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should we keep on chooglin'

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tired of tip-toeing around people's feelings on this topic

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Yes, and in fact, we should be chooglin' more than we are right now 39
Yes, but only at the current rate - don't increase the choogle 8
Sometimes I think of Paul Anka 4
Yes, but we should be tamping down the chooglin - we should be able to get choogle data from the campus 2
No, fuck chooglin', it should be banned and it should be taught as a pejorative in school 1


― Never mind the tulips, here come the sex pistils (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 October 2026 15:31 (two weeks ago)

Choogle to the stars.

I'm also partial to "proogle", the combination of prog and choogle, as represented by the Gizz.

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 23 October 2026 15:38 (two weeks ago)

I spent years waiting for the vaunted One Eleven Heavy double album only to learn that they're on hiatus, the fuckers.

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 23 October 2026 15:39 (two weeks ago)

^^^
One of my favorite ilm threads.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 23 October 2026 16:20 (two weeks ago)

Minneapolis had an entertaining rock band called Chooglin' in the mid-to-late Oughts, and I especially appreciated their biting of the Chicago(TM) logo for their own iconography. Maybe one of y'all Minnesotans with more of a connection to the local music scene can elaborate in more detail

― Bon JovIver - You Give Skinny Love A Bad Name (Prefecture), Friday, 23 October 2026 16:26 (two weeks ago)

Paul Anka was one of the sharpest of the celebrity contestants in the 1960s episodes of the game show Password. He came to play each time.

― Josefa, Friday, 23 October 2026 17:01 (two weeks ago)

Hang on, is Neanderthal thinking of CCR alone here, or the modern choogle revival as a whole, championed by the likes of Raven Sings the Blues

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 23 October 2026 17:28 (two weeks ago)

ABC
always be chooglin'

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 23 October 2026 17:34 (two weeks ago)

chooglin fails compared to my preferred strategy, giving up

― ok star grumbles (lukas), Friday, 23 October 2026 17:57 (two weeks ago)

I spent years waiting for the vaunted One Eleven Heavy double album only to learn that they're on hiatus, the fuckers.

Yeah these guys can definitely bring some choogle.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 October 2026 18:02 (two weeks ago)

la lechera otm

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 October 2026 18:05 (two weeks ago)

I voted for "the current rate." The nature of a good choogle is that it just keeps on goin'. To increase or decrease implies that there was something wrong with the state of our chooglin'.

Which is paradoxical; if adjustment is needed, can you even have been said to have *been* chooglin'? In an ideal world we wouldn't even need to be TOLD to keep on chooglin'. The choogle would just take on its own inexorable, irresistible self-sustaining chooglementum, like gravity.

Tldr: I never stopped chooglin' and I don't intend to.

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 October 2026 18:06 (two weeks ago)

I voted for "the current rate." The nature of a good choogle is that it just keeps on goin'. To increase or decrease implies that there was something wrong with the state of our chooglin'.

Oh shit, otm

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 23 October 2026 18:36 (two weeks ago)

― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)

classic dn

― c u (crüt), Friday, 23 October 2026 19:14 (two weeks ago)

as Jay-Z once said, can't knock the choogle

― Never mind the tulips, here come the sex pistils (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 October 2026 19:35 (two weeks ago)

there are always opportunities to choogle more. there are still huge chunks of the day when i find i'm barely chooglin at all - when i'm asleep, for example.

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 23 October 2026 21:08 (two weeks ago)

we need Universal Basic Chooglin'

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 23 October 2026 22:00 (two weeks ago)

a choog in every pot

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 October 2026 22:14 (two weeks ago)

Electric choogaloo

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 October 2026 22:30 (two weeks ago)

I voted for "the current rate." The nature of a good choogle is that it just keeps on goin'. To increase or decrease implies that there was something wrong with the state of our chooglin'.

Which is paradoxical; if adjustment is needed, can you even have been said to have *been* chooglin'? In an ideal world we wouldn't even need to be TOLD to keep on chooglin'. The choogle would just take on its own inexorable, irresistible self-sustaining chooglementum, like gravity.

Tldr: I never stopped chooglin' and I don't intend to.

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, October 23, 2026 2:06 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think that would mean there has to be some kind of ramp up to achieve the choogle - like on a car before hitting the open highway and setting the cruise control.

or are we suggesting you're just born with the choogle or not?

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Friday, 23 October 2026 23:14 (two weeks ago)

Perhaps the real choogle is the one within our hearts.

It began with the January 1969 release of Bayou Country, and so long as people believe in it, it is there. Maybe only faintly heard at times, but it dwells in the Jungian collective unconscious.

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 October 2026 23:38 (two weeks ago)

the problem is, people don't realise they COULD be chooglin, so there's a massive chooglin deficit :-(

― . (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:21 (one week ago)

Chooglin’ is a young art and we need to respect it as such. You could listen to the Woodstock live version and assume that’s the maximum choogle, and probably be wrong. We need a baseline, we need a meter with a little red section that represents “maybe too much” and then, I argue, we should aspire to peg that meter.

― trm (tombotomod), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:25 (one week ago)

For whom the choogle choogles, it choogles for thee

― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:25 (one week ago)

really crucial poll, ty for posting.

the original instructions were to "keep on chooglin", but the nature of the choogle is of course author's choice. in my choogle, we understand it to mean: slow amelioration over time through slight variation. we achieve variation through diversity. we achieve diversity by having more participants.

this means only one exact thing: in order to keep on chooglin, we're gonna need MORE CHOOGLIN.

― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:45 (one week ago)

personally, i think what the world needs now is more chooglin'

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:54 (one week ago)

pretty sure that's a Burt Bacarach song

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Saturday, 24 October 2026 00:56 (one week ago)

I heard it in a movie directed by Ryan Choogler

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 24 October 2026 01:05 (one week ago)

I would like to submit for consideration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBiJgLYYFE

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 24 October 2026 01:19 (one week ago)

^ that is some Black Shoogleth shit right there

― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:11 (one week ago)

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― old helen (map), Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:39 (one week ago)

you know when owen wilson's character snaps in the royal tennenbaums and he goes "wildcat.... rowr". that's chooglin', to me.

― old helen (map), Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:42 (one week ago)

sorry i meant luke

― old helen (map), Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:43 (one week ago)

goddammit i don't know which one he is, you know who i mean

i'm just going to keep on chooglin out of here

― old helen (map), Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:44 (one week ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slN3TegaXgM

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Saturday, 24 October 2026 02:59 (one week ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 29 October 2026 00:01 (one week ago)

Please, after October 29, NO MORE CHOOGLIN, peace and love

― brimstead, Thursday, 29 October 2026 00:11 (one week ago)

you out to be ashamed of yourself for typing such heresy

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Thursday, 29 October 2026 01:26 (one week ago)

Oh brimstead, that makes me want to start a chooglin listenin club

― TheNuNuNu, Thursday, 29 October 2026 01:46 (one week ago)

Don't

Stop

Chooglin' bout tomorrow

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 02:50 (one week ago)

that makes me want to start a chooglin listenin club

huh that's weird cuz it kinda makes me wanna KEEP ON CHOOGLIN

― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 05:52 (one week ago)

GOTTA keep on chooglin'! there's no question about it, and no need for a poll. Choogle on! You don't even have to know what it is, you can keep on chooglin' if you try, til the day you die ... keep on!

― marjory gatorade, Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:03 (one week ago)

xp Menty Spice 'Don't. Stop. Chooglin' bout tomorrow. yesterday's gone ... Keep (on) chooglin on!

― marjory gatorade, Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:05 (one week ago)

'I'm going up the country / baby, don't you wanna go? (repeat once)
Well, you gotta keep on chooglin' / baby, anybody can go ...'

― marjory gatorade, Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:11 (one week ago)

this poll has raised a very important, quite substantial, and indeed maybe even existential question: how does chooglin relate to honkin?

― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:39 (one week ago)

keep on chooglin' vs. honkin' on the bobo is a very worthy poll, but i think we all know how that's going to end.

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:42 (one week ago)

Existential new borad description

― bert newtown, Thursday, 29 October 2026 12:50 (one week ago)

Can this thread live on as a place where we share songs that us chooglin types around here could just choogle on to all week

― TheNuNuNu, Thursday, 29 October 2026 13:28 (one week ago)

...but what if 'no more chooglin' wins?????

― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 14:09 (one week ago)

Fake polls

Fake news

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 14:10 (one week ago)

real ones are ramble tamblin' now

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 29 October 2026 14:13 (one week ago)

mods please abort. any deadline tangential to chooglin is an existential crisis to the borad

― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 29 October 2026 15:38 (one week ago)

if you can choog it, who can refuse it?

― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Thursday, 29 October 2026 17:35 (one week ago)

It's in the way that you choog it

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2026 17:52 (one week ago)

it was a poorly formed ringo joke ;_;

― brimstead, Thursday, 29 October 2026 19:26 (one week ago)

new DN in honor of this poll

― Increase The Choogle (sleeve), Thursday, 29 October 2026 19:39 (one week ago)

xp back off choogaloo

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Thursday, 29 October 2026 20:31 (one week ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 30 October 2026 00:01 (one week ago)

top comment from official creedence clearwater revival "keep on chooglin" upload on youtube:

My son is 17. When I played this loud in the car he says, "dad, what the hell are they talking about, this song is nonsense". At which point I responded, "son, you just got to keep on chooglin". He said, what is choogling? I told him he will find out on his own eventually and left it at that.

posted by user skipdude37 3 years ago as of this posting. it sits at 725 likes and has 95 replies.

to skipdude37, i have only one thing to say: just keep on chooglin, man.🥲

we celebrate with more chooglin.

― austinato (Austin), Friday, 30 October 2026 00:14 (one week ago)

Choog-nami election. A blowout.

― Menty Spice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 October 2026 01:17 (one week ago)

Okay, who's the wiseass that voted for fuck chooglin'

― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Friday, 30 October 2026 01:22 (one week ago)

vindication, bring on the additional chooglin'

― Increase The Choogle (sleeve), Friday, 30 October 2026 03:52 (one week ago)

xp a coward’s vote. they know their anti-choogle stance won’t hold under scrutiny.

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Friday, 30 October 2026 04:43 (one week ago)

chooglin is a perfect stasis; you need to consistently, constantly persist in the choogle. hence i voted to not increase the choogle

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 30 October 2026 05:18 (one week ago)

The world would be a much better place if everyone took a little more time out today their day to keep on choogling.

― Ed, Friday, 30 October 2026 06:48 (one week ago)

All we are saying

is choogle your pants

― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Friday, 30 October 2026 10:14 (one week ago)

Now please hit me with your choogliest recommendations. Band names, album names, song links, what have you. I don't have nearly enough sources of chooglin' but, friends, I am eager to choogle on home.

I'll start: Crosses by the aforementioned One Eleven Heavy

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 30 October 2026 10:52 (one week ago)

nu i propose to you, in my experience one of the masters of the funky choogle, charles wright: "that's all that matters baby"

― austinato (Austin), Friday, 30 October 2026 16:40 (one week ago)


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