I was snagged by a thread once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.
I read the books too, but didn’t know about the SDMB until I happened on it by accident one day a couple of years ago. Eureka!
It was the “1920’s style death rays” thread* that got me, had me laughing out loud just at the thought of it for weeks.
And other train-wrecks like it , I’m thinking of the would you shoot your son if he was trapped in the car thread that blew apart and the Marianas trench debacle.
The potato/light bulb thread did it for me, too.
For me it was Sampiro in Woman behold they daughter, daughter thy mother, & BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER! It was linked to in a Threadspotting, which was how I found it several months after posting had stopped.
I sat down and read all nine pages of it in one sitting, no small feat considering how verbose that thread was, laughing my ass off at some points, crying at other points, getting shivers down my spine at others. And then I shared it with my family and all of my friends, and they became Instant Sampiro Fans.
So I wanted to already. Then Sampiro posted about his momma getting sick, and because of that one thread and the several others about his family, I was so sad! I signed up and paid to wish him good luck.
~Tasha
It was when my brother linked me the “Recast the movie ‘Ghostbusters’” thread a couple of months ago. I had to sign on and recast it, there was no choice.
I’ve just spent an entertaining afternoon reading these threads. I can’t believe I missed these! I have hooted over The Horror of Blimps before, but couldn’t resist a re-read.
I should have been working. Since I’m self employed, I’ve screwed myself. :rolleyes:
Durnit, now I can’t find it, either, even with multiple keywords. Can I get away with reposting it?
I found this place through a link to one of the columns posted on Fark maybe a year and a half or so ago. I’ve since read a big chunk of the archived columns, and have read all the new ones since then, but it took me until about a month ago to realise there were attached message boards*. (The front page displays perfectly on my elderly GPRS phone, so much of the reading has been done sitting on a bus or a train). Looking forward to having a rummage about in the bajillion posts that you have stored away, particularly the treasure house of oddness and erudition that is General Questions.
- although I did receive a Lord of the Rings link from here ages ago
This is the one for me, too.
My first post was to answer a GQ thread “Who invented the corn dog?” I was one of 2 replies. The OP never came back. Apparently I didn’t read the OP clearly, b/c my post just repeated a claim about “Cozy Dog” which the OP already mentioned. And I was wrong. And reply #2 corrected me.
Quite a momentous beginning.
Please do, Master Wang-Ka! Or email it if the mods get uppity.
This is the spider story correct?
That would be the one. Let me dig around in the hard drive…
I think that was another Scylla thread. It was featured in “Threadspotting.” The Reader should give him a couple of bucks for my subscription as a commission.
Of course now I can’t find the damned thing. Was it pruned?
Mine was some several pages long thread about everyone’s idiosyncracies way back in early 2001. I don’t remember much, just that I noticed that the thread had spanned about a year at that point and everyone was just mentioning the weird little things they do in their everyday life that no one else does. It could be anything from mild little harmless stuff that was just a habit to near OCD stuff, but it was amusing enough to me that I figured “I’m weird enough to be among these people.”
I was watching a show on the history channel about the guillotine, and was a bit skeptical about some of the claims. After the show ended, I went searching on the internet (a bit of a morbid search, I know…) and stumbled across Cecil’s columns on decapitation. I started poking around on the site, and was instantly hooked on Cecil’s columns and what were then called mailbag reports (now called staff reports).
I took a look at the message board, and decided I wanted nothing to do with it. I’m not much of a message board person, and didn’t really see anything that appealed to me. It took me a long time to warm up to the message boards. Good thing it was free back then, because my guest membership would have run out long before I decided I wanted to become a permenant member.
I can’t really say that there was any thread that “snagged” me. As time went on, I slowly started reading more and more of the boards. I started out only in GQ and ignored everything else. Eventually I got hooked on GQ, so some time during that process I was officially “snagged” but I really can’t say when. It took me even longer to branch out into other forums. I almost missed the first Gettysdope (which is only a 15 minute drive from my house) because I rarely read MPSIMS back then. The main thing that got me to branch out into other forums was an illness where I was stuck at home for several days with nothing to do but browse the net.
For me it was “Minimum fatal drop (somewhat morbid)” by Tevildo, last March. If you know me you know the words “somewhat morbid” bring me flying.
Also, I’d bee waiting for years to tell someone the LD50 for a fall from 4 stories.
NTTAWWT.
The “Horror of the Blimp” by Scylla is what snagged me. A friend e-mailed it to me and I’ve been hooked ever since.