January 19 2012

Note to anyone who cares: This is not a comprehensive, all-encompassing roundup of all of the day's best comments. Some slip past me, and some are obviously great; if you made a joke and it got 5 +1s, you know it was a winner, and don't be offended that I decline to point out that water is wet. Some of the best comments of the day, ones that I found particularly good will likely make it in here; I may sometimes explain why I liked or didn't like a joke. I will try to pick some jokes that were good, and overlooked during the day to mention here.

I don't think I'll be spending much time analyzing the mechanics behind the jokes here. For one, it's been done, is being done, and frankly, it's a lot more work than I feel like doing. I have a job, and a life and that's enough for now.

Also, this is not associated or affiliated or connected with any current or former Gawker employee, editor, writer, etc.


Eddie Murray Sparkles
Bronze Hammer
SteveU
SteveU, again.
More SteveU  Kids are innocent and pure, right? Suuuure they are.
TheNightManCometh
Mantis Toboggan, M.D. That's mean, and horrible, and made me laugh.
Lionel Osbourne
IronMikeGallego Hammering the point home.
SaveToFavorites This should have gotten more love.
cobra, brah!  Sean Kemp's kids is well-worn ground, but cobra used subtlety and careful wording to hint at the punchline. He didn't hit us over the head. Nice.
Brotherford B. Hayes  There were a number of good, clever comments in this post, including this from Azure Texan and this from Mark Mc Gwire's Backne, and this from WhatWouldTebowDo?.
Clinton Portishead and CornNutBreath and phlash741repurposed the same gross bit of text to make slightly different jokes. Normally I'd say, come on, guys, don't step on each others' feet but the this bit of inadvertent repetition added up to more than the sum of the parts. Your mileage may vary.


Bad stuff:
This guy It's obvious he is going to write some angry rant complaining that all anyone does in the comments is make jokes and he's got important points to make, and he's got freedom of speech, man, and he's being censored, and who the fuck does this ninja guy think he is to censor him, anyways?
Thanks for sharing.
Uh oh. They're playing in SAN FRANSISCO, which means GAYS which means GAY SEXXX and FORTY NINERS? NAH, SIXTY-NINERZ BRO!!!!
Remember what I said about the "what an asshole" situation above? This dolt missed the boat, or the prior comments and, whether he knew it or not, pooped all over everything by reusing the kernel of CPH's joke. Dolt.

Enjoy the evening.