# Aw Snap!! We missed a big anniversary! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307 "2020-03-26T07:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/1 "2020-03-26T07:24:05Z")
I have an excuse I was ailing and going into surgery. The rest of you dipsticks just plain forgot. The Dope has turned 21!! It and the lil’wrekker are the same age. Just thought I’d add that (:)) Thanks: Cecil Adams, it all started with you and lil’Ed. Love you much! (;)) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/2 "2020-03-26T10:29:47Z")
So what do you want us to do? Buy the Dope a drink? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/3 "2020-03-26T12:31:09Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > So what do you want us to do? Buy the Dope a drink? The only proper drink would be a Mickey Finn. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/4 "2020-03-26T13:19:10Z")
In honor of the current times, I’d buy the Dope a Corona. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/5 "2020-03-26T13:54:45Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > in honor of the current times, i’d buy the dope a corona. +1 ~vow ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/6 "2020-03-26T14:34:53Z")
According to the banner at the top of the page, the Dope turns 47 this year, not 21 (specifically, it did so on Feb. 2). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/7 "2020-03-26T14:43:15Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > According to the banner at the top of the page, the Dope turns 47 this year, not 21 (specifically, it did so on Feb. 2). Aye; I think that it’s the SDMB which has recently turned 21. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/8 "2020-03-26T15:51:30Z")
Yes, I meant the SDMB! Happy 21st, SDMB! W0oT!🎂 don’t go out and get wasted just cause you’re 21!! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/9 "2020-03-26T16:20:41Z")
Only the current iteration of it. It incubated on AOL since 1997 which makes it more like 23. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/10 "2020-03-26T17:01:17Z")
So it “incubated” for two years? Does that make the board an elephant? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/11 "2020-03-27T02:59:36Z")
All you 99ers have been here 21 years. That’s amazing. I feel honored to be amongst you all. (:)) Love this place. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/12 "2020-03-27T03:28:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > All you 99ers have been here 21 years. That’s amazing. Getting the elephant pregnant was the difficult part. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/13 "2020-03-27T03:42:22Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > So it “incubated” for two years? > > Does that make the board an elephant? I was thinking something more along the line of insectile lifeforms that do the chrysalis thing and emerge in a different form after being larvae. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/14 "2020-03-27T05:01:13Z")
I saw monarch butterflies today. appropos to nothing ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-snap-we-missed-a-big-anniversary/850307/15 "2020-03-27T05:49:55Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > So what do you want us to do? Buy the Dope a drink? If the SDMB was based in Alberta, it could have celebrated with a drink in March, 2017. (The drinking age here in Alberta is 18.)