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Three Years Of Zero Hedge

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Today is the three year anniversary of Zero Hedge.

Starting with humble beginnings and even humbler aspirations, and proceeding through over half a billion page views filled with breaking news, analyses, cynical ruminations, snarky sarcasm, grotesque hyperbole (two words best used to explain our current socio-economic catastrophe), and broadly - entertainment - this website has been lucky enough to grow into the world biggest fully independent financial blog (whatever that means), garnering between 1 and 2 million page views daily (usually VIX-dependent), and serving around 4 million unique readers per month from all around the world.

While we enjoy cutting through the endless media bullshit and propaganda, exposing stupidity, learning from our mistakes, often with a much-needed dose of self-preserving humor that is so critical in this day and age, and hoping to satisfy a persistently unmet niche in the media space, the truth is that no matter the content, the site would not have succeeded or achieved anything without you, our reader. And while most come here to quietly read, learn, snicker, or just to pass the time between trade confirms and fake European bailout headlines, others prefer to engage in direct commentary, often times boisterous, frequently venting, and always uncensored and uncut. Because more than anything, this is a place for anyone and everyone who has an open mind, and more importantly, a sense of humor.

It is to you, our readers, that we owe our sincerest gratitude for providing not only one of the most educated and intelligent, not to mention outspoken, readership bases one could hope for, but for constantly engaging us, and helping us grow and develop in ways we had never thought possible.

It is this what "social media" is all about.

As for everything else, it will happen... in due course. The transition from point A to point B will not be fast and it will not be easy, but it will take place. Because systems out of equilibrium always revert in due course.

And we expect to be there covering, analyzing, and certainly mocking it, every step of the way.

 

Yours Sincerely,

the ZH crew

 

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Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:51 | 2048663 MrPook
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That was well put. May your hedges always sum to zero

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:51 | 2048664 Caviar Emptor
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Yay for ZH! Yay for us!

The WE that has grown and morphed but never matured here at ZH is indispensable to the future of the planet! 

Regards, Caviar

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:51 | 2048666 Nom de Guerre
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Happy Birthday, you magnificent bastards!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:52 | 2048668 weinerdog43
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Congratulations Tyler!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:52 | 2048670 JFK.4PREZ
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Thank you all so much! You have conquered all other time-killing websites and reign supreme!  For that, i will donate to you a measely ten FRNs and I encourage my other ZHers to do the same.  TRUTH DOES NOT HAVE A PRICE!  

 

[ten bucks is the birthday present, not the price of truth]

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:53 | 2048671 John Law Lives
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Kudos to ZH.  One of the most informative and honest sites on the 'net.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:53 | 2048672 Seasmoke
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THANK YOU ZEROHEDGE !

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048675 eduard khil
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One of the greatest sites on the internet. Congratulations on your successes and a mighty thank you to the crew for all you do!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048677 JoeSexPack
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Happy B-day & thanks much for the site!

 

I read it most every day & have recruited a few friends also.

 

You completely ruined the financial MSM for me, Ha Ha!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048681 jerry_theking_lawler
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Thanks for letting me participate in the club, TYLER DURDEN!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048682 IndicaTive
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<----------------   Late to the Club. Thanks.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048683 kito
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Funny I was just perusing zerohedge.blogspot....the more things change, the more they stay the same..........

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:54 | 2048684 oogs66
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You hardly look a day over 28 :) thanks so much for creating this forum!!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:55 | 2048688 Cathartes Aura
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.

As for everything else, it will happen... in due course. . . And we expect to be there covering, analyzing, and certainly mocking it, every step of the way.

no (other) place like. . .home.  unique in tone, information, and quality commentary below the line (or not, heh) - thank you for always leaving the light on, stirring the pot, informing & provoking, giving us a place to gather and argue our points.

cheers!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:55 | 2048689 TheBadgersSett
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Thank you all guys. Sincerely, the most important resource in my awakening, education & ongoing journey to financial security & independance. A source of regular myrth, exclusive sccops & absolutely unique commenatary. The quality (& quantity) of the daily output blows my mind & despite the odd author & commenter revealing themselves to be total fucktards, ZH is genuinely my go to first thing in the morning & last thing at night.

