# The secret SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572 "2004-07-17T12:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/1 "2004-07-17T12:54:45Z")
This will be my most mundane and pointless post today. SDMB is an acronym for BD/SM. Well, tie me down and let me whip you later! I’ll be there’s a secret SDMB/BDSM society lurking here somewhere! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/2 "2004-07-17T13:21:25Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > SDMB is an acronym for BD/SM. Don’t you mean “anagram”? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/3 "2004-07-17T13:23:40Z")
:smack: I _meant_ “anagram”! I _thought_ “anagram”! But it came out my fingers wrong! :smack: And I also meant “bet”, not “be”. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/4 "2004-07-17T13:37:04Z")
It’s pretty obvious that your mistakes are caused by the Secret SM/BD Society, who have installed a keystroke confabulator on your computer, proving your theory. I wonder if they will let me post this revealing discovery? {gives secret handshake to **Johnny L. A.** } ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/5 "2004-07-17T14:04:53Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > SDMB is an acronym for BD/SM > > I’ll be there’s a secret SDMB/BDSM society lurking here somewhere! Weirdly enough, I mentionned both yesterday in a mail I sent to another member of the sec…I mean to another poster I was in touch with because…err…for some random reason I can’t clearly remember. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/6 "2004-07-17T15:05:18Z")
This post has been deleted by {Secret Society name withheld}. You are under strict orders to disregard all deleted posts. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/7 "2004-07-17T16:16:28Z")
Come on, you’re frightening the newbies. Everyone knows there is no Secret S ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/8 "2004-07-17T16:19:10Z")
:::waves hand::: There is no link between SDMB and BDSM. Also, the Chicago Reader does not exist. :::waves hand::: ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/9 "2004-07-17T16:19:28Z")
During the Winter of Our Missed Content, one of the Dallas area Dopers set up a community board to keep in touch. She made it explicit in the title that it was NOT an S/M Bondage board. Presumably the forum owners needed the reassurance. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/10 "2004-07-17T17:00:10Z")
This post has been deleted by the **Deleter!** ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/11 "2004-07-17T17:03:32Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > This post has been deleted by {Secret Society name withheld}. You are under strict orders to disregard all deleted posts.[/ This post has been deleted by the **Deletist!** (Wasn’t that first try magical and hilarious? I guess I’ll preview this time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/12 "2004-07-17T17:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > SDMB is an acronym for BD/SM. Because dyslexics enjoy rough trade too. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/13 "2004-07-17T17:12:40Z")
Ignore the Dominatrix behind the curtain! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/14 "2004-07-17T17:21:07Z")
Nope, no naughtiness going on here! : hides whip behind back : Nope, all innocent conversation, all the time! : nudges ominous objects back under bed with foot : What were we discussing? Gardening? You gotta get that soil _real wet_! Mmmm…baby, that’s right! Moist! Now **PLANT IT**! 😃 Pay no attention to the sig line! ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/15 "2004-07-17T17:29:26Z")
Bring out the gimp! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-sdmb/255572/16 "2004-07-17T21:29:34Z")
Can you tell me which way to the post… Oh dear.