# 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:** 168
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3345 "2020-08-13T11:57:40Z")
3473 Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3346 "2020-08-13T20:09:34Z")
3474 Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3347 "2020-08-14T07:03:04Z")
3475 Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3348 "2020-08-15T00:20:25Z")
3476 He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; ---
**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:** [August 15, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3349 "2020-08-15T06:12:45Z")
3477 Though he’d often say in his homely way that he’d sooner live in Hell. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3350 "2020-08-15T06:47:48Z")
3478 On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. ---
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3479 Talk of your cold! Through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a driven nail. ---
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3480 If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn’t see; ---
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3481 It wasn’t much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3354 "2020-08-16T02:04:17Z")
3482 And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, ---
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3483 And the dogs were fed, and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel and toe, ---
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3484 He turned to me, and “Cap,” says he, "I’ll cash in this trip, I guess; ---
**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:** [August 17, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3357 "2020-08-17T16:48:21Z")
3485 And if I do, I’m asking that you won’t refuse my last request." ---
**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:** [August 17, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3358 "2020-08-17T20:51:52Z")
3486 Well, he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no; then he says with a sort of moan: ---
**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:** [August 17, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3359 "2020-08-17T22:54:10Z")
3487 "It’s the cursed cold, and it’s got right hold till I’m chilled clean through to the bone, ---
**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:** [August 17, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3360 "2020-08-17T23:07:16Z")
3488 Yet 'tain’t being dead—it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; ---
**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:** [August 18, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3361 "2020-08-18T07:21:19Z")
3489 So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3362 "2020-08-18T17:18:32Z")
3490 A pal’s last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3363 "2020-08-18T17:28:21Z")
1. I don’t know what is going on, but I’ve decided to lend you a hand. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 18, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3364 "2020-08-18T18:37:59Z")
3492 We’re doing _The Cremation of Sam McGee_ by Robert W. Service. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=167) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=169)