# When Amazon.com takes over the SDMB

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 19, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-amazon-com-takes-over-the-sdmb/99052 "2002-03-19T15:27:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-amazon-com-takes-over-the-sdmb/99052/1 "2002-03-19T15:27:41Z")

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So there I am, innocently minding my own business, reading a thread about some music being played at a Borders book store. Hmmm, says I, maybe if I go over to [Borders.com](http://Borders.com) they might have a “Borders Recommends” section that might shed some light.

Off I go to [www.borders.com](http://www.borders.com), and lo and behold, I’m face to face with [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). Apparently big A is now the online partner for Borders. First Toys ‘R’ Us, then Target, now Borders. When will it end?

Taking this thought to it’s obvious conclusion, let us imagine what will happen when Amazon takes over the SDMB

(insert dream sequence music here)

To: **Why A Duck**  
From: **[Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)**

Subject: Recommendations

Recently you posted to a thread regarding the second amendment and gun control regulations. We think you might also be interested in:

_Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six_ by Tom Waits in Popular Music  
_Gun in Mouth Blues_ by the Rollins Band in Popular Music  
_Top Gun_ in DVD  
_Gun Digest 2002 : The World’s Greatest Gun Book_ in Books

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To: **Why A Duck**  
From: **[Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)**

Subject: Recommendations

Recently you posted to a thread about **FairyChatMom’s** Butt Story. We think you might also be interested in:

\*Once upon a Fairy Tale: Four Favorite Stories \* in Books  
\*Barbie “Chat with Me” Walkie-Talkies \* in Toys and Games  
\*Mr. Mom \* in DVD  
_Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Related Pathology_ in Books

and so on, and so on, and so on …

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**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-amazon-com-takes-over-the-sdmb/99052/2 "2002-03-19T17:39:40Z")

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Amazon really are taking over the world. Go to [Waterstones.com](http://Waterstones.com), the site for the largest chain of bookshops in Europe, and you get Amazon too. I don’t like it. Bah.

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**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-amazon-com-takes-over-the-sdmb/99052/3 "2002-03-19T18:11:25Z")

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I don’t even want to think about what you’d get by clicking on **Scylla’s** ‘Ewe Sluts’…

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-amazon-com-takes-over-the-sdmb/99052/4 "2002-03-19T19:37:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \*  
> \*\*I don’t even want to think about what you’d get by clicking on **Scylla’s** ‘Ewe Sluts’… \*\*

Probably the same ones _I_ get now…