# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/21 "2011-07-24T04:15:07Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > > [@Anybody in 1922](#): > > > > I pit Diogenes the Cynic > > .. I’m loathe to admit it, but I don’t get this one. ---
**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 24, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/22 "2011-07-24T05:34:29Z")
I take it that **Dio** would get pitted, regardless of what year. Some good ones in here… I had to think a second before I got **RealityChuck’s** first one, and **Alka Seltzer’s** Archidemes one is believably funny. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/23 "2011-07-24T05:56:18Z")
Originally Posted by **Chris Columbus, August 2, 1492, IMHO** Sea trip _west_ to Asia. Any interesting things to see on the way? ---
**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 24, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/24 "2011-07-24T06:12:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Henry Plantagenet in 1170, GD** > Separation of Church & State. What options? … ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/25 "2011-07-24T06:21:59Z")
> [@Alkasletzer](#): > > Originally Posted by Catherine the Great in 1796, GQ > Equine Enquiry of a Delicate Nature That one actually got a [response](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/100/is-it-true-about-catherine-the-great-and-the-horse) from Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/26 "2011-07-24T06:36:27Z")
Originally Posted by **Dean J. Swift, 1792, IMHO** Please critique my new blog, _A Modest Proposal_! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/27 "2011-07-24T11:07:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Scylla, May 6, 1937, Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)** > The horror of zeppelins. (ed. note: Am I going to hell for this?:D) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/28 "2011-07-24T11:37:02Z")
> [@Jack](#): > > I will be in Dallas tomorrow… what should I see? … > [@LHOswald](#): > > I hear the Texas School Book Depository is nice. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/29 "2011-07-24T12:31:35Z")
> [@Yamamoto56](#): > > Trip to Honolulu next week–what to see and do? … ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/30 "2011-07-24T12:39:44Z")
[QUOTE=Oliver Cromwell 1649] Going to Ireland to take over some real estate, are the locals friendly? [/QUOTE] And [QUOTE=Julius Ceaser 15 March 44BC] Yes I am going on holiday to Capua after todays senate session [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/31 "2011-07-24T12:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Yamamoto56, December 1, 1941** > Trip to Honolulu next week–what to see and do? [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **MidwayMorse, May 19, 1942** > I am shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that the desalination plant here is on the fritz. Guess I’m not gonna get to take any showers for a while. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/32 "2011-07-24T13:03:03Z")
> [@The mayor of Hiroshima 7th August 1945](#): > > What the **fuck** just happened? … ---
**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:** [July 24, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/33 "2011-07-24T14:20:07Z")
> [@Tsutomu Yamaguchi](#): > > Oh, FUCK this!!! … ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/34 "2011-07-24T15:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=Any one of Henry VIII wives] So is he good husband material? [/QUOTE] … ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/35 "2011-07-24T16:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=Jesus Christ on April 2, 33] What a week. Maybe things will be better after an evening in Gethsemane with the boys. [/QUOTE] > [@Cecil Adams](#): > > I’ll bet this whole “fight against ignorance” thing would be over in no time if I harnessed That ARPANET project the boys at BBN are working on. I’ll just have to wait a few years until it’s ready for me. … ---
**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 24, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/36 "2011-07-24T16:51:58Z")
> [@david simmons](#): > > this should be easy: Let’s solve this problem posed by monsieur fermat. … > [@tubadiva](#): > > resolved: Discussions about solved math problems belong in gq. Discussions about unsolved math problems belong in gd. Also, let’s keep it civil - we have had two bannings because of that fermat thread and we don’t want to have any more. … > [@thudlow boink](#): > > some thoughts about fermat … > [@wesley clark](#): > > why isn’t fermat on hilbert’s list? … > [@mike s](#): > > post links to your failed wolsfkehl solutions here. … > [@andyw](#): > > taking a break. I’ve got some professional issues to work through and, sadly, must take a pause from my friends at the sdmb. I hope i can get through this quickly - only time will tell - but i need to focus my attention on rw stuff and can’t spend time solving everybody else’s math problems. 😛 … > [@problemsolver](#): > > fermat’s last theorem: Solved. > > Remember andyw? That’s me (i lost my login during my break (don’t worry, i’ve contacted the mods and they know my new login (btw, what the hell happened here the past 7 years?))) anyway, i have spent the past 7 years working on a solution to fermat’s last theorem and will be presenting my solution over the next couple of days here in cambridge. … > [@problemsolver](#): > > fuck! Shit, goddamn, piss… Fuck!!! (ed. Problem in fermat proof) … > [@problemsolver](#): > > problems in fermat’s last theorem resolved. … > [@david simmons](#): > > did fermat have a proof? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/37 "2011-07-24T18:42:17Z")
With thanks to **AK84** for the set-up… > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Any one of Henry VIII wives** > So is he good husband material? > [@](#): > > Originally Posted By **Cathy Aragon** > Meh. Nobody to lose your head over. ---
**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 24, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/38 "2011-07-24T20:17:19Z")
Some biblical ones… [QUOTE=Eve, IMHO] Ask The Chick With Knowledge of Good AND Evil [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Cain, MPSIMS] Anger Management (long) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Noah, GQ] Horned Horse Foaming at Mouth, Vetinary Advice Needed [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Jonah, GQ] How Long to Traverse A Whale’s Digestive System? (Sent from iPhone) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Lot, Cafe Society] Culinary Uses for Large Quantity of Salt? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=David, IMHO] Advice on Deafeating Much Stronger Opponent [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Job, IMHO] Dealing With Paranoia [/QUOTE] ---
**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 24, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954/39 "2011-07-24T22:28:16Z")
> [@Daniel](#): > > How to calm hungry lions (Need answer fast!] … > [@Un-named Poster](#): > > Jesus raised my brother from the dead, however, I’ve already, er, taken “possession” of his widow (and she, me - this is mutual!) Is it murder if I kill my brother? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-threads-throughout-history/589954.md?page=1)