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[salame]

I'm interested in starting a blog. Any recommendations on websites to use to host my blog?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by rico

Is pissing off MOhillbilly a scary thing or something? I've seen him referenced as a scary dude a few times now, I think.

This is the only known photograph of him on the Planet.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by Bacon Cheeseburger

Make sure to post a link when you start it, for some reason I am fascinated by the creepy shit you write.

this.

[rico]

Originally Posted by Bacon Cheeseburger

This is the only known photograph of him on the Planet.

Guy looks like a dude from my neck of the woods. No joke. Lotta dudes have this style in rural Iowa.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by Bacon Cheeseburger

This is the only known photograph of him on the Planet.

Who's the chick going for the purple nurple?

[rico]

Btw, I know I haven't exactly been an advocate for wordpress.com compared to wordpress.organise, but that is simply because you can't assume your own .com url from it. However, I do operate a wordpress.com blog for my decorative concrete business that I semi-recently started. I have to show off a bit. http://decorateyourconcrete.wordpress.com. Keep in mind, I'm an Iowan, but will travel to wherever in the MW.

[TLO]

Thanks for the new avatar.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Big Smoke

Thanks for the new avatar.

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Find something that will allow you to use your own URL. I use Wordpress.org.

This.

Or go to Dreamhost.com and register your URL through them, and install wordpress via one-click install. Super easy.

Or, go through GetFlywheel.com and have them do it for you.

Or, go to Medium.com and blog from there...

It's best to have your name as your URL, for personal branding, IMO.

tw

[salame]

I just want to start a nice blog for my "friends" to enjoy my humor.
I'm topically funny a'la marc maron or louis ck
if you knew me you would ****ing love me
I secretly hope some of you are my irl friends

I'm so excited to start this ****ing blog though

but srsly do I have to buy a domain on go daddy?

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by salame

I just want to start a nice blog for my "friends" to enjoy my humor.
I'm topically funny a'la marc maron or louis ck
if you knew me you would ****ing love me
I secretly hope some of you are my irl friends

I'm so excited to start this ****ing blog though

but srsly do I have to buy a domain on go daddy?

No, you can do it however you want. I used GoDaddy because it's cheap and was super easy to install Wordpess.org.

[rico]

Yo salame, when you get your blog started, maybe we can use this thread as a "shameless blog promotion" source.

With that said, one of the funniest entries I've ever written (out of the 108-109 or so I've posted), was the very first one I posted. It is one that not as many of my readers have read because I didn't post it on facebook for it is about an encounter I had with my former babysitter at a strip club... and she was a stripper there. This gal and I are friends on facebook and she's actually a fan of "The Chronicles of Rico" fan page...so I've refrained from promoting that post, but I've always wanted people to read it because it was and funny as shit.

* Note: I normally insert a pic of my mullet man blog "mascot" and somehow tie him into the stories I write. His name is Rick "The Mullet Man." I included this dude in my blog to appeal to the people who prefer visual humor opposed to humor via reading...which enables me to appeal to 2 different demographics. The mullet man is me with hillbilly teeth, cut off jean shorts, a cut-off "Dawg Pounds" weight-lifting t-shirt and my wife's hair extensions clipped on to the back of my hair to make it appear like an actual mullet. He represents the epitome of idiocy. If he were a super-hero, his super power would be the ability to be super stupid. Anyways, I think it'd be best to not include that pic in this post because it's a bit inappropriate and as shameless as I generally am... it does cross the line of slight embarrassment. If you want to see the mullet spoof for that one, you'll have to go to the link.

Here it is:

http://ricoswaff.com/blog1/?p=33

One of My Babysitters Became a Stripper

Written on June 13, 2009

One random weekend night about 5 years ago, my friend Poff, some other dude I didn’t really know and I journeyed across the Mississippi River to the bars in East Dubuque, Illinois after the Iowa bars closed. For Iowans who reside on the Eastern border of the state, bar close is 2:00 AM, but if you are not finished partying by the time the bars close in Iowa, you have the opportunity to cross the Mississippi River to Illinois where there will generally be a small podunk town which primarily consists of nightclubs and strip-joints that stay open until 5 or 6 in the morning. East Dubuque, Illinois is an example of one of these podunk towns across the Mississippi from Dubuque, IA (Northeast Iowa), which is where I went to college. Gulfport, Illinois is an example of one of these podunk towns across the Mississippi River from Burlington, Iowa (Southeast Iowa), which is the general region where I grew up and currently reside.

