# It's my 25th anniversary! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029 "2025-06-23T13:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/21 "2025-06-23T17:11:34Z")
Yep, that was at the BBQ joint on Kirby in Houston called Goode Company. It was pouring down raining! 😃 [![](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/83/ad/23/goode-company-barbeque.jpg) ](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/83/ad/23/goode-company-barbeque.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/22 "2025-06-23T17:18:06Z")
I remember the rain, too. And many a flooded underpass! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/23 "2025-06-23T17:41:14Z")
My 25th is Nov 24 this year. I found the books a few years earlier in a used book store. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/24 "2025-06-23T19:11:14Z")
Not anywhere close, even including my pre-account lurker status, but wanted to say a big “thank you” too all the long-timers (and everyone else, natch’) who have made this community an ongoing thing for decades now. I raise a metaphorical đŸ» to all of you, and a spare đŸș for the OP’s anniversary! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/25 "2025-06-23T19:31:13Z")
I joined in Dec '01. I remember reading the 9/11 thread from work as it was all happening, but apparently I didn’t join for another few months. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/26 "2025-06-23T19:40:45Z")
I missed out on my 25th back in December. But to be fair, a lot of that time was spent not even lurking â˜č ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/27 "2025-06-23T19:56:07Z")
My 25th is at the end of next month. Of course, there are a few AOLers still around, and they are the OG members. (Well, unless you include the alt.fan.cecil-adams and misc.facts.straight-dope groups–I think that’s what they were called.) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/28 "2025-06-23T20:23:48Z")
I read about the first plane of 9/11 on the Dope, too! I went to the break room and watched it all on TV. Everyone was crying. It was devastating. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/29 "2025-06-23T20:56:35Z")
I have no idea when I first joined, but I have proof it had to have been in 1999 or earlier: > [@Breastfeeding in public](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public/1877/30): > > My wife breast fed our first two for about a year, and plans on breast feading our Chris for about the same. I’ll confirm most of what is said here - most mothers who breast feed in public try to find an out-of-the-way place, or cover up. No problem with me. I found the column in an under-ground newspaper in Chicago. Was on the boards a little bit on AOL; signed up when they moved off. Wasn’t as active as some (most), but stopped for a number of years because the boards were too damned busy. Came back pre-COVID with a new logon. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/30 "2025-06-23T21:23:14Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > My original user name was Dolores Claiborne. I remember that name! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/31 "2025-06-24T00:21:17Z")
I’m only 06, so y’all have some time on me. I think I first joined to talk about the TV show “Heroes.” > [@Rebo](#): > > My original user name was Dolores Claiborne Did you go by **Dolo Rebo** for a bit? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/32 "2025-06-24T04:03:49Z")
July 13th 1999
what a long strange trip it’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/33 "2025-06-24T06:07:50Z")
My join date is October 22, 2001. My membership number is 18558., ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/34 "2025-06-24T12:08:54Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Did you go by **Dolo Rebo** for a bit? Some people called me that as a nickname, probably in the MMP posts. That’s where I got my current handle! At one point I took a straw poll to change my handle. I picked Dolores Reborn. That got shortened to Dolo Rebo, and eventually just Rebo. It might have been @swampbear who started with Rebo. Do y’all know I have Rebo on my personalized license plate? And that’s what I go by when I play pub trivia, and pub Texas Hold 'Em. This place has been part of my life for a long, long time. I appreciate all the love given to me over the years, through all the good times and bad times. Thank you all! ❀ ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/35 "2025-06-24T12:16:11Z")
My goodness - I joined on Aug 3 1999. 🧐 Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?! (And I believe my first post was about the excellent song ‘Ode to Billie Joe’ by Bobbie Gentry.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/36 "2025-06-24T12:52:53Z")
Today is my 22nd anniversary. So many posts, so much useless information. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/37 "2025-06-24T13:02:20Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Yep, that was at the BBQ joint on Kirby in Houston called Goode Company. It was pouring down raining! The left ear lines up with the light pole. It first glance I thought it was a giant roly-poly bug because of the ‘antennas’. 😖 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/38 "2025-06-24T15:18:50Z")
No, pard, that’s one o’ them thar Longhorn ‘Dillos, famous in song and story. Sometime back around 2007-8, we were living in Florida and dropped by a friend’s house where she was having a yard sale. I bought a nice wooden box that had some pompous slogan on the lid but no other identification. I keep soldering tools in it. Years later, we had moved to Houston and stumbled into **Goode Company BBQ** for lunch and, lo and behold, there were a whole mess of those boxes; they’re for shipping Goode Company pies. And, of course, my first reaction was _Oh no, the barbecue called to me from halfway across the country! I have no choice but to consume beef and/or pork!_ At least that was what I told myself then and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/39 "2025-06-24T15:37:36Z")
I must listen to different songs & stories than you do. The question is are my songs & stories an upgrade or a downgrade vs. what you listen to? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029/40 "2025-06-24T15:41:57Z")
Coming up on my 23rd. > Joined Jul 12, 2002 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-my-25th-anniversary/1020029.md?page=3)