I got to wondering, what with hitting 3,000 posts, what my first post was. So I hit the search engine. The only post I saw on the day I registered is here:
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
Five days, 1 hour, 55 minutes and 4 seconds.
203 cigarettes not smoked, saving $25.40.
Life saved: 16 hours, 55 minutes.
I don’t remember what my first post here was, but my first post ever was when the Straight Dope was still on AOL. I asked a question regarding a cat’s attraction to Ben Gay.
My first post of all time, on any board was this today…and I still remember it!!!
Hold your applause, please.
And since you kindly posted to it, I’m hoping you do to. Unless you just post to any old thread, willy-nilly, and I WASN’T at all special to you… <weeping softly> you demons are all alike…
i had asked what people thought was the opposite of time, if indeed, it had an opposite.
hello, craptown!!
it didn’t go over very well. actually quite a few people were stuck on the absurditidy of the question, but i’m pretty sure they just didn’t want to think about it. i mean, i never thought about it.
“Organs gross me out. That’s organs, not orgasms.”
-the wallster
Oh yeah mon. Like it be yesterdeh, mon.
I posted Time Travel Possible?
and immediately found out that I put my foot in it, but was also immediately addicted.
My next performance was the SDMBSRC, or Straight Dope Message Board Self Righteous Clique.
That was actually pretty fun.
Then I grew up, changed my name and became a valuable poster.
Or some would say.
Currently, I am working towards discovering if I can make more friends, and seeing if I coax Chrome Toaster into my coterie. We shall see…
PS- Remember…
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
As far as I can tell, this was my first post:
as long as were talking about the price of pudding in podunk, I thought I would throw in my 2 cents about the size of glaciers in Georgia.
I heve seen dogs who get frostbitten ears, so its not just the feet you have to worry about.
As a longtime listener, mostly lurker (who has recently had one of his other major UBB loves go offline for a week or so while they find a new server) I’ll post my first thread: Flag Burning Ammendment
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, beleived by a majority of the people.
-Giordano Bruno
The earliest one I can find is 10/11, and I think the first was in [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001741.html] I want the blues.**
Is it at all of note that one post in the Guy Stuff thread comprises my entire contribution to the Archived threads?
Tris
Imagine my signature begins five spaces to the right of center.
I had about 100 posts last September registered as DIVEMASTER, before re-registering in lowercase. My first contribution was a well thought out, thouroughly researched, insightful post ( :)) on global warming that successfully killed this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000923.html
I killed rather a few at first.
My first topic start of any consequence was the “Public School Horror Story” thread about my Mom’s experiences in a public school system. Stuff you wouldn’t believe. http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000382.html You may remember that one, Satan.
I think I started in but my first post in MPSIMS was to the late Flora McFlimsey’s thread about where would you live if you could live any time, any place.
Eve was voting for New York in the Gay 90’s. My vote was for someplace where the natives were friendly. I was afraid if I turned up somewhere and couldn’t speak the language and didn’t know what was going on they would burn me at the stake.
My penchant for spoiling fantasies by failing to let go of my neuroses has been a constant in the 1400 or so posts since then.
“I’ll tell him but I don’t think he’ll be very keen. He’s already got one, you see!”
Hmmm. Hadn’t thought to look. Maybe it was on March, 15, 1999 in “About This Message Board” on the subject “Experiment on this thread.”
It was a bunch of AOL’ers getting their feet wet in UBB. You don’t want a link. It’s boring.
But there’s Egads Ron and HyperSnark, CatBiker and Shane. Dex pecks out an early post and pldennison experiments. Opal makes a point about scrolling.
I registered before I got the nerve up to actually post anything. My first reply was in the topic, Impatient loudmouths where I had quite the rant about an annoying shopping experience. (I hate shopping!)
I had thought my first topic was The SD Chainword Massacre game. You could tell how new and nervous I was about posting, as I e-mailed a board regular to run it by her before I dared to post it - ha ha ha. I was pretty excited that it actually went to 3 pages, too!
But when I just did a search to confirm if that was really my first topic, I found this one…Ok everyone, let’s wrap it up!, about how sucky I am at gift wrapping. Everyone was very kind in replying to my first topic.
“Shayna… [one of] the most despised posters on this board.” As declared by WallyM7, on whose list I am most honored to be, no matter what it was a list of!
“Mom, he’s a neo Nazi! He’s a doctor also? Well…” - an original WallyM7 sig.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Ahhh, my first post. It all started with my own innocent thread entitled, “What are your beliefs on God?” It was an honest query. After my thread got booted from GQ, to GD, David B decided to start the infamous “Great God Debate,” which contained about 400+ responses, in 6 parts. (That was back when threads weren’t divided into 50 post pages)
For old times’s sake, I read the entire GGD about a month ago. It’s amazing how I used to post way back then (as ARG220). Let’s just say I’m glad I’m not like that anymore.