When we arrived at the East Dubuque bar strip, Poff wanted to go to a strip club. I was annoyed. I admit, for a party-hardy inclined, social, sexually active male in my 20′s, I have an unusual opinion regarding strip clubs. I don’t like them. Straight up. If you ever catch me at a strip club, then the only reason I am there is because someone who I was hanging out with that night wanted to go. It is never my suggestion to go to a strip club.

Why don’t I like strip clubs? A variety of reasons. I experience an array of unpleasant thoughts whenever I am in one.

The first and most consistently present thought that crosses my mind is ”man, I hope I don’t have a daughter who becomes a stripper.” Nothing personal against all you stripper whores out there. Make that money how you want to, if you want to. I just don’t want to be the father of a daughter who turns out like you. I would want to beat the shit out of every single dude that had my daughter’s boobs in their face.

Another thing that bugs me is the people you see while you are there. I hate observing uncomfortable, awkward and blatant displays of loneliness and creepiness. This is something you are destined to encounter at a strip club. And it baffles me that there seriously are dipshits out there who are so sex-deprived, desperate and/or sex-addicted that they eagerly throw down wads of cash….JUST TO GET SOME BOOBS IN THEIR FACE. I just…never really thought of getting boobs in my face as a difficult task by any means. I surely wouldn’t pay for it, when I know damn well I can get it for free if I want to. You want boobs in your face so badly that you are losing money over it? Well, a solution to that would be growing a pair and learning how to spit some game. And if you feel you are too ugly for your “game” to work, then either use your pair and hit the weights or start running or tanning or something and maintain your hygiene, OR swallow your damn pride and lower your standards and spit some game to a girl who you evaluate as being as ugly as you. You just might hit the jackpot and get some boobs in your face for free.

When I am in a strip club, I also start nitpicking the hygiene/sanitary issues that I frequently notice. I am always thinking, “God damn, some of these strippers don’t wash their tits after smothering them in these dudes’ faces!? And to make things worse, most of these pecker-heads’ greasy faces make it appear as if they took a Vaseline shower before they arrived.” So basically, when you pay a stripper a dollar or whatever to put her boobs in your face, you are not only getting a face full of boobs, you are also getting soaked with a concoction of facial and head grease from tons of these creepy dudes who got the boobs in their faces prior to you.

The beer is also more expensive in strip clubs. That pisses me off.

So with all that said, strip clubs make me feel depressed and if you EVER see me in one, I am probably pouting and pissed off that I am even there.

HOWEVER, one time I did have a very funny, memorable experience at a strip club……..

So we strolled into this now vacant East Dubuque strip club called “Diamond Jim’s”, and this decent looking stripper immediately approaches me and says with enthusiasm, “OMG, I SO know you!!!!” I replied with, “yeah, I have one of those familiar faces. Everyone seems to have a friend who looks like me.” And she was like “no, I like seriously like, KNOW YOU!!! I haven’t seen you in about 15 years, you are “Rico” (she actually said my real first and last name, not “Rico.”) and you are from Mediapolis, Iowa!!”

Considering the fact that Mediapolis has a whopping population of almost 2000 people, and it is located 2 and a half hours South of East Dubuque, my eyes were officially opened. I was shocked and very curious at this point. I inquired, “ummmm…how the hell do you know me?!?!” She replied, “just look at me closely and try to remember.”

I looked her up and down while she stood there with a beaming smile on her face, in her flossy little red thong and her tiny matching bra for about 45 seconds before it finally hit me. She was my babysitter when I was 4 through 6 years old. I loved it when she babysat me because even back then I thought she was pretty cute. I probably used to pop little mini-boners when she babysat me. Most of all though, she was a total sweetheart. She was extremely nice to us. She wasn’t like the awful babysitter before her, who forced my brother and I to gargle and swallow Dawn dish soap, simply because we asked her when our parents were coming home, which distracted her for she was trying to pay close attention to the Phil Donahue Show. (Oh man, did my parents get pissed…she’s scared of my dad to this day). But no, this babysitter, the one who is now currently a stripper….she was cool shit. (Just to clarify: for those of you who know me well and remember who some of my babysitters were back in the day, I will tell you one thing about this stripper’s identity; It was NOT Tanya Fisher. Thats the only clue I will give you).

