# What thread snagged you?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 10, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192 "2006-08-10T18:49:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/1 "2006-08-10T18:49:46Z")
Or was there a particular thread that had you coming back to the SDMB for more?
Mine was [Your most bizarre brain fart](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=282412&highlight=bizarre+brain+fart) .
That thread had me snickering like a stoned Snidely Whiplash. It was embarrassing.
Since then, I’ve been lurking and only recently became a paid member. (sounds rather like I’m a gigolo, no?)
So what about you, was there any particular thread and/or poster that lured you here?
My thought that was that this is the epitome of MPSIMS material, but if it should be IMHO, mods, please feel free to move it.
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### Author:  [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/2 "2006-08-10T20:14:57Z")
Ok, maybe the question is too narrow. I don’t necessarily have to know the exact thread that caught your attention, but just a concept or idea that’s demonstrated here that you haven’t found anywhere else.
In the thread I mentioned above, it just made me feel a whole hell of a lot better about some of the truly assinine things I have done. It made me feel like I share the planet with similar life forms, instead of being the only one of my particular ilk.
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### Author:  [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/3 "2006-08-10T20:21:21Z")
I had the 1st SD book back in college so I had an idea of what this forum would be like but the [Baby Jesus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=290172&highlight=baby+jesus+pussy) thread made me laugh until I cried!
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/4 "2006-08-10T20:34:57Z")
I’ve said this before, but the discussions in Cafe Society are wonderful.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/5 "2006-08-10T20:36:40Z")
Definitely Cecil’s “How To Kill A Vampire” column. Not sure which book it was in, but that tipped me over…
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/6 "2006-08-10T20:52:09Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#):
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> Definitely Cecil’s “How To Kill A Vampire” column. Not sure which book it was in, but that tipped me over…
**Master Wang-Ka** You Are Back! There’s a thread about you being missing, and I linked to your Jehovah Witnesses’s post the other day.
Good to see you!
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### Author:  [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/7 "2006-08-10T20:55:37Z")
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From [here,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=33448) August, 2000:
> [@Danalan](#):
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> I started with Cecil’s books back in the early 90’s. I’ve been frequenting the SD page nearly daily since about 96, I think. I first came to the board because of the ‘Strangest things said during sex’ thread on threadspotting.
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> I registered so I could tell Amy what was wrong with WallyM7’s Harley (‘Putzcycle for sale’ – it sounds like a classic oil breather timing problem). To my horror and deep regret, WallyM7 perished before I could correspond with him.
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> Now, of course, I’m hooked. Thanks everyone for adding a new dimension to my life.
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/8 "2006-08-10T21:48:39Z")
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**Master Wang-Ka** , you have been missed!
My lower jaw hit the floor when I read your name and had to triple check that it wasn’t an ancient post!
Welcome back!
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/9 "2006-08-10T21:54:35Z")
The bad cooking stories thread, which included a story about a mysterious house fire sparked by the intersection of an atomic chicken recipe and hair spray.
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/10 "2006-08-10T21:58:19Z")
A friend of mine emailed a hysterical story titled [The Horror of Blimps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&highlight=horror+blimp) and after some searching for the source of such a funny story, I was led here. I read some more stories by Scylla, Master Wang-Ka and others, and I decided this was worth $14.95 a year.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/11 "2006-08-10T22:24:27Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#):
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> The bad cooking stories thread, which included a story about a mysterious house fire sparked by the intersection of an atomic chicken recipe and hair spray.
:eek: Linky? Pretty please? I’ve seen the thread, I don’t remember that story!
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/12 "2006-08-10T23:24:15Z")
Heh, heh. Scylla.
That guy is \*really \*funny when he wants to be. Wasn’t he the one who wrote about “Wal-Martians?”
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/13 "2006-08-10T23:42:24Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> :eek: Linky? Pretty please? I’ve seen the thread, I don’t remember that story!
[In this thread,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=151037&highlight=chicken) if I recall correctly.
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/14 "2006-08-11T02:16:48Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#):
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> Heh, heh. Scylla.
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> That guy is \*really \*funny when he wants to be. Wasn’t he the one who wrote about “Wal-Martians?”
Is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=130386&page=1&pp=50&highlight=wal-martian) the thread you mean?
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/15 "2006-08-11T03:49:48Z")
Scylla “Elephant Proof.” Beyond his absolutely hilarious story, were the comments from other members, that’s what hooked me.
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/16 "2006-08-11T05:18:51Z")
I’ve said this before, but any chance to share the love!
[thread=353356]What to do with a potato and some monkey wrenches.[/thread]
I’ll jump in with everyone else and say Scylla’s threads are a big draw too.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/17 "2006-08-11T05:45:57Z")
It seems to be off in archive-land now, but when I saw the incredibly inane level of nitpicky detail displayed in the Comments on Mailbag Answers thread “Galileo, a hammer, and a feather”, I knew I had found my home.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/18 "2006-08-11T06:11:35Z")
**Master Wang-Ka** ’s thread about Christmas in a classroom at a school he worked at. I’ve never been able to find it. Could someone kindly provide a link? It had me and all of my friends (who never ended up subscribing) in stitches.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/19 "2006-08-11T06:25:57Z")
I had read the books. Originally I showed up to read the columns because my paper didn’t carry them. It looks like the first two posts I made were in the threads
Do you have to relinquish one degree to get another?
Stoned and schizophrenic in the east
Both of which I appear to have killed, possibly with 1920’s style death rays.
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### Author:  [@Xixox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xixox)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thread-snagged-you/368192/20 "2006-08-11T06:29:21Z")
I had been around the front page for a while, linked from ehowa or fark or something. The first thread to really catch my eye, though, was Scylla’s story about his Irish wolfhound. Sadly, I’m not able to find a link to it… probably just as well, I’d just end up crying again.
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