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Everyone needs a hug, especially those under-appreciated comments we liked so much last year. As seen previously: "Let's show some love for the hidden-gem comments that made you laugh, cry, or cheer [last] year, which you immediately recognized as genius, but somehow slipped under everyone else's radar. As is traditional, please try to stick to comments that received 12 or fewer favorites, and no self-links."
I don't favorite much (just not how I use the feature) but apparently this comment by heyitsgogi about beer from Georgia (the country) tickled me enough that I clicked the button (:
posted by an octopus IRL at 6:31 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]
posted by an octopus IRL at 6:31 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]
Mefites had a lot of interesting info in 2023 again.
snuffleupagus put a nice bow on the room temperature superconductivity thread.
srboisvert had good info on how humans kill birds and that wind turbines are nowhere near the top.
flabdablet had some interesting thoughts on consciousness in the panpsychism thread.
meowzilla linked to a great site for comparing spectra of different light sources.
Apparently delfin made me laugh a lot this year talking about rectums and wrestlers at the pearly gates.
posted by the_dreamwriter at 2:56 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
snuffleupagus put a nice bow on the room temperature superconductivity thread.
srboisvert had good info on how humans kill birds and that wind turbines are nowhere near the top.
flabdablet had some interesting thoughts on consciousness in the panpsychism thread.
meowzilla linked to a great site for comparing spectra of different light sources.
Apparently delfin made me laugh a lot this year talking about rectums and wrestlers at the pearly gates.
posted by the_dreamwriter at 2:56 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
In the #chatfilter AskMe where I wanted people to enjoy the week in professional wrestling, Marky popped in with a story about working for the USA Network when it carried WWF in the 1980s.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:33 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:33 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
the cydonian watched the Indian Space Research Organization send a lander to the lunar south pole, and had a story about personal feelings and family connections to science.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:43 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:43 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
From a Fanfare Daredevil episode (S01E03)
As seen on Twitter:
BATMAN: "I have to save my city"
DAREDEVIL: "I have to save my... suburb"
By His thoughts were red thoughts
From a Mefi post about the movie DICKS: The Musical
Bowen Yang is God, so I guess this is some kind of documentary?
By xigxag
posted by ellieBOA at 10:10 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
As seen on Twitter:
BATMAN: "I have to save my city"
DAREDEVIL: "I have to save my... suburb"
By His thoughts were red thoughts
From a Mefi post about the movie DICKS: The Musical
Bowen Yang is God, so I guess this is some kind of documentary?
By xigxag
posted by ellieBOA at 10:10 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
bondcliff: Pornhub's parent company was replaced by another parent company? So, like, a step parent?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:51 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:51 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
Working backwards, September to December:
stevil asks: What was the invented term for visualizing misheard lyrics?
Animutations (thanks, dragon garlanding)!
anastasiav explains the mystery of UPS and access points
jilder brings us some, uh, Mary Oliver for CAPSLOCK DAY
Speaking of which...SaltySalticid has πΉππΈβππΉππΈβπ» πΉπππ» style
Have you seen maya's embroidery?
Grunyon's advice on integrating the horrible little voices
OyΓ©ah remains a treasure: advice on undoing compromises you made
So many of the answers to How to overcome inertia?
2023 was awful in so many ways, and I would like to thank everyone who posted, and responded gently and helpfully to, some really hard personal questions. That vulnerability--and the desire to help with it, to be in solidarity and understanding of it--affirmed my belief in this place. Thank you.
posted by MonkeyToes at 2:38 PM on January 3 [11 favorites]
stevil asks: What was the invented term for visualizing misheard lyrics?
Animutations (thanks, dragon garlanding)!
anastasiav explains the mystery of UPS and access points
jilder brings us some, uh, Mary Oliver for CAPSLOCK DAY
Speaking of which...SaltySalticid has πΉππΈβππΉππΈβπ» πΉπππ» style
Have you seen maya's embroidery?
Grunyon's advice on integrating the horrible little voices
OyΓ©ah remains a treasure: advice on undoing compromises you made
So many of the answers to How to overcome inertia?
