# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/61 "2007-12-07T10:30:07Z")
Wings melted - too close to sun. What now? (Need answer fast!) ---
**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 7, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/62 "2007-12-07T12:51:54Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] **Standing erect makes my back hurt** [/QUOTE] Makes your back hurt?! Try delivering a child with a bipedal body sometime! Give me back my four legs! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/63 "2007-12-07T13:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] **MPSIMS** **I like my women just like I like my coffee** Posted By User: Thomas Jefferson: Post Count 26,111 [/QUOTE] That is genius! In The Pit on June 7, 1960 by **HarveyO** –If that Catholic gets elected President, I swear I’ll shoot him! Resurrected on April 1, 1968 by **DoubleS** Me too. ---
**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 7, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/64 "2007-12-07T13:31:26Z")
Pompeii dopers, please check in! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/65 "2007-12-07T13:43:10Z")
Originally posted in **The BBQ Pit** , Thursday, September 14, 1752 (NS): _I want my eleven days back!_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/66 "2007-12-07T13:47:43Z")
ATMB posted by **HarpDIVA** on November 1, 1550: Poster **NostraD** has been banned for the following: 1.Giving medical advice. He claims to be a doctor, but we doubt it. He recommends such things as rose hips, getting fresh air, and bathing :eek: 1. His non-sensical, one trick pony posts. What is he smoking? Even the rhymes are bad. 2. Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/67 "2007-12-07T14:16:11Z")
Another one bites the dust – Hal8 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/68 "2007-12-07T14:47:23Z")
ATMB, 1393 B.C.: **Help! Board not rendering hieroglyphs properly** Comments on Cecil’s Columns, 13,700,000,000 B.C.: **Origin of Phrase “The Whole Nine Yards”–Another theory** Comments on Staff Reports, 372 A.D.: **Your explanation of the Homoiousian-Homoousian Controversy is all wrong, you blaspheming heretics!** General Questions, CMXXVIII A.U.C.: **Does IIII equal to IV?** Great Debates, 1495: **Tiny anomalies/artifacts found in woodcuts from Christopher Columbus expedition.** Cafe Society, 2150 B.C.: **If the Epic of Gilgamesh Had Been Written By Someone Else!?** In My Humble Opinion, 27 A.D.: **Ask the Son of God** MPSIMS, 1637: **I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition but the board ate my OP.** – PFerm _(Over 400 replies, several Pit threads.)_ The BBQ Pit, 1517: **The seller of indulgences speaks. I respond.** ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/69 "2007-12-07T15:06:45Z")
Does anyone in Louis XIV’s court take baths? Brush their teeth? Douche? Journal de renard reports. Vous decide. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/70 "2007-12-07T15:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] ATMB, 1393 B.C.: **Help! Board not rendering hieroglyphs properly** [/QUOTE] ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܓܥܘܪܓܥܣ ܒܫܠܒܝ ܬܘܢܫܦ ܝܠܐ ܥܕܬܐ ܕܟܠܕܝܐ ܟܘܠܫ ܪܒܬܐ ܒܥܠܡܐ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/71 "2007-12-07T15:27:04Z")
Seriously: Flauberts [Dictionary of Received Ideas.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas) > [@](#): > > The Dictionary of Received Ideas (in French, Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911-3 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes. Some examples from the Wikipage: > [@](#): > > ABSINTHE. Extra-violent poison: one glass and you’re dead. Newspapermen drink it as they write their copy. Has killed more soldiers than the Bedouin. > ARCHIMEDES. On hearing his name, shout “Eureka!” Or else: “Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world.” There is also Archimedes’s screw, but you are not expected to know what it is. > FEUDALISM. No need to have one single precise notion about it: thunder against. OMEGA. Second letter of the Greek alphabet. > THIRTEEN. Avoid being thirteen at table; it brings bad luck. The strong-minded should not fail to crack jokes: “What is the difference? I’ll eat enough for two!” Or again, if there are ladies, ask if any is pregnant. > WALTZ. Wax indignant about. A lascivious, impure dance that should only be danced by old ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/72 "2007-12-07T15:31:08Z")
I would be very interesting to see some of legal eagles debate abolition or an impending civil war. on a less serious note. Ask the prisioner just sent to Australia Lost in the mountains! How do you fend on cannibals? Need answer fast! Macbeth–Has Shakespeare jumped the shark? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/73 "2007-12-07T15:55:21Z")
Would knife control have stopped Jack the Ripper? How will the end of the Depression hurt Democrats in 1932? I pit that crackpot Robert Fulton ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/74 "2007-12-07T15:58:57Z")
In the Pit: Let’s get FDR the hell out of The White House. (resurrected twice). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/75 "2007-12-07T16:23:45Z")
**Pit:** Thag say he tame fire. Brok think Thag full of mammoth poo. ---
**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 7, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/76 "2007-12-07T17:51:29Z")
\*\*Which is better, linen condoms or animal-gut condoms? Is this thing on my neck a buboe or a goiter? Is there a barber in the house? I have a terrible toothache. I think my humours are out of whack. How I can I get less bilious and more sanguine?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/77 "2007-12-07T18:15:40Z")
\*\*Pit: \*\* Lizzie Borden - WTF? (RO) \*\*ATMB: \*\* When will the Dope upgrade to teletype? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/78 "2007-12-07T18:25:32Z")
IMHO, 1492: Anyone here expecting the Spanish Inquisition? ---
**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 7, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/79 "2007-12-07T18:36:15Z")
Dopefest in Atlantis! Who’s up for it? Free tickets to Krakatoa!!! Anybody been there? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056/80 "2007-12-07T19:11:26Z")
**Posted November 30, 1941:** We’re going to Hawaii next week! Where to go, what to see? **Posted June 30, 1936** Gone With the Wind (Spoilers inside!) **Posted 480 BC** Where the hell is Leonidas going? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-sdmb-were-older/429056.md?page=5)