# In My Humble Opinion, I am absolutely convinced that there will NEVER be a better (X) than (X) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344 "2019-12-24T15:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/61 "2019-12-29T04:41:41Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > There will never be a better musical performance than [this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) And there will never be a better stupid internet prank than that. I LOL’d for real. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/62 "2019-12-29T04:46:08Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > And there will never be a better stupid internet prank than that. > > I LOL’d for real. Me too! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/63 "2019-12-29T22:53:34Z")
There will never be a better vegetable than tomato. There will never be a better fruit than tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/64 "2019-12-30T00:44:32Z")
…Olympic flame-lighting than Barcelona 1992. …ultramarathoner than Kilian Jornet. …wheelchair racer than Tatyana McFadden. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/65 "2019-12-30T14:49:11Z")
There will never be a better song lyric writer than Bob Dylan. A better animated series than The Simpsons A better Andrew Lloyd Webber musical than Phantom of the Opera A better Christmas special than Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer A better human achievement than going to the moon ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/66 "2019-12-30T17:04:14Z")
There will never be a better crime fiction writer than Elmore Leonard. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/67 "2019-12-30T17:26:09Z")
There will never be a better detective crime fiction writer than Ed McBain ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/68 "2019-12-30T17:47:00Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > There will never be a better sports upset than Buster Douglas KOing Mike Tyson in 1990. Rumble in the jungle? j ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/69 "2019-12-30T17:54:04Z")
There will never be a bigger Tony Awards upset in any category than Wicked losing the Best Musical Tony to Avenue Q. There will never be a better opening to any awards show than the [2013 Tony opening song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne2KoHAaE8A) Thanks to om Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda: There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere sitting there, living for Tony performances singin’ and flippin’ along with the Pippins and Wickeds and Kinkys, Matildas and Mormonses. So we might reassure that kid and do something to spur that kid. Cause I promise you all of us up here tonight. We were that kid and now we’re bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/70 "2019-12-30T18:05:31Z")
There will never be a better circus clown than Emmett Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/71 "2019-12-30T18:55:30Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > There will never be a better cat than my cat, [Tibby](https://imgur.com/lbSk3qW) > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > There will never be a better cat than the cat who’s next to my elbow right now. Tibby, or not Tibby? That is the question. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/72 "2019-12-30T19:15:24Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Gotta agree with this. Who else, in any sport, has their number (99) not only retired for his/her team, but for the whole league? Jackie Robinson’s number 42 has been retired from all of Major League Baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/73 "2019-12-30T19:22:40Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Rumble in the jungle? > > j Douglas was a 42-1 underdog. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/74 "2019-12-30T19:26:39Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Rumble in the jungle? Douglas came in as a 42-1 underdog; Ali a 4-1 underdog. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/75 "2019-12-30T19:29:56Z")
There will never be a better basketball player than Michael Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/76 "2019-12-30T20:46:47Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Douglas came in as a 42-1 underdog; Ali a 4-1 underdog. …and Dorvann said > [@](#): > > There will never be a better sports upset than Buster Douglas KOing Mike Tyson in 1990. Better, not bigger. 😉 🙂 j ETA: if you’re looking just for bigger, someone upthread highlighted Leicester City’s EFL win. (They said 5000-1.) ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/77 "2019-12-30T22:27:10Z")
There will never be a better Iron Man than Robert Downey Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/78 "2019-12-31T15:27:33Z")
There will never be a better decade to experience than the 1960’s. There will never be a bigger chance in human history than the microchip machines taking over ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/79 "2019-12-31T16:18:05Z")
The best game show is Jeopardy! The nest improv show is Whose Line Is It Anyway? ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-my-humble-opinion-i-am-absolutely-convinced-that-there-will-never-be-a-better-x-than-x/845344/80 "2019-12-31T17:39:25Z")
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