{"id":1665,"date":"2008-09-01T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:54:52","slug":"comment-of-the-month-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/comment-of-the-month-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment of the Month: Anagram Tops Strong Field of August Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/commentofthemonth425x302.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/commentofthemonth425x302.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve long touted the <strong>Comments<\/strong> on Rock Town Hall as <em>the<\/em> distinctive quality of our collective activities. The key to any Main Stage contribution is its ability to generate discussion. Sometimes the most humble thread results in unexpectedly intelligent, witty, or otherwise insightful comments. We&#8217;ve long made reference to a Comment of the Month, but now it&#8217;s a reality. Following the jump, our first official Rock Town Hall Comment of the Month winner&#8211;and a recap of the award-winning comment.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/durst.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Turds<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early this August <strong>Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> threw down a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/04\/last-man-standing-rockin-fat-guys\">Last Man Standing: Rockin&#8217; Fat Guys<\/a>. The battle to be last man standing was fierce. After a while, as Townspeople ran short on unquestionably &#8220;fat&#8221; guys, we poked the bellies of some other body types: chubby, stocky, &#8220;big boned&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/04\/last-man-standing-rockin-fat-guys#c19073\"><strong>Fred Durst<\/strong> was proposed<\/a>, although <strong>Kpdexter<\/strong> acknowledged that he may be &#8220;doughy&#8221; rather than fat. It was suggested that he looked like a turd, to which <strong>BigSteve<\/strong> provided our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/04\/last-man-standing-rockin-fat-guys#c19080\">first official Rock Town Hall Comment of the Month<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Comment from: BigSteve [Member]:<br \/>\n<strong><em>Durst is an anagram of turds.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>BRAVO, BigSteve!<\/strong><\/em> Despite worthy comments later in the month from the likes of TB, Diskojoe, eh, Mockcarr, and E. Pluribus Gergely that made us stand up and cheer, your pithy observation stood out among all other comments. In the words of Sammymaudlin, <em>This is why I come here day after day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve long touted the Comments on Rock Town Hall as the distinctive quality of our collective activities. The key to any Main Stage contribution is its ability to generate discussion. Sometimes the most humble thread results in unexpectedly intelligent, witty, or otherwise insightful comments. We&#8217;ve long made reference to a Comment of the Month, but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/comment-of-the-month-august\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}