Being a square Daddy-O I apparently missed the hip thread with the “death ray” joke, that everyone else seems to be so clued into and references again and again … and yet again. Where is the “original death” ray thread so that I can once again don my SDMB zoot suit and dance the Charleston with a skirt?
Here’s the original thread in GQ.
They should turn it into a sticky.
Here’s the thread that started it all.
Dogface created the phrase. What a wonderful thread. One of the very funniest I’ve seen here.
Definitely one of the funniest 
Yaaay simulpost. And in fact, green, I was just thinking that should be a sticky. This message board at its very best…
Ah, flapper zappers!!!
You have to wonder, would ANY old simulpost work? If you did one now everyone would know you were just trying to start a new trend, and say “Eh, that’s lame” and it wouldn’t catch on. But if it had been some other phrase, would it have created the same effect?
ponder ponder
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays”.
The threadspotting feature on the main page probably brought in a few more posters than would otherwise have responded. I know I got hooked on the forums when a link to the evil Nazi groundhogs thread was put on the main page. It took several years of lurking before I registered, but other web surfers might be more impulsive, registering immediately after getting hooked on the forums.
I came here through threadspotting… I posted a few times last April, but not many. Then I read almost every single SD column online at my internship and scrolled on down to threadspotting. 