BEST THREAD ON ILX: Part ONE - The Nominations

first to say
BAN LOUIS JAGGER

lolz

Louis, just go out an play with your friends until dinner. Maybe we can play a game before your bedtime.

Ethan's was funny, that^^^^ is just patronising bullcrap, try taking this the teeniest bit seriously, dude!

RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH

THIS is the best thread ever

WOW JOHN, HOW DID I MISS THAT THREAD???? A++

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

and the gear sofa thread

the wit & wisdom of mr snrub

Tears Pouring All Down My Face...

The Pet Shop Boys' first twenty singles...

Britney can i get your sister jame spears Email

I fully endorse that Mr. Snrub post!

plus that one I Love NFL thread that kept showing Photoshops of that wide receiver for the Eagles doing that ridiculous dive tackle.

he is not a wide receiver!!!! but otm that thread rules!

Speaking of Photoshop...

Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers

What thread was that? I don't even know what to search for!!

When ILE/Moderator board mods get shook

MR. SNRUB OTM!?

LOL80S TOO, INITIALLY.

XPOST

WORD

how did i not see photoshop thread before

HPENCIL WHY AE YUO SUCKH A DICK

guess papers

defend the indefensible: FOODIES

guess papers is INSANE

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

and the gear sofa thread

^^^^yup

I'm not even aware of most of these other threads listed so far, nor can I understand anything that seems to be going on in most of them.

surprised no one's posted the "SO NOT GONNA HAPPEN" thread yet

The bra thread

Mato's dumb stepdad

ooh the dumb stepdad one is really funny

also any thread where Marcelo impersonates Bobby Gillespie

The Crests Of The Scottish League Football Clubs, Posted In Alphabetical Order (By Name Of Club)

i have the apartment to myself for the next 36 hours...

I also nominate for gear couch, matos's stepdad and the MS paint albums.

Oh and the LOL80s photoshop thread (even if it got played out really fast)

Yes, Matos's stepdad.
There was another one that made me laugh until tears and snot were pouring down my face, but I CAN'T REMEMBER what it was. Maybe it will come to me. Probably something with poop or farts. I am immature.

What do you look like in your underwear?
Lysol Douche (I searched but couldn't find)
WOMEN: How many bras do you have?

On this Thread, we apologize for Boorish ILXing at the Expense of Others

would win for me except most of the original hotlinked pics are now gone forever ;_;

Was that the one with the paintings? That was hilaro.

POPPAGE

V.I.L.E.

TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears

THIS MY VLOG

also, poppage seconded.

am i the only person who likes cold soup straight from the can?

For Madchen: the thread with all the Lysol Douche jingles

Have you had your Christmas fuck yet?

Charlie Brown: Why is he such a hippie?

There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!

and

A car alarm keeps going off outside my house....what should I do?

He walks in...

what one piece of advice would you give your ten year old self .....and all of its variants

So Nick Cannon's new song consists of the full-grown ghost of his potential self singing to his mom, asking her not to abort him?

Mr. Ho, Ask A Drunk threads are an acquired taste, such as when milk acquires the taste of fish from being stored in the same refrigerator.

What goes wrong when trying to make friends...

britney can i get your sister jame spears email is basically the reason ilm was created. everything else is extraneous.

There can be only one... mastermind, the game

Does a thread exist for the movie Crash?
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=39701
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=7175 (well, before it got fucked)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955

UH. AUTOLINK RETITLE IS BROEK?

http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Did_I_Do_That_Brown-T-link.jpg

To avoid some sort of slow connection explodathon, mine is UPPERS: NSFW(MUSIC)

To avoid some sort of slow connection explodathon, mine is UPPERS: NSFW(MUSIC)

-- John Justen, Friday, September 7, 2007 1:57 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OMG! I think I just had a seizure from that!!!

Aja R.I.P.

WHAT?????????????????????

Oh hi Curt1s

so

OMG! Hi Eisbaer!!!

wow @ THIS MY VLOG

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room

i lost my myspace password.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=44&threadid=782#msg51
Oink Invites
guess papers

but my heart will always belong to:
so not gonna happen

(first link is UPPERS)

No votes for "Pasties vs Pasties"? *sob*

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=44&threadid=782

^should be:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=44&threadid=782

WTF

LOST MYSPACE PASSWORD =(

if a thread has brackets in its title it breaks, i think.

fuck you--yeah, fuck you
Fuck Cunt
FUCK YOU!!
FUCK YOU!!!!

