Ever Wonder What's The Largest Thread on A2K?

A question which comes up from time to time is "What is the longest thread on A2K?" There's sorta 2 answers to that. With nearly 40,000 replies and almost 1300 pages at the time of this writing, the The neverending WORD ASSOCIATION GAME is the leader by far. However, the threads titled as variations on "The UN, The US, and Iraq" stem from a thread titled The Iraq Questions, which began in the Autum of '02. As each thread reaches a size great enough to negatively impact the server, it is closed and a successor thread is opened. The first was titled simply The US The UN and Iraq, the successors have essentially the same title but with a sequence number appended. The current incarnation is the 7th, being in effect the 6th successor thread to the original offshoot. The series is a single discussion, and is one of the longest continuous single topic discussions to be found on the Web, having literally scores of thousands of replies (many of which are original essays of major- magazine-article length and quality), and an aggregate pageview count into the millions over its nearly 2 year history.

Here are links to each of the threads in the series.

The Iraq Questions

The US, The UN, and Iraq I

The US, The UN, and Iraq II

The US, The UN, and Iraq III

The US, The UN, and Iraq IV

The US, The UN, and Iraq V

The US, The UN, and Iraq VI

The US, The UN, and Iraq VII