The flip-side of
"Most favorited posts of the year": Last year, I typed up
a little list of comments I particularly liked that I thought were overlooked. It was fun! I just went through my favorites from 2009, and did so again. I would like this to be a thread where you share comments that you liked, but which you feel may have gotten little notice from others.
For my list below, I stuck to comments that had less than twelve favorites, as that's the default amount that causes a comment to pop up on a contact's sidebar. The only order is roughly-chronological. Certainly, you, the reader, will think some of mine are underwhelming or straight-up stupid; I may think the same about yours. But let's share! Funny, insightful, touching, strange, whatevs.
1) The boring truth about the Fool's Gold Loaf
2) Older Girls are so badass
3) The casual cruelty of Facebook
4) lovely metaphor for total confusion
5) The subtle charms of a quiet little New Yorker story
6) awesomely unsettling advice for your penis
7) an interesting rundown of a Gifted Children study
8) On the difficulties of asking mothers for advice
9) unsolved mystery about a prejudiced robot clown
10) Sesame seeds at McDonald's
11) On Smashing Barriers
12) mefi: generally pretty high-brow
13) I dearly hope someone does post this list to Digg
14) This is the most delightfully wacky description of lesbians I've ever heard
15) robocop is bleeding links to a Green Lantern treatment he wrote
16) On the usefulness of censorship
17) I quite enjoy this aphorism, and also would love to know where it originated
18) The hetero upside to gays devaluing marriage
19) Best Kanye West blogpost title of all time
20) story of a high-school production of King Lear
21) "I never even knew this world existed"
22) Astro Zombie on cortex's "Brubekujah"
23) I did not know this about Brian Eno
24) resolution to an ask.mefi mystery about "pelbin"
25) on effort and reward
26) advice for comforting the bereaved
27) puzzling yet strangely compelling conspiracy-theory comment in a thread about LSD
28) anecdote about a Weird Al concert
29) Pick your mefi name carefully
30) In response to a "zine" being "published" on Twitter
31) On whether to use the N-word
32) How events become stories
33) This word is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying
34) A collection of links about flanerie and the internet that really should have been an FPP
35) metafilter is nice people
36) What is maturity?
37) utterly bizarre middle-aged-male frenzy
38) a call for epistemological humility
39) This comment is an enlightening sort of prequel to the epic rape/gendered-experiences threads
40) In response to the woman who got fired for writing all-caps e-mails
41) International relations with Beavis and Butthead
42) My favorite observation about the imaginary interview Charlie Sheen conducted with Obama
43) how pre-modern paranoia is adjusted to new technology
44) well I liked this mini-story about Patrick Swayze's mother
45) favorites are to be used only for power trips
46) My favorite authentic Scottish recipe
47) XKCD, short version
48) The early days of netpr0n
49) The Marine Corps, on the value of boldness and failure
50) small oral history about material changes in stoner culture
51) The story of Bear Rex and his big gay christian website (scroll up a bit for the gif)
52) Looking through Playboy, awarding a superlative
53) The effect of fatty food consumption on mental agility
54) I can't see beetroot in the supermarket now without immediately thinking of this comment
55) Holocaust joke I was unfamiliar with (WARNING:THREAD POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE)
56) BEST CAPS LOCK DAY COMMENT OF THE YAER
57) Good magical phrase to know
58) Anecdote about meeting Mitch Hedberg in a Wendy's
59) In the FPP about the boy with the overdeveloped muscular arm for arm-wrestling
60) The first time was fantastic
61) I will also admit to being this childish
62) On Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa cake
63) New Year's Tin - a tradition I was not aware of
64) Developing a new strain
65) On why we should fund prison education
66) The utility of polling ask.metafilter to help your business
67) William T. Riker's favorite pose
68) ...and an awesomely pedantic rejoinder to confusion over Geordi LaForge's ethnicity
69) On height and male attractiveness
70) Tower Records ad in Japan
71) Obscure operating systems, like a Norwegian Opera Mini on a rooted Grey Market Android
72) Misspellings about where one uses one's moniker
73) On the appeal of Anne McCaffrey's novels
74) On posting ASCII images in MetaTalk
posted by Greg Nog to MetaFilter-Related at 2:04 PM (103 comments total)
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As descriptions of people not liking spiders because of the way they move goes, this one continues to be one of my very favorites because it perfectly describes what someone does with their hands when explaining the phobia to someone else.
posted by quin at 2:24 PM on January 6, 2010 [4 favorites]