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.

For some reason, not yet fully understood, most of the people who have visited the Big Bad Blog via a search engine over the last week have been looking for Felicia Day.

Felicia Day is over here. And here. And here. By the by.

(Edited for 2011: And also here.)

Those searching for Felicia Day are split, however, in how they would like to see her. A small minority (three of you) would like “felicia day sexy”. The majority — with over 50% of the Felicia Day searches — arrive here looking for “felicia day nude”.

We repeat that these trends are confusing for those of us here at the Big Bad Blog. We have blogged about Felicia Day on three previous occasions, back in August. And one of these posts does contain the word “nude” at some point. But … this is the Internet. Surely someone, somewhere has photoshopped Ms. Day’s head onto a naked body somewhere. And surely that is where such a search should lead. Or perhaps Guild fan fiction?

In any case, Internet searchers, I am disappointed in you. If you found your way to this blog in the past looking for Felicia Day undressed, you are simply not trying hard enough. Your Google-Fu is found wanting.

Seeing as these searchers are arriving on Big Bad Blog soil, we are trying to decide how to best capture the attention and interest of this demographic, nonetheless. The above mentioned photoshop forays or fan fiction? Impassioned public pleas to Ms Day to become a porn starlet? Some other ingenious and previously unthought-of bloggery?

Of course, there could be a strange twist to all of this. Apparently Felicia Day reads everything written about her on the Internet. Ms Day — are all these your searches?

Photo by THE BUI BROTHERS, found on Flickr.