Holy crap, too many to check out! Seconding the ones I already knew and loved:

Photoshopped album covers with corporate sponsors
Dave Matthews Band
gear couch thread (assuming this is the trucker hat anal sex one)
"so not gonna happen"

Also:

the Rick Santorum evolving photoshop thread
punks are living on the rooftop across from me
and almost any "live as it happens" type thread - really picking up this waitress is my pick for the win.

greetings, all

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D40%26threadid%3D39369 = underrated.

fucking christ.

picking up this waitress

is

This time it is real, Bela fleck is being rejected totally by me because

generally considered queen of all marissa threads?

Yelling Things (Sometimes Insults) At People From Cars - C or D?

Sad but kind of beautiful: What goes wrong when trying to make friends...

are crushes awesome or what?

Hari Asshurt thread about asking out a girl/dating her/taking her viginity/eventually breaking up

WHAT. OMG. OMG. MUST INSTALL KILLFILE AT WORK. OMG MY EYES.

-- jessie monster, Monday, March 12, 2007 8:52 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

classic

^THAT COUNTS AS TWO NOMINATIONS, LOUIS.

thread about asking out a girl/dating her/taking her viginity/eventually breaking up

yes! yes! TOTAL CLASSIC.

if we're gonna have hari threads it should be the one where he pissed himself, surely

abusive comments
abusive comments
abusive comments

Haha yeah that one I second it. (xpost I mean the hari pee one)

...generally considered queen of all marissa threads?

there was an equal but jess deleted it

trayce you seconded abusive comments and i third it so ON IT GOES LJ

y'all ready for this?

lol.

Ah dammit xpostarama.

OMG how could i forget to nominate:

This is the thread where I sing along to "Da Funk"

Crutis's finest hour. Or several hours. Whatever.

I wish I hadn't dug up that "trying to make friends" thread, I forgot what a bummer it was.

Seconding the rooftop jumper thread. Also would like to give props to the entire "Right-Wing Cartoonists" series, especially racial puppetry in right-wing comics, which starts with a pretty interesting post from Ethan.

Also, this poll needs more representative from the threads that aren't actually fun to read but capture mentalism and unnecessary vitriol at their best. I don't think I was around for a lot of the best of these, but I loved egging James Blount on as he baited the masses with class warfare and multivalent name-calling on Robert Polllard played his first solo show last night to a half empty crowd in Athens, GA. Alternately, the Stevie Ray Vaughan thread.

I will 2nd the set of rightwing cartoonist threads. Can they be included as a single set somehow?

Real people

I am a Werewolf

where's the lingbert penis (big or small) thread from Ask Dr. Freud?

Just to make sure you're keeping track louis jagger, Uppers and Vlog have both been seconded, and I am seconding I am a Werewolf.

help! my screen is upside down!

"Y'all ready for this?" and "What do you look like in your underwear" seconded.

"What do you look like in your underwear" deseconded.

Wait, you can't do that!

daily food consumption log

sanbox edition:

Keggers of yore

Anyway, here are my noms:

mspaint other ilxors

I AM OWL MAN

Is it bad for a baby to see you masturbating?

The Locking of the Avril Thread

Batman Begins: The Thread

When girls are tight, it might be gross

Oh, and this too:

do girls always do fanny farts?

GOOD SPORT.

The sound of 300 pounds of lard banging against the wall...

classic just for the title

One more:

Bernard Badger's Animals-Only Zone: NO HUMANS ALLOWED

This sounds like the worst thing
(choice Raggett quote: Now, having said that, kill yourself, and please bury your body in an unmarked grave so it won't get dug up and hung in effigy.

This is the thread where we anticipate and then flip out over how great M.I.A.'s 'Arular' is

This is like a "newbie's catch-up guide" innit?

I forgot about The Crests Of The Scottish League Football Clubs, Posted In Alphabetical Order (By Name Of Club)

I had that bookmarked on my old PC. Someone should go fix all the broken images.

Matos' stepdad remains my favourite.
Oink invites is great to.
Flush this question out was a nice distraction.

My current favourite on ILE new answers is kev_lol's fighter planes one - it's bringing out the kid in me, making me want to buy Commando comics and build Airfix models.

You can tell me that what my dream means?
i dont love cricket but i pity it

"Flush this question out" seconded.

And "So not gonna happen" (the original) seconded too.

Here's the link to it in case someone missed it:

so not gonna happen

Dead Musicians

maybe this one's just me but

Jacques Derrida

Kogan brings the Wittgenstein pain big style. Everyone runs away.

Rolling 2006 Banning Thread

Solely for:

what the shit is this?

-- oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:17 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

and, if it were up to the ILX electorate to decide between PARTYMAN and ol' Wrink P, I have a feeling PARTYMAN would be the one getting voted off the island

-- oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

My current favourite on ILE new answers is kev_lol's fighter planes one - it's bringing out the kid in me, making me want to buy Commando comics and build Airfix models.

