Threads you were going to start but decided not to

[mnemosyne]

@Bootis

That actually sounds fun, maybe if you created a point system, combining the ratio, with extra value for more letters in the name into some algoritm that gives a numeric score

I am not nearly clever enough to come up with such a thing, but you are more than welcome to start something up if you come up with a point system!

I also have a theory that someone at the Habs has a fetish for the letter K, or at least hard C sounds. Koivu, Kovalev, Komisarek (2!), Kostitsyn (Kostitsyn), Kostopulos, Markov, Hamrlik, Halak, Plekanec, heck even Carey Price… a lot of my hockey-watching time is spent thinking about junk like this. Also, Steve Ott needs to be traded to Ottawa. Just because.

[Khadaji]

Here’s what usually happens: In the middle of the night I have a thought for what would be “a really cool thread. I’ll have to open that in the morning.”

Then I wake up and realize it wasn’t that fascinating. And I forget about it.

[Lakai]

SDMB posts made in 2050.

What are you thinking about right now?

A pit thread about a poster. But he’s not worth the effort.

[blondebear]

“Philosopher Kings of Rock ‘n’ Roll”

[Zeldar]

“The Tao of Pauly Shore”

[ToeJam]

@mnemosyne

Having recently discovered the awesome name Ruutu (last name of a hockey player on the Sens, though I then discovered that he has a brother that plays for the Hurricanes), I have been contemplating the Letter U to Other Letter ratio of his name (an impressive 3:2), and wondering what other names out there have a striking amount of a single letter, and what those ratios are. I think a thread about it would sink like a stone, though.

HA!

My parents were told to name my little sister Ruutu, because it would work well with my name (the “oooh” sound is the same), but it would basically be calling the kid Roosh2.0 (RooTwo), and they said no to that unhelpful relative. But I still tease my sister that she coulda almost been ended up being named Roo2.
Roo2D2!

Also if I wanted to own a wolf cub, what considerations would I have to take?

[Ranchoth]

Lessie, let me dust off the ol’ list…

I’ve got:

•Favorite FPS features? (Mods included)
•“Dead comic book character ressurection ideas.”
[Title was going to get worked on—basically humorous brainstorming]
•Fictional characters you’d promote to “deity” status?
•“Help me design the universally offensive MRE menu.”
•Stupid nuclear weapon tricks!
[“…That is, odd, silly, unusual, etc. things nuclear weapons have been used for. (Theoretical or planned but not executed things get an honorable mention)” I actually had a few gems for this one]
•Stupid Astronaut Tricks!
[Odd, unusual, astounding things astro/cosmo/spatio/taikonauts have done, after going into space. Nowak wasn’t even in the top five]
•What fighter formation to attack Godzilla?
[Inspired by the valiant and frequently doomed efforts of the JASDF. A wee bit esoteric.]
•Could I use lava as a permanent design feature–like a moat?
•Favorite fictional anti-human slurs?

And a couple for Great Debates:
•“1969: Soviets beat us to the moon…what happens next?”
•“You wake up in 1939…in Hitler’s body. What do you do?”

I’m pretty sure I haven’t actually posted any (or most) of these.

@Ro0sh

Also if I wanted to own a wolf cub, what considerations would I have to take?

Ask Acid Lamp?

[NineToTheSky]

My problem is that I actually posted it.

[Mudshark]

I usually forget what I wanted to post by the time I make it here.

Looking back at my old threads, I actually started a topic in Great Debates. I don’t know what I was thinkning. Probably needed to find a poll to support facts on some paper in high school, and decided to make the poll myself.

[madmonk28]

I was going to ask for recomendations for an off the shelf gaming PC, but I realized half of the responses would be that I should build my own and the other half would be that I should buy a Mac.

[Justin_Credible]

I was going to start a thread asking how much an above-ground pool costs to maintain. But then I decided that I can’t even afford the pool.

[cuberdon]

Is it that 1) my bladder actually does hold a quart of fluid or 2) it holds less, but once I start peeing, the kidneys get triggered too? GQ, I think.

Actually, I’m sorry that some of the questions haven’t been posted, they sound cool. The ones about cats, inappropriate songs, and MREs all caught my attention.

[tdn]

Maybe I’ll start the cats one then.

[Little_Nemo]

Occasionally, I’ll think of some old question that’s been bothering me and I’ll consider starting a thread on it. But then I’ll think maybe I already did start a thread on that question a couple of years ago and forgot. If I start another thread on the same topic, someone will link to the old thread and I’ll look silly. And it’s not important enough to bother searching right now to see if I asked it already. So I put it off until the next time the question wanders through my head again.

