# Quote an old post which has aged extremely well **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-an-old-post-which-has-aged-extremely-well/1007459 "2024-09-19T05:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-an-old-post-which-has-aged-extremely-well/1007459/1 "2024-09-19T05:59:05Z")
By random happenstance, I was browsing through an old thread (["I'm going to eat your children."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-eat-your-children/23583/9)), and I stumbled over a barnburner of a comment from _ **24 years ago.** _ The original statement is in reference to Mike Tyson, and then there’s this reply: > [@"I'm going to eat your children."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-eat-your-children/23583/9): > > > [@](#): > > > > I can argue that he is dangerous and with his unlimited resources and with no checks on his behavior it is only a matter of time before he really does some harm. > > I could make the same argument for locking up Donald Trump. From June 2000. 🤯 Yes, it’s sometimes fun to go back and chuckle over comments that _didn’t_ age well, that look silly now because things didn’t work out as originally expected or because the underlying assumptions proved to be unfounded (“I’m confident JJ Abrams has what it takes to wrap up the Star Wars saga!”). This is not that. This is about _celebrating_ posts which might have seemed relatively innocuous in the moment, but which have stood the test of time over years and years, to the point of perhaps looking even better now than when they were written. Also, to be clear, this isn’t just about comments which were initially amusing and remain amusing due to cleverness or humor. This discussion prompt necessitates an element of being forward-looking in some way, even if it’s only obvious retrospectively, highlighting an observation or argument which has endured. And, finally, despite my example quote above, this thread shouldn’t be limited just to politics (though I’m putting it in IMHO, after mod consultation, because it’s generally a fairly flexible forum, subject-wise). For example, if you know of a 25-year-old post where someone describes enjoying the first couple books in a newish high-fantasy series by a guy named Martin and suggesting it would make a popular TV series, that’s perfectly on point for the thread. So let’s dig into the archive, and share wisdom that deserves to be carved in digital stone. It’s probably best if you’re celebrating _someone else’s_ wisdom 🙂 but if you’re particularly proud of an old observation of your own, share away. P.S. Incidentally, yes, I’m aware the quoted poster above hasn’t been here for a few years; he initially didn’t make the jump to Discourse and as far as I’m aware his current status is unknown. If he’s still around and interested, maybe the positive attention brings him back. In any case, it’s necessarily a side effect that a discussion like this might include some now-inactive folks. No worries. P.P.S. Incidentally, I’m not defining a date cutoff that makes something “old.” It should simply be old enough to be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-an-old-post-which-has-aged-extremely-well/1007459/2 "2024-09-19T08:13:35Z")
"[steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)Experimental FOC Test Pilot [Nov 2013](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-current-companies-you-see-circling-the-bowl/673351/90) I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Boeing. When they moved their headquarters to Chicago I predicted that they were starting a long slow slide to oblivion. It’s always a bad sign when management divorces itself from what they really do. Prediction: Boeing gone. Replacement: Tesla Prediction: USPS gone. Replacement: Amazon Pretty bold." This was in a thread about companies “circling the bowl” The Donald Trump comment is amazingly prescient. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-an-old-post-which-has-aged-extremely-well/1007459/3 "2024-09-19T16:28:08Z")
My Sequential Threads post from June 1st: > [@](#): > > Eating cow, eating lamb, eating dog, eating cat? > A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2) > > What with all those legal expenses, it’s not surprising they’ve had to economize on buffet lunches at Trump Tower. Seems prescient.