10 Best Metafilter post titles of all time

April 23, 2004 9:14 AM

10 Best Metafilter post titles of all time? mr_crash_davis' recent post, "You just knew that as soon as gay marriages were legal they'd be screwing in the trees, and damned if it didn't happen.", seemed like a zinger to me - what's your favorite? somehow, this didn't seem like an AskMefi question to me....it's a yackity yack question
posted by troutfishing to MetaFilter-Related at 9:14 AM (20 comments total)

Crash's post, though tasteless, is funny enough to let slide. But Hall-of-Fame material it is not. Sorry.
posted by scarabic at 10:25 AM on April 23, 2004

I'm afraid I agree with scarabic; Not unfunny, but not keyboard-wrecking funny either. Crunchburger's "We're here, We're queer, We're in a tree, get used to it" elicited a chortle though.


MetaNavel: Ooh, look!
posted by fvw at 10:44 AM on April 23, 2004

mr_crash_davis: tasteless, but funny enough to let slide

I like it, scarabic.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:24 AM on April 23, 2004

Whatever the merits of the FPP, the thread was validated by the comment I pointed to, which still, to this moment, makes me start laughing just to even think of it:

1. Oral sex in a tree in central park
2. ???
3. Acceptance!
posted by soyjoy at 11:31 AM on April 23, 2004

Um, did y'all miss "The larch. The larch. The larch." or something? THAT'S what made it funny.

Oh, and since it would be tacky to do it in the thread--not to mention the trees--hi and thanks for the welcome backs from amberglow and dash_slot.
posted by WolfDaddy at 12:56 PM on April 23, 2004

No one has any favorites?
posted by troutfishing at 1:21 PM on April 23, 2004

The only one I really even remember is Jonson's "Rook! I carve pencil!" and that's only because of the shitstorm that followed.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 1:35 PM on April 23, 2004

At the risk of self-MeFi-linking, I'm still rather fond of the title in my post about Brig Gen Paul Tibbetts: "You Dropped A Bomb On Me."
posted by davidmsc at 4:19 PM on April 23, 2004

"The larch. The larch. The larch."

I see that people think this is screamingly funny, but I don't understand why. I mean, the larch really is the name of a tree.
posted by kindall at 4:48 PM on April 23, 2004

Python. Monty Python.
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:40 PM on April 23, 2004

"You Dropped A Bomb On Me."

huh? Is that, like, "to the tune of" something?
posted by scarabic at 5:45 PM on April 23, 2004

You dropped a bomb on me
'Cause you're mine

You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'

You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down

You dropped a bomb on me
Because you're mine
You're mine

I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
if you don't want me
I'm yours right now

You hear me
you dropped a bomb on me
Because you're mine.

(as sung by Nina Simone; tune courtesy of Screamin' Jay Hawkins).
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:58 PM on April 23, 2004

Everyone has much different senses of humour at this site. I read people saying "This was funny" and so on which I didn't find funny, but something else made me laugh. Diversity reduces classic funny moments?
posted by Keyser Soze at 8:18 PM on April 23, 2004

nah...what's funny now will change next month, or when you're in a different mood, or have things on your mind, or at a different age. Classic funny is impossible here, except for pop culture things, i think.
posted by amberglow at 8:28 PM on April 23, 2004

Now that's funny!
posted by wendell at 8:52 PM on April 23, 2004

The "they came for the [genre] sex films and I [action]" was very funny, imo.
posted by five fresh fish at 10:50 PM on April 23, 2004

[ Scene : din of battle, smoke, arcs of tracers, hellish unearthly screams as from ENORMOUS SLUGS! ]

[ unnamed soldier, slightly wounded, breathing heavily ] "Captain, SIR! Shells won't stop them. SIR!"

[ captain, played by an aging Mel Gibson ] "Where's that damn scientist? He was saying something about salt....why, why has my God forsaken me?"

[ Giant slug rears up, squashes the disconsolate Gibson ]

That's all I have to say about it.
posted by troutfishing at 9:00 AM on April 24, 2004

"The only one I really even remember is Jonson's "Rook! I carve pencil!" and that's only because of the shitstorm that followed."

What shitstorm?
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:16 PM on April 24, 2004

it was in metatalk somewhere, I think Hama7 posted a legitimate about my title tags. I apologized, but since I actually love the yellow man, my apology was half hearted at best.
posted by jonson at 4:57 PM on April 24, 2004

legitimate complaint, that is...
posted by jonson at 5:05 PM on April 24, 2004