so out of curiosity and nothing better to do, i created a poll to see what you think is the most referred to thing on TB. there's a lot more, but these are ones that really get to me.

1. dream theater (good band, but why so talked about)
2. carrots (i dnno either)
3. fender P being the one and only bass (...great)
4. dyslexics (cruel jokes)

Carrots. Every poll has them and almost all threads mention them. :)

Ah, and it's great that all the new guys always ask about carrots, but don't understand them. It's a funny story really, but I won't tell. :p :D

Carrots is #1. :cool:

Second place would go to Fender, and the third place would be shared between the bassists Wooten, Jaco and Jamerson.

The carrots thing started waaayyyy back in the day. Probably in around 01 or 02.

I voted Lesdyxic.






Umm... actually I meant to say dyslexic...;)

Well I just did a search on carrots and it maxes out the search (400 is max)

but I did this search for first mentions of carrots... I am sure it's somewhere in one of these first few threads...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/search.php?searchid=4751594

This is the first mention of carrots ever on TB

Edit: looking for new link

first ever but not related:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=53549&highlight=carrots#post53549

First kinda funny one:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=65294&highlight=carrots#post65294

First thread with multiple mentions of carrots:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8681&highlight=carrots

Maybe this is it:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=239578&highlight=carrots#post239578

still looking for one that fits

Nope this has to be it:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24038&highlight=carrots

1. dream theater (good band, but why so talked about)

Maybe I haven't read enough threads, but I think that Rush is even more popular.

Don't forget the all-so-important guitarist-bashing. This is surely the most discussed thing on Talkbass