# Is the SDMB becoming inbred? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 31, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371 "2000-01-31T20:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/21 "2000-01-31T23:45:00Z")
I knew you were going to say that. * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/22 "2000-01-31T23:56:00Z")
I knew jodih was going to say that. ---
**Author:** ![Pariah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pariah)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/23 "2000-02-01T00:21:00Z")
_If I could only get **them** to stop stealing **my** thoughts immediately after I **originate** them…_ ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/24 "2000-02-01T00:24:00Z")
I hear a little hat made of tinfoil can help with that, Pariah… ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/25 "2000-02-01T00:28:00Z")
And when you make the hat, it doesn’t even matter [which side faces out](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/950609.html) . * * * Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/26 "2000-02-01T00:29:00Z")
I’ve been having troubles with precognitive telepaths. They are stealing my best ideas **before I have them**. There has to be a way to deal with them, but they seem able to anticipate my every move… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/27 "2000-02-01T00:31:00Z")
Gaudere and Manny…that puts a whole new meaning on “Curses, foiled again!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/28 "2000-02-01T00:31:00Z")
**They** are behind the disappearance of tin foil from American homes. Everyone knows that aluminum is transparent to N-rays… ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/29 "2000-02-01T01:10:00Z")
I just have to share: I have gas right now. Studi * * * Don’t _speak_ ill of your enemies; plot it. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/30 "2000-02-01T01:30:00Z")
Funny you should mention that: The Master addresses gas, too! [When in doubt, by all means let it out](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_385.html) [Everything you ever wanted to know about farts](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_079.html) [Cecil on flatulence at altitude](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/960412.html) and a [follow-up](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/960524.html) ## Don’t blame Cecil for the preponderance of flatulence columns. He gets a lot of weird questions out of Baltimore, and he endeavors to answer what he’s asked. Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/31 "2000-02-01T02:16:00Z")
I think you should all be thanking us LB “pounders” for diluting the SDMB gene pool somewhat. I think who ever infiltrated that board was a genious! ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/32 "2000-02-01T15:52:00Z")
**Please** don’t say that!! The Evil One doesn’t need his ego inflated!! ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/33 "2000-02-01T16:07:00Z")
Me? An ego? Please… I’m modest! In fact, I’m the KING of modesty!! (With appologies to, I think NTG, who originally used an approximation as a sig file.) * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/34 "2000-02-01T16:35:00Z")
:😏: My apologies then, Your Majesty! ---
**Author:** ![Jai\_Pey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Jai\_Pey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jai_Pey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/35 "2000-02-02T06:37:00Z")
Hey, newbie here too… but not new to expressing opinions. UBB is easy enough to learn, the work day is long enough to give some proper attention to writing responses. Just gotta say, kid gloves or full out “Lemme tear your theory a new corollary” debates, the Great Debate is the place for me. “All is shades of grey” or some such line, Robert Browning, and I can’t remember the name of the poem. its the one about the renaissance painter. OH yeah _Andrea Del Sarto_ Regards, Jai Pey * * * === James Parsons IANBABAIBOTID “…because the only people for me are the MAD ones…” - J Kerouac ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/36 "2000-02-02T06:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > [The] work day is long enough to give some proper attention to writing responses Yeah, I guess that’s what I like about this place. It gives you something to do while you’re at work. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/37 "2000-02-01T19:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I know that we have over 4000 members, but I only count a couple of hundred that post regularly, and many of them in only one forum. I think we need a genetic infusion. We’re not inbred, we’re a clique, and we drive off newbies who don’t fit in. Don’t you remember _anything_?? :rolleyes: 😛 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Sage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Sage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/38 "2000-02-01T23:07:00Z")
Another almost ex-pounder here! Mostly lurking to get the feel of the place and the posters, I mean the clique! 🙂 I did post an opinion like the OP asked for and got so attacked for it I thought I was back in LBBB-land! So whoever said “clique” above, was right-on. Oddly, I would have thought a board like this would be open to opinions, but instead, they reacted as to an atheist comment in LBBB-land. Why? What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![Felice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Felice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felice)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/39 "2000-02-01T23:11:00Z")
What did you post an opinion about, sage? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371/40 "2000-02-01T23:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I did post an opinion like the OP asked for and got so attacked for it I thought I was back in LBBB-land! You probably didn’t include enough amusing smilies! 😃😛 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-becoming-inbred/17371.md?page=3)