# What topic has never even been mentioned on SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085 "2011-10-28T16:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/21 "2011-10-30T21:56:52Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > MPSIMS: My pet binturong Fluffy had her babies! Pictures here. (AWWWWW) Aww, they’re adorable. So, do the babies have that weird buttered-popcorn smell, too? Or is it just the adults? ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/22 "2011-10-30T22:03:04Z")
I have never seen a thread on the conspiricy implicit in Harry S. Truman’s victory over Thomas Dewey. Nor a discussion of HST’s mysteriously missing middle name. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/23 "2011-10-30T23:36:01Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > No one has shown any interest in discussing my pubes, much to my surprise. Yeah, but I put up that wiki article on them. And, plus, there is the documentary I’m doing about them. And the short story I published. So enough is enough. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/24 "2011-10-30T23:41:42Z")
This does not exactly fit the OP’s request, but we never fully figured out the importance of the Postmaster General, Francis Grainger. SFC Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/25 "2011-10-30T23:45:27Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > No one has shown any interest in discussing my pubes, much to my surprise. We can see them from down here…we just don’t ask you about them. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/26 "2011-10-31T02:09:06Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > My motorcycle safety training instructor emphasized repeatedly that > **“The only way to know your maximum speed handling ability is to exceed it, then subtract by one – if you’re alive to do so.”** :smack: > > I’ll leave the analogous thinking to the rest of you. > > —G! Only test your maximum speed handling ability if your life depends on it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/27 "2011-10-31T02:43:45Z")
We’ve never had a debate over which member of George Washington’s cabinet had the largest shoe size. It was Jefferson of course. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/28 "2011-10-31T14:33:57Z")
How about the possibilities of a human colony on Jupiter? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/29 "2011-10-31T15:55:15Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > How about the possibilities of a human colony on Jupiter? > **[Could Human Colonies Survive on The Moons of Jupiter](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438646)** > > I’ve always wonderd if humans could live on planetary moons which have atmospheres. Take a rather large moon like Ganymede. Would a human colony be able to survive there? Sunlight is too low for growing crops-is there any internal energy sources that... ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/30 "2011-10-31T18:26:33Z")
> [@SSG\_Schwartz](#): > > This does not exactly fit the OP’s request, but we never fully figured out the importance of the Postmaster General, Francis Grainger. It’s a fool’s errand. Trying to imagine the Post Office without Frankie Granger is like trying to imagine Buddhism without Buddha. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/31 "2014-03-13T16:15:01Z")
\*\*\* Courtesy Zombie Alert \*\*\* Two and a half years since the latest post. Any updates? Have any of those earlier mentions been turned into threads yet? What’s something we still haven’t discussed (or at least mentioned)? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/32 "2014-03-13T17:25:18Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Optimizing feedstock parameters for high solids anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste for the production of biogas. (Previously known to my children as “Mommy’s counting bug farts.”) Not that I’ve ever thought of posting about it. On the other hand, NPR did a piece on this just yesterday. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/33 "2014-03-14T18:25:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > \*\*\* Courtesy Zombie Alert \*\*\* > > Two and a half years since the latest post. Any updates? Have any of those earlier mentions been turned into threads yet? > > What’s something we still haven’t discussed (or at least mentioned)? Well…I still haven’t seen them and, as somebody upthread mentioned, posting them here would negate the validity. Therefore I’ll just keep silent and refrain from uploading my list – in the interest of testing their longevity as unmentionables. 😉 –G?! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/34 "2014-03-14T20:30:08Z")
I first misread that one post as being about deities that didn’t believe in **morals.** I don’t think anyone ever asked about which composer had the narrowest shoe size. It was Gabriel Fauré (AAAA)! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/35 "2014-03-14T20:54:19Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > My motorcycle safety training instructor emphasized repeatedly that > “The only way to know your maximum speed handling ability is to exceed it, then subtract by one – if you’re alive to do so.” :smack: This explains the foreign-policy decisions of a number of countries. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/36 "2014-03-14T21:11:25Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Have any of those earlier mentions been turned into threads yet? Yes! See my post#11. We still haven’t explored the consequences of his death, but thanks to **Elendil’s Heir** we did have an entire thread devoted to [Vice President (briefly) William Rufus de Vane King](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=682852). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/37 "2014-03-14T21:19:03Z")
I’d be scared of a deity that doesn’t believe in mortals. What if he’s omniscient? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/38 "2014-03-14T21:42:09Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > So that’s where it went to! 😉 Everybody wants leftovers, but does anybody ever bother to put the rest in tupperware and in the fridge? Also… two week rule: After that, it goes out… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/39 "2014-03-14T21:51:53Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I’ve never seen a thread about land planarians. [Newbie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=506884) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085/40 "2014-03-14T22:19:52Z")
Abortion. There’s no point in even discussing such a divisive topic. People could argue it for six months and never resolve the debate. It’s just sparks a flame war. I wouldn’t touch that topic here or anywhere else with a twenty foot pole. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-topic-has-never-even-been-mentioned-on-sdmb/601085.md?page=3)