# The SDMB, 20 years from now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837 "2000-03-15T00:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/21 "2000-03-15T07:27:00Z")
This place is such a clique. If you don’t have at least 450,000,000 posts and haven’t been here since 2005 you might as well not even bother because everyone will just flame you anyway. I’m out of here. * * * “I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/22 "2000-03-15T11:54:00Z")
Arnold, I haven’t laughed this hard since Wally tried Cybersex. Anyway, you forgot this one: **The BBQ Pit** _fuck you american sods for nukin my beuatifle lave rokc_ - bjorn 😃 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/23 "2000-03-15T13:04:00Z")
Arnold, you are a friggin genius! This is the funniest thing ever, and I am scaring the people walking by my office because I’m laughing so hard! Well done! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/24 "2000-03-15T14:16:00Z")
ROFL! That was great. How about MPSIMS Bricker Challenge # 1986- Bricker GD The Ethics of Intergalactic Immigration- Libertarian * * * Gabba Gabba, We accept you, we accept you, one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/25 "2000-03-15T15:02:00Z")
Oh Good Lord, Arnold - I haven’t laughed this hard in so long… Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/26 "2000-03-15T23:28:00Z")
By the way, thank you everybody for the kind words. And I am grateful for your input in remedying my omissions. I realize that I didn’t include many of the posters and events that make up our daily SDMB experience, but they say that brevity is the essence of wit, and I didn’t want to fill pages. Plus, if I had mentioned how in 20 years Coldfire’s love for Canadian bands has grown to encompass the oeuvre of Celine Dion, the stretch of the imagination required might have been too great. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/27 "2000-03-15T23:41:00Z")
MPSIMS Dammit You People Can All Kiss My A\*\*. I’m sick of the whole lot of you. - Zette What Happened to Mullinator? 20 years ago he said he’d be right back - Handy etc etc Archives of the SDMB from 2020 are in the TM Homepage-OpalCat What kind of denture adhesive do you use?sunbear SDMB Global party–plane stops in Vegas, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Israel- ??? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/28 "2000-03-15T23:50:00Z")
Arnold, that was damned funny. I just sent it off to Opalcat to be enshrined. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/29 "2000-03-16T03:33:00Z")
Arnold, that was a thing of beauty. Although I think that in 20 years time the whole Evolution vs. Creationism debate will be automated. There will be 2 computers dedicated to posting replies to each other on every message board and newsgroup on the internet. No one will have to lift a finger. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/30 "2000-03-16T08:11:00Z")
Great Debate - Ensure vs. Sustacal: which one has the most punch? * * * Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/31 "2000-03-16T10:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried: > **Plus, if I had mentioned how in 20 years Coldfire’s love for Canadian bands has grown to encompass the oeuvre of Celine Dion, the stretch of the imagination required might have been too great.** As might the level of uncensored violence have been, had you posted such a thing! 😉 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/32 "2000-03-16T11:06:00Z")
Brithael _still_ bites. * * * Voted **Best Sport** And narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/33 "2000-03-16T12:19:00Z")
I’m still typing my reply, will post it later -Phaedrus Im still working on this god-damn system! Looks like another all-nighter!!-techchick68 anyone remember the 1920’s? -Eve So, does anyone like the new Pamela Anderson-Lee-Coleman-Slater-Simpson-Gooding-Gates movie? - mullinator You should see the Lake where Holland used to be -Coldfire * * * well, at least one person wants to meet me… [http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62](http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62) Cheers!! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/34 "2000-03-16T20:51:00Z")
**About This Message Board** “How Do I Post Holograms?” **Newbie** “My VirtuCecil is Malfunctioning.” **JabJr.** **Great Debates** “Should Texas Be Re-Admitted Into the Union?” **Jab Clone XXXVIII** “Intelligent Robots-- Machines or Slaves?” **Rebel** “Robots Be Allowed to Vote?” **RobotSymp** **BBQ Pit** “President Hillary has a Fat Ass” **John John III** * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/35 "2000-03-16T21:11:00Z")
Please. 20 years from now, I forsee a SDMB retirement community in Sarasota. No one will be able to figure out these new goll-darned computers with the lasers and voice activation. nevermind, I thought of a good one. **GQ** No, seriously. IS there a God? * * * DON PEDRO: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. -Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Sc: i ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/36 "2000-03-16T23:26:00Z")
…HAHAHAHAHAHahahahehehehehehehe… _whew_ hm. hmmhmm. heh. hehheheh. _giggle_ hahaha. _snort_ BWAHAHAHAHAHA… ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/37 "2000-03-16T23:26:00Z")
All of the above, and no one mentioned HEATHERLEE? * * * New and Improved Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/38 "2000-03-16T23:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles: > \*\*GQ > No, seriously. IS there a God? > > \*\* This question was covered extensively by Cecil in a column back in ’04. I’d provide a link, but the search engine is a little wonky today. I’m going to move this thread to Comments on Cecil’s Columns for further discussion. ::flees:: (on his walker) * * * [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/39 "2000-03-17T03:20:00Z")
**About This Message Board** A five picosecond response time is too slow! **Impatient Bastard** **MPSIMS** They’re STILL waiting for Jesus over at Left Behind! **Athiest Scum** * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837/40 "2000-03-17T19:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Majormd: > Great Debate - > Ensure vs. Sustacal: which one has the most punch? Don’t get it.?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-20-years-from-now/14837.md?page=3)