Have you ever seen one of your best posts die on the vine? Do you feel it should have been give more appreciation but just wasn’t seen enough? Well here’s your second chance, buckos!
The rules:
Submissions must be no more than 50 words each (one-two liners), original posts exactly as they appeared in the original thread, and be humorous outside any other context.
A link to the thread must be posted as well.
Hi, Wally!
Only the considered of the the finals will be judged.
Extra points for being the last post in the thread.
Well, my favorite stinker of all time was in this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42613. I thought Eve at least would get it, her being a movie buff and all. But nary a groan did I receive from the teeming millions. Truly, sometimes I think I’m just wasting my brilliance on you all.
You’re better off than me, eunoia. When you kill a thread, you can always assume that everyone is out of things to say and that’s why your post ended it. You can shrug and tell yourself you simply arrived too late.
That’s better than my typical problem. I post, and people keep right on posting without ever acknowledging a word I’ve said. Not even to swat me like the annoying gnat I seem to be. I’ve even had people who come later in the thread make the same point I tried to and then had others respond to that as if they’d never seen it before.
Most of the time I’m irrelevant; some of the time I’m even invisible. Still being here, there, I’m either a slow learner or just stubborn.
That being the case, I have little to contribute by way of examples here.
Tell me about it. I’ll rarely post to LOL, but I sure appreciate the occasional zinger a la friedo and a parallel level of discussion/humour. It’s not hijacking, it just makes for better reading, especially the more earnest threads.
In any case, thanks, and consider yourself acknowledged.
Have fun!