Hello Mark and Rob, long time.
Was hoping to get a couple of pages of responses before taking the next step. I'm going to send a link of this thread to Nagel and Anemone. I was kinda hoping they would be the recipients of all the potential topics and choose an appropriate topic for the week. By posting the potential topics publicly, I thought it might create a problem. Lets say that reefer A sends in a good topic and it isn't chosen as TOTW. It isn't chosen on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week etc. Now reefer B does the same thing, and again, his topic isn't chosen for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week either. I wouldn't want to upset these two reefers and possibly others, because they, as well as others, might feel that reefer A and B's question is a better topic than the one that was chosen.
If the mods didn't want to receive the submitted topics and also choose a topic, I thought it would be a great idea if we nominated one or two reefers, ( no not me) from this forum to receive all the potential topics and choose one that is appropriate. I nominate Mark or Rob. Keeping in mind, and I mean no disrespect to anyones submitted questions, all submitted topics might not be worthy of a TOTW selection.
I just know how fast something good can go sour in a heartbeat and I really want to give this a fighting chance.
Whoever is responsible for picking and posting the TOTW, I hope it is made a sticky for the week and the subject line says, "TOTW 2/8/06", or, "Topic of the Week 2/8/06" which will truly define what this is.
I just listed 35 topics on a sheet of paper at work today that I think would be very interesting and thought provoking. I'm sure there are many many more out there and I can't wait to read them.
I hope we can all remain respectful of each other once this takes off on Sunday. I think 6 PM EST would be a great posting time as we consider all of the time zones. What do you guys/gals think?
Mucho