# Top 3 SDMB Threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429 "2014-11-03T06:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/21 "2014-11-04T08:32:44Z")
classic thread about movie theater popcorn > **[Taking empty popcorn tubs out of the garbage and getting free refills](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571552)** > > It is kind of gross, but I am not going to pay $6 for popcorn ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/22 "2014-11-04T09:09:54Z")
[Get your baby’s dirty ass off the restaurant table!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564223) [In which my friends stop me from putting poop in a purse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=725166) [Laundering $1,000,000](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=565686) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/23 "2014-11-04T13:39:48Z")
A Shameless Plug: > **[The truly great threads in SDMB history](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508687)** > > Sort of a poll, but more of a survey of the really great threads of the past. May be “past” only in the sense of no longer visible on the front pages of the various fora. I’m most fascinated by the ones that suddenly spring to life with off-the-wall... The truly great threads in SDMB history 03-01-2009, 09:31 AM #163 10-10-2014, 03:01 PM ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/24 "2014-11-04T13:50:43Z")
A lot of threads that end up on these lists are really just a great OP, followed by a bunch of people saying how great it was (“The Horror of Blimps” is a prime example of this). They might as well have been blog posts. “What if LotR had be written by someone else”, though, was chock-full of contributions from a great many posters, so I’d have to give it first place. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/25 "2014-11-04T16:34:04Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Comedy gold: [Would you shoot child and kill your child in this situation? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696) Yeah, that’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/26 "2014-11-04T17:16:32Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Korean Grocery Poetry Jam](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=83978). > > Some really amazing stuff from some of the best posters in SDMB history. I had forgotten about that one, and I posted in it! ---
**Author:** ![Waymore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Waymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waymore)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/27 "2014-11-05T04:54:36Z")
Thanks for all the replies, some real gems are listed. The Horror of Blimps was very good. Reminds me of the time I punched out a window in the middle night because my brother got locked out of the house and was trying wake me to let him in. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/28 "2014-11-05T16:06:13Z")
My favorite was from a dude who got himself banned from a local Y for going vigilante on a dude who had wrongfully parked in a handicap spot. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/29 "2014-11-05T17:02:36Z")
> [@glee](#): > > There was an excellent one about how the Lord of the Rings would have looked if it had been written by different authors. 2002 and I remember The first couple of sentences I wrote. Guess I need a life :smack: ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/30 "2014-11-05T17:13:38Z")
[How to Deal With Jehovah’s Witnesses](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4600087&postcount=31) [This Turkey Was Killed . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638206) I also think Haiku Madness ought to be on there, just for the sheer longevity of it. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/31 "2014-11-05T18:35:59Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > [This Turkey Was Killed . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638206) Oh man, I had forgotten that. I was trying to read it and answer the phone at the same time…bad idea. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/32 "2014-11-06T14:27:44Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > My favorite was from a dude who got himself banned from a local Y for going vigilante on a dude who had wrongfully parked in a handicap spot. That one continues to re-emerge from time to time, even in new threads. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/33 "2014-11-06T16:37:22Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > My favorite was from a dude who got himself banned from a local Y for going vigilante on a dude who had wrongfully parked in a handicap spot. /nm 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/34 "2014-11-06T18:21:51Z")
My favorite is the Alternate Ending to Big thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending) Posts on both sides of the argument and nearly no one will see/acknowledge the otherside. Every few months or so, someone will arrive and revive it and people will get sucked in. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/35 "2014-11-06T18:27:34Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > My favorite is the Alternate Ending to Big thread: > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending) > > Posts on both sides of the argument and nearly no one will see/acknowledge the otherside. Every few months or so, someone will arrive and revive it and people will get sucked in. I’m really tempted to revive it right now because someone posted a YouTube clip to the film that has the alternate ending exactly as described (though you can’t hear the sound.) Wouldn’t that end the debate? ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/36 "2014-11-06T19:31:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > [This Turkey Was Killed . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638206) Always a good one to reread before Thanksgiving 😃 ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/37 "2014-11-06T20:51:09Z")
[Woman behold thy daughter, daughter thy mother, & BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326481) ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/38 "2014-11-06T21:07:14Z")
That was a golden age, truly. I hope I get to buy your goddamn book before I die, **Sampiro**! ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/39 "2014-11-07T00:10:56Z")
The “Lord of the Rings if written by someone else” thread. It was what brought me to SDMB in the first place - someone from a writer’s forum sent me the link. I didn’t sign up for a long time but I bookmarked the site and started lurking frequently. The annual Celebrity Death Pool thread. The snarkiness, oh, the snarkiness. It’s good. The Pigeon thread. I’m not sure why the pidgee saga is so entertaining, but I’ve been following it for ages now and I never fail to click on any and all updates concerning Siam Sam’s feathered friends. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429/40 "2014-11-07T02:29:57Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > My favorite is the Alternate Ending to Big thread: > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=109762&highlight=alternate+ending) > > Posts on both sides of the argument and nearly no one will see/acknowledge the otherside. Every few months or so, someone will arrive and revive it and people will get sucked in. 1. Yay, I made the list! 2. I made two threads on that topic. Very embarassing. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’m really tempted to revive it right now because someone posted a YouTube clip to the film that has the alternate ending exactly as described (though you can’t hear the sound.) Wouldn’t that end the debate? Bullshit. Post it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-sdmb-threads/703429.md?page=3)