# Count To A Million Thread!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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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:** [January 28, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2204 "2020-01-28T00:33:00Z")

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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:** [January 28, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2205 "2020-01-28T00:34:19Z")

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2282

Anywhere’s a better way to be…

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2206 "2020-01-28T00:41:14Z")

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2283

The morning came so swiftly as I held her in my arms,

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2207 "2020-01-28T05:45:06Z")

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2284

She slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2208 "2020-01-28T06:11:06Z")

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2285

I did not want to scare her or dare to break the mood,

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2209 "2020-01-28T06:27:54Z")

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2286

So before she woke I went out to buy us both some food.

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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:** [January 28, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2210 "2020-01-28T06:40:04Z")

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2287

I came back with my paper bag to find she had gone…

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2211 "2020-01-28T06:56:51Z")

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2288

She’d left a six word letter saying,

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2212 "2020-01-28T11:15:40Z")

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2289

“It’s time that I moved on.”

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2213 "2020-01-28T23:55:44Z")

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2290

The waitress took her bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes,

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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:** [January 29, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2214 "2020-01-29T01:21:00Z")

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2291

As she spoke he voice came out as something like a sigh…

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2215 "2020-01-29T01:33:00Z")

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2292

She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2216 "2020-01-29T02:30:43Z")

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2293

And I wish I weren’t so goddamned fat, I wish that you were mine,

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2217 "2020-01-29T02:58:08Z")

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2294

And I wish that you’d come with me, when I leave for home.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2218 "2020-01-29T10:55:13Z")

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2295

For we both know all about emptiness and livin’ all alone."

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2219 "2020-01-29T11:01:47Z")

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2296

And the little man,

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2220 "2020-01-29T11:32:13Z")

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2297

Looked at the empty glass in his hand,

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2221 "2020-01-29T12:13:09Z")

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2298

And he smiled a crooked grin,

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2222 "2020-01-29T13:01:16Z")

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2299

He said, "I guess I’m out of gin,

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/2223 "2020-01-29T21:36:02Z")

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2300

And know we both have been so lonely.

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