What's Your Favorite Inside Joke or "Meme" on LetsRun.com

Imagine you're a day after a KILLER workout, and then the day after you run into some familiar faces on a trail. You don't notice each tree per se (2, 4, 5, etc.), but you keep with the group just to be with them. You can see them way ahead of you, and you're struggling to keep up, meanwhile your watch is telling you that you are going like 10 minute mile pace. You try to push the pace in the hopes they'll speed up, but you just can't reach the guy at the back -- he's just too far ahead.

grox wrote:

Also, if it qualifies, interpreting literally a typo and hijacking the thread by making play on words on it for pages and pages (e.g. "he ran like carp" followed by 50 posts about fish).

I'm a fan of this one too. There was one recently that asked "How fast are boxes?" (meant to be "boxers"). Of course, most replies were something along the lines of "pretty slow"

Yes brilliant thanks, just laughed out loud on a busy commuter train reading that again. Ah the simple pleasures in life.

Rojo's inability to post something that does not contain several grammatical/spelling errors. I also love that he doesn't give a shit and takes all of the abuse that ensues.

Leg speed velocity.

Hating Mo Farah.

JAKIR wrote:

Rojo's inability to post something that does not contain several grammatical/spelling errors. I also love that he doesn't give a shit and takes all of the abuse that ensues.

I enjoy rojo's bi-monthly "I don't know how computers work" threads.

I am responsible for googling each and every type of deer for the Deer Adam Goucher thread.

Always got a kick out of any post from "Jason in ---" (fill in any number of far-east locations, mostly China). Skinny balding guy who believed in high mileage, internet cafes, and casual hookups with eager Asian ladies. Legit marathoner, too. Circa 2003-2004?

Count Chocula wrote:

There was one recently that asked "How fast are boxes?" (meant to be "boxers"). Of course, most replies were something along the lines of "pretty slow"

Thanks, I had missed that one. It also links to this brilliantly titled thread:

"discus" instead of "discuss," "moran" instead "moron," "a women" instead of "woman," which apparently started as typos and lived on ...

Banner wrote:

What was that thread about the guy counting trees on a run? That made me chuckle.

yes the 1 2 tree thread

Oh look, the autistic kids have a thread of their own. Isn't that cute?

Pegging!

Thanks for posting! Keep us updated!

Runners who improve must have started doping. Runners who get worse must have stopped doping.

Yesterday I read this thread and one of the quotes that must have stuck with me was "Um, ever heard of Jordan Hasay?"

Last night I had a dream that I was watching a race at the Armory in NYC that Jordan Hasay ended up winning, and at first I was a little bit jealous of her because she gets flown around to run fast and does so well and gets paid to do it.

Then I remembered that I was her father, so actually all of the accomplishments she'd achieved were things I should be proud of. I thought back to her early days in high school up through her most recent marathons and halves, and realized I should take some credit for raising a strong daughter.

Then I woke up and remembered I don't have a daughter, I'm not even married. The 30+ year old woman I've been dating for like a month still wants to "take it slow" -- which apparently means getting drunk, suddenly deciding to take a lyft home (that other company is dead to me), and occasionally eating ice cream. And today I have to go to the dentist to get some cavities filled. Sometimes life just smacks you in the face.

This most makes too much sense to me. And I love it.

kikKomen Soi sauce wrote:

Leg speed velocity.

Hating Mo Farah.

Who?

That's great! Keep us updated.

Sold, that is still to this day my favorite thread, and I've been coming to LR since the inception...it could easily be argued that the very first reply was the best of the thread. I still laugh my @$$ off every single time i read it (roughly once per year, always worth it).

sold2u wrote:

No love for Packin Heat?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=496666