# What was your first thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624 "2004-04-18T03:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/21 "2004-04-19T10:54:45Z")
Mine is long gone after the server crashes of '00. But it was _How do birds do it?_ in General Questions. I was concerned about the logistics with tail feathers. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/22 "2004-04-19T16:10:37Z")
First thread: [Monkeys and the Complete Works of Shakespeare](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=182831). Still one of my favorites. Most successful thread: [OK, Sec. Rumsfeld: just what ARE the criteria for a “guerrilla” war?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194678), one of my rare forays into political topics. It got 70 replies and 1,598 views. Incidentally, I started that thread on July 1, 2003… Least successful thread: [Ted Bundy’s old house gets torn down](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=196932). Got 0 replies. Favorite thread: [Football (soccer) and hooliganism](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=182913). A fairly short-lived thread, but one that hopefully helped to fight ignorance about the prevalence of hooliganism. Most embarassing thread: [‘Kangaroo Jack’ was last week’s best-selling DVD. Sure sign of the Apocalypse?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=197520). Intended this to be a forum wherein people would savage this movie or at least make fun of it–was shocked to find people responding with serious and quite reasonable points about how it was a decent movie for kids. I really haven’t started that many threads. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/23 "2004-04-19T21:24:49Z")
My first thread was also my most embarrassing thread. I put it in the wrong forum, asked if it should be in a different (but equally wrong) forum, and gave it a title that couldn’t have been more vague, which was then changed by a helpful mod. Freakin’ newbie. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=165873)it is. Yeesh. My most successful was a poll about going to war with Iraq in IMHO, which I started on March 16th, 2003. Went on to 5 pages. It’s [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=170192) if you’d like to see it. I’ve always kind of liked this one ([A confession for my 100th post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=175762)) and this one was fun too ([Went to the ER last night. What will it cost?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=193871)) ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/24 "2004-04-20T01:50:28Z")
First thread [Help! Changing Wardrobe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=172379). Still a work in progress. Favourite: [Religious Views on Evolution](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=199543). It was a great learning experience. Least popular: [Anyone playing X2: The Threat?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=227912). Zero replies and 11 views; clearly no one was playing the game 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/25 "2004-04-20T01:59:36Z")
First and favorite. [A teaspoonful of black hole.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=125234) I was only slightly embarassed to discover that it should have been titled “A teaspoonful of neutron star.” Most successful - [What can I buy in Canada but not the US?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=216018) Least successful - [2 DSL questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=212410). Only 2 replies and one of them was me. ☹ Most embarassing - [Kirk on Enterprise next season. Is it a joke?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248696) - I really should have seen that it was an OBVIOUS FREAKIN’ April Fool’s joke. [Insert smack smilie here] ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624/26 "2004-04-20T04:27:40Z")
Oooooh, first thread we created!!! ARggggh, and here I spent 15 minutes looking for the first one in which I posted!!! 😃 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=146591&highlight=umbrella](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=146591&highlight=umbrella) But this one was a funny and lighthearted rant, by **eve** I think. Worth a read, or at least a quick scan. Now I have to hunt down my first actual thread (I don’t create many, just mainly post in others’) Gak, my very first “real” thread, one I started, is a boring one (insert sheepish smiley). > **[Is there a Doc in the SDMB house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=178166)** > > Okay, I have a weird question that I’m too embarrassed to “bother” my surgeon about. Since the operation I had to repair (bolts, plates, screws) that I my shatterred fibula (about ten days ago), I’ve gone from being a person who is always cold too... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-thread/240624.md?page=1)