# 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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**Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7266 "2022-07-02T09:11:41Z")

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6820 = 22 x 5 x 11 x 31

A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified,

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**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7267 "2022-07-03T08:16:10Z")

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6821 = 19 × 359

Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,

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**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7268 "2022-07-03T11:01:12Z")

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6822 = 2 x 32 x 379

Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7269 "2022-07-04T05:52:32Z")

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6823

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7270 "2022-07-04T06:19:43Z")

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6824 = 23 × 853

Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7271 "2022-07-04T06:35:50Z")

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6825

Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum–

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7272 "2022-07-04T14:44:39Z")

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6826 = 2 x 3413

Names that never belong to more than one cat.

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7273 "2022-07-05T04:56:27Z")

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6827

But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7274 "2022-07-05T06:17:33Z")

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6828 = 22 × 3 × 569

And that is the name that you never will guess;

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7275 "2022-07-05T06:43:07Z")

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6829

The name that no human research can discover–

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7276 "2022-07-05T07:27:25Z")

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6830 = 2 x 5 x 683

But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7277 "2022-07-06T04:51:59Z")

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6831

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7278 "2022-07-06T08:48:34Z")

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6832 = 24 × 7 × 61

The reason, I tell you, is always the same:

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7279 "2022-07-06T08:49:48Z")

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6833, prime

His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7280 "2022-07-06T08:54:11Z")

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6834 = 2 × 3 × 17 × 67

Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7281 "2022-07-06T08:56:48Z")

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6835 = 5 x 1367

His ineffable effable

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7282 "2022-07-07T07:13:21Z")

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6836 = 22 × 1709

Effanineffable

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7283 "2022-07-07T08:09:40Z")

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6837 = 3 x 43 x 53

Deep and inscrutable singular name.

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7284 "2022-07-07T08:45:06Z")

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6838

(We’re done with this one, so it’s somebody else’s turn. But for the record, I always liked Eliot’s, “Effanineffable.” I’m guessing that it was wordplay and a way to get the f-bomb past parents.

As an aside, I had the chance to buy a first British edition of _Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats_ a few years ago. Still kicking myself that I didn’t take it.

Okay, who’s next?)

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7285 "2022-07-07T09:38:36Z")

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6839 = 7 x 977

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

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