 

Much love from The Badgers Sett & the Badger family

 

Keep at it.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:56 | 2048691 Muddy1
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Congratulations!  Well done.  I'm glad to be at the party.  Mostly I appreciate all of the timely information.  Thank You Very Much!!!!!!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:56 | 2048692 Patrick in Michigan
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That long, and I still don't write here. Bastards.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:56 | 2048693 TriggerFinger
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Thank you ZH

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048700 AC_Doctor
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Tyler(s) thanks for the continuing enlightenment of the real world and how it works.  Phuck off watching anything except for Gold Rush on the boob tube and reading RoboRoaches agregious precious metals and investment predictions is funnier than SN Live anytime...

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:58 | 2048704 Bearish News
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Cheers Tyler and gang! Been here since very near the start, and it has been awesome to watch the site and its influence grow over time.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:58 | 2048705 valkir
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I have been here since 3 monts,but i feel i am here from 3 years.Keep the level as high,as is now.I am sure,all ZH readers will try to help you./e ,couple exceptions are here to entertain us/.Thanks again all ZH staff.Cheers.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:58 | 2048708 gulf breeze
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What is up Baltic Dry Index.  Is it seasonal or is China fing about to collapse

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048721 gulf breeze
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I have bought products since 2001 (from China) and have never received more emails about buying merchandise.  The last 6 months have been worse that spamazon

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:59 | 2048709 Wakanda
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Happy Birthday ZH!

You don't look a day over 3 years old.

Thanks for all of the great news, analysis, laughs, and of course the fights.  :^)

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:00 | 2048713 Gamma735
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Congratulations, ZeroHedge!  Keep shining the light of truth into vast dark pit of corruption and lies. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:00 | 2048716 fonzannoon
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Here is a good read from that day....

Last Updated: January 9, 2009: 12:11 PM ET

-NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.

A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.

The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since January 1993.

The steep annual drop in jobs marked the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945, the year in which World War II ended.

"We're seeing a complete unraveling of the labor market and are on track for getting beyond 10% unemployment," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:06 | 2048720 gwar5
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Happy Birthday Zero Hedge!  No offense, ZH, but you look much older. Birth certificate, please.  Birthers Bitches!

 

BTW I just ran across something that pissed me off, which is that the FED already owns all American's gold in Fort Knox. When Reagan's Gold Commission studied going back to a gold standard in 1981 they found the US Treasury does not even own any gold. Whatever is in Fort Knox, and beyond, is already held (owned) by the Federal Reserve as collateral against US government debt. Which brings into focus their clear conflict of interest in pushing government debt while simultanously suppressing the price of gold, which is clearly anything but a barbarous relic. We was robbed!

 

 

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048723 honestann
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Damn.  I missed the first 1/3.  Oh well.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048724 trentusa
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The success of ZH demonstrates the lie of the efficient market hypothesis assumption. Nature abhors a vacumn but in so many respects the (un)free market has not provided as it would lacking the artificial constraints, repression, & manipulation, as grass grows in the crack in the sidewalk. This is what freedom of speech looks like.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048725 Jim in MN
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3 years is, like, 10,000 news cycles. 

And ZH has been riding the crest of just about every one of them.

It's my party and I'll truth if I want to

Truth if I want to

Truth if I want to

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:08 | 2049300 MsCreant
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You would want truth if it happened to yoooou!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048726 fall
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Oh, it will happen. And when it does, we will laugh hysterically while we dance on their graves.

Congrats guys! Let's make 2012 an even better year!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:03 | 2048728 Gamma735
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Is Tyler Duyrden the new Ben Franklin?

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:21 | 2048816 RiverRoad
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Yup.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048863 Yes_Questions
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and I'll stand next to em' in this lighting storm.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:04 | 2048730 rsnoble
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And even though i've been preaching the word for longer than 3 years, I'd like to formally congrat ZH for having the know-how to put it all together and help get the word out.

