# Ever go back an read your earliest SDMB threads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560 "2012-05-01T21:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560/41 "2012-05-05T17:58:34Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> You mean “Dopers have corrected my grammar and punctuation at least **a** couple of times.”
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> 😉
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

😃

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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560/42 "2012-05-05T21:16:51Z")

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Yes, many of them to be awkwardly phrased and diadatic.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560/43 "2012-05-05T22:01:13Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> Yes, many of them to be awkwardly phrased and diadatic.

I know what you mean. A lot of my early posts were one-liners and drive-by insults.

The important thing is we’ve both matured.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560/44 "2012-05-06T01:27:23Z")

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Tangentially related at best.

A few weeks ago I had a good week on the job and decided to screw off one Friday afternoon. I went to see ‘Titanic 3D’ in a theater. What the hell. Don’t judge me.

Afterward I’m thinking…“Hmm. I wonder if there was ANYTHING the crew could have done to save the ship. Any course of action that looks good in hindsight?”

I thought to post it here but decided to do a search first in case it had been asked before. It seemed an obvious question, after all.

I find this thread [from 2004.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266246&highlight=titanic)

Started by me. Eight years apart and the same thread idea occurs to me.

Oy.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-back-an-read-your-earliest-sdmb-threads/620560/45 "2012-05-09T17:31:12Z")

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Yeah, I’ve started reading a thread, and thought “That’s hilarious! I wish I’d written tha… _Oh_, it’s a zombie thread. And that was the 2002 version of _me_ that wrote that…”

Hey, on the plus side I’m reaching the age where I’ll be able to reread my favorite mysteries without knowing whodunnit.

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