# 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:** 291
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5805 "2021-11-05T23:44:10Z")
5336 = 23 × 23 × 29 And the sun poured in like butterscotch ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5806 "2021-11-06T00:11:43Z")
5337 = 3^2 \times 593 And stuck to all my senses ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5807 "2021-11-06T00:27:57Z")
5338 = 2 × 17 × 157 Oh, won’t you stay ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5808 "2021-11-06T00:28:31Z")
5339 We’ll put on the day ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5809 "2021-11-06T12:39:35Z")
5340 = 22 × 3 × 5 × 89 And we’ll talk in present tenses ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5810 "2021-11-06T15:08:33Z")
5341 When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5811 "2021-11-06T18:47:58Z")
5342 = 2 x 2671 I will bring you incense owls by night ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5812 "2021-11-06T20:05:47Z")
5343 = 3 × 13 × 137 By candlelight ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5813 "2021-11-06T21:06:16Z")
5344 = 25 x 167 By jewel-light ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5814 "2021-11-06T22:11:39Z")
5345 = 5 × 1069 If only you will stay ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5815 "2021-11-07T12:30:55Z")
5346 = 2 x 35 x 11 Pretty baby, won’t 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:** [November 7, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5816 "2021-11-07T15:47:07Z")
5347 Wake up, it’s a Chelsea morning. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5817 "2021-11-07T16:27:14Z")
5348 = 22 × 7 × 191 Nobody can tell you ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5818 "2021-11-07T19:53:13Z")
5349 = 3 x 1783 Now I wonder if there is a minimum number of words necessary to identify a song without any doubt. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5819 "2021-11-07T20:23:22Z")
5350 = 2 x 52 x 107 There’s only one song worth singing (Maybe?) ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5820 "2021-11-07T21:48:19Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Now I wonder if there is a minimum number of words necessary to identify a song without any doubt. You mean like “Name That Tune”, except with lyrics? 5351, a prime, or 5.351 × 103 They may try and sell you ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5822 "2021-11-07T22:58:19Z")
5352 = 23 x 3 x 223 > [@Wheelz](#): > > There’s only one song worth singing There is [only one band that matters](https://observer.com/2017/04/the-clash-first-album-anniversary-review/). ETA: I spun on a mental tangent here, hope it’s OK with you. > [@panache45](#): > > You mean like “Name That Tune”, except with lyrics? Oh, you had that program too? Of course you had, Spain probably stole it from others (the USA, the BBC? Endemol cannot have existed back then, can they?). I meant to say that I thought there was more than one option when you wrote the first line, now there is enough information to continue without any doubt): Cause it hangs them up. But yes, if you state the question like that, it is a good question: “Name That Tune” with words as an absolute number: I wonder how many words two songs may have in common at the beginning. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5823 "2021-11-08T02:06:16Z")
5353 To see someone like you ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5824 "2021-11-08T07:28:18Z")
5354 = 2 × 2677 But you gotta make your own kind of music ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5825 "2021-11-08T09:32:26Z")
5355 = 32 x 5 x 7 x 17 Sing your own special song [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=292)