Here at the Big Bad Blog, we like to do a little bit called you ask, we answer, where we take questions people have asked their search engines that led them to the Big Bad Blog, and try to provide the answer.

I even have a reminder telling me to post one of these every few weeks. I tend to ignore my reminder.

But not today. It’s the end of 2011, and we’re gonna answer the questions suggested by the most popular searches of the year!

Magnets, how do they work?

Despite the popularity of the Fucking magnets, how do they work? meme, and the existence of a website titled How Magnets Work, people asking this question still manage to find my blog.

Presumably because this photo is somehow near the top of the Google’s image search for the question.

To answer the question, we refer back to Battle of the Magnets, and will allow Dr. Feynman to refuse to answer the question.

We need you

Aw, thanks. We need you too.

(Actually we don’t need you. We’d keep on writing all this stuff anyways, and just feel a little sad when it came time to write about which Big Bad Blog articles were most popular, and discovered the answer was “none of them.”)

Do you happen to have a picture of a cat with a mustache?

In fact, we do! From the morning coffee and the mustache cat:

I’m thinking of getting a tattoo, do you have any very bad ideas?

The Big Bad Blog is the place to go if you’re looking for an awful tattoo concept.

Our vote for the worst tattoo comes from the article Tattoos: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which is one of the most popular Big Bad Blog articles of all time. We suggest that, if you’re looking for a bad tattoo idea, you can’t get much worse than this:

There are plenty more ideas at the latest in tattoo insanity. And if you’re super desperate, you can check out all the Big Bad Blog articles that have been tagged as containing bad tattoos.

Do you have any photos of a naked Felicia Day to share?

The most common reason for a person to arrive at the Big Bad Blog (due to search engine) is the eternal, unsuccessful search for Miss Felicia Day‘s uncovered flesh.

We are sorry to disappoint you, dear reader, but said flesh cannot be found at the Big Bad Blog. This will continue to be the case until Miss Day personally delivers such photos in an envelope, requesting they be published in this space, at which time we will be forced to comply with her wishes.

In the meantime, you will have to settle for BoneCraft.

So the next time Insane Clown Posse start to ask the question:

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

Take a powerful electromagnet, hold it to their heads, and make them shut the hell up.

Photo by Thomas Fucker, via Smashing Picture.
Webcomic is Horde of Neurons, by Jeff Couturier.

The Insane Clown Posse magnet meme is, at this point, a little old. But it is lovely, and has a new chapter — which is really an old chapter — today.

A quick recap:

Insane Clown Posse released a song called Miracles. In this song, they rap about how beautiful fucking nature is, and about the miracle of fucking childbirth. The jist of the song is that miracles, they be everywhere. Most famously, the song contains the line:

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

The song — particularly the magnet line — generated a fantastic meme with images such as this:

For those interested in exploring the meme further can do so at Encyclopedia Dramatica. Which is, coincidentally, where the above image was found.

Today I saw the following video, which just feeds the meme further, in which Richard Feynman … refuses to explain how magnets work. Fucking brilliant.

For those interested, here is the video for the song Miracles. Magnets are described at around the 1 minute, 50 second mark: