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Like my mother always said, if you can't say something nice about someone, then keep adding qualifiers.
Alt Text on strip #1401 of Wondermark

The sheriff pursues the fugitive Fireflys, who kidnap innocent bystanders in the kind of motel no reasonable person would ever occupy, leading to the road-kill scene, which is, of its kind, one of the best I have seen.

"Most stable triazide" isn't a very reassuring endorsement, but you have to take what you can get.

I have to admit that I enjoy Dick’s second panel dialogue: 'His movies can be viewed in 3-D without glasses — thus his riches.' Part of it is that I of course wish that someone would use 'thus his riches' to end a sentence outlining one of my achievements ('He created the #1 Mary Worth fan site on the Internet — thus his riches').

“Nobody has ever done that to the Macho Man Randy Savage,” said Macho. Really? That was the first time anyone had ever pumped sewage into his limousine?

OOC: The commentators were saying that Jarrett was the favorite because there was the "Guitar Room". "The Master of the Guitar". It's not that difficult to hit somebody over the head with a guitar. It's not like a set of nunchucks of something.
V1: Where it takes skill to use it?
OOC: He'd be in a Karate Kid montage with a guitar, really.
OSW Review on WCW Thunder (The David Arquette trilogy), Ep. 34

Swedish Fish: The #1 Fish-Shaped Candy in the World!
Swedish Fish's advertising slogan, as of 2015

Of all people I know who are playing this exact demo at this exact moment and standing in this exact room, your performance is easily within the top 5000!
The Narrator, demo for The Stanley Parable

Kirby 64 is hands-down the greatest Kirby game FOR the N64, and while some may say that's an unfair thing to say, considering it just kinda wins by default... those are the best kind of victories.

All things considered, I do have to say this is a pretty optimized run. It achieves the goal of spending ~900 turns preparing for fastest gametime, then speed-TASing the game in 6 hours focusing mostly but not entirely on realtime rather well. The first part of the run is particularly well optimized for its goal. The second part is not bad either, considering it still fulfills its goal of having been done in six hours, and its occasional choices of actions (including wishing for a pony just to never use it, among many other things) still fit the goal of focusing mostly but not entirely on realtime.
Mothrayas, rejecting an April Fools' Day NetHack TAS submission

Look, you can't just make up some random crap that no one else will ever do and call that a "record."
Strong Bad, Strong Bad Email, "record book"

If there is any game for the Venezuelan bus enthusiast, this is it. You find any Venezuelan buses in Super Mario World? No. So you can't argue; this is the definitive Venezuelan bus game.

Top 5 arm wrestling movies:
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I am the greatest botanist on this planet.
Mark Watney, while stuck on Mars on his own, The Martian

However, perhaps the most remarkable feature of the octopus is its intelligence. They are the most intelligent of all of the invertebrates... technically not tons of competition there. I mean, clams are stupid.
True Facts About The Octopus

Striking Distance is a good movie. That is the best Pittsburgh coast guard movie ever.
Bill Simmons during a podcast on Die Hard

At some point, a record is so bizarrely specific that it ceases to be impressive, like "Largest Bowl of Goulash Eaten While Watching Frasier", or "World's Tallest Ansel Elgort (also, incidentally, The World's Smallest Ansel Elgort)'."

I now know more about ionizing space radiation than any sqid who has ever lived, which isn't hard considering no other sqid even knows ionizing space radiation exists.
Sam Starfall, Freefall

I will ask much of you in the coming days, [Forename], and I shall see that you are the most well-equipped machinist in the short history of machinistry.
Stephanivien de Haillenarte, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, "Pushing the Brume"

Yakko: You guys think I'm funny, right?
Dot: Of course! You're one of my funniest brothers! Easily top two.
Wakko: Same for me!
Animaniacs (2020), "Fear and Laughter in Burbank"

Not bad! Matter of fact this is the best burger I've had in years!
John Spartan on eating a rat burger after 36 years in cry-sleep, Demolition Man

"[Green Lantern: First Flight] was celebrated as the first ever completely vertical-pattern zig-zag roller coaster featuring 360-degree spinning seats in North America. What took them so long?"

Are we the best shipyard in Oakhaven? Well here's how I think about it. Are we the only shipyard in Oakhaven? Yes. Are we any good at our jobs?..We're the only shipyard in Oakhaven.
Oakhaven Port worker, Ocean's Heart

Best trivia I learned working on this: 'Man, FarmVille is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
Alt Text for "Online Communities 2", xkcd note 

Kabal: Your movies suck, Cage.
Johnny Cage: I'm the highest-grossing movie star ever.
Kabal: Doesn't mean they're any good.
Mortal Kombat 11note 

[Corsair] markets [the bendable Xeneon Flex monitor] as "The world's first 45 inch 21:9 OLED gaming display". Just like we're the world's first computer hardware review channel named Gamers Nexus. If you specify it enough, you can always be first. Tell that to YouTube commenters.
Steve Burke, Gamers Nexus "HW News" from August 28, 2022.

I'm about to become the GREATEST...er...video game...music...parody...channel in the world...Y-Y'know, it sounds a lot less impressive when I say it out loud...

This the dumbest paper on the mating habits of Phausis reticulata anyone has ever written.

Hey, who's your favorite short, half-Irish and half-Jewish (but secular), dark-haired light-eyed former child actor with a severe nickel allergy who played the title character from a beloved British children's book about a child with magic powers? Me, right?
"I am Seattle's premier Jewish narcoleptic drag queen."

Sindri: We're still your favorite dwarves, right?
Atreus: You're still the only dwarves we know!
Sindri: I'll take it!

"Free Birds: the greatest movie to ever feature two turkeys going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu and replacing turkeys with Chuck E. Cheese pizza. Can you name a better movie with that ridiculously specific set of criteria? I didn't think so, and that's what makes it objectively good."

"Sorry, but the Goofy Scoopers are the only ice cream-themed musical robot act we'll ever love."

"JUST THEN A BUS PULLED UP AND WAS THE BLACKEST MOST EVIL BUS THE COOL GUYS HAD EVER SEEN AND THEY HAD SEEN SOME REALLY EVIL BUSES IN THEIR TIME ON THE STREETS."
GHASTLY MACARONI!!!, "THE GIANT GORILLA ON FIRE"

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