For me it was the legendary, Where did “Nuke 'em from orbit” come from?, thread which swiftly degenerated into one long list of Aliens quotes as applied to a message board. I still re-read it occasionally when I need a laugh.
Sorry I don’t have a link, anyone else, what thread convinced you to sign-up?
It was the zit thread.
For me, it was probably a GD thread about religion and/or the existence of God. I was really into debating that topic back when I was in high school - not so much anymore; I think I’ve heard virtually every argument for each side.
There was no particular post but it was a thread titled “Putting up with woman’s shit,” I think. I believe that thread was lost.
The thread that started me lurking was about why pigeons bob their heads when they walk.
None of them. My first actions here were posting in a thread in relation to one of the columns I think.
Here is the probable link Buran: Where did “Nuke 'em from orbit” come from?
I wandered in after reading the Dope Archive and I commented on two columns. After that I wandered through the SDMB and found I really liked it. So it was no specific column.
That’s the one, as a huge fan of the Aliens movie it always puts me in a good mood!
It was the “What if The Lord of the Rings had been written by someone else?” thread that brought me here. I think it was a couple weeks later that I actually joined.
It was this thread: The “Garfield” Where Jon Drinks Dog Semen. It made me laugh so hard that my dogs started barking at me. I knew had to be a part of a place that could make something as lame as “Garfield” so much fun.
“Hey Dosipede,” says my brother, a lurker. “Check out this thread on the Straight Dope.”
“OK… Something about scalar weapons. What about it?”
“Keep reading.”
Been lurking ever since.
Same here. It was linked in an LOTR thread in DVDTalk.com, I clicked on it, loved what I read, read the other threads in Cafe Society, loved those too, joined up.
The 5+ page **Ask the Gay Guy **thread.
The “Tool for extracting a light bulb” thread, wherein all the SDMB memes eventually get trotted out and flogged.
It was “Any Dopers know about a 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook?”. I can’t resist a Plymouth.
It was the thread where Wally’s daughter let us know he had died. Although I’ve heard that might not have been on the up and up.
I love that one.
Scylla’s Blimp OP. Great stuff.
Scylla’s Sperm Count of Doom thread was probably the first thread I ever read here. After wiping the tears of laughter from my eyes, I realized that this would be a good place to hang around.
I can’t find the link now, (it’s amazing how many posts have the words “dead dog and pool” in them) but it was a thread where someone was asking for help because he woke up one day to find a dead dog floating in his pool.
He came here to ask for some advice on how to remove it.
As soon as I read the thread, I knew I had to join just in case something equally unexpected happened to me and I had no idea where to turn for advice.