# A different sort of thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 5, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687 "2011-10-05T14:50:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/1 "2011-10-05T14:50:10Z")
How many times do you read a thread title and assume it means something you can relate to? So much so that you don’t waste your time reading the OP, especially if it’s over one sentence in length?
This one has already violated the basic premise by having a second paragraph.
That said, go ahead and post whatever you were thinking that the thread was supposed to be about. It’s okay if it has nothing at all to do with this OP.
See how little you can share that has anything to do with these comments.
Maybe just answer this question: do you find SDMB people to be attentive?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/2 "2011-10-05T15:15:56Z")
Fish
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/3 "2011-10-05T15:22:13Z")
Panic stricken
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### Author:  [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/4 "2011-10-05T16:08:45Z")
Milwaukee
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/5 "2011-10-05T18:57:58Z")
I’m sorry. I thought this was about something else. Please disregard this entire post.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/6 "2011-10-05T19:06:20Z")
I have disregarded your entire post, which reads “I’m sorry. I thought this was about something else. Please disregard this entire post.”
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/7 "2011-10-05T19:08:18Z")
Sewing.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/8 "2011-10-05T19:24:44Z")
> [@VunderBob](#):
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> Sewing.
So this is a needle-pulling thread?
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/9 "2011-10-05T19:30:49Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> So this is a needle-pulling thread?
It’s tea with jam and bread.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/10 "2011-10-05T19:33:01Z")
D’oh
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/11 "2011-10-05T19:40:03Z")
A deer?
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/12 "2011-10-05T19:49:07Z")
That scene in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ where Belloq is talking to Indy and a fly goes into his mouth.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/13 "2011-10-05T20:22:55Z")
The frontispiece is nothing like a codpiece but bears more of a resemblance to a mantelpiece.
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/14 "2011-10-05T20:30:26Z")
What, no kitty pictures?
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### Author:  [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/15 "2011-10-05T21:29:41Z")
Christmas is coming . . . . .
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/16 "2011-10-05T22:17:53Z")
I disagree
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### Author:  [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/17 "2011-10-06T14:20:21Z")
I just don’t think that shipping puppies is really an appropriate task for the USPS. There, I said it.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/18 "2011-10-06T14:40:14Z")
screw
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/19 "2011-10-06T14:44:00Z")
Ponsonby Britt
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-sort-of-thread/598687/20 "2011-10-06T14:45:32Z")
Frostbite Falls Foistboinder Company
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