Sub Pop wasn't the only iconic local business to celebrate a big anniversary this week. Archie McPhee's—the one-stop shop for all things rubber chicken, bacon, and fun-related—celebrated 25 years of business yesterday. The quintessential Seattle store marked the occasion with a sidewalk sale and a serenade from a few of Seattle's own Rat City Roller Girls. Here's to another 25 years of devil duckies, wind-up librarians, yodeling pickles, and whatever wonderful impish toys those crazy......

Archie McPhee's latest bumper stickers, posted in Seattlest's Flickr Pool Ballard residents, tired of seeing their local landmarks and homes swallowed by condos and "multi-use buildings," have taken a stand on one beloved icon of "Old Ballard." The icon? The Denny's on the corner of Market and 15th Ave NW, long a late-night stop for drunk bowlers from the now departed Sunset Bowl, bearded fisherman and other creatures of the night, including Seattlest. The......

The last time we told you about Bacon Mints, Archie McPhee's attempt to test the notion that everything tastes better with bacon, we quoted someone who worked there. "Disturbingly delicious," they declared. Despite that endorsement, we've never worked up the enthusiasm to actually buy a tin and try them ourselves. Thankfully, the AV Club threw themselves on that grenade instead. What they're supposed to taste like, per Archie McPhee: "A delicious slice of crispy......

Over in Ballard, Archie McPhee sells a cheerful Lunch Lady action figure for $9.95. Tell the disgruntled lunch ladies in Chicago, who are demanding respect from a school system that pays them peanuts (well, $10.46 an hour) and expects them to serve slop to thousands of kids. "We're looking at each other like, 'I wouldn't eat that.' We wouldn't give our kid that at home," one lunch lady told the Chicago Sun-Times. No wonder that......

-- Peter Bagge talks sports complexes. -- "Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog" two years running? Congrats, Seahawks Insider. -- 100 years after Seattle took the city over, Wallingford transplant Archie McPhee urges you to free Ballard. -- This was no boat accident. -- Can Rainier Avenue drivers be scared straight -- by billboards? -- JetBlue, Expedia. Expedia, JetBlue. -- Ken Jennings discovers the saddest sentence on Wikipedia.......

You have to listen to this. Apparently there's some damnation to be doled out for Archie McPhee's Last Supper After Dinner Mints and this woman on the phone is going to do the doling. Not only is McPhee's soul going to be consumed by fire, but they also won't sell a single mint, ever, again, anywhere, thanks to the secret machinations of the Knights Templar or whomever this woman represents. Our favorite part of this......

We've heard -- at least 2280 times -- that bacon makes everything better. But seriously: bacon mints? Bacon mints? Archie McPhee's new candy is certainly demented, but is it genius? Each one of these mints tastes like a delicious slice of crispy bacon with just a hint of mint flavor to give it that extra punch! It may sound weird but once you taste it, you'll see that mint and bacon is a match......

Monday, loafiing around at home, we noticed a Seattle submission on Overheard in the Office:He Prefers to Be Called RichardGuy: I am full.Girl: Full of what?Guy: Full of Dick's. 539 Queen Anne Avenue North Ha ha! Dick's jokes never get old! Leastways, not in New York. Regardless, we realized that we just don't see Seattle crop up often enough on Overheard in the Office. We searched the site for Seattle to see what came......

Father of our nation's energy supply, our library system, our fire companies, and our bathroom humor, Ben Franklin, would have been 300 today. Damn you, Death. You may think that there's little connection between this city and a man who died when it was still a part-time Duwamish hunting camp. Not true! If there wasn't, would Archie McPhee carry this? Consider Franklin High School! Once nicknamed the "Quakers," this school is the alma mater of......

If Seattlest had an "Is this for real?" category this event listing would be firmly inside of it, and in fact we lobbied to have this category created but the argument that nearly every post on the site could potentially fall into it swayed the nay votes. Local novelty purveyor Archie Mcphee has been inducing riotously mild amusement with their action figures for years and Seattlest appreciates the Einstein, the Rosie and the son of......