# 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:** ![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 25, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5645 "2021-10-25T21:55:20Z")

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5178

“It’s better sometimes  
When we don’t get to touch our dreams”

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5646 "2021-10-26T00:54:57Z")

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5179, a prime, or 5.179 × 103

That’s when I asked her where was that actress

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5647 "2021-10-26T03:45:59Z")

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5180

She said, “That was somebody else”

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5648 "2021-10-26T07:58:49Z")

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5181 = 3 × 11 × 157

When I asked her why she looked so happy now

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5649 "2021-10-26T08:35:18Z")

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5182 = 2 x 2591

She said, “I finally like myself, at last I like myself”

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5650 "2021-10-26T08:39:52Z")

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5182

She said, “I finally like myself. At last I like myself.”

[Note to @Pardel-Lux : this one line is the key to the whole song.]

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5651 "2021-10-26T08:40:32Z")

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Whoops! Ninja’d! Well done, @Pardel-Lux !

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5652 "2021-10-26T09:18:27Z")

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5183 = 71 × 73

So we talked all through that afternoon

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5653 "2021-10-26T10:01:37Z")

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5184 = 26 x 34

Talking about, where we’d been

@Spoons taken note! Step one: know thyself. Step two: Like it. Sounds right to me.

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5654 "2021-10-26T10:08:06Z")

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5185

We talked of the tiny difference

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5655 "2021-10-26T10:29:36Z")

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5186 = 2 x 2593

Between ending and starting to begin

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5656 "2021-10-26T14:00:19Z")

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5187 = 3 × 7 × 13 × 19

We talked because talking tells you things

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5657 "2021-10-26T15:27:23Z")

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5188

Like what you really are thinking about

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5658 "2021-10-26T15:37:01Z")

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5189 - the 691st prime

But sometimes you can’t find what you’re feeling

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5659 "2021-10-26T15:58:21Z")

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5190, no prime, because there can not be two in a row, so… counting with my fingers, sticking the tongue out… = 2 x 3 x 5 x 173

Till all the words run out

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5660 "2021-10-26T15:59:06Z")

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5191

So I asked her to come to the concert

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5661 "2021-10-26T20:31:00Z")

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5192 = 23 x 11 x 59

She said, “No, I, I work at night”

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5662 "2021-10-26T20:46:44Z")

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5193

I said, “We’ve gotten too damn good at leaving, Sue”

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5663 "2021-10-26T20:56:05Z")

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5194 = 2 x 72 x 53

She said, “Harry, you’re right”

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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:** [October 26, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5664 "2021-10-26T23:35:13Z")

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5195

Don’t ask me if I made love to her

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