# If the SDMB existed 40+ years ago

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317>\
**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:** 2\
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**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 16, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/81 "2008-10-16T18:48:25Z")

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**Here we go again - Leftie pinkos spread lies about the U.S. armies’ conduct in a Vietnamese town called My Lai.**

**Who’s in favor of a Defense of Marriage amendment banning marriage between whites and coloreds?**

**That old fart Elvis Presley plans to have a ‘comeback special’ in December. How lame will that be?**

**The new girl on “the Avengers” - really makes me miss Emma Peel.**

**Is anyone planning on going to the rock festival in upstate NY next summer? I hear it’s going to be HEAVY.**

**OMG! Have you heard of the band Iron Butterfly? They have a song that’s 20 minutes long. It takes up the whole side of an LP!**

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-sdmb-existed-40-years-ago/467317/82 "2008-10-16T21:13:49Z")

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A discussion of Lawrence of Arabia and British Beatlemania: has a fire already been started?

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