# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/21 "2012-12-06T05:37:02Z")
[Can camels swim?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=802857#post802857) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/22 "2012-12-06T06:05:41Z")
Apparently I lurked for six years before making a snide remark about basketball… ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/23 "2012-12-06T06:13:00Z")
It was a painfully stupid post and I note without comment that already by my fourth post I’d already tired of people not reading the damn thread before posting. That probably should have been a sign. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/24 "2012-12-06T07:32:39Z")
Mine was in General Questions in [Could we construct an anti-matter weapon today, if we could get the antimatter?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6498899&postcount=24): > [@Could we construct an anti-matter weapon today, if we could get the antimatter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-construct-an-anti-matter-weapon-today-if-we-could-get-the-antimatter/318025/24): > > I have a problem and a solution ( to a different problem ). > > Problem : To my knowledge, no one has yet created a perfect vacuum; I can’t provide a cite, but I heard it claimed years ago that a gram of antimatter in the best vacuum produceable would emit enough radiation to kill everyone within half a mile. There’s still to many particles in even the best modern vacuums, so researching improved versions would be a priority. > > [QUOTE=scr4] > Even if you solve the problem of containment, there’s the difficult problem of getting enough antimatter to react at once. If you just released antimatter into the air, or brought it to contact with a solid matter, the first milligram of antimatter to react would scatter the rest of it in every which direction. It probably won’t be a very effective explosion, just a lot of heat. Why not use the antimatter as a “booster stage” to a fission bomb, just like with thermonuclear weapons ? I can’t think of a practical faster way to mix matter and antimatter than that. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/25 "2012-12-06T07:49:52Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Do an advanced search on your username, results as posts, set it to 10 years or newer, in ascending order. It should work. Didn’t for me. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/26 "2012-12-06T07:51:46Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > 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. :golf clap: well played. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/27 "2012-12-06T08:41:52Z")
I [asked for a cookie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12587312&postcount=50) from **Skald**. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/28 "2012-12-06T08:55:24Z")
Some pish about alarm clocks. The quality has diminished slightly since then. 10-30-2010, 01:03 AM JessMagic Guest Join Date: Oct 2010 This is the kind of thread I want to be a part of. I occasionally use my mobile phone as an alarm clock, if I’m away from home, or whenever I want to wake at a time other than 6.30am - the time to which my digital clock radio is set. The phone never fails to wake me. However, I like to listen to the radio in the morning, and to be able to see the time if I wake during the night. Hence why I have a digital clock radio. [PS Hello everyone! First ever post - went quite smoothly, I thought.] ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/29 "2012-12-06T09:24:37Z")
My first post was about how _Matt Houston_ on DVD combined the titles and first act into one chapter, in response to someone else’s complaint about #1 of _Monk_ doing basically the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/30 "2012-12-06T09:30:59Z")
Putting English on a ball is similiar to eating an English muffin - neither term means anything here in England. We use the term “side” (not to hard to figure out the origin) for putting lateral spin on a pool (or snooker in our case). Otherwise it’s “top” for top spin and “screw” for back spin. 1999 was a long time ago! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/31 "2012-12-06T12:20:45Z")
It’s in [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=5721), on September 15th, 1999. Note how many members in that thread still post here. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/32 "2012-12-06T12:27:44Z")
I can’t seem to pull up anything older than August of 1999, so the first post I can recover is one where I made a very poor pun in a thread about trucks with the word “FISH” written on their backs. > [@](#): > > 08-05-1999, 09:38 PM > DrFidelius > Charter Member Join Date: Mar 1999 > Location: Miskatonic University > Posts: 7,655 > > The signs are there just for the halibut. (ETA: I am gladdened to see that my posting style has not changed much over the years.) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/33 "2012-12-06T13:19:14Z")
I’m glad mine was so cerebral. It was about one hit wonders. What about (and I don’t know the _artist_ Disco Duck Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/34 "2012-12-06T13:21:34Z")
I can’t go back that far in the search, but I’m fairly sure that it had to do with Ted’s Caving Page. I posted here and a week (+ or -) earlier on the Snopes message board about it. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/35 "2012-12-06T13:35:09Z")
[Something in Cafe Society about Madeline and Miss Clavell.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=628670&postcount=4) Even then I signed my posts. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/36 "2012-12-06T13:35:51Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > I can’t go back that far in the search, but I’m fairly sure that it had to do with Ted’s Caving Page. I posted here and a week (+ or -) earlier on the Snopes message board about it. Yes- I see you joined the same time as I did. I had to use google to find what I think is my first post. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/37 "2012-12-06T13:40:05Z")
A post about cartoon characters with kids. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-157195.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-157195.html) Sadly, I noticed that **WeirdDave** got banned at some point. What was up with that? Guy always hosted the SDMB Diplomacy games. ☹ ---
**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, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/38 "2012-12-06T15:12:04Z")
My first post was asking if it was safe to drink my own urine. Some friends had talked about getting a pool together to pitch in to intice me to do so. I was kinda that guy at the time… “What, zip tie my scrotum for a Sourdough Jack meal? Sure, why not.” Happily, I like myself a lot more now than I did then. And no, I didn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/39 "2012-12-06T15:28:38Z")
I can’t believe that so many people have been here so long and don’t know how to use the search function. You can set the search for either ascending or decending to get your last or first bunch of posts. You can also set the search to start a certain number of years back in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137/40 "2012-12-06T15:36:14Z")
How many people have the need to search for threads or posts over ten years old? To me, your reply is pretty condescending. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-sdmb-post/643137.md?page=3)