I usually do not like rich, powerful or famous people. That is mostly because I am not rich, powerful or famous. The fame part does not bother me much because I would rather be a rich
and powerful and not have anyone know who I am. I would have no paparazi bothering me. There is a guy with dark glasses who seems to be lurking around with a pad and pencil on the corner where I procure my..er...medicine. But he is definitely handicapped. I mean he has that funny thing in his ear and he keeps talking to himself.

And of course, if I were only rich, that would be just fine also. I would kind of go along with my first name and I could have all the cigarettes and beer I wanted and I could start buying lounging clothes instead of having to wear these pajamas all the time.  And I could take advantage of all those escort services that advertise in my emails and I would have all this money to pay them extra so they could be more better to me in terms of escorting. And I could have a 100 inch flat screen TV and get all those cable channels, you know the ones with the pretty women in them and....

But more on topic, we have come to Craig Crawford's final canon of the Netwebblogosphere. Namely:

                          CANON X OF THE NETWEBBLOGOSPHERE:

                   LIFE IS JUST A WONDERFUL BUNCH OF COCONUTS
 

 10. Most of all, have fun. While we have commenters with a variety of views who often engage each other in vigorous debate, we also strive to be a genuine community. Sharing recipes, photos or other personal information is also welcome. Arguing might be fun at times, but a little fellowship in between makes for a better place.

What kind of fun is out there to be had and exactly what is fun? One person who used to have a lot of fun was w.  I mean, going from 2001 through 2009, this country was going to hell in a handbasket and there was no fun about it. The country was involved in  two wars. We were losing many soldiers every month, Iraqi's were dying by the thousands every month, wages of working Americans were going down in real dollars, tens of millions of people including children were without health coverage, roads and bridges were deteriorating, instead of being tapped for more tax dollars Americans were having their phones and computers tapped, there were secret prisons where people were being housed with no charges being brought and tortured from time to time when the guards became bored.  But that did not stop w from having a whole bunch of fun.

Well if w can have fun like this so can we and we do not even have to murder or torture or bribe or lie or cheat or anything. You can pick just about any picture you want for your avatar. You can be a duck, or a chicken, or a little boy or little girl, or something scary or you can do what I did which was choose the first avatar THAT FIT INTO THE GODDAMN BOX.

Now you cannot have the kind of fun that you could have with a girl friend who likes to wear 'costumes' that show the naughty bits  and likes to play with certain types of fruits and vegetables and wears that wonderful lip gloss and.....  Or the type of fun you can have taking illegal drugs and watching movies starring the Three Stooges. Or standing at the top of some great building on Wall Street dropping water balloons on men wearing suits.

But you can have a good time all the same.So here a few examples of fun on the netwebblogosphere:

Orlando, on a lark, went to a Fred Flinstone museum and related it in one of the best blogs of the year.

TheraP just did a blog about lying. She only wrote about five or six paragraphs and simply asked readers to provide instances where politicians might have misstated the facts, on purpose, fully knowing they were lying.  I think the good head doctor received about 200 hits. It seemed that there were a lot of instances for people to cite without too much research.  Boy was I surprised.

Astral just put semi naked women on his blog and received 500 hits.  Of course only fifty or sixty readers commented because they did not wish to be caught looking at naked women.

Bwakfat, and Auntie Sam, and LisB, and Grouch and, yes, even I , posted recipes in different blogs.  One, set up by Auntie, was a blog where she requested recipes for cheap meals.

Quinn Esq., who usually makes the funniest comments, or the most serious and researched comments, last posted a real blog relating that birds see a different universe than we do because they 'see' the world in different bands of light than we do.

Obey has had fun blogging and commenting on philosophy, origins of human consciousness, or world financial institutions.

Oleeb and Pseudo will provide blogs and comments that you would normally find in technical journals that deal with global economics or computer tech.

There are so many different  and talented people at TPMCafe with so many backgrounds and experiences that it would take a book to give a full exposition.

Give us your idea of what fun on the web means to you.