-- onimo, Friday, 7 September 2007 08:54 (Friday, 7 September 2007 08:54)

Ditto re. airfix!

The Missionary Position

Other nominations might be:

Two hundred words! Review the top 100 ILXors, two words each!

The Tragedie of Michael Jackson, King of Pop

OMNIPOTENT BABY!

And, of course:

The very last thread on ILX

i know how to post pictures now. maria showed me.

Okay this is the last post I promise, but:

spring crushes!

Has there ever been any ILX slash fiction?

I'm going to be mildly annoyed when the thread about Gear's roomate inevitably wins this poll - truly it is the Hey Ya of threads.

I think the most popular and fondly remembered threads are generally those revolving around one specific poster in a particular situation in real time. Eg "there's this cute girl in the library opposite me, how do I start talking to her?" "a car alarm keeps on going off outside my house" or "help there's a man in a trucker hat having anal sex with my roomate on my couch".

"banning of the avril thread" seconded.

The Manic Street Preachers thread on ILM where ally drops the hammer on c-man

"disturb the pillars of capitalism"

the ILM thread about not very good evening session bands.

"yiff me im furry"

Yeah, but my thread went from high thrills (I met her by chance and actually went on a date with her) to a total anticlimax (we didn't really click with each other and nothing happened).

(x-post)

Oh, sorry, maybe you were talking about the Graham thread?

Oh yeah, "oink invites".

;-)

oink invites was going on this list whether it was nominated or not

I wish I could find that thread where I'd written about the orgasm competition. My computer at home crashed and I lost my original story :(

I missed that one :(

This is the best thread on ILM ever : "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" by The Jam - What Does It Mean?

Hey now come on LJ ya cant cheat and put stuff on no one nominates :P

I quite enjoyed the impersonations thread from a selfish point of view.

Most fun one this year was CJ's crush thread.

the ILM thread about not very good evening session bands.

Seconded. Also the Ethan and Jess (mainly) 'hits of the 90s' one that I can't find. There is a really good before-my-time Manic Street Preachers thread with a golden Calum meltdown and all my other favourites have all been listed already I think

I haven't read this whole thread .... we've had Gear's couch one, right?

Someone please find the ultra old-skool thread about diverting the Thames through Camden please.

xxxxpost: Don't worry, I'm not gonna do that, just that Oink Invites is some sort of Internet high-point.

Gear's couch is safely on the list.

this thread:
"And" six times in a row

"and" six times in a row.

My favourite ILM thread ever:

Ladies and Gentlemen...The 40 Most OMGWTFLOL(ROFFLE) Songs Of The 90s.

If Matos stepdad thread doesnt win, I'll off myself.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the thread yet about Kraftwerk and Yello stealing Chris Martin's baby.

Manic Street Preachers : Clasur Neu Methiant

This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

Can someone link to Matos' stepdad thread, please?

"And" six times in a row

Great thread, particularly this gem from koogs:
still:
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after?

Matos thread: My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband

Absolute gold.

Louis:

My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband

Dohh.

xpost city arizona!

My other favourite genre of ILX thread is the intense passionate mass argument over something utterly inconsequential. Prime examples being:

Taking Sides: Another Think Coming v Another Thing Coming

Defend the Indefensible: British People Not Rinsing Soap Off the Dishes

Is pizza pie?

Why do British washing machines take two hours???

Haha nice one Matt. The thing/think thread I will second. That blew my mind.

In fact at the time it prompted an LJ post and my LJ post got heaps of OMG responses and arguing as well.

American exasperation over how Brits do is a hard craft to master.

Did someone mention Bobby Gillespie?

Elephant, room:

Czech blastcore and pagan culture

None of yer LOL80s bullshit

"When mods get shook" thread is your perfect slow build to absolute ridiculousness, we will not see the likes of the Marcello screed/maracas.jpg/Menezes.jpg triple-whammy again

ILX Screenwriters Presents 'It was all Yello: The Coldwerk Sessions'

I was gonna mention the Yello/Kraftwerk/Chris Martin & Gwyneth Paltrow thread, but I thought that would've looked too self-aggrandizing, since I contributed heavily to it. However, now I can second the nomination.

Excelsior: The Book

Taking Sides: The Pixies Vs Placebo
Sleeper vs The Strokes

Richard Hammond may be dead by the time you open this thread

woops meant good luck, Top Gear/Brainiac dude

Red, Red Wine; A Gothic Tribute To UB40

Wait, is that for real?!

-- joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:59 (1 year ago) Link

AGGH my midget co-worker has caused me trouble!

are crushes awesome or what?

