# 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:** 4
**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 13, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/61 "2008-10-13T16:21:46Z")
Heck, why stop at 40-50 years ago? **The Straight Dope 1955-1965** What’s this “stereo” I keep hearing about? Matrlon Brando vs. Paul Newman vs. Charlton Heston OMG! James Garner is leaving _Maverick_ **The Straight Dope 1945-1955** New songwriter Willie Nelson. Anyone else heard of him? Rock and roll is teh SUX! Need help tuning my television receiver **The Straight Dope 1935-1945** Do you prefer movies in color or black and white? Edger Bergen Radio Ventriloquist – Yeah, like that’ll work Why are some men so fascinated with Judy Garland? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/62 "2008-10-13T17:17:44Z")
Some guy on the TV was saying there would be a computer in every home in the future. Are these technical guys nuts? What the hell would the average joe need a computer for? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/63 "2008-10-13T17:24:42Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Some guy on the TV was saying there would be a computer in every home in the future. Are these technical guys nuts? What the hell would the average joe need a computer for? And where would they put it? I know I don’t have an extra room just to stuff ENIAC into. ---
**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 13, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/64 "2008-10-13T17:26:15Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Some guy on the TV was saying there would be a computer in every home in the future. Are these technical guys nuts? What the hell would the average joe need a computer for? I think the existence of the SDMB presupposes the Internet & computers in every house. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/65 "2008-10-13T17:37:21Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Heck, why stop at 40-50 years ago? > > **The Straight Dope 1935-1945** > Why are some men so fascinated with Judy Garland? that is the best one in the whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/66 "2008-10-14T02:50:40Z")
Getting back to 1968: **The _2001: A Space Odyssey_ discussion thread: will somebody please explain what the hell was going on?(SPOILERS)** **How could Bob Gibson finish the season with an 1.12 ERA and still LOSE NINE?** **Vote for Nixon and you’ll be sorry!** ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/67 "2008-10-14T03:33:12Z")
IMHO: Eddie Munster or Pugsley Addams Samantha Stevens or Jeanie Theodore Mooney vs Milburn Drysdale ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/68 "2008-10-14T16:18:53Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Was Gilligan’s Island on most peoples’ radar before it became a syndication staple? Not only was it on the radar, it was prime time. So we’d be doing Gilliganisms whenever someone used a big word. > [@](#): > > That rock completely disintegrated. [Gilligan]And not only that, it also fell into tiny pieces.[/Gilligan] ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/69 "2008-10-14T16:23:24Z")
1950 MMP: My friends and I had a gay old time at our weinie eating roast. Afterwards we smoked a few fags. Does that make us queer? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/70 "2008-10-14T18:17:28Z")
> [@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. Laugh-In does not. Laugh-In most certainly does fit the 40-year criteria, just barely. It premiered on January 22, 1968. Do you remember Richard Nixon saying, “Sock it to me?” And you can put that in your Funk & Wagnall’s. 😃 ---
**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 14, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/71 "2008-10-14T18:19:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Laugh-In most certainly does fit the 40-year criteria, just barely. It premiered on January 22, 1968. Do you remember Richard Nixon saying, “Sock it to me?” And you can put that in your Funk & Wagnall’s. 😃 I stand corrected, I thought it was exactly 40 years old. I will use the excuse that I wasn’t even two yet. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/72 "2008-10-14T18:24:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 1950 MMP: My friends and I had a gay old time at our weinie eating roast. Afterwards we smoked a few fags. Does that make us queer? [1950 mindset]I don’t think you’re any more eccentric than anybody else from Brtain. (You are British, right? That’s because I’ve only heard people from the British Isles refer to cigarettes as “fags.”)[/1950 mindset] Back to 1968: The BBQ Pit **Question: is the NBC programming department staffed by numbskulls or nimcompoops? (re: switch from Raiders v. Jets game to “Heidi”)** The Game Room **Will the AFL ever be as good as the NFL?** **Does the “Year of the Pitcher” mean a new “Dead Ball” era?** **How many seasons before the New York Mets crack .500?** Cafe Society **The Beatles or Dylan?** **“Their Satanic Majesties Request”: what kind of bad acid did the Stones drop to produce this crap?** **Jimmy Page is starting a new group. Will it will fly?** ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/73 "2008-10-14T23:02:32Z")
Mace or Cardamom for the secret ingredient on my apple pie submission? Need answer quick! Best pocketknife to give a 5 yr old for Christmas. What’s the best way to snub our town whore? Favorite Ethel Merman solo’s. Yul Brenner, IS he Caucasian? Funniest family polio stories. Bomb shelter decorating ideas. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/74 "2008-10-15T02:17:06Z")
England win the World Cup! \* \*that’s soccer for you lot across the pond… ---
**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 16, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/75 "2008-10-16T00:31:11Z")
**No ABC network here; what am I missing?** (My original hometown of Savannah GA didn’t have an ABC affiliate until 1970.) ---
**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 16, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/76 "2008-10-16T00:49:26Z")
**I am so sick of getting up to change the TV channel!** **Seven channels of programming and nothing good on!** **Will adding aluminum foil ‘wings’ to my TV antenna improve the picture?** **Is soda pop a special occasion drink for you?** **Ladies, have you ever worn trousers in public?** **I’ll never give up my white gloves, no matter what anybody says!** **Today I met a man who wasn’t wearing a hat** (He wasn’t poor, or anything. What would explain such behavior?) **Anybody here not have ‘obey’ in your wedding vows?** **Help! How can I stop some of ‘those people’ from moving into my neighborhood?** **What’s your favorite TV dinner, the meatloaf or the pork chop?** ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/77 "2008-10-16T16:03:48Z")
**Is it true that jazz drummers smoke marihuana?** **What’s growing in your victory garden?** **Yes, we have no bananas!** ---
**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 16, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/78 "2008-10-16T16:23:19Z")
What’s the best way to put boxcutters in your carry on luggage while flying? Let’s celebrate! Anyone up for a 9/11 NYC/Pennsylvania/DC MegaDopefest? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/79 "2008-10-16T18:26:30Z")
Q: Who would win in a fight, Doc Savage or John Carter? A: Doc Savage, if he’s prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/80 "2008-10-16T18:45:26Z")
Cafe Society - circa 1968 **How much longer will Johnny Carson stay on The Tonight Show?** **So, I hear Hollywood’s making a movie about some WW2 general…and it’s NOT about Ike or Doug!** **Will PBS ever be the mythical ‘4th Network’?** **Will _Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ ever be considered a classic?** **_Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_-WTF?** **I bet Jeannie would kick Sam Stevens butt!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317.md?page=5)