# 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:** 183
**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:** [October 12, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3645 "2020-10-12T05:20:26Z")
3195 I don’t think that I can really survive [Man! We seem to be online at the same time a lot today!] ---
**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:** [October 12, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3646 "2020-10-12T12:58:56Z")
3196 I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow [Yeah, I noticed that too!] ---
**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:** [October 12, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3647 "2020-10-12T17:40:59Z")
3197 But god only knows what I can do right now ---
**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:** [October 12, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3648 "2020-10-12T19:19:19Z")
3198 I’m praying for the end of time ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3649 "2020-10-13T01:54:37Z")
3199 It’s all that I can do (oh oh oh) ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3650 "2020-10-13T02:49:37Z")
3200 Praying for the end of time, so I can end my life with you. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3651 "2020-10-13T03:10:22Z")
3201 It was long ago and it was far away ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3652 "2020-10-13T11:15:18Z")
3202 And it was so much better that it is today ---
**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:** [October 13, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3653 "2020-10-13T21:13:20Z")
3203 It was long ago and it was far away (it never felt so good, it never felt so right) ---
**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:** [October 14, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3654 "2020-10-14T03:37:11Z")
3204 And it was so much better that it is today (and we were glowing like, a metal on the edge of a knife) ---
**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:** [October 14, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3655 "2020-10-14T04:12:33Z")
3205 Repeat until fade-out. Okay, where do we go from here? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3656 "2020-10-14T10:06:13Z")
3206 [Glad that’s over!] ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3657 "2020-10-15T01:11:52Z")
3207 [Never realized how many of those lines repeat.] ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3658 "2020-10-15T03:28:20Z")
1. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3659 "2020-10-15T03:48:24Z")
3209 It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3660 "2020-10-15T05:53:21Z")
3210 The regular crowd shuffles in, and spoons, with regard to the repetitious lyrics from the previous count-down, watch the performance video here: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kd-wnmKMumo/hqdefault.jpg "Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Live In Orlando 1993)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-wnmKMumo) When you’ve got that sort of action going on on-stage, you don’t need to clutter up your mind with all sorts of complicated lyrics! _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3661 "2020-10-15T06:28:37Z")
3211 There’s an old man sittin’ next to me [Actually, I know the song quite well, having done it at karaoke, many times, with at least one girl I was dating in real life. But of course, we were acting, like Meat Loaf does with Karla De Vito in the video. But I never read the lyrics like we had to do for this. The Phil Rizzuto commentary continues to be priceless though, and my girlfriend and I had a lot of fun with that.] ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3662 "2020-10-15T15:16:15Z")
3212 Makin’ love to his tonic and gin. [Finally, a song that I actually like, with lyrics that make sense on their own.] ---
**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:** [October 15, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3663 "2020-10-15T21:22:45Z")
3213 He says, "Son, can you play me a memory? [It came on my car radio yesterday, and I remember thinking, “That would be a good one for Count to a Million.”] ---
**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:** [October 16, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3664 "2020-10-16T10:03:00Z")
3214 I’m not really sure how it goes [We can’t do the stuff I hear on my car radio.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=184)