# Re-post Your First Post Here. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638 "2001-11-05T18:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/1 "2001-11-05T18:04:23Z")

🙂 Hi. 🙂 My name is **Houyhnhnm** :). My father called me _Who?_ and my mother called me _him_ :D. I first heard about the Strange Dope Message Board about three months ago and I’ve been lurking ever since :eek:. It’s so nice to find a board where the opinion of a newbie is as valued as that of an ‘old hand’, especially when both have a high post count 😕. This is a cool place 🆒 but there are some very weird people on this board, if you don’t mind me saying so :). I don’t want to name them because I might miss one out and that wouldn’t be fair on them :D. There are also some very clever people whose opinions I respect, but no names here either because I can’t remember all three of them :D. My spelligna is excellent and working on my grammar I is, to the extent that I am confident I can construct a sentence which will pass mustard on these broads ;). I am totally in favour of all moderators decisions 🙂 unless I do not agree with them ☹ ☹ :(. I agree to use Google before asking any question, especially in _General Questions_ where people can be a bit snippy :mad: if you waste their time unnecessarily :eek:. My ethnicity is 12.5% Jewish (;j / 8) on my mother’s side and 87.5% Yorkshire on my father’s side :o. I hope I will be happy 🙂 🙂 🙂 here, and I look forward to posting away like mad :mad: when I get the hang of things. Well, that’s enough about me :). I’ll see ya’ll on the boards! :). ---

**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/2 "2001-11-06T04:33:10Z")

## quote: ## Originally posted by sunrise\_4836 The only time you use your middle name is when you get married, become a CEO or die. ## Or in my case, when I heard my middle name used along with my first it was by my Mother and I knew to run like hell in the other direction. My first post? This would appear to be it. My god but I’m boring. ---

**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/3 "2001-11-06T04:52:01Z")

> [@](#): > > _originally posted by suziek_ > When I was in Australia this summer, I bought (in a thrift shop in Lismore, NSW) a small, round, glass container, about three inches high, with a black (bakelite?) lid that had a small opening in the top. A tiny glass spoon with a shell-like bowl goes into the opening. I bought it because I liked it, but now that I am home it is driving me crazy every time I look at it wondering what it was used for. I thought about salt, but it doesn’t look old enough. Any ideas… anyone? It need only be forty years old. I grew up downunder, and live in Oz and I’m pretty sure what you have is a salt cellar. We had one similar to what you describe. when I grew up, used “for best”, ie when we had company (when it was just the family, we used the packet). I believe it was called a cellar in an earlier sense of the word as a place of storage, rather than as an underground place. Sometimes the salt cellar would sit in a little stand, usually with a handle rising from the centre of the stand. Along with the salt container would be matching vessels - a pepper shaker, vinegar bottle, bottle for Worcester sauce, etc. This stand was called a cruet, and the cruet set was a popular wedding present from oh, mid-victorian times to the early fifties (I was only there for the last part of that period). The idea was you’d add some or all of these things to your food to increase it’s palatability. “Pass the cruet, George!” The whole concept comes out of the British tradition of cooking and eating, so it might not have ever existed in the US which I believe owes more to german, irish and pre-victorian english traditions. As usual, the first guess is correct. Hope you liked Australia - we LOVE it! \*\*\* That\*\* was my first post. See, I used to range freely in General Questions once. I have become less prolix, and less informative, but remain multifocussed and benevolent, I think, and certainly proud of being Australian. Redboss\* ---

**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/4 "2001-11-06T05:07:25Z")

[sub]Psst…how do I find my first post? Do I have to search under my name and go through each thread to find out when my earliest post was? Do you all just know your first post and know where to look? Thanks for the help.[/sub] ---

**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/5 "2001-11-06T05:26:45Z")

In the original Jack Dean Tyler thread: I’ve spent the entire day reading this thread which finally convinced me to register so that I might post. It’s admirable the way people are keeping their tempers on the whole, but my question would be: Why are you still using logic on this guy? He has to be one of the most irrational, illogical, maniacal people I’ve ever heard tell of. Next time he states one of his “facts” or puts forth some of his “theories” try replying with something like, “Remember when they were talking about that on the Mary Tyler Moore show?” Or perhaps, “I like eating soup with crackers. I like soup. I like soup.” If all else fails, I’d like to see someone try a big, fat “Your momma!” As you were. 😉 \*\*This post is to commemorate my One Year SDMB Birthday. It’s been a great year, y’all. Many thanks. \*\* ---

**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/6 "2001-11-06T05:33:16Z")

> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*[sub]Psst…how do I find my first post? Do I have to search under my name and go through each thread to find out when my earliest post was? Do you all just know your first post and know where to look? Thanks for the help.[/sub] \*\* I was wondering the same thing. I’d have a lot to sift through to find my first. I’m not even sure which forum it was in. ---

