# Mention the threads you were going to start but rejected. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620 "2003-08-12T11:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/21 "2003-08-12T18:25:02Z")
**smam** , I guess it would be legal for you to reply to that old thread and see if it moves by being brought into view. I was surprised at the lack of interest at the time. As I recall, though, somebody else had a similar themed thread at about that same time. It died, too, without a great deal of input. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/22 "2003-08-12T18:33:06Z")
\*\*Top Five Rejected **cuauhtemoc** Threads: 1. IMHO - Which Doper would you most like to stab? 2. GQ - Halogen Lamps: Best Brand and Wattage for Pot Plant in my Closet? 3. CS - The Thread of Entire Texts of Copyrighted Material 4. MPSIMS - Post your name, address, phone, and Social Security number here. 5. ATMB - What does Winkelreid smell like?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/23 "2003-08-12T18:34:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissa \* > \*\*I’ve thought many times about starting a thread called “Ask Me How To Care For Your Antiques” since I work in a museum and am somewhat knowlegeable. I decided there probably wouldn’t be too much interest, so I just thought I’d answer when I see others post a question. \*\* I bet you’d get a ton of inquiries. I can guarantee at least one. This is a great idea. Please please please please please? ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/24 "2003-08-12T18:35:59Z")
I recently though of doing - \*\* Has anyone won anything from the Lara Croft promotion on Lucozade bottles?\*\* I am hyper all day drinking that syrup and I still haven’t won a car to prompt me to take driving lessons yet. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/25 "2003-08-12T18:40:14Z")
**cuauhtemoc** , that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day! ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/26 "2003-08-12T18:48:57Z")
Yeah, some of those might really take off. Shame about all those pesky “rules” though. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/27 "2003-08-12T19:21:21Z")
I’ll spend days thinking of a thread, and often will write up the entire initial post before rejecting it because: a.) it’s too personal. (e…g, relationship rants) _or_ b.) it’s too stupid. Usually it’s the latter. For instance, I know everyone is sick to death of the “Who would win in a fight between…” threads. But I’m dying to post a thread for “Who would win in a fight between **Hamburger Helper** vs. **The Arby’s Oven Mitt**?” This idea hit me while watching TV a few weeks ago, and I thought it was sheer genius. But every time I start to post it, I think better of it. ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/28 "2003-08-12T22:03:50Z")
I thought about starting a thread comparing the symbolism of yin and yang as explained in the staff report on [feng shui](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfengshui.html) with the symbolism employed by Edwin Abbott in his novel [Flatland](http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/titles/flatland__a_romance_.html). > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SDStaff Dex_ > Yin is earth, yang is heaven; yin is mountain, yang is river; **yin is female, yang is male** ; yin is interior, yang is exterior; **yin is round, yang is straight**. Contrast the Chinese visual associations with Edwin Abbott’s: > [@](#): > > _Originally written by Edwin Abbott_ > **Our Women are Straight Lines.** > > Our Soldiers and Lowest Class of Workmen are Triangles with two equal sides, each about eleven inches long, and a base or third side so short (often not exceeding half an inch) that they form at their vertices a very sharp and formidable angle. Indeed when their bases are of the most degraded type (not more than the eighth part of an inch in size), they can hardly be distinguished from Straight lines or Women; so extremely pointed are their vertices. With us, as with you, these Triangles are distinguished from others by being called Isosceles; and by this name I shall refer to them in the following pages. > > Our Middle Class consists of Equilateral or Equal-Sided Triangles. > > Our Professional Men and Gentlemen are Squares (to which class I myself belong) and Five-Sided Figures or Pentagons. > > Next above these come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning at Six-Sided Figures, or Hexagons, and from thence rising in the number of their sides till they receive the honourable title of Polygonal, or many-Sided. **Finally when the number of the sides becomes so numerous, and the sides themselves so small, that the figure cannot be distinguished from a circle, he is included in the Circular or Priestly order; and this is the highest class of all.** Considering that this comment would only tangentially relate to the staff report, I felt it inappropriate to start a thread in CSR. Then I wondered whether it would take off in any of the other forums, and I decided against posting the comment, until the appearance of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/29 "2003-08-13T02:14:33Z")