When I came to this realization, I was like “holy shit, I totally remember you!! It’s so nice to see you!!! It’s been so long!!!” And it was nice to see her. I genuinely liked her when I was a kid. She was one of my favorite babysitters we ever had. I always wondered how she was doing…

So the genuine thrill of seeing this person who I thought highly of, who I hadn’t seen in 15 years made a quick transition from excitement to intense awkwardness, especially when I asked her how her life had been turning out since the last time I had seen her… as shes standing right in front of me in lingerie, about to strip for 50 greaseballs at a rinky-dinky strip club in a podunk Western Illinois town. I mean, shit, did I really need to ask?

According to our conversation, she indicated that she has had her ups and downs in life, but at the moment she really wasn’t feeling too bad about the way things were going. She did however mention being a bit embarrassed that she encountered a kid she used to babysit at that particular employer of hers.

After a few minutes of chit-chatting with her about our lives, families, etc. the announcer of the club shouted her name. It was her turn to strip onstage. However, he elaborated a bit by saying, “this girl is having a special night tonight, for the boy in the black shirt she is talking to right now is a boy she used to babysit!” Everyone in attendance began laughing, whooping, hollering and applauding.

I wondered how the announcer knew this was going on and was informed by Poff later that night that he chimed in on my old babysitter and I’s conversation and as soon as he discovered what was going on, he thought, “THIS IS AWESOME!” ran in bee-line fashion to the strip club announcer to inform him of this unusual encounter.

So earlier in this post, I made it very clear earlier that I don’t like strip clubs and never pay the strippers to do anything to or for me while I am in one. When I am in a strip club, I am basically a fuddy-duddy drinking over-priced beer, counting the minutes until we move on and get to the next thing. But this situation was different. Much different. My freaking babysitter, who I thought was a hottie since I was 5 freaking years old was employed at this strip club and about to do her thing.

I felt an exception to my usual strip club behavior was completely justified in this situation. I remember thinking “holy shit, she’s about to go on stage. I totally have a chance to get my ex-babysitter’s boobs in my face!!! A chance of a ****ing lifetime!!!” I mean seriously, I probably wanted her boobs in my face when I was a little kid and there I was, age 22, with the opportunity staring me right in the face.

So what did I do? Did I buy a Budweiser for $5, find a seat in the back and pout while simultaneously tormenting myself with an array of depressing thoughts? **** NO!!! As soon as she took the stage, I instantly sat down in one of those pimped out Zebra-stripe colored chairs in the front row and my former babysitter went straight up stripper-crazy on me. Not only did she put her boobs in my face, but she pulled her thong down, flashed me her crotch and fiddled with herself a mere few inches away from my face. And I didn’t even have to pay. She whispered to me that because of who I was, I received a “special deal.” I even got a free lap-dance from her afterwards. It seemed like she wanted to do it, which I thought was a tad weird, but hey, I took it with pleasure!

That was the only pleasurable experience I have ever had at a strip club.

Speaking of her, it’s been about 5 years since that happened. I wonder how she’s doing these days?

[Katipan]

... That's the funniest? Really?

I enjoyed your concrete pictures much more.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by rico

One of my babysitters became a stripper...

TL/DR

Anyway, when I first met my (now) wife I had a choice between her and another girl.

I went on a date with my wife. It didn't go well. At all.

Talked to the other girl and we made plans. A good (female) friend of mine begged me to give the wife a 2nd date instead of the other girl.

I did.

I married, obviously, my wife.

The other girl got breast implants, stripped around the Lake of the Ozarks area for about 5 years, then was implicated in a meth bust and went orange...

[rico]

Originally Posted by Katipan

... That's the funniest? Really?

I enjoyed your concrete pictures much more.

The concrete ones are obviously a different niche...and I'm pretty sure from past posts that our senses of humor are totally different. Which is fine.

It wasn't a bad one storywise, IMO. I mean...how many other people do you know of who literally did see their old babysitters stripping at a strip club? If there are a lot of these people, I never got the memo. This one did get a lot of love when I first posted it on Myspace almost a decade ago...before I even created the site Funniest one, though? Not sure... I just know that that one and a couple others are my least promoted ones that have potential. Out of 100+ it is difficult to think of which ones are the funniest. One that sticks out to me that I personally like is less than a year old and is titled "Proof that Leaving the Toilet Lid Down is MUCH Worse than Leaving the Toilet Seat Up." Give me a minute or two, and I'll post that one. I'll include the pics in that one.

[Beef Supreme]