# 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:** 306
**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:** [December 26, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6106 "2021-12-26T17:17:18Z")
5663 Penny a point, ain’t no one keepin’ score ---
**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:** [December 26, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6107 "2021-12-26T18:07:48Z")
5664 = 25 x 3 x 59 Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle ---
**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:** [December 26, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6108 "2021-12-26T22:27:34Z")
5665 Feel the wheels rumblin’ 'neath the floor ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6109 "2021-12-27T00:21:39Z")
5666 = 2 x 2833 And the sons of pullman porters ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6110 "2021-12-27T00:31:16Z")
5667 = 3 × 1889 And the sons of engineers ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6111 "2021-12-27T01:21:43Z")
5668 Ride their fathers’ magic carpets made of steel ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6112 "2021-12-27T07:37:39Z")
5669, a prime, or 5.669 × 103 And mothers with their babes asleep ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6113 "2021-12-27T08:04:19Z")
5570 Are rockin’ to the gentle beat [@Pardel-Lux , a happy occurrence. I was watching a travel documentary on YouTube, by a guy travelling from Chicago to Emeryville, California, aboard the _California Zephyr_ train. He showed an arrivals board in Chicago’s Union Station: [https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51778672289\_80ab76c72e\_o.jpg](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51778672289_80ab76c72e_o.jpg) I captured it off YouTube, so never mind the stuff at the bottom. What matters is, as you’ll note, each passenger train has both a number and a name. We do the same in Canada. And people use the route names: “How are you getting to Halifax?” “By train. The _Lakeshore_ from Toronto to Montreal, then the _Ocean_ to Halifax.” Anyway, thought you might be interested in how seriously train names are taken in North America, and just what “passing trains that have no name” means in the context of the song.] ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6114 "2021-12-27T09:07:11Z")
5571 = 32 x 619 And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [Thanks for the information, @Spoons , the more I read in here the more I am convincing myself that the difference between America and Europe is enormous, but we are blinded by the similarities. Lufthansa names their passanger planes after German cities, names the “planes carry all over the world” (how I hate this hollow pseudo-poetic talk!). In 2013 Lufthansa decided to name the [cargo planes too](https://www.pressebox.de/inaktiv/lufthansa-cargo-ag/Kreative-Flugzeugnamen-gesucht/boxid/599453) and opened a public bidding process to select the names. No idea how that ended, the only thing I know is that Lufthansa is not going to name a plane _[Landshut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_181)_ again any time soon] ETA: Iberia also has a [naming policy](https://www.abc.es/economia/20131025/abci-nombres-aviones-iberia-201310241413.html) for its planes. The iberian lynx (Pardelluchs in German) was given to an Airbus A-320, A-319 or A-321. Aha. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6115 "2021-12-27T18:52:37Z")
5572 = 22 × 7 × 199 Good morning America, how are 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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6116 "2021-12-27T19:18:07Z")
5573, prime. Said don’t you know me, I’m your native son ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6117 "2021-12-27T19:24:08Z")
5574 I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6118 "2021-12-27T19:26:45Z")
5575 = 52 × 223 I’ll be gone 500 miles when the day is done ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6119 "2021-12-27T19:32:31Z")
5576 = 23 x 17 x 41 Nighttime on the City of New Orleans ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6120 "2021-12-27T19:50:52Z")
5577 = 3 × 11 × 132 Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6121 "2021-12-27T19:54:43Z")
Wait a minute, we got off track here. (No pun intended.) We’re at 5 **6** 78, right? ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6122 "2021-12-27T20:05:13Z")
Whoops, you’re correct. So, since you gave us 5678, I’ll go with … 5679 Half way home, we’ll be there by morning ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6123 "2021-12-27T21:54:57Z")
5 **6** 80 = 24 x 5 x 71 (Ooops! Eight posts wrong, that way we will not make the Universe fade away! 😉) Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6124 "2021-12-28T03:31:40Z")
5681 = 13 × 19 × 23 But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6125 "2021-12-28T08:49:08Z")
5682 = 2 x 3 x 947 And the steel rail still ain’t heard the news [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=305) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=307)