What is the greatest DataLounge thread ever, and why was it so great?

this one "Datalounge Hall of Fame"

Flyover rube Danny/Denny visits NYC with his rolling suitcase.

I can’t help but laugh at the creativity and humor of those who posted.

I cry from laughing so hard every time I read it.

Didn't we do this already?

The Masturbating Temp.

An Elaborate Scenario Thread or EST which set the standard for all ESTs and, to this day, remains unequaled- "I'm in Love With My Father -in-Law:

The OP described himself as a young married male married into a wealthy Dallas, (or, was it Houston?) family and falls in love with his father-in-law who enters into an affair with him. Lurid hot sex, Frau wives, snooty, nosy neighbors and the possibility of running off together ensue.

The OP kept everybody hanging and then, subtly, about 200 posts in, changes the tone of his answers. In starts to dawn on everybody WE'D BEEN HAD. It even spawned a deranged poster "Rochelle" or whoever who, claimed to know his whereabouts and vowed to spill the beans to his wife.

It was thrilling. Hundreds of poster hung on for the ride. And yes, I'm sure lots of Dlers knew from his initial post it was made-up, but those sweet things didn't spoil the fun.

The OP of that thread eventually came out and took a bow. I asked him for a sequel and he said he'd retired those characters, but he was flattered to be asked.

Sorry, no link

"[….]" should have been "114 and Rochelle"

I think it was the cake icing and the overweight daughter but I don't have the link.

Miss Jaclyn Smith introduces us to Bootsie Gum Drops

The greatest DL thread ever was People Who Poop In Stores. The webmaster deleted it.

Sows at the trough.

R8 I was going to post the same thing. Jesus, those posts were hilarious.

The greatest thread ever was when Chrissy Metz found us and let us know what she thinks of us. It was also deleted.

When do the tears stop?

R11: what did she post?

Ugh, posted my reply in the Hall of Fame thread instead of here. Anyway, Gargoyle Neighbor gets my vote. That was my first trip into past threads after someone posted a mention of it. Laughed so hard I thought I was going to lose a lung!

The "My next door neighbour's son Joel" threads

Something about a Meatball and a neighbor's dog.

My favorites have always involved the OP posting updates in real time with us all egging him or her on, like Denny/Danny, the Janie Lane hookup, the Gargoyle Neighbor, the Baked Potato Party...

I’ve never given a shit if they were real or the work of ESTs. It always felt like a grand collaboration.

Any of the Gap playlist threads

What celebs have you met/seen in person

nicest celebs

asshole celebs

Gossip no one will say out lous

R17, the Jani Lane hookup thread wasn't an EST.

The poor guy fucking killed himself after being outed, he thought.

Once Around the Garden

My Trick Stole My Best Mme Alexander Doll!!

Soundcloud Rapper Deaths (Lil Peep was the best one--all deleted for no reason WTF Muriel?)

Dan Motherfuck--teenager sticks head out of party bus--doesn't end well. I can't remember the actual thread title

The “Let’s All Be Sumerian Farmwives” was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Not only satiric, but historically knowledgeable.

Only on Data Lounge...

There was one back in the day about seemingly simple things that posters struggled with. Anyone know what I’m talking about?

The Dede Warwick threads. Comedy gold.

R2) I loved that thread. I'm a shiftworker and was supposed to be in bed, but I was so invested in the tragic unfolding of events that I kept logging on for updates.

Dog Fucks Baby in the Ass

Wrong thread. Sorry!

Obviously, the saga of financial rape and the Fully Loaded Baked Potato

"I Still Hate My Friend Julie"

923 DL posts - An unsurpassed DL record.

- You're welcome.

There was a thread a few years back making fun of an online high school year book. Unbeknownst to DL, one of the people they were making fun of had just died. Several people from the school googled her name and instread discovered the thread and stormed DL. It was epic DL.

okay, r30, I had a different vote, but God Damn. Wow, and yes.

Also, 923 replies? Heaven.

Sumerian Farmwives was great. Azmodeus (sp? the crab-walking gf) was right up there too.

I was just about to post that, r34. Here’s the link:

Bless you, R35!

Bellagio Horror. I don't have the link.

My favorite thread ever was the 'Soft Butch Sous Chef' saga in which DL sleuths helped solve a murder!  A young married attorney was founded dead in an upscale DC hotel; shadowy surveillance video showed a suspect the police were searching for and DL posters accurately ascertained it was a butch lesbian (the murderess) disguised as a man.  A DL poster had hooked-up with the deceased and everyone urged him to go to the police, which he did, providing them with the attorney's secret e-mail address he used for hook-ups, which gave an electronic trail quickly leading police to the killer!

Here, R37.

BILL TAYLOR'S DISNEY CRUISE!!!!!!!!!1

The Miss Warwick threads. I know I'll never love that way again.

