Brunching Shuttlecocks

The Brunching Shuttlecocks
Web address brunching.com
Commercial? No
Type of site
Humor site
Owner Lore Sjöberg
Created by Lore Sjöberg and Dave Neilsen
Launched June 1997
Alexa rank
1,940,138 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Defunct

The Brunching Shuttlecocks is a humor web site that ran from June 1997 to March 2003. Its main contributors were Lore Sjöberg and Dave Neilsen and it ran under the motto "Pure and Simple as a Hammer to the Forebrain."

In interviews, Lore has stated that he was tired of hearing his friends talk about their 401K plans when he didn't have one, and suggested they talk about creating a comedy website instead. As it happened, only Dave Neilsen could make the time commitment to do so.[2]

Content

Recurring features were:

The Geek Hierarchy deserves special note, as it has been widely passed around, and imitations created for other fields. [3] [4] [5] [6] It is a chart of various groups in fandom, with arrows between groups indicating who looks down on whom. The topmost group is "Published Science Fiction Authors" and various flavors of furries are at the bottom.

Brunching in print

In 2002, The Book of Ratings : Opinions, Grades, and Assessments of Everything Worth Thinking About was released by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Random House (ISBN 0-609-80852-4). The book consists of material from the website plus new material, and was illustrated by Steve Notley, creator of Bob the Angry Flower.

Impact

During its heyday, it was one of the most popular humor sites on the web. As of May 2011 the site was still the top Google hit for the word "brunching" and was the fifth hit for "shuttlecocks", though while the domain still exists, the website no longer has a home page and instead redirects to Lore Sjöberg's Google+ page. It was among the first sites to be given a "Slashbox" on Slashdot.

Mentions and praise in print media:

Brunching was named as one of the top ten humor sites by Yahoo! Internet Life.[7]

Lore's The Björk Song was played on the Dr. Demento show on May 20, 2001.

See also

External links

References

  1. "Brunching.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. "Interview with Lore". Archived from the original on 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
  3. "Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
  4. "Japan Hierarchy". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
  5. "The Harry Potter Fandom Hierarchy". Retrieved 2006-12-28. Archived October 9, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Pagan Hierarchy". Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  7. "Purchase Ad Impressions". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
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