# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**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 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-old-links/990345)._