What if the SDMB were . . . older?

We might see something like this:

My contribution:

A similar thread from two years ago.

Experiences with consumption (NOT asking for medical advice)

I pit that weirdo, Orville Wright. He thinks he can build a flying machine. What an idiot!

Godwyne’s Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving perfidious Jewry approaches one.

Anybody been leeched?

"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: <Mod hat on>
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!)

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Hoax!

To the bloody poltroon who caused my ass to bolt!

Teh gay: sinfully carefree behavior.

Gun Owners: Matchlock or flint?

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?

The First Annual Spartacus Marches the Gladiators to the Colosseum Thread

(this is awesome)

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?

Who REALLY ordered Ann Boleyn’s beheading?

Beethoven’s new album - Is he fucking deaf?

MPSIMS
I like my women just like I like my coffee
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Thomas Jefferson:
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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?

New England Dopers, the British Are Coming (TMI)
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Ornithopter on an endless chain and cogband.

I pit opposable thumbs
I can crudely grasp things already, thanks

Standing erect makes my back hurt

The small flint collider: Curiosity killed the sabertooth?

Who wrote the papyrus of love?

I came to the Coliseum to see Christians die, not to see those goddamn banner ads.

Ulysses S. Grant: Worst. President. Ever.