It has now been 30 years since the first primitive edition of that venerable celebrity nudity site, Uncle Scoopy’s Funhouse, appeared on (of all places) AOL. There was exactly one picture – Madonna hitchhiking stark naked. There has been a daily edition every single day since then, except for approximately a month in 2023 when I took some time off to rest and recover from kidney issues.
Thirty years is a long time. I still enjoy finding the new material, and I still enjoy writing a few jokes now and then, but I have to admit that I don’t have as much fire in the belly as I used to, and I sometimes wonder how much longer the whole thing will last. After all, my two oldest sons are old enough to play with me in the Senior Games! When the elderly people in your family are your children, you can’t help but hear that ol’ clock ticking. (No, I have no plan to stop. Why would I if I enjoy it? But there’s always something unexpected like that kidney thing.)
Other Crap seems like my new project – until I realize that even this site is old enough to drink. To be exact, it is now 23 years old. I recently tested some posts from the early 2000s, and very few of them still work. Many lead to domains for sale! What can ya say? The internet keeps evolving.
I know that many of you have been reading my blogs since the 1990s, which is amazing in itself, and I thank you all for that.
Thanks for everything, Scoop.
Congrats on the anniversary, maybe its nostalgia talking but as a teen in the 90s the internet was a much more novel place. Not sure if you have your OG site files saved but it’s always nice to go back in archive.org and see what things used to look like, for example.
I remember the old Robb’s Celebs site and a few others and came across yours at some point (I think at least) with nude scene countdown rankings list with clip downloads. The newest celebrity stripping off in a movie or Playboy was/is enough for me, and there’s not many blogs or sites that keep it that simple anymore when so much is filled with a barrage of AI fakes or milking OnlyFans with false advertisements. That’s not to mention all the age verification laws that suddenly asking for IDs and selfies.
Somehow the internet has both become full of infinite options but also feels much less open and novel and corporate controlled.
It’s certainly slicker now. Sites like Netflix, Spotify/iTunes, and YouTube (and, yes, Only Fans) have re-invented the entertainment industry, dramatically altering its economics in the process.
On the other hand, Google gets worse rather than better. It seems like every result leads to one of the following: (1) an irrelevant sponsored post; (2) a small portion of an article that requires a subscription to continue; (3) a total scam.
I’m OK with #1 because they are labeled and Google has to pay the bills, but #2 annoys the fuck out of me. And it must be worse for you guys, because I can crack 80-90% of the paywalls, but I reckon most people can’t do that and have just wasted a lot of time.
I definitely prefer the Web 1.0 paradigm in most cases, because the whole modern Web is to provoke infinite scrolling and autoplay based on an algorithm. It’s not satisfactory to have the most recent updates up front and a menu system to access them, they want perpetual engagement and consumption.
I agree on the paywalls running everything nowadays and am assuming you’re using a pretty infamous ‘archive’ (hint) site/extension to access them, which Patel and the FBI are now going after. Gotta protect those corporate donors.
I get server space and bandwidth costs money, but since websites have turned to the heavy obstructive Google ad monopoly that often can host hijacking malvertising, what are people expected to do? It’s like they want to have their cake and eat it too, sites want more and more ad revenue, have Google take over the load and just send the check, who cares what the Javascript is dropping to people’s browsers.
Back in the Web 1.0 page if someone was hosting a static banner rotating its .jpeg image link a few times advertising something I knew at LEAST the site owner had to be aware of what they were promoting to put it on there. Now? Google cuts the check and if you get some ad for AliExpress on a plastic piece of shit, who cares.
Unfortunately I think both the golden and silver age of the internet is long gone. People want to react to 144 characters or less, or a 20 second Tiktok clip, and the traditional sites are locked down as you mentioned, or don’t give a shit if the Javascript from Google’s ad system borks your browser.
No. I just hack the sites through their source code. Most paywalls are very unsophisticated if you just want to read a specific article, and I never mess with trying to hack an entire site (I don’t think I would know how.)
The ability to crack a specific article is a result of their own greed. They make pages available to Google so they can pull the ol’ bait-and-switch on you. But that means they expose their source code.
Or at least it used to mean that. I used to be able to crack just about 100% of them. Unfortunately, they are getting smarter all the time, and my percentage keeps declining.
