Your best thread.

[JohnT]

Time for some navel gazing... ;)

What is the one thread where you think your participation was spot on, where you contributed the most/best posting of your life? Perhaps you answered a question that likely saved somebody tens of thousands of dollars, perhaps you were just dead-on accurate with your arguments, leaving the rest of us trailing in your glory.

Me, I like going back and reading Fessie's The SDMB Mommies Group (Daddies welcome) (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273440) every so often. Of all the threads on all the message boards I have ever posted, that one has my favorite writing.

[vetbridge]

I liked the way my giant vertical ruler thread worked out. Initially I thought the answer would be simple and I would feel stupid for not realizing it. Then, the SDMB was stumped. Then, I got a chance to meet the ruler's owner who, it turns out, is a very interesting guy. Finally, some very funny posters added mirth. It was a cool thread all around.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422699

[Omegaman]

I've only started 2 and they ended horribly. Both in the pit . Maybe I should try elsewhere. You think ? :D

[Lamar Mundane]

One of the most awesome threads I ever participated in was the Korean Grocery Poetry Jam, but soon after it was started it got sent to Guantanamo and hasn't been seen since.

[Indygrrl]

My recent Ask the Stripper thread went pretty well, and lasted for five pages. I think that's kinda cool. And only one person insulted me and it did not end in the Pit, well, yet. :D

[Mbossa]

My finest moment would have to be the time I repeatedly proved that the Great Seal of the United States was designed by Satan (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354767).

[Omegaman]

My recent Ask the Stripper thread went pretty well, and lasted for five pages. I think that's kinda cool. And only one person insulted me and it did not end in the Pit, well, yet. :D

Somebody insulted you ? I'm apalled to hear that . I'll bet if they walked even 10 feet in your shoes they would have some respect.

[ivylass]

This thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244421) had a bit of a false start, but once people realized what I was trying to do, we were off to the races.

[Max Torque]

I hardly ever start threads, so I don't have much to choose from. My personal favorite is no longer on the board; it's the thread wherein I describe, step by step, what LASIK surgery is like from the patient perspective.

But the thread I thought was most fun, and had the most interesting replies (and which I'd really like to start again these many years later, because I bet it'd get some awesome stories), was What's the seediest hotel you've ever stayed in?. I won't link to the original, because it's way too old.

[Omegaman]

My finest moment would have to be the time I repeatedly proved that the Great Seal of the United States was designed by Satan (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354767).

Thanks for sharing that --your a card !

[bouv]

Define "best"? Is is merely the longest? Most notable in SDMB history? (those two would be one in the same, actually.) If that's the case, then my *sigh* plane on a treadmill thread wins.

However, I assume you mean best in a "I look back on that thread favorably" kind of way, in which case I'll have to say my video game phrase thread. (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=334013)

[Autolycus]

Hmmm... My pit thread about my sushi chef experiences, and my fish-slapping silly-fest thread are both fond memories of mine.

[SSG Schwartz]

Ok, maybe not the best in the grand scheme of things, or capable of fighting ignorance, but my two favorites are:

This one (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369454) where I (drunkenly) post song lyrics as a thread title and heard some good stories.

And this one (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351192) where I learned a lot of people definitions of sex, intimacy and some of the values of the Dopers.

Just fun threads for me.

Sgt Schwartz

[bouv]

I'll bet if they walked even 10 feet in your shoes they would have some respect.

Or at least a blister or two. ;)

[Zeldar]

Mine would have to be Absence/Emptiness as a theme in art. (http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355180)

[JohnT]

However, I assume you mean best in a "I look back on that thread favorably" kind of way...

That's pretty much it. It doesn't have to be a thread that you started, just one in which you think you did a damned good job representing yourself.

[Scissorjack]

I didn't start either of them, but I was always quite fond of my contributions to Toy Story: No Gun For Woody? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=305728) in Cafe Society, and Art Installation Cleaned Up: Thought To Be Garbage (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366356) in MPSIMS. And I like my sig.

[kunilou]

I was always fond of my reincarnation as an alternate life form in Ask the 50s Mom (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336542) although it didn't have the legs to become a classic.

My current, mundane pointless contribution in CS (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423601) is already the most replied-to thread I ever started, and if 76 of you click on the link, it will be ther most viewed, as well.

The most gratifying response I ever had was to my desperate call to the Teeming Millions about where to get business clothes for my petite-size daughter.

As for threads I didn't start, I've killed so many that all I can figure is that once I posted, my wit and brilliance were so dazzling that other Dopers just gave up.

[John DiFool]

One of the first I started when I joined for real:

Unwritten rules of the SDMB (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=388545&highlight=unwritten+rules)

I also had one which someone was going to nominate for Threadspotting, but I'll be durned if I can remember the title of that one...

[Bobotheoptimist]

Some of the posts I was most proud of at the time are now rather embarrassing.

The best thread I've done, I feel, was Ask The Freemason (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391621). Only one to make 3 pages. I've a thread with only two responses, one of which was myownself.

[Sunspace]

My all-time favourite that I've participated in was The Story of a Five-Dollar Biil (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=144522). Money! Alien invasions! Buxom women! Black helicopters! Demigods! This thread had it all!

Close second were some of the Initiation (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309165&page=1&pp=50) Complex (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310597&page=1&pp=50) threads. If you ever wondered where the calamari came from...

[Sophistry and Illusion]

What might you be dead of now were it not for modern medical technology? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320824)
Resulted in all kinds of interesting stories.

[JohnT]

This thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244421) had a bit of a false start, but once people realized what I was trying to do, we were off to the races.

I loved that thread. Thank you.

I was just thinking about it a month or so ago while watching The Stand on SciFi... for some reason, I was wondering if somebody made a post along the lines of "At least something got that craptacular "Baby can you dig your man?" off the radio."