# 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:** 339
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6766 "2022-03-23T16:11:07Z")
6322 = 2 x 29 x 109 (Tell me why) I don’t like, I don’t like ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6767 "2022-03-23T21:38:20Z")
6323 (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6768 "2022-03-23T22:08:24Z")
6324 = 22 x 3 x 17 x 31 Tell me why I don’t like, I don’t like ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6769 "2022-03-23T22:23:31Z")
6325 (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6770 "2022-03-24T07:47:34Z")
6326 = 2 × 3163 Tell me why I don’t like Mondays ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6771 "2022-03-24T07:56:50Z")
6327 I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo-t the whole day dow-ow-ow-own. [Final piano solo, and that ends it. What’s next? That last one was mine, so it’s somebody else’s turn.] ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6772 "2022-03-24T11:00:49Z")
6328 = 23 x 7 x 113 What was this allusion to Mary Ellen Carter about? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6773 "2022-03-25T06:58:15Z")
6329 [@Pardel-Lux , it’s a Canadian song by folksinger Stan Rogers, who is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. Thing is, that it’s about a Nova Scotia fishing vessel, the _Mary Ellen Carter_, that sinks in a storm. The owners don’t care; they got the insurance money. But the guys who worked on her loved her, and are trying to salvage the ship. It’s a story song. Lyrics are easy to find online ([azlyrics.com](http://azlyrics.com) has the correct ones), and if you’d like to hear the song as performed by Stan Rogers himself, here’s a YouTube: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Fhop5VuLDIQ/hqdefault.jpg "Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ) And if you want to know how I got my username, you can imagine how much fun I’ve had playing spoons to this. Rise again; let’s do the _Mary Ellen Carter_ once more:] She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain ---
**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:** [March 25, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6774 "2022-03-25T11:09:34Z")
6330 = 2 × 3 × 5 × 211 The skipper, he’d been drinking, and the Mate, he felt no pain ---
**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:** [March 25, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6775 "2022-03-25T20:18:29Z")
6331 = 13 x 487 Too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow [Yes, that rings a bell. Now I must better my googling of “playing spoons to X” to make sense of your username. The Urban Dictionary sure is weird, that can’t be what you mean!] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6776 "2022-03-27T05:25:07Z")
6332 And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low [@Pardel-Lux , yes, I know that there are a few meanings, not all of them family-friendly. But unexcitedly, all I do is hold a pair of spoons back-to-back, and hit them in rhythm with the music. In various ways, of course, as a number of YouTube videos of spoon players will attest, but to me, spoons are simply percussion instruments. Well, I guess I can use them to eat with too. Fun Fact: my friends will absolutely not let me get anywhere near their kitchen’s everyday utensil drawers. Why? Because I’ll start rooting around for spoons that I can play.] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6777 "2022-03-27T08:43:44Z")
6333 = 3 x 2111 There were just us four aboard her when she finally was awash [OK, now I got it. Makes more sense than some of the pictures Google planted in my mind 🎵🥄 🎵 🥄 🎵] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6778 "2022-03-27T08:55:51Z")
6334 We’d worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost [@Pardel-Lux , you come to Canada, and I’ll be happy to demonstrate how to play musical spoons.] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6779 "2022-03-27T08:59:40Z")
6335 = 5 x 7 x 181 But the groan she made as she went down, it caused us to proclaim [Thanks! May take a while, but I would not exclude the possibility.] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6780 "2022-03-27T09:14:24Z")
6336 [@Pardel-Lux . these are my go-tos for a normal night at the pub: > **[Wooden Spoons](https://larkinthemorning.com/products/spo011?_pos=1&_sid=9253256c9&_ss=r&variant=52877806483)** > > An excellent all purpose set, these hardwood spoons are cleanly designed and well balanced - a snap to play! Perfect for all level of player, but well suited for the beginner with an elongated spoon playing area. Lightweight and easy to handle, with... I have, of course other sets (spoon players do not call them “pairs”; they are “sets”) in sterling silver, and as dessert spoons, soup spoons, and other materials. Oneida silver plate is great! But those illustrated are my go-tos for a night out. Teakwood from Pakistan, and they play so well. Forget the “suitable for a beginner” stuff; these things are serious in the hands of a skilled player; someone who knows what he’s doing. And I know what I’m doing.] ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6781 "2022-03-27T09:16:13Z")
6337 Oh! I forgot to add a verse: That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6782 "2022-03-27T10:10:29Z")
6338 = 2 × 3169 Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6783 "2022-03-27T10:12:37Z")
6339 = 3 x 2113 She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6784 "2022-03-27T10:18:24Z")
6340 But insurance paid the loss to us, so let her rest below ---
**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:** [March 27, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/6785 "2022-03-27T16:10:55Z")
6341 = 17 x 373 Then they laughed at us and said we had to go [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=338) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=340)