What if the SDMB were . . . older?

Wings melted - too close to sun. What now? (Need answer fast!)

Makes your back hurt?! Try delivering a child with a bipedal body sometime! Give me back my four legs!

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.

Pompeii dopers, please check in!

Originally posted in The BBQ Pit, Thursday, September 14, 1752 (NS): I want my eleven days back!

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!

Another one bites the dust – Hal8

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.

Does anyone in Louis XIV’s court take baths? Brush their teeth? Douche?
Journal de renard reports. Vous decide.

ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܓܥܘܪܓܥܣ ܒܫܠܒܝ ܬܘܢܫܦ ܝܠܐ ܥܕܬܐ ܕܟܠܕܝܐ ܟܘܠܫ ܪܒܬܐ ܒܥܠܡܐ :rolleyes:

Seriously: Flauberts Dictionary of Received Ideas.

Some examples from the Wikipage:

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?

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

In the Pit: Let’s get FDR the hell out of The White House. (resurrected twice).

Pit:
Thag say he tame fire. Brok think Thag full of mammoth poo.

**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?**

**Pit: ** Lizzie Borden - WTF? (RO)
**ATMB: ** When will the Dope upgrade to teletype?

IMHO, 1492: Anyone here expecting the Spanish Inquisition?

Dopefest in Atlantis! Who’s up for it?

Free tickets to Krakatoa!!! Anybody been there?

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?