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Title: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 04, 2006, 05:54:47 pm: I'd like to kick off a series of "Celebrating Six Months of BetterMost" cyber-events here. All of you have been kicking around some great ideas for discussions, chats, and polls relating to this milestone. There was one idea that I just couldn't wait to implement: reviewing our favorite posts of the last six months. Please think back to the posts you've read that opened your eyes to an aspect of the movie, story, or people here that you didn't know about before. The posts that made you think, cry, or laugh so hard that you spit coffee all over the keyboard. Please let us know about them, with or without a link (we can all enjoy hunting for the link and whoever finds it first gets a bronzed BetterMost bean for a trophy, complete with a kick of the can sound effect!)

Disclaimer: To the smart-alec out there who wants to point out that BetterMost has bean in business for more than six months, I say "sure enough" but we're celebrating now anyway! Plus, a lot of Tremblayans are celebrating six months of being here too, so we'll have some topics related to this interesting sub-group.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 04, 2006, 05:58:09 pm: Okay, I just happen to have a contribution to start this off! In fact, two!

My candidate for the best post yet on BetterMost, comedy department, by alec716:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg47432#msg47432 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg47432#msg47432)
If you don't laugh like a hyena while reading this, then, you're dead my FRiend.

Best post yet, tragedy department, by Toast:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=462.msg26441;topicseen#msg26441 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=462.msg26441;topicseen#msg26441)
Reading this always brings a lump to my throat.

A toast to two of my favourite posters, Toast and Alec. You've brought me a lot of joy, and I thank you.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: isabelle on October 04, 2006, 06:01:26 pm: That's a good idea!

The coffee got spat all over the keyboard as I read "BBM through the looking glass" by Sheyne, the "commercial breaks during BBM", the "lines you won't hear in BBM"...
I'll have a look and update with the heading of a thread I discovered just 2 days ago, which deals with the movie vs short story I think. I was so amazed to read such new (to me) thoughts about BBM after all this time.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 04, 2006, 06:13:48 pm: Thanks for that Toast link on the letter D - never been on that forum before - that was definitively a very special post.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 06:26:06 pm: I had a hard time picking just one of the posts on the "Brokeback Slang" thread. There are soooo many hilarious ones! But here are a couple, by henrypie and Sheyne.

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=713.msg11379#msg11379 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=713.msg11379#msg11379)

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Penthesilea on October 05, 2006, 12:24:30 pm: Lee, that's great idea for a thread.

Quote
My candidate for the best post yet on BetterMost, comedy department, by alec716:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg47432#msg47432
If you don't laugh like a hyena while reading this, then, you're dead my FRiend

I laughed my ass off, thanks Lee. I hadn't seen this before cos I don't participate in the performance thread (and I don't quite get it).

2 weeks ago I had my personal 6 months celebration of seeing Brokeback Mountain for the first time. My personal 6 months celebration of being on BetterMost will be end of this month.

I've read many great, great posts here. My fav comical thread is "Brokeback through the looking glass" . OMG, I just re-read it a couple of days ago and at one point I had to visit the bathroom immediately, I laughed so hard.

There were many posts with great insight into the movie, most of them in the Open Forum, which is my favourite Forum.

And many posts that moved me to tears. Sorry, but I don't want to sort them out now. Makes me all teary again.
But what comes to my mind without much thinking are jpwagoneer's photo captions/fantasy scenes. Some of them are really moving. Here's one:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2738.130 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2738.130)

and another:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2738.msg79479#msg79479 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2738.msg79479#msg79479)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 05, 2006, 12:42:21 pm: Those are great links! Brought tears to my eyes. And now, I want to send out some accolades in the musical division. This was really hard! But I had to go for Celeste (Yaapyar)'s rendition of "Ennis" in the style of West Side Story's "Maria." The graphics that go with this are fabulous! And a close second is The Stud Duck (David)'s other WSS knock-offs, which follow Celeste's:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg46081;topicseen#msg46081 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg46081;topicseen#msg46081)

But I must also mention my FRiend Toast's xcellent version of "Send in the ABC Clownz" too. I'm off to reread and find that link now...

I'm coming up on my own six-month anniversary this Sunday. Yup, it was March 8 when I first posted here. Never been an early-adopter type, but I definitely had a low startle point when it came to those trolls at Pierre Tremblay!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 05, 2006, 06:24:30 pm: Talk about a low startle point! I went back to IMDB today and there was a terrible post about Heath...I can not say more...it was removed shortly after, but shook me up tremendously. I am so gratefull for this troll-free place.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Brown Eyes on October 05, 2006, 07:54:37 pm: It's pretty much impossible to isolate individual posts as the best out of so many gems here. So, I'll highlight a few threads.

