Tommy the Turkey hated that Americans ate turkey on Thanksgiving Day. It really pissed him off. He wrote letters to conservative blogs like Michelle Malkin, but they just ignored him. He ranted and raved to the liberals on The Huffington Post until the editors blocked him from their site.
At last, Tommy the Turkey decided to start his OWN BLOG, The Daily Cackle. For weeks, he clucked his heart out daily for an audience of one — himself. Then, one morning, Tommy the Turkey logged on to his blog and saw that he had a comment:
“Tough luck, you stupid turkey! I can’t wait until Thanksgiving to stuff you with stuffing and eat you with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce!”
Cranky Blogster
“Oh my god,” Tommy the Turkey gobbled happily, “I have my FIRST COMMENT!”
This proves that it doesn’t really matter who your first commenter is — someone friendly or an absolute idiot. It’s still a comment! It is what you’ve been waiting for as a newbie blogger. Getting a comment means that you have been accepted into the community. You are officially a BLOGGER.
Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, so why not thank other bloggers? If you spend as much time as me online, you know more about other bloggers than some of your co-workers. I’ve met so many great people online. I want to thank all of you for making blogging such a wonderful experience.
I thank everyone who has found his or her way to Citizen of the Month.
And since this is “Thank Your First Commenter Day,” I thank you, Terry Finley for the very first comment on my blog:
Nice blog. Thank you.
Our health is really important.
Check out my blog.
Terry Finley
Simple, but direct.
Sadly, we lost touch after that first comment, so I’d like to also thank the first commenter that still reads me and that I consider a blogging friend — the former TWM, now at Not So Confidential.
At first glance, NSC and I have little in common. He is a Southerner, a former Air Force Officer who served with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. But blogging can make strange bedfellows, and despite our differences in political views at times, we immediately bonded over our love for buxom brunettes. Now, THAT is what the true meaning of the blogosphere is all about. So, thank you NSC!
And a Happy Thanksgiving to all my blogging friends!
(other Thanskgiving blogging fun)
To make a short story long, I’ve identified and thanked my First Commenter. And several other people, including you, Neil.
Neil, I am thankful for having been exposed to your intellect, humor and thoughtfulness. Have a safe and happy thanksgiving.
I was thankful six weeks ago.
You go ahead and be thankful now. I’ll be right here waiting for you to come back from thankful-land.
If a talking penis doesn’t make your blog better than Dooce’s, Thank Your First Commenter Day should. Thanks Neil, you’re the best.
In the spirit of this new found blog holdiday I would like to thank my first commenter, http://hamleeinnz.blogspot.com/ although yesterday when I was looking who my first commenter was, it was someone else, because apparently Blogger purges comments faster than I thought. At least I’ll get to thank someone different every year!
Really easy. At my first individual blog, the first commenter was Gloria. I wouldn’t be blogging if it wasn’t for her. She roped me in as a contributor to another blog she had started. After a couple of months, I realized that I wanted a blog that was completely my own. When I changed blogs, last year she once more was the first to comment.
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I am THANKFUL for Neil coming up with Thanksgiving blogging ideas. Thank you!
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Thanks for a great idea. here is my thanks, including a nice link to you.
What sucks for me is all the years I had the site on AOL I didn’t have comments so that’s nearly a decade without comments. Tho I had a guestbook so I guess that counts, but that sucks too because the last one was actually the second guestbook, so I’m missing the first REAL guestbook entry.
So here’s to my first actual REAL blog commenter, Carmi>, in January 2006, who congratulated me on finally getting my site out of the clutches of AOHell.
As far as my old site guestbook, turns out *I* am the first signer there as I was testing. Unfortunately the next REAL signer, I can’t thank because it was my lifelong friend/slash/bane of my existence KC, who wrote that back in 1998 and who is no longer with us. So a little teary-eyed here for a moment, but it was nice, too, to see that that’s who my “first” there was.
I am arriving here a little too late (via Elisabeth’s blog) and I would have LOVED to participate especially that I had discovered your blog a long time ago, loved it, forgotten to bookmark or netvibe it and how it goes… time went by, never came back, which is a real shame on me (well, oops, wrong topic, this should go for a pre-yom-kippur-comment-day, shouldn’t it?)
So here is my thanks to my first commenter: mimi in houston,tx who commented on March 7,2006 about the post describing deer crossing the roads, both in New York and Texas state as well as in France – see how all favorite themes of the current blog are covered by this wonderful first comment!
I will definitely have to write a note to thank her now.
But thank YOU Neil for your blog that I will now read more regularly I promise.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here is the link to my ‘thank you’ post.
I put my post up the other day!!! lol But just to say officially here.. my first commenter was Wendy..
Thank you Neil for having corrected my horrible link encoding. I came back on the crime scene because I was feeling guilty, and now I am feeling relieved.
What a great week-end!
Geez, it’s easy to see that all the Americans are taking a holiday. So much time, so many comments.
Thanks Neil. The fedExed turkey was just fine. I feel like you’re the native American and I’m the pilgrim that doesn’t know what to eat.
Well shit, It’s obvious that you can eat a turkey.
I hope you and Sophia and the rest of the bloggers will have a nice holiday.
Well, mine was late, but better late than never, right?
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