# Creating an unambiguous SDMB reference on TV **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993 "2008-10-15T02:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/21 "2008-10-15T16:24:25Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > In any statement to or about large groups, refer to them as the Teeming Millions. I’d argue that would be a reference to The Straight Dope, not specifically the SDMB. Ol’ Cecil does get referenced from time to time, but the message board is a different beast. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/22 "2008-10-15T16:28:59Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > You could lament your failure to remember to bring your foot long ice blue jelly dong. … or, you could bring one… “So I asked myself, What would Cecil do?” ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/23 "2008-10-15T16:52:10Z")
Something about a guy named Hal and farm animals? (Ducks and runs.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/24 "2008-10-15T16:58:29Z")
14 k of g in a … _OW!_ ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/25 "2008-10-15T19:58:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And our particular version of Og Smash might have originated here, but it’s a generic enough concept that it appears to have cropped up independantly many different places on the Web. It certainly did originate elsewhere and it predates the SDMB by a number of years. The poster who came up with it here probably did so independently though. Some years ago the discussion came up and when I showed a cite from the Usenet from the early 90’s. The poster who thought that she originated it here threw a major hissy fit and accused me of calling her a plagiarist. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/26 "2008-10-15T20:01:23Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > IIRC, it was actually 18 inches, and perhaps double-headed. > > 18"DHIBJD, I think. Not quite. I believe the accepted designation is 18"DHIBJD:eek::eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/27 "2008-10-15T21:09:45Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > After January of 2005, I’d wager. The phrase originated [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294892), Post #2. Wow. I had no idea I had even read that thread, let alone made the first post after the historic ensuage. I’m a little creeped out. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/28 "2008-10-15T21:16:42Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not quite. I believe the accepted designation is 18"DHIBJD:eek::eek: [Here is the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266235) in which the origins can be traced. The OP refers to “a double headed, 18” ice blue jelly dong". In Post #15, “18"DHIBJD” makes its first appearance. In Post #21, you bold the abbreviation and urge its dissemination. In Post #28, **laina\_f** suggests the appending of the :eek::eek: to represent both the “double-headed” and “ice blue” properties of the eighteen-inch marital aid in question. In Post #40, **Dragwyr** suggests the time-saving alternative “18”:eek::eek:". ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/29 "2008-10-15T21:27:44Z")
I’d use the forum names in my daily conversations with people. “I have a general question for you.” “Don’t make me pit you!” “I have something mundane and pointless I must share with all of you.” “Nice Janet! That sounds like something for great debates.” “We were just talking about TV shows we miss. You know, cafe society kind of stuff.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/30 "2008-10-15T21:46:13Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > > [@Hal Briston](#): > > > > After January of 2005, I’d wager. The phrase originated here, Post #2. > > Thank you, **Hal**. That’s definitely a jewel worth revisiting from time to time. Just think, if post editing had been available at the time, we would have been deprived of said greatness. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/31 "2008-10-15T21:58:13Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Just think, if post editing had been available at the time, we would have been deprived of said greatness. That’s why [they don’t let people go back and kill Hitler](http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/32 "2008-10-15T21:58:48Z")
“Gotcha ya” is pure SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993/33 "2008-10-15T22:28:03Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > “Gotcha ya” is pure SDMB. A search of Google Groups has it showing up as early as 1992. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-an-unambiguous-sdmb-reference-on-tv/467993.md?page=1)