# Call me ThreadKiller(TM)!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 31, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800 "2007-07-31T10:16:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 9

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/161 "2007-08-07T21:26:04Z")

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Is this thing still alive???

:: squishes it into the ground with her heel ::

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/162 "2007-08-07T21:38:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
Is this thing still alive???

:: squishes it into the ground with her heel ::  
[/QUOTE]  
Ouch! Those are my fingers you’re grinding into the keyboard!

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**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/163 "2007-08-07T22:43:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
Is this thing still alive???

:: squishes it into the ground with her heel ::  
[/QUOTE]

Squee!

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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/164 "2007-08-07T22:56:45Z")

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It is official. The thread is dead. Long live the thread.

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**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/165 "2007-08-08T00:59:26Z")

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This thread will not die until we administer last rites. Can we get a priest in here?

SSG Schwartz

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/166 "2007-08-08T02:57:05Z")

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Do you want a young one or an old one?

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**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/167 "2007-08-08T03:13:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]  
Do you want a young one or an old one?  
[/QUOTE]

Doesn’t matter, both die. This thread is possessed.

SSG Schwartz

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/168 "2007-08-08T03:17:38Z")

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Well, then get me Leslie Nielsen. He’ll be able to fix it.

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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/169 "2007-08-08T03:37:37Z")

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14 kinds of gumption in fucking thread THAT WILL NOT DIE!

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/170 "2007-08-08T03:39:07Z")

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I think the mods are trying to teach us a lesson. What was the lesson again?

I’m in ur forumz, killin’ yer threadz.

Oh yeah…got it now.

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**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/171 "2007-08-08T04:07:22Z")

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I’m only warming up, over here.

I eat threads for breakfast. I just killed the makeover thread in IMHO. Any of you kill a thread _in the last two days?_ Yeah, I didn’t think so. Time for me to deliver the coup de gras.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/172 "2007-08-08T08:58:30Z")

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Congratulations! I was wondering who was going to kill this damn thing!

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/173 "2007-08-08T11:16:04Z")

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Oh, well, don’t wonder any more. It’s me.

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**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/174 "2007-08-08T14:19:23Z")

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Last one was the 5th, I think. Time for a new one. This one shall be it.

NOW!

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**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/175 "2007-08-08T14:25:43Z")

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If this thread does not die soon it will breed a thousand other pointless long living threads that will not die. And then where will this board be, I ask you, huh, where will it be? Kill it now, dammit!

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**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/176 "2007-08-08T15:11:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Trollhaugen]  
If this thread does not die soon it will breed a thousand other pointless long living threads that will not die. And then where will this board be, I ask you, huh, where will it be? Kill it now, dammit!  
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Ah, the appeal to the beneficence of the mod ploy. Nice try.

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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/177 "2007-08-08T16:10:49Z")

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I found a dead thread from the 60’s

(is this now a battle of wills with the mods?)

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**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/178 "2007-08-08T16:19:52Z")

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I’m nothing if not stubborn.

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/179 "2007-08-08T16:24:07Z")

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I let this thread live. I like tormenting you guys.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-threadkiller-tm/413800/180 "2007-08-08T16:24:52Z")

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OK, let’s see about that.

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