And now id like to skew off-topic and offer some of my drunken humor, which at one time was a major no-no for many, and now I actually get requests for this crap:

http://news.yahoo.com/little-oil-seen-ship-splits-zealand-015331578.html

And my response after 15 beers:

Ok, really?  Someone please explain to me how we have a ship wreck out at sea and people are picking up "powdered milk" on the shoreline? Being that im blown out of my gourd at the moment this raises several questions. Among them: 1.  Doesn't powdered milk turn into liquid milk if you add water?  Just how fucking air tight were these containers?  Maybe powdered milk wouldn't be so fucking expensive if they didn't have to pack it in cartons guaranteed to survive miles of ocean water and land happily on the shore with a perfectly dry ass. You can thank fucking China for that one! 2.  Secondly, as just numerated, exactly how fucking sorry are New Zealanders(or wtf those people call themselves) to be covertly sneaking around on vast, spacious coastlines and speeding off with said powdered milk in their vehicles?  And I thought the spike of Formula sales on the 15th of the month at Walmart in the US was bad. Wow. Better rethink that one.   3.  And last but not least..............who are the cum belching morons that actually took time out of their goddamn day and called the fucking police???  Wouldn't you love to have a transcript of that??? "Holly shit!!! You gotta get the cops here ASAP!!! A huge ship just overturned and people are running over with bags of powedered milk!!!  Kill these motherfuckers!!!!  I think they are towelheads!!!  This is gona increase my powdered milk cost tenfold!!!  I pay your FUCKING SALARY GODDAMIT!!! Jesus fucking christ are you serious about all this?  All the fucking problems in the world and powdered milk bandits make the main headlines??? 

You've got to be fucking kiddding me!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:11 | 2048753 rsnoble
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I got your fuckin health hazard right here motherfucker!  All the fuckin flouride and preservatives you shove down our throats and you're worried about an oil film getting thru a container that water couldn't penetrate because the shit is STILL FUCKING DRY????  Just wow.  Remind me to finish off the hot water tank the next time I change my own oil before having lunch.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:30 | 2048857 Yes_Questions
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Kiwis..

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:04 | 2048731 Arkadaba
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Thanks for the information, education and humour - my fave site on the web!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:04 | 2048732 strangeglove
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Fuck you you fuckin fuck and happy blog day bitcheZ!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:04 | 2048734 roymunnson
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awesome

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:04 | 2048735 RockTime
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Tyler, you are so fucking good, my wife is jealous of all the time I spend on ZH, my 5yr old son, when asked what his Dad is doing says "he is ZeroHedging" and yes, I did turn off cable 3 years ago (could not take that fucking BS any longer) and made ZH my Home Page!  Happy Birthday, guys! Well done, cannot say enough of how important your work is and if you ever decide to raise Private Investment -- let your readers know -- I am in for sure. I want to make sure I read you 10 years from now. ONLY ONE THING I BEG YOU -- NEVER SELL OUT TO THE CORPORATE WHORES -- you WILL get offers from CNBS, Goldmans, WSJ, and other corporate trash who have a shitload of money and would love to shut you guys down or just simply castrate your candidness. PLEASE DO NOT SELL OUT. If you will ever need cash, just let your devoted readers know -- you will get it in a heart beat.  Best of Luck and keep on doing the amazing job!!! Thank you!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:05 | 2048737 slewie the pi-rat
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happy 3rd [leather] tyler & zH!

got fringe? 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:05 | 2048738 Teamtc321
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Happy Birthday Zero Hedge!!! 

 

 

And this is to what ever "it" that is hitting the junk button on above thank you's to ZH birthday,

Squeal Like a Pig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:06 | 2048741 Pants McPants
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Congratulations, gentlemen - bar none the best site on the internet.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:08 | 2048746 dwdollar
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Thank you guys. I hope Zerohedge continues to be a thorn in the ass of socialism and crony capitalism.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:09 | 2048750 data_monkey
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Happy Birthday ZH! Thanks for all you do for us.

