All right, I forked out for a membership about a month and a half ago, and it’s totally been worth it. Y’all are pathetically smart, just like me! But after weeks of trawling through the search engine and old threads, there’s one kernel of knowledge that’s still eluding me.
“Hi Opal!” – got it.
“Graped by the Grapist?” Got it.
“I burning your dog!” Got it.
“Band name?” Got it.
But damn if I can’t find the OP for the “1920s style death rays!” in-joke. I’ve been looking for it for weeks, and nada. Zip. Zilch. It is nowhere to be found. The thread, it seems, has passed on into the great hereafter (unless, of course, it’s just pining for the fjords, in which case it would be appreciated if someone would point me to it).
So – what’s up with the mad 1920’s style death rays, folks? Because I am dying to have this itch scratched.
I love the idea of a Hall of Fame sticky. However, I’d hate to be the mod/admin that had to decide which threads get linked there. Or will it be links contributed by us?
I like “Hall of Fame” OK for a title but it seems to lack the creativity found on this board. I’m hoping some of our more, uh, talented Dopers will stop by and give us their words of wisdom.
“Classic (but not necessarily Classy) Threads” is a possibility.
More important than the title though, is how the sticky is created. I think a single moderator should create a post containing links and if necessary, an explanation, of the Hall of Fame entries.
A long thread of posts by members would end up with a lot of redundancy and potentially frivolous or unqualified entries. We need this to be, well, moderated.
Needless to say, the members should be able to nominate threads for inclusion into the Hall of Fame. The moderator(s) in charge would need to make the appropriate decision regarding whether or not the nomination meets the criteria for inclusion.
Criteria? Well, I’d leave that properly vague. I’d say at minimum, a certain amount of time should pass before a thread qualifies. And heck, we’re flexible, right? The Hall of Fame could be a “living document” – unlike athletic Hall of Fames, we could remove entries if necessary to correct situations where it seemed like a good idea at the time, but not any longer.
Oh, and we need a link to the original thread where Og originated! (Can’t do a search on a word with only 2 letters, but it was racinchikki’s post that pretty much got it started.)
And many other SDMB phrases could be explained in the Hall of Fame too, like…
… Wally (the man, and the smilie)
… Winter of our Missed Content
… When come back, bring pie
… Smashie the animated smilie
… Jack Dean Tyler
… Invisible Pink Unicorn
… Gaudere’s Law
The idea was NOT to come up with a list of “best threads of all time” – that’s threadspotting. The idea was to come up with threads that EXPLAIN specific SDMB phrases or usages, like “1920s-S D R” or “Hi, Opal”, etc. Thus, as a sticky in ATMB, it would be a guide and help to newcomers to figure out our jargon.
At least, that’s what I thunk was bein’ suggested.
