Photos from Fleet Week and what people are saying about the Navy and our Mayor...

Hey, everyone -- here are the semi-arbitrary Top 5 Comments of the Week. For this, our fourth week of doing it, we thought it'd be a swell idea to try it out in easy-to-access text form. See below for commenters whom SFist's editors thought raised the game, made us laugh, or were otherwise notable, and click through to read the actual comments as written....

Last year, we wrote in praise of Fleet Week, mainly because of those nifty Blue Angels who do those stunts high on up in the sky. We might love them (well, not all of us) but other people don't like them primarily for the reason that they could be quite dangerous, especially when they fly over the city. But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do....

If you happen to be walking down the street this week and hear this sonic boom over your head and the street rumble, it's not the Kin Jong Il finally launching one of his Dong Rockets, it's just that time of the year again, Fleet Week. This year featuring, once again, the Blue Angels. ...

Like the band Semisonic says, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." So what new beginnings and other beginnings' ends did we see this week? Well, we ushered in the the atomic age, for one. And the end of the Bay Area's AL and NL baseball seasons. The man who made the doggie diner head has passed on. Fleet Week came and went. Say goodbye to tuna melts, Ross Mirkarimi! Say goodbye to dignity, Ron Chun! In new beginnings, though -- welcome to our ombudsman's new gig as our East Bay correspondent! And the Real World will be filming a new season in SF. Welcome to Daily Show stardom, Tom Ammiano! Welcome back, Keplers! And SFist Jackson introduces a new column -- the Bay Area Blog Pulse. Say goodbye to the old week -- say hello to the new....

We sympathize with you. We too get completely freaked out whenever we hear the unexpected roar of jets passing over the City. We go into panic mode and run to the windows expecting the worst. But the key word there is "unexpected." For when we KNOW that the air is going to be filled with flashy jets, well, we get excited. Indeed, there are those of us who actually love the sounds of those......

Here we are playing the old curmudgeon again -- but, seriously, we can't stand being buzzed by those super loud, super scary Blue Angels as they practice their feats of derring-do around the oversized office bulding we work in. Last year we were spared their scare tactics, as they didn't come around for Fleet Week. This year, it looks as though we'll be hiding under our desk again every time they thunder by, just......

If Columbus Day weekend's coming up, so is SF's tribute to the navy for Fleet Week! ...

Blue Angels dis SF for Fleet Week....