# Your first post on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456 "2002-12-04T16:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hattrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hattrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hattrick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/61 "2002-12-06T00:42:14Z")
My first post was Funny/not-so-funny experiences with controlled substances funny story and got a mod on my back on the same 1st post for having too big a sig Thanks Coldfire 😉 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/62 "2002-12-06T00:53:33Z")
As one of those that was a victim of the Great SDMB Crash of 2002, my first 30 or so posts vanished and will never be seen again. After re-registering, my first post was of course about the Great SDMB Crash of 2002. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/63 "2002-12-06T03:11:31Z")
What I thought was a rather witty response to [Write your own Star Trek episode.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89021) I almost killed the thread with my first post. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/64 "2002-12-06T06:18:07Z")
After lurking for a little while, I registered on 4 Aug. 2000 and made my first post in the thread [Religious funeral practices.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33268) I killed it. ☚ My first OP came three days later with [Japanese Parliament = Diet. Why?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33623), which did a little better. (ok, preview keeps eating my posts, so please excuse any typos or coding errors) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/65 "2002-12-06T07:35:06Z")
My earliest apparently got wiped out in the Great Collapse. My earliest post that is in the archives is a one-liner in a thread about Masons. My earliest post is one wherein I posited that the return of Imperialism, in the form of a Pax Americana, would be a good thing, so what’s stopping it. I am almost embarrased about some of my earlier posts. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/66 "2002-12-06T10:16:53Z")
My first post was to a thread titled “frostbitten doggie feet.” Being a sucker for anything doggie-related (since I have the world’s greatest dog), it inspired me to post for the first time. I’d registered on September 4, 2001. One week later, of course, the shit came down. And one week after that, I made my first post: > [@](#): > > I have a dog who grew up in the South, as did her ancestors for many generations. I took her to Iowa for two years, and she loved the snow, loved the cold. Until… the temp got down to about 5 degrees (that seemed to be the threshhold), when she’d start getting ice built up between her toes. Once I had to carry her home (yeah, a little embarrassing, since she weighs about 70 lbs.). She never got frostbite, but she clearly had no idea what to do and no defenses for severe winters. I think I killed the first 20 or so threads I posted to. Oh, the thread is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87419). And I note that the OP apparently posted that one OP and then retired from the boards, as s/he still shows up as one post. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/67 "2002-12-06T11:03:17Z")
First post was my first thread. [Crabs with samuri on their backs?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14189&highlight=crabs) Username **yojimbo** and I type samuri not samurai :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/68 "2002-12-06T13:44:15Z")
My actual first post is gone. It was lost months ago when the server went down and the backup couldn’t bring it back. I had to make my name again and start from scratch. But I still don’t remember what I posted first. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/69 "2002-12-06T14:39:26Z")
[Here’s mine!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135861) I went through the rabbit hole a few weeks after I signed up, so this isn’t _actually_ my first post, but the rest are gone, gone, gone. So this will have to do. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/70 "2002-12-06T14:48:58Z")
Does anyone know what Cecil’s first post to the boards was? I noticed that the “perfect master” has posted a few times, so I was curious if anyone had a link to it. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/71 "2002-12-06T14:57:11Z")
My first post, on November 2, 2001 was also the first thread I started… [Naked Newbie Coming Out](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=96819). I received a warm welcome for which I am grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Chicklet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@Chicklet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicklet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/72 "2002-12-06T15:12:04Z")
This is my very first post!!! woohoo 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/73 "2002-12-06T22:12:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chicklet \* > \*\*This is my very first post!!! woohoo 😃 \*\* You know I actually was hoping someone would say that! Isn’t that a little…uh…uh…Okay, I don’t know the proper word for it…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/74 "2002-12-06T22:15:55Z")
**EmmieMoon** had her very first SDMB post in this thread too, on page 1. (Though she didn’t quite match **Chicklet** in excitement level. Woohoo!!) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/75 "2002-12-06T22:52:55Z")
I had the misfortune to register during The Winter of Our Missed Content ™ so my original posts AND user name (Frank the Lost Ramone) were wiped out. My first post under my new, edgier, x-treem user name was [about a song played in the theatre while waiting for the movie to start.](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105973) It got not ONE…STINKIN’…REPLY!!! It wasn’t until this past summer I heard the song playing in my local bowling alley and I called 877-ROCK-300 to find out it’s called “Why Oh Why” by ATC. No replies, yet here I am one year later going on 1000 posts! ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456/76 "2002-12-07T00:30:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EmmieMoon \* > \*\*This is my first post 🙂 > I’ve been lurking since the AOL days, and I’m pretty shy. I had wanted to post for awhile now, and this seemed like the perfect oppertunity. \*\* Hi **EmmieMoon**! Sorry that I missed your presence here on my first run through! Welcome to the boards! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post-on-the-sdmb/140456.md?page=3)