**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/7 "2001-11-06T05:52:28Z")

It was [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70879&pagenumber=2): While we were growing up, my dad referred to our ‘pretty pink parts’ as ‘petunia’. My sister and I couldn’t pronounce that, so we said ‘tuma’. My niece couldn’t pronounce THAT, so it became ‘tutu’. Now, I live in the Northwest Territories in Canada (until tomorrow) and have several Inuit clients and colleagues. One of them has the last name Tootoo. To compound things, his first name is Hunter. I have a hard time keeping a straight face while talking to him. It’s a good thing I’m leaving. * * * Yes, **Mnementh** , I registered to post because of your thread about pink parts. Freaky eastern boy. However, the reason I stayed around after an accidental slip into the boards from the home page was some Gay Guy, whose name escapes meeeeeee at the moment. ---

**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/8 "2001-11-06T06:00:58Z")

Ugh…this is something I hadn’t wanted to remember… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=2025](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=2025) Let’s just say that I was quite ill-informed and did some more reading on the subject…I feel much differently on the subject these days. I also got to meet the wrath of the board mods, and DDG in this thread 🙂 Sam ---

**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/9 "2001-11-06T06:05:13Z")

[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=34546) thread (_Where was your best vacation?_ by **Soup** ) > [@](#): > > **Jackson Hole** > Jackson Hole, WY is, by far, the greatest place to good for a vacation…or to live. 'Course, if you don’t like skiing, snowboarding or snow in general in the winter, then maybe not. In the summer you are within an hour of Yellow Stone Nation Park for simply breathtaking scenery and the Snake River is nearby as well for some incredible whitewater rafting. > > Jackson has some of the best snow, longest runs and most down-to-earth and friendly people you could hope to meet. > > Mostly it’s the skiing though. ---

**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/10 "2001-11-06T06:27:42Z")

The earliest post I could find, from a thread about older actors playing teenagers… > [@](#): > > Leslie Howard was in fact 43 when he played Romeo. Costar Norma Shearer was 34, more than 20 years older than her character (Juliet is about to turn fourteen). The other actors playing the younger characters were similarly mature: Basil Rathbone (Tybalt) was 44, Reginald Denny (Benvolio) was 45, and John Barrymore (Mercutio) was 54! (The second earliest post I found contained the line “It’s rather disconcerting to be taught Shakespeare by a man with a trout around his neck.” I was disappointed when the one quoted above turned up. :p) ---

**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/11 "2001-11-06T07:00:30Z")

I believe this was my first post, and it it wasn’t quite, it should’ve been. This one dates back to 06 Sep 1997 on the AOL SDMB– The thread was titled \*\*God Does Not Exist, a PROOF \*\* (I no longer remember who it was that I was quoting at the top): \>Anyway, the answer to your question is that Christians (or at least Catholic Christians) don’t get it either. To explain it, they call it unexplainable.\< Unexplainable? Hey, it’s simple! God, who is the Almighty and is the Creator of All that Is, made inferior merchandise when creating peoplekind, and said merchandise was corrupted by a certain serpentine thingie that by prior definition is also the creation of beforementioned God, and said corruption forced abovementioned Almighty God to cast this most important centerpiece of Creation out of Eden whereupon they were cursed with original sin, presumably by God, lest we ascribe the power to curse God’s centerpiece to any lesser being, which was a situation that royally pisseth the Almighty God until, after a relatively unsuccessful experiment involving the drowning of the most corrupt of the centerpiece-manifestations (see “Noah”, in a book called “Genesis”), he decided to fix the problem for once and for all. He sent his Son, who was Himself, God, down to earth to reside amongst these downfallen centerpieces of creation (aka “sinners”) so that the people could see God in some terms that they could understand, cuz God in God’s awesome majesty was a bit much to comprehend, dig? Now things are simpler: we have Jesus, who was the son of Mary and Joseph and God who impregnated Mary who was married to Joseph; Jesus was God manifest, made mortal amongst mortals, and Jesus said we should not believe things that he said just because he said them, but instead look to his works to see God manifest in what he did. And as any Christian will tell you, the most important thing he did was die for our sins, a sacrifice made necessary because of our original sin (see above), presumably by God, since no one else is around who could dictate such terms to God, so God demanded of Jesus, who is God, that Jesus die in order to redeem our sins. With me so far? So Jesus died, except that he didn’t. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of God who is himself, and the two of God who are identically God are happily pleased that God got hisself killed on our behalf, and as a result, if we acknowledge all of the above, we too may enter the kingdom of heaven as soon as we die. Jesus offers everyone the chance to live after they are dead, not to be confused with Vladimir Dracula or Stephen King, and to prove this he raised a dead dude by the name of Lazarus who was dead at the time. (Lazarus by my calculations is approximately 1950 years old by now, counting from his second coming, although there have been no recent reports of what he might be up to). However, lest you think that things have more or less reached a standstill, be assured that Jesus / God, who art one and the same, do not consider the struggle to be over. God is going to send Jesus, who is God’s self as you recall, once again, an event foreseen and described as the “second coming”. The holy, who believe all of the above, will be taken upstairs to heaven, possibly bypassing purgatory, which is sort of like fraternity hazing for the heaven-bound, and heading directly to the harps; the unholy, who for reasons having mainly to do with their compromised moral structures and heavily mortgaged souls have refused to acknowledge Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, will go to hell (with or without the conveyance of proverbial handbasket) and the heavens will ring with a thunderous amen. I apologize for oversimplifying some things, but hey, you have to reach the masses on a level they can grasp, yes? ============ and my original sig: “Use Signature (set in Preferences)” ---

