# Twenty Years ago this week, the greatest thread in SDMB history was started **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148 **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:** 30
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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”? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-this-week-the-greatest-thread-in-sdmb-history-was-started/973148)._