# Hijacks we know and love **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817 "2004-06-05T15:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 5, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/1 "2004-06-05T15:45:45Z")
One of the first things you learn on the SDMB is that threads often take some very strange turns. For example, I am taking part in a thread in GQ right now that started out as a question about air conditioners, but has turned into a lesson on how to pronounce the Irish word _craic._ I **love** this board! What has been _your_ favorite/strangest/most annoying hijack? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/2 "2004-06-05T15:54:54Z")
My Gambasia affini have babies! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/3 "2004-06-05T16:38:01Z")
I currently hold the record for most irrelevant hijack. (or ‘thread tangent’ as the awarder called it) ---
**Author:** ![woodstock989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@woodstock989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstock989)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/4 "2004-06-05T16:39:32Z")
As a registered, certified Derailer, IMHO, Monty Python hijacks are the most effective, versatile, and enjoyable hijacks. 😃 Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/5 "2004-06-05T16:54:27Z")
My favourite hijack remains my own (although at the time, I didn’t intend for it to be one, I was just having a bit of fun. Didn’t think, as a newbie then, it’d be noticed much.) [The Q and X Union. We represent the underused letters of the alphabet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=65144) Note: _Really_ old thread. Do not bump. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/6 "2004-06-05T17:05:19Z")
The ‘a’ thread was a good hijack that went crazy (the OP did not intend for what happened to happen I think he was just asking a question. It turned into [correct me if I am wrong] the SDMB thread with the most replies) Anyone got a link to it? (no fear of bumping it as it was closed) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/7 "2004-06-05T17:13:12Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I currently hold the record for most irrelevant hijack. (or ‘thread tangent’ as the awarder called it) Not so fast with the Kudos, Island Boy! [Try this on for size.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=195329) (note post #18) What I find funny is, guys like you and me don’t wake up in the morning with a plan hatched to hijack. It just happens. I do it irl convs, too. You? Are Kudos™ available on the Isle of Mannly Guys? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/8 "2004-06-05T17:22:11Z")
Here… [sub] > [@Gadfly](#): > > [The 7th annual Neil Gaiman award for completely irrelevant thread tangent goes to… LOBSANG! 😃](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=242368) [/sub] > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I do it irl convs, too. You? Yep. We can be talking about England’s best cricket innings and then a word triggers a memory, and suddenly I’m talking about sailing ships. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/9 "2004-06-05T17:22:38Z")
[a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/10 "2004-06-05T17:24:27Z")
P.S. Now that I’ve seen Jacob’s Ladder (the film, a few days ago), I understand exactly how irrelevant my hijack was. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/11 "2004-06-05T17:34:09Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > …We can be talking about **England’s best cricket innings** and then a word triggers a memory… [bolding mine] :dubious: Sounds like a non sequitur to me! 😛 What forum seems to lend itself most easiestly (😕 _what the…?_) to hijacks? ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/12 "2004-06-05T17:34:48Z")
Ah they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/13 "2004-06-05T17:48:48Z")
[Poor **Dogface** and his triple post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=202225) Perhaps the most famous SDMB hijack of all. It’s _still_ affecting this board! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/14 "2004-06-05T17:50:55Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > [Poor **Dogface** and his triple post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=202225) Perhaps the most famous SDMB hijack of all. It’s _still_ affecting this board! Banned after 3470 posts?! (I am sure the story behind that is as old as the twenteen-ninties style reth days, easiyiestilyly) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacks-we-know-and-love/248817/15 "2004-06-05T17:56:55Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Banned after 3470 posts?! (I am sure the story behind that is as old as the twenteen-ninties style reth days, easiyiestilyly) [Answer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4707743&postcount=105)