# Posts waybackwhen you're embarrassed by now. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117 "2002-04-06T02:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Du\_Hast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f0a364/32.png) [@Du\_Hast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Du_Hast)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/1 "2002-04-06T02:06:07Z")
I’ll go first: [My crappy trolling attempt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=1ebd4c1) Forgive me, I was a dumbass back then. And: [Because this is bullshit. I don’t assemble 747 engines.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=ef775354) I’m actually a nerdy high school student. What posts of yours make you cringe? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/2 "2002-04-06T02:20:50Z")
There was a very detailed one involving…um…poo. And it was just old enough _not_ to get wiped out. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/3 "2002-04-06T03:22:29Z")
_Sidles in, scarlet from head to toe_ Um… uhm… uh… [sub]Most of my first posts.[/sub] _Crawls under a convenient rock_ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/4 "2002-04-06T03:26:39Z")
All of them. I don’t know why I keep posting. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/5 "2002-04-06T03:27:31Z")
That’s pretty cute – neither link in your OP works, **Du\_Hast**. I regret plenty of posts, and not all of them are obscured by the mists of time, if you catch my meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/6 "2002-04-06T03:29:39Z")
I had some really bad ones that were (fortunately) lost in the crash. The one that really sticks in my mind was my first thread ever. The “Ask the new guy” one. I read over what I said the next day and kicked myself. Still do, actually. ::kick kick:: I won’t even tell you what I said, and I hope you forgot by now… ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/7 "2002-04-06T03:35:54Z")
So, having nothing else to do at the moment, I found the threads you’re talking about anyway, **Du\_Hast**. Here’s a bit of free advice from me to you: quit lying about yourself on the boards. It’s not endearing. It’s also puzzling to me why you would want to call attention to the fact that you are in the habit of doing this by starting this thread. But, people seem to be having fun with the topic, so no reason to make a federal case out of it. Welcome to the board. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/8 "2002-04-06T03:43:40Z")
I think there were some posts when I was drunk, but I don’t remember now. You know, I might be drunk and posting now. Who knows? Help!!! L ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/9 "2002-04-06T03:56:36Z")
I’m sure if I had access to the old AOL board, I would dig up oodles of humiliating history. As it is, all I can remember is my very first post, which went something to this effect: > [@](#): > > Fact: GrapeNuts are neither grapes nor nuts. Discuss. #1, that’s a question that a simple search of the Straight Dope article archives would answer–a MAJOR no-no. #2, that was one lame attempt at pseudo-SNL humor. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/10 "2002-04-06T04:03:13Z")
I’m just not easily embarrassed. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/11 "2002-04-06T04:16:44Z")
Almost all of them. Most of them were from last summer, when my mental state was both bored and crazy, the latter probably being in part, but not entirely a product of the former. They were divided between attempts to pad my post count, attempts to use the boards as a dumping ground for said craziness and attempts to sound intellectual and socially conscious (see: anything I ever posted in Great Debates. Actually, don’t. Take my word for it - I suck at debating.). It does me endless joy to see that at least one of my more idiotic posts has been erased. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/12 "2002-04-06T04:59:42Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30929) is SO embarassing… look at my brutal typing! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/13 "2002-04-06T05:18:04Z")
Fortunately for me, very few caught the post I was most embarassed by, which was when someone asked about what Warez was and I, being a total computer idiot – heck, a total idiot, period – speculated that it was a misspelling of Juarez, as in the city in Mexico. I live in hope that people thought I was joking. I wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/14 "2002-04-06T08:30:51Z")
The only embarassing post I specifically recall at the moment (due to seeing a link to the thread yesterday) was one where I posted under the belief that Baltimore was a city in the state of Delaware. In my defense, it was something like 4:00 AM when I posted that. In a more general sense, I have undoubtedly been much more offensive and abusive then I intended towards other posters on any number of occasions. If you were the subject of one of these posts, I apologize. Except for PitBullDawg; you had it coming. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/15 "2002-04-06T09:27:15Z")
Waybackwhen??? I usually am only 6 or less hours away from a dumbass post. We’re only human here…mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Du\_Hast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f0a364/32.png) [@Du\_Hast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Du_Hast)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/16 "2002-04-06T20:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*That’s pretty cute – neither link in your OP works, **Du\_Hast**. > > I regret plenty of posts, and not all of them are obscured by the mists of time, if you catch my meaning. \*\* Grrr, there really should be no text limit on the auto-link. Sorry. Anyhoo, the trolling attempt is this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102070](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102070) And the post where I claim I assemble 747 engines is here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63206](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63206) ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/17 "2002-04-07T00:22:10Z")
don’t _Make_ mistakes… ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/18 "2002-04-07T02:56:29Z")
The whole exchange a few months ago which degenerated into a horrible exercise in coding between me and I’ve forgotten who regarding the Clintons as irresponsible pet owners. I believe the whole thing got erased in the Great Purge, and it’s just as well. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/19 "2002-04-07T04:42:18Z")
That’s the one good thing about the great purge… lost most of my dumber comments. Well back to work on creating a new collection of stupid arguments! ---
**Author:** ![hillbillyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@hillbillyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hillbillyboy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-waybackwhen-youre-embarrassed-by-now/102117/20 "2002-05-02T03:44:01Z")
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