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In the interest of moving these reviews along, I'll be brief. This is Jane, just Jane of It's Just Jane and G whom she writes about...a lot. Not me, G, but her boyfriend, G. I think they're in love. It's very sweet, not really funny, but sweet. I like Jane. Think she's nice - her daughter sounds cute, she could be friends with my daughter I'm sure.

As to how she fits into the Humor-blogs queue, let's see what the crew had to say:

Category	Score	Points
Content	5.4	38/70
Writing	5.6	3/5
Web Design	5.9	3/5
Intangibles	6.3	3/5
Read Regularly	3	3/10
Frequency	10	5/5
Total		55

Percentile Rank: 51

It's a good read. Congrats on not having a cluttered blog. Loved the easy navigation. Keep it up.

She has a way of writing that makes reading her posts easy. And she brings out the humor in what happens in her daily life.

It's Just OK. Nothing wrong with this blog, but nothing that makes me want to race back. One too many stories about picking the scab off her bald spot (Sure, it was only one story, but that's one too many).

This blog isn't funny, its a day-to-day diary, which is fine, but it's not funny.

Sorry, but this just isn't a humor blog.

Not interesting to look at, except the banner is extraordinary. Good writing. Occasional profanity.

ED NOTE: Did you actually read the blog or just look at it?

Jane, I agree with the first two reviewers. You have a nice clutter-free visually appealing blog. You write with an easy humorous slant to life that I enjoyed. You're in love - you're going to write about it, probably a lot. Doesn't always make for good humor. In fact, misery can be pretty funny.

I don't wish misery on you, but I think a little more glimpse into your humorous slant on life wouldn't be bad. Overall, you did pretty well and you have an enjoyable blog. I'd like to see how the story develops.

Good luck.

Posted by: G of Simply Said

Who is Bill Blunt and what does he want to tell us? Is he real? Is he a journalist? What's happening in his divorce? Exactly what works of literature line his walls? So many questions, let's see if any are answered by the reviewers:

Category	Score	Points
Content	5.17	36/70
Writing	6.67	3/5
Web Design	5.67	3/5
Intangibles	4.67	2/5
Read Regularly	2.5	2/10
Frequency	6	3/5
Total		49

Percentile Rank: 18

This reminds me of a country song. All this person talks about is his wife leaving him. Maybe he isn't whining about it, but geez, I don't want to read about people's marital problems. If I did, I'd read the Enquirer... and it would probably be funnier.

Not sure why this was submitted as a humor site.

The side columns distract the eye from the blog content.

Reasonably well written, but an absolutely snooze-fest.I'm not sure what motif the author assumes is holding us, but it appears to be a repetitive series of insights about what he thinks about himself.

This appears to be a popular blog, so maybe its just me, but I would not be back.

The title is good... but the site fails to deliver on either being "blunt" or on being funny. I was hoping for a site of sarcasm or of caustic humor! Very British in flavor. The practice of tagging virtually any word in a post is annoying.

Any blog that mentions Birkenhead has to score highly just like in the Eurovision song contest.

ED NOTE: Birkenhead? The sandals?

I enjoyed the writing style and liked the look of the site, but just didn't laugh much.

Content was not interesting to me.

I'm going to rate this blog highly, because it takes an almost herculean effort for things to go over my head, but this managed to do it. Either this isn't meant to be funny or the humor is so highbrow/tongue-in-cheek/British that I'll never get it, so I'll assume the latter and rate it highly.

"Pigeon of the Month" is a golden idea. I wanted to like the rest, I really did. (i didn't).

Am I the only one who googled Bill Blunt? Well another hard sell to the reviewers, and none of my questions answered. Disappointment abounds. Diesel, I don't want to throw down the gauntlet here but I just may take all these tepidly reviewed blogs and start up a rival site.

I may eat my words later, but did people not understand that this was parody? I'm not saying that I figured this blog out because quite frankly I may not have. I am saying, however, that I loved the highbrow British humor (I think it's my Brit-envy coming through) and found the bombastic Bill Blunt (if that's who he really is) to be rather genius.

Bill or Thomas or whomever handles the critique for Bill - I genuinely am at a loss for words. Your blog is unique and to change anything would just ruin that. But let's take a stab. I'd go for a little de-cluttering - all of that sidebar action and word tagging is just plain distracting. Compartmentalize that and let's just get to the funny or rather the tragic tales of marriage dissolution and Birkenhead. Then we'll talk.

Posted by: G of Simply Said

Hi, everybody. Diesel here again. I know, I know, you like G better. No surprise there.

Anyway, I'll just do what I need to do and let myself out. Today's review actually dates from several weeks ago. I didn't post it then because the blog's author took the blog offline for a while for some personal reasons. She's back now, and just as funny as ever. Most of our reviewers really liked I Can't Believe He's Still Single. It's a simple concept -- posting excerpts from real personal ads -- but you can't beat pathetic desperation for pure comedy.

