# Ten years of the Dope: a history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189 "2009-10-26T15:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/81 "2009-10-27T17:11:53Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Question for the mods — what about ex-posters? Annoyances like the Grapist made a pretty big splash, different from a typical ten-day troll. Satan was an institution, as was Handy. JDT and FORMERAGENT were small rips in the fabric of the Timecube, but added fun and character to the board nonetheless. There are a few out there that while departed are still mentioned from time to time. But mentioning them may ruffle some feathers, so I’ll leave it up to you as to whether it fits in this context. Not a mod, but my $.02 worth. (And I’ll expect to be getting change back) How will a history of the Dope be possible without a section for noteworthy contributors? Sure, some of them are noteworthy in a tubgirl kind of way, but they were part of what has made the Dope what it is today. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/82 "2009-10-27T17:12:55Z")
This has been a real trip down memory lane. I wonder if there is a plan to preserve the SDMB database for future generations? All these old threads and topics we discussed provide quite an insight about the people of our time. It would be a great shame to permanently loose all this conversation. Can it all be saved for the future? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/83 "2009-10-27T17:26:04Z")
There’s no rule against talking about people who have been banned. (And if this is a project being done off-board, it’s out of our “jurisdiction.”) We’d discourage arguments about long-ago bannings and things like that, but a history of the board would be rather scanty and lacking in character if you couldn’t talk about people like The Grapist. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/84 "2009-10-27T17:56:09Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I\ > During the Winter of Lost Content I have fond memories of the temporary board being set up as a stopgap measure and everyone eventually showing up there like war refugees. That’s “Winter of Our Missed Content” - it has to be said that way to be a play on the famous “Winter of Our Discontent.” Did anyone post The Princess Jedi Bride yet? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/85 "2009-10-27T18:16:00Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > Funny Things Said During Sex. Someone crossposted that thread to some other subdivision of the web, and I followed it back over here… and never left. Yes, that thread is the entire reason I’ve wasted so many man-hours on the 'Dope. Anyone got a link to it? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/86 "2009-10-27T18:22:26Z")
[Funny things said during lovemaking/intimate moments.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960) (What can I say, it’s a knack.) ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/87 "2009-10-27T18:39:19Z")
Looking back over those great old threads, I’m struck by how many posters have ‘Banned’ under their names. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/88 "2009-10-27T18:41:30Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > [Funny things said during lovemaking/intimate moments.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960) > > (What can I say, it’s a knack.) Thanks! (I didn’t want to waste one of my precious board searches- thanks for taking the bullet for me. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/89 "2009-10-27T18:47:29Z")
No prob, bob. FYI, if you do a Google search and add the string “site: [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” to the end of your search query, it’s pretty good at finding old threads. You can’t get as specific as you can with the on-board SDMB search engine, of course, but being able to search more often than every 5 minutes makes up for a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/90 "2009-10-27T18:48:18Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I’m almost positive you’re correct. They’ve been restored. I’m pretty sure they haven’t completely. I started a thread on here during the first week or so of December, 2001. I’d lost my virginity, had a critical equipment failure, and posted on here for support (this was, of course, before I learned that some things were better left in LiveJournal). That thread is gone. I also don’t see any threads started by me between then and March. The boards weren’t out for those entire three months, and, given the amount of time I wasted on them, I’m sure I must’ve started at least one other thread. That being said. I posted threads when I lost my virginity, when I broke up with that boyfriend, when I got engaged, when my ex-husband started questioning his gender identity, and when I got divorced (only partially due to that gender question). This is kind of creepy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/91 "2009-10-27T18:53:41Z")
Winter of our Missed Content…the board was hacked and while TPTB were getting things back up, they set up another board over on another host. It had a bit more bells and whistles (including the annoying WhoView function) but it was a respite, a port in the storm, as it were. The Lost Weekend was when TPTB were doing some upgrades, and basically, anything that was posted during a three day period wasn’t going to be migrated over. I believe they suspended the rules for the Pit and we had ourselves a frickin’ free-for-all that was a lot of fun, knowing the posts weren’t going to be saved. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/92 "2009-10-27T18:55:28Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > I’ve got links to many of these, if needed. > I’ll just throw out one of my favorites, which I don’t think has been mentioned - how often does a Mod note lead to song parodies? > [Please do not post complete lyrics to songs!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=120313) Only once. 😃 > [@](#): > > What if the Lord of the Rings had been written by someone else? I’m loathe to start up a second copy of this thread again, but it’s been seven years and a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. We do still have (almost) the whole damn thing archived and indexed : [What If The Lord of the Rings Had Been Written By Someone Else …](http://www.teemings.net/lotr/index.html). So if anyone wants to keep it going, we’ve set up a form where you can still submit new writings to the archive. Personally, I’d love to see it in the style of, say. Glenn Beck or Orly Taitz. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 27, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/93 "2009-10-27T18:59:11Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Winter of our Missed Content…the board was hacked and while TPTB were getting things back up, they set up another board over on another host. It had a bit more bells and whistles… And a number of different smilies, as I recall. Remember Smashie? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/94 "2009-10-27T19:07:55Z")
Oh, yes, dear dear Smashie. It was a taste of what vBulletin _could_ be like… I can’t do a search right now, but does anyone remember the **Cooler of Death**? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/95 "2009-10-27T20:33:08Z")
I remember many of these. I don’t recall when I delurked, but surely it’s been about 10 years for me? There was a serious Pit thread about rape (it stopped being an insult fest and became a serious and honest conversation about rape/sex etc); that was some years ago. Funny and fun threads–too many to count. **Scylla** and **Sampiro** are excellent storytellers. Wasn’t there a thread started by someone who “discovered” a small box and wasn’t sure what was in it, and it led to more installments and spy rings, buried treasure, exotic places etc? As can be seen, I am hopeless at remembering exact details when it comes to threads. And who can forget the Great Rift when the ads came? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/96 "2009-10-27T20:39:00Z")
[There is evil in my backyard. It’s in a cooler.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=177712&page=1&pp=50) By the venerable **Velma** ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/97 "2009-10-27T22:56:13Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > I’m pretty sure they haven’t completely. I started a thread on here during the first week or so of December, 2001. I’d lost my virginity, had a critical equipment failure, and posted on here for support (this was, of course, before I learned that some things were better left in LiveJournal). That thread is gone. As **ivylass** said in a post after yours, this was when the Board went down. For three months. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/98 "2009-10-27T23:06:30Z")
Ah-ha! I found the Scylla cow-in-the-pool thread: [Elephant proof](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373196) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/99 "2009-10-27T23:20:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Did anyone post The Princess Jedi Bride yet? The thread so funny, they Threadspotted it twice. [Here ya go](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54123). ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/100 "2009-10-27T23:37:13Z")
Didn’t we have some sort of “flaming icon” for a very very short period of time? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189.md?page=6)