# Watershed moments in SDMB history; or, the SDMB Anthology Project **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436 "2002-06-05T03:49:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/161 "2002-11-26T17:53:34Z")
The TMI thread, and so many, many more, were all referenced and link-to in my long-ago post which was referenced and linked to a few pages back. [To save you the trouble of a search](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1805394#post1805394) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/162 "2002-11-26T17:55:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stockton \* > \*\*I started lurking around the time of the Satan-SheWhoShallNotBeNamed period. The “Satan’s teeming minions” tour was, in retrospect, the “How can I get into this college girl’s pants” tour. > > He put up a sob story, skipped all the other stops, made the trip to NC, and nailed his quarry. > \*\* I wonder if you could be more inaccurate if you tried. Well, I suppose you could say that Satan went to Jupiter to get it on with some alien chick. For starters, **Satan** lived in NC, so the jaunt must have been extremely short. He had planned on driving around the country and meeting people, but didn’t have the money, as it turned out. So instead, he went off to OH to meet a woman he was becoming interested in. They are now happily engaged. You make it sound like he was conspiring to do something evil to an impressionable young girl; anyone who has had the good fortune to meet **Drain Bead** can have a good laugh at that. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/163 "2002-11-26T21:51:49Z")
This is a bad one, but how about when **clayton\_e** got beat up? [1.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132595) [2.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132706) [3.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133186) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/164 "2002-11-26T22:21:16Z")
Ah, finally a watershed moment I remember. Thanks, **cuauhtemoc**! ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/165 "2002-11-26T22:35:36Z")
Geez, how did I miss that?!?! I remember much of the other stuff in this old thread, but miss **clayton\_e’s** experience _just this last August?_ ::Algernon quick checks to see if he’s living under a rock:: ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/166 "2002-11-27T00:00:17Z")
I think I might make a page out of this thread, with links and a short description of each thread. Drop me an e-mail (jjtm @ [perfectmail.com](http://perfectmail.com)) IM me (AIM: TroyMcClureSF) or post here if you have any suggestions or additions. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/167 "2002-11-27T02:59:47Z")
**coosa** , I’ve been meaning to ask, what made you decide to revive this lil’ ol’ thread of mine? It’s cool to see it back, but I was pretty surprised. Anyway, thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/168 "2002-11-29T02:57:57Z")
Who can forget [Threadkillers 2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53434&highlight=threadkillers) ? We had some big fun in that one. AT 1111 posts it must be one of the longest threads ever. I can’t find “Guy Stuff” but I think it is just about the same length. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/169 "2002-11-29T03:06:26Z")
I can’t find this one in the search either but does anyone remember the girl who only wanted to have Number 10 Dorrance Steel Plated Hooks? She was talking about how she was going to "accidently"mangle her arms beyond repair so that she could be fitted for steel hooks. Even wrote a fantasy sequence about how it was done. Extremely creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/170 "2002-11-29T08:27:40Z")
Did you search for “DORRANCE NUMBER 10 STEEL HOOKS”? I do believe [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=64354&highlight=DORRANCE+STEEL+HOOKS) is the thread you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/171 "2002-11-29T11:19:06Z")
There was just recently a flurry of exchange between this board and another board… I don’t know if mentioning it is a good idea, but it is dedicated to the seperation of white people from other, non-white people. A few Dopers stuck around there, briefly. I only know of one that is still actively trying to fight the good fight. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/172 "2002-11-29T12:03:36Z")
Ah, the TMI thread… my finest hour… (Put me in the same egocentric boat as Esprix and Fenris… :D) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/173 "2002-11-29T19:03:42Z")