FUCK THE FEDERAL RESERVE! FUCK BEN BERNANKE! SEE YOU IN HELL BITCHEZ!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:09 | 2048751 lsbumblebee
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Can somebody post a gigantic picture of a piece of cake that says 3 on it?  Thanks. About 18"x24". Thanks. Something that will take up an entire page. Thanks. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:11 | 2048754 FischerBlack
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I've been with you since your first link on Abnormal Returns. What was that a couple months in? Great job. There really is no other site on the web like this.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:40 | 2048755 monopoly
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HUH!

"And we expect to be there covering, analyzing, and certainly mocking it, every step of the way."

Excuse me, you post "we expect to be there". Well, for your information Mr. D. there is no fucking way you are NOT going to be there. Do you think we can figure all this shit out by ourselves. What makes you think we are smart enough to cruise through Europe, sail through the straits of Hormuz, figure out Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan alone. You think we know what the hell is going on with these bombastic kindergarten debates with a bunch of whiners, (with one notable exception). And you think we are all math geeks that can understand the budget, deficit, M2, M3 or M freaking 9 by ourselves. Since when am I an expert on currencies or Forex to go there without Zero Hedge.

So even if you even have the slightest whim of moving on, just forget it.  WE NEED THE TRUTH TO SURVIVE!

Thank you Sir for all you and staff do. Over 2 years here now and soon a third notch on my belt!

Another donation clicked today. Always the best. Be well.


Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:12 | 2048761 bugs_
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Three More Years!  Three More Years!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:14 | 2048779 Yes_Questions
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More years...

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:15 | 2048784 Yes_Questions
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more years

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:20 | 2048791 Yes_Questions
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more years...

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:59 | 2049150 Miles Kendig
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bugs_  a real hero of hiphopricy H/T

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:12 | 2048762 SwingForce
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Happy Birthday! PS- I would pay for your content.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:12 | 2048765 a growing concern
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You guys are my fucking rock.  You are the shit.  There's nothing like this place for real news and cutting through bullshit.  I'm not sure now how I ever lived without ZeroHedge.  Thanks for all you guys (and gals) do.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:12 | 2048766 nmewn
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Aaarrr ya dirty swabs!! And many more adventurous voyages are on the horizon for ye!

Happy Anniversary crew...and thanks for talkin the little guys off the plank more than once ;-)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:01 | 2049159 Miles Kendig
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You always wield that light sabre to such great effect Jedi!  ;-)

Thanx for all the fab convo and insights

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 07:30 | 2049606 nmewn
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The most honorable Miles, thank you for sharing your light of reason & responsibility with us all.

May the Force be with you always my brutha ;-)

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:12 | 2048767 Yes_Questions
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A tie.  With the spots already on it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knp9-GY6fHE

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:13 | 2048769 Mr. Wonderful
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Best damn site on the internet.

I can't help but think that sometime in the not too distant future TPTB will shut down sites like ZH or at least replace its operators with puppets. I can see it now - Radical insurgents fomenting instability.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:26 | 2048843 Tuffmug
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If they shut it down we'll be able to meet Tyler at one of the FEMA reeducation centers where we'll be living. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:13 | 2048770 Gloeschi
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Happy belated birthday! And thank you for the music.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:31 | 2048772 blu
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There have been a lot of great voices here, and I've personally learned a lot from most of them. Some of the trolls and stalkers I could have done without (esp the guy who went a little too far into my personal life) but I've really enjoyed the whole ride.

Miss some of the earlier voices that seem to have melted away. Marla seems to have departed on an extended road-trip -- is where you went really all that interesting? CheekyBastard, where are you off to you cheeky bastard? Does anyone hear from LondonTrader these days? And seems like we don't read nearly as much of CogDis anymore. Hey CD, the twisted sisters remind you to get stuffed. TruthInSunshine is still holding forth, so there is still reason to read ZH. Turd hangs around a little, but then again turd hit the big time right from the pages of ZH. Good on yah.

Dark days. And wild days, those were. More and wilder days ahead I'm sure, perhaps to roll into a darkness we can scarcely imagine.

