# What's the longest running (more or less continuously) SDMB thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562 "2015-09-17T14:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/1 "2015-09-17T14:49:25Z")
By “continuously running” I mean that it has gotten at least one post every month (or six weeks) since its OP. And it’s okay if the thread has been locked if it was “continuous” before that. Other than brute force examinations, is there any way to calculate that sort of thing? Another thing: It may not have had a whole slew of replies, either, just enough to keep the thing from becoming a _zombiette_ (nonce word?) or sleeper thread. On the subject, do you have your own personal rules as to how old a thread must be before you won’t reply to it? (It might help if you attach a link to your candidate(s)…) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/2 "2015-09-17T15:29:29Z")
I think it’s going to be hard to beat [Stupid Republican Idea of the Day](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511831), which has been running continuously and usually on the first page of the Pit since March 2009. While I haven’t checked, I’d be surprised if this thread hadn’t been bumped at least every six weeks. There may be older threads that are regularly bumped, but rarely more than annually. There are longer thread series, like Sequential Threads, but those are regularly closed and a new one started. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/3 "2015-09-17T15:31:09Z")
[Baker’s Dozen](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573445) in Thread Games has been running since August 2010. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/4 "2015-09-17T15:32:56Z")
[We Have Pigeon Eggs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=467835) has been going on more or less continuously since May 2008. Some of the Thread Games threads have been updated almost daily, or at least weekly, since they started years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/5 "2015-09-17T15:36:24Z")
Thanks, **Colibri**. Those will be hard to top. I keep bumping one I started a long time back about “SDMB’s Greatest Threads” but it’s too random to make the list, so I won’t even link to it. 😉 Most of the others I can think of where I may have participated, burned out after a few weeks, a month or two max. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/6 "2015-09-18T04:06:22Z")
_'May 5th, 1945-We shall remember"_ was started by Coldfire on May 5, 2000. > **[May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572)** > > On May 5, 1945, the Germans signed a treaty of defeat in Hotel De Wereld (“The World”) in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Earlier that day, the last German troops had been driven across the Dutch-German border by the Allied Forces and the Dutch army. A... It gets new posts each May. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/7 "2015-09-18T04:11:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > _'May 5th, 1945-We shall remember"_ was started by Coldfire on May 5, 2000. > > [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember. - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) > > It gets new posts each May. That’s almost certainly the oldest thread that gets posted to on a regular basis, although it’s annually rather than monthly as the OP specifies. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/8 "2015-09-18T17:34:52Z")
Maybe more of a sleeper or zombie, but I have a fondness for the thread that pops up about Stewart Sandwiches from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/9 "2015-09-18T17:37:44Z")
I hesitate to speak its name… But the thread on the alternative ending to _Big_ gets bumped semi-regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/10 "2015-09-18T17:55:54Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I hesitate to speak its name… > > But the thread on the alternative ending to _Big_ gets bumped semi-regularly. The way I remember it, it gets bumped very regularly ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/11 "2015-09-18T17:59:33Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > The way I remember it, it gets bumped very regularly There is no evidence it gets bumped regularly. Except in Australia, where it was bumped on VHS. You’re thinking of a similar thread, from about that time, that does get bumped regularly. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/12 "2015-09-18T18:04:55Z")
**E-Sabbath’s Great Ongoing Guitar Thread** has been going since January 2010 and is up to something like 85 pages. I suspect I account for waaaaayyyy too many of those posts. Sorry! > **[The Great Ongoing Guitar Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550219)** > > Face it, there’s been a lot of guitar threads over the last month or so. Some of us are pro-quality players, some of us (like me) are just starting out again for the third time. And some of us just like to sit around and bullshit. There’s been a lot... ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/13 "2015-09-18T18:11:46Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I hesitate to speak its name… > > But the thread on the alternative ending to _Big_ gets bumped semi-regularly. Which, sooner or later, is going to become a “proof” that the young Susan ending exists… ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/14 "2015-09-18T18:14:29Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > **E-Sabbath’s Great Ongoing Guitar Thread** has been going since January 2010 and is up to something like 85 pages. I suspect I account for waaaaayyyy too many of those posts. Sorry! > > [The Great Ongoing Guitar Thread - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550219) A lot is not necessarily too many 😉 WordMan 1,012 squeegee 619 E-Sabbath 511 Le Ministre de l’au-delà 193 where has he been? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/15 "2015-09-18T21:54:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > _'May 5th, 1945-We shall remember"_ was started by Coldfire on May 5, 2000. > > [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember. - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) > > It gets new posts each May. > [@Colibri](#): > > That’s almost certainly the oldest thread that gets posted to on a regular basis, although it’s annually rather than monthly as the OP specifies. The Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special thread is a close runner-up. It was started November 30, 2000 and gets posts every December. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/16 "2015-09-19T03:04:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > _'May 5th, 1945-We shall remember"_ was started by Coldfire on May 5, 2000. > > [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember. - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) > > It gets new posts each May. Seems like every year lately, someone posts a Third Of June thread, but somehow it hasn’t caught on to be an on-going thread. Instead, someone just starts a new short-lived one each year. Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/17 "2015-09-19T21:35:36Z")
The _Groundhog Day_ thread has been going since Feb. 2010, and is rejuvenated each year: [What the...? It's Groundhog Day again! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550408) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/18 "2015-09-20T02:44:59Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > There is no evidence it gets bumped regularly. Except in Australia, where it was bumped on VHS. You’re thinking of a similar thread, from about that time, that does get bumped regularly. I just talked to my sister and she SWEARS that she read the thread get bumped very regularly ---
**Author:** ![Yask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Yask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yask)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/19 "2015-09-20T05:07:04Z")
Whatever happened to that ‘If the Hobbit was Written by Somone Else’ thread. I remember it going on and on and on way back in the early days. Did it peter off or is it still active from time to time? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562/20 "2015-09-20T06:07:55Z")
> [@Yask](#): > > Whatever happened to that ‘If the Hobbit was Written by Somone Else’ thread. I remember it going on and on and on way back in the early days. Did it peter off or is it still active from time to time? It’s [“If the Lord of the Rings were written by someone else.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905&page=11) It was closed in 2004. In the early days of the board the software wasn’t kind to very long threads. If they ran for more than a few pages, they would be closed. The May 5th thread survived without being closed because it didn’t have that many replies, and it was bumped only annually. Longer threads of that vintage would have been closed more than a decade ago. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-running-more-or-less-continuously-sdmb-thread/731562.md?page=2)