Over the years there were a few Mich-fest threads. I'm telling you now, so I don't have to tell you then, it was a good read.

My Neighbor Is A Gargoyle

The Lesbian Potluck Wedding

I am looking for the original WTC 911 attack thread and the infamous first reply of that thread "World Trade Center is an insatiable bottom"

Caneface, who's got it.

the Bunnika and Stephonknee threads were both very entertaining.

Thanks dollface 39.

Freaks You Work With.

The one with OP wanting advice what to serve for a business/networking dinner but on a very tight budget, $100 from memory.

My favorite regular threads were the NYSD threads posted by Didi Von Cuntington

Any BILL TAYLOR thread;

Joel, his neighbor and Mitzi the Lhasa Apso;

The aggrieved Eldergay with the ungrateful sister, Brice and grandniece who just don’t appreciate nice things;

The put-upon relative of Aunt Tansy and little Romery

Classics, all of them

The original African orphan catalogue thread

"Famous JonBenets Throughout History"

Claire/bread pussing

pudding*

I loved the Jani Lane thread but can't find it now. Was it deleted after he died? The Dan Motherfuck thread was another classic. There was another too, some guy was staying at a cheap motel and was convinced that some guy there with his wife (and kids?) wanted him and he was going to put the moves on him in the gym. Everyone was posting hilarious comments about how the OP was going to end up in a dumpster in the alley.

Link to the Dan Motherfuck thread. (For some reason I thought that thread was older than 2012).

Delusional Kelli and Fake Nick Carter. I followed it like a hit prime time soap opera, until it got out of hand and was spoiled by intruding DLers, as good threads always do.

r57 bless you. I mentioned it upthread.

Good one r48.

The original Dialing a phone with a pencil. This isn't it, but a facsimile:

Re-Dialing:

What was the one with the lesbian and her bus to Michfest? That was amazing.

I like the one about scary hookups. Can't find it.

Also, what celeb shocked you because they were rude, short, etc.

R64 That freaky hookups thread was so scary/good

The flyovr boy 'lost' in NYC was classic, so many angry queens going off at the poor fantasy boy

The turkey meatballs, Fank you! You fixded my cheeseburger!, that galloping gourmet fool....

The one about Ginny in Billing

There was one about a British actress that had a reputation of being a diva bitch. I think it was that lady in A Passage To India...? Judy Davis? Anyway, people were talking about bitchy things she’d done, and it devolved into blaming her for nearly everything wrong on earth. It sounds blah when I describe it, but it was hilarious.

Dead Bodies on Everest owns this thread.

I wish and hope that someone could find the thread for me. PLEASE FIND IT! It was fairly recent. It was a Christmas thread that took quotes from the HIT DL film "Mommie Dearest" and ran with a Christmas theme throughout. For example; "NO MORE MISTLETOE EVER!"

I know that one was a bit lame. But, there were like 70 postings and each one just got better and funnier. It may not be the greatest DataLounge thread but it really was a good one!

I've been lurking and posting here since around the turn of the century, and the only post that I repeatedly comes to mind in my daily life is the "Dialing the Phone with a Pencil" thread. We've had some doozies over the years - "Melissa Gilbert and her shit bra" comes to mind, as does "When the Man go up into the Man", but the DAPWAP thread was funny and poignant and just really sweet and charming, with everyone's memories of being tiny gaylings.

I'm sorry to say I started the "Footballers in Love" thread, which lived for years and had multiple spin-off threads. I don't even like sportsball.

FOUND IT!!! I shall never lose it again!

"Merry Christmas to ALL! Except you, Christina."

Sometimes in the middle of the night I think about how the world might be different if the webmaster hadn’t deleted People Who Poop In Stores.

"Neighbor is a Gargoyle" is one of the funniest. It was posted the last time there was a "best of DL" thread & I spent over an hour reading it & all the follow up threads. There are still even pics and videos, even though it was 4 years ago. Not an EST.

"I'm in Lust with my Cousin" which goes from some little infatuation to full-on getting fucked by his ex-con hung blatino cousin.

And it is NOT fake... how do I know? I can't say without invading the poster's privacy - but he gives away some details he didn't mean to give away - or that 99% of the population wouldn't notice. This one still has pics too.

The annoying thing is he disappeared into thin air with no real wrap up of the situation.

My first real memory of DL was 9/11.

The thread said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Tower. I expected a Sesna or something.

I turned on CNN and saw the second plane.

I'll never, ever forget that.

I like the ones about signature fragrances and DL's favorite memoirs.

The one about the guy pretending to be a medical doctor and getting jobs with gay-focused organizations all over the US

Does the original Dialing The Phone With A Pencil thread still exist anyplace at all?

R44 is this it?

The Dark Lesbian poetry.

R79: here you go!

That Victorian Era Datalounge thread was amazing. Will try to link.