I pray not.

Hey. But what would ZH be without wild days to lend gravitas to the times?

To all the Tylers -- past, present and future -- keep the faith.

To everyone else: Don't let the bastards grind you down. Cheeky bastards being the sole exception, I suppose.

-= blu AKA fyrebird AKA cougar_w =-

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048866 fuu
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Yay!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:17 | 2049320 MsCreant
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I did not connect fyrebird. Good fun.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 12:16 | 2050429 DaveyJones
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well said blu

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:13 | 2048775 americanspirit
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One of the prerogatives of being an old fart is that I get to make observations about 'you young people' and don't give a shit what you think about me. So here goes - Tyler, you and many ( but definitely not all) of those here on ZH are among the very few reasons I have any hope left at all for the future of the world. As my friend Kinky Friedman said - may the God of your choice bless you.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2049781 Miss Expectations
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Nothing surprises me more than a Zero Hedge commentator who comes out as an "old fart".   All the "don't give a shit" talk convinces me that we are all really 20 something forever. 

Bless you.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 10:55 | 2050026 americanspirit
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The road goes on forever and the music never ends. Thanks Miss Expectations. When you reach my age you begin to understand what all those old people meant when they said "You know, I don't feel (insert age)." Hard to understand when you're young - easy now. You're right too, most of us really are 20 something forever. And I actually do give a shit, at least sometimes, even when I'm a wee bit cranky.

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 01:45 | 2053542 Cathartes Aura
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the body ages, for it is tethered to time, but the mind matures, expands and understands, more. . . if you're very very lucky.

The road goes on forever and the music never ends.

Aho.

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:17 | 2048777 Tuffmug
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Congrats! The nectar that attracts us worker bee readers is your hard work and passion for sniffing out, exposing, and ridiculing the perfumed financial and political bullshit and fraud that sours our world. Keep the nectar coming and together we'll make some honey to sweeten things up.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:14 | 2048778 Questan1913
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Your passion and zeal are making a difference in these interesting times. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:14 | 2048780 Whoa Dammit
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Happy Anniversary ZH !

P.S. The traditional 3rd year anniversary gift is leather...

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:46 | 2048929 Yes_Questions
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FOOKISH!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:15 | 2048783 scatterbrains
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I want to give a shout out to Marla who I thought was great.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:17 | 2048788 Dr. Engali
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Happy Anniversary Morpheus. Thank you for freeing me from the matrix. I wish it would have been sooner. It might haves saved me a lot of heartache.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:17 | 2048797 MissCellany
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Many happy returns, and muchas gracias!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:17 | 2048798 darrell1756
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Thank you ZH for theEducation and the humor

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:20 | 2048800 trentusa
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sometimes the writing here is so good I have to copy'n paste for posterity. Here are a couple of my favorite most masterful sentences from recently . They are occasionally worth memorizing liek bible verses to pull out at cocktail parties to stun and titillate your colleagues/bosses, like:

1) This is a fantastic opportunity to observe the workings of an actual criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people in action.

2) in order to preserve the system, the banking cartel need to make everything of virtually infinite complexity so that no one has a clear understanding of what is going on!

To convince the “people” that the only road to financial “safety” is to give up their thinking processes and “delegate” them to those who claim to know what they are doing.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:18 | 2048803 crzyhun
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Honestly the website is almost, downright sedate compared to the halcyon days three years ago, though I missed the first six month...was occupied. Those were the days of shim sham shimmy and marla and well...don't tell me anything I already know. A great time. Thanks all and Tyler(s) for the balls to wall style, no quarter given and none taken.

God bless and march on......

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:19 | 2048807 swani
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Yeah, baby! Congratulations, Zero Hedge. You are my very favorite.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:19 | 2048808 rufusbird
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And a big thanks to all who post comments, and to those who provide informative links to other articles and videos!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:19 | 2048809 the misanthrope
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Well done and thank you. THE place for info. I have learned a great deal and continue to do so everyday here. Happy anniversary !

