What were the funniest FR threads of 2004?

[Charles Henrickson]

One of the things I appreciate most about Free Republic is the humor. As JimRob says about FR posting: "And we always have fun doing it."

So what were the funniest FR threads of 2004? Here are a few to get us started:

Funniest Category or Type of Thread
The "Caption" threads. John Kerry, Howard Dean, and the rest gave us plenty of "photo opportunities." One of the funniest was this thread posted by dead: Bwaaaaahaaaaa! My new favorite Soccer Kerry picture just released by Reuters! (Unfortunately, old caption threads lose a lot of their pics as the news photos time out.)

Funniest Ongoing Series of Threads
The "DUmmie FUnnies," put together by PJ-Comix. Seeing the Democratic Underground "DUmmies" in despair is pure Schadenfreude. The most recent example (it's hard to pick just one) is the thread from yesterday: DUmmie FUnnies 12-30-04

Funniest Single Thread of the Year
You need tons click "co-ordinating" (Free Republic - The conservative click Guerilla), posted by Jim Robinson. Goofy Google translation of a German Spiegel article about FReeping.

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

You just know I had to post this one from 8-22-01:

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[bootless]

That gets my vote! BTW, lowbridge, did I tell you I got a 419 letter from the Widow Arafat? Really!

I also got one from a guy who claimed he suffered a "fatal accident." I'll post them if you want to see them.

[Petronski]

I think the best was the thread about 'al baby' and how his beeber was stuned in Tiajunna.

[Petronski]

A few years back there was "How have we become a nation of Dumbies?"


And there was the "Don't ping Arthur McGowan."

Brutal.

[Petronski]

I know it wasn't this year, but I'm in tears right now thinking about poor Arthur McGowan starting a thread asking people to stop pinging him and then, well, I'm sure you know what happened....

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I agree that the Caption Kerry threads had me in stitches. The funniest one in my opinion was the one of him riding the $5000 designer bike, while wearing lycra bike shorts and that totally stupid-looking daisy pull on his bike jersey..... Then again, the thread of Kerry wearing that green Tyvek suit at the NASA visit (eerily looking like a time-warp from the sperm scene in the Woody Allen movie ;-) was hilarious too!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Ah yes! The famous Jaysun's-brother-in-law-has-a-real-hair-crisis thread! I must admit I was laughing so hard that night, my stomach muscles were killing me the next day!

[Floratina]

I do agree with your suggestion of "Post your girlieman photos of Kerry" thread. Twas fine, indeed.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

[Our man in washington]

I kinda like this one. I mean, the Democrats really played the "straight man" for us.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1056505/posts

And if you'll excuse me for plugging a minor achievement in my otherwise rather mediocre life, post #40 to that thread was the most reproduced post on FR in 2004, both on FR on and on the Internet.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I don't ever remember seeing this one anywhere on FR during the last year. Is this a new version of the Singing Senators? (Sens. Glenn, Graham, Kerry, 4th on the right I don't recognize off hand). Great costume idea :-).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And here it is - the picture that will live on in infamy.

[Pajamajan]

book mark

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You're right! That's a classic!!! Still laughing..... thanks for the link as a reminder!

[lainde]

bttt

[lowbridge]

I also got one from a guy who claimed he suffered a "fatal accident." I'll post them if you want to see them.

By now everyone has gotten one from the Widow Arafat, the one I'd like to see is the one from the guy who suffered the fatal accident. :-)

[T'wit]

Sheesh, there went practically my whole morning, wasted on nothing but laughing, giggling, snorting and chortling.

[Timeout]

I agree that the Caption Kerry threads had me in stitches. ...the one of him riding the $5000 designer bike...that totally stupid-looking daisy pull on his bike jersey....Kerry wearing that green Tyvek suit at the NASA visit... was hilarious too!

Absolutely, hands down, some kind of lifetime award should go to all the Kerry team threads from last year.

Kerry snowboarding with his dangling daisy...and then this picture in which some forgotten Freeper said he looked like

an AGING LESBIAN....LOL!

Then came Kerry's "The family has the SUV" comment. He said he had an old Dodge or something. I can't find the thread, but Freepers found hysterical pictures of old Dodges and then TV stations started going around to all Kerry's mansions and filming the SUV's in the various garages.

Then we had the thread on Kerry's butler, Marvin.

Then came the biking photos...with color coordinated bike, water bottle, shirt and helmet
...LOL!

Runway football photos were priceless...as were the soccer threads.

Nasa sperm suits.

Christmas in Cambodia---magic hat threads.

Orange skin

Windsurfing

Camouflage goose-hunting gear.

Mary Cheney gaffe.

I won't even try to point to one particular thread. But, as fuel for Freeper humor, the overall award HAS to go to Kerry/Tereza/Edwards for the best belly laughs of the year.

[Cacique]

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