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4th ET Anniversary!

It seems just like a short while ago that ET began, yet it is 4 years.

Please share your thoughts on and experiences with ET. :-)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 02:17:34 PM EST
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With little time to write at the moment, i can only say that ET has evolved into the high point of my daily internet carouse.  I learn so much from the quality of the debate here, as well as the erudite jokes and personal snapshots.

For that and more, i'm very appreciative of all the energy that goes into keeping this site functioning and growing.

i even feel i know some of the people here who post regularly, including those i do know.  i've even learned how to interpret graphs at a deeper level.

What's more, i sense a chance that the debate here can indeed evolve to being a focal point for political/economic/social discussion in Europe.  From personal experience, i know some shakers and moobers do read the site.

There are key people in the German wind industry who know me for pointing out very early the economic trajectory which has now happened, while all i did was parrot what i learned here.

i am particularly grateful for being allowed to expound on the importance of two-horned unicorns, one-horned cows, and the strange phenomena of windmills causing the death of Taiwanese-speaking goats.

As the dear leader would say, ET was born under a good sign.

A round of Caol Ila is indeed in order.  Prost!

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 02:46:42 PM EST
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Europe is Even More Doomed™ today than it was 4 years ago.

Europe is Doomed

by Magnifico on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 02:50:18 PM EST
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That pic always makes me chuckle.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 03:02:11 PM EST
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Four years !!! But it feels like only a couple of hundred weeks.

I'm one of the few people who can practically prove they're not the same person they were when they joined, but an awful lot of the learning curve came from here. What I like is feeling ahead of the news, I'm not reacting to what I read in the papers, I'm anticipating it. It's quite addictive really and it's all down to you guys.

It's been emotional.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 03:05:44 PM EST
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Happy Birthday!

Wow, this is strange....  I joined on the first day....it's been four years already?

Ugh, I'm slipping back into the depression from aging again, seems like just a year or two.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 03:26:49 PM EST
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There are few cases where most of the people have to leave for me to be the smartest on in the room. This room is not only one of them, but it is most enjoyable for the people who make it so.

A toast of thanks for the originators and those who have made this my one and only source. As Helen said, it is thrilling to be able to have a view over the horizon before it impels itself onto present time.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Sat Jun 13th, 2009 at 04:21:14 AM EST
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<corr>...to be the smartest one in the room.</corr>

Now, if ET could only teach me to edit before I hit Poust Post.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Sat Jun 13th, 2009 at 04:26:03 AM EST
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ha, i was just experiencing a 'gratitude attack®' from how fantastic your choices for the salon were today fran, and then you ask for feedback.

a huge props to all of you here who continue to make ET so interesting and amusing, especially fran for her diligence and generosity, and jerome for kicking the darn thing off!

and for all those doubters who said that the wind industry was just a windup (sic), read crazy horse and weep!

and to all the many great posters here, (no room to name them all), here's to another great year!

saluti, prost, skol, bottoms up!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Jun 13th, 2009 at 04:53:52 AM EST
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