, wishing you had never moved.

Then some of those strangers got with the program and realized that Tbogg is really the Top Dog of The Internet. Not that he’s always right (but he nearly always is), but that he’s smart and funny and a very good writer. And the commenters here are the only ones worth reading every day, too. Except the trolls, but since they are snark food, I guess it’s okay.

I’ve been retired (really retired, from a real job, and I get Social Security and all that bidness) for almost ten years, and I start every day with coffee and Tbogg. So, yeah, I guess I am a weird little internet friend. I would happily purchase a T-shirt indicating such, because then people would see me and think, “wow, that’s gotta be a smart person.” Right? At the very least, I could sit in my darkened room and pretend I belong to an actual club.

Thanks for all you do, Tbogg. And thank you for sharing Satchmo, et al with the rest of us.

From one of your “weird little internet friends” to “a somewhat popular blogger”, a note of thanks. For what I think has been eight of those past ten years, your forays into the dank parents’ basements of the far-right ignorati to turn on the fluorescent overhead lights and expose the cheap wood paneling and shag carpeting of their twisted, hatful, and just downright stoopid inner workings has kept us all relatively sane.

It still gives me starburts to think that I once “cheered you up a bit” when Fenway was in the vet hospital with the pee-na-moan-ya with my link to how Tebow pissed off players even before they became his teammates. (Schadenfreude, bitches, get some!)

Remember… TBogg lives, and Andrew Breitbart is still dead.

Plus it’s Nader’s and Obama’s fault, and JillRon SteinPaul 2012! Also! Too! WOLVERINES!

It was so long ago that I forgot that it was Althouse who called you the “somewhat popular blogger”. It’s telling that she said that you must have realized that you were being sexist and so ended your post with a lame apology.

Here it is:

“I apologize. She actually liked Crash. There is hope. Or maybe it’s just the wine talking.”

WOW!!!! 78 posts to this. You must be so proud.

I have been blogging for only about 3 years and here at FDL only since February. After trying to find a way to accomplish 10-12 hours of work in an 8 hour day for some 25 years, I npow have a job where I must find a way to fill an 8 hour day with 4 hours of work. Fortunately you and FDL came to my rescue. You need to knwo that, “We want you on that wall, we need you on that wall.”

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Dear Mr. Bogg,

Thank you for 8 (late to the party, as always) memorable years and congratulations on your tenth anniversary.

Yay you, indeedy! Thanks for being here, thanks to the L & B Mrs T for puttingup with it, and here’s to another 10 years of vintage snark!

It’s an ill wind that blows on the rare days you have a life and ignore your weird internet friends.

Baby, please don’t go.

Thanks for 10 years of fresh snark, well salted.

And I’d love to take any pics as good as those you post every Thursday.

Wait just a minute:

Putting up “…video clips of Bile Monster Michelle Malkin trying to leap higher than three inches off of the ground while wearing someone’s creepy idea of a Catholic school girl cheerleader costume…” is not “…feelgood We-Are-The-World kumbaya bullshit…?”

Damn, I musta been really farblondjet…

Congratulations on reaching the 10-year mark, and thank you for staying on. If I may project, you may be thinking and feeling it’s time to reorient your life now that L&T Casey has really moved on (away at college isn’t the same thing as grad school). You may even be considering actual acting on the fantasies you’d begun to entertain about how you’d like to use her bedroom now that it really won’t be hers anymore, not the way it was. Stuff like that. I’m just glad you decided not to change too many things in your life too fast and will be staying here for all of us at least a while longer.

thanks for not going galt tbogg. big thanks to jane for ‘persuading’ you to not go galt.

and ditto what everyone else upthread has said – and said far better than i could

Thanks for the good times, Jennifer.

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/05/22/they-call-me-quiet-but-im-a-riot/

Tom- you managed to outlast me. I think I had around 10,000 posts over the years I blogged at DemVet and I appreciate the fact that there was always a link from TBogg to DemVet. I never had more that 450-500 views a day, but many of them came from you and Jane’s original incarnation of FDL.

I’m glad you’re staying with it for a while longer. I still think you should collect your “greatest hits” and find a publisher, I think it would do well.

Say hi to the delightful Mrs. T and the L&T Casey for me. I still watch Buffy on occasion, and remember our conversation on the state of the Buffyverse.

Peace and keep up the good work!

Jo

“weird little internet friends”

I’ve always thought it must be like having an ant farm. Or imaginary friends. Or an imaginary ant farm. Which I imagine is what detox feels like at one specific stage. Commenters! Everywhere! Can’t you see them?!

