Squackle.com! The Funniest Site on the Net

Hello, my name is Dave.

I like to laugh, and I like funny things. It just so happens that I make lots of funny things as well. I’ve got plenty of ideas swirling through my brain, and if I’m lucky enough, they’ll be created one day.

If you would like to contact me for business, advertising, or job opportunities based on my writing (or the web site as a whole), please contact me at davepoobond@squackle.com .

You can find the Facebook page for Squackle.com here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Squacklecom/16593479613

You can find the Myspace group for Squackle.com here: http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=100095186

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All the things I’ve posted on the site are here (it doesn’t necessarily mean that I made it all, however):

http://squackle.com/author/davepoobond/

Content that is tagged with “The DPB Tag” are articles that I deem as important pieces of writing and other things that I have created. As almost all the content on here isn’t necessarily what you’d see on a regular blog (not to mention almost fully amalgamated in the above author link), it is necessary to distinguish this type of content that holds the sort of classification of content on this site that corresponds with my personal creative abilities. This tag is accessible from the following link:

http://squackle.com/tag/the-dpb-tag/

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About this site:

Squackle.com is a humor site, presented in a blog format. The original Squackle.com was a web site that was plagued with problems, biggest of all being bad presentation of content. It was started in 1999 by a group of friends, headed by davepoobond. It was meant to be a comedy web site full of content they had created, but soon came to encompass multiple types of humor.

After jumping from free hosting site to free hosting site as the content of the site grew, www.squackle.com was purchased (a goal to the original group), davepoobond assumed control over all the content that was being displayed on the web site and began to make it more towards a vision of a huge humor content archive.

The content on the site swelled to the point of it being quite unmanageable by manual HTML and SSI means over the years, which resulted in there being less and less frequent updates as it became apparent that adding a certain amount of dictionary words (alphabetically, by hand) took nearly two hours to integrate into the dictionary, as well as taking way too long to add a page that only had a picture on it. Also, with minimal knowledge of how to actually a design a layout for a web site, the problem couldn’t be solved easily. During the time, davepoobond also began working on the gaming site Gamersmark.com , which also took up a lot of his time.

After a year of trying to find a suitable solution to display a massive amount of content in a manageable way, davepoobond finally decided to go with WordPress, finding that most of the things he wanted to do with the web site had already been conceptualized — it was called a blog. However, the content that would be put up in wordpress is not be traditionally blog-like. It is standard humor, just like what was seen on the normal web site, still viewable here: http://www.squackle.com/aboutus.html , with some normal blogging elements. Mostly just humor, though.

Squackle.com shows the power of what “free” web site software can do. Everything on the site uses free services (other than web hosting, of course), and shows that there are powerful tools available for use without having to pay for it. The over-encompassing goal of the site is to be a humor archive that contains all the funny things in the world, as well as original content.

Purposes of this blog come in two forms.

Archive – Archiving everything in the world that is funny into one web site.  It is a mission that no one has (as far as I know) undertaken to archive every single piece of humor that has ever been conceived.

Original Content – In addition to archiving everything else that is funny stuff, original content is also added into the mix.

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Other info about the blog:

If you see a post by “A Squackler” it means that a fan or person submitted a very small amount of content and they have been shoved into a generic user name to signify that the content was submitted to the site and not found or created by myself or someone that actually will have their name portrayed on the site.

Most posts are identified by their Post ID. If they do not have some sort of unique title, they will simply be noted by their post ID prefaced by what it is (such as “Joke #xxxxx” for a joke). They do not mean that it is, for example, the 5000th joke on the site or whatever. If there is a title, or some sort of identifier, it will be added after the Post ID. The only ID that does not have a prefix (such as “Joke”) will be the Chat Logs section.