Lurker Game Threads
From SoSH
These game threads have been nominated for Best-Ever lurker game thread. The link takes you to the game thread in question; following the link is a synopsis of, or vignette from, the thread.
9/30/07 Gratuitous Rainbow Mojo
- Nominated in the categories of landscape and cinematography
- Lurker Nation makes a backup plan for the playoffs [1] [2]
- JRR Rangerrob interprets Lord of the Ring
- Cameljoecameltoehomojo and the duelling sinful animals
- Norah Jones sings Bob Dylan: bring that bottle over here
- A celebration to be remembered, featuring Papelbon in his jockstrap.
9/18/07 A Tragicomic Opera in Four Parts
- Part 1, Reality, in which we relive the agonies of office life, courtesy of The Office.
- Part 2, Comedy, in which standup comics leave lurkers rolling in the aisles. Then standup lurkers leave the comics rolling in the aisles. A good time is had by all.
- Part 3, Tragedy, in which Perdu blows it again. A bad time is had by all, except for two Yankee Trolls.
- Part 4, Uprising, in which the trolls are banished from polite lurker society by Mass Ignore. There’s no room in our dark alley for Yankee Trolls.
9/7/07 9/8/07 Barbara's Blogging from Bawlmur
- When Camden Yards becomes Fenway South
- The sights and sounds of tens of thousands of the Nation are described
- Barbara stays at the Red Sox Hotel and waits at the ice machine
stalking Jacoby Ellsburyfor player sightings - DustyPetra advises 'out of order' signs on ice machines on other floors
9/6/07 Good luck. We're all counting on you.
- My friend, no man alive can throw harder than Smokey Joe Wood
- Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007 RIP. Nessun dorma
- Consideration of the relative merits of T&A, and of booty shorts versus opera
- Airplane! Blue Monkey sings the refrain.
Josh Beckett works in profanity the way Michelangelo worked in marble
- see Fükken in the Lurker Lexicon.
Time: after the 9/3/07 Labor Day lurker game thread.
Scene: manager’s office in the clubhouse.
- Joe Reardon: 1340 responses.
- Larry: New lurker record!
- Joe Reardon: 13,111 views.
- Larry: Another new lurker record! In addition they hit Jessica Alba, Bob Dylan, Ellsbury’s Eyebrows, the Emoticons, and the booty pix fifty times..
- [Joe laughs]
- Larry: Also new lurker records! But, Joe, these guys got some serious shit.
- Jessica Alba mojo, T-Rex mojo, and the F*ck Yeah play;
- High-mojo visits from newbie berezina and DavidWells on the road;
- Multiple Michigan-related suicides averted;
- Beckett’s bobblehead conclusively identified;
- Four Winner of the Internet Awards;
- Goosebumps, palpitations, tingling, numbness, and mass insomnia.
8/23/2007 8/24/2007 The White Sox Haiku Thread
- Apparently it kills the White Sox. Like a game of rock paper scissors, it's useless against the Yankees.
- The reunion of two long-separated cousins of the far-flung Pedroia clan.
- Read the Haiku
7/20/07 7/21/07 7/22/07 7/23/07 7/24/07 7/25/07 GlenMorangie's Five-Game Winning Streak
- On July 20, Kitchkinet introduces Chutney mojo, which is inspired by a joke about Chase Utley based on a cartoon by UK artist Weebl. Pictures of bottles of mango chutney, among other flavors, begin to pop up, and would drive rallies for weeks to come.
- Started by new member DavidWellsAteNelson with the second post coming from new member Tims4Wins.
- Rosie's wife is out of town and we help him find a critical misplaced game-watching 'munchie.'
- A novel by David Foster Wallace proves to be useful after all.
- First suggestion of a Lurker party by Bellhorn (still an excellent idea).
- Johnny the Bone nicknames Pedroia "Bones" invoking a variety of thread themes and multi-cultural references.
6/30/07 Lugo Attempts to Steal Third Late in the Game
- Proctor burns his equipment bag to exorcise the demons. Self-immolation becomes the theme of the day.
- Ice cream sandwiches, champagne, cheese pizza, and Godiva chocolates fuel the team to victory. The team that ingests together, wins together, and eventually grows fat together.
