A long time ago, in a simpler time I might add, The Gurgler management thought about how good it would be to have our own website to add more pointless content to an already bulging online garbage pit, and so we created The Gurgler website, and haven’t looked back. Culminating in this week’s 4000th article.
We’d like to say that more than a few questioned us when we started up The Gurgler why we were bothering, but not many did, fewer do now, but there have been times where one does question the effort vs reward, but reaching 4,000 articles is at least 3,950 more than we first thought.
The quality may have improved over the years, although many would argue not, even us at the 1am specials, but the readership hasn’t by much. But the aim to providing a different view has been ongoing.
The Gurgler has strived to complicate the simple things in life, like instead of throwing some rugby league tips on the website, we produce multiple pieces of data-heavy, mega-byte hoarding visual based articles every week. The good thing is people actually read this. And we thank them. Don’t forget to click on an ad every now and again. It’s good for the soul.
On the flip side, we over-simplify some of life’s most complex or dangerous things. Recently by harnessing the new super power of Artificial Intelligence and the buff good looks of Greg Norman in a series of cartoons where AI Grek (not Greg for potential legal reasons) Norman solves the big problems of the world at that time, or tries to Nor-mansplain complex thing as only AI Grek can do. Shirtless and with style and attitude.
For maximum narcissistic reasons, we have the full list of AI Grek Norman gear at the bottom and most of it is funny.
But it’s not always about the famous and shirtless, or semi-famous wearing overalls, The Gurgler has always had time to celebrate the forgotten and the forgettable. Never is this more evident in one of our most popular articles of all time. Helped by Channel Seven News in Brisbane running one of their flashbacks, Space City re-captured the imagination of those who could barely imagine why anyone would build such a thing. Thankfully The Gurgler was ahead of the curve and had the info ready. Just a matter of having a wedge of the internet so obscure, that when the worlds algin you occasionally get lucky. We are still waiting for the flashback on Doboy Station.
SPACE CITY
If you can’t believe that anyone would build a shopping centre made entirely of giant 5 storey high concrete domes, let alone in the outer northern suburb of Kallangur. A place previously known for a Water Tower, a tree-lined tribute to the Anzacs, and the “worst Seafood Basket in Australia” according to one local food review. But build it they did, and last it did not. But for a glorious period it was operational as the most inefficient floor spaced shopping centre in the southern hemisphere, where not even Franklins No Frills could be bothered hanging around, but its legend status by those who know, and those who discover will go on for a long time.
READ MORE – SPACE CITY SHOPPING CENTRE IN KALLANGUR
JERKS AND GOOD FOLK
The Gurgler has also prided itself on awards. Not for our website as there is no category for best use of AI in relation to shirtless golfers, but “Celebrating” those who deserve it least – the Jerk of the Year.
The Jerk of the Year used to be monthly, but sadly in the era of the Donald Trump presidencies, extremes on social media, and Nick Krygios suddenly becoming a voice of reason and sanity the Jerk of the Month became too depressing. So we moved it to annually.
READ MORE – JERK OF THE YEAR 2025 and Beyond
But after being accused of being too negative, too cynical, and even though they are correct, it didn’t stop us from celebrating the person who either brought us the most joy in that year, or something who we thought was a worthwhile contributor to the greater good of humanity. But mostly it was heavily biased towards our joy.
And when we say “Person of the Year”, it’s a bit loose. That’s because several winners of our Person of the Year were not actually human. Like rugby league mascots, or the Farmer from Shaun the Sheep who were Person of the Year winners. It actually says more about the state of humanity that cartoon characters and sporting mascots are more worthy winners than humans.
READ MORE – PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025 and Beyond
THE DONKEY
A recent addition to The Gurgler has been the NRL Donkey, the F1 Donkey, and the much lesser-known and short-lived Premier League Donkey. All three came from the same stable from a farm deep into Katter Country
The various sporting donkeys were introduced to combat the stats heavy, boring-as-batshit sporting content, and they have proven hugely popular. And when we say hugely popular, that is relative to the size of The Gurgler audience.
But the level of sass and cutting opinion, in addition to the wandering massively off topic has been an enjoyable side project for the folk at The Gurgler.
READ MORE: DONKEY WORK
BREAD AND BUTTER SPORTING STATS, AND OF COURSE, NEVER SLATS
As great as the donkeys are, the people from all over the world, but mostly Australia, Papua New Guinea and St Vincent and the Grenadines (which we always thought sounded like the greatest ever name for an RSL covers band), come for the stats, and stay for our array of sporting graph and visuals.
Like a drunk uncle at a party trying to be hip, we pride ourselves on providing way too much information on NRL, Formula 1, Premier League and as many sports as we can trawl the internet looking for data to dump into excel.
Plus we offer up F1 Race reviews, and followed every game of the 2022 Football World Cup, providing previews and reviews on every game. It was our greatest piece of work ever, and some pieces received fewer reads than goals. And there were 0-0 draws.
But now thousands visit each week to soak up the stats to help with their sports tipping, wagering or just added enjoyment following the game. Up until now, not one person has enquired about Slats.
And this will continue into the future for as long as we can keep our eyes open until the late hours, fueled by Red Bull and F1 replays on YouTube.
THE FUTURE
Of course AI being the buzz word of muppets around the world, the future will probably be in AI. Which works for us as it means more Greg Norman. And we can also reveal that we will be introducing another cartoon hero very soon.
Hopefully we make it to 5,000 articles and more, as it is our delightfully pointless waste of time pleasure to bring you stuff you don’t really need. Or want.
Regardless, we thank all the people who have been involved with the website over the years. Either through directly contributing, attempting to launch the short-lived Gurgler Live podcast, or providing inspiration from time to time that finds its way onto these pages and back out into the internet.
We’d thank you personally, but remain chained to the writing desk in the writing room, somewhere deep in a corner of the world near Doboy Station. Just the way we like it.
Oh, and have some Greg.
Grek Norman Comics
GREK NORMAN ADVENTURES – THE NRL BBQ
GREK NORMAN-SPLAINS STATE OF ORIGIN
GREK NORMAN-SPLAINS MONACO GRAND PRIX
GREK NORMAN VS AUSTRALIAN ELECTION
GREK NORMAN VS RED BULL F1 TEAM
GREK NORMAN VS FINANCIAL MARKETS
GREK NORMAN ENDS THE UKRAINE WAR
GREK NORMAN VS CYCLONE ALFRED FLOODING
AI DOES GREK NORMAN – THE CLASSIC ART COLLECTION
