# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/21 "2006-03-28T16:30:01Z")
[The Telemarketer Speaks…I Respond.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270&highlight=telemarketer+speaks) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/22 "2006-03-28T19:41:42Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] Hell if I know. That was a long time ago. [/QUOTE] Your first post was in a “test” thread in ATMB. You used your first “real” post to nominate Sheryl Crow’s version of “Sweet Child of Mine” in an “All-time worst songs” thread. Me, I ducked into a thread about the various permutations of bootleg “Calvin peeing”/“Calvin Praying”/“Calvin Making an egg-salad sandwich” stickers that people affix to their vehicles, to point out that some guy who was described as facing “obscenity charges” in Texas for displaying a “Calvin Peeing” sticker on his truck had put the full names of his ex-wife and several people on his “enemies” list under the stream, which is a bit different from having him pee on a Ford logo or whatever it is that people usually do. Killed the thread, too. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/23 "2006-03-28T19:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I remember it well, but I can’t find the thread. […] I guess the archive doesn’t go back that far? I’ve tried to find it but every search was fruitless. [/QUOTE] [Right here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4289912#post4289912). What you want to do (instead of using keywords to try to find the thread,) is just search by user name, find posts from any date, sort “by last posting date” in ascending order, and Bob’s your uncle. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/24 "2006-03-28T19:54:05Z")
There was a thread in ThreadSpotting called One, that I can’t search for because it’s only three characters. Responses were like, “is the loneliest number,” “to get ready,” “life to live…” ---
**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 28, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/25 "2006-03-28T20:20:59Z")
Thanks to **Larry Mudd** , I can proudly(?) state that my very first post was in a “Whatcha reading?” thread. I still haven’t gotten around to the Livy that was on my list. \ ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/26 "2006-03-28T20:38:00Z")
My first post was a GQ on the clinical term for fear of lightbulbs. No real answer tot hat one. The post that made me decicde to subscribe was one on how to completely dispose of a human body. There was some pretty funny stuff in that one… mm ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/27 "2006-03-28T21:01:59Z")
Well, I had made the [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) page a regular visit, and eventually found my way onto the boards. I lurked for a bit, but realized that I had to join after reading the “I stood next to the Emperor of the World” thread (which search is being picky about finding). Begone, stupid non-responding search page, for it has been linked to in the “Funny Pit threads” just a few threads down. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=152737) is the thread I was referring to. My very first post was [in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=156917), and subsequent ones were mainly in Cafe Society, since I was a big fan of Buffy / Angel, and CS could always be counted on a weekly thread about new eps. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/28 "2006-03-28T21:37:55Z")
I’ve been looking for the thread that drew me in for ages, and unfortunately, I can’t find it for the life of me. It was somebody ranting about an e/mail they’d received that included a very graphic image of a woman being altogether too familiar with a pop can. The ranter essentially reamed the rantee a new one over the fact that he opened this in the living room with several other people in the room. Most of whom didn’t really have a need to see that kind of thing. The thing that got me though, was the second part of the rant. Started off something like “And to the young lady with a Coke can shoved up her…,” telling her that there were much more productive things she could be doing with her life than that. I can’t remember for the life of me who wrote it (although I’m pretty sure it was a Firstname Lastname poster. **David Simmons**? **Steve Wright**?) I’d like to find it again though, if only to remember what amused me so much about it. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/29 "2006-03-28T23:05:28Z")
How embarrassing. It looks like my [first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=29707&highlight=AuntiePam) was a hijack of a thread started by **Sua Sponte** , to share TMI on old people and passion. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/30 "2006-03-28T23:16:00Z")
In true newbie fashion, it seems that I killed what could have been an interesting thread about [what qualifies as a flirt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=316234) with my very first post. _ **Asimovian** – Straight Dope thread killer since May of '05._ ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/31 "2006-03-29T01:03:53Z")
My first post was a threadkiller called [Do you get the print version of The Onion?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=102941) I then made several posts that are now lost to the ages from the Winter of our Missed Content. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/32 "2006-03-29T02:27:12Z")
I started lurking after following the Threadspotting link to [How to kill evil Nazi Groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906), and my first post was to a poll on birthplaces, then a couple in [Crunchy Frog’s Welcome Wagon (newbies take note)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=45294). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/33 "2006-03-29T03:36:57Z")
Once upon a time, there were a lot of simultaneous threads going about God. Sequential threads of the day looked kind of like this: Is God Really the Devil in Disguise? God Exists, No Need Experiment God God – the Movie Does God Exist? Does God Exist? Let’s try something new… God DOES Exist–Proof Goes Does NOT Exist, a Proof God or No God Does God Exist? An Experiment-Refocus I posted this: **God is a CAT! A proof…** > [@](#): > > Hi! I am Schrodinger’s cat. Oh, you remember, the one that is in the box to demonstrate quantum probabilities, and I am alive and dead rather than one or the other, although each probability is a little fuzzy, but I’m a cat and I’m a little fuzzy anyway…yeah, I knew you’d remember! > > So, let’s go about this God thing as the logicians do. I want you to conceive of the CAT ALMIGHTY. The Cat such that nothing more noble or good or powerful or perfect can exist, OK? Yes, you have such a Cat in mind, do you? > > Oh no you don’t! You are still conceiving of such a divine Cat as a _hypothetical_ Cat, and I am sitting here and conceiving, in betweenst licking my fur, of such a divine Cat as a REAL, GENUINELY EXISTENT Cat, which is a shade more noble and a bit better and definitely more powerful and perfect where your hypothetical “Cat” is less than so, so you are going to have to do a bit better than that… > > Ah, NOW you have it! So you BELIEVE! Come, and bring with you some cheddar cheese and lasagna and tuna fish, and make your offering in this bowl over here! \ ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170/34 "2006-03-29T04:23:43Z")
Not to sound old…dammit, I was 24 when I first joined!..but, “Back in the AOL days…” I posted on the message board back when it was just one forum, around **November-ish of 1997**. My screenname was **LauraRae** ; my question was this question, lamely posed something like this: “Question: Grape Nuts are neither grapes nor nuts. Discuss and explain.” To show just how “old” I am, I remember not only the original thread “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share” which later evolved into the forum here, I remember the post that spawn MPSIMS itself: Someone posted a link to where you could get wallpaper (computer wallpaper, that is) from the movie _Titanic_. When we switched to the new format, I was LauraRae briefly before becoming Ruffian in December 1999. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-you-rode-in-on/350170.md?page=1)