# 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:** 363
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7246 "2022-06-29T06:27:46Z")
Great Western Railway (GWR) 6800 Class locomotives: > **[GWR 6800 Class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_6800_Class)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6800 Class or Grange Class was a mixed-traffic class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built to replace the GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0. There were 80 in the class, all built at the Swindon works, using some reconditioned parts from withdrawn 4300 Class locomotives. > The GWR locomotive standardisation policy pursued by George Jackson Churchward envisaged a range of locomotive classes which would be suitable for the majority of... ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7247 "2022-06-29T07:24:03Z")
6801 = 3 x 2267 before I’ve said goodbye [Same thing I was thinking, until yesterday he resurfaced. Good!] ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7248 "2022-06-29T07:45:43Z")
6802 [Something] to complete the song [Good to hear. I’ve got an idea for the next, unless you want to take it, @Pardel-Lux .] ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7249 "2022-06-29T10:34:29Z")
6803, prime. But I’m afraid my little lungs will burst before to long if I am tempted to suggest [Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlmBZsVPK8) Waits _[The Piano Has Been Drinking](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tomwaits/thepianohasbeendrinkingnotme.html)_, just to imagine how you would play it with spoons, but I am happy to defer to you if you have any suggestion. There is plenty of space for many songs ahead. The first link, btw, contains the interview where Tom deadpans to the interviewer remarking something about his drinking in the studio “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”. That made my 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:** [June 29, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7250 "2022-06-29T13:21:51Z")
6804 = 23 x 3 x 271 Only I can last the scale ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7251 "2022-06-29T13:23:52Z")
6805 = 5 x 1361 I won’t have failed to sing the minute waltz! ---
**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:** [June 30, 2022, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7252 "2022-06-30T04:50:11Z")
6806 = 2 × 41 × 83 [What’s next? The last was mine.] ---
**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:** [June 30, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7253 "2022-06-30T05:14:11Z")
6807 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, (I was rereading _Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats_ by T.S. Eliot recently, and thought this poem from that book might make for a fun one.) ---
**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:** [June 30, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7254 "2022-06-30T06:13:04Z")
6808 = 23 x 23 x 37 It isn’t just one of your holiday games; ---
**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:** [June 30, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7255 "2022-06-30T06:33:30Z")
6809 You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter ---
**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:** [June 30, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7256 "2022-06-30T13:00:23Z")
6810 = 2 x 3 x 5 x 227 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7257 "2022-07-01T06:12:57Z")
6811 First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily, ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7258 "2022-07-01T06:26:39Z")
6812 = 22 × 13 × 131 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James, ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7259 "2022-07-01T06:45:19Z")
6813 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey– ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7260 "2022-07-01T08:44:23Z")
6814 = 2 x 3407 All of them sensible everyday names. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7261 "2022-07-01T15:49:32Z")
6815 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7262 "2022-07-01T18:12:48Z")
6816 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: ---
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6817 = 17 x 401 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter— ---
**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:** [July 2, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7264 "2022-07-02T06:22:10Z")
6818 But all of them sensible everyday names. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7265 "2022-07-02T07:31:42Z")
6819 = 3 × 2273 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=362) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=364)