Mulletspotting, a game where posters keep track of who they saw wearing a mullet where. On your honor, one point per mullet, two points per femullet. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/30 "2003-08-13T02:49:24Z")
Lissa, how about a SDMB Antiques Roadshow? In addition to providing information on how to care for people’s antiques, perhaps you could even offer appraisals - you know, people could post a link to an item they own, and you could explain its worth, perhaps offer a backstory. **Antiquarian** could provide information as well, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/31 "2003-08-13T02:53:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*I bet you’d get a ton of inquiries. I can guarantee at least one. This is a great idea. > > Please please please please please? \*\* Your wish is my command. It’s in IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/32 "2003-08-13T02:58:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Lissa, how about a SDMB Antiques Roadshow? In addition to providing information on how to care for people’s antiques, perhaps you could even offer appraisals - you know, people could post a link to an item they own, and you could explain its worth, perhaps offer a backstory. **Antiquarian** could provide information as well, I’m sure. \*\* Perhaps I may be able to identify and provide some back story for certain artifacts, but I have no clue as to their value. We don’t appraise any of the items in our collection. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/33 "2003-08-13T03:08:24Z")
Oops, my mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/34 "2003-08-13T03:20:26Z")
I considered (briefly) starting a thread about the Ben Affleck stripper party - National Enquirer broke the news, and it is the weirdest story I think I’ve seen since the Hugh Grant scandal. The Enquirer’s report was quite graphic as to his, um, oral adventures. There’s a thread in CS, but not many have commented the last time I looked. **dantheman** , I think you started the thread on a penchant for going south…you might like the story. 😉 I’m not going to post the thread, though, NOT. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/35 "2003-08-13T03:22:40Z")
I like it when I’m doing it. When others are doing it, it’s kind of oogy. Unless it’s a movie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/36 "2003-08-13T04:01:16Z")
I was going to start a thread asking what is wrong with my southern painted turtle, since he’s been acting odd lately. Then I realized I probably wouldn’t be able to tend to the thread very often. Then I answered my own question. In case you were wondering, my turtle periodically becomes frantic to get out of his tank, then hides in his cave. I later noticed that about two hours after this behavior, there will be a thunderstorm. Neat, huh? Another thread I was going to start was how to deal with the puppy-torturing parents of my best friend without hurting relations with my friend, who unfortunately still has to live with them. I decided it wasn’t worth it, and again, I don’t get to come back here often enough to monitor my thread. (BTW, the puppy is mostly ok now, AFAIK.) ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/37 "2003-08-13T13:26:44Z")
Or what about threads that you would like to see other members start? I wouldn’t mind reading **lieu** ’s rendition of **I had an enema 30 minutes before I was due to start work yesterday.** ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/38 "2003-08-13T13:33:07Z")
I was going to start a thread in the Pit about the fashion stores in Hong Kong with Nazi-inspired decorations and Nazi propaganda films playing on the walls. Apparently the store wanted a military theme and didn’t realise that Naziism would be offensive. :rolleyes: But then I got hungry and wandered off to the kitchen, and then a friend called and I didn’t have the time. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/39 "2003-08-13T13:40:46Z")
I tried a mild attempt at getting people to post their SDMB data (registration date, UserID#) which could be gotten by anybody willing to spend the time entering/typing the name into a search. I got no replies. I had to wonder why. Is there any reasonable post/thread that would help to identify the “active membership” (including lurkers) out of the 37,000+ now on the roll? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620/40 "2003-08-13T13:58:38Z")
I think we would need to get someone to pin a poll topic that existed in all the forums GD, IMHO etc. so that people could tag a button that only allows them to do it once. After a few months we would have a good idea of the amount of hardcore 1337 members. You could call it the **Active Members Mecca, visit it once before you die**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mention-the-threads-you-were-going-to-start-but-rejected/194620.md?page=3)