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:19 | 2048811 UTICA CLUB XX PURE
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Excluding myself, there's a lot of smart folks in here & I'd like to thank them for allowing me in. Happy Anerversery ZH, in 2 more years I'll be just like you'all I hope!

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:19 | 2048812 Winisk
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Not bad for a fringe blog.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:21 | 2048817 Blanc swan
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Haven't posted since May, despite reading every day. But today I logged on to say salutes and thanks, ZeroHedge.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:22 | 2048819 Major Key Tonality
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Thanks ZH and thanks to all you fellow ZHr's!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:22 | 2048820 dark pools of soros
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ZH IPO Bitchez

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 03:08 | 2049393 Urban Redneck
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IPO - NEVER. One must sell their soul, their ass, and their equity to bankers in order to IPO.

ZH would have go down the ironic rabbit hole of opening its own bank first in order to preserve it soul.

(although the long lost commodity banks may be making a comeback sometime in the future).

Regardless, Happy Birthday ZH 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:24 | 2048824 Dubaibanker
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Happy Anniversary! Thank you for all the hard work and efforts. I learn a lot and visit it few times a day and can say that I am addicted.....I love your site, Zerohedge! Your site certainly gives me lots of food for thought.

Congratulations and keep up the good work....Best Wishes, From: Another part of the world.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:24 | 2048826 Bull v. Bear
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Cheers ZH, three shots for you, keep up fighting the good fight against the financial/political/corporate oligarchry and thier cherished status quo.  Here's to waking up the useful idiots who are to dumb to know how stupid they are, as until that happens the serfs will remain serfs and we will see more bread and more circuses.  Information and the power of ideas is truly the spark that can ignite a raging inferno of truth that is what is so badly needed.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:24 | 2048828 davhay
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Thanks BITCHEZ!!!!!!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:24 | 2048829 Dulcinea
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Thanks Zero Hedge for your witty news analysis and thanks to those who share their expertise.  Blu mentioned some of my favorites.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:24 | 2048830 devo
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Gold is, appropriately, up.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:25 | 2048836 Pink
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Congratulations Tyler! Now bring back Project Mayhem!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:25 | 2049062 Max Power
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Yea, what happened to him?  What about Cheeky Bastard?  Lanye was cool also. Are you still out there Layne?  Zero Hedge radio was fun while it lasted too.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:25 | 2048837 vincent
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Hands down the best smarts, wit, info, no bull, straight smack anywhere.

Thanks for educating me.

Thanks also to all of the visitors here.

More truth dead ahead.

Happy anniversary Tylers and crew.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:26 | 2048840 YesWeKahn
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Happy birthday ZH!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:26 | 2048841 QuantTrader
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Congrats to ZH for marking the bottom of the stock market with its launch.  Three years of FUD and I'm about 1.2M richer long equities since Jan 2009.

 

 

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:28 | 2048848 marcusfenix
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happy birthday zerohedge!

best site on the web...nothing else comes even remotely close

love the Tylers, thanks for all your hard work it is greatly appreciated

WB7 is an absolute genius, the undisputed king of visual combat

but most of all it is the commentators, my fellow ZHr's that make fight club the most unique, the most real, the most essential outpost of freedom of speech, freedom of ideas and individualism in the world today.

thanks to all who have made this sight my daily addiction, my slice of sanity in what is otherwise a very surreal world.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:29 | 2048852 JohnG
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Hear Hear!  Hat's off and bottoms up to ZeroHedge!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:29 | 2048853 infinity8
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AND, the servers are accomodating all your crazy fucking readers now. . ++++++

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:30 | 2048855 jeff montanye
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thank you all so much for your brilliant, painstaking work.  this internet thing is the best since movable type printing and you are showing the world why.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:55 | 2049275 PeterB
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Keep punching Jeff

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:30 | 2048856 resaci
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Uuugghhhh...

 

time flies - W< 0 >M

 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:30 | 2048859 palmereldritch
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Congrats Tyler!! Keep up the awesome coverage!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048865 WilliamShatner
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Happy Birthday Tyler!

