# Are you a thread killer? I am, and here's proof **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304 "2004-07-28T18:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/41 "2004-08-01T22:23:50Z")
No one even replies to nearly 5% of the threads I start – 21 out of 448 threads since November of 2001 got no answers. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/42 "2004-08-01T22:26:34Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > No one even replies to nearly 5% of the threads I start – 21 out of 448 threads since November of 2001 got no answers. Did y’all hear something? Oh well, I guess it was nothing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/43 "2004-08-01T22:34:59Z")
10 of the last 75 threads that I’ve posted in (and 7 of the last 500) died the moment I’ve posted. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/44 "2004-08-01T22:43:25Z")
Oh yeah, and for a more general stat, I’ve been the last poster in 16 of the last 100 threads I’ve posted to – 16%, people. Personally, I believe it’s because I deliver the most authoritative answer. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/45 "2004-08-01T23:23:50Z")
I don’t know what my threadkilling stats are, but they’re about to go up… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/46 "2004-08-02T18:28:20Z")
I dunno if this will really last…“AYATK?IAAHP” just doesn’t have nearly the same ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/47 "2004-08-02T19:35:57Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I dunno if this will really last…“AYATK?IAAHP” just doesn’t have nearly the same ring to it. Sounds like something from Bill the Cat. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/48 "2004-08-06T21:06:33Z")
No sign of life for four days. Oh yeah…I’d have to say it’s dead now. \ Woah…[déjà vu](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4788272&postcount=76) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/49 "2004-08-06T21:20:14Z")
Just when I thought I was regaining my sanity… I’m stubborn, but Great Googly-Moogly I give up! 😃 you’re, right! It _is_ like déjà vu! ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/50 "2004-08-06T21:33:27Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Well, one could argue that your contribution to each thread is so definitive, so insightful, so complete that there is nothing left to be said on the topic. To follow such a masterful post would be to stare one’s own shortcomings in the eye. > > One could easily argue that. One would be wrong, of course. **The truth is that the members of this message board universally find you distasteful and droll, and avoid you wherever possible.** > > 😃 You forgot ugly, lazy and disrescptful! (off to make a turkey pot pie) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/51 "2004-08-06T21:34:49Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > You forgot ugly, lazy and disrescptful! > > (off to make a turkey pot pie) 😃 That’s “disrespectful”! :smack: squared. Goddamn I need to learn to preview. self - :wally ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/52 "2004-08-06T21:35:08Z")
Psssst! Hey **SiXSwordS**! It’s your line…c’mon! It starts with “This has worked in the past…” Oh well…a preview just showed me that _that_ joke is out the window. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/53 "2004-08-06T21:42:12Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Well, this thread is definitely doomed now that **Hal Briston** has posted to it. Doomed to go on and on and on that is … 😛 Did I call it, or did I call it? 🆒 Bad **Hal** , bad! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/54 "2004-08-06T21:59:25Z")
:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/55 "2004-08-06T23:45:38Z")
I pulled down the shades, put on some soft music and tried to think. The insurance money could be mine so easily, it seemed, but there was that one problem, always floating in front of me, taunting me relentlessly. _No money_, it said, _No money until I’m dead and buried_. I tried in vain to think of a solution - poison? A hired hitman? Strangulation by telephone cord? These had all failed me, and nothing was left. I will never collect my insurance money, because Thread will not die. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/56 "2004-08-06T23:55:47Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > You forgot ugly, lazy and disrescptful! > > (off to make a turkey pot pie) 😃 I wasn’t talking about _you_, I was talking about the OP. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/57 "2004-08-07T03:14:16Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > You forgot ugly, lazy and disrescptful! > > (off to make a turkey pot pie) 😃 Damnit…I was so caught up in making my earlier post, that I didn’t even really pay attention to the content of yours. So allow me to make the post that I most certainly should’ve before: _ **Shut up, bitch!** _ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/58 "2004-08-07T15:46:57Z")
: coughs all over thread in an attempt to give it bronchitis : That oughta do it. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/59 "2004-08-11T00:50:16Z")
Not **harmless** , anyone but **harmless** … BTW, hope you’re OK, **harmless**. The thread must have gotten anti-biotics. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-thread-killer-i-am-and-heres-proof/257304/60 "2004-08-11T02:24:58Z")
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