**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/12 "2001-11-06T07:09:48Z")

I believe my first post was in a little thread called **Posing for Porn** and it went like this… “It is difficult to keep clothes on Lola at the best of times… I can’t imagine what warped fiend would pay to see me naked… except maybe Lola… LMAO” After this Lola accidentally posted a few times using my nick and then bemoaned ever showing me where this board was. And you guys have been stuck with me ever since. The search was the interesting part; I thought I was a Pit whore but it would appear that my pursuits have become more mundane and pointless as time has passed. It was fun revisiting some of the old stuff and now I’m off to cuddle with that warped fiend of which I am exceedingly fond. ---

**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/13 "2001-11-06T07:22:56Z")

> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Brother Rat who became Jinxie who became Osiris in his 1st post which started thread 63940 in GQ called “Who’s the real Dennis the Menace?”_ > \*\*Hi, > Recently I’ve noticed two news-site articles about Dennis the Menace turning 50. One published on March 14, 2001 on the Excite news site [http://news.excite.com/news/r/010314/10/entertainment-people-dennis-dc](http://news.excite.com/news/r/010314/10/entertainment-people-dennis-dc) and the other on March 17 on the BBC News site [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid\_1226000/1226423.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1226000/1226423.stm) > One says he was created by Hank Ketchum in the US. And that’s the one I know of, but who’s this British kid? They sound so much alike. How is it possible that two Dennis the Menaces were created in March 1951 an ocean apart? > curiously yours, > Brother Rat \*\* It got 11 responses, and was reasonably answered. ---

**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/14 "2001-11-06T07:44:58Z")

My first post was actually a new thread, it was this one: [Things you’ve seen that have actually made your jaw drop.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59645) ---

**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/15 "2001-11-06T08:09:25Z")

> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > [BDo you all just know your first post and know where to look? \*\* It was a vivid and unforgettable experience for me. I was actually communicating on the internet, something I never had dreamed of, because I had been convinced that the internet was all shallow youngsters who spoke in weird slang about things that didn’t interest me. I was wrong, obviously. And **Airbeck** ’s wonderful thread was one of the ones that sucked me irretrievably, forever, into the swirling magma that is SDMB. Redboss ---

**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/16 "2001-11-06T08:11:21Z")

Me first post, me first totter across into the big wide word of SDMBdom: [in the IHMO thread, “Worst Movie Ever”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=56795&pagenumber=2) > [@](#): > > Two major mistakes in my movie-going career: > > Dante’s Peak. Driving through lava without a single tyre going pop, and a whole town drinking polluted acidic water before being told “Whoops! You’re in trouble now, guys!” > > Lost in Space. A total waste of film. Especially that cute little thing with what looks like genitalia on its head. [sub]I’m that self-absorbed, I remembered _exactly_ where it was after all these months.[/sub] :o ---

**Author:** ![Soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soda)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/17 "2001-11-06T09:29:32Z")

I boldly started a thread of my very own. It’s right [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28266), if anyone is interested. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted my me_ > A few years back a saw a movie where a African American woman was highly offended that someone was serving watermelons at a barbecue. It has bothered me ever since. I live in Sweden and I really don’t have anyone to ask about these sort of things so please help. What is up with that? Very interesting, eh? ---

**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/18 "2001-11-06T10:02:03Z")

Mine was a GQ [Crabs with samuri on their backs?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=14189) > [@](#): > > A friend told me that he had seen a picture of a type of crab that has developed an image of a samuri on their backs,is there such a thing? My user name and I spell Samurai wrong :o I was very happy with the response. ---

**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/19 "2001-11-06T10:30:05Z")

> [@](#): > > Is it possible to be nice? > I don’t think there are really too many ways to be nice about breaking up with someone. Obviously you could be kind about it and tell them the problems the relationship had so maybe they won’t make the mistakes again. Or just give the whole “it’s not you it’s me” speech. > Although if you are feeling a bit mean (I’ve done this kinda thing when I had to) You call them up ask to meet with them and tell them that your Aunt/Uncle in some far away state is sick and tell them you are leaving for a long time to see them. Then you make it a point to see that person in the next day or so and when they ask whats up you tell them you forgot that you didnt have an uncle there after all it was just all the imagenary voices in your head wanting to get you away from that psycho (that spends all your money, consumes your time, puts you down, makes you feel like trash, steps all over your heart, bruises your ego, cheats, and does virtually every nasty little thing in the book). Okay I’m not really bitter though. It was a thread started by FairyPrincessKitty about how to break up with someone. ---

**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638/20 "2001-11-06T10:45:38Z")

> [@](#): > > Only for my first post…dang I need to see this movie again! > > “What is the weight of an unladen swallow?” > > “An African or European Swallow?” > > Lsura(dang, I wish I knew this one as well as y’all!) That would have been 6/29/2000 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-post-your-first-post-here/91638.md?page=2)