# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148/16 "2022-10-13T03:51:55Z")
Deciding not to be humble, I submit my own thread about the Alan Sherman song- Camp Granada- and “Ulysses” - > [@he reads to us from something called 'Ulysses'.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-reads-to-us-from-something-called-ulysses/700891): > > \*And the head coach wants no sissies, So he reads to us from something called ‘Ulysses’. \* Thanks to Alan Sherman. But ‘Ulysses’? By James Joyce? Or Homer? And, why would that make boys less- “sissy-like”? Mind you, there are quite a few better _posts._ Such as indeed the post the OP mentioned- Scylla’s Blimp story. A pit OP after a poster had tried a new diet pepsi flavor- had me laughing too hard. The rest of the thread is not great. > [@Anybody want a rim job?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-want-a-rim-job/366124): > > Thanks to the fresh, new and exciting taste of Diet Pepsi, Jazz, Black Cherry & French Vanilla, and for a limited time only, I will be tossing salads like a mother fuck just so I can get the taste of this rancid chipmunk spunk out of my mouth. With a hook like, “Indulge your senses.” on the label I was certain that I had found a new favorite among the already shitty diet soda catalog out there, but what I didn’t expect was that the only senses getting indulged were Rallo’s, the recent parolee w… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148)._