# "A Defunct Message Board"?! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 16, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128 "2025-08-16T04:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/21 "2025-08-17T01:42:18Z")
Is it uptown funct? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/22 "2025-08-17T02:26:51Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ll just ask your wife to find out what you can **really** do. “…with a lifetime supply of chocolate.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/23 "2025-08-17T02:36:51Z")
[![](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/064a119ef5f94d92afcc4da13a9fd43b?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=300&cropW=300&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=862) ](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/064a119ef5f94d92afcc4da13a9fd43b?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=300&cropW=300&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=862) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/24 "2025-08-17T13:53:25Z")
Right about now, funct-soul brutha. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/25 "2025-08-17T13:58:54Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Dr. Funkenstain That’s Funkenst **e** in ! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/26 "2025-08-17T14:22:28Z")
There’s always _Shake Your Rump to the Funct_: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jkImd5xZa_g/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGH8gNigTMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCQ5jYOLB3HSjKOtC42AiJgAmzUyg "Bar kays - Shake your rump to the funk") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkImd5xZa_g) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/27 "2025-08-18T11:13:27Z")
I would argue that we are de functiest message board on the Internet, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/28 "2025-08-18T11:44:42Z")
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and some people ARE one. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/29 "2025-08-18T13:49:30Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Everyone has one and some people ARE one. Some people ARE opinions? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/30 "2025-08-18T14:01:35Z")
If the alternative interpretation offends your sensibilities, then yes! 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/31 "2026-08-17T22:09:38Z")
I just came across this in a book (Mary Roach “Fuzz”). > Unless Death By diarrhea\* > > \*According to The Straight Dope [Best guess](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mussolini-use-castor-oil-as-an-instrument-of-torture/126399) Would an 8x New York Times best selling author refer to a defunct message board? I think NOT! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/32 "2026-08-18T23:06:33Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Hi, all. It’s been about ten months Sorry… I had to come back and note the OP username/post combo. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/33 "2026-09-03T19:23:40Z")
_If you don’t like …_ _what you see here…_ _Get the Funct out!_ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128/34 "2026-09-12T20:37:01Z")
_funct(SDMB)_ = TRUE _defunct(SDMB)_ = FALSE Tripler I never learned to code. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-defunct-message-board/1022128.md?page=1)