# Curious about the name of one of the boards **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 13, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332 "2020-01-13T02:25:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/1 "2020-01-13T02:25:55Z")
Hello. I’ve always been curious about the name of the board, “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share”. I could well be mistaken. But somehow I imagine there may be a funny story behind the way that name was selected. If there is any such story, may I ask who it was that came up with that name and how it came into being? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/2 "2020-01-13T02:38:15Z")
This probably has little or no bearing on your basic question, but when I first saw it I thought it was like some initials of a person named Sims! As in M P Sims. Once I saw it as an acronym that interpretation went away! I look forward to more intelligent explanations! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/3 "2020-01-13T02:56:26Z")
Way back in the prehistory of the board, back when we were still on AOL, there was a thread about some completely pointless topic (I don’t remember what it was, but then, I wasn’t there). Someone suggested that the thread be renamed Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. The thread became a popular hangout, sort of like the Monday Morning Posts nowadays, and so when we got our own site, they made a whole forum just for that sort of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/4 "2020-01-13T03:18:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Way back in the prehistory of the board, back when we were still on AOL, there was a thread about some completely pointless topic (I don’t remember what it was, but then, I wasn’t there). Someone suggested that the thread be renamed Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. The thread became a popular hangout, sort of like the Monday Morning Posts nowadays, and so when we got our own site, they made a whole forum just for that sort of stuff. Heh Heh. Thanks very much for that explanation. When you said, “Way back in the prehistory of the board …”, I imagined that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey, with all the members in a circle and each one holding a club and looking sideways at his neighbour. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/5 "2020-01-13T03:22:15Z")
I believe the original completely pointless topic was _either_ “Titanic Wallpaper” or “Who Was Mister Ruda Duda”. I forget which. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/6 "2020-01-13T03:23:36Z")
I’ve been on this board for almost 20 years. Back in the debauchery-laden, hedonistic days of the Chidopes when posters like **jarbabyj** , \*\* Persephone\*\* (RIP), and the like posted here, you’d hear it referred to in regular conversation as “M P Sims.” ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/7 "2020-01-13T03:32:49Z")
[quote=“Charlie\_Wayne, post:4, topic:846332”] Heh Heh. Thanks very much for that explanation. When you said, “Way back in the prehistory of the board …”, I imagined that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey, with all the members in a circle and each one holding a club and looking sideways at his neighbour. [/QUOTE] Jenny ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/8 "2020-01-13T03:39:42Z")
**TubaD** – You forgot [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TadhoyYvKpA)! ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/9 "2020-01-13T04:39:32Z")
Could it be based upon the unwritten short story of a similar name, _I Have No Point, But I Must Share_, by Charles Mundanity? ---
**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:** [January 13, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/10 "2020-01-13T04:42:46Z")
[quote=“Superdude, post:6, topic:846332”] I’ve been on this board for almost 20 years. \*\* Me too. Damn. > [@](#): > > Back in the debauchery-laden, hedonistic days of the Chidopes when posters like **jarbabyj** , \*\* Persephone\*\* (RIP), and the like posted here, you’d hear it referred to in regular conversation as “M P Sims.” I’ve never met a Doper in real life but that’s how I say it in my head. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/11 "2020-01-13T05:01:13Z")
And, Boy, I am ever so happy there is a MPSIMS.(:)) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/12 "2020-01-13T07:22:33Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > When you said, “Way back in the prehistory of the board …”, I imagined that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey, with all the members in a circle and each one holding a club and looking sideways at his neighbour. I’m picturing the Ringo Starr movie _Caveman_. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/13 "2020-01-13T10:58:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > And, Boy, I am ever so happy there is a MPSIMS.(:)) I’m waiting for the inevitable change to MPSBMS. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/14 "2020-01-13T13:21:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m picturing the Ringo Starr movie _Caveman_. I remember that as s very funny movie. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/15 "2020-01-13T18:21:09Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Heh Heh. Thanks very much for that explanation. > > When you said, “Way back in the prehistory of the board …”, I imagined that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey, with all the members in a circle and each one holding a club and looking sideways at his neighbour. More likely a squid. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/16 "2020-01-13T22:28:43Z")
Been around for 19 years and I still don’t understand why we have IMHO and MPSIMS. The names don’t help at all. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/17 "2020-01-13T22:32:37Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Been around for 19 years and I still don’t understand why we have IMHO and MPSIMS. The names don’t help at all. IMHO is for soliciting or providing opinions about general topics. MPSIMS is for just talking about totally generic “whatever” topics that don’t fit elsewhere. That’s how I’ve always interpreted their uses. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/18 "2020-01-13T23:48:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > IMHO is for soliciting or providing opinions about general topics. MPSIMS is for just talking about totally generic “whatever” topics that don’t fit elsewhere. That’s how I’ve always interpreted their uses. Same here; and I always thought both quite well named based on what I saw/see there. The one I found confusing (a little) was the one about Chicago (?). Something in my brain is saying it had a bad reaction to that title for some reason and always had to re-read the explanation under it. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/19 "2020-01-14T05:08:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > IMHO is for soliciting or providing opinions about general topics. **MPSIMS is for just talking about totally generic “whatever” topics that don’t fit elsewhere.** That’s how I’ve always interpreted their uses. And yet… And yet… A certain mod just recently closed a GQ thread on the grounds that it doesn’t belong in GQ, nor anywhere else on this board either. Given the responses it had received so far, I thought it might have fit well enough in Politics or IMHO or, failing that, in the catch-all MPSIMS. I didn’t see anything fully Pit-worthy there. So apparently MPSIMS isn’t the catch-all for “topics that don’t fit elsewhere”. > [@Trump Presidential Library](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-presidential-library/846299/4): > > [Moderating] > > It looks like you’re attempting to ask factual questions here, which makes this thread not a good fit for non-GQ forums. But you’re also framing the questions in a way that makes it not a good fit for GQ, either. **I therefore find that this thread doesn’t fit anywhere on the board.** Make up your mind on what thread you want: If you want to complain about Trump, then write an OP to that effect, and put it in either Politics or the Pit. If you want to ask factual questions about presidential libraries, then write an OP to that effect, and post that OP here. What, we’re not allowed to discuss _facts_ or even a mixture of facts and opinions in non-GQ places now? ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332/20 "2020-01-14T06:23:52Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I believe the original completely pointless topic was _either_ “Titanic Wallpaper” or “Who Was Mister Ruda Duda”. I forget which. Wallpaper. Somebody had found a website about the wallpaper on the Titanic and posted a thread about it. And somebody else asked if they had a reason for starting a thread on the topic or if it was just “mundane pointless stuff I must share”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-the-name-of-one-of-the-boards/846332.md?page=2)