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05 April 2007

What are your favorite MeFi threads? →[More:] Not because of what was linked to, but because of the comments/exchanges that took place underneath. In the case of AskMe, do you have any funny favorites, like this one?
post by: CitrusFreak12 at: 00:23 | 30 comments
This one.

Foo, heh.
posted by mullacc 05 April | 00:41
The comments in this AskMe thread made me laugh.
posted by youngergirl44 05 April | 01:15
This gem from RustyBottoms.
posted by knave 05 April | 02:19
I liked that thread where people bickered about a controversial topic but never managed to accomplish anything. Yeah, that one.
posted by cmonkey 05 April | 02:46
Sketchzilla and also that one where that eBay scanner posted for advice on how to scam his buyers, and the MeFites uncovered his scam all Nancy Drew-style.
posted by Brittanie 05 April | 04:32
I like the RelationshipFilter ones where one person tells their side, and then the other person in the relationship comes upon the thread at around comment 53 and starts telling their side.

The Sketchzilla thread wanted to crash my computer.
posted by Claudia_SF 05 April | 04:54
A hedge of ninjas.

Ha!

≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by Eideteker 05 April | 05:41
It takes a while to load but it's soooo worth it, I swear.
posted by Brittanie 05 April | 06:45
The dead are rising. What do you do?

OMG TEH FUNIE
posted by mike9322 05 April | 06:49
Oh, that reminds me of this zombie thread, which is funny due to the over-earnestness of most of the answers.
posted by Brittanie 05 April | 07:16
The Charlie-Foxtrot "embrace the suck" one on military slang was pretty good. (Even though they totally ignored the US Navy, which was & is a slang-culture unto itself.)

Any thread they've had about streaming audio has been worth a look for me. Haven't seen one in quite a while, come to think of it, but they sure made me appreciate broadband Internet access.

The Iraqfilter posts are pretty much my go-to source for what the hell's happening over there, apart from a few milblogs and some Iraqi ones. I'm not sure that "favorite" is quite the descriptor for most of these, though.
posted by PaxDigita 05 April | 07:50
I love all of the anti-Walmart threads.
posted by JanetLand 05 April | 08:19
From the zombie thread.

and head for the local Home Depot.

I always figured a Wal-Mart superstore would be best. Food, weapons, ammo and entertainment.
posted by Tenuki at 10:11 PM on November 27 [+] [!]


Dead Rising inspiration?
posted by Memo 05 April | 08:39
Anything with a ColdChef one-liner in it.
posted by PlanetKyoto 05 April | 08:48
I can't believe no one has mentioned the "how many five year olds would it take?" thread. I can't find it right now, but that is my absolute favorite askme of all time
posted by msali 05 April | 09:20
Assume no element of surprise.
posted by mygothlaundry 05 April | 09:24
I like AskMe questions where the person gets a helpful answer, and I like deleted questions, for all sorts of reasons. And I like AskMe questions that remind me how big the world is, and how different other people's lives are from my own.

And, when I'm not feeling so charitable, I like to see some crumbum get theirs, and so I like the kinds of RelationshipFilter questions that Claudia_SF mentions, and flameouts, and anything that brings out the detective work. By these latter standards, the xteraco saga kinda had it all.
posted by box 05 April | 09:26
I'm biased, but I love the answers I got when I posted an Ask thread about burning a book.
posted by cobra! 05 April | 10:10
Pop Quiz Hotshot: You're in the middle of an arena. You're being attacked by 5 year olds who will stop at nothing to kill you. How many can you take on before they overcome you?
posted by ericb 05 April | 10:13
I think my all-time favorite is You'll Put Your Eye Out, in which MeFites relate their childhood skirmishes with mortal danger.

The Billy Collins thread The Trouble with Poetry was rather awesome.

The threads I enthusiastically follow are the ones in which someone introduces us to a quirky, unusual, little-known or under-celebrated cultural phenomenon. MeFi is a great knowledge mill. Like the Edelweiss Pirates. Eefing. Then there were AskMe threads where the question was intriguing and I had time to do some detective work: Underwater Basketweaving, this sailboat ID, rubber chickens.

Pax: I was the "they" in the military slang thread. I was just looking for links by conflict, not by service branch, and ground-combat veterans seem to dominate the web sites. I agree that Navy slang is a world all its own - it evolved largely separately, though, because of the nature of the service. You should make an FPP!
posted by Miko 05 April | 10:16
Wow, cobra!, people on MeFi really know about burning stuff up, hun?
posted by Claudia_SF 05 April | 10:39
Yeah, I loved the xteraco saga, too. And then it got ugly/sad/depressing. But I still loved it (I couldn't help it).
posted by Claudia_SF 05 April | 10:43
The AskMe thread about getting rid of a body. Scarabic's answer and the comment right after it ("Okay. Awkward." Who was it? dong_resin? I can't find the thread.).
posted by deborah 05 April | 10:44
as i understand it, you're looking more for the 'classics'.

however, if i might conjecture, things such as this have enormous potential.
posted by lonefrontranger 05 April | 10:46
Claudia_SF, xteraco and UN Owen are two people whose lives I wonder about from time to time.
posted by drezdn 05 April | 10:55
Oh yeah, and the dhoyt saga. I loved that one.
posted by mygothlaundry 05 April | 11:13
This is my all-time favourite AskMe.
posted by essexjan 05 April | 12:00
oh, and speaking of soon-to-be-classics, not that it'll get read all the way down here, but oh my god...

Dumbest. Callout. EVAR!
posted by lonefrontranger 05 April | 15:48
"Ok, awkward." that was Stan Chin.
posted by scarabic 05 April | 17:32
Heh. Thanks, scarabic.
posted by deborah 05 April | 19:08
← Testing the waters, and possibly your patience as well || Döh →

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