Well, on the AOL board there were incessant Pope Bob-Pmpddymck/hpstrdufus wars. It got to be a real chore to read oh, about the 14th post or so on a thread when you’ve got one person’s statement cited, then a reply to that, then a reply to the reply and then a reply to the reply to the reply. All in the same post as both Bob and George tried to tear each other to bits. Mr. Ruda Duda was the escort of Princess Margarita of Romania at some function involving the Royal Family of England. That thread devolved into poster Ben’s Theory of Agism. Ben was a 16 year old product of a divorced marriage who thought in addition to 7 year olds should be permitted to drive, but that 3 year olds were capable of giving consent to having sex with adults. He believed any statutory limits based on age were a form of discrimination. Manny Peoples was, IIRC, posted by someone calling himself Psycho or something like that. I suspect he was the first sock in SDdom. His posts reminded me of an old SNL Emily Latilla sketch. “Manny people ask me, so now I wonder…” Herbie was supposed to be a pig farmer somewhere. I always thought his posts were humorous and thoughtful, but you had to really work to decipher his, um, odd spellings. Perky~Dan posted irregularly. Sort of in spurts. It was widely held that he was living in an insane asylum and often was not allowed access to a computer. IMHO Cyberian singlehandedly did the most damage to the AOL SDMB community than any other poster. What can you say… homophobic, racist, anti-semitic, rabid christian? The level of hostility he inspired drove many good people away from the board. And it was AOL’s unwillingness/inability to enforce it’s Terms Of Service as applied to message boards that sort of, I think, inspired OpalCat to add a message board to her Teeming Millions pages. Her idea was, basically, AOL couldn’t keep Cyberian off the SD board, but she could keep him off hers. Let’s see… there were the Long Island Home Schooled boys. Shane, Alex, and Trigger? Shane kept posting about how funny he thought pies in the face were. They were all happy to share with us the beliefs of their Calvinist church which ultimately led to some of them leaving in a rage. Welcome Screen Invasions: Several times a year, the powers that be would feature a link to the SD on the Welcome Screen. This would result in an invasion of the boards by folks who didn’t bother to lurk and we’d get questions like these: 1. There are 3 words in the English language that end in …gry. 2 of them are hungry and angry. What is the third? 2. Why do we park in driveways and drive in parkways? 3. Is it true that drinking Mountain Dew will make you sterile? Actually, I think it was one of these invasions that led me, in my role as The Idol Of American Youth, to create the SD Teen FAQ, which contained the answers to 50 questions often posed by teens during these invasions. Lynn introduced into the SD lexicon her Cousin Vinnie, who was good at negotiating with people. He never posted himself, as he traveled a lot at the time. He does post now and then over on the FFF board. How could I forget? AlanKingsley. Our very own self styled Communist. He believed it was okay to steal from people who were better off than he was, because they probably exploited the masses to get what they had that he didn’t have. Or something like that. And there was that thing about his dog getting run over too. There was JPetrilia (sp?), a middle schooler who loved to use different fonts and colors that could make your eyes bleed. And of course, the Chronicles of Gry, written by Krftmstrss/kiltgrrl and Roshi. I believe a certain moderator here produced the HTML version. Euty? ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/174 "2002-11-29T19:20:04Z")
Bermuda999 McAfita (sp) Mustangs VS Spitfires Wilson SC Lilith SC CatBiker (me) Pushpins ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/175 "2002-11-29T19:24:24Z")
:blinks: Ranger Jeff, long time no see… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/176 "2002-11-29T20:11:58Z")
Don’t forget that little tiff with Ms Magazine a while back. They still occasionally mention it over on their end. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/177 "2002-11-29T21:06:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\*:blinks: Ranger Jeff, long time no see… \*\* Odie! G’day, eh! Well, you know what they say about bad pennies. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/178 "2002-11-30T13:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranger \* > \*\*And of course, the Chronicles of Gry, written by Krftmstrss/kiltgrrl and Roshi. I believe a certain moderator here produced the HTML version. Euty? \*\* Yep … that was me. I took it down a while back because I had run out of space on my old AOL account. But if anyone is interested, I could put it back up on the Teemings site. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/179 "2002-11-30T13:24:57Z")
I blush to say it…:o …_my arrival on the SDMB._ Surely a time for Universal Rejoycing. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436/180 "2002-11-30T17:19:39Z")
OMG, I remember when **Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor** arrived on the boards! That was like teh best day EVAR! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watershed-moments-in-sdmb-history-or-the-sdmb-anthology-project/112436.md?page=10)