As I wrote in last week’s diary, Top Comments had a user account along with its regular group account where people could kosmail submissions. Unfortunately, no one realized this until two weeks ago when everything was being done to get ready for the big move. After finding this out. I decided to use my last couple of diaries before the switch to give people the recognition they never got and very much deserved.
Last week, we looked at the stats. How many submissions came to us, the people who sent some, and some of the dates they came to us. This week, I am going to include every comment sent in to us except the first and last two which were included last week. If someone included a reason, I will copy and paste it as I normally do. If they did not, I may just put the submitter's and comment author’s name. I will also include the date submitted. Anything but the names and dates written by me will be in italics. Please take the time to check some of them out. Unfortunately, there will be no way to give the comment love outside of being featured here. Comments will be listed by the person who submitted them beginning with the earliest one.
Some of the comments may have made into that night’s diary in other ways like us searching certain words. If I notice this, I will note it.
From MNGlasnant: (8/18/2012)
In the Diary by Hungrycoyote highlighting Rachel Maddow's coverage of accuracy in tax claims and VP candidate Miller in 1964.
This comment stream started by JeffW,which includes the fine term louse. Then the commenters continue to add to it, building in an homage to Burma Shave and ending with a Hat Tip to Dr. Seuss!
From Audri:
(10/10/2012) Funny funny comment by blueaardvark in that day’s “Cheers & Jeers” post
(10/18/2012) Funny comment by Chamburrado in Keith930’s diary Urban Foraging: The Walnuts.
(2/17/2014) Comment by rambler american in that day’s “Cheers and Jeers”
(6/5/2014) Here’s one. Comment by jorogo in a diary by Hunter.
(8/14/2014) Here’s one. Comment by Crashing Vor in a diary by pajoly.
(10/30/2014) Here’s one. Comment by rugbymom in that day’s “Cheers and Jeers.”
(7/18/2020) Here’s one. Comment by cskendrick in a diary by David Neiwert.
(12/22/2021) here! Comment by el chuco in that day’s “Cheers and Jeers.”
(8/23/2023) Here! Comment by kamachanda in a diary by Hunter.
From pat of butter in a sea of grits:
(8/14/2013) Re Liz Cheney: Hahahahahaha comment by pajoly in Vetwife’s diary Darth Vader's daughter's has uphill battle..A little fishy !! A big deal in Wyoming
(10/25/2013) The whole thread, including the pictures, is a classic. (Hunter’s diary on Ted “Cancun” Cruz possibility of becoming president.)
From lunachickie:
(9/13/2013) Heck, this thing is diary-length, but I'm submitting it anyway. It's limpidglass' take on some of the heartless reactions to Nulwee's diary on the Adam Weinstein article "F*** You. I'm Gen Y, and I Don't Feel Special or Entitled, Just Poor"
From bronte:
(11/1/2013) Great comment from bluestatesam as he spells out the meaning of Jerry Seinfeld's quote: We're trying to have a civilization here. From the diary post: Krugman gets it : it's "A War on the Poor" by teacherken.
(11/10/2013) conniptionfit beautifully lays out the definition of "rights" in the diary post, G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury Knocks One Out of the Park Today by xaxnar.
From eyesoars:
(2/19/2014) I'd like to nominate comment by nailbender in a diary by attywood.
From DallasDoc:
(12/27/2014) An awesome history lesson from NBBooks, schooling a defender of neo-liberal economics on economic history. We should get college course credit for reading it.
From Simplify:
(7/23/2016)This comment by kakumeiji maru was staggeringly poignant: It's from a little earlier this week, but I hope you'll include it. On my urging, kakumeiji maru made it into a post of its own:
From nicteis:
(12/11/2016) Best advice I've seen all month, in this comment from Wee Mama.
From JerryNA:
(4/7/2017) Joke about Hannity. Comment by pierre9045 in a diary by Jen Hayden.
From twingrace:
(8/26/2019) This one had me doing a slow blink, then OF COURSE! Comment by jayden in a diary by annieli.
