SDMB is a microcosm of ... ?

A college campus? A typical internet message board? A MENSA chapter?

What do you think?

We’re a whole Microcosmic Universe.
Try screwing down the lid, and we’ll come up with a super-strong material. Challenge us in any way, and we’ll respond. And when our Microcosmic God, Cecil, dies, we’ll come out and take over the universe.

My all night-neighbourhood bar.

A Hive Mind.

We’re well-wishers…in that we don’t wish you any specific harm.

I think a neighborhood bar is the best analogy anyone’s come up with whenever this topic comes up. I like to think of us as the next best thing to Callahan’s Place.

“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.”

It’s a microcosm of people who pay between $7.50 and $15.00 per year to join a messageboard.