# 9/11 threads, where, pray-tell, are they? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209 "2004-07-28T02:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/1 "2004-07-28T02:21:53Z")
Have all the 9/11 era threads gone the way of the Dodo bird, or are my search skills suspect? I just wanted to brouse through the threads of that fateful day since it happened before I was a member. Any advice? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/2 "2004-07-28T02:51:32Z")
Here’s one: > **[World Trade Center](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=86465)** > > There’s a thread already going in MPSIMS right now that I’m following. This is a thread for people who need a little more color when describing the terrorists. Fuckers. Just heard, right now, the Liberation Palestinian Society (or something like... You’re right, there seem to be some threads I remember which are no longer findable. It would be easier if one could search by OP date, not by last post date. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/3 "2004-07-28T03:00:19Z")
This is the page where the 9/11 threads start in MPSIMS: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=4&page=669&sort=lastpost&order=desc&pp=50&daysprune=-1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=4&page=669&sort=lastpost&order=desc&pp=50&daysprune=-1) If you just start there and then browse through the subsequent pages in the forum, you should find what you’re looking for. I don’t know why the search function wouldn’t turn the threads up, but I couldn’t get it to find them, either. I just went back in time in MPSIMS until I got to September 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/4 "2004-07-28T03:02:52Z")
Public Service Announcement: There are some really inflammatory comments in some of these 9/11 threads; a lot of highly respected posters saying things that would have been banworthy on any other day. Feelings ran so high that many 9/11 threads were closed and I suspect many were deleted. I humbly offer that these people should be cut lots and lots of slack, and people not held accountable 3 years later for what they said that day. The horror of the attaks outweighs anything anyone said, by orders of magnitude. [/psa] The threads that took place in realtime on that day are a piece of history, I believe. They ought to be preserved and I hope they all are. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/5 "2004-07-28T03:27:02Z")
I can’t find many of them either. This thread was restarted after 9/11: [Where will Bush start a war first?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=56005&page=3&pp=30) > [@](#): > > It looks like we the “winners” will be: Scyllya, freido, RD, and several others, for predicting Afghanistan or Arab countries in general. > > Yes, I know Bush didn’t “start” a war. He is responding to an attack on the US… I remember a nice pit thread where someone had the balls to ask “does anyone else think Osama is hot?” Can’t find it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/6 "2004-07-28T03:39:28Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > This is the page where the 9/11 threads start in MPSIMS: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=4&page=669&sort=lastpost&order=desc&pp=50&daysprune=-1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=4&page=669&sort=lastpost&order=desc&pp=50&daysprune=-1) Here’s the same for the pit: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&page=97&sort=lastpost&order=asc&pp=50&daysprune=-1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&page=97&sort=lastpost&order=asc&pp=50&daysprune=-1) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/7 "2004-07-28T09:50:06Z")
[World Trade Center plane crash](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458), the “original” 9/11 thread in MPSIMS, if you will. Surreal to read it again. ☹ Oddly enough, one thread that absolutely cracked me up at the time: [Possible ONION Headlines (Warning: WTC Humor)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87707) It was a spot-on application of humour in times of darkness. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/8 "2004-07-28T13:41:07Z")
I just read [**Coldie** ’s link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458). Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/9 "2004-07-28T15:28:32Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I just read [**Coldie** ’s link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458). > > Wow. Indeed. That thread is also home to 10 simulposts regarding the fall of the second tower, let’s hope that record isn’t broken by something of a similar nature. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/10 "2004-07-28T16:24:37Z")
Hey **Jeff** , nice to see you again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/11 "2004-07-28T17:03:37Z")
Just clearing up something I said in another thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/12 "2004-07-28T17:25:38Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I just read [**Coldie** ’s link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458). > > Wow. I have that one bookmarked. I read it every year on the anniversary. Funny **Jeff** , I was going to start a thread on this subject. I was wondering if this one is the epitome, or if there were other “important” threads going on as well. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/13 "2004-07-28T17:52:19Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Here’s the same for the pit: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&page=97&sort=lastpost&order=asc&pp=50&daysprune=-1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&page=97&sort=lastpost&order=asc&pp=50&daysprune=-1) Funny how the second thread on that page is by someone called **theendisnear**. **ivylass** , are you sure you don’t mean **Uncommon Sense**? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/14 "2004-07-28T19:10:46Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > Funny how the second thread on that page is by someone called **theendisnear**. Did you see **dalovindj’s** , moving rant titled: [Worst day of 2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=1599507), posted before the attacks? I’ll bet he felt a little upstaged by events. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/15 "2004-07-28T21:14:40Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > **ivylass** , are you sure you don’t mean **Uncommon Sense**? :smack: Clearly, that is something I lack. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/16 "2004-07-28T23:57:29Z")
Not long after 9/11, I printed out the original thread, linked by **Coldfire** , and the thread about world reaction. You never know when something from the net may disappear, and I felt that I would want to have those threads forever. Three years later they are still sitting on top of my PC. Whenever I am reminded of that day and want to remember what it was really like, I re-read them. My answer to the question: “What were you doing on 9/11?” is “I was on the Straight Dope.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/17 "2004-07-29T12:17:40Z")
**Spoiler** , could you post the link to the thread about world reaction. I’d like to keep that one too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/18 "2004-07-29T18:53:53Z")
On re-reading those posts… whatever became of **Vix**? Is the current poster with that name the same one everybody was looking for? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/19 "2004-07-29T23:31:25Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > On re-reading those posts… whatever became of **Vix**? Is the current poster with that name the same one everybody was looking for? Yes, **vix** is still posting. In fact, she posted yesterday in [What are the 5 most interesting things about you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=268574) > [@](#): > > 1. I was in the World Trade Center when it was attacked. I remember that on the day of the attack, shortly after all of the hysteria about her someone posted that she was all right. IIRC, she was evacuated from the lobby of one of the towers. She has since moved to Florida. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209/20 "2004-07-30T14:18:24Z")
Yep. I’m still here but mostly I lurk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-threads-where-pray-tell-are-they/257209.md?page=2)