Watershed moments in SDMB history; or, the SDMB Anthology Project

For your reading pleasure and bemusement:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=112982&highlight=orgasm

I still thik about how mind-boggling that one was; it also inspired me to drag a couple of friends in here for the first time, one of who is still banging around somewhere.

I never quite got that cutting & pasting thing down back in kindergarten. :slight_smile: Anyway, the link is a truly heart-warming Christmas story.

Originally posted by Eutychus

Whats a tilde?

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:slight_smile:

I like how the first member is ‘TOO STUPID FOR WORDS’ instead of BANNED, and the very next person to post is banned (small but amusing co-incidence)

I am off to read the thread and find out how a person managed to deserve a mod putting ‘too stupid for words’ instead of ‘banned’

And now I know.

And am back to continue reading this thread (to see if I am famous for any reason)

and I am not (famous)

I missed the hitler declared war? Why in the Pit…and am now reading it…thanks for the link. A gem unto itself.

Anyone remember all that ugliness over the cross in the WTC rubble and the subsequent banning of Sultan Kinkari? This is one of those threads.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=91564&perpage=50&pagenumber=2

Wow. I can’t imagine how I managed to miss THAT train wreck. Thanks, Eva.

I agree: I never saw that one either. Thanks from me too, Eva.

Fenris

You’re quite welcome, guys (and I mean that in the gender-inclusive sense). Let it be a lesson to us all!

I still lurk/post over at Ms. once in a while, and am astonished at the lack of diversity of opinion over there.

Has anyone mentioned the pink unicorn god yet? I think that was started around the time I got here. Great stuff.

So, are there any big things that were missed in this thread? The LOTR Done By Someone Else thread should perhaps be included in here, though I don’t know how anyone could’ve missed it.

This thread might be useful for newer posters, such as myself, who’re wondering why Satan was banned.

Also, the Funny Things Said While Gettin’ It On thread is always good for a laugh. I don’t remember seeing that in this thread before.

Sorry if I shouldn’t have bumped up this thread, but it seems like it’d be something fun for new posters to read.

I think that it’s the assholes, and to a lesser extent the uninformed, who inspire so many of the contributors to this board to greatness.

Did we miss this one?

This Place Is So Close To Being Great, But Instead Is Filled With Hate [Cha-cha-cha!]

I still think that jjimm deserves credit for one of the finest insults to grace this board:

A year later, I still chuckle about that one.

And as a subset of the EVAR PRSENT G-R-Y Thread, I think we need to hail The Ringo Formerly Known as Beatle for coining what might be the most important word in the English language.

Oh my! :o

I suppose it’s now time for me to say;

“There’s always room for Jell-o.”

Thanks for remembering.

I’d like to nominate Stuff the youngsters will scratch their heads over… by a dearly missed poster. This one appeared around the time of “Guy Stuff” and was good for over three hundred replies and 15,000 views. That should count for something.

SeeThruArt and FreakFreely were two of the all time classic trainwreck threads. Sadly, I can’t find my “Biggest Trainwreck of a Thread Award” thread. It’s a delightful compendium of such meltdowns.

Yeah, yeah… I suck cause I’m resurrecting my old thread which had remained dead and buried for quite sometime.

But if this thread isn’t a watershed moment, I don’t know what is.

Now here’s the one you’re really gonna smack me upside the head for, but I can’t resist. Though it may now be a much-loved or very-very-very-much hated board cliche… hey, I can’t find the scalar weapons/1920s-style death ray thread anymore! Where’d it go? Link? Anyone?

Well, that one made me laugh my ass off. I still like it. :smiley:

SNenc, here are my notes on the death-ray thread…

Death Rays, 1920’s style

This phrase comes from Dogface’s accidental triple post in this this inexplicably hilarious thread,
spawned this thread: 1920’s death ray DEBUNKED;
And this thread: I have solved the death ray problem;
And this: ENOUGH with the 1920’s death rays!
In my memory, this phrase spread the furthest and fastest of any. An uncontrolled wildfire of humor.