The Drumcree threads--not only is it a brilliant bit about Irish music, the writing effortlessly good and natural (at least in I & II), but it also parodies the web forum medium itself. Which makes it much more complex and rewarding than anything else ever written here that I've seen. It also could stand on it's own, another measure of good humorous writing. Also the only thing I ever read in this forum that made me seriously laugh out loud--over and over and over.

To me, it's all the funnier because so many Brits and Yanks don't fucking get any of it, and have to vote instead for adolescent male potty humor or the drunken village idiot as the funniest moments at Mudcat.

Humor being in the eye of the beholder, the 'what is funniest' choices says more about the posters, than about what is actually the most brilliant humor.