Happy tenf, King of Internet Comedy, or well okay, co-King along with Dan Perkins. Choosing between the two of you would be like cutting off one of my mandibles.

Thanks for the years of entertainment, Tom. Hope you stay with it.

I miss Billmon, and The Editors from time to time. Hilzoy. Others.

Congratulations and thanks TBogg.

Belated thanks and congrats!

Happy Blogiversary!

Even Shakira celebrates today.

Oh, most happiest of Bloggiversaries! For the love of dear, sweet Baby Jesus on his wee little tricycle PLEASE don’t retire. At this point you’re one of the few bright spots here.

(If I bribe Wembley with his favorite cruelty-free free trade vegan treats will you please ask him to get back on the job? He’s been letting some less-than-fun Site Scolds slip through. Now that we’re about to be faced with Teh Debates That Would Have Changed Everything If Only Our Next President Dr. Jill Stein Could Take Part [TDTWHCEIOONPDJSCTP for short]his vigilance is needed more than ever.)

Nope, not just you.

They also serve who only sit and read.
Every day, several times, I turn my eyes to you woo-woo-woo.
Thanks for ten years of truly superior snark.
And I don’t even like dogs – but always enjoy the Bassets – weird.

Late to the party — if anyone actually does this I’d be all over that like ravens on road kill. Well, actually the shirt would be all over me, but you know what I mean…

OK everybody. Nothing to see here. Now STFU and get back to your phoney-baloney jobs.

Also. Best blog ever.

I think you underestimate your influence. Future historians will refer to your blog as a “primary source.” God knows they won’t get much out of the Washington Post.

In honor of your anniversary I watched the Malkin video for the very first time. Good lord, someone save us.

Oh yeah, you do every time you post!

I wish I could remember how I found you, maybe Steve G., maybe Billmon. you are still here and still wonderful. Thank you for the time and the commitment and thank you to your family for allowing us to share your life-all of them.

Before you abandon us, I really want you to come to NYC and give us your impressions!!!

see above
or below
or somewhere

I can’t do this = but who here is a decent enough artist to make up the logo to apply to the t-shirts? Sumbody work this up and I’ll pop it on to teh t-shirts. Link to teh address at www. gwpda . org and I’ll pick it up.

We iz ALL WEIRD LITTLE INTERNET FRIENDS. We need to be identifiable to our peers.

Thank FSM Jane convinced you to stay on. My world (Kansas) would be a drearier place without you and your genius commenters. I’m proud to be one of your weird little internet friends, though more a lurker than a commenter.

Oh. I thought she said “weird little internet fiends.” Oh well then……

Still, I’d wear the shirt.

Thanks, Mr.Bogg, for all you do.

I’d offer to take over for you, but in the words of the Great Clint Eastwood, “a man has to know his limitations.”

I’m an old fart Luddite, so I’m utterly useless with design endeavors, but perhaps something as simple as picking up the “TBogg” header script, and perhaps a basset pic, and then simple lettering along the lines of “one of his (with an arrow to the name?) weird little internet friends” might do it. Prolly be a good idea to get permission from our genial host, however… There could also be a 10th bloggiversary mention.

As an imaginary ant, TBogg is my snarkle pony…

I want mine with bling! Bouncing squirrels sporting $-necklaces, badass gangsta-style!

I’m thinking that this – http://thurberhouse.org/well-read-dog-red.html – combined with ‘weird little internet friends’ might be a good work….

I’ve got nothing clever or snarky. All I’ve got is heartfelt thanks for the time you’ve carved out for us.
I love that you would take free time from your loved ones – be they two or four footed – to add great value to our shared existance.
Happy anniversary TBogg, and Many More Retruns of the Day1

Thanks Mr Bogg for all you do. I am so happy you are on our side of that great divide and not cozying up with them people. You know, them, those guys and Michelle.

Most excellent idea!

But please see gunsbeforebutter @111 who requires a certain amount of bling. Can’t say I disagree… The wondrous things that TBogg has blinged up The Pasty Little Putz (just this once I’ll mention his name: Don’t Douthat) with are worthy of note.

Bassets are cute and all but cats overrule here’s proof.

You HAVE been serving mankind! And to your eternal credit, not on a platter…

Glad you’re staying on.

[sshhhhh] {whispering}Well, of course. As we all know, dogs drool and cats rule.{/whispering}

I can’t remember how I found this blog. I know I started reading Bartcop, which led me to mediawhoresonline, which led to Atrios, TPM and somewhere along the line I found TBogg which, upon first viewing, I made a point to check daily.

