# What if the SDMB were . . . older? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056 "2007-12-06T18:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/181 "2007-12-15T02:27:28Z")
GQ, 1885: **Fastest way to accelerate my large metal coach?** by **Eastwood** Okay, so, hypothetically, say I have a carriage made of metal, which seats two people. What’s the fastest I could theoretically make it go, and by what means? I’m looking for speeds in the range of, say, 88 miles per hour. I would appreciate a prompt response, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/182 "2007-12-15T03:49:27Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] … load of bollocks. [/QUOTE] Appellation for a troop of musicians! ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/183 "2007-12-15T04:17:56Z")
MPSIMS, 1930: **Gal waiting for me in Constantinople . . . can’t find city!** Cafe Society 1893: **Sherlock Holmes - Dead! End of Series?** And in 1901: **Return of Holmes, has A.C. Doyle Jumped the Shark?** ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/184 "2007-12-15T12:46:33Z")
**Ask the castrato** **Ask the truant officer** **Ask the guy who acts as live bait for the really large animals** ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/185 "2007-12-16T01:02:26Z")
So, this new stuff… ‘paper’. Reckon it will catch on? Or just a passing fad? Seems a bit flimsy to me. Give me stone tablets and etched metal plates any day. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/186 "2007-12-16T10:05:59Z")
Thread in Cafe Society in 1982 or so: **Need title for new song** Sample lyrics: “Her name is ?, and she dances on the sand, just like that river…” Also name for group would be appreciated. **SLeB** ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/187 "2007-12-16T11:45:06Z")
The mouse-catcher/cat keeps trying to get inside the house! What should I do? HELP! ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/188 "2007-12-16T12:52:36Z")
[QUOTE=calm kiwi] The mouse-catcher/cat keeps trying to get inside the house! What should I do? HELP! [/QUOTE] The sabretooth keeps shredding my youngest family members. Should I declaw him? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/189 "2007-12-16T13:27:35Z")
Great Debates 1649: So the king is gone, what about Cromwell for our next ruler ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/190 "2007-12-17T01:47:43Z")
Posted in 1916 by **TsarNicholas2** : > [@](#): > > Lenin is a Marxist, is all there is to it. But at least he’s the good kind of Marxist: the kind that’s completely impotent. He’s never going to be in a position to impose his particular brand of hatred on anyone in any stronger form than bleating at them on a message board. If a genuinely militiant (as in, has guns and is willing to use them) Marxist movement ever got underway in Russia, he’d be a genuine danger, but that’s not ever going to happen. Not in the any of our lifetimes, anyway. That makes it a lot easier for me to ignore the gibbering and hand-waving. But then, it’s not me he’s gibbering about, so I’m not as emotionally involved. ([apologies to **Miller**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9277378&postcount=34)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056.md?page=9)