Oh gosh yes, pravnik’s line was so funny that I injured myself when I choked while trying not to laugh out loud. I didn’t get to Hamlet’s post because I closed the thread out of fear of further injury.
Recently I laughed and laughed like a 13 year old girl on a cell phone at Biffy the Elephant Shrew’s comment in a Pit thread that wasn’t about Snakes on a Plane, but rather a panicked woman on an airplane:
Finding a post in one of the threads related to 9/11 seems like finding a needle in a haystack, which is too bad because I would like to know who said this, because it has been stuck in my mind ever since I read it … there was some wacked out conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an Israeli plot aimed at raising ire toward the Islamic community, and the “evidence” was that a large number of Jewish persons who worked in the WTC stayed home that day (yeah, whatever). In response to this, a Doper pointed out how silly a plan that would be, and imagined a phone call going along these lines (paraphrased from memory):
The image of a Mossad agent going through a company directory looking for names likely to be Jewish, and then making cold calls like a telemarketer is priceless. Sadly, this still pops into my head every single time I hear about Mossad.
What was the thread with the hypothtical " you are in the desert with your best friend and you guys find Osama Bin Laden"
I thought that was pretty entertaining.
Then a couple of posts later, Hot Buttered Toast the *poster *comes in, claims credit, and **Giraffe **accuses her of lying, since she is “hot buttered toast” and the OP specifically mentions *cold *toast. To which **HBT **responds:
Whereupon **Giraffe **steps in it with both feet to say:
To which **HBT **adroitly responds:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! I still fall over laughing every time I read that one.
And then they went and made him a mod!
A recent favorite from a tattoo-related thread, wherein Tripler posted that he knows of a guy who had a tattoo of his name, SSN, blood type, and religion:
Jean Poutine: Name I get, also social security number and blood type. But why would someone need to know your religion?
Rigamarole: In case you happen to find yourself at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition. Wouldn’t want them getting the wrong idea.
Kid Scruffy: I sure as heck wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition in this thread.
nursecarmen: nobody does.
That exchange just completely tickled me.
THREEMAE starts a thread to comment on how the next “Survivor” will be made up of racially divided teams, specifically teams “comprised of whites, hispanics, blacks, and asians.”
HARBORWOLF says: “The first four challenges are as follows: computer programming, landscaping, basketball, and oppressing minorities.”
I wish I could recall the name of the poster so that I could give them credit, but during a thread on peeing in the shower, someone had a hilarious post about shitting in the bathtub, and putting pipecleaners in the turds to make them look like submarines- hilarious!
I remember that thread… I also remember something about “kicking it down…”
There was a masturbation thread awhile back. I believe was the question was something along the lines “Do you? And how often?”
The best response was" I beat my dick like it owes me money." That quote will always be stuck in my head…
In a thread on the BBQ, Florida Repub Katherine Harris was being raked over the coals for the way she uses her appearance in her campaign, mostly her enormous breasts, and one poster observed that she even took great care with her shoes.
OK, Chronos got off a good one over in Cafe Society. They were trying to guess the identity of the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” as named by Esquire Magazine, from clues given in an interview, and at one point they were looking at clues to her age. It went as follows:
But then we also have this, from the interview:
Which would seem to suggest someone in her 60s or 70s.
The two funniest things EVER posted here I can’t credit, because I am very old now and the brain, she ain’t what she used to be. It’s OK, though, they’re almost funnier out of context.
Otto is my current hero, for a comment he made a few days ago (but which I didn’t see until just now). In this thread, OneCentStamp tells a story about thinking that he was treated differently in a store just because he appears to be white (he’s half Vietnamese). A few people offered reasons why the event might not actually have been racism, and the following exchange occured:
