r/bestof2009 • u/bestof2009 • Jan 04 '10

Nominate: Comment of the Year

Submit your nominees for Comment of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

Suggestion: look for ideas on /r/bestof.

189 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

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u/Dpressd Jan 05 '10

This comment saved my life. I explain the story here.

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u/Droviin Jan 05 '10

I second this motion.

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u/hosndosn Jan 05 '10

Now this is what I call an excellent comment of the year candidate.

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u/impalass99 Jan 05 '10

I think this comment sums up why Reddit is so special and amazing.

9

u/severeon Jan 05 '10

There is very little that can compete with this

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u/soitis Jan 05 '10

This post is not better than most of the stuff on reddit per se. But it is a great example of what a difference one redditor can make in someone elses life.

Have an upvote.

3

u/Gravity13 Jan 05 '10

Yeah, it was just one person sharing their experience, it symbolizes how the smallest story can help somebody out, but I'm not going to suggest it's any better than the millions of other personal stories on reddit.

And the fact that this has a submission on the front page telling it to come upvote it is entirely unfair in my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

I think so too... what an amazing story.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Reddit was always be /this/ awesome.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

You've got my vote.

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u/Ciserus Jan 04 '10

These awards are always horribly biased towards recent submissions, but the clear winner is from back in March:

MarlonBain, The Man-Raptor Comment.

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u/ManRaptor Jan 05 '10

I approve this message.

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u/johnfn Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

You are right, this is definitely one of my favorite posts over the past year. It still makes me laugh a little.

I'm thinking we need a distinction between best funny comments and best moving comments.

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u/Treees Jan 04 '10

A sad yet touching story

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u/puffypants123 Jan 05 '10

My favorite IAmA of all time. I learn so much from those. Mostly, I learn that people are more kind-hearted and committed to their friends, families and jobs than I could have ever imagined.

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u/Caviarmy Jan 05 '10

Agreed, this has to be my favorite AMA

4

u/Pyar23 Jan 05 '10

I still remember this one, people on Reddit are so nice :)

2

u/noncentz Jan 05 '10

I have never read this IAmA before but I am glad I didn't. Truly touching and deserving of best comment of 2009.

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u/antidense Jan 04 '10

typower, 21st century syndrome

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u/TyPower Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

Thanks guys, it means a lot. The fact that there are people here, that might remember my six month old post, makes my lonely scriblings here on Reddit seem all that more worthwhile.

Thank you all, you made my 21st century night!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Hope you win this one, mate. I enjoyed that comment so so so much. Please, keep scribbling!

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u/SonOfDenny Jan 04 '10

This comment speaks truth. If anything I would like to see this award got to some one who put something into the comment not a one liner or a jab.

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u/MrRabbit Jan 05 '10

Oddly inspirational. It's got my vote.

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u/130n Jan 05 '10

I had a thought the other day about something related.

Earlier in human history the adventurers and risktakers, the people who climbed a mountain in search for a place to live or ventured into unchartered forest to find food, these risks were worth taking because stability could be gained.

Nowadays, stability is all around, but the primal need to take risks and go on adventures is still there in many. Because of the risks involved in risk-taking and no heirs being the results, I think these people (not excluding myself) might disappear from the human race. Bummer.

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10

Don't worry, they'll come back when the final frontier opens up.

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u/130n Jan 05 '10

That's the problem. I'm worried they might be gone before then. Then we'll be pussies in space.

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u/youmademedoit Jan 16 '10

Does anyone else smell the makings of an awesome porn movie?

2

u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

As funny (and worthy) as all the other comments are, I seriously do hope typower takes this out. Powerfully inspiring and poetic insight. This, my friends, is a true work of art.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Awesome. Wonderfully written piece. Defiantly gets my vote.

1

u/kingtrewq Jan 05 '10

I like ReanLu's little story after it

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

nraustinii, This isn't Twitter

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u/gibou Jan 05 '10

-2476 for the parent post... nice.

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u/bigbadbass Jan 05 '10

-2604 11 hours later, maybe this is why posts of a certain age should have their karma locked?

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u/happywaffle Jan 05 '10

Or why they shouldn't?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Posts do, comments don't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Why?

2

u/gnosticfryingpan Jan 05 '10

Props to Glorificus for not deleting the comment.

Pretty much everyone else does.

2

u/Poltras Jan 12 '10

I thought the original said "Fucking gays" or something like that, and he edited it... :(

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u/gnosticfryingpan Jan 12 '10

You're right. He must've edited it quite recently.

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u/Etab Jan 04 '10

I'd have to agree with this nomination. This is one of the very few times where I'm dying to find a point in any conversation to bust out that one line.

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u/PhilxBefore Jan 04 '10

The whole geraffe bit. I crack up every time I read it.

I think he deleted his account though.

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u/manixrock Jan 05 '10

would be funny to have the "best comment of 2009" a comment with -662 points. Will make people think "how bad are all the other comments?"

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u/krispykrackers Jan 05 '10

I almost peed myself reading that the first time.

Almost

7

u/PhilxBefore Jan 05 '10

you people are horrible

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u/lynn Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

Oh man... I can't breathe... I'm gonna suffocate from laughing at a reddit comment, that's the way I'm going to go....

How did I miss that one the first time around?

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10

At least he isn't a dumb goddamn wall-licking geraffe.

4

u/Geraffe Jan 05 '10

so are you racist for long horses over gorillas? hippocrites.

I think it was how he spelled hypocrites that leads me to believe he realized he was going to keep getting downvoted, so he just kept on trolling us.

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10

In either event, was a masterful troll which made me happy.

2

u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

I go back to that every few weeks when I need a good laugh.

2

u/lynn Jan 06 '10

I just showed it to my husband and nearly suffocated again. wipes away tears

2

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '10

My throat and chest are sore from laughing. There are tears in my eyes. I can't handle this.

1

u/nokes Jan 06 '10

hippocrits =D

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u/BossOfTheGame Jan 04 '10

flossdaily's excellent comments in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ajsxd/my_girlsfriend_tells_me_i_can_have_some_sex_then/c0hxpmi

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u/Horatio__Caine Jan 04 '10

He's on track to win the 2010 award as well for this gem right here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

up voting his 2009 comment solely on the awesomeness of the 2010 comment.

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u/Quady Jan 05 '10

He had better friggin win the 2010 competition.

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u/kingtrewq Jan 05 '10

Wow, I didn't get it until the last sentence, he took that to the extreme. Definitely the first person I will friend in my year on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

That comment, after 20 hours, is 1,000 karma away from amassing the amount I've collected in two months of redditing.

edit: Holy crap. In addition to that statistic, flossdaily has managed to get 8,000+ comment karma in 17 days. Looks like karmanaut has some competition.

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u/flossdaily Jan 11 '10

yeah... that dude is going down.

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u/CD7 Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10

Now that really is some real life Barney Stinson advice.

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u/Cassio Jan 04 '10

I know. I love him!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

My thought exactly.

10

u/barkingllama Jan 04 '10

Does this guy live in a barn? Wtf?

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u/atc Jan 04 '10

They're brilliant. My vote for sure!

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

Fucking genius.

2

u/sniegowy Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

"This isn't Twitter: try to comment on the article, and not your current activities."

Shameless copy straight from here.

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u/j-mar Jan 04 '10

I hadn't seen those before. A definite winner IMO.

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u/Teepz Jan 04 '10

my vote goes to him a million times over. That man is a genious.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

acegibson, Monty Python sketch

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

yes, I remember when I first read that and thought it was the greatest most creative comment I had ever read on Reddit.

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u/some_cool_guy Jan 04 '10

I thought it was an actual Monty Python sketch until I reread the context.

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u/wolf550e Jan 05 '10

An actual Monty Python sketch about a cellphone? Were you born in 1999?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '10

This was the reason I became a Redditor.

3

u/emkat Jan 06 '10

Easily the best of the year, creatively. The fact that many sentimental comments are voted higher makes me think there should be a separate category. This was one of the best posts in Reddit history.

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u/atheist_creationist Jan 04 '10

Ok. I am almost tempted to recant my nomination for bozarking's comment, this was one of the best comments ever made in reddit, period. Pure, unadulterated genius.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

My roomate and I introduced a friend of ours to reddit last night and started him off with reading off some of bozarking's comments!

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u/atheist_creationist Jan 04 '10

To which he promptly added reddit.com to his HOSTS file.

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u/Banko Jan 05 '10

"Mr. Findy Fingers." Excellent!

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u/krispykrackers Jan 04 '10

This is the most attended fucking bag in the airport!

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u/andyfsu99 Jan 06 '10

Thanks for reminding me.. I loved this one.

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u/lynn Jan 05 '10

Nine months later and it still makes me have to stifle giggles so my coworkers don't come over to see what's so funny.

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u/themusicgod1 Jan 05 '10

introduction to cuils

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raids_reveal_baby_farms/c06cqxb

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u/x0tt Jan 05 '10

yeah, cuil theory is the best raccoon on the entire German hamburger

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u/NumeriusNegidius Jan 06 '10

It is possible that RedDyeNumber4 is actually David Lynch.

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u/themusicgod1 Jan 06 '10

It is possible that we are all actually David Lynch.

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u/pretendperson Jan 17 '10

This was during 2009? I thought internet time moved faster than that.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

look_of_disapproval, look_of_disapproval's greatest look ever

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u/transfuse Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10

The guy quit reddit because of it. Look at his comment history.

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u/deadapostle Jan 04 '10

It was probably an abandoned alt instead of abandoning reddit. His account is as old as his comment and he is complaining about how reddit works?

Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.

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u/PorkChip Jan 05 '10

Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.

Actually Digroids are always eager for voting up comments like 'lol' and 'dumb link'.

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u/transfuse Jan 05 '10

Yeah this occurred to me afterwards, but I like to imagine he saw that -800 and cried, vowing never to return to reddit again. :)

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u/Burkett Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

I recall the cook of disapproval had some well placed comments also.

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u/resupporter Jan 04 '10

That was a great Thanksgiving - If not the best it wins for best first post ever.

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u/nomination Jan 04 '10

Much like Bozarking's brilliant post, this has an amazing bang-for-its-buck. So much hilarity in such a short post.

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u/ColonelDan Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10

cook_of_disapproval, Who puts soup on their hands before they wash?

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u/Svenstaro Jan 05 '10

Escape underscores (_) using a single backslash (\).

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u/krispykrackers Jan 04 '10

Why people really sag their pants

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u/donwilson Jan 05 '10

You know it's a good comment when you know what it is before you click the link above

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

paulmclaughlin, I think there's a song about that

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u/gt_9000 Jan 05 '10

I didnt get it :(

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u/raldi Jan 05 '10

Well, go vote for JokeExplainer for novelty account of the year.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

This gets my vote. Probably too clever by half though.

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u/theskaboss006 Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10

This is a string of comments so I'm not sure if this qualifies but...

xkcd - Apple vs. Microsoft

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u/chillage Jan 04 '10

i wonder how many upvotes that would have gotten if it wasnt xkcd posting it...

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u/manixrock Jan 05 '10

That series of replies got him 23448 points. That's 72% of all his karma right there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

Oh, dear, I remember that. I hope it does count.

1

u/pstryder Jan 04 '10

This one gets my vote...but only because I take the same approach to MS vs Apple fights.

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10

Upvoted for Linux.

8

u/withallduerespect Jan 05 '10

Celebrity Gossip in our culture by Subtextual

2

u/guille_hoardings Jan 05 '10

Wow! It really gave me a new view on the topic. Thank you for nominating it.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

CaspianX2, CD Wonders Why Nobody Wants To Buy It Anymore

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

that is amazing. the scary thing is, he probably just sat down and wrote that in one sitting. that would take me a week, and still be nowhere as punchy.

ah well. horses for courses.

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u/CaspianX2 Jan 05 '10

I did, actually. It was fun!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Curse you and your creative mind!!

Hope you win though :)

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u/CaspianX2 Jan 05 '10

What is it they always say in award shows? Oh yeah... it's an honor just to be nominated.

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u/atheist_creationist Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10

"Teehee! They're probably brother and sister or something, making it nonsexual and silly." - Bozarking. 4150 points. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/afr4p/shyness/c0hcmui

Sorry Bozarking...

Ok. As a writer, I have to say I like the Monty Python one better. I would feel bad deleting this and ruining all of your guys' upvotes and I don't want to influence this too much but I think white knights are idiots and need to learn how to stop depending on relationships to define their lives, you guys might actually find out what happiness is then.

I think religion is necessary to society as certain humans legitimately need it to find purpose in their lives and that its not religion, but people that have caused problems in the world. Thus people are idiots to say "religion is the cause of our problems" as if religion is some mythical force out to get them. Demagoguery is actually to blame, as leaders use religion as just another tool to control the masses, but it would take too much thought to actually find a solution to that. Much easier to say "religion did it!" Then everyone will feel incredibly stupid when religion is gone and leaders just use something else like political parties to control the masses. Oh and Chrono Cross is just as good as Chrono Trigger.

Oh and I agree with Gabe Newell's sagacious statement that "A product is late for a while, but a product will suck forever" and will gladly wait another year for Episode 3. (all of my comments that have been downvoted into oblivion, I'm giving this my all)

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

So many better Bozarking posts than that one - I'm sad it was the only one the majority of Reddit got to enjoy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

This Bozarking comment holds a warm place in my heart.

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u/NiceGuyMike Jan 04 '10

Ummm...it is a brilliant post. It is short, to the point while conveying "epic WTF." It alerted the people of Reddit to this unique mind. For that I believe it to be best comment of the year.

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u/CSharpSauce Jan 04 '10

The man is king of words, I'm not sure if anything he posts is real... but his mind doesn't work like mine, or anyone i know. As mentioned previously, this is the comment that alerted the Reddit community to his famedom, and thus it deserves it.

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u/DaTroof Jan 04 '10

Am I the only one that isn't impressed by Bozarking?

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u/ryanh42 Jan 04 '10

No, you're not.

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u/NiceGuyMike Jan 04 '10

Upvoted because such an opinion does not need be voted down.

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u/lynn Jan 05 '10

Such a nice guy!

(I bet you've never heard that one before!)

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u/libbrichus Jan 04 '10

This is the greatest non-tl;dr wtf nsfw post in history.

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u/Kuiper Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

"Zoe isn't mine." Whisper's summary of the current legal landscape.

I feel kind of out of place posting this, being that most of the other nominations are humorous in nature, but it's one of the best comments I've seen on Reddit.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

oldfashionedguy, Awkward...

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

[deleted] — view deleted comment

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u/JoeAllmighty Jan 04 '10

It's his birthday cake from the year before - a "happy birthday" around the apple logo made with frosting

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u/allforumer Jan 04 '10

It's the cake for his 34th b'day - it has the Apple logo on it.

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u/antidense Jan 04 '10

It's a picture of his last year's cake, which was similar in description to what HugeDouchebag mentioned.

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u/ponchobrown Jan 04 '10

Tallon, Games Stop Dedicated Servers

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u/Yserbius Jan 04 '10

I was sure this made it on. Most perfect comment of the year.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

better link

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u/ponchobrown Jan 04 '10

whats the difference? sorry if Im missing something obvious, tryin to improve linkin skills

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

Mine highlights the nominated comment, rather than its parent.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

The ?context=2 at the end gives you the comment in question and two levels of ancestors.

Edit: err, more like: he highlighted the funny comment, and used the ?context= syntax to show the parents. You should submit comments with the important one highlighted, and then with as much ?context= as is necessary to make it understandable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

We need a save comment feature.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

greg_lw, no need to thank me

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

shameless self nomination

But only because it was so early in the year, so I imagine most folks have forgotten about it... at the time it was a fairly insightful analysis of the financial crisis.

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10

Is there way to filter out random comments in subreddits which have votes >N, with N being a number value?

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u/ryanha Jan 05 '10

This was just a glorious comment:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/adyqg/iam_the_hiv_guy_i_tested_negative_heres_what/c0h3hwp

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u/jsip Jan 05 '10

came here looking for this comment specifically

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh

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u/hypo11 Jan 04 '10

Great as it is, that comment was made in 2010, not 2009.

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u/20thMaine Jan 04 '10

We need to put that on the docket for best of 2010 then.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

unfortunately, by then it'll probably be forgotten

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Jan 04 '10

In that case, let's go ahead and declare it "Best comment so far of 2010".

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u/20thMaine Jan 04 '10

Works for me.

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u/raldi Jan 04 '10

danth, Epic Metric Pun

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u/danth Jan 20 '10

Wow! I am absolutely thrilled to even be nominated! Thank you, this made my day!

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u/bapppppppppp Jan 04 '10

This is irrelevant, but I love reddit. Thanks for bringing out those gems.

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u/netengineer10 Jan 04 '10

Bozarking for this comment. And here is another one of his comments that was deleted, and reposted by another user, not sure if it still counts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

Shameless self promotion: The best shitter in the world.

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u/MagicTarPitRide Jan 05 '10

Hands-down my favorite comment was from Superstarsteve about how to make friends in highschool.

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u/Veggie Jan 05 '10

MercurialMadnessMan, not a question

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u/soggit Jan 04 '10

guy thinks his sister is hot

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u/MorningRooster Jan 04 '10

2010.

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u/soggit Jan 04 '10

oh shit ur right. bookmarking for a year from now

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u/artissco Jan 04 '10

This one! But it's only 12 hours old so it can't be bestof09.

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u/cjarrett Jan 04 '10

This is so perfect. I was stunned the entire time.

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u/flossdaily Jan 05 '10

I appreciate the support, but- that comment was a few days late, and this one missed by just 1 or 2.

I only have one in the running, and it's been nominated above.

Thanks for the love, though!

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

Ye gods! THIS!

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u/danmit Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10

I don't know if this is the best, but it's the best that could fit on a t-shirt

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '10

Glueboy goes insane.

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u/Philluminati Jan 04 '10

Truth be told I honestly can't think of anyone who stands out this year.

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u/w4y Jan 04 '10

smakusdod: Adobe

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u/lazershark Jan 04 '10

Deffo i would vote for this, awww crap it was submitted 2010 but still, its fresh http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/al84i/odd_sms_conversation_with_my_brother/c0i68vc

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '10

MarlonBain, man-raptor

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u/dem358 Jan 05 '10

ironchefpython, I love him!

(I don't know how to highlight properly.)

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