Takes about a month of posts for it to warm up, but when it does: WOWZA

a watershed was breached that day

TS Progress vs Novelty
The Great Moving Right Show II: The Kirsty and Phil Years

It's sad that the picture Australian Kate drew of Gear's dream girl on the co-worker thread isn't up anymore. That was a great piece of Internet interaction.

lj@gger did the above situation involve that American? young lady you were co-presenting with on your student radio station show
-- djmartian, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:20 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

This is the creepiest post.

Check out the sex-face on this tortoise.

An empty cigar tube filled with wasps makes a good vibrator.

Actually, it's a straight fite between Missionary Position and Wasp Vibrator for me. Fuck all the others.

the snorg girl looks crazy

Best ILM thread ever (IMHO):

This is the thread where we anticipate and then flip out over how great M.I.A.'s 'Arular' is

Particularly from this point on:

This is the thread where we anticipate and then flip out over how great M.I.A.'s 'Arular' is

I SECOND THE WASP VIBRATOR THREAD

robots in dis guys

seconded:

guess papers
so not gonna happen
This time it is real, Bela fleck is being rejected totally by me because
robots in dis guys
the snorg girl looks crazy
My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband

i see what you did there

but the underwear thread was actually good

David James Fanclub

Any thread which features Mark S's dinosaur animated gif.

My other favourite genre of ILX thread is the intense passionate mass argument over something utterly inconsequential.

Another one I remember fondly but haven't checked up on yet: the one about whether to put single or double spaces after the end of sentences. Who knew ILX had so many professional typesetters with axes to grind?

TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

And the one about Ally's co-workers, though I seem to recall it was deleted.

ILX: intense passionate mass argument over something utterly inconsequential

The Tragedie of Michael Jackson, King of Pop

^^^^ESSENTIAL

The ally co-worker thread was some fantastic stuff, I'm sure it got C&P-ed into another thread when she left her workplace?

The Evening Session Crap Bands and the Jam Tube Station threads are pure gold - I'd forgotten about them. Has the one with MS Paint album covers been mentioned yet?

What was the thread when we discovered Americans wash their towels after every use and we argued about the need to rinse dishes?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you What is the most unacceptable thing to ever come out of your ass?

Searching for threads started by Hanle y is proving useful.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955
submitted for your consideration (TYNAN APPRECIATION THREAD)
I'm old here, so what is... 'Oh, Wrinklepaws'?
instant messaging the reference librarian at my college
Does NED RAGGETT smoke weed?
THIS MY VLOG

instant messaging the reference librarian at my college seconded

thirded

that ned smoking weed one is funny if only for dan's total overreaction

what kills me on that one is the hobbit and his (her?) pipe.

What's a goodf band name for these dudes?

still think against all administrators is a great band name

another ilm favorite

Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

what's the one with the homo-erotic sports imagery? that one's all time blood diamonds respek knuckles yoga flame.

What's a goodf band name for these dudes? and homo-erotic sports seconded

how about the time morbs sonned fake morbs, that was totally boxcar

plus some of the old excelsior threads back when people actually posted funny things in them

Results 1 - 10 of about 256 for gaydiohead. (0.28 seconds)

hah i would enjoy to relive the fake morbs era

MINIMAL HOUSE BOBBINS

Or really the original mega threads, Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down. and its children.

i'm sort've pleased that i kickstarted the whole Down in the Tube Station at Midnight thread, it makes my years as a teenage Jam fan almost feel worthwhile

Rationalising the Confines of the Shop Parlour

Account Deletion?

I Am God

Every time I read http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=19398 I get a warm feeling inside. Similarly I have loved watching the babies grow up on the rolling parenting threads.

WAHT IS MOST AWESOMEST (jimmy the mod was too "busy" to start this poll)

That will only be the best thread on ILX after the bears win.

People Who Put More Salt On Their Food Before Even Tasting It

Most consistently entertaining thread over the years*:
Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

*this maybe due to the fact that I do most my ilx'ing at the office

this was quite popular i seem to recall

what's the one with the homo-erotic sports imagery? that one's all time blood diamonds respek knuckles yoga flame.

-- Edward III

One of my all time favourites. Never any shortage of new material.

Favorite unintentionally homoerotic sports imagery

that WAHT IS MOST AWESOMEST thread has definite potential, as long as Kerm and jhoshea keep up the good work.

there should be a separate category for best one-two punch of thread title/first post

ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN
This is the thread where I sing along to "Da Funk"
My little sister got a new job finally. At Hooters.

I have, like, no gay friends in town. original gay thread

Credit to Heave Ho for pointing this one out:

how do you tell a squirrel "those are my nuts"

tynan thread seconded

i want to change my password for ILX

A car alarm keeps going off outside my house....what should I do?

