# Message Board **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 11, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711 "2013-06-11T11:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/1 "2013-06-11T11:13:24Z")
What is Message Board? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/2 "2013-06-11T11:22:23Z")
Message board is a little bird tweeting in meadow. [heh] Message board is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell _baaad_. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/3 "2013-06-11T11:23:53Z")
It’s a website that runs software that allows people to post messages and read messages. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/4 "2013-06-11T11:32:50Z")
How are rain? Why is my left hand? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/5 "2013-06-11T11:40:11Z")
Brain and brain, what is brain?! ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/6 "2013-06-11T12:01:10Z")
How is babby formed? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/7 "2013-06-11T13:09:35Z")
> [@veno005](#): > > What is Message Board? What is Indian [forum](http://www.narutoforums.com/member.php?u=236559) [spammer](http://vbulletin.thesite.org/member.php/65716)? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/8 "2013-06-11T13:31:11Z")
Message Board is an obscure hobo thumbing a ride on the Omnibus of Art. 5 internet points to anyone who can identify that quote ---
**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 11, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/9 "2013-06-11T14:12:25Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > It’s a website that runs software that allows people to post messages and read messages. But that’s not important right now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/10 "2013-06-11T14:14:26Z")
It’s where the elite meet to share cat pictures. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/11 "2013-06-11T14:25:36Z")
How can it be a spammer if it never posted to those other websites? ---
**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 11, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/12 "2013-06-11T14:31:37Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > How can it be a spammer if it never posted to those other websites? Spammers will sometimes post as a test before spamming. Or come back later to edit the post. The language is a giveaway. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/13 "2013-06-11T16:06:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > How can it be a spammer if it never posted to those other websites? It was PreSpam. Our precogs nailed him before he could actually spam.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/14 "2013-06-11T16:10:41Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It was PreSpam. Our precogs nailed him before he could actually spam.🙂 WOW! You guys ARE good! Thank Og, you only use your powers for good and never evil. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/15 "2013-06-11T16:11:30Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Message Board is an obscure hobo thumbing a ride on the Omnibus of Art. > > 5 internet points to anyone who can identify that quote Roger Corman’s _Bucket of Blood_. But I think it’s “bumming a ride”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/16 "2013-06-11T16:13:59Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > WOW! You guys ARE good! > Thank Og, you only use your powers for good and never evil. Unless we get bored. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/17 "2013-06-11T16:48:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Roger Corman’s _Bucket of Blood_. But I think it’s “bumming a ride”. 5 points to the Professor! And you could be right about "bumming’; I couldn’t make it out so I went with “thumbing”. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/18 "2013-06-11T17:01:38Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s where the elite meet to share cat pictures. [noparse] [![](https://photobucket.com/images/kitty-in-a-chefs-hat.jpg) ](https://photobucket.com/images/kitty-in-a-chefs-hat.jpg) [/noparse] Hmm, we appear to be having technical difficulties. Marley, a little help? ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/19 "2013-06-11T19:55:57Z")
What are words? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/20 "2013-06-11T20:01:24Z")
it’s like a writing tablet. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711.md?page=2)