# What would you do if SDMB failed to exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555 "2012-04-12T13:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/41 "2012-04-16T03:56:15Z")
> [@Green\_Cymbeline](#): > > Cry ☹ > > No really, I’d have no place to get all my burning questions answered. Hold the _other_ end of the match. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/42 "2012-04-16T09:50:46Z")
Go on with my life. Find some other way to waste my time at work. It is just a message board. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/43 "2012-04-16T12:08:57Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d probably celebrate. No more reading posts from right wingers who furiously invent scenarios wherein George Zimmerman isn’t a murderer. As an eye witness (apparently) can we look forward to your testimony? ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/44 "2012-04-16T12:14:16Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Not much impact on me nowadays since I don’t visit SDMB much (although I’ve been reading through the Straight Dope archives, does that disappear too?) I just checked and you’ve posted 49 times this month. I’d put money on that being more active than most. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/45 "2012-04-17T03:04:33Z")
I’d be sad for a while and find a new place to hang out. I already know this, because the Straight Dope is that “new” place for me. Back in the mid-to-late 90s I spent as much time on the Buzzsaw boards as here, but then it simply ceased to exist in…2000? (someone help me out, I know there are other former Sawn here). I found this place a year or so later. I know people are all, “we’d get the band back together!” but I really doubt it. The group at Buzzsaw was even more tightknit than here, and none of our alternate plans for keeping in touch survived a whole year. If this place went poof people would drift. It’s what people do. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/46 "2012-04-17T03:27:00Z")
It seems that some of you perused the Boobs Thread at Giraffe Boards while this site was down. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/47 "2012-04-17T03:33:07Z")
So what did everyone else do, if not visit the Giraffe Boards? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/48 "2012-04-17T04:10:24Z")
I’d spend more time working, and would make enough money to get mistress. However, my wife is smarter than me, she would find out and take the kids, driving me to depression, alcoholism and despair, eventually losing both my company and the tiny apartment I’d would have been forced to live in. I would wind up homeless, bumming cigarettes and stealing food and sake, living under a bridge in a blue plastic tarp. But other that that, not much difference. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/49 "2012-04-18T02:13:02Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > I’d spend more time working, and would make enough money to get mistress. However, my wife is smarter than me, she would find out and take the kids, driving me to depression, alcoholism and despair, eventually losing both my company and the tiny apartment I’d would have been forced to live in. I would wind up homeless, bumming cigarettes and stealing food and sake, living under a bridge in a blue plastic tarp. > > But other that that, not much difference. You had a busy day yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/50 "2012-04-18T02:39:15Z")
Finally snap, start working on my political manifesto in earnest, begin hanging around beer halls attracting like-minded disaffected maniacs… ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/51 "2012-04-19T18:18:02Z")
Been reading the Dope since late 2000, it would be a pretty big loss… For a while. But porn conquers everything… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555/52 "2012-04-19T21:43:05Z")
The SDMB _did_ fail to exist a couple mornings ago. I think I just went over to Fark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-sdmb-failed-to-exist/618555.md?page=2)