# SDMB mentioned in the Washington Post! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076 "2004-02-01T19:33:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/1 "2004-02-01T19:33:29Z")
[Yes, it’s true!](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1993-2004Jan31.html) In an article on online literature we made the grade with that damn LOTR thread from last summer. We’re on page 5 of the article! Are we big time or what? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/2 "2004-02-01T19:44:23Z")
And the debate is …? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/3 "2004-02-01T19:59:33Z")
Here is our mention in the link: > [@](#): > > • Prose parodies. The online community surrounding the newspaper feature “The Straight Dope” posted a question on its Web site, [www.teemings.com/extras/lotr](http://www.teemings.com/extras/lotr), asking: What if “Lord of the Rings” had been written by someone else? The response was tsunamic. More than 1,000 people weighed in with prose parodies of everyone from Dante to Louisa May Alcott. > > Here’s a Dr. Seuss entry: > > \*Gandalf, Gandalf! Take the ring! I am too small to carry this thing! > > I can not, will not hold the One. You have a slim chance, but I have none. I will not take it on a boat, I will not take it across a moat. I cannot take it under Moria, that’s one thing I can’t do for ya. I would not bring it into Mordor, I would not make it to the border.\* ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/4 "2004-02-01T20:18:39Z")
**Moderator’s Note:** Moving to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/5 "2004-02-01T22:28:19Z")
Congrats **[gonzoron](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=8827)**; T-minus 14 minutes and counting! ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/6 "2004-02-01T22:50:01Z")
Thanks for posting this, **Jonathan Chance** ; I saw it too. And you know, because of that Dr. Seuss quote that they used, I remembered that **'Pit** thread about the prehensile rectum that had a Seuss-like analogy in it - too bad the Post couldn’t have used that one, but understandably they couldn’t. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/7 "2004-02-01T22:54:06Z")
I think the guy who wrote that article needs to spend more time on the Dope, and less time on the rest of the net where all the illiterates are. Not using my brain indeed! I’m not laconic or overly rude, and my critical faculties are doing just fine, thank yew. Maybe the sentences are getting shorter, but maybe that’s because people are putting large concepts into the least typing possible. I don’t necessarily think that longer sentences are better sentences. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/8 "2004-02-02T00:05:16Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Congrats **[gonzoron](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=8827)**; T-minus 14 minutes and counting! Good one! I think this is my first time posting in MPSIMS, but that LoTR thread ROCKED! I can’t remember when I laughed so hard… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/9 "2004-02-03T05:37:57Z")
The Post (or, more accurately, Technews, since it was far easier to find a relevant email addy for them) have been emailed with a correction or three to their article. I can’t say as I am truly sad that Teemings got print-time instead of the board, though … as slow as things can be, with 40K more hits overnight I think the hamsters would have straight-up died. Plus, y’know, Teemings sorta runs contrary to the rather insulting premise of the article (that we’re all a bunch of yokels what don’t know proper grammar’n’stufflikethat). ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mentioned-in-the-washington-post/227076/10 "2004-02-03T15:28:13Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Plus, y’know, Teemings sorta runs contrary to the rather insulting premise of the article (that we’re all a bunch of yokels what don’t know proper grammar’n’stufflikethat). They’ll prolly check out the SDMB and look at a post from Bj0rn, killing that theory aborning.