The truly great threads in SDMB history

[Zeldar]

@Zeldar

Time for a bump! I came here looking for a specific thread that I would have thought I had mentioned before, but I must not have. If I find it I will!

Only because I said I would, I’m back to post the ID of that thread I thought had been mentioned here:

Another look at "active users" at SDMB

Another look at “active users” at SDMB
11-26-2011, 01:01 AM
Zeldar

Enjoy at your own peril!

[Lucas_Jackson]

@Lionne

[thread=289696]Would you shoot your child?[/thread]

For the win.

[panache45]

Has anyone mentioned the one by the guy who feeds his fish by ejaculating into his aquarium?

And the first occurrence of “penis ensues”?

[Zeldar]

@panache45

Has anyone mentioned the one by the guy who feeds his fish by ejaculating into his aquarium?

And the first occurrence of “penis ensues”?

I’m 98% sure the fish food is above somewhere, but I believe that a search for it will uncover other equally fascinating and delightful expositions by some true wits. You could try a Google search on this thread for “semen” or “sperm” or “fishtank” or similar.

[Gyrate]

@White SIFL

For the win.

OMG I hadn’t read that one before, and now I’m crying with laughter.

@Standup Karmic

Instead of the tire blowing out, it stays intact. You get all the way to the shopping mall. You park and go inside. You check out the various stores and find the kid a pair of sneakers that are on sale for $89.99. He wears them out of the store. You walk to the food court and order from a mall Chinese food place. You get the sweet n sour pork. Your kid has chow mein. After finding a card and small gift for your brother, you return to your vehicle. Your car won’t start. After trying a couple more times, it does start. You note that you must bring the car in for servicing the next day. You return home. Your other child, a girl, is talking on the telephone. She’s taking a babysitting assignment for this coming Friday with a family down the street. After watching a movie with the kids that you’d picked up from Blockbuster, getting them off to bed and having a relaxing bath, you change into your sleepwear. You think about your spouse, who is away on a business trip. You miss them very much. You close your eyes. As you are becoming more and more relaxed and are drifting off towards dreamland, you realize you are thirsty. But you are also very comfortable. Should you get up and get a drink, or not worry about the minor thirst and stay comfy? What would you do? WHAT WOULD YOU DO??

@peasea

Shoot the kid.

I mean, $90 for sneakers? Come on!

[Zeldar]

@panache45

Has anyone mentioned the one by the guy who feeds his fish by ejaculating into his aquarium?

And the first occurrence of “penis ensues”?

@Zeldar

I’m 98% sure the fish food is above somewhere, but I believe that a search for it will uncover other equally fascinating and delightful expositions by some true wits. You could try a Google search on this thread for “semen” or “sperm” or “fishtank” or similar.

Unless I just didn’t spot it on my way back through This Whole Thing, I was wrong about that specific thread being on this list. An idea that might help run it down would be to use the SDMB Keyword Search (I tried Google with no appreciable luck) for “aquarium” (or some other keyword you’re close to sure was somewhere in the thread) and then wade through the hits for the one you remember.

If you do find it, please add it to this thread. I bet people are curious by now!

[Zeldar]

Just to provoke other additions to this thread – by anyone interested in such – I looked back at some oldies that may stretch the criteria of what makes for “a truly great thread” and came up with these five to offer here:

A thread about anything but &^%$#*

A thread about anything but &^%$#*
Last post 03-06-2010, 12:34 PM

Nostalgia for old threads?

Nostalgia for old threads?
Last post 08-31-2010, 11:42 AM

Pre-poll collection of annoying SDMB expressions

Pre-poll collection of annoying SDMB expressions
Last post 01-20-2012, 06:27 AM

Given Names -- What were they thinking?

Given Names – What were they thinking?
Last post 04-27-2012, 11:36 AM

Omar

Omar
Last post 05-08-2012, 10:37 AM

Surely you can find some others not yet mentioned here that are at least this great!

[panache45]

@panache45

Has anyone mentioned the one by the guy who feeds his fish by ejaculating into his aquarium?

I found it!

[Zeldar]

@panache45

I found it!

And a righteous jewel it is! Congrats on the search (and find)! It’s a great feeling to me to be able to do such a thing. Now and then I will spend literally days looking for something way more trivial than this. It’s that Easter Egg syndrome I suspect.

[Zeldar]

And here it is (FOUR years later) that the same question(s) come(s) back up! And a similar amount of back-tracking reveals at least one of those old jewels.

Did we ever get an actual account of the Lost But Not Forgotten SDMB Threads?

Someday, perhaps, that will develop!

But for now…