Late July seems to be my board of choice. It featured the , which filled in the blanks on a lot of guys I'd wondered about and introduced a whole bunch of passionate lurkers to the posting game.
On the same board was the thread. This one had a lot of the nasty flame fest business in it, but it also provoked the brief appearance of the Fish Biologist, which made for an interesting exchange.
In fact, I was kind of bummed that the month got archived about 2 minutes after my treatise-length post on rights, commons and externalities , which was longwinded but fun for me.