# Link me to the first topic you made on here, if you can't find it. Anyone who replied still around? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449 "2016-10-02T06:59:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/61 "2016-10-05T19:20:30Z")
Oooh, I looked it up but it’s [hella embarassing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=65486). Wow, college. (I mean, seriously, who gets a D in the stupid required phys ed class? That really was ridiculous.) Only two replies, nobody I recognize, March 2001. I’d been lurking for years, though, from back on AOL. I am so, so sorry that I was dumb in college. And I would now be a fat girl doing ballet, if I were to do ballet. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/62 "2016-10-05T19:41:08Z")
[Aluminum can thickness](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=72535&postcount=1) Still here– **Omniscient** , **Jophiel** , **Voltaire** , **pmh** , **rjk**. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/63 "2016-10-05T19:45:36Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I remember the very first post I made, back in 1999. The post itself, however, has vanished in the mists of time. > > The very oldest thread I started that I can find features none other than **Johnny LA** in one of the replies. Sure you can-- [Your first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=60608&postcount=4) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/64 "2016-10-05T22:26:20Z")
[Livin’ on Bananas](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=5971). 20 September 1999. Can we live on nothing but bananas, water, and air? The answer was “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/65 "2016-10-05T23:40:01Z")
[Eating peanuts, shell and all.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=13474) Only 3 responses, but is was in General Questions. None of the responders are still around. I have cursed them somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/66 "2016-10-06T18:25:39Z")
My first thread was announcing my name change. Only **kopek** and **Fear Itself** responded. Those guys are cool. The rest of you are now on The List. > **["Tahssa" is now "Drunky Smurf"](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607820)** > > Hey everybody. Just wanted to let everyone know that the user Tahssa, the former me, is now Drunky Smurf the current me. The change comes because I first used Tahssa as it was a WoW character I was playing at the time and couldn’t think of anything... ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/67 "2016-10-06T19:56:16Z")
Not surprisingly, my first thread was [a bowling-related question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=316468). **Tripler** , **Gatopescado** , **Icarus** , **Clothahump** , and **Hampshire** are all still active. **Cunctator** was last here a couple of months ago. No one participating in the thread seems to have been banned. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/68 "2016-10-07T16:10:30Z")
[LPs with messages in the dead wax](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=185046), May 2003. Eight Dopers replied, two of whom are now banned. **zut** , **NDP** , **eunoia** , and \*\*Smapti \*\*have all posted within the last two months. When I made my own [LP](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785037) recently (yay vinyl revival!) it didn’t occur to me to ask about having a message inscribed in the dead wax. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/69 "2016-10-07T16:27:09Z")
[Potato alcohol](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=32328). It looks like **cher3** is the only responder still active. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/70 "2016-10-07T17:04:55Z")
[A query on anti-bacterial soap](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=27622) from June 2000. The contributor of most recent vintage is **jrishaw** who last posted in Jan 2015. Only one banned poster - **Kilgore Trout**. I still haven’t gotten my answer, but as anti-bacterial soaps are being phased out I think the question is moot. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/71 "2016-10-12T06:49:57Z")
Gee, I guess I’m joining this topic a bit late. Anyway, I was able to find my first post: [http://www.1728.org/post.jpg](http://www.1728.org/post.jpg) But seriously folks, my first post was Perceiving a fourth dimension: > **[Perceiving a 4 dimensional world](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=203650)** > > I find the 3-dimensional world sufficiently complex as it is. Still, it is interesting to think of adding 1 more dimension to it. I once read that to imagine a 4 dimensional world, think of every point in 3-dimensional space as a sphere. Isn’t... ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/72 "2016-10-12T06:59:50Z")
I first asked about the lack of stripes on NFL footballs: > **[Stripes on footballs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=42559)** > > Watching the NFL over the weekend and last night, I realized that NFL footballs have no stripes. Although I’ve watched football for years, it never struck me as strange–until I realized that US college games use striped footballs, the Canadian... **Yojimbo** is still active (as of last July), as is **yabob**. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/73 "2016-10-12T07:49:06Z")
I think I asked something about which coming first, orange or orange. I will check. [Bam](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=5892), I was right. I don’t know how many of them are still around. I think a few of them are, but the last few years are a blur and I don’t know if they’ve tailed off or died recently. Do tell if you know. ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/74 "2016-10-12T08:55:30Z")
[This is mine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567604) about how much opera singers know the languages they sing. Most respondents seem active, except for one now-banned person who called it a stupid question. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/75 "2016-10-12T16:46:43Z")
From 8/28/2001, a thread about celebrities you wished would just go away. I remember 9/11 happening shortly after I joined. Some old names to be sure, a few of whom are still around; Legomancer, Joe\_Cool, tiny ham (Jarbaby), pldennison, Fiver, SlightDistrurbance, ThisYearsGirl, Lucifer12, Crusoe, Caricci, Dragwyr, Myrnalene, Sofa King, invisibleOLDlady, Mr. Blue Sky, Qwertyasdfg, Three Dog Night, Kat, RickJay. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/76 "2016-10-12T19:36:49Z")
A question about [why aren’t Hitler’s speeches shown with subtitles]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24339\](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24339%5C)) from May 13, 2000. Still active members include **Earl Snake-Hips Tucker** , **whitetho** , **Derleth** , **Olentzero** , and **astorian.**. References within to **ChiefWahoo** are directed to me, it was my original username here. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/77 "2016-10-12T20:32:07Z")
I could have sworn it was about Nietzsche, but it appears I am wrong. That must have been my first _post._ My first thread, as user **olivesmarch4th** : 1-19-2007 [Pan’s Labyrinth](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=404785) Also, kind of a bittersweet thing, I note another thread that I started in January 2007: [advice for a future adopter.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406185) I said we’d probably be waiting 7-10 years before we could adopt… it’s been 9 years, and we just started the adoption process yesterday. Perhaps I should start a new thread. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/78 "2016-10-12T20:37:36Z")
[What is ‘dead weight’?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=4939), about one month after I joined 17 (!) years ago. Four responses. One lost two the ages, one active somewhat, and two very active 17 years later. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/79 "2016-10-12T21:22:53Z")
On 10-25-2000 I posted [asking about alternative medicine for my mom’s dog’s cancer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=43325). Mom ended up giving her dog some whacky supplements and it lived about 9 months, slightly better than the vet’s prognosis. Responders still posting within the last month include **Irishman** , **Chronos** , and **Munch**. I don’t think that was really my first thread, I think the older ones were lost in the Winter of Our Missed Content, or maybe I’m not searching correctly. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449/80 "2016-10-14T11:42:49Z")
[Here’s mine, from 2003,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=170585) asking what the big sitcom debut of 1998 was. I was surprised to learn that it was nearly _nine years_ until I started another one! (That sophomore thread was the first of 250 I’ve created since then, an average of one per week.) ETA: I was on the AOL board in the late 1990s, but I assume those threads are long gone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-the-first-topic-you-made-on-here-if-you-cant-find-it-anyone-who-replied-still-around/767449.md?page=5)