# What is the funniest thread (to you) on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 16, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667 "2004-09-16T10:33:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/41 "2004-09-21T22:29:09Z")
LNO’s [My rage burns with the fire of a million suns.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=62082&perpage=30) ---
**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:** [September 21, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/42 "2004-09-21T22:30:34Z")
[Return of the Princess Jedi](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54123) Highlights include: _-Give us back Han Solo. -What Han Solo? -Chewie, rip his arms off. -Oh, you mean that Han Solo. Leia: What about the R.O.U.S. Luke: Rancor of unusual size? I don’t believe it exists Han: My blaster, your brains, and Chewie’s strength against sixty stormtroopers and you think a little teddy bear with a stick’s going to make me happy? Hmm? I mean, if we only had a scout walker or something … Admiral Ackbar: Rebewwion. Rebewwion is what bwings us to attack today. That bwessed wesistance to opwession, that dweam of fweedom …_ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/43 "2004-09-21T22:32:31Z")
In that last link, LNO sez: > [@](#): > > Much like Scylla and his tale of love and vomit and betrayal by his wife and daughter, revenge is mine. The linoleum waits for us all. But I’ve never been able to find that **Scylla** thread. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/44 "2004-09-22T03:37:15Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > But I’ve never been able to find that **Scylla** thread. ☹ [Woo-hoo!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49052) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/45 "2004-09-22T04:01:06Z")
[Gotcha Ya!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=80870) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/46 "2004-09-22T06:01:00Z")
The [best of a rash of recent penis threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273825&page=1&highlight=desk+roger) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/47 "2004-09-22T06:12:00Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > [Gotcha Ya!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=80870) Hee! Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/48 "2004-09-22T06:34:31Z")
[I Just Got 6 Tickets AT ONCE by seven COPS. SHEESH](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=60985&pagenumber=1) It’s the unfolding of what really happened that cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/49 "2004-09-22T12:33:00Z")
I can’t seem to dig it up at the moment, but **Rickjay** ’s description of his own funeral is about the funniest thing I’ve read since I’ve been here. It’s burned in my head for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/50 "2004-09-22T12:34:35Z")
[How to kill evil Nazi groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906) is the thread that lured me to the boards after years reading only the columns. That gives it special significance among all the funny threads I have read here. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/51 "2004-09-22T12:37:28Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I can’t seem to dig it up at the moment, but **Rickjay** ’s description of his own funeral is about the funniest thing I’ve read since I’ve been here. It’s burned in my head for some reason. That’s in the Gotcha Ya! thread. It is very funny, but got overlooked in the hilarity of gotcha ya! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/52 "2004-09-22T15:05:26Z")
[My first time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276870) started with a bang but [ran out of steam](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276870&page=2&pp=50), as I guess it always does. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/53 "2004-09-22T15:19:40Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > That’s in the Gotcha Ya! thread. It is very funny, but got overlooked in the hilarity of gotcha ya! :smack: That’s right. I’ve had a rough morning, time for a re-read. 😛 “that crazy bastard” \ ---
**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:** [September 22, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/54 "2004-09-22T23:06:48Z")
[Tales of the Sweaty, Feculent Herd](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237296) by **Dante** is a top recent pick for me. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/55 "2004-09-23T00:39:20Z")
I a always got a kick out of the [bean beaf and cheese burrito thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=101404&highlight=burrito) (needs to be read to the end) ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/56 "2004-09-23T00:51:29Z")
[Mark Down](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4879053#post4879053). Check out post fifteen especially. **nonpolar** ’s finest moment: [Where are all the women?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269521&highlight=women) ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/57 "2004-09-23T03:43:31Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249524](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249524) it’s about feeding fish semen and it was the funniest GQ i ever read ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/58 "2004-09-23T05:02:45Z")
Browsing some of these funny threads, I was struck by how many of the funny people ended up banned. Some of them after a long time posting. Did we not sufficiently appreciate them during their lifetime? ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/59 "2004-09-23T05:29:13Z")
Well, a lot of them were batshit insane, thus both funny and likely to overstep the mark and be banned. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667/60 "2004-09-23T12:53:54Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Homer’s Monkey Butler: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=37864](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=37864) Never saw that one…I can’t even finish reading the first sentence without busting up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thread-to-you-on-the-sdmb/264667.md?page=4)