Yup essentially many of these blockers are frontend splash pages that if you eliminate the element through some browser manipulation you can get rid of them. Some track visits and only allow so many free, which can be worked around by using incognito/private browser mode.
The archive site I mentioned basically goes HTTP GET requests to the content and saves a snapshot of the content, which is getting them attention. But at the same time, if sites wanted to portal their content off and require authentication, they could do that and no one would be able to get to it either. But they want to have their cake and eat it too with deceptive practices of showing content that can’t be read on their headlines or frontpages and trying to hook people into signing up that way because it’s more easily forgotten behind a portal.
Similar to the same scam that sites do complaining about ad blocking and offering a ‘paid alternative’ that costs much more per the vast majority of people would be providing via cents of ad revenue per visit. $10 a month as a replacement for someone’s $0.50 of ad revenue that month isn’t an equivalent alternative. That’s the internet we live in today though.
I was around back then. I subscribed to the Fun House for a while, and have followed Othercrap for decades now. I think it was 1997 or 1998 when I started. What I like the most about this site is that it really hasn’t changed that much. It has nearly the same look and feel as it did back then.
And honestly, now I’m here more for the articles and not so much the pictures.
I’ve considered a redesign of Other Crap many times – but for what point? It loads fast, it’s easy to navigate, it’s 100% content, there are no annoying ads or pop-ups or animated gifs or unwanted cookies or auto-downloads or pictures-within-pictures or passwords or paywalls. I look around and conclude, perhaps egotistically, that I’m the one who got it right.
On the other hand, other people worry about monetizing their content, and that leads them into all the pitfalls listed above. I just accept that it’s a hobby. I do link exchanges with guys like Mr. Nip-Slip but I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t consider his content worthwhile.
Aside from the naked celeb news, I do like the stories you tell. My favorite one is the one about sitting next to Bo Derek on a plane, and then running into her at a hotel later and she says hi to you and calls you by name.
She made me a legend among oil company douchebags. That’s what made me El Marqués de los Grifos.
Grifos (literally faucets or nozzles) is a Peruvian slang term for gas station. But it is also – well, you can imagine what might resemble a nozzle. So I was literally the Marquis of Gas Stations, but Bo’s acknowledgement of me made me also the King Dick!
I was shocked by how nice she was! Especially since I barely talked to her. (I like to say I was giving her privacy, but probably I was just intimidated.) I suppose being seatmates on a plane for six hours is a special, weird kind of camaraderie.
She was going to Lima as a guest of Blockbuster, to help them open their first video store in Peru, and I was doing a project for Mobil, which was separate from Exxon at the time. Shows you how long ago that was.
World keeps turnin’.
(I suppose it was 1995ish, so just a few months before the first Fun House.)
I’ve been around here since OtherCrap started, or close to it.
Of all the blogs I’d followed at the time, and there were a LOT of them, I think you are the only one I still follow!
Incidentally, I get most of my news, such as celebrity deaths and the like, from you. The news sites I do follow are proudly and unabashedly liberal, as am I, but I like to see a more balanced view as well
First site I turn to every morning, so glad you’re here. Thanks!!
I was FunHouse for a while, but then there was some deal you put out where instead of a price increase you’d let OG subscribers keep the old price but we had to log in thru Dudes.org?
I don’t know. It was the late 90s and a lot has gone in and out of my brain. So I am probably remembering that wrong.
To be honest, besides the pics, pop culture gossip and sports content, one thing I used to find interesting was when you discussed your global travels doing work for the Southland Corporation. I’m a business nut and enjoyed the unique perspective.
I’ve said this in the past whenever these milestones have come up, you’re the ONLY website/app I check daily.
I know good things can’t last. So, if you can, just make sure your last post is a good one, because I’m sure it’ll take me a few months/years to break the habit.
Yes, I did that backdoor Dudes solution for a while, but it was cumbersome that I just lowered the Funhouse price back down to where it started.
I don’t advertise the Funhouse much any more, but if I did, I might mention that it’s the same price it was in the 1990s. Not many things fall into that category.
Happy Birthday!
Wow! Yet another remembrance that I’ve been around the sun a bunch of times. The Funhouse and DAInews use to help me stay informed. Thanks!
