# The last ever post to the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643 "2006-05-21T16:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/21 "2006-05-21T22:58:03Z")
Shane… Come back, Shane… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/22 "2006-05-21T23:07:59Z")
It might look something like this. > [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t believe in those stupid “hamsters” everybody always talks about. There’s no evidence whatsoever they exist. And if the hamsters ARE real, may they prove it by shutting this board down now! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/23 "2006-05-21T23:30:09Z")
**Administrator:** That’s it for them then! ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/24 "2006-05-21T23:37:43Z")
Why is this board so slow. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/25 "2006-05-21T23:48:03Z")
The lawyers lost? Well, nobody’s perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/26 "2006-05-21T23:56:50Z")
Goodbye cruel world! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/27 "2006-05-22T00:07:55Z")
Resubmit: **Ed** : Alas, poor Cecil! I knew him, dopers: a fellow of infinite wisdom, of most excellent intelligence: he hath slayed me with his wit a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/28 "2006-05-22T00:28:55Z")
\*"Hey, I’ve been hoisting this damn lamp of knowledge high for thirty-odd (some of them _very_ odd) years. Now, Teeming Millions, go and do thou likewise. Me, I’m off to Acapulco. _Excelsior!_ –Unca Cece"\* ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/29 "2006-05-22T01:22:29Z")
“From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/30 "2006-05-22T02:24:23Z")
“Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!” Now quick someone explain who she was? Jim ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/31 "2006-05-22T02:29:58Z")
Buh-bye! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/32 "2006-05-22T02:40:46Z")
Here’s looking at you, kid. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/33 "2006-05-22T03:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Ever hit the POST button and then think of something much better as the post is posting? [/QUOTE] I think the French (calling Clairobscure) call that effect _les mots de l’escalier_ (literally “the words of the staircase.”). Those are all the neat things you wish you had said during the argument. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/34 "2006-05-22T03:08:41Z")
I think it’s “esprit d’escalier,” meaning “wit (or spirit) of the staircase.” In German, it’s “treppenwitz.” ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/35 "2006-05-22T04:46:12Z")
If any man shall take away from the words of the posts of this message board, Lynn shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the membership registry, and from the things which are written in this thread. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Master Cecil. The knowledge of our Perfect Master Cecil be with you all. Fnord. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/36 "2006-05-22T04:48:44Z")
Gotcha ya! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/37 "2006-05-22T11:25:51Z")
Throughout the years that the SDMB has been operating, there has been one huge secret about Cecil that was never revealed. As we are now shutting down the SDMB, I can finally, at long least, tell you all that ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/38 "2006-05-22T11:25:54Z")
Uh, oh. I think I broke the internet. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/39 "2006-05-22T11:54:32Z")
“Why, they couldn’t censor an _elephant_ at this dist------” … ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ever-post-to-the-sdmb/357643/40 "2006-05-22T12:42:32Z")
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