# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/41 "2007-12-06T22:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] What if the SDMB had a searchable archive going back centuries? [/QUOTE] We might see something like this: > [@jdavis](#): > > We’re finally back. Sorry for the inconvenience. **Plynck** was looking for the original recipe with the ingredients “Eye of newt, toe of frog…” Everyone gets another month added to their subscription. My contribution: > [@MikeGodwinSenior](#): > > You are entitled to your opinion, but recognize that by comparing Hitler to Vlad the Impaler you have effectively lost your argument. [A similar thread from two years ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352304) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/42 "2007-12-06T22:38:24Z")
Experiences with consumption (NOT asking for medical advice) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/43 "2007-12-06T22:43:15Z")
I pit that weirdo, **Orville Wright**. He thinks he can build a flying machine. What an idiot! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/44 "2007-12-06T23:06:43Z")
Godwyne’s Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving perfidious Jewry approaches one. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/45 "2007-12-06T23:07:34Z")
Anybody been leeched? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/46 "2007-12-06T23:25:45Z")
**"Electricity": fraud or menace?** (posted: 1816-04-07) I guess you’ve heard about Galvani and his wonderful jumping-frog experiments. And you’ve heard of Professor Volta at Pavia U. Now Volta’s claiming that he has a machine to produce electricity, and people are saying they can create ‘servants’ that will respond to it! Why are those fools at the Royal Society even tolerating this blasphemy? Is not the spark of life the sole province of the Almighty? (Post #27: This has given me a _great_ idea for a book! - M. Shelly.) {Post #28: Kids these days. Miss Shelley should be married, as is proper! Don’t they know there’s a war on?) (Post : 29: Do you know who you’re talking about? She lives in sin with that bounder Percy Shelly and as many other men as she can trap!) (Post #30: \ Keep it down, you three! This is Great Debates! If you can’t discuss the Opening Subject like civilised people, take it to the Pit!) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/47 "2007-12-06T23:35:55Z")
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Hoax! To the bloody poltroon who caused my ass to bolt! Teh gay: sinfully carefree behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/48 "2007-12-06T23:43:24Z")
Gun Owners: Matchlock or flint? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/49 "2007-12-07T00:02:23Z")
Is my brontosaur ribs habit bad for the environment? Anthropogenic Ice Age: any evidence? Vacations in Yucatan: What’s the forecast for that big asteroid that should be coming? ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/50 "2007-12-07T00:08:34Z")
The First Annual Spartacus Marches the Gladiators to the Colosseum Thread ---
**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:** [December 7, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/51 "2007-12-07T00:14:36Z")
> [@Doubting Spaniard](#): > > Provide for me proof that Indeed, that foryner whom has been dubbed Columbo has, in Truth, reached the New Wyrld for which he speaks so fondly. For I Do Not Byleve it happened, and was falsfyed! (this is awesome) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/52 "2007-12-07T01:22:16Z")
If there were televisions in the past, perhaps we’d see these threads in CS: – Anybody see “Neroes” last night? – Lions-Christians matchup this Sunday. Your predictions? – Does “Sex and the Desmesne” accurately portray the life of unmarried ladies? – Let’s talk “William of Orange and Grace.” – Did “Mythbusters” succeed in proving Persephone really disappears in December? – “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is a documentary, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/53 "2007-12-07T01:30:01Z")
Who REALLY ordered Ann Boleyn’s beheading? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/54 "2007-12-07T01:37:55Z")
Beethoven’s new album - Is he fucking deaf? **MPSIMS** **I like my women just like I like my coffee** Posted By User: Thomas Jefferson: Post Count 26,111 Sequential Threads: **The Nazis Can’t Help But Pull Germany Back Together** **What type of Sick Tards Want to Hold Back Communism and the Progress it Represents?** ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/55 "2007-12-07T01:48:06Z")
**New England Dopers, the British Are Coming (TMI)** Posted By **PREVERE911** ---
**Author:** ![Octalcode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Octalcode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octalcode)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/56 "2007-12-07T02:08:55Z")
Ornithopter on an endless chain and cogband. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/57 "2007-12-07T02:20:40Z")
**I pit opposable thumbs** I can crudely grasp things already, thanks **Standing erect makes my back hurt** ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/58 "2007-12-07T02:26:32Z")
The small flint collider: Curiosity killed the sabertooth? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/59 "2007-12-07T02:36:07Z")
Who wrote the papyrus of love? ---
**Author:** ![AdmiralCrunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AdmiralCrunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdmiralCrunch)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/60 "2007-12-07T03:03:21Z")
I came to the Coliseum to see Christians die, not to see those goddamn banner ads. Ulysses S. Grant: Worst. President. Ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056.md?page=4)