# Being the last poster of a thread and then it dies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751 "2018-07-11T21:02:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/261 "2018-08-29T00:55:47Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Next poster admits, by posting, that they are a necrocorprohemododecaphiliac.
> 
> With herpes. Though they won’t let that get them down.

I also like Pringles.

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**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/262 "2018-08-29T00:57:16Z")

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How is this thread still a thing

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/263 "2018-08-29T02:38:28Z")

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Have you ever pulled a thread and the whole sweater unravels? Same thing.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/264 "2018-08-29T02:38:47Z")

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I have feeling we are gonna get shut down. So…I decided to make…one…last…post.  
Goodbye, cruel world.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/265 "2018-08-29T02:40:11Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I have feeling we are gonna get shut down. So…I decided to make…one…last…post.  
> Goodbye, cruel world.

Goodbye.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/266 "2018-08-29T02:52:51Z")

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That was mean.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/267 "2018-08-29T03:15:06Z")

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And also wrong. The correct lines that follow are

_I’m leaving you today  
And nothing you can say  
Can make me  
change my mind_

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/268 "2018-08-29T04:23:09Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Have you ever pulled a thread and the whole sweater unravels? Same thing.

Now I got that Weezer song stuck in my head!

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/269 "2018-08-29T04:37:49Z")

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> [@eschereal](#):
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> And also wrong. The correct lines that follow are
> 
> _I’m leaving you today  
> And nothing you can say  
> Can make me  
> change my mind_

the next line could be:  
Yellowbrick road

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/270 "2018-08-29T04:40:15Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> the next line could be:  
> Yellowbrick road

Goodbye, cruel world  
Yellowbrick road

?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/271 "2018-08-29T04:45:39Z")

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No, I thought you meant after: Goodbye. That Running coach posted.  
Sorry.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/272 "2018-08-29T05:37:01Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Next poster admits, by posting, that they are a necrocorprohemododecaphiliac.

I just learned that necrobeastiality is a thing. Having sex with dead animals. Really!?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/273 "2018-08-29T05:48:12Z")

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> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> I just learned that necrobeastiality is a thing. Having sex with dead animals. Really!?

Ooh, gross! You googled that word didn’t you?

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/274 "2018-08-29T13:59:24Z")

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> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> I just learned that necrobeastiality is a thing. Having sex with dead animals. Really!?

I am not here to judge.

I am here to be the last post.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/275 "2018-08-29T15:34:26Z")

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Get in line!

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/276 "2018-08-29T15:36:22Z")

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_gets behind **burpo** _

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/277 "2018-08-29T15:37:10Z")

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Took you long enough. 😉

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/278 "2018-08-29T15:38:38Z")

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This is my last post to post #278

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**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/279 "2018-08-29T15:39:19Z")

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Hey, whatcha fellows doing? Playing poker?

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/280 "2018-08-29T15:40:33Z")

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They’re out of half and half for the coffee. Bummer.

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