[Jettboy]

• For a substantial sum of money—let’s say $25,000.—would you name your next child “Fuckhead”? How about something less vulgar but still odd, like “Shoehorn” or “Gravy”?

• One of my nuts is bigger than the other. Am I the only one?

• Are there several groups of aliens visiting Earth? Because if it’s always the same guys, by now wouldn’t they have found out all they could from anal probes? I mean there’s only some much data they could get from all those anus’ (anuses? ani?).

• Things I’d do if I had a prehensile tail…

[Lemur866]

@Der_Trihs

I considered making **“Why is the racial slur about blacks eating fried chicken and watermelon considered an insult by racists ?” **- something that bothered me for some time. I mean, “They eat babies !” makes sense as an insult to me, but “They eat fried chicken !” . . . doesn’t.

I searched though, and found several previous threads; the main consensus being that it’s because that is or was poor people food in the South.

Yeah, this just doesn’t make sense. Oh, black people like fried chicken and watermelon? Thing is, it’s really true, they do. And why? Because EVERYBODY likes fried chicken and watermelon!

[CallMeKate]

There were a few I thought about… just as interesting offbeat topics…
“How do you respond to someone who gave you an STI/STD?”

“What’s the best news you have ever received?”

“How has the dope changed your life?”

“One useless fact you think everyone deserves to know…”

… just things to amuse me and pass the time, i just never seem to start the thread

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Zeldar

One that I have done at least a little research for:

What word has never been used in an SDMB thread?

I thought “carbuncle” had a chance but I got over a page of hits.

I know “bodacious” would fail because I use it myself at times.

Any ideas?

I’m pretty sure the word ssraidurlnvkjnekrhtoiehsolrhnklcnklaheorih;lieahr’sdkjhkrjhkjckjhsdfkjhpwqoodokkjakdnlakkkqksmeiicndkosdjf;seljrkjhsdfhjklsdkfjhchsdliru;eiwlnclkeatu;awejsl;gkh;slefkhser hasn’t been used before.

Oh, you mean real words?

[Zeldar]

@Elendil_s_Heir

I’m pretty sure the word ssraidurlnvkjnekrhtoiehsolrhnklcnklaheorih;lieahr’sdkjhkrjhkjckjhsdfkjhpwqoodokkjakdnlakkkqksmeiicndkosdjf;seljrkjhsdfhjklsdkfjhchsdliru;eiwlnclkeatu;awejsl;gkh;slefkhser hasn’t been used before.

Oh, you mean real words?

Yeah. I thought word would be a clue.

Maybe somebody could write a script to go through a dictionary site and do an SDMB search on every word in it. Five minutes at a whack. With any luck at all, the word would start with Z.

[Half_Man_Half_Wit]

I’ve been wanting to open two threads in GQ, one about why, if electroweak symmetry breaking in the early universe chose the gauge bosons we now observe randomly, we observe the same old photons even from regions not then or ever since causally connected, and the other about the usage of armour in the wild west, brought on by playing Call of Juarez and the story of Ned Kelly’s final fight. I may yet open the second, but I’m not sure I could understand an answer to the first, if one were to be given.

@Ranchoth

•Favorite FPS features? (Mods included)
•“Dead comic book character ressurection ideas.”
[Title was going to get worked on—basically humorous brainstorming]
•Fictional characters you’d promote to “deity” status?
•“Help me design the universally offensive MRE menu.”
•Stupid nuclear weapon tricks!
["…That is, odd, silly, unusual, etc. things nuclear weapons have been used for. (Theoretical or planned but not executed things get an honorable mention)" I actually had a few gems for this one]
•Stupid Astronaut Tricks!
[Odd, unusual, astounding things astro/cosmo/spatio/taikonauts have done, after going into space. Nowak wasn’t even in the top five]
•What fighter formation to attack Godzilla?
[Inspired by the valiant and frequently doomed efforts of the JASDF. A wee bit esoteric.]
•Could I use lava as a permanent design feature–like a moat?
•Favorite fictional anti-human slurs?

And a couple for Great Debates:
•“1969: Soviets beat us to the moon…what happens next?”
•“You wake up in 1939…in Hitler’s body. What do you do?”

Yeah, you’re pretty much gonna have to open all of those, I think.