OK guys. Same rules as last year. Use this thread to make nominations for "Best Thread". This category is for a thread. Please feel free to second, third, etc, other people's nominations. After 10 days (i.e. on January 13), I will close nominations and make the top nominated posters into a front page poll so people can vote. The poll will run another 10 days and on January 23, we'll announce the winner.
Last year's winner in this category was the Housing Meltdown Thread.
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Best of 2008: Best Thread
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Best of 2008: Best Thread
by wisconsin_cur » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 09:53:46
http://www.thenewfederalistpapers.com
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by smallpoxgirl » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 11:13:15
Current stock market news: http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic48954.html
Another Record (oil price): http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic42450.html
Another Record (oil price): http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic42450.html
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Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by wisconsin_cur » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 11:20:57
Yes! Please provide links!
http://www.thenewfederalistpapers.com
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by eXpat » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 11:23:05
My vote goes to: Runaway Global Warming has arrived
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by Niagara » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 13:42:34
I second the Stock Market news.
I think the activity we saw back in the fall takes center stage for 2008.
We saw:
-the VIX (fear index) reach stratospheric heights. It rarely rises above 45, but in October I don't think it went below 45
-the evaporation of the big evil investment banks
-the GM and Ford auto collapse to penny-stock status
-how easy a crook "made off" with billions in life savings
-the helicopter guy do his trillion dollar magic trick
...on it went
I think the activity we saw back in the fall takes center stage for 2008.
We saw:
-the VIX (fear index) reach stratospheric heights. It rarely rises above 45, but in October I don't think it went below 45
-the evaporation of the big evil investment banks
-the GM and Ford auto collapse to penny-stock status
-how easy a crook "made off" with billions in life savings
-the helicopter guy do his trillion dollar magic trick
...on it went
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by RedStateGreen » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 16:03:30
Today I made/bought/learnt ...
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic37476.html - part 2, split off in March
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic48540-0.html - part 3, split off in November
(part of part 1 was in 2008 as well)
The first thing I do when I come here is look for this thread to see what everyone is up to.
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic37476.html - part 2, split off in March
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic48540-0.html - part 3, split off in November
(part of part 1 was in 2008 as well)
The first thing I do when I come here is look for this thread to see what everyone is up to.
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by Tanada » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 16:06:17
My nomination is This One by Dohboi, he has started a lot of great threads on this group, he is humble, never seeks to put himself in front of any issue and he asks intelligent questions when he doesn't know all the facts on an issue. That thread, The Great Siberian Methane Melt is off and running, might be the second most significant issue that hits Humanity along side Peak Oil itself.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by dinopello » Sun 04 Jan 2009, 14:53:53
I nominate Heinekin's Doom-O-Meter thread.
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by Pops » Sun 04 Jan 2009, 15:38:48
I'm gonna say Pup's The 2008 PO.com Oil Price Challenge.
Just because it gave a little insight to the thinking of the members - and showed most of us pretty crappy at predictions, especially about the future.
Just because it gave a little insight to the thinking of the members - and showed most of us pretty crappy at predictions, especially about the future.
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by PrairieMule » Sun 04 Jan 2009, 21:31:29
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '[')url=http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic37601.html]I nominate Heinekin's Doom-O-Meter thread.[/url]
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
I'll vote for that. There are a lot of raw emotions in that surface in that thread. I also see a lot of posters offering many a kind reasuring word to others.
That's a good thing.
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Re: Best of 2008: Best Thread
by dinopello » Sun 04 Jan 2009, 22:22:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '[')url=http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic37601.html]I nominate Heinekin's Doom-O-Meter thread.[/url]
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
I like the name, and the contents remind us that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse !
I'll vote for that. There are a lot of raw emotions in that surface in that thread. I also see a lot of posters offering many a kind reasuring word to others.
That's a good thing.
That's true too. Seems like many of Heinekin's threads have that characteristic.
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