# The Top 101 StraightDope Threads...Of All Time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552 "2005-11-24T05:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/1 "2005-11-24T05:40:38Z")
Okay, if E! can have the Top 101 Celebrity Oops! And Top 101 Reasons the 90s Rocked and Top 101 Reasons Lyle Lovett Has Bad Hair, etc, etc…then, dammit, I can too! Continuing with my idea of a semi-SDMB Anthology Project and after assembling almost all of the [“ask the…” threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345657&highlight=anthology), I thought I’d make a topic getting everyone’s imput and opinion on the best threads of all time. Until we have 101 of them, to be exact. Then, in about a month or so, in December (or maybe Jan; at a time when this thread is dropped down and possibly forgotten about), I’ll take all of the links and topics in this topic and put them in one OP. So come one and come all and nominate a thread you think should be on this list. Link to it and tell us it’s name. 🙂 If you think it was one of the greatest EVER that you’ve ever seen or read on here, by all means, post it. All I ask is that you not be too greedy. Don’t put, like, 10 or 20 in your reply but rather allow others to have their opinions so we have a wide range of topics from the SDMB history. Only 1 to 3 thread nominations per person (unless you forgot one or two and really, really, really, really want to add it and see that nobody has yet). Heck, I can think of at least 30 things from (hint hint) Remembering certain dates, to bar fights, to things strictly about males, to…well, many many more… …But I leave it to you members to bring them into the light and nominate them. I have no doubt that, as long as it was one of the greatest topics on here, ever…that it will be mentioned. 🙂 Here are some for the list to start it off: 1. [The horror of blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&highlight=blimps) 2. [Sex with sheep is fun](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333640&highlight=sheep) 3. [Very vaguely creepy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=30758&highlight=creepy) Go on, give us some topic links that will will make us laugh, cry, think, or remember; that newbies and guests will love and enjoy and that everyone here would love another dose of. A truly great thread that you think is among the greatest of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/2 "2005-11-24T05:50:17Z")
Well, if you’re going to take the time, you MUST have this one: [How to kill Evil Nazi Groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906) - Peter Wiggen ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/3 "2005-11-24T05:57:44Z")
I think [_World Trade Center Plane Crash_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86458&perpage) should be included on your list, as well as (humbly) [the “Giraffe Challenge” thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=190370&highlight=giraffe+sandwich) ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/4 "2005-11-24T05:58:58Z")
[Return of the Princess Bride Jedi](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=54123) ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/5 "2005-11-24T06:00:08Z")
[This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37864) is **Homer’s** finest moment. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/6 "2005-11-24T06:14:20Z")
Oh, maybe someone could search and find that thread… um, it tends to get bumped on memorial’ day I think. Can’t remember who posted it originally, but a very wonderful tribute to those who have given their lives for others. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/7 "2005-11-24T06:16:19Z")
It was made by Coldfire and has the word Remember in it. 🙂 I know the one you’re talking about, but I already suggestion my “three”. : p ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/8 "2005-11-24T06:17:32Z")
[Shooting the hypothetical kid who was trapped in a hypothetical car wrecked by a hypothetical crash against a hypothetical tree and might hypothetically grow up be Hilter](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289859) NB: This is the pit thread. The original thread is linked therein. Both are funny stuff. Funny as “coke splattering against the monitor”. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/9 "2005-11-24T06:20:33Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > It was made by Coldfire and has the word Remember in it. 🙂 I know the one you’re talking about, but I already suggestion my “three”. : p I’ll burn my third for you. [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572&highlight=1945+coldfire) ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/10 "2005-11-24T06:28:01Z")
I wasn’t around then, but I’ve been searching. I can’t recall the link, but I believe it was called Can psychotic illness be diagnosed by posts on a message board, with amazing contributions by a poster named Phaedrus. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/11 "2005-11-24T07:06:16Z")
_The Horror of Blimps_ is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I could read it right now and be crying with laughter in a second. If **Scylla** is not making a living as a humor writer a la David Sedaris, there is no justice in the world. My nomination is origin of the soon-to-be SDMB inside joke “you eat stupid food for breakfast” from the OP in [Stupid little crotchspawn](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345430&highlight=stupid+food+breakfast). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/12 "2005-11-24T07:06:19Z")
Cervaise’s [The Telemarketer Speaks. I respond.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) And two votes for Sampiro’s [Woman behold thy daughter, daughter thy mother, & BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326481) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/13 "2005-11-24T07:10:32Z")
I can’t find it, but one where **Giraffe** hit on a 13 year old girl over the internet. Something about toast in the title. And it was started by **Incubus** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/14 "2005-11-24T07:15:13Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I can’t find it, but one where **Giraffe** hit on a 13 year old girl over the internet. Something about toast in the title. And it was started by **Incubus** The 13 year old’s user name was **Hot Buttered Toast**. I can’t remember the thread title either. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/15 "2005-11-24T07:23:39Z")
I have a few… The legendary [a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158752) thread. Over 100 pages before it was closed! [The Story of a Five-Dollar Bill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144522) One of a number of [welcoming](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309165&page=1&pp=50)threads. [Another](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310597&page=1&pp=50). [Hello Kitty Haiku Contest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278752) The Og Triptych: [I give up – “OG SMASH”???](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=111196) [The tenets of Og?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256119) [Cthulu v. Og: The Battle of the Gods!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=104146) And if I may be so bold as to nominate one I started… [Parliamentary Hockey](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287367) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/16 "2005-11-24T07:31:12Z")
You guys were thinking of [How a dangerous situation was defused by the wonders of toast](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224544) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/17 "2005-11-24T07:45:02Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572&highlight=1945+coldfire) Getting all sentimental, my first nominee would have to be a thread that was, like many servicemen in World War II (and many other wars, for that matter), struck down in its prime: [May 9 1971 - We Shall Remember](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315599). **Veblen** ’s ‘scathing cleverness’ jibe in the final post (perhaps that should be the ‘last post’ given the topic) provides the knock-out punch to what would undoubtedly have gone on to become a classic SDMB parody. R.I.P. We will remember you. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/18 "2005-11-24T07:45:38Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > You guys were thinking of [How a dangerous situation was defused by the wonders of toast](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224544) …and they still make him a Mod. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/19 "2005-11-24T07:48:49Z")
[Goat porn.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=33909) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/20 "2005-11-24T08:01:06Z")
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