Yes, it's the return of CHILLING OUT WITH THE ILX KREW!!
and
Get yer flasks and bobble hats out because it's ILXORS ON PARADE!

Can't believe this all-time classic comedy gold thread hasn't been mentioned:
TS: Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

Barenaked Ladies thread is brilliant.

YES

+ ILX The Book, obv

what's the one on nb where ethan harrasses hapless soulseekers?

NO. (☃)

Among the many threads of hilarity, inspired bickering and general WTFness that have been nominated here, I would like to nominate a kinder, gentler thread, in the off hope that all the white couches, Lysol douches and photoshopped insanity will split the vote and leave room for a dark horse to walk away with the honors:

A thread where you commission a poem from ILE

NO. (☃) seconded.

i dont even see ethan on that thread

What's the format going to be for this, anyway? Classic ILX email poll or nuILX autopoll? I'm hoping for the former, and maybe even a pre-polling thread where we argue the merits of the finalists.

is there a definitive fake dr. morbius thread?

y'all ready for this? seconded

i dont even see ethan on that thread

that's because it was cutty abusing hapless s!skers, my bad...

second or thirding "My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband"

gaydiohead x 1000.

i can't remember what it was called, but i loved the hari ashburton thread where he catalogued his trip to the fish and chips shop in photographs

Not the one where he peed his pants??

no not that one. That one was sort of funny but also quite creepy! There was another one where he did this little photojournal of him and his gf going to get fish and chips. I can't find it in the search engine, I tried.

there are a couple really cute hari threads

The pee one is short and hilarious...
Oh no! I've commited a felony

Covert Ops: Obtaining Dinner from the Fish And Chip shop

I don't know if it's the best one but...

Hari sure was good-looking.

y'all ready for this? seconded

Thirded. Love that thread.

Liverpool Tickets Fiasco

seriously, why even hold the poll after that?

God I knew there was one I was forgetting. Lock thread.

Best non-rofflicious thread might be interesting

Gear's Sofa thread definitely.

And I just found this one randomly in I Love Music

Taking sides: Madonna or Janet Jackson?

The middle part is the best!

Ah yeah, that's a legend, that one.

Best non rofflicious thread = the one about the Danish Mohammed cartoons.

the liverpool ticket fiasco is very good

the pirosmani apologies for boorishness was the most enjoyable to post to

it had the oddd roffle:

(btw who is brandon flowers?)

-- The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, February 7, 2006 4:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

I JUST GOOGLED HIM, HENRY, STOP SLANDERING ME
-- The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, February 7, 2006 4:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

xpost

I could never read the entire Madonna Janet thread which is part why it is so stupifying and a classic. This was one great post in the thread

the pressing question howevah: if I am in fact nasty but address Miss Jackson as "Janet," does she have any other tools at her disposal for determining whether I am nasty or not? Or does the whole proposition pivot on the assumption that the persons addressing her will be honest about their nastiness/non-nastiness? if so this is a pretty weak (albeit touchingly naive) method for assessing the relative nastiness of the applicant and new research is necessary
-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, March 8, 2003 8:21 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

A new contender! OHMIGODAHORSE

yo is it true vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef??????

how could i forget:

A Thread about the film JFK

I think I'll turn this into a poll at some point either on Tuesday or Wednesday, so get your votes in quick!

Liverpool Tickets Fiasco is one of my personal faves as well, btw.

A new contender!

You could say the same for the 'living with gay pornographer' thread, although the fact that every other post is a breathless affirmation of the thread's 'top-ten potential' or whatnot is somewhat irritating.

That said, Sausade's post is probably enough to ensure its nomination.

no winning thread being from 2002-2004, no credibility

Wait so what are the rules of nomination here? It looks like a couple of threads have been rejected for no reason.

Can a list of what has been nominated, what has been seconded and what needs seconding be drawn up?

I'll do one when I'm not at work. Everything with two or more nominations is going into the poll, nowhere have I stated that a thread's being rejected (unless it's clearly ironic or abusive, natch).

Threads only NEED seconding if they deserve seconding, i.e. if more than one person deems it worthy of nomination!

(unless it's clearly ironic or abusive, natch).

If the nomination is ironic, agreed. As to abusive, some threads belong to the ages now and should be remembered.

As to 'deserving' seconding, fair point. A bit subjective but completely understandable.

If no one seconds the Missionary Position thread I will be sad.

I don't think seconding should be required. Most people at this point are just naming threads that haven't already been named and aren't going back to look over the whole list and determine which nominations they agree with.

Or how about this? I second everything that's been named so far. There.

I second every thread that has been mentioned. No exceptions.

