# Finding old links **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345 "2023-09-19T03:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/1 "2023-09-19T03:49:27Z")
I don’t know if this is the right forum but it can be moved if I’m in a wrong place. I have lost a set of links to favorite older threads. Some may not be available any longer, I know. But another Doper helped me find some of them, for which I am grateful. However, there are some others I’d like to see again. One is the blimp thread. _Another is I Stood next to the Emperor of the World at McDonalds_ And a third is about pimple popping, and labeled itself TMI. **Broomstick** had a prominent story in that one. Oh, and one more, I swear, about Little Timmy Cthulhu’s Christmas Miracle. If you can help I would very much appreciate it. And if you seek threads, feel free to add your requests. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/2 "2023-09-19T04:04:00Z")
I assume this is one of them: > [@Elder God Glurge (or Little Timmy Cthulhu's Christmas Miracle)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elder-god-glurge-or-little-timmy-cthulhus-christmas-miracle/96120): > > \>\>\>Did you know that there are Elder Things born without \>\>\>tentacles? It’s TRUE. LITTLE LAME TIMMY CTHULHU was only born \>\>\>with three PSEUDOPODS! BUT a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE HAPPENED! \>\>\>LET Me tell you about how LITTLE TIMMY CTHULHU’s childlike \>\>\>FAITH in Christmas and SHUB-NIGGURATH made a CHRISTMAS \>\>\>MIracle! It ALL started when LITTLE TIMMY CTHULHU’s crutches broke! “THING-THAT-SPAWNED ME?” it asked “I know \>\>\>we don’t have enough money to buy me a new crutch AND get me a \>\>\>puppy. Bu… (just used the search / magnifying glass option). I don’t know what Pimple thread you need, so here’s one at least: > [@Does popping a pimple make it heal quicker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-popping-a-pimple-make-it-heal-quicker/977216): > > Gross question, I know. But it came to me the other day. There is definitely something satisfying about popping a zit and drawing out the pus, but is it helping the healing process? If one had superhuman discipline, and could forgo picking their dots (as my ex- wife called them), would the pimple heal quicker than if it was excised with a squeeze? This seems to be the next hit: > [@I stood next to the Emperor of the World at McDonald's!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stood-next-to-the-emperor-of-the-world-at-mcdonalds/145043): > > Or at least, if it wasn’t him, he seemed to think it was. So I’m standing in line with the rest of the herd at Mickey D’s today at lunch. It’s a little more crowded than usual; each line to order is about five people deep. There are three registers on the front counter, but only two are for inside service. How do I know this, you ask? Because of the 8" x 12" laminated sign in front of the third register which reads “This register is for drive-thru orders ONLY!!!” Anyway. Standing in line, stan… As for blimps, well, there are a few hits again, but here’s one to try, otherwise a few more keywords in a search always help. > [@How much control over weather balloon type devices? ( or small blimps?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-control-over-weather-balloon-type-devices-or-small-blimps/989604): > > How high could a weather balloon ascend while under control. Can we control the ascent and decent speeds? Could we program it to respond to various climate inputs? How is the monitoring of the atmospheric conditions presently done? I assume you’re using a mobile interface / phone, where the search is a bit harder to find, but these all came up within moments using your own keywords and the Discourse search feature. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/3 "2023-09-19T04:13:58Z")
The Emperor link and the Timmy Link are the ones I want. Thank you so much. The pimple thread is another, I think the first post was about a guy in the shower finding a bump on his butt. If I remember correctly Coldfire was the mod, and kind of grossed out. The blimp one was about a toy blimp that created havoc in a guys home. I need to look up a British magazine it got reposted in, which I obtained a copy of. Why I can’t recall the title I don’t know, I think it’s because I’m an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/4 "2023-09-19T04:19:03Z")
> [@The horror of blimps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps/152885): > > Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp. I’d seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal! Last night my wife was playing tenn… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/5 "2023-09-19T04:20:14Z")
Thank you, **thank you** _THANK YOU_. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/6 "2023-09-19T04:25:05Z")
Always have to include this amongst the classics > [@The Ron Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417): > > Okay - this is for the people from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495289) that read this snippet: The first time I met Ron was at a holiday party I was hosting at my house. My sister and Ron showed up 2 hours late - because they were shopping for toilet paper. yes you read that right. I was the older sister (by 2 years and 363 days but who’s counting?) and so therefore you would assume a certain desire to make a good impression. What I got was my sister and Ron doing the human hand-holding contortion: His arm aroun… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/7 "2023-09-19T04:38:16Z")
I also liked a thread titled “I have a serious case of wolf a\*\*” A guy talked about eating a ton of hot and spicy foods, the the effect on his digestive system. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/8 "2023-09-19T06:22:35Z")
There’s a hyphen between wolf and ass. You can find it with a search of “wolf-ass” in the title. > [@I Have Serious Wolf-ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-serious-wolf-ass/62233): > > I love Snider’s jalapeno flavored potato chips. Yesterday, I ummm… ate a whole bag. Had stomach rumblings on the way to work. Got there, hit the men’s room, and started to do my business. HHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWLLLLL! Holy spicy crap it hurt! I guess it’s the combination of grease and heat. Worst part was had to go a couple of more times as well. And they have that sandpaper toilet paper at work, too. