# "Winter of Our Missed Content": Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 29, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688 "2005-07-29T01:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/21 "2005-07-29T14:00:24Z")
I really wish I had a copy of the thread about being “advanced” in school and the social implications. That was the first time that I ever felt that anyone really understood what my growing-up years had been like (and it was ever so NOT fun). Brought tears to my eyes, it did. A pound of the chocolate of your choice to anyone who can send me a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/22 "2005-07-29T14:56:07Z")
I am one of those folks who lost everything to the crash and, to be honest, am glad. Not that I am the bestest poster ever now or anything, but some of the stupider things that I said are now gone and I can demand cites and deny them at will. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/23 "2005-07-29T15:11:36Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I had some posts in GD that would have resolved all of humanity’s philosophical, religious, and political disputes and brought about an unprecedented era of universal peace and harmony; a post in GQ in which I solved the cold fusion problem, which would synergize nicely with the GD stuff in ushering in a bright new dawn for the whole human race; and also some stuff in MPSIMS so devastatingly witty and charming that beautiful women from around the globe would have begun stalking me and begging for the opportunity to provide me with sexual gratification, bear my children, etc. Yea, but face it: You would have never accomplished all that if Cecil hadn’t logged on and, in a mammoth marathon session never seen before or since, corrected all your errors and set everything straight. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/24 "2005-07-29T15:48:41Z")
I really wish we hadn’t lost all that stuff The spirited debate over the use of “Hi Opal!” All the links to the detailed schematics of how to build a functional 1920s style death ray The list of all the words that end with -gry The explanation of when, exactly, we will get flying cars And of course the full name and contact information of the real Nigerian who’s desperately trying to get his $37 million. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/25 "2005-07-29T15:52:35Z")
Actually, I do remember a thread I started in GD which asked about what the penalties should be if abortion were made illegal which is one of the things which sold me on this board. I was amazed at how polite, civilized, and rational the responses were, since abortion is an issue which provokes such strong emotions. I’d bookmarked the thread and kept the bookmark long after the thread had vanished. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/26 "2005-07-29T15:58:37Z")
I keep hoping that Internet archeology may one day unearth those lost _bon mots._ If they can find a [190-million-year old dinosaur egg](http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=37548) in pristine condition, maybe they can find some 3-year-old data. Although I suspect the _bon mots_ were less than bon, and unlike wine, have not improved with age. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/27 "2005-07-29T16:04:49Z")
While I certainly lament the loss of many of our board’s brightest poster’s brightest moments, I’m afraid that I, personally, don’t recall writing a single thing during that period that I think anyone would ever want to look back upon, fondly or otherwise. Of course, I didn’t write anything like that before or since, either. ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/28 "2005-07-29T16:28:12Z")
The only thing I can remember writing during that period was a lengthy and comprehensive analysis of the poltics of the Romulan Star Empire acceding to the United Federation of Planets, in a Cafe Society thread about an upcoming Star Trek movie. Somebody responded to it with “Should we tell wolfstu that Star Trek isn’t real?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/29 "2005-07-29T16:36:50Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > While I certainly lament the loss of many of our board’s brightest poster’s brightest moments, I’m afraid that I, personally, don’t recall writing a single thing during that period that I think anyone would ever want to look back upon, fondly or otherwise. > > Of course, I didn’t write anything like that before or since, either. Good example. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/30 "2005-07-29T18:37:34Z")
I still miss Smashy. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/31 "2005-07-29T18:55:08Z")
Oh yeah, when giants walked the earth. That span of weeks was truly a Golden Age. [snicker] It’s only surpassed by the shock and horror when AOL accidentally destroyed our earliest history when they updated the board software. Now THAT was truly incredible material . . . lost for all time. I’ve never gotten over it. your humble TubaDiva Vas you dere, Charlie? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/32 "2005-07-30T05:47:23Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Vas you dere, Charlie? Not to hijack or anything, but WHAT is that from? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/33 "2005-07-30T06:20:47Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Not to hijack or anything, but WHAT is that from? A radio show, loosely based on the exploits of Baron Munchausen, in which the baron related his experiences to “Charlie.” When Charlie would question one of the more obviously invented tales, the Baron would reply, “Wass you dere, Scharlie?” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/34 "2005-07-30T06:22:40Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > A radio show, loosely based on the exploits of Baron Munchausen, in which the baron related his experiences to “Charlie.” When Charlie would question one of the more obviously invented tales, the Baron would reply, “Wass you dere, Scharlie?” Ah! See, I was somehow aware of a vague connection to Baron Munchausen, but it was VERY vague and just not at any level that I felt any confidence in. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/35 "2005-07-30T06:58:17Z")
Jack Pearl was the baron, Cliff Hall was Charlie, and the show ran in 1933 and 1934. I don’t know which network. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/36 "2005-07-30T13:14:59Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I really wish we hadn’t lost all that stuff > > The spirited debate over the use of “Hi Opal!” > > All the links to the detailed schematics of how to build a functional 1920s style death ray > > The list of all the words that end with -gry > > The explanation of when, exactly, we will get flying cars > > And of course the full name and contact information of the real Nigerian who’s desperately trying to get his $37 million. They found the WMDs in there, too. I had a link, but it expired. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/37 "2005-07-30T15:29:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And I lost one of my most successful threads, and certainly one I thought niftiest, on the Music of the Ainur, to the Winter. I have a copy somewhere, that I pulled off of some archive site, but it’s not as alive that way. Could I beseech you to email a copy to me? Pretty please? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/38 "2005-07-30T15:41:43Z")
You know…sometimes, I think it’s spreading. No, really. There was a thread about Wicca that was started in the Pit by **Lucki\_Chaarms** , I think, where I got into the fray. This was in 2001, but before the Great Purge. In 2003, I used some of my quotes in the thread as cites in a paper I wrote documenting the evolution of my own faith. I have exact quotes. . .and I can’t find the thread anywhere. It’s just gone. The thread was called “Poser Wiccans piss me off.” And it just…vanished. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/39 "2005-07-31T01:34:56Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I had some posts in GD that would have resolved all of humanity’s philosophical, religious, and political disputes and brought about an unprecedented era of universal peace and harmony; a post in GQ in which I solved the cold fusion problem, which would synergize nicely with the GD stuff in ushering in a bright new dawn for the whole human race; and also some stuff in MPSIMS so devastatingly witty and charming that beautiful women from around the globe would have begun stalking me and begging for the opportunity to provide me with sexual gratification, bear my children, etc. > > Ah, well. It’s too much trouble to re-type it all now, though. I had a post in the “Korean Grocery Poetry Jam”. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688/40 "2005-07-31T19:09:22Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Me, too! It was horrible. I thought I had suppressed the memories… Oh, the pain, the pain! > > 😉 Tell me about it… I posted about ~5000 times during that period and then woosh, gone. I have been so depressed about it I have only posted a couple of times since then because it doesn’t matter anyway. ☹ Everything just disappears! Waahhhh. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-why/314688.md?page=1)