# The thread you rode in on. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170 "2006-03-27T23:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/1 "2006-03-27T23:03:19Z")
A few years ago, before I started lurking, and long before I started posting, there was a thread that made me decide to go ahead and register. I don’t remember who the OP was or the title. It was a rant about costume rentals. The OP worked at a costume rental place and was complaining about the stink that one particular customer left in a costume. As for the first thread I posted in… It was about female celebrities who haven’t aged well. My contribution was Goldie Hawn. I was imediately blasted by an enraged Goldie fan. And I didn’t post again for several days. What thread did you ride in on? ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/2 "2006-03-27T23:22:16Z")
[thread=353356]This one[/thread] got me to join. Everyone jumping in to say “Turn the power off!” just struck me absolutely hilarious and I had to express my appreciation. My first post was in a random newbie thread. I went the safe route. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/3 "2006-03-27T23:27:01Z")
I added my $.02 worth to a short GD thread on scandisk. Pretty dull. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/4 "2006-03-27T23:38:56Z")
I can’t remember, and a search only took me back to December 2005. Whatever it was, it must have been a friendly, non-threatening thread, probably in MPSIMS – this board can be intimidating to a newbie. Or even an oldbie. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/5 "2006-03-27T23:45:13Z")
I don’t remember the first thread I posted in. But I shall never forget my introduction to these boards. I wasted most of a morning coming back and laughing at it. [1920’s Style “Death Rays” anyone?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=202225) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/6 "2006-03-27T23:49:58Z")
As best I can find, my first thread contribution was in [What’s your favorite instrumental?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=189448&page=2&pp=50) on Page 2. If this wasn’t THE first post I made it was at least done in my second day here. I vaguely recall some “welcome the newbies” thing at that time, too. I did reply to that as well. The search I did looks like some of those early threads may have been dumped by now. I can’t prove that but I’d bet on it. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/7 "2006-03-27T23:58:18Z")
IIRC, my first post was to a CS thread. _Buffy_ more than likely. My first thread was a Pit thread railing against virus writers. Nothing momentous in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/8 "2006-03-28T00:01:07Z")
Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. My first thread was Scylla’s infamous Nazi Groundhog thread; I read the entire thing, giggling like a loon, then I registered. I don’t really remember which was my first post; I think it was in a telemarketer thread, where I made the mistake of pointing out that they were just people with shitty jobs, and got trounced for it. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/9 "2006-03-28T00:32:51Z")
My first post was in a thread about the baseball All Star Game that ran out of players. I’d been lurking for some months by then; I have no earthly idea what thread drew me to the board. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/10 "2006-03-28T00:40:20Z")
I’d joined in Nov’04 to throw my 2¢ on one of Cecil’s columns, then lurked until July’05 when a friend sent me a link to a thread with a title something like “you know you’re getting old when…” - since then I spend an average of 3 hours a day, sometimes much much more, no the boards. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/11 "2006-03-28T00:41:21Z")
ok - according to my stats, I joined in Feb’04 - but I know I started paying in Nov’04 - that was my first post ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/12 "2006-03-28T01:40:59Z")
The ol’ search function tells me that my first post here was on July 5, 2004, in an IMHO thread about commonly mispronounced words that **Only Mostly Dead** started a couple of weeks before I joined. Later that day I posted in a Pit thread, and thus my SDMB presence was established. 🙂 I have no idea how I found this place, but I know I only lurked for a day or two before joining – I’m not much for watching without participating, and the price was reasonable so I figured “what the hell.” The first thread I started was on July 19th of that year: it was in GQ, and asked about the unfocused stare that many blind people have. I never did get an answer to that question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/13 "2006-03-28T01:57:19Z")
After years and years of lurking, I jumped on board dropping a joke into [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=230877). Then **DeVena** welcomed me to the site, and then (naturally) I killed the thread. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/14 "2006-03-28T02:01:41Z")
I remember it well, but I can’t find the thread. It was a comprehensive **Karate Kid** thread that drew me in. I had some answers so I signed up. I translated all of the hidden moves within Daniel-san’s chores from the first Karate Kid movie, giving the corresponding Japanese term and description from its tradition within the Internal School of Okinawan Karate. I guess the archive doesn’t go back that far? I’ve tried to find it but every search was fruitless. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/15 "2006-03-28T02:17:00Z")
My SDMB cherry was impaled by a hurrican Katrina thread. There was a guy that had done some disaster relief and i was asking about the logistics of such problems and what it’d take to fix said problems. Good times for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/16 "2006-03-28T02:19:54Z")
Mine was a GQ thread about funeral practices of different religions. I wrote a long post about the Shinto funeral I’d been to, and promptly killed the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/17 "2006-03-28T03:38:34Z")
After lurking for years, entering The 2005 Celebrity Death Pool on the tail end of 2004 made me join. ::Sigh:: I coulda been a 99’er. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/18 "2006-03-28T04:07:00Z")
Hell if I know. That was a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/19 "2006-03-28T04:43:53Z")
My first post was a gripe about _Dante’s Peak_. It still ticks me off as to how assinine stuff was in that movie … ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/20 "2006-03-28T16:04:46Z")
My first post was a new thread (!) in the Comments on Straight Dope Columns forum where I mentioned that “Blinded by the Light” was about masturbation. One of the mods came in and supplied the link I didn’t know enough to include, and then the thread died. An auspicious start I must say. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170.md?page=2)