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/9 "2023-09-19T12:50:18Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I have lost a set of links to favorite older threads. Some may not be available any longer, I know. But another Doper helped me find some of them, for which I am grateful. All threads are still available. The difference is that if you have a saved link / favorite that points to the thread at the old vBulletin site, that link will not find the corresponding thread here on Discourse. Most (not all) thread-to-thread links that are inside posts were able to be updated at the transition. But the links saved on your own computer obviously were not. As others have demonstrated, Discourse search can find any thread from forever readily if you know enough sorta unique words to narrow the results down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/10 "2023-09-19T12:55:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And a third is about pimple popping, and labeled itself TMI. **Broomstick** had a prominent story in that one. - > [@Favorite pimple stories (maybe TMI)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-pimple-stories-maybe-tmi/100684/44): > > OK, here comes Broomstick’s Abcess Story (again) I think it started as a bug bite, but truthfully, with a hide like mine with so many creative ways to break out, rash, or otherwise develop nastiness it could have been anything, really. Well, a day later, I wake up at 2:30 in the morning and it’s like I have a ping-pong ball implanted under the skin of my cheek. Pain. Redness. An ominions black scab on the center of it. So, of course I go into the bathroom to inspect it. This mother was so… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/11 "2023-09-19T13:48:26Z")
Anyone else looking for missing threads? And I really want to thank you all for the replies. It’s amazing, some of the ones I wanted are over twenty years old and I still remembered specific phrases from them. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/12 "2023-09-19T18:36:39Z")
I liked this one a lot. It is not at all humorous but very informative. > [@What is psychosis like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-psychosis-like/645187): > > Having read a bit about it, I’ve been wondering what psychosis is like. For those who have had psychotic episodes or have seen others in psychotic episodes or have theoretical/professional knowledge of it, I’d like to know more. What are the salient features of psychosis? What are its causes and effects? To what extend can one deal with someone with a psychosis and how? Thank You @Inigo_Montoya ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/13 "2023-09-19T22:59:43Z")
I remember when I first joined I actively searched out old threads of note to get a sense of the community. Every now and then I’ve seen reference to the SDMB’s Greatest Hits. As far as I can tell, however, there was never a thread by that name, but there was this. > [@The Top 101 StraightDope Threads...Of All Time.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552): > > Okay, if E! can have the Top 101 Celebrity Oops! And Top 101 Reasons the 90s Rocked and Top 101 Reasons Lyle Lovett Has Bad Hair, etc, etc…then, dammit, I can too! Continuing with my idea of a semi-SDMB Anthology Project and after assembling almost all of the [“ask the…” threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345657&highlight=anthology), I thought I’d make a topic getting everyone’s imput and opinion on the best threads of all time. Until we have 101 of them, to be exact. Then, in about a month or so, in December (or maybe Jan; at a time when this thre… All the links are broken now, but a couple favorites that I remember reading: **Scylla** ’s story on the flying blimp was already mentioned. I’m sure one or more stories by **Master Wang-Ka** would be included. There was a story about a man named Bubba, “mail order bride and sour honey”, by **John Carter of Mars**. Probably my favorite - couldn’t say why. The infamously absurd, “Would you shoot child and kill your child in this situation?” thread. Of course, the 9/11 thread. (I think it’s probably time for a new “SDMB’s Greatest Hits” thread.) ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/14 "2023-09-19T23:05:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I liked this one a lot. It is not at all humorous but very informative. Ohh wow, it’s been a minute hasn’t it? 11 years and I’m still around, people near me have come to love my crazy, and my nutty son is a cop now. This world still don’t make no sense, but it’s so much easier to get by when you don’t care about sense. David Byrne was trying to tell me. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/15 "2023-09-20T00:10:11Z")
@Inigo_Montoya: Welcome back around. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/16 "2023-09-20T19:47:16Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > There was a story about a man named Bubba, “mail order bride and sour honey”, by **John Carter of Mars**. Probably my favorite - couldn’t say why. Also my favorite. It’s long but you really only need to read the OPs posts to enjoy it. > [@Mail order bride & sour honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-order-bride-sour-honey/202547): > > So I’m a dumbass: There’s this Nice Young Man\*\*[sup]TM\*\*[/sup] (Let’s call him Bubba)in my community that makes his living off of bees. That’s right, he’s a professional beekeeper. Now in the beekeeping business, income is seasonal and prices can vary widely from month to month. So three months ago Bubba approaches me and says he’s tapped out but he’s got plenty of honey to sell as soon as the price goes up. In the meantime, Bubba can’t pay his light bill, or get gasoline to travel around and … ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/17 "2023-09-21T03:45:35Z")
Thanks for the info. It’s been a long, long time. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/18 "2023-09-21T04:43:38Z")
Well damn. We have summonsed a ghost. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/19 "2023-09-21T11:24:05Z")
It takes a very long time to get here from Mars. Welcome back! Also, for those who haven’t looked at it, the Ron thread cited here in post 6 is totally worth reading. It’s almost 600 posts and is best enjoyed in about 50-post doses over the course of a week or more. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345/20 "2023-09-21T12:43:26Z")
Still alive and kickin’. I haven’t visited the Straightdope site in a long time. Retired now and don’t spend nearly as much time on the internet. I’m fooling with a few horses for granddaughters and in general keeping this small farm up. I’ll provide an update. “Bubba” did eventually acquire a wife from Ukraine. She’s not miss-Va-Voom by any stretch but not ugly either, just very ordinary in the looks department. However, she’s out here helping Bubba work his bees every time he comes. She puts on the beekeeper protective equipment and dives right into the job. She also does a lot of work in their processing house, aids with marketing and deliveries and so forth. She’s very pleasant on those times when I see her. He’s almost certainly better off with her than he would be with some super model type who only wanted a ticket to U.S. citizenship. I think it has ended well. Glad you enjoyed the thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345.md?page=2)