Thanks, hajairo! It’s nice to know that my first post here wasn’t as mundane and pointless as I thought it would be.
Ten years and four days ago, which was the same day I joined:
I think the last post I made before this one was also about Deep Space Nine. At least I’m consistent.
Mine was:
From August 15, 2002. (I had to search 10 years and older.)
I’ve probably posted the same damn thing 50 times since.
I came thanks to a link someone posted in talk.origins about a good evolution discussion here.
Hmm. Remind me to send you a perfect brownie from the next batch.
No, there’s no weed in the perfect brownie. The perfect brownie is fudge and nutless and moist and iced and gives you heat vision for twenty-six minutes.
I think I made a post about whether a snake’s severed head can retain its venom. Then shortly after that I joined a gun control debate
I think you should remind people that they should take their contacts out before eating one.
I needed cornea transplants.
I do remember my first post. However, the entire thread that it was in was disappeared, as were a number of threads started by the same person under mysterious circumstances that none of the mods would ever fess up to.
Mine was about how big a cheapskate I am.
My very first post from the cmyk thread “What Awes you?”
Wow look how fucking pedantic I was on point number 5? No wonder I’ve stuck around here and fit in so well!!!
My first post was a thread about whether or not Highway Patrol and police had a secret pact not to cite each other for bad driving. I was 18 and hated the man. I am mostly over it now.
My first post was to ask, “if turkey is full of tryptophan, how do turkeys stay awake?”
My first thread was to ask, “Why are dinosaurs so popular?”
Untrue! That was 12/21/2000:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=990375&postcount=2
But on 11/30 you made a joke:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=928451&postcount=10
Apparently my searching skills have not improved much in 12 years.
Mine was on March 16, 1999. It was thread number 8 on the whole board. And it was answered by Cecil.
As you can see, the names have been stripped out, but at least I had the presence of mind to sign my posts - unlike Cecil, who didn’t.
It was about rechargeable batteries.
Against all expectations, I managed to find my first post with my very first search. I went with my handle in GD, no keyword, Any Date, and Earlier, Ascending order: here.
Had I not noticed where I called it out as my maiden post, I would have repeated the exercise in other forums and compared timestamps.
It was a rather uninteresting post about my French-speaking friend not having a French accent when speaking English in a thread about American accents. My first thread was a more interesting one asking about the legality of flipping off cops in public.