Some people stumble across the use of “asshat” outside in the real world and are thrilled, thinking, because this is where they first encountered it, that it was an insult invented here on the SDMB. But it wasn’t.
Someone also thought we invented the “airplane on a treadmill” concept, but we definitely did not do that, though we* certainly explored it very deeply.
I do think we were the first to investigate the “Oriental Riff” though, which has subsequently become a thing.
*“We” does not necessarily include me. I tend to sit back and marvel.
…And checking the thread in question, it looks like I was the one who suggested approximating it as the density of water. Which means that Randal Munroe has used a piece of information I provided. Whoa.
I’ve been on this board for long enough that my mom is aware of it and finally understands that it’s not about drugs…a few months ago I was at her house and I was on Giraffe Boards…and the whole thing started over “no mom, it’s not a message board about giraffes.”
I honestly can’t remember whether I heard it here first, or in the online browser RPG game “Kingdom of Loathing” (The “asshat” was a helmet you could purchase.)