2023 was awful in so many ways, and I would like to thank everyone who posted, and responded gently and helpfully to, some really hard personal questions. That vulnerability--and the desire to help with it, to be in solidarity and understanding of it--affirmed my belief in this place. Thank you.
posted by MonkeyToes at 2:38 PM on January 3 [11 favorites]
Penguin pie wrote this about what people did before smartphones and it stuck with me:
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 4:26 PM on January 3 [9 favorites]
Staring blankly out of the window of a bus while your mind roams is underrated, for starters.It stuck with me because I remember doing that a lot in Baltimore, back in the 90s, as I rode the bus/subway/lightrail. I rarely do that anymore, because there's no time, I'm driving, or there's distractions online.
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 4:26 PM on January 3 [9 favorites]
Two unicycles and some duct tape quoting Neal Stephenson in Zodiac on biking at night.
posted by Rash at 9:03 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
posted by Rash at 9:03 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
- Top 50 Rock Songs While Eating Cheese
- Brushtail possums are shitheads.
- why they donβt make low-persistence TVs
- incredibly detailed facts about lead exposure and health by flug
- Have you heard about the fatberg?
- the kilometer high club
- Hexapodia as the key insight
Most of my favorites were pretty well recognized by others. Among the few that weren't:
- dances_with_sneetches on NYC flooding
- lord_wolf gave me arcade nostalgia
- Mchelly with the monk pun
I really appreciated hototogisu's wonderful comment on seeing Peter Gabriel live recently.
This is such a great thread. I hope I'll find time to add more of my favorite comments.
Thanks so much for posting this, MonkeyToes! (And here's a hug!)
posted by kristi at 1:23 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]
This is such a great thread. I hope I'll find time to add more of my favorite comments.
Thanks so much for posting this, MonkeyToes! (And here's a hug!)
posted by kristi at 1:23 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]
Surely you mean Mountain Dew. by Literaryhero
Today I learned that the whole "there's physical data stored in a giant matrix and a robot will go retrieve that thing for you" isn't something that was invented wholesale for Star Wars movies. by hippybear
posted by Night_owl at 7:57 AM on January 5 [2 favorites]
Today I learned that the whole "there's physical data stored in a giant matrix and a robot will go retrieve that thing for you" isn't something that was invented wholesale for Star Wars movies. by hippybear
posted by Night_owl at 7:57 AM on January 5 [2 favorites]
On password managers and mnemonics
Bonus points because you can plausibly read this in the voice of Grandpa Simpson, Bob Dole, or a blind messianic prophet with electricity crackling dangerously from his cobalt-blue dead eyes
posted by Mayor West at 7:25 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
Bonus points because you can plausibly read this in the voice of Grandpa Simpson, Bob Dole, or a blind messianic prophet with electricity crackling dangerously from his cobalt-blue dead eyes
posted by Mayor West at 7:25 PM on January 5 [2 favorites]
Mod note: [btw, this post has been added to the sidebar and Best Of blog]
posted by taz (staff) at 1:53 AM on January 7 [1 favorite]
posted by taz (staff) at 1:53 AM on January 7 [1 favorite]
On goat digestion, a comment by boomdelala
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:24 PM on January 8 [1 favorite]
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:24 PM on January 8 [1 favorite]
That whole goat thread is glorious and informative!
posted by From Bklyn at 7:29 AM on January 9
posted by From Bklyn at 7:29 AM on January 9
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A recent Ask on novelty classical music was full of fun links, so it's a surprise to me that even Paragon's most favorited answer qualifies for this thread.
Setting aside feelings about either the original story or cat person vs. dog person discourse sometimes being taken too seriously in the thread, sockpup's parody of the story "Cat Person" was still pretty funny just as a literary callback IMO.
JHarris's pointer to a fun Twitter thread about JRPGs seemed to go unnoticed too, either because it came in at the end or because people didn't realize Felipe Pepe is the editor of free CRPG Book that had been very popular on Metafilter a few years ago. Anyway, here's the thread via Nitter.
posted by Wobbuffet at 5:14 PM on January 2 [5 favorites]