# Seminal threads on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 8, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874 "2003-03-08T06:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/1 "2003-03-08T06:51:55Z")
Is there a thread anywhere that lists threads where things that we take for granted were first used? I remember seeing a couple of “watershed” threads, but I think it’d be cool to have a thread (even a sticky!) listing the first usage of: 1. The awful “Hi Opal” thing 2. Og smash 3. Gotcha ya 4. Asshat/Assclown 5. Any other defining SMDB “memes” ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/2 "2003-03-08T09:07:37Z")
1. Gotcha ya: [I Am Going To Blow People Mind’s At My Funeral](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80870) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\*I have always been a little different(to say the least huh). So I really don’t want to have a boring funeral like everybody else has. I mean it is depressing enough that somebody died then people go and wear black and have boring depressing music too. > > So unless I am really disfigured(from a bad wreck or something you know my “wild” driving record), I want the morgue dudes to put me in a cool looking suit and put a big like smile on my face. Then I want them too arrange my hand like a gun so when people lean over and look I’ll be saying “Gotcha Ya”. 😉 > > I don’t think anybody will ever forget that wake do you? I am really going to do this I am going to put it in my last instructions. And if my family doesn’t do this, I am going to come back and haunt their butts! 😃 \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/3 "2003-03-08T11:18:36Z")
[The origin of Og.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103615) > [@](#): > > _Orig. by SeaHawk_ > How is it possible for a grown person to believe that Jesus is the son of god… and that sort og rubbish ? A typographical slip, a few Dopers picking up on it, and Og is born. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/4 "2003-03-08T11:28:32Z")
“Hi Opal” dates back to the days of the old AOL board. I don’t know if any of that still exists on the Net for a link to be possible. Here’s [one of the many, many threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=115949) spawned to answer questions about one of the SDMB’s longest running in-jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/5 "2003-03-08T19:12:48Z")
wasn’t there a religion created here where we worship a pink unicorn? i seem to remember something of a pink unicorn.😕 ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/6 "2003-03-08T19:39:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aceospades \* > \*\*wasn’t there a religion created here where we worship a pink unicorn? i seem to remember something of a pink unicorn.😕 \*\* I’ve seen the invisible pink unicorn all over the 'net. I’m not sure, but I don’t think that it did originate here. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/7 "2003-03-08T20:08:53Z")
I think the pink unicorn thing is a classic example used in the “existence of God” debate throughout philosophy - something like, “I don’t believe in God for the same reason I don’t believe there’s a pink unicorn in the room with me.” I believe it’s gained notoriety on the SDMB for its frequent use in Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/8 "2003-03-09T04:22:31Z")
[Watershed Moments in SDMB history, or The SDMB Anthology Project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=118749) Ask, and ye shall receive. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/9 "2003-03-09T05:04:44Z")
Ah, **Troy McClure SF** – you are terrific! I was looking for that thread yesterday. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/10 "2003-03-10T02:46:36Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve seen the invisible pink unicorn all over the 'net. I’m not sure, but I don’t think that it did originate here. Don’t you mean, that you _haven’t_ seen Her all over the 'net? She is invisible, after all :D. But if you really want, here’s a [seminal thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116591) ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/11 "2003-03-10T03:27:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*But if you really want, here’s a [seminal thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116591) \*\* Groan. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seminal-threads-on-the-sdmb/159874/12 "2003-03-11T07:29:46Z")
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