The Quintessential SDMB Thread

In My Humble Opinion
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If you had to pick out a single thread to represent what this message board was all about, which would you choose?

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If LOTR Was Written by Somebody Else has the sort of obsessive nerd humor that epitomizes a lot of this place. Lots of creativity, but it’s nerd creativity.

Regards,
Shodan

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This thread is what brought me to the SDMB in the first place. Someone sent me a link to it sometime towards the end of 2003. I lurked a while before joining.

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Same.

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I don’t think it exists yet. I keep waiting for this to pop up:

Is it OK for Hillary to circumcise a declawed cat and hold it against her breast while shaking hands with Trump?

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This thread.

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It’s not one of the more memorable, but it is one of the most “average” threads on the boards, from back when Gabriela was still posting:

How to weight your own head

Pan fried semen might be a slightly more memorable “average” style thread.

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I can’t find it, but there was one **“Can Superman tear his own head off?” **that was geeky and hilarious.

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There’s two. Either the “I stuck my wedding ring up my nose”, which cued dozens of Dopers to try. In fact, when I got married this year, I tried. :o

And the other one is the one that starts:

And everyone keeps riffing on it for three pages. Here it is:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192612&highlight=phoenix+ashes

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On a treadmill.

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I think the quintessential SDMB thread has to be one that fights ignorance and actually solves a mystery.

Two of my favorites:

The epic Challenge! Who is the man sitting with all the stars on Johnny Carson?

and the neverending Anyone else remember the alternate ending to “Big”?

I love them because they not only tell a great story, they also find an answer (even though in the case of the second thread, not everyone can accept it).