I take the work you do for granted. I say that because I cannot imagine what the internet would be like without you on it. I know it would be a lot less funny and a helluva lot less fun. As a high school teacher and sucking off the public teat (sorry, Mitt), I have a dream of buying something off the Amazon wish list but in lieu of that: thanks. So very glad you’re sticking around.

He said, Poop. No. Really he did. Isn’t there a law…?

Congrats and thanks, TBogg!

Tom,

I have been reading you since I found your “little popsicle stand”, also thru The Horse, I think. I proudly count myself among your weird little internet friends, if I may be so presumptious. I rarely comment, usually you and the commenters here say what’s on my mind better than I could. Let me add my thanks, and my hope that you will continue in some way. You have the gift of being both intelligent and funny, which is sorely needed in times like these.

Also, I’m in for a t-shirt.

Selah.
CAGary

As a Table Talk alumni who took himself entirely too seriously

Thank You TBogg for showing me A Somewhat Popular way of channeling my
Rage

I am now the Number One Redneck Wanker on Twitter

And I hump the leg of every stray basset that crosses my path

Damn, wish I’d got here sooner…what darn near everybody above me said, doubled, tripled…

You near gave me heart attack, there for a minute, Mr. Bogg. How would I get through Thursday nights without any bassetts? How would I cope with the batshit insanity of the wingnuts without the patented TBogg snark?

Jane Hamsher…thank you again for persuading TBogg to keep at it awhile longer.

gwpda…oh, I would pay for a t-shirt like you describe! (We could even donate a portion to keep the gerbils running…) Of course it must have a pic of a basset, no “perhaps” about it.

I know you will let us know should this project move forward, and I know where to look for the notice…

Thanks again, TBogg for NOT signing off tonight. Whew. That was close.

Oh, yeah, and thanks Jane for talking the BoggMan off the roof now that the L&T Casey is off in the Big City….. you did good.

I would love a t shirt with your weird little Internet friends (includes me) with a few Thursday evening Bassett bloggers on said shirt. Please consider designing one for us. We could help
pay for the L&T Casey books (or two) for school. I love your column, your snark, humour, outrage, and just plain fun. Glad you are staying.

Mr TBogg, you, the missus, the dogz, and the lL& T have happied more of my days than I can count. I was drawn in by your old photo of the little boy on the pony (perhaps the same pony I was on back in 1942), then the dogz, then your snark. Thank you for staying, but when you truly feel its time to go, your weird little internet friends will understand.

And I want a t shirt. It will be the first piece of clothing I’ve ever bought on the web…these t shirt users are truly a merry little band of weirdies…

i want a t-shirt too!

being a somewhat adequate production artist, i’m willing to tackle the assemble-the-art part, but alas, my work “week” starts tomorrow so i wouldn’t be able to get to it until next week (usually work fri/sat/sanday, have monday thru thursday off). So if someone else has time first …

(George Tierney, Jr, of Greenville, NC comes to mind)

Hey, hey — that’s George Tierney, Jr, of Greenville, SC — we don’t want him. (We have enough sexist bigots of our own already, thanks.)

Wow. Ten years ago I started my current job manning a help desk on the graveyard shift, and soon after discovered the world of political blogs to help pass the long quiet hours. One of the first I discovered was your little corner of the blogosphere. Coincidence? I think not. My nights would be much drearier without your snark and the comments from your weird little internet friends. And I proudly count myself among them. Add my thanks to the others given to your lovely wife for tolerating your hours wading through the cesspools of wingnut writing to skewer them so deliciously for us. And thanks again to Jane to convincing you to stick with it for however longer you choose to do so. It’s been a dandy 9+ years for me and I’m happy to see I can look forward to enjoying this a while longer.

Well, late to the party again. Can’t believe it’s been ten years. You’re a seriously talented writer Mr.Bogg. I would proudly wear a t-shirt proclaiming my weirdness. So glad Jane talked you into continuing your snarkuhlicious somewhat popular blog.

As I do. Well honed commentary and greatly missed.

Plus kittens.

Huzzah for the Master of Snark!

Thanks for all the years you have been doing this, Mr. Bogg, and thanks to Mrs. Bogg for sharing your time with all of us – the many proud weird little internet friends* you have out (t)here. And fwiw, the other guys in the band feel the same way.

I hope you’ll keep on keepin’ on for as long as possible.

