When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought, "What? I'm supposed to pick the best thread I've ever started??? Fer Chrissake....they're ALL brilliant! How the hell do I pick out the best one? I'll be up for hours, even days, trying to figure it out! It would be like....trying to figure out what's the best performance William Shatner has ever done. Damn near impossible to choose just one...they're all so incredibly good."

So...just imagine my relief when I discovered that that was not the objective of this thread at all. Whew! ;-D