# SDMB threads throughout history… **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954 "2011-07-22T06:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/1 "2011-07-22T06:28:59Z")
Eh, this one might be fun. Or it will die a barely-noticed death… you never can tell. Regardless, don’t be mean… the ever-vigilant eyes of the moderators are watching… :eek: I’m doing thread titles myself, but if anybody wants to do historical spoof-posts, go right ahead. 😃 > [@Le Jacquelope in 1904](#): > > Stop “out-sourcing” of our jobs to these immigrants! > [@Der Trihs in 1836](#): > > Now that the imperialistic US lost at the Alamo, can Texas be the free and independent nation it deserves to be? > [@Qin Shi Huangdi in 1685](#): > > I exchanged glances with a girl in church. Shoulds’t I be whipped or put in the stockade? > [@Equipose in 1614](#): > > Verily, I sayeth that “MacBeth” is Shakspr’s finest work! > [@Johnny Paris in 1884](#): > > Bollocks! Is this new-fangled “qwerty” keyboard layout supposed to _hamper_ typing? (The above was eventually moved to Great Debates, then IMHO) > [@Friar Ted in 1518](#): > > Mr. Luther: A rebuttal. > [@foolsguinea in 1976](#): > > In which I put my foot up the ass of all global-cooling skeptics! (long, rant-like) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/2 "2011-07-22T06:46:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Rondembo in 1863, The Games Room** > Pub meeting forms Football Association. Why fucking bother? .. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/3 "2011-07-22T06:53:06Z")
> [@OpalCat in 1977](#): > > Three reasons I love “The Book of Lists”: > > 1. I love lists > 2. About all sorts of subjects … > [@OpalCat in 1977](#): > > Sorry about that last post… the doorbell rang and for some reason I posted the thread before I was finished. A two-item list… how lame! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/4 "2011-07-22T09:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Cicero in 1922, MPSIMS** > You bastards made me do it, [look what I found.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun) … ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/5 "2011-07-22T09:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=Archimedes in 242 BC, MPSIMS] Eureka! [/QUOTE] … [QUOTE=Archimedes in 242 BC, The Pit] Ridiculous Over-Reactions to Public Nudity [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/6 "2011-07-22T10:05:09Z")
[QUOTE= Alexander in 333 BC, GQ] Untangling Difficult Knot, Suggestions? [/QUOTE] … ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/7 "2011-07-22T13:01:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **STColeridge in 1797** > I pit a person from Porlock … > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **ALincoln** in 1865 in MPSIMS > Got tickets to Our American Cousin. I’m psyched! … > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **MTLincoln** in 1865 in Cafe Society > Our American Cousin was the worst play ever! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/8 "2011-07-22T13:16:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Socrates in 399, GQ** > Ingestion of coniine based herbal infusions. Need answer fast. … ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/9 "2011-07-22T13:42:20Z")
Ahem > [@Idle Thoughts in 1670](#): > > Heartily, I agree that thee posts therein are quite funny, so be it just a small reminder, prithee, not to make up any “current” quotes by real SDMB members. > > Pre-SDMB is fine, but, forsooth, forgetting to set a date goes into rule-breaking shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/10 "2011-07-22T13:57:00Z")
**Capt. Edward Smith** in **General Questions** on April 14, 1912 **What effect would an iceberg collision have on a steel liner? (Need answer fast.)** ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/11 "2011-07-22T13:58:59Z")
Idle Thoughts, is it okay to take a quote from an actual poster and ascribe a fake date to it? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/12 "2011-07-22T14:02:49Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Idle Thoughts, is it okay to take a quote from an actual poster and ascribe a fake date to it? Yes, that’s what I was saying, haha. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/13 "2011-07-22T14:04:46Z")
Just clarifying- and for any other posters who may be following this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/14 "2011-07-22T14:10:45Z")
[QUOTE=Qin Shi Huang in 221BC, IMHO] Best Ornaments for a Tomb? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Caligula in AD39, The Pit] These Fucking Senators! A Fucking Horse Could Do a Better Job! [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Canute in 1022, GQ] Just Made a Fool of Myself, Why Two High Tides in a Day? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Tom the Tailor in 1058, MPSIMS] OMG! Just Saw a Nekkid Lady on a Horse! [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Marco Polo in 1295, IMHO] Poll: So, How Many Countries Have YOU Visited? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ponce de Leon in 1513, Great Debates] Does Homeopathy Work? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Catherine the Great in 1796, GQ] Equine Enquiry of a Delicate Nature [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Colonel Saunders in 1930, Cafe Society] Share Your Chicken Recipes [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Carl Perkins in 1955, The Pit] I Pit Clumsy Bastards Who Can’t Look Where They Are Going [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Keith Richards in 1965, MPSIMS] Vague Sense of Discontentment [/QUOTE] Much harder to come up with ones for actual dopers, but I did manage: [QUOTE=Wordman in 1936, Cafe Society] Just Saw this DEMON Guitarist [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/15 "2011-07-22T14:19:37Z")
Originally posted by **Astorian** on 3rd July 1971 in relation to Jimmy Morrison: Pamela: “Geez, Jim, you stink. Would it KILL you to take a bath?” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/16 "2011-07-22T14:30:37Z")
.. [QUOTE=Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540, MPSIMS] Hey guys, I found a \*\*\*big \*\*\*hole today! [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/17 "2011-07-22T14:36:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Anybody in 1922, The Pit** > > I pit Diogenes the Cynic .. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/18 "2011-07-22T18:26:34Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Martians are invading! Need escape route fast!! > [@Hal Briston](#): > > Err… sorry about that Martian thing. > [@Der Trihs](#): > > I Pit Hal Briston for causing a panic > [@GFactor](#): > > About Hal Briston banning (Sorry, Hal - you’re the first Jersey-ite Doper I found. 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/19 "2011-07-23T18:06:33Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > Damn that Einstein for stealing my ideas! I published this “general theory” stuff back in 1893! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/20 "2011-07-23T22:24:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Diogenes the Cynic, 320 BC, the Pit** > > All right, where are these so-called “honest” men? … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954.md?page=2)