Have you ever been somewhere else, be it out in the world or somewhere on the interwebs that isn’t this site, and read/heard a comment that made you think “OMG that would definitely be a Top Comment”? ::looks around:: I hope it’s not just me! Well, tonight is your chance to share them! Grab a glass of something delicious, and hop below the Story Break after a word from our intrepid sponsor…
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find!
My Offsite Top Comment actually happened last Monday, and I was all prepared to post this on my regular Tuesday TC post, but my computer decided it no longer wanted to connect to the interwebs (I feel your pain, little laptop, but you’ve basically got one job...) and by the time my in-house Tech Guru found the right incantation to go with a precise order of events, TC hero John M Webb had come to my rescue! So while it’s out of date, I am still laughing at it. Let me set the scene…
I had run out of sugarfree cough drops, sounded like I had plague, and had time to go get some before K2’s last soccer match and team party. One of our dogs had eaten K2’s lip balm (seriously, these dogs can sniff out and gnaw the plastic to shreds unless they’re stored over five feet high), so I stopped into CVS to get those two items. ONLY those two items.
As those of you who have ever searched on “CVS Receipt” know, my Actual Receipt was longer. Much longer…
I now know that my Extra Long Receipt is thanks to my Extra Care Card, but the whole reason I’m sharing this with you tonight is because, as I was waiting for the receipt to finish printing out, I said “It’s only two small things, I don’t need a bag.” In what has to be the best comment EVER to that statement, the cashier said:
That receipt is the only thing that needs a bag.
AMEN, CVS employee, amen.
So what makes your offsite Top Comments list? Please share in the comments below, after first perusing our Onsite trio of Tops, the Comments, Mojo and Pictures that we can’t produce without your help!
Before you get to the Tops, however, something we here at Top Comments tend to do extraordinarily rarely- we’d like to direct your attention to belinda ridgewood’s diary GoFundMe Launch: Camp Fire Obliterates Paradise. Three of our Kossack family — besame, paradise50 and TC diarist emeritus smileycreek — lost their homes in the devastation of Paradise, CA by the wildfire known as Camp Fire. paradise50 has commented extensively, and Neeta Lind collected this set (see BMScott’s comment for linky versions) which is a virtual must-read. I’d like to highlight smileycreek’s poignant, generous and loving comment, and I’d ask you to consider donating to the GoFundMe in the diary.
TOP COMMENTS
Brillig's ObDisclaimer: The decision to publish each nomination lies with the evening's Diarist and/or Comment Formatter. My evenings at the helm, I try reeeeallllyy hard to publish everything without regard to content. I really do, even when I disagree personally with any given nomination. "TopCommentness" lies in the eyes of the nominator and of you, the reader - I leave the decision to you. I do not publish self-nominations (ie your own comments) and if I ruled the world, we'd all build community, supporting and uplifting instead of tearing our fellow Kossacks down. Please remember that comment inclusion in Top Comments does not constitute support or endorsement by diarist, formatter, Top Comments writers or DailyKos. Questions, complaints or comments? Contact brillig.
From first-time nominator Quellist:
This post by wasplover was just painfully funny. I nearly passed out from lack of oxygen to the brain. From Greg Dworkin’s Abbreviated Pundit Roundup.
[thank you Youffraita and meadowmist for explaining in comments how to submit to Top Comments. We are grateful!!]
From Mogolori:
Nominating this comment by puakev, from Walter Einenkel’s Amazon HQ2 destroys plan to build 1,500 affordable housing units in New York City.
[note: this is outside our usual 24hr comment range but I found it by accident and want to encourage sending in nominations!]
Highlighted by MikeTheLiberal:
This comment by shmuelman, in Lefty Coaster’s 40 members of the Aryan Brotherhood arrested w Pipe Bombs, Rocket Launcher & an arsenal of Guns.
From yours truly, brillig:
This. Do I really need to explain? Comment by snazzzybird, in Hunter’s A year after the Republican tax cuts, reality looks nothing like Republicans said it would.
TOP MOJO
Top Mojo for yesterday, November 16th 2018, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo.
TOP PICTURES
Top Pictures for yesterday, November 16th. Click any picture to be taken to the full comment or picture. Thank you jotter!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Image permissions not set to permit inclusion in Picture Quilt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|