*{Despite the weirdness, and contrary to the warning on the sign outside my yard, I’m actually not dangerous.}

this is the the last place i show my ass on the internets anymore and i suspect when it shuts down i will too so thanks for keeping me in the fever swamp a little longer.. i think.. yes i just made this about me. suk it. go tboww :P

Sorry I’m so bloody late to the party…

I just wanted to add my Congratulations to everyone else’s. Along with my sincere thanks, and hugs and kisses and promises of dinner Siciliano-Brit-style at Casa Tornello should you ever deign to visit the feverest Fever Swamp of them all, that is, the state most responsible for the first of Bush II’s disastrous terms.

Bravo, Sir. I’m so glad you’re keeping on keeping on.

I am not little.

Oh, and thanks to you, your family, the pups, and all your other weird friends for making this “A Daily Dose of Snark”.

Here’s to ten more.

Is there room for another comment?

I’ve been a fan for years and have laughed and cried with everyone else here. The politics are outstanding, but the daily joys of the bassets and other goings-on make this place a haven for me.

Thanks for doing this work, Tom, and thanks for sharing your insights, ideas, snark, and cleverness. And what’s the point of living in a beautiful climate if you can’t gloat about it to the rest of us, suffering in blizzrds or heat waves? Take comfort in that, anyway.

Phew !
Sweet Jesus Tom, for a minute I thought you were leaving me for some mildly winsome Trophy Commenter …

You have more than earned retirement but I am grateful for your decision to keep on
keepin’ on .

Bless all who dwell at Casa de Bogg!

I’ve always been true to you, Tbogg. Oh sure, I’ve played around a bit, going to other blogs, but you’ve been my steady for longer than I can remember! I’ve left so many of those other places just because coming home to you is always the best. You are the Ur blogger, truly the Alpha and Omega O’ the Tubes.

I may occassionally aspire to something, but if I could be even half the Internet Smartass that you are, I’d be quite satisfied. Thanks for continuing!

Late to the party (story of my life), but many happy returns.

Proud to be one of TBoggs weird little internet friends.

Well, here I am, not even fashionably late to the party.

Long time reader, infrequent commenter.

As someone who was a minor Intertubes celebrity in the deep, dark days of Usenet (anyone remember Usenet? Anyone still use Usenet?) I posted snarky reviews of X-Files episodes on alt.tv.sci-fi.x-files (I think it was called) under the nom de gurre of Barney O’Borg. I enjoyed my brief 15 seconds of fame, even had some “weird Internet friends” who followed me online and created the Barney O’Borg Estrogen Brigade (yes, yes, I had a harem).

But I found the snark hard to keep up, and I wasn’t doing it every day! And certainly not for 10 years! I doff my hat to you, good sir. Continue to keep the snark going. I will continue to drop by daily to see who you skewer with the kabob stick of snark, chuckle, and wait patiently to see Shakira’s tuckus dance on my computer screen. I’ve enjoyed the many years, TBogg, and hope to enjoy many, many more.

Tony in NM
aka Barney O’Borg
And I’ll take one of them TBogg’s weird Internet friends t-shirt, size fluffy.

*You know, perhaps you could put on back some of TBogg’s best hits, like “America’s Worst Mother” and “Snowbilly Snooki”

The Somewhat Popular Blogger retiring would be like Jon Stewart shelving The Daily Show. Unthinkable.

Plus Thursday Nights would never be the same.

Plus your country needs you.

I notice you’re now taking weekends which are well deserved and I think included in the Employment Standards Act, one of those pesky rights 47%ers fought for. Also the right to have food and shelter.

Keep the snark coming or we will all get cancer. Yes, I’m guilt tripping you!

You can’t go! All the plants are gonna *die*!

I’m so glad you’re here. I remember back when someone saw graffiti in Philadelphia that said, “I Am Atrios” and underneath it was written “You’re not even Tbogg.”
Also please see this about Megan McArdle: a stupid article that says she’s rilly rilly liberal

Well, I’m sure anything I can come up with has already been said, and clearer and funnier upthread, but I really am in awe of your talent, brains, and sticktoitiveness, Tom (can I call you that after having stopped here regularly for multiple years? Feels pushy!). I partly write for a “living”, and while what I write about is much more restricted than your sweeping field of operations, I have some feeble notion of what it takes to do it day in, day out, with damn few breaks. And you’re so consistently sharp and funny! I also appreciate (even when I don’t always agree) the solid bedrock of political thought – and solid research – that underlies the snark.

And then there’re the 4-footeds.

Very glad you’re staying! Mrs. TBogg is most patient and gracious!

Huge thanks for the Billmon link.

To anybody who missed it, HEY LOOK! A BILLMON LINK!

Mr. Tbogg, I’ve just discovered you in the last twenty minutes or so… okay, maybe it’s been a little longer… but you shore have a purty way of phrasing things. I’ll stop before I get all maudlin and stuff.