The "Brokeback Through the Looking Glass" thread is pretty priceless for comedy. http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=478.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=478.0)

And, in terms of my favorite wacky topics for a thread... it has to be the coffeepot/ bucket thread with ever multiplying topics...
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=569.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=569.0)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 06, 2006, 10:03:38 am: Awww, thanks for mentioning the coffeepot/bucket thread, Amanda!!

So here for your listening pleasure, is Toast's "Send in the (ABC) Clownz"

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2397.msg38491#msg38491 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2397.msg38491#msg38491)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Meryl on October 06, 2006, 11:13:26 am: Thanks for this thread, Lee! I missed a lot of good posts, it seems. ;D

Here's one from JeffWrangler that I love, originally posted on IMDb, as the Cult was getting started. Read Daniel's reply as well:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3653.msg69150#msg69150 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3653.msg69150#msg69150)

;D
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on October 06, 2006, 02:26:56 pm: Quote from: meryl on October 06, 2006, 11:13:26 am
Thanks for this thread, Lee! I missed a lot of good posts, it seems. ;D

Here's one from JeffWrangler that I love, originally posted on IMDb, as the Cult was getting started. Read Daniel's reply as well:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3653.msg69150#msg69150 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3653.msg69150#msg69150)

;D

Aww, thanks, Meryl. :)

OMG, the Thirteenth of October is next Friday, a week from today! :o Wish I could take the day off to celebrate properly.

I don't know whether anybody managed to save the threads, but I loved "Cowboy Etiquette," and the one Leslie started, the title of which now escapes me, about cowboys can do things the rest of us can't.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: serious crayons on October 06, 2006, 02:38:11 pm: Umm ... I hate to reveal my ignorance, and I'm probably going to have my BetterMost membership rescinded for this, but what is the significance of Oct. 13? (Besides the fact that it's Friday the 13th this year.)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on October 06, 2006, 02:52:12 pm: Quote from: latjoreme on October 06, 2006, 02:38:11 pm
Umm ... I hate to reveal my ignorance, and I'm probably going to have my BetterMost membership rescinded for this, but what is the significance of Oct. 13? (Besides the fact that it's Friday the 13th this year.)

October 13, 1997: Cover date of The New Yorker issue in which "Brokeback Mountain" was first published.

We'll let it slide, but you should review the Cult thread. ;D
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Meryl on October 06, 2006, 08:27:10 pm: Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 06, 2006, 02:26:56 pm
Aww, thanks, Meryl. :)

OMG, the Thirteenth of October is next Friday, a week from today! :o Wish I could take the day off to celebrate properly.

You're mighty welcome, Jeff. :-*

Maybe we can talk Lee into organizing a chat on the 13th. My next project is going to be to make up a calendar with all of our high holy days so we can have them ready to hand. ;D
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 08, 2006, 12:10:45 am: Yes, meryl, please add all the high holy days to the calendar! It would be much appreciated!!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 08, 2006, 11:14:06 pm: Many people contributed to making the "buckets" thread the eclectic delight that it is, but one of my early favorites is that of one of our long-time Tremblayans, John Gallagher, who I count as a friend and sympatico person:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=569.msg11058#msg11058 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=569.msg11058#msg11058)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 09, 2006, 07:37:42 pm: One of our founding CT members, now a guest, is rt, and one of his many great topics was "Powerful Film Scenes." All of you contributed so well with your favorites, among you latjoreme, ednbarby, kirkmusic, and several others. Go look at it again, and maybe by now there are new posts to add!

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1670.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1670.0)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 13, 2006, 04:34:13 pm: More favorites...there ain't no reins etc. etc. !!

Ode to the first and second tent scene, by atz75 (Amanda):
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2736.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2736.0)
. by Ray
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1935.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1935.0)
Getting hard hit by offhand revelations, by nakymaton (Mel)
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=4253.0 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=4253.0)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 15, 2006, 03:18:09 pm: Here's one of my favorite posts where latjoreme explained the meaning of "I swear."

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=309.msg9429#msg9429 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=309.msg9429#msg9429)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: starboardlight on October 15, 2006, 10:43:51 pm: don't forget the haikus, limericks, and other poetry. There were such amazing creativity that we all generated as a way of expressing the heart aches and soulful joys this film brought to us.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 11:05:45 am: I loved this post of Anke's when Jack and Ennis come down from the mountain and separate in the Performance of Broken Arsed Mountain (hope you can play the audio of O Fortuna!)

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg70473#msg70473 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg70473#msg70473)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 11:14:34 am: Click here for one of Terry Cloth's (alec77) funnier-than-LOL ANGst-ing about his precarious position.

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg71133#msg71133 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg71133#msg71133)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 02:03:39 pm: Oh, and U can't miss this eloquent soliloquy by Ennis's jammy pants (Sascha)!

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg77351#msg77351 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg77351#msg77351)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Ellemeno on October 28, 2006, 02:47:32 pm: Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 02:03:39 pm
Oh, and U can't miss this eloquent soliloquy by Ennis's jammy pants (Sascha)!

