The Bruins Nation Awards: Vote For Best Comedy
by gbruin on Dec 24, 2010 10:00 AM PST
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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Inaugural Bruins Nation Awards.
In true Hollywood fashion, nothing is as important as the celebration of one's self. And while shameless self-promotion has burdened us such disgraces as Jon & Kate +8, Balloon Boy, KK and Paris, the difference here is that Bruins Nation deserves the spotlight. This place is great. Let's honor ourselves.
In 2010, BN gave us some gut wrenching laughs and some soul twisting drama. So what better way to wrap up the year by revisiting the most truly epic moments in our little corner of the blog world which covers the best University in any corner of the world. Thus, we present the inaugural Bruins Nation Awards. Best Comedy is today. Best Original Post will follow in a couple days.
The front pagers nominated the following threads. Links are provided in each title to relive these great BN moments. Finally, everyone's votes will determine the winner. The threads/posts are introduced below the poll, after the jump.
So, with no further ado, the nominees for Best Comedy Post/Thread are...
The Original Trogan, truebluebruin
Highly touted recruit Markeith Ambles tweeted that he was considering *$c with an apparent typo. Unfortunately for Ambles and *$c's academic reputation, the same "typo" reappeared a day later when he announced his commitment with "I'm a trogan". In a smaller upset, Ambles was kicked off the team this fall. While we certainly hope Ambles gets his act together, we will always thank him for his epic contribution to the Bruin lexicon.
St John's Commits Suicide - Lazy Lizard Lavin Loses Debut, Nestor - Telemachus
While the mention of CHP usually brings up many emotions, laughter is not often one of them. In these 2 threads, however, the enthusiasm of St John's fan at this "home run" hire, and the less than sympathetic tone of BN readers in Tele's photo sequel of the lizard's unsuccessful debut, was nothing but hilarious. Good luck, Red Men Storm. Don't say we didn't warn you. But you will always have fencing.
He Is The Most Interesting Bruin in the World, BlueWave
Inspired by the suave renaissance caballero in the Dos Equis commercials, this Bruin took on Pauley construction, weeder classes, our hated rival, and even Nestor, and always came out on top. Stay Blue and Gold, My Friends.
"Cleansing": Listing All The Classic/Frustrating/Agonizing/Nightmarish Bruin Scenarios in Texas/Washington State/Berkeley, Nestor
When the master of the game thread anti-karma comment took his efforts to an industrial scale, these 3 pre-game worst case scenario threads presented by BN readers prior to Texas, WSU, and then Cal were inventive, funny, and tragic, proving once again that Cal and Michigan have nothing on UCLA when it comes to self-loathing - especially when most of those scenarios came true.
Blake Arnet's Chances?, DoctorMexican
An unknown burst into BN lore with this incredible post considering the chances for greatness for a player many never knew was even on the roster. The ensuing discussion reached new levels of incredulousness, nonsense, and hilarity, making this clearly one of the top 20-30 funniest threads in Bruin Nation this year.
Okay, Bruins Nation, those are your the candidates. Which of these posts and threads was the funniest of 2010? Exercise your democratic responsibility and vote for your favorite. Voting is open for a week. Feel free to include any comments below.
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Well, I think you guys know which one I picked! :)
Happy Holidays to the entire BN Family!!
I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!
(Formerly "HoozierDaddy")
I am with you Blue.
The Arnet thread was funny, but I think the Most Interesting Bruin was by far the best thread this year.
Go Bruins!!!!
Go Tyler!!!!
I hope he's ok, please let us know.
I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!
(Formerly "HoozierDaddy")
its 2 option race
for me the trogan and blake arnetts chances are clearly top 2
My top two
are Interesting Bruin and Arnet. I’m still laughing about those!
"The entire world that bleeds blue and gold ... they have been dying for this." - Coach Rick Neuheisel
what was the interesting bruin one referencing
i never caught that
by uclabruin34 on Dec 24, 2010 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah
Those commercials “He’s the most interestin man in the world”
"The entire world that bleeds blue and gold ... they have been dying for this." - Coach Rick Neuheisel
i got that
but i didnt know if there was a backstory to it or in what context it was brought up
No, we just decided to make him a Bruin :)
I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!
(Formerly "HoozierDaddy")
Blue
The others are great particularly the blazing expose of the suicide mission of the St. John’s “administration” in deciding to hire that greasy reptile to a position for which he is indisputably entirely unqualified.
But I voted for the most interesting man in the world who is indisputably qualified to be the most interesting guy on the entire globe and the remainder of the universe as we know it.
That was tough
Had to decide if I was voting for the best original post (Blake Arnet’s Chances) or the best thread (The Most Interesting Bruin). Ended up siding with Doctor Mex.
This wasn't all that tough for me.
Especially when I learned that the most interesting Bruin in the world is actually our Bruin Brother Blake.
Right now as I write this it is tied
between a bruin and a man that cant spell bruin. Tight race
I would like to write in The Trogan to English Translations.
But I will vote, still thinking about it. Maybe the above can get an award for best comedy series.
Go Bruins!
Okay, I voted for the cleansing threads.
The amount of imagination (and fear) demonstrated by the collective had me laughing cathartically. I think the ongoing joy as each day saw new additions is why I choose this. Without this, survival would have been unlikely. Thanks to all who contributed to those threads.
Go Bruins!
ucla7747 gets an (very) honorable mention for those
Those are great, and I hope they’ll continue.
Meanwhile, another post of his will show up in a couple days.
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
Why is it
that every time I hear bowl game announcers say “These Pac-10 officials…” I cringe and feel sorry for both the teams playing?
(I know, completely OT, but there’s no Hawaii Bowl game thread, so I figured I’d post it here. =P )
Happy holidays!
I vote Arnet's Chances
as the most influential comedy post of the year, getting us interested in Arnet’s chances, and adding phrases to the BN lexicon. Trogan thread honorable mention for introducing Trogan to the dictionary…
ucla7477
My vote counts no more than anyone else’s, but ucla7477’s posts are consistently HI-larious! Please continue!!!
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