# completely boring and probably obvious fact.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 20, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707 "2003-07-20T05:38:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/1 "2003-07-20T05:38:09Z")

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search for “vbulletin message boards” on Google and guess what is top of the list.  
Yes, this place.  
No you can’t have your 4 seconds back.  
(and yes, I am desperate - searching for other MBs to waste my time on)

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### Author: ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/2 "2003-07-20T06:01:21Z")

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:eek: :mad:  
Why do you need any _other_ message boards?

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### Author: ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/3 "2003-07-20T06:05:17Z")

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[Just did the search.](http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22vbulletin+message+boards%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

No, SDMB isn’t even on page 1.

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### Author: ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/4 "2003-07-20T06:10:51Z")

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[I searched too](http://www.google.ca/search?q=vbulletin+message+boards&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&meta=), and it was there. Bizzare.

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### Author: ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/5 "2003-07-20T06:16:31Z")

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Don’t use “quotes”.

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### Author: ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/6 "2003-07-20T06:24:16Z")

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Ah. I thought that’s what **Lobsang** had done, going by the OP. Okay.

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### Author: ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-boring-and-probably-obvious-fact/189707/7 "2003-07-20T06:53:26Z")

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The [Indianapolis Star](http://www.indystar.com/forums/) is second? I find this surprising, though I don’t really know why.