Category	Score	Points
Content	6.94	49/70
Writing	5.12	3/5
Web Design	6.62	3/5
Intangibles	6.25	3/5
Read Regularly	5.62	6/10
Frequency	8	4/5
Total		68

Percentile Rank: 90

Some quotes from our reviewers:

I think it would work better as a more in depth commentary on the profiles. For example, tear them apart line by line.

I love popping onto this blog from time to time when I want to feel good about who I married.

Darn funny. The author has clearly encountered more than her fair share of "toads" and is STILL retained her sense of humor (and, okay, her desire to find Mr. Right) for that, I salute her!

As a fellow One-Trick-Pony blogger, I really like it when a blog can stand on its own with one very narrow topic and do it well. This blog does it. Excellent.

Funny stuff! Altough it is sad that there are so many weird men out there that this blog has enough fodder to post regularly! But I'll be back, since I love to laugh at the pathetic.

Great site, straight down and dirty, just how I like it.

I like the premise and am actually amazed people write that crap in their personal ad. Wow.

I love this concept, and found it very amusing. I probably would have rated it higher except that author doesn't really do much writing of her own. Good stuff!

She doesn't have an archive list on the side to old posts that is easy to find. Hard to navigate beyond the first page.

The idea is fun, it's hard enough dealing with stupidity in real life. It's hard to score the writing since the desperate do his comedy for him.

Cool concept. I think reading this blog made me want to become a lesbian.

The design is slick and well coded but the content is like some prison-marriage of craigslist, match.com and MAD-TV.

I'm going to go apologize to my eyes.

I've read this blog before. Didn't put it in my bookmarks then, and didn't put it in my bookmarks now; yet, that's not an indication of quality. My problem with this site? It's the same problem I had with watching Sex and the City. For the first few episodes, it's relatable, and funny. And then it becomes OVERLY relatable and by extension, not-so-funny. I have no doubt that some (if not most) of those personal ads are genuine.

When the afterglow of my initial "ha-has" wore off, I found this site to be a sad commentary on the impossibility that faces the modern day mating rituals of humans (subtext: people are too rigid and willing to allow their superficialities to close themselves off to relationships).

Indeed, someone else's trash (these losers posting these highly improbable personal ads) is someone else's treasure (our temporary amusement).

Fabulous idea for a blog. It's got legs, too, because people will never stop making idiots out of themselves via personal ads. Great job!

These ads are just too long and not funny enough. I need to be spoon-fed a wee bit more.

There you go. If "real life personals fraught with schadenfreude" sounds like your thing, you can't go wrong with I Can't Believe He's Still Single.

Wouldn't you know that I could not be more behind in well, just about all areas of my life right now, including but not limited to my posts here at Humor-blogs.com, and I have to turn in a review on a Professor's blog? Rather awkward. Anyway, I'll keep this brief because my life is falling apart. Okay, perhaps that's a tad dramatic - so the switchover from summer to winter clothes has hit a snag, I'm sure my family won't have to wear our bathing suits to work/school tomorrow (again).

We are grading, sorry - reviewing Diaries of the Professor (and he's keeping the name so too bad if you don't like it). I don't know but I like this guy. I bet he would be a great neighbor, co-worker, friend. Maybe that's not what we're reviewing but I also see a spark of understated humor in his writing that says there's more behind the closed barn door than he lets on. Well not that he mentioned any barns, but in any event...let's get on to what the reviewers have to say:

Category	Score	Points
Content	4.92	34/70
Writing	6.69	3/5
Web Design	6.85	3/5
Intangibles	6.31	3/5
Read Regularly	3.85	4/10
Frequency	6	3/5
Total		50

Percentile Rank: 18

This is a well-themed blog which was enjoyable to read - especially the post on Apple. One problem is that he posts every two weeks or so!

This is good stuff. IZod killed me. This guy knows that if you're going to write long comedy posts, you have to be absolutely killer. He writes short, snappy tidbits and leaves you satisfied. I like it. I visit often already.

Incidentally, Professor's baseball blog (which I just found through this review) is wonderful too.

The prof is in, whatever the hell that means. The site's fun and he's an Opie and Anthony fan, what more should you want in life. I will visit often... unless his new collegiate career makes him stodgy.

ED NOTE: In answer to your first comment - Hmmm, let's guess. He's a professor (or at least was). I'm sure there must be some connection, tap tap tap...it'll come to me. Actually it automatically conjured up the reference to the old Dr. Demento show welcome - "The Doctor is in!"

The title is right on. It's a diary, an unfunny one. It was like reading the script to a chick flick, with a few mildly amusing commercials thrown in.

I'm not a fan of very dark backgrounds. It tires my eyes after a while.

ED NOTE: Is it me or does this same comment crop up in each review? If it's from the same reviewer, could you quit whining and actually comment on the content? Thanks.

