# Blasts from the SDMB Past
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 30, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309 "2026-06-30T20:21:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/1 "2026-06-30T20:21:20Z")
I was looking through the upcoming shows at one of our local performing arts venues, and “The Mavericks & Friends” will be playing at the end of next month. I like The Mavericks, but mostly because of Raul Malo and, sadly, he is no longer with us. Still, I read the description of the event, thinking that depending on the substitute vocalist(s) it might still be worth going.
Imagine my surprise when the write-up stated, “…along with guest singers like Emily West and _ **James Otto** _.” [emphasis mine]. Boy, did _that_ bring up memories of a board member past. In fact, that user was the only other place I have encountered this musician’s name. A quick search n Mr. Otto’s fan made me realize just how long I’ve been around here. 😲
Anything out in the real world ever immediately make you think of the SDMB, especially from long-gone eras?
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/2 "2026-06-30T23:55:18Z")
Huh? Maybe as a 2009er I haven’t been long enough here on this board, but can you please clarify why a singer named James Otto is significant for this board’s past?
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### Author:  [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/3 "2026-07-01T02:02:07Z")
James Otto Sweet Heart from 2012. She was … something. Try this thread to see if it jogs your memory. And there was so much more. Oh, wow. Today is her birthday. How timely. God bless them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
> [@James Otto (My most favorite singer)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-my-most-favorite-singer/642613):
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> If it is OK to tell y’all about my most favorite singer here, James Otto is his name and if you like both country and soul music, they are put together when James sings! This is what has gone to radio so far from him. slight_smile slight_smile slight_smile[“I Just Got Started Loving You”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCx6NnGYHh0&feature=fvst)-from his Sunset Man album, a #1 for two weeks making it the #1 country song of 2008, and scored James his very first Grammy award nomination the following year. slight_smile slight_smile …
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/4 "2026-07-01T02:07:41Z")
Ooooh, god dammit, now I remember…Yeah, that poster was a special fan girl. And she was all over the board for a few weeks with her obsession.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/5 "2026-07-01T02:10:15Z")
Any time I see gold advertised as 14K, I think of [g in a f p d](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249)
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/6 "2026-07-01T02:20:01Z")
The other day, I was at Home Depot, and noticed a jigsaw. I immediately thought of @Cervaise 's awesome takedown of a telemarketer, all the way back in 2000:
> [@The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861):
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> In [this GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49642&pagenumber=1), Claudia VonL replies to everyone who complains about telemarketers by posting one of the most asinine, poorly reasoned, incompetently written messages I’ve ever seen on the SDMB. And yes, that includes the infamous JDT, so that’s saying something. Posting a sufficiently complete response to her blather in its original forum would be a violation of Board policy – and so, for the first time in my nearly two years as a member, I’m starting a Pit thread in order to do her message …
You’ll understand why jigsaws make me think of that thread if you read it. It is quite entertaining.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/7 "2026-07-01T03:07:50Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#):
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> James Otto Sweet Heart from 2012. She was … something. Try this thread to see if it jogs your memory. And there was so much more. Oh, wow. Today is her birthday. How timely. God bless them always!!!
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> James Otto (My most favorite singer) Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Wow, I would have sworn she used ❤s instead of 🙂s
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/8 "2026-07-01T03:08:39Z")
duplicate post
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/9 "2026-07-01T17:09:19Z")
Yeah I was scrolling through a zombie thread that had gotten bumped the other day (not realizing at first that it was a zombie) and came across a James Otto Sweet Heart “God bless you!!!” post that was a real flashback.
There’s a game I play on my phone that has a super-charged power-up that I have taken to calling the **Super Kapowzler**. Because that name is stuck in my head forever. And shit.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/10 "2026-07-01T17:12:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> There’s a game I play on my phone that has a super-charged power-up that I have taken to calling the **Super Kapowzler**. Because that name is stuck in my head forever. And shit.
I liked that guy. I always imagined him sitting there with the biggest spliff imaginable in a big cloud of smoke when posting his hilarious stuff. It was kind of enhanced performance art. He gave me Lee “Scratch” Perry vibes.
ETA: and shit.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/11 "2026-07-01T17:37:52Z")
Yeah **Super Kapowzler** was cool… and shit.
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### Author:  [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/12 "2026-07-01T17:55:55Z")
God damn, I’d almost forgotten what an artist @Cervaise could be.
Maybe I’m not paying attention, but I feel like the board’s lost some of that kind of craftsmanship in recent years. I still feel privileged to have been around to see it.
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### Author:  [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasts-from-the-sdmb-past/1031309/13 "2026-07-01T17:57:07Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> There’s a game I play on my phone that has a super-charged power-up that I have taken to calling the **Super Kapowzler**. Because that name is stuck in my head forever. And shit.
I don’t know if we’re playing the same game or not, but from now on I shall call _my_ super-charged power-up the **Super Kapowzler**. Thanks for that reminder.