# Count To A Million Thread! **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 156
**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:** [May 31, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3105 "2020-05-31T01:14:48Z")
3235 And I know I wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t tagged along ---
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I started it, so I guess I’ll finish it… 3236 Oh, thank God I was riding with Private Malone. Question … do we have to do songs, or could we post poetry (like “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes or Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha”, for example) line-by-line as well? _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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3237 (We can do whatever we want. The only important thing is the number. So let’s do “The Highwayman”.) The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. ---
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3238 The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. ---
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3239 The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, ---
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3240 And the highwayman came riding— ---
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3241 Riding, riding The Highwayman came riding up to the old Inn door. ---
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3242 He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin, ---
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3243 A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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3244 They fitted with never a wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh. ---
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3245 And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, ---
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3246 His pistol butts a-twinkle, ---
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3247 His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under a jewelled sky… ---
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3248 Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard. ---
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3249 He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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3250 He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there, ---
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3251 But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter, ---
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3252 Bess, the landlord’s daughter ---
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3253 Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. ---
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