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg77351#msg77351 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg77351#msg77351)

I kin tell what yer doin', Lee. You're goin' through the PT working on yer synopsis.

:)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 03:05:47 pm: Yup, and I'm not makin' much progress between the laughing, crying, and the rolling on the floor!!

So, here's Daniel's translation of the bikers' French. Redline it on over to:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79941#msg79941 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79941#msg79941)
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on November 01, 2006, 04:23:33 pm: Just one more hilarious Alec post, when he's dissecting the contents of the bikeurs' picnic basket:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79628#msg79628 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79628#msg79628)

If I include any more Alec posts, I'm going to have to change the title of this topic to The Terry Cloth Fan Club Thread!!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: dot-matrix on November 03, 2006, 07:56:13 pm: I haven't been here very long but I have been lurking and reading a lot. So I hope no one minds that I add my 2 cents here. I have to say one of my favorite threads so far, just for the shear creativity and good natured humor of it is Anke's "Line's Visualized thread. it's one of the best here for opening my eyes to more depth in the words and dialog of the story and film. We can learn a lot through humor, about life, about art, about ourselves.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Ellemeno on November 03, 2006, 08:16:58 pm: dot-matrix, you haven't been here long, but you have been a really great addition to BetterMost already. I'm glad to have you here. Elle
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: dot-matrix on November 04, 2006, 01:03:44 am: Quote from: Ellemeno on November 03, 2006, 08:16:58 pm
dot-matrix, you haven't been here long, but you have been a really great addition to BetterMost already. I'm glad to have you here. Elle

Why thank you Elle, that was very sweet. Just call me Dottie everyone does.
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Meryl on November 29, 2006, 01:19:16 am: Bump
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: isabelle on December 06, 2006, 06:14:19 pm: Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2006, 03:05:47 pm
Yup, and I'm not makin' much progress between the laughing, crying, and the rolling on the floor!!

So, here's Daniel's translation of the bikers' French. Redline it on over to:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79941#msg79941 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg79941#msg79941)

ROFLMAO!! How could I EVER miss this? This is so f*** funny for someone whose mother tongue IS French!
Thanks for digging this thread up, and for bumping, Meryl!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: kirkmusic on December 07, 2006, 06:53:22 am: Okay. I love Brokeback through the looking glass. I love the Lines Visualised thread. For community building and bonding I love the What do We all Look Like thread. But I just saw something that has to be a sentimental favorite for me.

I looked back over the BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES thread, in which I said this on May 21st, 2006...

"I've only watched my DVD once because I keep seeing it in theatres here! To be expected in San Francisco I guess. Although I loved watching the 2nd tent scene at 1/4 speed on DVD.

Now that I think about it, I like watching and pausing on still frames of the two of them being affectionate. I am so going to meet my future partner this year. Unless I don't I guess."

But I did. Five days later. <sigh> ;D
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Kelda on December 07, 2006, 07:30:55 am: ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'm with you on all these cool threads.
x
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on December 15, 2006, 11:14:17 am: Quote from: kirkmusic on December 07, 2006, 06:53:22 am
Okay. I love Brokeback through the looking glass. I love the Lines Visualised thread. For community building and bonding I love the What do We all Look Like thread. But I just saw something that has to be a sentimental favorite for me.

I looked back over the BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES thread, in which I said this on May 21st, 2006...

"I've only watched my DVD once because I keep seeing it in theatres here! To be expected in San Francisco I guess. Although I loved watching the 2nd tent scene at 1/4 speed on DVD.

Now that I think about it, I like watching and pausing on still frames of the two of them being affectionate. I am so going to meet my future partner this year. Unless I don't I guess."

But I did. Five days later. <sigh> ;D

Yes, it is wonderful to look back and see how BBM has changed our lives. I remember seeing a pic of you with your music collection way back in April. It seems so short a time ago, and yet things have changed so much!!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on December 15, 2006, 06:30:22 pm: One more favorite:
I love Lucise Inapaddock's pictures in this post!!

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg62666#msg62666 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2739.msg62666#msg62666)
Title: Re: Celebrating Two Years: Our All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 30, 2008, 06:36:33 pm: Time to revive this compendium of our all-time favorite posts!! Add yours!!
Title: Re: Celebrating Six Months: My All-Time Favorite Posts
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 30, 2008, 06:49:10 pm: Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 05, 2006, 06:24:30 pm
Talk about a low startle point! I went back to IMDB today and there was a terrible post about Heath...I can not say more...it was removed shortly after, but shook me up tremendously. I am so gratefull for this troll-free place.

I remember this post clearly. It was an announcement that Heath Ledger had been shot and killed. An ominous portent, but when January 22, 2008 rolled around, I didn't believe the sad news until my friend EDelMar told me. Then I knew it had to be true. :'(