I'm nominating

BEST THREAD ON ILX: Part ONE - The Nominations

Now that's just being silly.

this contest needs spicing up. i suggest that all of the nominated threads that don't win the final poll be deleted forever. and the people who started them be banned. forever.

nah, too harsh. maybe you could do that for every thread not to get a vote, or something.

seperate poll for seconding

also, no 1p3 thread = no cred

JJ & FB DRINK IT
JJ & FB WATCH IT

end threads quicker

THIS MY VLOG
John Justen and Fluffy Bear Will Drink It
TS: Ben Roethlisberger's Blog vs Peyton Manning's Blog

OK, 24 hours until the poll. Get those nominations in!

Ralf Hutter's blind date: An ILX Collaborative Tragicomedy

About time I nominated something, btw:

The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)

Worst of the web: Crappysavior.jpg edition. (a picture thread)

seconded.

"TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears" seconded, if it wasn't already.

my favourite ever was a thread called

B-E-L-T-S

but i can't find it :(

ah fuck, here it is

- - - Belts - - -

it wasn't Belt Water was it?

False music trivia seconded.

I second moley's vote for Ralf Hutters Blind Date. Thats some gold right there.

What about the "In Every (x) Ever" threads? Those seem almost impossible to search, though.

And the one where people describe memories of their life from when they were 11 yrs. old or so...I can't find that one, either.

I'm unsure regarding Jagga's ambiguous rules and subequent attempts at clarifying 'em whether something has to be seconded to be part of the final poll...but at any rate, I second "So Not Gonna Happen".

Yeah one of my noms (the "sing along to Da Funk") hasnt been 2nded :(

Yeah, I know I started it, but I'm not willing to overlook the tremendous contributions of teh ILX community to WDYLL when machines are trying to kill you: favorite product warning labels thread out of humility.

Nominating June 14, 2007 as greatest day on ILE. PAUL RUDD VS. JOHN CUSACK
PAUL RUDD: ALSO Y

- - - Belts - - - seconded.

Missy

What about the "In Every (x) Ever" threads? Those seem almost impossible to search, though.

Yes, those are great! I would second a collective vote for them if that's the best we can do - but my favorites are the one about childrens' action-adventure cartoons (I think it's just called Stock Plots For Action-Adventure Cartoons), old movies generally, and suburban dens from the 80s.

Nah, the best of those is the coffee house one. Which I have searched for, without avail!

Even just searching for threads with title "Every" doesn't work - is this for some reason a blacklisted word?

The stopword list on the search engine is ridiculously long and full of really not all that common words, it is frustrating.

Not nomming as such, but using Google I found some for the benefit of others:

in every cop show ever
top100- stock plot devices for children's action/adventure cartoons
IN EVERY POXY FULE EVER:

NO luck on old movies or coffee shops! WTF!

Argh! Why I am I getting stupid "The requested resource (/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D40%26threadid%3D50907) is not available." msg's when I try to clink on the links that Doctor Casino posted?!

me toooooo :(

Anyhow, thanks for your detective work Doctor. I think I've only managed previously to pull up the "In every POXY FULE..." one before using the google search.

Trayce is right, I think that both "every" and "ever" are excluded from the search engine.

Man, I totally wanna read the coffeehouse one now. I remember the old movies one being esp. brilliant. (and '80's suburban dens was no slouch, either)

In every coffeeshop ever

In every suburban den 1983-1989

in every old movie ever

I love those ones. Also (forgive me):

How can you tell you're in an Australian soap opera?

Let's see if this works now:

top 100 stock plot devices for children's action/adventure cartoons

success!

ok...

in every cop show ever

in every poxy fule ever

I am so sad I missed the Paul Rudd threads. love!

I remember when he was on the Daily Show (for like the 465th time) discussing Gen Y Cops!

Wow, don't know what went wrong with my links but THANK YOU THANK YOU to dell - how the hell did you find them? I swear to god "old movie" got me nowhere.

shucks, it's all in a day's work.

But seriously, prayer, my brother, prayer.

Ah the Aussie soap thread was great :D

Feel Like Making Lunch

Yeah, I dunno why the links you posted didn't work. Maybe the ILX Central Control Unit just happened to burp at that moment or something.

I found the "in every old movie ever" one by putting "movie" into the plain ol' ILX search engine, and then flipping through a dozen or so pages of results. I have fast eyeballs or something. It's one of my few talents in life.

I'm just glad that you and Ned were able to bring to mind the specific subjects of those threads. All I could recall was that the "in every X ever" ones were pretty great in general...which doesn't help search-wise!

Shucks. Let's hear it for ILX teamwork!

