The Best Of Words
December 31st, 2005
Another year of words has passed us by.
Last year we took a look at the year’s best from Words For My Enjoyment according to me. And now, here we sit (or stand, or crouch, or half-kneel/crouch) by the computer with another 400+ posts in the hopper.
For new WFME readers and those who have stood by in the past two and a half years — I give you, yet again, a look back at some of the best that ever was, ever has been, ever will be and ever can be. (By the way, I’m shedding a tear as I write this.)
WFME’s Best Of…
January 2005
My Impression of a Doorbell Will So Fool You
February 2005
I Could Be Your Gymnastic Coach
March 2005
Llama vs. Kangaroo: The Debate
April 2005
How My Goatee Transformed My Life (Or, Shaving Accidents)
May 2005
Potato Salad is the New Stalin
May 2005 Bonus Entry (By Popular Demand)
The Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Factor
June 2005
If I Was An Abercrombie & Fitch Model
July 2005
If I Were In ‘The Cutting Edge’
August 2005
Your Car Has a Dent So I’m Staying Away
September 2005
If I Had An English Accent
September 2005 Bonus Entry (By Popular Demand)
Today’s Imaginary Conversation with Kanye West’s Monologue Coach
October 2005
Please Don’t Mangle The Community Butter
November 2005
Mr. T Likes The Double-Shot Espresso
December 2005
If I Was a Hotshot Rock Climber
To all the readers of WFME, a year of thanks for your humor, community and participation in a twelve-month period that can only be surpassed by 2006. No, really. It will.
I swear.
Do you pinky-swear? ‘Cause otherwise, I just don’t believe you.
And Happy New Year, Pauly D.!
Comment by annabel lee — December 31, 2005 @ 7:40 am
But all of these are dated 2004?!? What kind of trickery is this?
Ah… when you click on them, they are indeed 2005 entries.
For a second there I was worried that 2005 didn’t happen, and I would have to do it all over again.
Comment by Dave2 — December 31, 2005 @ 8:46 am
Dave - It’s the kind of trickery that gets fixed behind the scenes without anyone else knowing, thus making your comment seem strange, confusing and one that makes no sense.
I am God here.
Comment by Pauly D — December 31, 2005 @ 9:00 am
Thank you ever so much for bringing attention to these. After all, I’m a new reader, and I could have gone through all of 2006 not realizing the dangers lurking within my potato salad otherwise. All right, yes - I know about the excessively warm climate / salmonella connection, but otherwise, not a clue. It may be a cultural thing, this ignorance on my part: here in Canada, the new Stalin has always been beer. In fact, this is so much the case that by the time all the guests arrive, many Canadian BBQs still involve nothing more than grilled dead animals and microbrews. Of course, since Canada’s new Stalin has always been beer, it’s not exactly the new Stalin. It also offers even more tangible proof to you, our southern neighbours, that we Canadians really are commie pinkos, because you’ll never hear anyone here yell, “Down with beer!”
Comment by Smoog — December 31, 2005 @ 10:36 am
Thanks for all the words, Pauly. I’ll continue to read in 2006. I only faithfully read seven blogs. Well, seven if you count stuffonmycat.com as a blog.
Happy New Year!
Comment by Rachel — December 31, 2005 @ 12:11 pm
Happy New Year from South Dakota… if you ever get this way ….. I’ll buy you a beer. Peace out, inky
Comment by inky — December 31, 2005 @ 1:02 pm
Auld Lang Syne, Pauly! *clink*, here’s to something fabulously wonderful for 2006…and *clink*, here’s to more WFME!!! Thanks!
Comment by Melina — December 31, 2005 @ 1:56 pm
word up P-Diddy. Great to peruse the back-issues. I have a question: in four more years will you be doing a “Best of the Decade” retrospective?! That would rock!
Happy New Year.
Comment by Star Effer — December 31, 2005 @ 4:16 pm
someday i will be as cool as you and have enough pithy words on my blog to warrant a yearly retrospective… happy new year, Pauly, and here’s to you sighting more celebs in ‘06 for our amusement.
Comment by hadashi — December 31, 2005 @ 5:53 pm
Happy New Year, Paul, and good luck in all your endeavors in 2006.
Comment by Will — December 31, 2005 @ 10:56 pm
Happy New Year to you and yours, Paul! I hope this year will bring you whatever you wish for (unless you wish for world destruction and crap like that.)
2006 will, for me, be filled with a lot more you than 2005. How do I know? Because I just “discovered” your blog about a month ago.
Hurray!
Comment by the swede — January 1, 2006 @ 12:56 am
happy new years!
Comment by better safe than sorry — January 1, 2006 @ 5:47 am
Happy New Year! I hope this one is a great one for you.
Comment by Amy — January 1, 2006 @ 5:57 am
My head is about to explode so I will read your “best of” later.
Happy New Year to you and yours Paul!
Comment by LisaBinDaCity — January 1, 2006 @ 8:04 am
Thanks, all of you! Happy New Year to you too.
Comment by Pauly D — January 1, 2006 @ 9:38 am
Thanks Paul for all the laughs this year. Looking forward to many more this coming New Year.
Comment by kartooner — January 1, 2006 @ 10:15 am
400 posts in one year?
I expect you to triple that this year.
I mean, that’s totally not an obscene lot of posting.
Totally not.
Comment by JM — January 1, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
JM - Yeah, I’m going for 1000 in 2006. I think I can do it.
Comment by Pauly D — January 1, 2006 @ 6:23 pm