Break out the Romulan Ale!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048867 mark mchugh
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Wow, three years! 

Who's the dickweed now, Dennis?

Congrats Tyler!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048869 UP4Liberty
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Hey ZH,

Happy Anniversary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knp9-GY6fHE

There's no "Happy Anniversary" like the Flinstones - cheers!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:32 | 2048870 mikemcsaudi
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I LOVE Zerohedge...  It's my favorite web site.  You all have taught me so much!  I am grateful.  Thank you!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:33 | 2048873 AmazingLarry
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I think I just had a near life experience.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:34 | 2048876 Calmyourself
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Thank you, offshore your servers in multiple locations you will morph sooner rather than later to include other information in addition to finance.  Glad your out there Tylers.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:35 | 2048879 Shell Game
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First stop every day. Last stop every day.  Thanks for being 21st century minutemen.

 

tl;dr

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:36 | 2048880 skunzie
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Happy Birthday to the team of Zero Hedge.  Thanks for three years of wonderful work.  Keep up your efforts to inform us of things that make the MSM quiver.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:36 | 2048885 Stack Trace
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Thanks ZH!

I was sitting with an oil billionaire today listening to him complain about his generation sold out (guy is in his 60s) and how he feels the current generation is so dumbed down that we are in for hard times in the USA.

I wanted to tell him about ZH but didn't think he needed a heart attack (we workout at the same health club). Maybe next time ,though he doesn't know how to use a computer or iPad, I might loan him one of mine with ZH up on it.

BTW, this is my favorite financial site for the last 2 years. Thanks for helping all of us make some sense of the insanity unfolding around us and allowing us to read RobotTrader and MDB posts too! ><

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048886 Stack Trace
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Double post sorry

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:37 | 2048889 MonkeySmoke
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Thank you, Tyler(s) for all you do for us. Keeping us informed and, in most cases, ahead of the curve. It has been about year that I have been following--first thing in the morning and last thing before retiring in the evening. It is with great appreciation that I visit and am allowed to have clear, detailed and necessary information. Here's mud in your eye and to another three years.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:37 | 2048890 vomamint
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The only exersice I ever get is the shakes and reading ZEROHEDGE!!   ...thank you!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048891 Undecided
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Simply said with an (!) cheers!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048892 waterdog
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I remember when there where no advertisers. Donations and other people's capital kept this site going. I remember Marla and all you old fools who knew how to get an arguement going and what it took to take the edge off information than was streamming past me faster than I could read. I remember when getting too stupid actually got a person a real ass kicking from the ZH bloggers. I still say I have the most junked blogs during 2009 and 2H 2010 ( I learned the 2H thing here).

For all of you dumb ass posters, gold is not yellow, you dumb fucks.

Each night when I turn this damn computer off, I swear I will not read ZH any more. I cannot take it. But, each morning, I hit favorites, News, Zerohedge, and in about 30 seconds I am mad as hell.

I come back each day for the humor. Most of the posts are still way over my head. I am not sure what the post meant, but I am sure it is not good, and I get a good laugh at the wit of the writers as they describe the facts behind the post.

I have become old, mean and cranky. I have lost my sense of humor.

Happy birthday you guys, see you in the morning.

 

 

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 03:25 | 2049410 zhandax
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WD, your sense of humor has to be nourished by these pages, else you stop reading in despair.  Personally, I was cranky when I got here, I prefer 'honestly pragmatic' to mean, and simply refuse to concede 'old'.  See ya in the morning.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048894 Goldilocks
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;-)  ;-)  ;-)

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048895 ShankyS
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Thanks for 3 great years. I can not express my appreciation for TD and crew (I still miss Marla and the Friday night Radio Zero). What a ride it has been. Here's to many many more years to come. 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:51 | 2049122 seek
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As do I, Radio Zero was a great way to decompress at the end of the week.

I was going back looking at some of my first posts. I'd "discovered" ZH just a few months before the move from blogger, and then sat as a silent coward for  while, I'll hit my 2 year anniversary here in a month.

