It’s hard to believe that The Gurgler has reached the milestone of 600 pieces of published work. 600 in just around 2 years at almost one a day. Someone needs a life. And we’ve almost had as many readers of those articles as the unsuccessful attempts to break into the website.
Some have said “Why are you celebrating 600 all of a sudden and not 500 or 1000? Well, we sort of passed 500 without caring or noticing and 1000 is too far into the future, and we’re not sure if we can be bothered getting there.
Some have also said “What the F*** is this Gurgler rubbish that pops up on my Facebook/Twitter feed from time to time?” Some have said “Who gives a F*** about this Gurgler rubbish that pops up on my Facebook/Twitter feed from time to time?” Some say “That’s a lot of content for not a lot of reads”, and what is there is either extremely boring or complete garbage. All valid points. Regardless we’re pushing on with our celebration and blatant attempt to toot our own horn and shamelessly plug some of our forgotten stuff.
The Gurgler was started as a band of brothers uniting to deliver some insightful, amusing, relatively pointless and top level sports analysis, and whilst we have delivered very rarely, if ever, on these promises, there is still some pieces which still amuse us. We share a few of our favourites below with links for you to peruse and/or ignore.
One thing we have prided ourselves on and delivered is our celebration of the forgotten and forgettable. And making trivial opinion and subjects matter. For instance The Gurgler is one of very few places on the Internet that provides fans with a forgotten Aussie golfing battler Rod Pampling. We champion the lower leagues of sport like the English Football League, Queensland Cup and Mercedes era Formula 1. We love the things that others don’t, hence why we are one of the least read websites on the internet. Although, recent interest in our Space City Shopping Centre bit shows that even the completely forgotten are still loved. And who wouldn’t love a space themed shopping centre in the middle of Kallangur.
We even got so full of ourselves at one stage we brought out a series of podcasts which we thought was amusing when we recorded it, and whilst some of it is, the painful listening back is time we’ll never get back. Regardless our last one (Episode 8) was one of our best, and even featured Space City. Plans are in place to bring them back, when we get time, and omne more listener.
Looking back on our past crimes there’s our Pointless Polls like our favourite Potato Poll, Crapotheticals like which NRL mascot is the best, forgotten NRL Smackdowns like manliest man names or obscure State of Origin players, Conspiracy Theories like this one, F1 bits and pieces like Best One Win Wonders, bitching about how bad Channel 9 is (too many to link as Channel 9 suck arse), newsworthy and obscure Six Pack collections (far too many so search our huge back catalogue of Six Packs), Public Service Announcements, Quizzes like our F1 Summer Camp, Person of the Year competition (won by Reggie the Rabbitoh in 2014 and Willie Minoga in 2015), Tipstradamus year long sports tipping and Drinking Games for Sport and Politics which hopefully provided some great time killing options.
Despite the lack of readership, poor grammar, spelling errors, awful ideas thought up at 2am and that sounded much funnier than when they were written, terrible football tips, occasional multi bonanzas, obscure references, in jokes that only one other person will get, and general dross that we offer, we will press on, as we know you, the loyal Gurgler fan would expect no less. And less is something we can surely achieve.
GURGLER 600 CELEBRATION TOP POSTS OF ALL TIME
DRINKING GAMES FOOTY FINALS
CRAP FANTALES – SPACE CITY
MAN OF THE YEAR NOMINATION 2014 – ALBY MANGELS JNR AKA TROY WALTON
PODCASTS
HOW BIG A SPORTS NERD ARE YOU
CRAP FANTALES
GURGLER 600 CELEBRATION – TOP CATEGORIES
SPORT – 226
UK FOOTBALL – 167
RUGBY LEAGUE – 104
GURGLES – 66
F1 – 40
SIX PACKS 25
GURGLER 600 CELEBRATION – MOST LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN CREATED AT 2AM
SIX PACK OF ALTERNATIVE XXXX ORIGINS TOWNS
SIX PACK OF ALTERNATIVE KNIGHTHOODS
SIX PACK OF TV BASED LEGAL CASES
SIX PACK OF ALTERNATIVE SAT NAV VOICEOVERS
SIX PACK OF OBSCURE JOBS
SIX PACK OF ALTERNATIVE GREYHOUND RACING LURES
GURGLER 600 CELEBRATION – DECENT STUFF WRITTEN BY OUR FEATURED WRITERS
PROGRESS
THE DARK AGES
WHICH CAME FIRST…THE ROTTEN EGG OR THE DISHWASHER?
FOR WHOM THE BELL POLLS
DARE