Having now read it, I second "In every coffee shop." ILXors write what they know. It's also one of the elite threads to sustain a multi-post revive as a result of THIS thread.

in every coffeeshop seconded

o i see i am late

Barenaked Ladies and In Every Old Movie Ever seconded.

this is my vlog
does ned raggett smoke weed
yo is it true vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef??????

seconded

I'll nominate this too:

In every Soviet bloc...

Oh, yeah, I too would like this to be an old-fashioned ILX poll, where people vote and provide blurbs via e-mail, and the winners are revealed one at a time. That makes it much more exciting.

oh that would be graet!

Yeah but would never finish.

Still, Tuomas thirded.

No, Georgie's right. It's obvious to all of us that you have made your own championship belt.

Vintage.

Oh, yeah, I too would like this to be an old-fashioned ILX poll, where people vote and provide blurbs via e-mail, and the winners are revealed one at a time. That makes it much more exciting.

I INVENTED THIS SHIT AND DEMAND ROYATLIES

BAN LOUIS JAGGER
Britney can i get your sister jame spears Email
Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers
When ILE/Moderator board mods get shook
i have the apartment to myself for the next 36 hours...
What do you look like in your underwear?
TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears
POPPAGE
What one piece of advice would you give your ten year old self?
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room
so not gonna happen
Oink Invites
Yelling Things (Sometimes Insults) At People From Cars - C or D?
y'all ready for this?
This is the thread where I sing along to "Da Funk"
Ladies and Gentlemen...The 40 Most OMGWTFLOL(ROFFLE) Songs Of The 90s.
My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband
the snorg girl looks crazy
robots in dis guys
Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers
Favorite unintentionally homoerotic sports imagery
My little sister got a new job finally. At Hooters.
I have, like, no gay friends in town.
I don't think we have any discussion about the Danish Muhammad cartoons....
WDYLL when machines are trying to kill you: favorite product warning labels thread

All seconded.

I also propose:

Cute baby animal alert!!

Oh wait, the first one I wanted to make a comment that I don't think it should be there re. it being a personal attack thread.

So I am NOT seconding BAN LOUIS JAGGER

I am!

wow!

More srsly..

There seems to be a lot missing.

I haven't actually seconded anything.

I'd second "there's a guy on the roof" for a kickov.

Where the hell is Jaggah? How dare his "real life" concerns impede the progress of this poll! Furthermore, I'm still confused as to whether threads need to actually be seconded in order to count in the final running. Cheers kv, though, that's some good compiling work you've done. Fook, I'll pitch in if need be. Though, I do agree that it should be an old-style poll, with a proper suspenseful countdown an' all.

And a Barry Normal style precis of content, style and direction of thread.

hai!

Though, I do agree that it should be an old-style poll, with a proper suspenseful countdown an' all

We could always do it again, like you and a few others have suggested. For now, though, it's gonna be a straight shoot-out.

BAN LOUIS JAGGER
Britney can i get your sister jame spears Email
Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers
When ILE/Moderator board mods get shook
i have the apartment to myself for the next 36 hours...
What do you look like in your underwear?
TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears
POPPAGE
What one piece of advice would you give your ten year old self?
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room
so not gonna happen
Oink Invites
Yelling Things (Sometimes Insults) At People From Cars - C or D?
y'all ready for this?
This is the thread where I sing along to "Da Funk"
Ladies and Gentlemen...The 40 Most OMGWTFLOL(ROFFLE) Songs Of The 90s.
My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband
the snorg girl looks crazy
robots in dis guys
Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers
Favorite unintentionally homoerotic sports imagery
My little sister got a new job finally. At Hooters.
I have, like, no gay friends in town.
I don't think we have any discussion about the Danish Muhammad cartoons....
WDYLL when machines are trying to kill you: favorite product warning labels thread

All seconded.

I also propose:

Cute baby animal alert!!

-- kv_n

Ralf Hutter's blind date: An ILX Collaborative Tragicomedy was also seconded, I must protest.

x-ie

J-go, I love ya, god knows I do, but you're killing me with this insistence on the "straight shoot-out"

Would it be weird if the very name "ILX" was changed to "Ban 10uis J4gg3r"?

Ok, I guess it would be weird...

Moley, I think KV Nol was seconding those threads rather than listing all the threads that have been seconded.

Whoa, and wait up! The "Down in the Tubestation" thread been missed? I definitely second that one!

xpost ah! that makes sense. OK, well, anyway I second the tubestation one anyhow.

I am also going to second Taking Sides: The Pixies Vs Placebo

.. and propose:

What the hell, let's all SING "House of jealous lovers"

Moley, I think KV Nol was seconding those threads rather than listing all the threads that have been seconded.

