Thread closed      My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » The Simmies 2009   » Best Thread Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: Best Thread Simon Editor # 1 Posted                        Which was the best thread on the boards in 2008? What thread has offered fantastic value in terms of news, debate, satire, the chance to participate... or just sheer entertainment? This is where you can nominate the thread you think is one in a thousand. The award is for the thread and the handful of shipmates who have contributed most to it. When nominating on this thread, please follow the format shown in the next post. If you don't have all the info you need to complete the nomination fields, you're not yet ready to nominate. Just make a regular post asking for the help of others in finding what you're looking for. How to find out the URL for an individual post: go to the post and find the tiny page icon which is just to the left of the date (at the top of the post). Right-click the icon (or on a Mac, control-click it) and select "copy link" from the dropdown menu. You can now paste the link URL into your nomination. Please note: Your nomination post should simply contain your nomination and nothing else. -------------------- Eternal memory Posts: 3787 | From: London | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged Simon Editor # 1 Posted                        NOMINATION I nominate: Thread title For: Best Thread Thread URL: Insert clickable link to the nominated thread here Special mentions: Names of shipmates (5 max.) who contributed most to the thread My reasons for nominating: Your comments in full here -------------------- Eternal memory Posts: 3787 | From: London | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged Nicolemr Shipmate # 28 Posted                        Nomination, maybe because I'm not sure if it's eligable. I nominate: The Political junkie POTUS prediction thread For: Best Thread Thread URL: It's here Special mention: Oh my, far to many people to mention, but at least MJG for starting it, Comet, for her insite into Alaskan politics and culture after Palin's ascendency, New Yorker, because his concerted asshattery helped make it what it was, and that's three. Any other suggestions? My reasons for nomiating, and why I say it may not be eligable: It was started in 2007, so it may not be eligable even though the majority of its 111 pages of delight were done in 2008. The reasons for it's nomination if its ruled eligable should be obvious. What other thread continued so long, never losing freshness and interest? Even if it's ruled ineligable for the actual award, I think it's due some sort of special honorable mention. -------------------- On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal! Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Simon Editor # 1 Posted                        Nicolemrw: Given that 108 of the thread's 111 pages were posted on in 2008, I think we can safely say that it's eligible. -------------------- Eternal memory Posts: 3787 | From: London | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged Nicolemr Shipmate # 28 Posted                        Yay! -------------------- On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal! Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Doublethink. Ship's Foolwise Unperson # 1984 Posted                       Seconded (I was considering nominating that.) It gave a great insight into American politics, really interesting to have so many different perspectives. Probably especially good because it was such an unpredictable and historic race for the White House. -------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Twilight Puddleglum's sister # 2832 Posted                    Nicole's being too modest to mention herself but a great part of the POTUS thread's fun were the unusual bits of information she found and linked for us. Posts: 6817 | Registered: May 2002  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                     Nomination I nominate: The Bible, Non-stop: GENESIS For: Best Thread Special mentions: Lynn MagdalenCollege who took Twilight's idea and ran with it. There were many fine contributions by many posters but to mention a few major contributors there were the Pilgrim, Alienfromzog, pimple, and Mousethief. (The music is rising- please forgive me for leaving out other major posters like....hmmm hmmm dah dah dah...) My reasons for nominating: This wonderful beginning of the Bible Non-stop is such a worthy Ship project. It's fun, creative, informative, and is the kind of thing that perks up a board like Kerygmania which, wonderful as it is, can get a bit dry. This brought the seminal book of the Bible to life for both posters and readers. And it makes the Ship look like it just might be a Christian website. Even if a reader has just wandered in from Hell. -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                     Seconding Lyda*Rose's nomination. A thread I never thought would be half as funny and wonderful as it is. I can't think of a thread that is more reflective of the ship. It mocks, it takes seriously, it dramatizes, it analyzes, and it entertains. ETA* [ 12. December 2008, 16:10: Message edited by: Gwai ] -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Beautiful Dreamer Shipmate # 10880 Posted                        I nominate: The 2008 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool For: Best Thread Link: Nominated thread Special Mentions: Sandemaniac, especially his post of 'disapproval', Matt Black, Jahlove, Uriel's advice Reason: Sort of dark humor when done the way it is intended. Allows one to show that twisted side everyone has but few admit to. Also adds a few twists not seen in other Celebrity Death Pools I have seen. -------------------- More where that came from Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time! Posts: 6028 | From: Outside Atlanta, GA | Registered: Jan 2006  |  IP: Logged Woodworm Shipmate # 13798 Posted                        I nominate: How Did You Meet Your Partner? (I think it was called) For: Best Thread Thread URL: Sorry, I have searched and searched but I am going to have to rely on a kind soul to give the link. It was started by Anglican_Brat. Special mentions: Pretty well all of the posters My reasons for nominating: People were writing about how they met their beloved, and the posts were just radiant. -------------------- NUH MUH! Nuh.. muh... Posts: 137 | From: the ship's fo'sicle | Registered: Jun 2008  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0