2007 Thread Of The Year Nominations

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

yep, it was dahoss, pg said to meet him at some bar to he could show him the ticket. i can't stop laughing remembering all that stuff.

At some point PG85 explained away the fact that he sandwiched a trip to the OTB between two posts he made six minutes apart. "I can see the OTB from my back yard!"

Tough when you go off script.

[The Bid]

One of the more impressive threads is Pillows running football thread.

The Ky Roses thread I have never seen before, but it is hilarious

[blackthroatedwind]

Wow. That's a funny thread.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

At some point PG85 explained away the fact that he sandwiched a trip to the OTB between two posts he made six minutes apart. "I can see the OTB from my back yard!"

Tough when you go off script.

i found that one, it pretty good.

http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10399

[SniperSB23]

Top 5 Derby Horses wins hands down for Topic of the Year. I think the post of the year may be in it as well:

KRIM - I'm going to college to be a cardiologist.
Pillow Pants - Don't you go to a junior college?
BTW - They're small hearts.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I think the thread of the year is this one:
http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10951

This 11 page PG1985 thread is a classic. With contributions from all-time greats GRITS, Java Gold, kentuckyrosesinmay, and the man himself, PG1985.....this one is hard to top.
Although reading through it was a bit humbling (why did I like Notional so much?) it is still amusing. The topic is top 5 derby horses and the highlights include:

Java Gold: "Cobalt Blue...who cares about the rest...Java out."
PG1985: "i have a super sleeper, but i have no clue where he is ?"
kentuckyrosesinmay: "I will be very surprised in Street Sense is even in the starting gate."
kentuckyrosesinmay: "Both horses aren't nearly as pretty moving as they were as two year olds. You can pick stuff like this out if you know what you are looking for. Both looked sore to me, especially Street Sense. He doesn't even look like the same horse because he hits the ground so quick now. Any Given Saturday also hits the ground a little quicker than he did as a two year old."
King Glorious: "Only two horses have a chance to win the Derby. The exacta will be Notional and Circular Quay. Haven't decided the order but they are sure to be 1-2."
kentuckyrosesinmay: "Not all horses who are sore will walk sore. Bute hides a lot of things....That's why the people that I am associated with feel the horse's legs at the two year old sales."
kentuckyrosesinmay: "I can tell an enourmous amount about a horse by watching videos of the horses without even being around them. It ties into why they make videos of the horses at the two year old sales."

All of these are just from the first 4 pages of this highly entertaining thread.

such genius in one so young.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Top 5 Derby Horses wins hands down for Topic of the Year. I think the post of the year may be in it as well:

KRIM - I'm going to college to be a cardiologist.
Pillow Pants - Don't you go to a junior college?
BTW - They're small hearts.

nothing like dry humor. i love it.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

i found that one, it pretty good.

http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10399

God, that one was phucking BRILLIANT.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by pmacdaddy

The Original "Sumwon Thread" -

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...hlight=auction

this was the most exciting thread for the year and most fun to follow. it had the GREATEST effect on ALL of us .

[TheSpyder]

Going back a little further in the vault, this one I found highly amusing:

The Geogewashington Tirad

http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7244

Enjoy,

Spyder

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

Going back a little further in the vault, this one I found highly amusing:

The Geogewashington Tirad

http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7244

Enjoy,

Spyder

That one is from 2006. Does that disqualify it from "thread of the YEAR" consideration?

[TheSpyder]

I know, just missed by a little over a month but always found it very funny.

Spyder

Originally Posted by miraja2

That one is from 2006. Does that disqualify it from "thread of the YEAR" consideration?

[Fearless Leader]

My favorite threads were the ones that prompted me to sign up in the first place. All the ones that led to the departure of a "certain" poster. He seemed to know everything, and it was funny to read people ripping him on it. It reminded me of the Thoroughbred Times forum, which was the funniest reading EVER, in the halcyon days of 2003-2005.

As as aside, my all time favorite internet threads involved the horse LAST MINUTE DETAIL, his connections, and the run up to that years Classics. NOTHING will ever be funnier than that.

Bonus points for anyone that can name the horse that "Majority Whip" owned that was scheduled to face Last Minute Detail in the "Great Match Race" at Saratoga that same summer.

[TheSpyder]

http://www.derbytrail.com./forums/showthread.php?t=8092

[blackthroatedwind]

Fearless Leader is right about all-time great threads.....he is referring specifically to two threads from 2004 on the now aborted DRF Forum that I only wish I could post here ( one started off being about Value Plus I think ) that were more outrageous than you can believe. The key combatants were a " bloodstock agent " named Dan Frattinger who had been instrumental in the purchase of Last Minute Detail, who spent 15 seconds on the Triple Crown, and ended his career running for a nickel at Penn National. Last Minute Detail's owner, a guy named Jerry Little who I subsequently met and is a nice man, also joined in the fray....as well as one of actual Triple Crown aspirant Master David's owners ( who, coincidently, ended his career running for a tag at Delta Downs ). Those threads deserve a spot in the Smithsonian.

Was anyone here on that board ( aside from Morty )?

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Cardus

I thought that I had read someone mentioning that he wrote to someone in a PM that he was going to send a guy "to break your legs." Do I have this right? It might have occurred on the precursor to this site or here just after I joined (Sept. 2006).

that was on espn, before this site came up. there were some raucous threads over there near the end.

[Fearless Leader]

Originally Posted by Cardus

I thought that I had read someone mentioning that he wrote to someone in a PM that he was going to send a guy "to break your legs." Do I have this right? It might have occurred on the precursor to this site or here just after I joined (Sept. 2006).

Break my legs? I don't know who he is, I just remember loving the similar sarcastic discourse described above...just like the Thoroughbred Times... checked this out one day and saw the same, I just knew I had to follow along and subsequently join.

[Fearless Leader]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Fearless Leader is right about all-time great threads.....he is referring specifically to two threads from 2004 on the now aborted DRF Forum that I only wish I could post here ( one started off being about Value Plus I think ) that were more outrageous than you can believe. The key combatants were a " bloodstock agent " named Dan Frattinger who had been instrumental in the purchase of Last Minute Detail, who spent 15 seconds on the Triple Crown, and ended his career running for a nickel at Penn National. Last Minute Detail's owner, a guy named Jerry Little who I subsequently met and is a nice man, also joined in the fray....as well as one of actual Triple Crown aspirant Master David's owners ( who, coincidently, ended his career running for a tag at Delta Downs ). Those threads deserve a spot in the Smithsonian.

Was anyone here on that board ( aside from Morty )?

The best participant in those debates was hands down the WIFE of Master David's owner.

[blackthroatedwind]

I forgot.....he couldn't figure out if he was a man or a woman. That was hysterical.

I actually know why but don't want to get into it. Those were funny times. I honestly wish those threads still existed. Maybe I can get them....but I doubt it.

[Fearless Leader]

You had to feel bad for Dan the hopeless bloodstock agent. On second thought, no you didn't. But it sure was funny.