Negative points for a pose where one of your hands is holding the index finger of the other. That is just weird.

ED: Would a profile be okay?

The writing was fine, but this was worse than just not getting around to being funny. It tried, but well, not so much.

Fine as a sports blog and personal journal but that's about it.

Some good stuff on ipod, izod... other than that, is this supposed to be funny?

I get to mark the Professor, A for writing, A- for web design but I'm afraid you've failed humour and will have to re-sit next year, sorry.

and finally:

Ahhhh! Say something funny for the sweet love of Mary!

Testy, aren't we? Professor, I'll say that I enjoyed your blog. You write well, you are relatable and dare I say for fear of being stoned, humorous? I think that you've got a few things on your plate but to get a consistent following, you'll have to post a bit more. Please don't go to my blog as an example of consistency - just do as I say, not as I do. I think that you are a funny guy, your writing doesn't always perhaps reflect that. That is often a conundrum facing potential bloggers who'd like to participate - what makes a Humor-blogs.com blog and is mine one? The reviews are mixed and leaning toward no on yours. I'm bucking the system and saying hang in there and keep cultivating your voice and your blog.

I'll check back on you next semester.

Review posted by: G of Simply Said

I think it might be helpful at this juncture to provide a reminder in the form of a little background of HUMOR-BLOGS.COM's formation. It was indeed the result of the hyperactive imagination and attention span of Diesel, author and chief inspector of Mattress Police. He conceived of Humor-blogs.com as as a site listing humorous or funny blogs where one could go to get their laughs on as the name might imply. He had a guideline of what would qualify a blog as such and bloggers came a knocking. Then more bloggers wanted in and the gates were thrown open until even Edna St. Vincent Millay wanted in. Never mind that she's no longer alive. Not important. Our job is to find out if some of these bloggers are.

With that in mind, Diesel then conceived of a review process to "rank" the blogs in order to weed out some of the less than humorous blogs. Of course humor, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The system is not perfect, but it does allow for each of the blogs to be showcased and rated and you the reader to judge for yourselves. Nobody is saying the blogger is not perfectly nice. Remember, this is not a cease and desist order to stop blogging - it's a review of the level of humor contained in the blog.

Okay, long intro over. I think this week's blog, Speedcat Hollydale Page runs into the not humor enough problem plaguing some of the recent reviews. I'll be brief as there's not much to add to the reviewers' comments below. This blogger's main post topic seems to be links and awards. In other words, not terribly funny. I guess a blog should have a gist but sorry SpeedCat, the links/awards/memes posts can work judiciously as filler posts - maybe once a week, not daily. I did find the post about posting pics with your "golf buddies" to be amusing though. See it wasn't a meme or a link, it was original content. Let's see what the reviewers had to say:

Category	Score	Points
Content	4.23	30/70
Writing	5.23	3/5
Web Design	4.23	2/5
Intangibles	3.85	2/5
Read Regularly	0.77	1/10
Frequency	8	4/5
Total		42

Percentile Rank: 5

The first 5 or 6 posts are nothing but tags/memes. How annoying. Save that forward stuff for emails. I didn't bother reading many of the other posts, they were either too long or put me to sleep in the first sentence.

I'm not getting funny from this blog. And again with the white text on black background. Huge turnoff for me. Very hard for tired eyes to read.

Is there anything funny in this blog?

Wow! I see plenty of awards for being funny, but less actual funny than I would like to see.

His conversational tone is engaging, but things like golf and blog awards and grandkids are probably best suited for people who like those things or know the person. In the archives, the most interesting things for me were things that had nothing to do with the most frequently blogged about topics.

Wish him luck, not for me though.

An amazing tour de force of being slightly funny - at least it got a laugh.

Not sure I saw anything really funny here. Lots of "award" news, but nothing I would care to read more of.

Further evidence that with a few exceptions (see George w. Bush) the American People do not understand humour.

ED NOTE: With all due respect, we may have deserved above, huh Yanks?

It was very amusing!

OOOOH, does this guy love blog awards. There was really not a lot of substance here as far as stuff that was funny. If I wanted to listen to a grown man talk like a teenage girl, I'd move back in with my parents.

Is it just me or does this blog just talk about awards?

ED NOTE: How long have you had these feelings of isolation, reviewer? Alas, it's not just you.

In summation:

Looks like a pre-y2k geocities page. Lots of great ego, but nothing to back it up.

Overall something was lacking in this blog in that it didn't really feel as though I were reading a blog, but rather browsing a classified ad with all the links. I would need more than a link to my blog to keep me coming back. There were too many distractions and links to make the reading enjoyable.

Your blog might benefit from a bit of decluttering and more posts of an "original" or humorous nature, then perhaps we can talk. Good luck Speed Cat and be well.


Review posted by: G of Simply Said