# If the SDMB existed 40+ years ago **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317 "2008-10-10T14:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/21 "2008-10-10T18:08:31Z")
I said 40+, not just 40. I just picked that number because it’s approximately before Python, which when I think people started to think it funny to say random quotes, and not just catchphrases. What did some people do for laughs before they could just say “it tastes like burning” or “it’s only a flesh wound”? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/22 "2008-10-10T19:33:46Z")
Every time a moderator waded into a thread, or somebody thought that a moderator was _about_ to wade into a thread, somebody would post: **Here come da Moderator!** It would be funny the first two or three times, and then it would be . . . hi, Opal. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/23 "2008-10-10T19:44:09Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Every time a moderator waded into a thread, or somebody thought that a moderator was _about_ to wade into a thread, somebody would post: > > **Here come da Moderator!** > > It would be funny the first two or three times, and then it would be . . . hi, Opal. “Heyyy therrrreeee, OPAL glrl…” I’ll shut up now. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/24 "2008-10-10T20:04:36Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I know my thread title is a bit generic, but could we keep this to pop culture references? Thanks. Oh, and we’d definitely be quoting Warner Bros. cartoons (not that we don’t now, but without Simpsons or Family Guy I think we’d be relying on Bugs and Daffy even more). This is easy, Marx Brothers and Bugs as you said but also Get Smart, Beatles in general, Star Trek & the Smothers Brother meet the 40+ years criteria. Laugh-In does not. I wonder if we would get some Hogan’s Heroes quotes? The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test just missed as it was published in 1968. Lord of the Rings would already being getting some action but be more obscure. I think On the Road would be quotes and Allan Sherman would show up where Weird Al does now. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/25 "2008-10-10T20:10:43Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > The Avengers 10/9: How Emma jumped the shark. Then someone–and by that I mean me–would be observing that the only true Avengers are in comic books and include a thunder god. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/26 "2008-10-10T20:12:43Z")
I hear they will be allowing marriage between the whites and the coloreds. Do you agree with that? ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/27 "2008-10-10T20:17:46Z")
Something tells me there’d be a lot of quoting of Marvel comics. “It’s clobberin’ time!” “My Spidey-sense is tingling!” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/28 "2008-10-10T20:21:07Z")
Another quote mine from around then would be The Addams Family. “You rang?” “Oh, Tish, you spoke French!” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/29 "2008-10-10T20:22:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > This is easy, Marx Brothers and Bugs as you said but also Get Smart, Beatles in general, Star Trek & the Smothers Brother meet the 40+ years criteria. We’d get a lot of “That is illogical” and “He’s dead Jim” jokes. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/30 "2008-10-10T20:24:10Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > Another quote mine from around then would be The Addams Family. > > “You rang?” > > “Oh, Tish, you spoke French!” Fascinating, I find your logic sound on this one. I too would be quoting small things from the Addams Family and … Loving it! ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/31 "2008-10-11T00:01:13Z")
Will Jon Pertwee live up to Patrick Troughton’s shoes on Doctor Who? (British dopers only) ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/32 "2008-10-11T00:23:38Z")
THE STRAIGHT DOPE PLANNING TO START FIGHTING IGNORANCE IN FIVE YEARS OR SO (IT SHOULDN’T TAKE LONG) strange, I apparently can’t post in all caps anymore…? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/33 "2008-10-11T00:49:57Z")
Someone would be defending Lost In Space as their favorite SF show. There’d probably be a thread on “Do you watch Saturday morning cartoons?” and discussions of favorites: [1968 Saturday Morning Cartoons / TVparty!](http://www.tvparty.com/sat68.html) Amazingly, I cannot find a complete listing of the Hugo nominees (not just winners, and all categories) by year. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/34 "2008-10-11T01:16:45Z")
I suspect a thread like this might pop up: > [@](#): > > “2001” – Best Sci Fi movie ever? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/35 "2008-10-11T01:26:29Z")
Did Grace Slick really name her baby “God”? Who has seen Barbara Eden’s belly button? Why hasn’t Liberace ever married? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/36 "2008-10-11T02:19:15Z")
\*\*Gunsmoke peaked in season 2! (or 4, or 12, or 15) Bonanza – As good without Pernell Roberts? Samantha Stevens or Jeannie – who’d win the fight? Anyone see Sam Rayburn on Meet the Press? Do Negro rock and roll singers get enough respect?\*\* And, of course… **Ginger or Mary Ann?** ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/37 "2008-10-11T02:40:12Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And, of course… > > **Ginger or Mary Ann?** Was Gilligan’s Island on most peoples’ radar before it became a syndication staple? ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/38 "2008-10-11T02:43:28Z")
That bitch will break up the Beatles, mark my words! Andy Griffith _finally_ in color… so why does it suck now? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/39 "2008-10-11T02:52:23Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Was Gilligan’s Island on most peoples’ radar before it became a syndication staple? It absolutely was. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/40 "2008-10-11T03:00:28Z")
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