Year In Review, 2008!

[theweaselking]

As always, I don't do "first post of the month", I do "post with the most comments in that month".

January
"A music question repost from FOUR YEARS AGO!"
Why did it get lots of comments: Music wankery! Also, this is notably the first post of the year, meaning it would be the choice even in the other, inferior year-in-review meme.

February
A tie! "Because aor shouldn't have all the fun"
and
"Because "Herd immunity" is a dirty word to stupid people."
Why did they get lots of comments: #1: Airplanes on treadmills, the Monty Hall Problem and logical people being eaten by lions.
#2: antivaccination argument.

Honourable mention: "Fuck you, Virgin Mobile" from 2007 still gets comments every few months. It's cut down a lot since Virgin stopped selling the 6275i.
Honourable mention #2: "IT CAME FROM THE LINT TRAP!". My personal favourite of the Dear Former Homeowner posts.

March
Because I've done gender identity already today, why not go for broke?
Why did it get lots of comments: The linked article is "Why I Am An Abortion Doctor".

April
"In other news, water is wet and other galaxies are unfeasibly far to walk to."
Why did it get lots of comments: Widely-known Cat Piss Man being a typical Cat Piss Man is apparently shocking to some.

May
"It's a trap!"
Why did it get lots of comments: Because of this picture.


June
Another tie!
"Guess the state!" and "For sale at the Republican convention in Dallas:"
Why did they get lots of comments: #1: Statutory rape laws applied to someone who had *no way* to know the girl wasn't legal and had credible reason to believe she was.
#2: Yet more open, unabashed, unashamed Republican racism.

July
"it has been brought to my attention that The Dykes To Watch Out For Movie Test is not as well known as it should be."
Why did it get lots of comments: Some defensiveness, some arguments about whether or not the test indicates quality (IT DOES NOT), a great deal of pointing out what parts do and do not pass in various works.

Honourable Mention: Everything is better with a ham sandwich. Because it IS.

August
"Because I haven't offended enough people today:"
Why did it get lots of comments: Rape jokes, and commentary and discussion thereof.

September
"Now, THIS is how you run an election."
Why did it get lots of comments: "You have to remember that Americans trying to run an election are like Neanderthals trying assemble and operate a jet engine (actually 51 jet engines, all with slightly different specifications). You don't complain if some of the engines don't work. You marvel if they get to the end of the process and nobody has been sucked through a turbine."

October
"Obama signs in the yards of black people are being replaced by confederate flags, in Virginia."
Why did it get lots of comments: Arguments over whether the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of slavers or not.

November
"The moon displeases Us."
Why did it get lots of comments: Because the moon is crappy and needs to be destroyed.

December

Why did it get lots of comments: History happening live, man.

Comments

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

I want to do this! Are you using a tool for it, or are you just peeking through your history manually?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Manually. However, the archive page *by month* shows the titles and the number of comments on each post.

For example:
http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/2009/01/

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

It came from the lint trap was a personal favorite of mine

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That reminds me... when does the prorogation end?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Jan 26.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I think that to get maximum amusement value out of this, it needs to be arranged for this post to get more comments than any other post in the next 26 days.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not really. The december result is *standard parliamentary doing*.

The election from September is still fast, efficient, and accurate. The Dec post just points out what can happen when a minority government
A) oversteps
and
B) pisses off every other MP combined to the point where they work together.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The agent of the monarch, yes, I did expect it. She took the safer, less-controversial position - and, in the process, allowed the Interim Prime Minister to demonstrate that he was terrified of a confidence vote.

I'm okay with it.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I missed the "get rid of the Moon" post; I have a good 'un not mentioned elsewhere. Solar sails, unreasonably-strong tethers, and a bit of patience could send it out of local space I think. (Dunno about Uranus, and watch for falling regolith on its ever-expanding orbit.)

-- Steve's not enough of a math-wonk to run the numbers to see how much patience would be required... or if it's actually possible to increase the Moon's angular momentum enough to escape with just photon pressure.

[shemale.livejournal.com]

see, the funny thing about the post with that iconstealer image is that you titled your post with the subtitle of my journal (and my default photos have always been of my face) so it made me go "what the hell" even though i'd seen that trick at least a dozen times before then

[shemale.livejournal.com]

er, at the time it was the subtitle; now it's the title

[shemale.livejournal.com]

oh lol i left the same comment there in that very thread

[raie.livejournal.com]

See, now I wanna post on the abortion one. I'm sad that I missed it, I wasn't trolling you then. I'm not gonna go blow the cobwebs off of it then.

[sarcasticmaster.livejournal.com]

Wow, sorta weird to just see my icon out of the blue.

[reyl.livejournal.com]

I still show pictures of "It came from the lint trap!" at parties. Especially the shopped version with googly eyes. But my love of sinfest will never die.

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Random question: Why does Gilles Duceppe *not* have an "honourable" in front of his name? (Maybe you don't know the answer to that one...)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Because he's not a member of the Queen's Privy Council.

By choice, for the record. But he's not a member, so he's not an "Hon."

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, that makes sense. :-)
Thanks! :-)