# The truly great threads in SDMB history **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 1, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879 "2009-03-01T15:31:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/101 "2011-07-18T17:09:45Z")
Just now saw mention of [My Bladder Knows I’m Home](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=166577) (from 03-01-2003, 01:45 PM by **Patty O’Furniture** ) and felt it should be here. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/102 "2011-07-19T05:31:47Z")
In the category of _“test post gone most horrifically wrong”_ I would like to nominate [‘The thread title’](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=553826) ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/103 "2011-07-20T02:18:36Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Some others: > > [Dopers on Jeopardy! THE List - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287408) > Dopers on Jeopardy! THE List > 11-18-2004, 02:39 PM > commasense > 07-29-2010 07:49 AM > by Ms Boods > 166 23,169 > Cafe Society Wow - thank you for posting this one - that was a fascinating read! ---
**Author:** ![Bibliothecarius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@Bibliothecarius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliothecarius)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/104 "2011-07-20T12:06:31Z")
Everyone’s favorite nutritious meal, full of protein: [Pan-Fried Semen](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=198659&highlight=fried+semen) (I was a looong time lurker :)) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/105 "2011-07-20T17:01:14Z")
I submit the following, simply as it was one of the funniest and most creative I had seen: [Curse of the Verse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=300274) ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/106 "2011-07-20T21:38:18Z")
Where are lieu’s potty posts? I remember one where he wadded up some toilet paper and tossed it over the wall, and it came back…I was in hysterics, but I can’t find it right now from work… ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/107 "2011-07-21T14:26:05Z")
No one left who remembers Phaedrus? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/108 "2011-07-21T14:43:54Z")
I’m sure I’ve recommended this before but it is a thing of beauty: [Smugly polite Christian allows himself an annual swear](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=77753) The OP is some quality ranting but the whole thread pays off in the “happy ending”. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/109 "2011-07-21T17:23:52Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > No one left who remembers Phaedrus? Wasn’t he the one that went nuts and thought everybody were the same person, and offered money to anybody who could prove he was wrong, then had a meltdown? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/110 "2011-07-21T17:47:33Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > Where are lieu’s potty posts? I remember one where he wadded up some toilet paper and tossed it over the wall, and it came back…I was in hysterics, but I can’t find it right now from work… Here’s one of my faves: [The Laws of Physics and Pooping from a Canoe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=252042). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/111 "2011-07-21T19:27:17Z")
I’ve searched for \*\*lieu’\*\*s thread “When deer take a stand” but haven’t found it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/112 "2011-07-21T19:43:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve searched for \*\*lieu’\*\*s thread “When deer take a stand” but haven’t found it. I DID find it! I was paging through the link from 2005 about the 101 greatest threads, and there it was, I’d put it there myself. Don’t know how I lost the link between then and now. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=150992&highlight=deer+stand](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=150992&highlight=deer+stand) I also posted about how I can’t find a thread asking folks to describe the most vile toilet they’d ever encountered. I think of it as “the dead junkie” thread because one poster told of opening a door to a toilet to find a dead guy on the john. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/113 "2011-07-22T07:31:49Z")
This one about [Kaitlyn](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303697) is a classic crash and burn. (it’s pretty old and as a bonus you also get to laugh at the thoughts of some of our now senior posters, some of who have gone on to bigger and better things. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/114 "2011-07-23T22:54:31Z")
From Happy Scrappy Hero Pup in 2005 [Things that will never stop being funny. Ever.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314703) ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/115 "2011-07-23T23:13:23Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > funniest things said during sex. As you wish: [Funny things during love making/intimate moments](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24960) by Whammo from 2000 And [The TMI thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44749) started by Tzel in 2000 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/116 "2011-07-23T23:58:43Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > this one showed up in a similar thread some time ago. Short ‘n’ sweet: > > [ask the ambiguous guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=28450). omg i cannot stop laughing at this! It’s the perfect thread! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/117 "2011-07-24T00:31:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Halvsie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51807) > [@Halvsie, the two-legged dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halvsie-the-two-legged-dog/46396/11): > > My dad had a dog as child that only had three legs and (apparently) going against the norm, instead of Tripod his family went with the non-politically correct name of Crip. I snorted hard. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/118 "2011-07-25T09:30:56Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I DID find it! I was paging through the link from 2005 about the 101 greatest threads, and there it was, I’d put it there myself. Don’t know how I lost the link between then and now. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=150992&highlight=deer+stand](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=150992&highlight=deer+stand) > > I also posted about how I can’t find a thread asking folks to describe the most vile toilet they’d ever encountered. I think of it as “the dead junkie” thread because one poster told of opening a door to a toilet to find a dead guy on the john. [This one?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106147) (yeah, I was bored) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/119 "2011-08-29T18:50:36Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > Wow - thank you for posting this one - that was a fascinating read! Turnabout is fair play! I want to include a link to your new thread which has some great additions to fun stuff: [SDMB threads that had you cracking up](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=622131) Some of the replies there are for even older surveys of exceptional (in the fun sense) threads. I’m wondering if we need some sort of Meta-Thread that combines as many of these “survey threads” as we can locate. I know I have started at least four such things on various themes. And it appears I have missed a lot that others started before and since. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879/120 "2011-12-08T11:42:05Z")
It’s simply amazing to me how much interest there has been in the general topic of this thread and how little I had seen of it before now! Just today and yesterday these threads have opened my eyes to dozens of threads that meet the criteria I have been looking for all this time. You’ll need to look around in these new ones to find the treasure, but at least I have them for my own purposes as links in this thread. Please add as many others as you can to this growing directory. The new stuff: [The funniest thread on the dope](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493537) was started 11-18-2008, 02:44 PM by **ItsInTheCards** and had gotten to Post #55 Today, 05:14 AM when I looked. [Is there a way to search for awesome past posts?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634073) was started Yesterday, 04:56 PM by **Enola Gay** and had gotten to Post #8 Today, 03:28 AM There must be more such threads… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truly-great-threads-in-sdmb-history/487879.md?page=7)