# Twenty Years ago this week, the greatest thread in SDMB history was started

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/15 "2022-10-13T02:06:55Z")

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To me, there can only be one greatest thread of all time;

> [@"Woooo!!! I AM MASTURBATING LIKE A MOTHER FUCK!!!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-i-am-masturbating-like-a-mother-fuck/231264):
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> I was leaving work tonight, sometime around 11:00 pm, when I heard this. I work at one of the finest hotels in Sacramento California, aww heck, I’ll just say it, I work at the Hyatt Regency (it is where das Governator is currently living). I was leaving work, walking down one of the back halls, when I heard someone yell: “WOOOOO!!! I AM MASTURBATING LIKE A MOTHER FUCK!!!” I do not know who said this. I do not know why. I do not know if it was the punchline to a joke. I do not know if it …

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