# Twenty Years ago this week, the greatest thread in SDMB history was started **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** middle-earth, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 12, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148 "2022-10-12T23:43:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/21 "2022-10-13T18:54:40Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I also liked the one about answering the door weilding an 18 inch long dildo, but I can’t find the thread =( Are you sure you’re not conflating two different threads? I remember the 18" electric blue jelly dildo and ‘answering the door to JW’s wielding a sword’ as two separate threads. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/22 "2022-10-13T18:57:34Z")
Probably, I just remember them as they happened back in the misty days of old =) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/23 "2022-10-13T22:55:31Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > Scylla’s Blimp story is one > > [This one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps/152885) Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![MissMiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missmiss/32/12315_2.png) [@MissMiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMiss)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/24 "2022-10-13T23:35:58Z")
My favorite is the one where everone used giant fonts and insane embarrassing phrases etc to make your screen look as bad as possible in a workplace. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/25 "2022-10-14T00:33:48Z")
Specifically, the 18IBDHJD had been swung as a sword, but the incident involved a couple preparing for a Ren Faire. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/26 "2022-10-14T02:58:07Z")
I never thought the blimp story was funny. Must be me. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/27 "2022-10-14T06:28:15Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > 18" electric blue jelly dildo A couple years back, I had stopped in a local pet supply store, and saw a large chew toy for dogs… that was some kind of translucent blue-ish material, shaped like a large bone (not boner…). I don’t think it was 18 inches long but it was definitely 12 or so. I snickered quietly and left the store. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/28 "2022-10-14T06:29:29Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I never thought the blimp story was funny. Must be me. I do not understand this. I was reading it on the computer, and my husband in the next room ran in to make sure I was okay - as he heard me wheezing and choking from laughter. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/29 "2022-10-14T06:54:16Z")
Buckeyes! That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/30 "2022-10-14T07:30:51Z")
Oh gosh. Buckeyes. Thanks, @CairoCarol , for that memory. I don’t know if it is the greatest thread in SDMB history, but it was certainly the greatest pitting in SDMB history. As it was published in 2000, and we have had many Pit threads in the 20-some years since, that says something. Presenting “The Telemarketer Speaks. I respond” by @Cervaise: > [@The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861): > > In [this GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49642&pagenumber=1), Claudia VonL replies to everyone who complains about telemarketers by posting one of the most asinine, poorly reasoned, incompetently written messages I’ve ever seen on the SDMB. And yes, that includes the infamous JDT, so that’s saying something. Posting a sufficiently complete response to her blather in its original forum would be a violation of Board policy – and so, for the first time in my nearly two years as a member, I’m starting a Pit thread in order to do her message … It contains such priceless comments as, “I have a butthole, too, but that doesn’t imply I want a running jigsaw inserted into it.” And this gem: “Why in the name of God’s Throbbing Prostate would I be so witless as to give my credit card number to a whiskey-swilling lout whose cerebrum is so soaked in spirits that his career options have been reduced to telephoning random people and bullying them into the purchase of a dozen tickets to see Yanni’s houseboy vomiting into a moon boot?” Why do I feel like I should be saying, “Young grasshoppers, if you want to post in the Pit, you can learn from this”? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/31 "2022-10-20T12:59:39Z")
Thank you, JohnnyEcks. It changed the lives of million around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/32 "2022-10-20T17:59:49Z")
The greatest thread was the annually-revised thread on Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. The one that made me laugh hardest was Abe Lincoln and his cheddar cheese pie. Al Traina (the guy next to Johnny Carson) probably had the biggest real world impact. Or maybe the alternate ending to Big (if I say it two more times, the thread will be revived!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148.md?page=1)