Secondly, and I don’t expect this to really make the final 101, but it at least deserves honorable mention: well, actually, it’s a few threads kind of rolled up into one long saga: The Colossal Monumental Fenris vs. Scylla Battle for the SDMB!!!
Davebear was a poster who contributed the two ultimate flirt threads here on SDMB. Spit or Swallow, and its successor, Oh, My Freaking God (Looong!). It was the third-longest thread on SDMB after the LOTR-thread and the “a”-thread, lasting three months, 70 pages, and attracting over 43.000 views.
I’d like to see a couple of the threads that made me realize what wonderful people the Dopers are, in addition to how witty they are.
There was one, someone’s going to have to help me with, where a poster asked how to survive on the cheapest food possible for a month or so, having absolutely no money. It turned into a truly touching thread where Dopers reached out to help one of their own financially. Anyone else remember it?
Secondly, the “Pay for my membership” thread. It’s not Shakespear, but it shows our community in good light, and really highlights why this message board is different from 98% of the boards out there.
Finally, I’m going to throw humility to the winds and nominate a thread I started myself: Emergency C-section and a 23 week old infant. Ugh. It’s also not Shakespear, but a wonderful example of how Dopers come together and support one another in times of personal crisis. And do it with wit and wisdom, and without becoming maudlin in even the most extreme of circumstances.
In fact, there’s probably a few posters who deserve their own sections, such as Sauron, Scylla, Sampiro, and a couple of others I’m sure I’m forgetting.
Also, I second or third or fourth Sampiro’s Woman behold thy daughter, daughter thy mother, & BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER! It’s just a helluva read is all I can say.
Everytime we get a thread like this I try to ask fellow Dopers if they can help me locate a thread about vile bathrooms. It became known as the “dead junkie” thread because one poster spoke of opening a door to a toilet and finding a dead guy in it.
I nominate Maureen & her tales of the monstrous co-worker who amongst other things, decided she deserved to win a boombox far more than the actual winner. Classic!