I miss DAI’s site. I wish he had sold me his archives, because his material was so different from mine.
Thank you for the time and energy you have put into this over the decades.
Thanks for all the time you’ve put in over the years.
Congratulations Scoop
In a constantly changing media world, you and your sites have been a pillar of quality and dependability.
We fans greatly appreciate all that you have done for us
I’ve been a member since the beginning.
Thanks for everything over the years. I’ve been reading since 1997, I believe, maybe ’98. I know it’s a cliche but it really is hard to grasp how fast time flies. Anyway, I raise a glass to the next 30 years!
Thanks for all the fish, and Tits.
I have been reading your posts since the beginning. When i was a young lad exploring the internet, richards-realm? (i think thats the spelling) had a link to your website. Was a nice place to find good early free nude celeb pics. Since those days I gone on your website at least a few times a week. Uncle Scoopys fun house, i checked out for the newest latest celeb nudes every chance I had. I appreciate what you have done here. Thank you Uncle Scoopy. Without you, I dont have many avenues for good celebrity gossip or nice links to different kinds of celebrity nudity. You are a treasure.
Looking back at websites from the 1990’s is what the wayback machine is for. Your oldest archived site link there is from July of 1998.
30 years ago I was a 19 year old kid. I don’t remember when I found the funhouse, but it was definitely the first adult site I ever paid for, and while lots about my life has changed since, I still appreciate your writing, even when it’s about topics I don’t care anything about (e.g. baseball).
Congrats! That’s some crazy longevity.
congratulations!!!
grats hard to believe how long you ve been part of my daily routine
Thanks for the mammaries!
thanks for all the work… I am about the same age and must say I start more looking forward to the sports discussions as much or more than the random celebrity boob
Congrats on the anniversary, and I hope you keep doing it. Through the years, there have been a number of sites that have been my daily go-tos after I finish my own work on the computer and before hitting the sack. Most of them have gone away to be replaced by new ones that have gone away, but you can proudly sing that great Sondheim song, “I’m Still Here.”
Thank you Scoopy.
I think it was the late 90’s when I first subbed because of your content like CrimsonGhost, DonJuan, flauti, Hankster, and vejiita, to name but a few. All the talent showed up here. Usenet should have thanked you for that also.
I too miss Dai’s. Hang in there for another 30.
PR
Who does collages now? There’s Dead Red, Penman and Johnny Moronic that I know of. Are they the last of the Golden Breed?
From the past, don’t forget Hugo, who may have been the best collage artist of them all; Graphic Response, who may have been the pioneer; and Brainscan, who combined collaging with great commentary. (Apologies to anyone I forgot.)
I wonder what happened to all those guys. DAI is still around, but just recently closed his site. I used to hear from Graphic Response occasionally, but it has been years. Hankster, Tuna and Dann have passed away. I don’t know about the others.
A long-timer here as well, I’ve seen cappers come and go (there were some real artists out there, collage making is a lost art, IMO) (also RIP, Tuna, he is missed, appreciate you bringing back his older posts on the Funhouse) and other sites have popped up and have disappeared over the years (due to loss of interest or death of the webmaster)
You’ve been a constant over the years, which I appreciate.
Also, thank you for all of the time/effort you put into the content and articles, I always learn a lot from the posts or it leads me to look into something that I would like to know more of.
Happy anniversary and I hope to be here for many, many more years. Cheers.
FYI just thought this ridiculous verdict in Denmark was relevant to this site:
Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict
Hopefully this kind of ridiculous censorship and law doesn’t come to the US eventually.
I do believe I started reading your site in 1997 or so, and up until a few years, I rarely missed a day.
Thanks for all the boobs.
Congratulations Scoop, your the man! Love the pics, but really love your comments and side stories especially about film history. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’. THX.
Come for the boobies, stay for the commentary…not to minimize the importance of the boobies.
I got my first Internet service in 1996. I was 14 then. Heard of nudity in films but was not old enough to watch them. With the Internet I excitedly searched for “nude celebs” and I discovered Uncle Scoopy Fun House. I don’t have a credit card so I couldn’t access the Encyclopedia but I think there were some free daily content which kept me happy for a while. Thanks for the great times and thanks for being my first entry point into the world of celebrity nudity. Happy Birthday!!!