# Top 20 Threads By Views **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625 "2003-01-14T23:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/1 "2003-01-14T23:18:02Z")
These are the top 20 threads currently on the SDMB, by number of views: All quotes are from the thread’s OP and hence are by the thread-starter 1. [Don’t Be Such A Jerk, Ukelele Ike](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=154476) - lee - BBQ Pit - 14926 views _“I will block the Disney channel as well.”_ 2. [Ask The Muslim Guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87474) - Muslim Guy - IMHO - 14927 views 3. [Stuff the youngsters will scratch their heads over…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31236) - Baloo - MPSIMS - 15501 views _“let’s see what the rest of the living fossils have to add.”_ 4. [Enterprise vs Star Destroyer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23098) - SPOOFE - IMHO - 15526 views _“My stance is that the ISD would prevail”_ 5. [Unban Satan!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=154897) - Joe\_Cool - BBQ Pit - 15813 views _“Not many folks were ever as entertaining to read”_ 6. [Odd little habits you have](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41543) - wevets - IMHO - 16212 views _“I hope I’m not the only one who does these little wierd things all the time”_ 7. [Possible ONION Headlines (Warning: WTC Humor)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87707) - Karellan - MPSIMS - 16288 views _“Nation’s Tragedy Metaphor Reserves Depleted”_ 8. [Aren’t You Shocked By What Some People DON’T Know](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48799) - Jackknifed Juggernaut - MPSIMS - 16411 views _“Her question almost knocked me out of my chair”_ 9. [How to Kill Evil Nazi Groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906) - alsmith - GQ - 16479 views _“Groundhogs are monsters.”_ 10. [The official “Damn \ is HOT” thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=127968) - Stinkpalm - MPSIMS - 16588 views _“I still feel the need to say that jinwicked is hot”_ 11. [Compleat list of Fexual acts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=32246) - Lexicon - BBQ Pit - 16779 views (only 65 posts though!) _“Felch - The original, we all know what this means.”_ 12. [Get off my plane, mind-melded Fundie zealots](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31392) - Satan - BBQ Pit - 17332 views _“One of the Fundies starts a chorus which then echoes through the airport”_ 13. [The TMI Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44749) - Tzel - MPSIMS - 17642 views _“Maybe I should start shampooing my armpit hairs.”_ 14. [Google Search Mod Orgy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=155329) - jarbabyj - BBQ Pit - 17648 views _“Now that I’ve got your attention Duck Duck Goose, I thought I just I’d get it off my chest.”_ 15. [What happens on May 33rd but only on leap year?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44967) - pkbites - GQ - 18559 views _“This is a goofy trivia question that was asked on the radio this morning”_ 16. [World Trade Center Plane Crash](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458) - Living Dead Girl - MPSIMS - 18971 views _“how bad it is, exactly what happened, anything?”_ 17. [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23572) - Coldfire - MPSIMS - 19391 views _“Everyone observes two minutes of silence to remember that freedom is not something to take for granted.”_ 18. [Very Vaguely Creepy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30758) - Homer - IMHO - 27191 views _“It is just very vaguely creepy that it is there.”_ 19. [Funny things said during love making/intimate moments…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24960) - Whammo - MPSIMS - 39282 views _“Dont know how popular this thread will be”_ 20. [If LotR had been written by someone else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=138905) - Fingolfin - Cafe Society - 260946 views (almost 7 times as many as the next most popular thread, and still going) _“Heh, anybody have any others?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/2 "2003-01-15T05:40:53Z")
…the LOTR has been helped by being linked onto so many other sites. Being a self-confesed geek (!) I’ve seen the thread linked to on many other threads and sites that I visit, from [theonering.net](http://theonering.net), [tolkienonline.net](http://tolkienonline.net), [spacebattles.com](http://spacebattles.com), etc, and probably many, many more… ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/3 "2003-01-15T07:17:51Z")
EWWWWWWWWWWW…I so wish I had not read that TMI thread!. Where is the barfy smiley! ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/4 "2003-01-15T12:57:58Z")
TMI = Too Much Information ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/5 "2003-01-15T13:07:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bluecanary \* > \*\*TMI = Too Much Information \*\* And posted in the wrong forum. I’m moving this little factoid to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/6 "2003-01-15T13:12:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by calm kiwi \* > \*\*EWWWWWWWWWWW…I so wish I had not read that TMI thread!. Where is the barfy smiley! \*\* You know…I’ve been calling for a “barfy smile” for a while now. I think it would be very appropriate…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/7 "2003-01-15T13:46:00Z")
Holy shit! I had no idea that thread lived as long as it did. 9 pages! Thats definitely the record for any thread I have started. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/8 "2003-01-15T14:40:59Z")
Man, I can’t believe the Diplomacy threads top out at 1/3 the #20 spot. Maybe I’m just there too much. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/9 "2003-01-15T16:51:20Z")
I think the Diplomacy threads tended to have a higher than average Posts/Views ratio–I guess either you’re interested or you’re not. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/10 "2003-01-16T04:25:52Z")
You mean Guy Stuff didn’t even make the list?? ::tries to do a search for Guy Stuff:: Hmm, interesting. I can’t grab the thread using the search engine! I have the URL to the thread itself (a 23 page thread, BTW) but that doesn’t help as far as getting the #Views, does it? ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/11 "2003-01-16T04:55:59Z")
Shouldn’t #3 be “Hi Opal”?? ---
**Author:** ![pjt33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pjt33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjt33)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/12 "2003-01-17T00:27:05Z")
\> and probably many, many more… I found it via [UserFriendly.org](http://UserFriendly.org)… ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/13 "2003-01-17T00:33:01Z")
Great, the most viewed thread has one of my most chock–full-o-typos posts ever. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/14 "2003-01-17T00:39:48Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Metalhead_ > Shouldn’t #3 be “Hi Opal”?? No, [bye Opal](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=156684):p. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/15 "2003-01-17T00:49:20Z")
so, how do you figure this out? What’s the sorting mechanism? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-threads-by-views/148625/16 "2003-01-17T01:34:02Z")
What about the top 20 by posts?