# Is this the first GQ thread in public possession? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 24, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675 "2015-08-24T01:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/1 "2015-08-24T01:56:35Z")
And is **Sly** the named poster? > **[Semi-What?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=6400)** > > My lovely wife and I were driving across the country, and happened to pass a semi. You know what a semi is. I know what a semi is. But what occurred to us at 3 in the morning is that semi is actually a prefix. So the question became semi-what? I’ve... Note that it has, if so, the first misunderstood joke in publicly accessible GQ. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/2 "2015-08-24T04:05:20Z")
That sly devil ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/3 "2015-08-24T04:29:20Z")
It was also nice for the reminder of what “semi” means: “tractor semi-trailer.” ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/4 "2015-08-25T12:40:52Z")
> [@Semi-What?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-what/3634/14): > > That is one of the dumbest things I have read on this board. > I’m not trying to start a flame war here, but that really irks me. Heh, you just don’t see the phrase “flame war” thrown around on message boards anymore. If you guys are going to start a flame war take it to the BBQ Pit! There is a sticky in GD written in 2003 warning against “flaming” in that forum. It’s slang from a different era and sounds wrong now. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/5 "2015-08-25T12:50:11Z")
Might have also been the first zombie thread. It had rested quietly for 6 months before **Sly** resurrected it. And Sly him/herself would be quite a zombie now as well, having last posted in 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/6 "2015-08-25T15:23:10Z")
I think that the posts in that thread got re-ordered a bit, too, possibly due to time zone issues. I think that the “dumbest thing on the board” comment was in response to the one calling the drivers semi-educated etc. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/7 "2015-08-25T20:28:19Z")
Now that attention’s been called to it, TPTB ought to lock it before somebody posts to it again. That would be impolite, like disturbing a long sunken shipwreck at the bottom of a currentless sea. Let the long-departed rest in undisturbed peace. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/8 "2015-08-26T02:20:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Now that attention’s been called to it, TPTB ought to lock it before somebody posts to it again. That would be impolite, like disturbing a long sunken shipwreck at the bottom of a currentless sea. Let the long-departed rest in undisturbed peace. Good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/9 "2015-08-26T04:07:19Z")
I’d like to hear \*\*Kellibelli \*\*rant on about shitboy. I’m betting that would be worth a few laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/10 "2015-08-26T22:10:39Z")
I can’t remember now how I found it exactly. I think it’s when I do a “site:straightdope.com” Google, and sometimes it comes up all thin-client graphics, and then I clicked on the thin graphic version of the GQ breadcrumb: instant numbered list. I posted this OP, actually–with all it’s wordiness about “publicly accessible,” etc., wondering whether the mods or Admin (there’s only one now right?) can click a button and either get the same information, or there is an Admin-only button for deeper/older records chronologically sorted. Just got interested, as I often do, in the _tools_ of historical research; ephemera from those bitchin’ Glory Days of the Old’uns I’m sure have a more personal interest to many. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/11 "2015-08-26T22:36:57Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I can’t remember now how I found it exactly. It’s very easy to find it. From the GQ forum page, set the “Display Options” at the lower left of the page to: Sorted by: Thread Start Time Order: Ascending From the: Beginning ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/12 "2015-08-27T01:08:27Z")
Well Bless my soul. FTR, with all this info around, and posters (I’m looking at you…), OP was never answered. So I get: Post no bills. [Post no bills - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717) I know this is an oft-told tale (grandchildren in pjs in front of the fire, Grandpa Charter Member with contented smile) about Usenet days. So did GQ only become self aware that cool Sunday morning in Chicago, with rain threatening all day, May 23, 1999, at 8:35 AM? Wha’ happa’? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/13 "2015-08-27T01:18:59Z")
> **[New Guy In Town](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=1)** > > cool Thread post #1 refers to itself (well, its mod and others do) as some sort of defining vB moment, which would make sense, given the number. But its date is later than the post no bills. Although the OP “cool” seems a _res_ in definite _medias_. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/14 "2015-08-27T01:23:51Z")
Figured as much. Asked and answered. Record-holders: The first SDMB user and the first SMDB thread > **[Record-holders: The first SDMB user and the first SMDB thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711326)** > > I thought I might as well make a reference source to record SMDB history (the first ever). The AOL version of SMDB doesn’t count, because it’s like a primitive version of SMDB. The first SMDB user (moderators don’t count): GusNSpot (user id #33) ... New comments always welcome… ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-first-gq-thread-in-public-possession/728675/15 "2015-08-27T01:24:08Z")
The topic numbers do not tell the story