What was the longest thread about, anyway?

November 17, 2007 1:11 PM

Seeing this recent MeTa thread at 378 comments made me wonder what the longest pan-MetaFilter thread was. I came up with this from August 24, 2001 at a whopping 1729 comments (apparently some kind of record), but they're context-less (for me, at least) because the link to the "metafilter parody" that the post refers to is gone. Can anyone slake my thirst for MetaFilter history and supply the parody that inspired such prolific commenting?
posted by scblackman to MetaFilter-related at 1:11 PM (37 comments total)

9622
posted by psmealey at 1:22 PM on November 17, 2007

Regarding long MeFi threads, there was the Ted Haggard thread -- with 1831 comments.
posted by ericb at 1:22 PM on November 17, 2007

Amazing that in a thread of 1831 comments (especially here) that nobody said "longest thread ever" (which is why it didn't show up on my googlesearch).
posted by scblackman at 1:25 PM on November 17, 2007

Sorry... I misunderstood your question. I think the original link was to the brilliant Truth in Advertising short, or something very similar to it.

Christ, have I really been lurking posting to this site, for more than six fucking years?
posted by psmealey at 1:25 PM on November 17, 2007

I think this is what you're looking for (via Metafilter Wiki and the Wayback Machine).
posted by gubo at 1:32 PM on November 17, 2007

psmealey: Thank you. Now the entire thread makes perfect sense. Apparently it's been this way here since the beginning.
posted by scblackman at 1:32 PM on November 17, 2007

Monkeys. It was about monkeys.
posted by yhbc at 1:42 PM on November 17, 2007

Policy wonk stuff, denoting more facts and some actual research into topic. Conclusion drawn on these facts. Impact on conversation negligible.

posted by funcoland at 11:02 AM PST on November 8 | permalink

Heh
posted by KokuRyu at 1:50 PM on November 17, 2007

Ack, that page makes me want to favorite - FAVORITE!!!! Why can't I??? *sobs*
posted by ClarissaWAM at 2:22 PM on November 17, 2007

Memories. Light the corners of my mind. Misty water colored memories. Of the way we were.
posted by ColdChef at 2:47 PM on November 17, 2007

Scattered pictures?
posted by psmealey at 2:51 PM on November 17, 2007

Cards for sorrow, cards for pain.

Whoops! Wrong hyperbolic melodrama, sorry.
posted by yhbc at 3:06 PM on November 17, 2007

What does "." mean?
posted by Krrrlson at 3:11 PM on November 17, 2007

This one ain't short, but it's no 9622 or Ted Haggard.
posted by dersins at 3:11 PM on November 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

He's discovered it.

We have to kill him.

*sobs*
*regains composure*
*loads shotgun*

posted by The Deej at 3:31 PM on November 17, 2007

I was thinking that the portobello mushroom thread was one of the longest, but maybe that one is memorable for other reasons.
posted by psmealey at 3:35 PM on November 17, 2007

A "." is a constricted "_*"
posted by edgeways at 3:52 PM on November 17, 2007 [3 favorites]

Memories. Light the corners of my mind.

Is that the line? I always thought it was "LIKE the corner of my mind". Which didn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
posted by cortex at 4:03 PM on November 17, 2007 [6 favorites]

It's actually "Mammaries, like the corners of my mind."

Because the corners of my mind are round and bouncy.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:14 PM on November 17, 2007

Mem'rieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees,
Light the corners of my miiiiiiiiiiiind
Misty water-colored meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemories
Of the way we werrrrrrrrre
Scattered picturrrrrrrres,
Of the smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one anooooooooooooooother
For the way we werrrrrrrrrrre
Can it beeeeeeeeeeee that it was all so simple thennnnnn?
Or has tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime re-written every liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine?
If we had the chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaance to do it all again
Tell me, would weeeeeeeeeee?
Couuuuuuuuuuuld weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Mem'rieeeeeeeeeeeeeees, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeember
We simply choooooooooose to forgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
So it's the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaughter
We will remeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeember
Whenever we remeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeember...
The way we werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre...
The way we werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre...
posted by miss lynnster at 4:17 PM on November 17, 2007 [2 favorites]

(Well, that's how I sing it.)
posted by miss lynnster at 4:18 PM on November 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

(Not that I sing it other than to torture people.)
posted by miss lynnster at 4:18 PM on November 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

miss lynnster, r u wendell?
posted by thomcatspike at 4:54 PM on November 17, 2007

God, there's an image. Hold me, thom.
posted by cortex at 4:59 PM on November 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

Miss L... that was... beautiful.

And I, too, always thought it was "like" and as a result thought the lyrics were stupid, while all along it was I who was stupid.

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.
posted by The Deej at 5:05 PM on November 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

Damn kids, forgetting your history. The original stupidly-long thread was 1142, of course.

1142 and 9622 are the only two threads that I'm aware of that launched companion websites.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:28 PM on November 17, 2007

Jesus fucking christ.

Can I say that? I think I can say that. I just said that. Jesus. Whatever.
posted by motty at 7:09 PM on November 17, 2007

Jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick!
posted by ericb at 8:46 PM on November 17, 2007

I'd never seen that 1142 thread stavros is pointing us towards. That's some crazy in there. The thread navigation script I have running indicates that the Neale fellow under discussion has 280 comments in that thread.

Now there's a good question: who has the record for most comments in one thread?
a dubious distinction, I would think, but interesting nonetheless
posted by mosessis at 9:16 PM on November 17, 2007

I don't know if you can suss that out, maybe cortex can, but perhaps this will help out. Mosessis, (*hi!*) meet the Metafilter contribution index.
posted by Lynsey at 10:33 PM on November 17, 2007

Meta Talk thread http://metatalk.metafilter.com/9622/ has 2686 comments.
posted by Cranberry at 11:29 PM on November 17, 2007

That's the second link in the original post.
posted by languagehat at 6:14 AM on November 18, 2007

Woops, no it's not—sorry!
posted by languagehat at 6:15 AM on November 18, 2007

Wow, 1142 is so editorial. It would never fly on the blue today.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 7:12 AM on November 18, 2007

Thanks, Lynsey. I'd forgotten the address to that.
posted by mosessis at 5:34 PM on November 18, 2007

yhbc: "Monkeys. It was about monkeys."
Isn't it always?
posted by dg at 2:38 AM on November 19, 2007

- Todd Lokken
posted by tr33hggr at 12:14 PM on November 19, 2007