2007 Thread Of The Year Nominations

[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 )?

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by 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.

Good ole TT's forum!!! Who were you on that forum?

[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.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

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

it wasn't a pm. it was a post for all to see.

he knew some "jersey guys" who were on their way to texas where the offender lived.

that was during the great troll war at espn when some of the really seasoned folks at the basketball and football boards visited horse racing.

the board bully just had a meltdown. it was fantastic.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

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

Some of my favorites from that place are still some of the greatest ever.
By the way, I have some computer software that says Congaree is going to win the 2008 Kentucky Derby......perhaps because his jock is going to inject him with meth......during the race!!

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Cardus

Thanks, Jim. I knew that I recalled someone referring to that incident.

It's humorous to me.

well if you found that humorous...

once on this forum i got into it with him on something and he got enraged (no surprise). So he sends me a PM threatening to contact my employer and letting them know that I spend a lot of time during the day on internet message boards. so I play along and ask how he knows my employer. well he said he has friends on this forum who would give him my IP address and that he would use that to track down the company I work for.
i don't remember how I responded.

[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.

[hi_im_god]

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).

meant to quote this one on the above post.

[whodey17]

I wonder what has happened to some of the posters in those aforementioned threads.