This place is without a doubt the most awesome news site on the internet, and the commentary has caused me to clean my monitor many times. While I thought I was somewhat financially savvy before, what I've learned in the past couple years equates to decades of experience -- not a PhD -- in the real financial world.

If the world implodes, I'll be the crazy guy living in a cave, desperately listening for "dah dah di dit, di di di dit" on the shortwave, trying to find out what happened.

Here's to many more years of real news and ZH.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:59 | 2049281 PeterB
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Your site too is a blessing Shanky!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 10:02 | 2049860 ShankyS
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Thanks. Much appreciated. 

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:38 | 2048896 ChanceIs
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I s*&tcanned my WSJ subscription and instead made the cash flow a donation to ZeroHedge.  No brainer really.

Also bought a couple of tees for a friends kids getting ready to graduate from high school. They were..."what is ZeroHedge?"  I just said, give it until October and you will be the coolest freshmen on campus.  (None of them are going to Wharton.)

My wife wouldn't go for the "contains absolutely zero hedge" bikini thong.  Gotta work on her sense of adventure.

Carry on ZH!!!!!!

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:19 | 2049046 JohnG
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Same here for the ex IBD junkie.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:39 | 2048900 pomogranate
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I'm sorry but this post is about as ridiculous as having a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  It's completely against the whole idea.  Which just shows that just like any other "anti" movement, it;s really all about the posing.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 01:50 | 2049260 tongue.stan
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I fart in your general direction.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:39 | 2048901 junkyardjack
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Huzzah!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:39 | 2048903 whaletail
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ZH: you complete me.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:51 | 2049124 resurger
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huh! You are a fucking Bitchhhhhhhhhh! but good one though

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 02:26 | 2049337 MsCreant
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When you say that, do you hold that h that long for real?

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 13:29 | 2050708 WaterWings
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Hi mom!

I think it's an echo in his cell.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 14:15 | 2050913 MsCreant
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I think you have explained it!! The thing some of these posters do not get is that we are all bitchez now, thanks to the financial regime/order of things.

Moms can be so dense. You kids these days!

So, have you met a nice doomer girl yet? (If I'm gonna be Momz, I'm gonna play it up).

 

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 23:44 | 2053183 WaterWings
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Not yet. :-(

I'm waiting for the collapse to happen - they'll all be callinnng myyyy nameeee! ;-)

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:39 | 2048906 LetThemEatRand
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Happy birthday to by far the best place for news and opinion bar none.   Not to mention a place for great conversation with some very smart people, including the ones who routinely suggest that it would be best if I just fucked off and died.   Where else could that be so entertaining?  

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:40 | 2048909 Ralph Spoilsport
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Congrats to the Tylers and the snark-meisters on this significant achievement.

Glenn Beck mentioned ZH on his show today so I hope he doesn't start stealing the original material for his own. Getting the attention of an asshat like Beck can be viewed as both a good thing and a bad thing. Hopefully his illiterate followers won't try to infest ZH which would be a bad thing.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:41 | 2048910 DarkStarDog
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Congrats ZH ! Hope y'all don't end up in getmo without a trial.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:41 | 2048912 illyia
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I remember the day... on seeking alpha... when Tyler ....

Oh, fuck it. Congrats on a true Best of the Web.

i.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:42 | 2048914 casaananda
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Why does it feel like I've been following ZH for 10 years or more? Well, no matter. It's the best. Thank you ZH staff for your hard work.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:42 | 2048915 mccoyspace
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Congrats on three years. I wish I got here earlier. It's better than any school.

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:42 | 2048916 Willil
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My first post on ZH is congratulatory.  It has my distinct pleasure to have experienced your daily view of our world, as it has made my daily view a little clearer.  Cheers to many more anniversaries ZH.

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 00:11 | 2049015 Bolweevil
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STFU (look it up)

Keep coming back!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:43 | 2048917 reading
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Time Flies...I have to admit, it's amazing how if you provide good information people come to learn. (or come to bitch, that's ok too.)

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:43 | 2048918 Yes_Questions
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