# Your first SDMB post **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137 "2012-12-06T00:10:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/1 "2012-12-06T00:10:26Z")
Apparently I lurked almost half a year before asking the magical [question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=530115): > [@](#): > > Suppose my girlfriend performs fellatio on me, and then we make out for a while, and then I go down on her. Can those feisty little sperm survive all that transportation and still find their way to an egg? How I missed the “need answer fast!” aspect I’ll never know. What was yours? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/2 "2012-12-06T00:19:26Z")
> [@My husband fell through the ceiling on Sunday.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-fell-through-the-ceiling-on-sunday/327707/34): > > OK- This is the post that made me finally register after lurking for weeks. What was the original title??? Can we know or is that against the rules? I actually still remembered what it was! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/3 "2012-12-06T00:22:10Z")
I have no idea. The software won’t give me posts that far back. The last 500 of mine only gets me back to the middle of the year. I really need to get a life. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/4 "2012-12-06T00:34:48Z")
I can’t go back that far either. I think it was a question about why some gas stations take those little latches off of their gas pump handles so that you have to hold the handle the entire time. It turns out they are called latch open devices they are against the law in some states like mine but not others and is considered to be a safety feature in case the pump does not shut off automatically. I still have never heard of a problem with one. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/5 "2012-12-06T00:38:16Z")
I think my first post was in a Jean Auel book discussion thread, about how I was glad that someone else found her extreme overuse of comma splices annoying. And that, after\* six\* or more _years_ of lurking on this board and not registering. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/6 "2012-12-06T00:43:32Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I can’t go back that far either. I think it was a question about why some gas stations take those little latches off of their gas pump handles so that you have to hold the handle the entire time. It turns out they are called latch open devices they are against the law in some states like mine but not others and is considered to be a safety feature in case the pump does not shut off automatically. I still have never heard of a problem with one. > **[Gasoline Pump Mystery](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24356)** > > Why do so many gas stations remove those little latches that allow you to pump gas without squeezing the handle the whole time? Some gas stations in rural areas still have them in place but you hardly ever see them on city gas pumps. I have asked... SDMB search is useless for this kind of thing, but you can search via Google using a date range. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/7 "2012-12-06T00:49:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I have no idea. The software won’t give me posts that far back. The last 500 of mine only gets me back to the middle of the year. > I really need to get a life. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3516811&postcount=52](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3516811&postcount=52) Earliest I could find for you, but I quite like it! (Can you tell I’m bored and sick in a hotel room? Well I am.) ---
**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:** [December 6, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/8 "2012-12-06T01:00:06Z")
April 18th, 2000. [Time is of the essence! What essence?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=15481) I think that’s my first post. I’d lurked for about half a year before registering (and hence missed out on being a 99er), but once registered I think I posted pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/9 "2012-12-06T01:13:44Z")
Pretty sure mine was in The Pit, which is weird since I rarely even go there. A guy with chronic pain was posting and I posted some suggestions about coping with pain. I didn’t plan to ever post again, so I didn’t bother to come up with a cool name. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/10 "2012-12-06T01:14:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I have no idea. The software won’t give me posts that far back. The last 500 of mine only gets me back to the middle of the year. > I really need to get a life. Do an advanced search on your username, results as posts, set it to 10 years or newer, in ascending order. It should work. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/11 "2012-12-06T01:19:27Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Pretty sure mine was in The Pit, which is weird since I rarely even go there. A guy with chronic pain was posting and I posted some suggestions about coping with pain. I didn’t plan to ever post again, so I didn’t bother to come up with a cool name. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=634107&postcount=20](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=634107&postcount=20) ---
**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:** [December 6, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/12 "2012-12-06T01:24:28Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > I didn’t plan to ever post again, so I didn’t bother to come up with a cool name. Yeah, I never would have used my real name as my username if I 'd known I’d be posting here so much and so long. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/13 "2012-12-06T01:49:14Z")
Looks like this is my first post. I had lurked for sometime, but I guess I finally decided to sign in and post this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4842744&postcount=27](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4842744&postcount=27) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/14 "2012-12-06T02:21:15Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2369107#post2369107](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2369107#post2369107) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/15 "2012-12-06T02:23:36Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > [Gasoline Pump Mystery - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24356) > > SDMB search is useless for this kind of thing, but you can search via Google using a date range. Thanks! I guess that was it. It is like a time-capsule and basically the way I remembered it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/16 "2012-12-06T02:29:58Z")
I was always a smartass, but in my [first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=31806), I was apparently a funny smartass. Then I lurked for another couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/17 "2012-12-06T02:49:21Z")
Mine was 11/25/2001: > [@](#): > > ## \*\*yikes \*\* > > This is almost enough to make a newby fear posting. It was a thread speculating about what had happened to posters who hadn’t posted in quite a while. Some of the events speculated to be delaying or preventing them were convoluted and painful sounding. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/18 "2012-12-06T03:28:40Z")
Mine is here… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8233762#post8233762](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8233762#post8233762) Wow, I’ve been here almost 6 years now. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/19 "2012-12-06T03:30:51Z")
Don’t know for sure. I know I started a stupid thread that was actually a joke and got a caution from a mod for it. I responded with something inadvisable like “oohh, I’m really scared.” In my defense, I was totally unfamiliar with message boards and the rules thereon back then. Hard to believe, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/20 "2012-12-06T04:28:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Don’t know for sure. I know I started a stupid thread that was actually a joke and got a caution from a mod for it. I responded with something inadvisable like “oohh, I’m really scared.” In my defense, I was totally unfamiliar with message boards and the rules thereon back then. Hard to believe, I know. Alternately, I find this thread in which you mock Brits but are not warned (or should I say cautioned)? > **[Why dont Americans get irony?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192789)** > > I know its a gross genralisation but it seems to me that a lot of Americans dont get irony. Bill Bryson mentions in his book ‘letters from a big continent’ (I think thats the title) that on returning home he found that the residents of New England... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137.md?page=2)