# It's October... the SDMB is dead, right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819 "2004-10-06T07:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/21 "2004-10-06T16:59:48Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > If you had all the tea in China, where would you put it? In the China cabinet, silly. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/22 "2004-10-06T17:00:48Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Well, duh. If you had all the tea in China, where would you put it? In the China, duh. 😛 Yep, nothing better to contribute than that. 😃 : wanders back over to the Sims 2 thread : ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/23 "2004-10-06T17:04:13Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > In the China cabinet, silly. :dubious: Well, at least I wasn’t the only one. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/24 "2004-10-06T17:15:13Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > I wouldn’t want to be Pit moderator for all the tea in China. You don’t want all the tea in China. You want all the tea in [India](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_174.html), which will let you pretty much corner the tea market. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/25 "2004-10-06T17:22:46Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > If the SDMB is dead, right now, that’s how I want to be at _my_ funeral! 😉 Gotcha ya! ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/26 "2004-10-06T17:53:12Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Gotcha ya! Wow. That really blew my mind. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/27 "2004-10-06T18:37:07Z")
It’s only mostly dead. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/28 "2004-10-06T19:57:49Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > It’s only mostly dead. Look, I can’t take it until it’s _completely_ dead. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/29 "2004-10-06T20:17:36Z")
Moving this to The Graveyard, where it belongs. Please read board descriptions carefully before you make your next ghost. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/30 "2004-10-06T20:26:16Z")
Well, we can hang out for a few minutes, it won’t be long. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/31 "2004-10-06T20:41:04Z")
No, hold on - […] Yep, it’s getting better! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/32 "2004-10-06T21:25:16Z")
Since the board went pay-only, it’s supported solely by all the tax-and-spend liberals and double-income-no-kids homos with plenty of disposable income. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/33 "2004-10-06T21:30:51Z")
So now it’s a dead thread? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/34 "2004-10-06T21:58:58Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Pining for the boards?_ > > Mate, this Board is deceased. It’s pushin’ up the daisies. It’s bleeding demised! > > 😃 > I’m such a geek. It’s joined the choir invisible! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/35 "2004-10-07T15:43:46Z")
It’s alive! Alive I tell you! Is that Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Frank N. Furter? I can never keep those two straight. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/36 "2004-10-07T18:48:53Z")
I don’t think they charged enough. I’d like it to be like $500 per year. That way, those of us into serious Steady Bangin’ Straight Dopin’ would be able to jive without so much interference. We wouldn’t be gettin’ people with this “china cabinet” jibber jabber and “brainnnsssss!” flarn. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/37 "2004-10-07T18:51:35Z")
Jigga wog, soggy wabble. Gripsy foggin berlap ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/38 "2004-10-07T18:58:43Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Jigga wog, soggy wabble. > > Gripsy foggin berlap Sorry, what? I don’t speak Welsh. Or is that Froggish? I can never tell. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/39 "2004-10-07T19:04:17Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Sorry, what? I don’t speak Welsh. Or is that Froggish? I can never tell. There are no equivalent English words. The language is frengweggleborgamerdfulmpreegish. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-october-the-sdmb-is-dead-right/267819/40 "2004-10-07T19:06:11Z")
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