# Your First post...?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741 "2006-01-19T23:43:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spidey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Spidey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spidey)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/1 "2006-01-19T23:43:59Z")

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So this would be my first post (and naturally, the first thread i’ve started). I was wondering just what to do for my first post. i’ve been a lurker for a few years, and i’ve always had a few questions in mind, or a few comments i might leave, but ive never had the chance to do so without a membership.

And now ive subscribed. Where do i go first? take it easy in mpsims, or get serious right away in great debates? this is a pivitol decision which may define me for the rest of my life as a SDMB poster!

So my poll question is… if you could do it over, what would YOU do with your first post?

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/2 "2006-01-20T00:11:53Z")

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Generally speaking, I would be nicer. Try to fit in more. My first post, as best I can recall, was pretty much a gauntlet toss. My acidity level, these days, is greatly diminished — even from just a few months ago.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/3 "2006-01-20T00:21:42Z")

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My first post nearly 5 years ago was over how stupid the movie _Dante’s Peak_ was. If I posted today, it’d probably be just a quick sentence about something I agreed with, say in MPSIMS, then I’d run away to hide somewhere, trembling. 🙂

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/4 "2006-01-20T00:27:20Z")

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I’d pick up Liberal’s (Libertarian’s?) gauntlet and smack him so hard it’d metaframe his epistemology.

😃 (I kid!..)

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**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/5 "2006-01-20T02:09:46Z")

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I don’t even remember what my first post was.

Probably some pompous rant.

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**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/6 "2006-01-20T02:12:34Z")

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Oh, and welcome to the board. 😃

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/7 "2006-01-20T02:18:59Z")

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Welcome, **Spidey**!

First post, eh? Hmm… I can’t remember what my first post here was. Maybe I can find it.  
:: fires up search thingy ::

The earlist post I can find from me seems to be [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=163949&postcount=19), in which I ask whether the Oz books are in the public domain. But it’s from December 1999, and I joined in June 1999.

Incidentally, have you ever followed the ‘archive’ link at the bottom of the page?

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**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:** [January 20, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/8 "2006-01-20T02:35:29Z")

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My first post: [Time is of the essence! What essence?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=15481)

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**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/9 "2006-01-20T02:36:43Z")

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Me found my first post

> [@](#):
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> I am a white-chocolate-whore. Hell, I’d have a mass orgy with a herd of diseased yaks if there was white chocolate involved.

Nice way to introduce self.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/10 "2006-01-20T02:53:04Z")

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Welcome to the Board, very nice first post.

My first post was thankfully rational at least, but unfortunately repetitive.

> **[What caused the massive 1908 explosion in Tunguska, Siberia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321303)**
>
> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030228.html Another theory advanced that is only slightly less silly than UFO theories: It was a mistake of Tesla’s High Energy experiments at Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island. I’ve seen this way to many...

It had been done at least 10 times before and died very fast. Dex & Telemark were very nice about it at least.

Jim

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**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/11 "2006-01-20T02:59:57Z")

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Here’s mine, I still don’t know the title of that damn song!

> **[Song lyric in my head](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=338782)**
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> For a couple of decades I have occasionally had this song lyric pop into my mind and stay there for several days. I’ve repeated it to scores, if not hundreds of people, but no one has been able to identify the title. I thought I’d take a shot here....

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/12 "2006-01-20T03:01:44Z")

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My first post was in response to Cecil’s column on same-sex marriage, pretty much doing my best to smack him down. My post garnered a response from Cecil himself, which lent me a certain mystique which lasted all of about 3 days. I still think I got the best of the exchange.

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/13 "2006-01-20T03:03:39Z")

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Mine was in [this thread,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245319&highlight=actuaries+australia) in which someone was seeking advice about becoming an actuary.

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**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/14 "2006-01-20T03:04:45Z")

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If I could do it over, I would search the archives to see if Cecil had already addressed my question before making my first post in GQ. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/15 "2006-01-20T03:07:35Z")

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I posted a Lord of the Rings parody in that gargantuan thread several years ago. I have no regrets.

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/16 "2006-01-20T03:11:09Z")

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Mine was a typically wise-assed observation. I’m happy with it.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/17 "2006-01-20T03:28:22Z")

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It was in a baseball thread about the debacle of the All-Star Game in 2002. Oddly enough, the post date is one day before my join date. (?)

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/18 "2006-01-20T03:50:21Z")

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I believe I waded in and posted to a thread about statutory rape. It would have been in Great Debates if there had been a Great Debates back then. (All we had was General Questions and Comments on Cecil’s Column)

> [@](#):
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> \>If a minor has sex with an adult, is that rape? What if the minor agrees to it? What if the minor is 17? What if the minor does not saying anything, not agreeing to it, but not saying no either?\<

## Anyone in a structured position of power over another has no business having sex with them because sex is for between equals. Minors are legally disempowered in relation to adults. Some of those laws are damn stupid but the rape law is not the one to fix first. When they can vote, drink beer, sign contracts, and legally stop their parents from incarcerating them in a juvenile psych ward or a detention center for having consensual sex, then you, the adult, have a better case for why you should not be charged with statutory rape. But if you aren’t serious about children’s lib in general, _don’t start here_!

Sunday, August 31, 1997 (AOL Board)

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**Author:** ![Spidey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Spidey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spidey)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/19 "2006-01-20T06:16:12Z")

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Weeee look at all the replies, how exciting! Now that I see my own post I realize I could have at least done some spell checking and capitalization. I think I’ll get over the shame though.

Now I’m off to reply to every possible topic, test out all the features and get yelled at for making all the rookie mistakes!

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/20 "2006-01-20T18:02:49Z")

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I read some of my first posts and was horrified to see that I signed some of them…

::Cringe::  
“Tastes like Honey”

:o

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