From pucklady:
(12/17/2019) This thread started by Ingersollman in a diary by Mark Sumner.
From sharondovan:
(07/15/2020) [ed. note: No link was provided to the comment so I am including the whole thing.]
The comic by Jen Sorenson, “Postal Service of the future, had a comment by Jubal8 as follows:
The most frustrating aspect of Automated Human-Facing Unsatisfied Customer Knowledge systems is that they try take all the myriad unique issues that people have with a company products or services and simplify them into a menu tree. You have to listen to descriptions of every problem you don’t have, and are often left with picking one that you HOPE takes you to the right department.
AGENT!!!
The acronym spells out “AHFUCK” which is clever, subversive and at the time, no one was noticing, or perhaps liked it as much as I did. I thought it needed more kudos!
From ColoTim:
(4/12/2021) You may need to put up the comment before it as well, since this was a wonderful reply. Comment by Generation Landslide in a diary by Christopher Reeves.
From RickBoston:
(7/11/2021) Dave in Columbus had the perfect description of a nature picture posted by Founding FatherDAR
From JustaHippie:
(10/18/2021) I just love charts and graphs. But stevemb's verbal diagram is even better.
From greenchiledem:
(5/13/2023) Top Comment by sts069 in a diary by OwossoHarpist.
Last but not least we have all the submissions from Hinoema01:
(6/5/2017) Top Comment by anastasia p in a diary by Egberto Willies.
(6/25/2017) This one!!! by necturus in a diary by Egberto Willies.
(7/3/2017) BBB says it all
(8/3/2017) Here comment by blue aardvark in a diary by Murfster35.
(8/12/2017) Top Comments by Wildthumb in “Open thread for night owls” by Meteor Blades.
(8/30/2017) A good one by Jeff Y in “Open thread for night owls” by Meteor Blades.
(2/4/2018) This one!!! by rufbymom in APR by Mark Sumner.
(2/19/2018) Amazing comment by AmericanIdeal in a diary by steircher187. (brillig actually commented she did not see in it the submissions LOL)
(5/18/2018) another one by Fordmandalay in a diary by durrati.
(7/9/2018) this one! by apotropaic in a diary by Kerry Eleveld. (Caught by BeninSC)
(10/24/2018) This one! by qazplm in a diary by Mark Sumner. (Found by Tara TASW.
(11/13/2018) Top comment of the year Seraphiel in “Open thread for night owls” by Meteor Blades.
(3/8/2019) Here! by Tookish in a diary by Benthovens5th.
(6/18/2019) Good one by Paul C in a diary by Merlin1963
(9/29/2019) Good one by eashep in APR by Mark Sumner.
(3/3/2020) Best Comment Ever by polecat in a diary by Rob in Vermont.
(4/24/2020) Good one by Terrapin in a diary by A Siegel.
(7/9/2020) This one by sfmikey in a diary by Kerry Eleveld.
(9/17/2020) This one by vjr7121 in a diary by AKALib.
(3/22/2021) This one by Rattygirl in a diary by billlaurelMD. (Found by brillig.)
(7/1/2021) This one by Munchausen in a diary by Joan McCarter.
(3/30/2022) Oh, look, a TopComment in TopComments! by gizmo in my Top Comments diary from that day.
(6/11/2022) Here’s a good one by Crashing Vor in a diary by kos.
(11/8/2022) This one by westyny in an Election night live blog
I hope everyone enjoyed the last two weeks look back at the missing submissions which were sent to topcomments user account rather than the group account. This will be my last diary on the old site which is a bit sad. I will be back in two weeks as the new site migration will happen next Tuesday and the site might be down at 10pm EDT. Good luck with the move.
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Top Comments for April 7, 2026
From inkstainedwench:
On MurielVieux's wonderful story, Satya1 sets up the football with their final paragraph, and kck kicks it through the uprights with their final paragraph.
From your TC historian for the week, me:
Our former chief sardonyx’s reply to our current chief, brillig’s, comment in her TC diary from last night is the perfect sarcasm in a discussion of time zones.
TOP MOJO april 6, 2026
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.
