It’s not that we’re smart. It’s that in my ‘normal’ life, the smartness is concentrated in left brained activities. I come here because it has smart people of a religious, sexual, and educational backgrounds.
I can sit back and say, ‘Damn, that one smart farmer|artist|dancer|surgeon|soldier|author|geek|vegetarian|athiest|gay|catholic|Indian|Asian|monk|painter|librarian|painter’. And it’s a point of view I’d not otherwise have been exposed to.
And we’re are all perverted. I like that.
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And now you see why I picked my user name…I get the overall stuff right, it’s the details I fail to catch.
Now that we’ve provided all of these well-reasoned, intelligent reasons for potential members to pay up, I only have one question:
What is our cut?
Google is your friend.
SDMB is everyone’s perfect phone-a-friend.
Well, in this thread, we get this post:
And he did, in fact, report back with the results.
I’m reminded of how cool I thought it was when I read this
thread about the previous night’s record-breaking win on Jeopardy. In post 14, the winner comes in to respond to some of the comments, and by the end of the thread there were no less than 4 Jeopardy-Contestant-dopers present (I think there’s another thread around 2004ish which attempts to document all the JCDs and finds around 10 or 15. Not sure, but I guess by now there’s at least a few more).
It’s not simply that this board makes me feel dumb, but more a matter of degree.
Here’s one I liked.
In a thread titled Help the dishwasher newbie, please. soliciting advice for a proper way to load the machine, AHoosierMama comes in with
The response, she have zee ring of authority!
And let’s not forget the only thead I have bookmarked–The 9/11 thread.
Being in New Jersey at the time with all our TV coverage down, I really appreciated having people post on waht was going on. And kudos to Opalcat for putting her webcam on the TV.
My apoligies to the hamsters for all the searces my comment must have engendered (I shoulda known). Truth is, I don’t specifically remember an “Ask the Prostitute” thread, just have a vague sense that such a thread has, uh, popped up, But I wouldn’t put it past this group. Perhaps SSG Schwartz has it right.
What, no mention of doper hook-ups? 
I wouldn’t have met my husband without the Dope. That wins it a place in my heart forever.
I’ve always thought that this thread is a great example of why this place is so special. You can’t swing a pan of fried semen around in here without hitting a freaking doctor! I doubt there is any board (outside of those specific to a certain type of study) that has so many M.D.s, Ph.Ds and J.D.s.
Indeed. Jim Beaver (Bobby on Supernatural, Ellsworth on Deadwood, etc. etc.) was a consultant on the movie Hollywoodland, and when he was invited to join a thread on George Reeves, he did. I don’t think he would have bothered if this was an “ordinary” message board.
He even flirted a bit with somebody, if I remember right.
Time for the I can’t believe this thread has gone this many posts with nobody mentioning post.
We have a real live rocket scientist here. (Stranger on a Train)
what other board can say that? 
Kitties. And porn. In the same forum. Sometimes the same thread. Hell, sometimes the same post!
There is nothing, repeat nothing, that someone won’t post about, and nothing that is asked seriously that won’t draw at least one serious response.
This is the world’s greatest 2 a.m. drunken dorm room discussion.
Eve – of course. 
For me:
Rick answering my car questions for free, and always being right.
Mafia games
Picture a thread along the lines of “ask the guy who used to troll bathrooms for gay sex” in this board. Now picture it in most other boards - 'nuff said!
My pleasure.
In six and a half years, I have never been goatsed, tubgirled, or ricrolled. That’s saying something unique in my online experience.
Enjoy,
Steven
Knowing that I’ll die before I finish reading the archives makes me happy. If I had to wake up one day without my reading fix, I’d want a 1920’s style death ray to end my misery. You guys freaking rock.
Oh wait, I forgot that I vowed not to die before the Browns win the Super Bowl. I guess that means I’m going to live forever. Damn!