# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/41 "2005-11-24T16:14:56Z")
The board is running real slow for me right now, but there is a hilarious story by **Master Wang-ka** and a kitchen fire. It’s not an OP, but it was a post in a thread about kitchen horror stories. Actually, anything by **Wang-ka** is a treat. I really miss him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/42 "2005-11-24T16:35:58Z")
[Found it!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2737610&postcount=50) ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/43 "2005-11-24T16:41:12Z")
I’m mainly posting this for **shijinn** ’s post, but I had some fun going back and reading my own (and the responses). I’d forgotten about that. Guess sometimes a lollipop ain’t just a lollipop. Anyways, [the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287947) ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/44 "2005-11-24T16:49:20Z")
I would put up a banned members thread for this list, and also inclusion in the “Ask the…” thread list. He didn’t name the thread “Ask the guy who lives in MENA about his views on Iraq, the war, et al” but it was essentially what it was all about. Over 500 posts in GD…pretty good. I give you **Collounsbury** : [Lounsbury on Iraq & MENA: War, Politics, Economy & Related Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=172697&page=1&pp=50) -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/45 "2005-11-24T16:57:33Z")
I’ve always been partial to [Skyscrapers, Executives, and Miscalculated Feces](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=290823) . ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/46 "2005-11-24T17:08:08Z")
Don’t forget **auntie em’s** fabulous [**Missing Co-Worker** thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=190562) (It’s really called “OK, so my boss is reading my coworker’s email . . .,” but who ever thinks of it that way?) and its nail biting sequel [**Missing Coworker, Part II**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191723). ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/47 "2005-11-24T17:19:53Z")
[Not many people know that…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283407&page=1&pp=50) Well they do now. Or did once, for 20 minutes. Actually they would also have known this if they’d read Bill Bryson’s _A Short History of Nearly Everything_ ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/48 "2005-11-24T17:34:18Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Don’t forget **auntie em’s** fabulous [**Missing Co-Worker** thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=190562) (It’s really called “OK, so my boss is reading my coworker’s email . . .,” but who ever thinks of it that way?) and its nail biting sequel [**Missing Coworker, Part II**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191723). Throw another one the way of **auntie em** with her [Ahh, the Wisdom of Toddlers (or: Auntie EM’s Big Vagina)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=187123&highlight=vagina) thread. 'Course, I just might be a bit biased. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/49 "2005-11-24T17:57:15Z")
[This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39219) and its partner thread, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170210). Pure culinary heaven. (Is there a way to get all these recipes on CD or anything? I’d love to have these as reference to print off my computer when I need to cook a meal…) ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/50 "2005-11-24T18:48:50Z")
I’m casting two of my votes onto the piles for _The Horror of Blimps_ and _…& BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER!!!_ ---
**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, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/51 "2005-11-24T19:20:00Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > [This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39219) and its partner thread, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170210). Pure culinary heaven. > > (Is there a way to get all these recipes on CD or anything? I’d love to have these as reference to print off my computer when I need to cook a meal…) Yes, yes. Second. Absolutely critical. And really, when you think of it - there _must_ be a [chili thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41804&highlight=chili) - Peter Wiggen ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/52 "2005-11-24T19:58:05Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Cervaise’s [The Telemarketer Speaks. I respond.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) I cam in here specifically to nominate this thread. The OP is an absolute classic. But that leads me to a couple of questions: what are the criteria people are using? Is this a quest for the best OP, or for the best _thread_? Some threads start off with a very funny or touching or intelligent OP, but then devolve into little more than a series of “great OP!” posts. Others start out with fairly mundane questions or issues, or a fairly nondescript OP, but develop into excellent conversations or debates. I think that, in judging the best thread, it’s reasonable to look beyond the OP to the thread as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/53 "2005-11-24T20:05:00Z")
This thread started by the infamous Jack Dean Tyler will be an eternal legend of the SDMB: [Penile Lengthening Column](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=43031) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/54 "2005-11-24T20:10:16Z")
From the Telemarketer thread: > [@Cervaise](#): > > **Why in the name of God’s Throbbing Prostate** would I be so witless as to give my credit card number to a whiskey-swilling lout whose cerebrum is so soaked in spirits that his career options have been reduced to telephoning random people and bullying them into the purchase of a dozen tickets to see Yanni’s houseboy vomiting into a moon boot? The bolded part is still IMO the best line I have ever seen in a reply. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/55 "2005-11-24T21:11:45Z")
[thread=283407]This thread[/thread] has to be in there somewhere. And the Scalar weapons thread has to be number one. It reached a thousand posts in GQ, and gave birth to the most popular doper catchphrase. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/56 "2005-11-24T21:57:33Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > [a](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158752) > > and > > [I stuck my wedding ring up my nose](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=209087). I second the second. I think it’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/57 "2005-11-24T23:07:39Z")
Well Dang! I was comin’ back in to nominate **Auntie Em’s** missing co-worker thread but I got beat to it. OK, anyways, let me second that one. I also nominate Sauron’s [I Stood Next To The Emporer Of The World At McDonald’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=152737&highlight=emporer+world) Comedy gold yet again! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/58 "2005-11-24T23:15:19Z")
I’m going to nominate Dante’s [Tales of the Sweaty, Feculent Herd](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237296). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/59 "2005-11-25T01:28:08Z")
A Doper enlists our help in persuading his teenaged son to take a shower in the unforgettable [Child of Filth](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=143463). ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552/60 "2005-11-25T01:28:20Z")
The fabulous meltdown of [Beryl\_Mooncalf](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=211820) . Extra points for gratuitous colored text. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-101-straightdope-threads-of-all-time/332552.md?page=4)