# Most popular thread?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 12, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218 "2005-03-12T19:01:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/1 "2005-03-12T19:01:34Z")
Simple, what was the most popular thread here??
I suppose it can be most replies, most views or even most different posters.
I’ll leave the details to you guys.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/2 "2005-03-12T19:13:16Z")
[a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752&page=1&pp=50&highlight=the+a+thread)
[If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4512839#post4512839)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/3 "2005-03-12T19:13:37Z")
Not the most pages, and probably not the most views, but I nominate **Coldie** ’s [May 5th, 1945 - we shall remember](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) thread as the Most Popular.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/4 "2005-03-12T19:28:07Z")
Shouldn’t this be in IMHO? Anyways. I jsut wanted to say that until just now, I have never even opened ( :eek: ) the LOTR thread. And I just now only read the last two posts.
Odd thing about the a thread. I was here when it happened, yet I don’t remember it at all. I mgiht have even posted in it (though I don’t think so) but for some reason there is no memory in my mind of the 107 page thread.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/5 "2005-03-12T19:31:19Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> Shouldn’t this be in IMHO?
I think there’s a factual answer, based on the number of replies.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/6 "2005-03-12T19:36:11Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#):
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> I think there’s a factual answer, based on the number of replies.
Probably should be in About this Message Board
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/7 "2005-03-12T19:42:26Z")
> [@picunurse](#):
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> Probably should be in About this Message Board
That was my first thought.
Hey guys… was there an if Isaac Asimov wrote LoTR post??
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### Author:  [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/8 "2005-03-13T00:56:52Z")
I am too lazy to search for it but I would think that **the horror of blimps** would be a contender.
Unclviny
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### Author:  [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/9 "2005-03-13T01:04:29Z")
> [@unclviny](#):
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> I am too lazy to search for it but I would think that **the horror of blimps** would be a contender.
[The Horror of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851). Certainly one of my favorites. Since it is frequently referenced by people, it is obviously very popular.
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/10 "2005-03-13T01:47:44Z")
I vaguely recall a lengthy GQ thread about **shooting a goat (or some kind of animal) out of a cannon**. It was quite long for GQ.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/11 "2005-03-13T02:02:17Z")
Oh, and who can forget the 1920s style death ray thread. I am not lazy enough to find that. But I _am_ too drunk.
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/12 "2005-03-13T02:21:07Z")
Based purely on number of hits, I am willing to bet that the LOTR thread is the all time winner… it got /.'d, after all.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/13 "2005-03-13T02:34:36Z")
Since this is a question about this message board, I’ll move the thrad to the ATMB forum.
bibliophage
moderator GQ
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/14 "2005-03-13T02:36:51Z")
> [@Tristan](#):
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> Based purely on number of hits, I am willing to bet that the LOTR thread is the all time winner… it got /.'d, after all.
It has, as of today, 413,973 views. I suspect that must be the record.
“a” ran to 107 pages; I don’t know how many views it had.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-thread/294218/15 "2005-03-13T03:55:07Z")
Based purely on replies and views, here are the most popular:
[a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752): 5337 replies, 30,822 views.
[Funny things said during love making/intimate moments](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960): 298 replies, 63,248 views.
[The Horror of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851): 239 replies, 176,595 views.
[Very vaguely creepy.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=30758): 504 replies, 31,938 views.
[All Diablo2 Talk here…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=176500): 2814 replies, 25,911 views.
[If LotR had been written by someone else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905): 2041 replies, 413,990 views.
[The Movie Game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249945): 2010 replies, 12,072 views.
[Contact with the Great Beyond–Psychics like Praagh](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=156629): 1779 replies, 25,144 views.
[Arnett: We had to destroy the village in order to save it?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=174030): 15 replies: 31,919 views (now _that_ is a low reply-to-view ratio).
[Are scalar weapons for real?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=202225): 1017 replies, 35,335 views (this is the Death Rays thread).
[The SDMB is switching to paid subscriptions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=253315): 0 replies, 45,860 views.
**Most Viewed Threads** :
1. If LotR had been written by someone else!?
2. The Horror of Blimps
3. Funny things said during love making/intimate moments
**Most Replied-To Threads** :
1. a
2. All Diablo2 Talk here…
3. If LotR had been written by someone else!?
**Most Replied-To and As Yet Unlocked Thread** :
1. The Movie Game (heh heh)