-- Tuomas

Aha, yes, apologies.

wtf guys, 6 days and no mention of
Ipso Fatso

No worries, cheers Tuomas. (xpost)

I would also like to nominate:

10(+) architects I have been thinking about

Perhaps my favourite picture thread ever.

TS: Smiths vs Anal Cunt

"And" six times in a row

Who would win a fight between a horse and a monkey?

The Miracle of the Smiths is my favourite ILX thread.

Ban Louis Jagger

they're all good but this is the original and best.

Hey, with any luck he might hop over to ILE and start posting about his sex life or something. Think about the entertainment we might miss out on!

-- Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:42 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

This would win best post on ILX ever, right?

Are you guys sax partners?

10(+) architects I have been thinking about seconded.

:) jed_

Now we only need Dr. Casino to third it and we'll be sorted.

Berries: A Picture Thread
I can't stop picking up the yellow stones

And from the sandbox...

http://ilx.wh3rd.net:8090/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=141&threadid=888

I heart picture threads.

Oh, sandbox thread titles don't automatically come through - that one was entitled '72' and it was great.

I think i'm a scott seward groupie - 'cos I like this one as well

I LOVE MARIA D.

ilx, you have approximately fifteen minutes

"aw", from 1p3

seconded

<3

aw

Might want to have a few runoff polls leading up to the big kahuna. just saying.

aw john

<3

Jgo ain't much for foreplay

oh no, i've just spent over an hour compiling the piece de la resistance!

i think the way we'll do it is one big poll to start off with, then lots of spin-off polls to settle disputes.

Really, this time, you have about two minutes to raise objections while I straighten out some of the domain-names.

you should post the list here or in a separate thread first just so ppl can make sure you didn't miss something.

obv so not gonna happen wins why we even do this?

all seconded threads:

BAN LOUIS JAGGER
RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH
Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.
Tears Pouring All Down My Face...
The Pet Shop Boys' first twenty singles...
Britney can i get your sister jame spears Email
Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers
When ILE/Moderator board mods get shook
guess papers
WOMEN: How many bras do you have?
What do you look like in your underwear?
POPPAGE
THIS MY VLOG
vadge horror stories
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955
so not gonna happen
Oink Invites
are crushes awesome or what?
abusive comments
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=26&threadid=40640
I am a Werewolf
y'all ready for this?
Flush this question out
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room
The Locking of the Avril Thread
"And" six times in a row
ILX Screenwriters Presents 'It was all Yello: The Coldwerk Sessions'
Manic Street Preachers : Clasur Neu Methiant
This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s
My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband
Taking Sides: Another Think Coming v Another Thing Coming
An empty cigar tube filled with wasps makes a good vibrator.
The Missionary Position
the snorg girl looks crazy
robots in dis guys
This time it is real, Bela fleck is being rejected totally by me because
The Tragedie of Michael Jackson, King of Pop
"Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" by The Jam - What Does It Mean?
instant messaging the reference librarian at my college
Does NED RAGGETT smoke weed?
What's a goodf band name for these dudes?
Results 1 - 10 of about 256 for gaydiohead. (0.28 seconds)
Favorite unintentionally homoerotic sports imagery
submitted for your consideration (TYNAN APPRECIATION THREAD)
TS: Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover
A thread where you commission a poem from ILE
Covert Ops: Obtaining Dinner from the Fish And Chip shop
Liverpool Tickets Fiasco
Taking sides: Madonna or Janet Jackson?
yo is it true vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef??????
A Thread about the film JFK
John Justen and Fluffy Bear Will Drink It
Ralf Hutter's blind date: An ILX Collaborative Tragicomedy
The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)
Worst of the web: Crappysavior.jpg edition. (a picture thread)
TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears
- - - Belts - - -
WDYLL when machines are trying to kill you: favorite product warning labels thread
In every coffee shop ever
How can you tell you're in an Australian soap opera?
in every old movie ever
i have the apartment to myself for the next 36 hours...
What one piece of advice would you give your ten year old self?
Yelling Things (Sometimes Insults) At People From Cars - C or D?
Ladies and Gentlemen...The 40 Most OMGWTFLOL(ROFFLE) Songs Of The 90s.
Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers
My little sister got a new job finally. At Hooters.
I have, like, no gay friends in town.
I don't think we have any discussion about the Danish Muhammad cartoons....
Taking Sides: The Pixies Vs Placebo
10(+) architects I have been thinking about

what the hell, let's go for it

where is "aw"

you missed out "aw"

xpost!

<3

x

thank you

what's "aw"?

I'm kinda surprised none of the Rockism or Indie Guilt-type threads made it onto the ballot. In fact, were any of them even nominated?

aw

matt can you lock this thread?

Yup.