# Red Letter Days at SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326 "2014-06-21T21:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/41 "2014-06-23T09:43:24Z")
I just like to read. Seeing what people’s reactions to historical events or big debates is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/42 "2014-06-23T12:18:17Z")
> [@PurpleClogs](#): > > I just like to read. Seeing what people’s reactions to historical events or big debates is interesting. Thanks for clarifying. For some people, watching midgets wrestle is “entertaining.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/43 "2014-06-23T14:56:38Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > The day Firefly got canceled. > > 😉 They tried to cancel me, but my legions of fans protested. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/44 "2014-06-23T15:05:13Z")
Well, there was the day the **umkay** died… > **[the FUCK?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=656166)** > > I DIED?! Count me in as one of the people who’d be real fuckin’ interested in those wake details, since a corpse-less funeral should be pretty fuckin’ strange. Ditto that fuckin’ obituary. NotOkay–You sick fuck. What you just did is so fucking... ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/45 "2014-06-23T15:15:44Z")
You’ve got to be an old-timer to remember [Melingate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=9503&highlight=Melingate). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/46 "2014-06-23T15:17:44Z")
It’s been a few months since this was updated, and I hesitate to be the one to give it a bump, but there are some fun retrospectives pointed to in: > **[The truly great threads in SDMB history](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508687)** > > Sort of a poll, but more of a survey of the really great threads of the past. May be “past” only in the sense of no longer visible on the front pages of the various fora. I’m most fascinated by the ones that suddenly spring to life with off-the-wall... The truly great threads in SDMB history 03-01-2009, 09:31 AM Zeldar #162 01-25-2014, 09:24 PM marshmallow ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326/47 "2014-06-23T17:27:47Z")
There was also that time **Hal Briston** confessed that he was into goats. But that thread is suspiciously absent from the search results. I suspect a cover up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-letter-days-at-sdmb/691326.md?page=2)