# 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:** 373
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7446 "2022-08-30T08:24:09Z")
7100 = 22 x 52 x 71 You’re a joke, you’re not the Lord ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7447 "2022-09-01T03:25:42Z")
7101 You are nothing but a fraud ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7448 "2022-09-01T08:35:07Z")
7102 = 2 53 x 67 Take him away, he’s got nothing to say! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7449 "2022-09-03T17:04:33Z")
7103 Get out, You King of the– ---
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7450 "2022-09-03T22:17:02Z")
7104 = 26 x 3 x 37 Get out, king of the ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7451 "2022-09-04T05:25:12Z")
7105 Get out, You King of the Jews ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7452 "2022-09-04T07:13:06Z")
7106 = 2 x 11 x 17 x 19 Get out of here ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7453 "2022-09-04T07:59:55Z")
7107 [Hmm … give me a bit for the next 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:** [September 4, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7454 "2022-09-04T11:34:30Z")
7108 = 22 x 1777 No hurry. The million will have to wait. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7455 "2022-09-05T05:23:31Z")
7109 [Not sure how you are on baseball, but as an avid follower of the Toronto Blue Jays who has been watching them in their race for a playoff position, I’d like to try “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Text is here: > **[Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Poems | poets.org](https://poets.org/poem/casey-bat)** > > The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; ] The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7456 "2022-09-05T10:20:09Z")
7110 = 2 x 32 x 5 x 79 The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, [I haven’t watched a single game of baseball in my life, but I always like esoteric nomenclature. I have been told, though, that baseball can’t compete with cricket when it comes to obscurity, but glad to give it a chance.] ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7457 "2022-09-05T15:09:33Z")
7111 And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, [I’m familiar with a slightly different version of this work, with the first line of “It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day.” I wonder if Thayer changed it around at some point, or others meddled after the fact. Guess I’ll do some research.] ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7458 "2022-09-05T15:16:57Z")
7112 A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. [I lost all interest in baseball during the summer after fifth grade, and never cared about football, basketball, &c. The only ball “sport” I’m willing to spend time on is Australian rules football.] ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7459 "2022-09-05T16:00:24Z")
7113 = 3 x 2371 A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7460 "2022-09-05T16:32:21Z")
7114 Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast; ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7461 "2022-09-05T17:05:14Z")
7115 = 5 x 1423 They thought, "If only Casey could but get a whack at that— ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7462 "2022-09-05T19:45:19Z")
7116 We’d put up even money now, with Casey at the bat." [I found the answer to my question.](https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml) > [@](#): > > Ernest Lawrence Thayer actually wrote three versions of Casey at the Bat — the first printing, a self-corrupted version, and the revised version. The link provided by **Spoons** contains the original 1888 version. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7463 "2022-09-05T20:24:09Z")
7117 = 11 x 647, no prime, but a palindrome number. But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, [Were those guys real, Casey, Flynn and Jimmy Blake? If so, I’m sorry for the last two, that’s no way to be remembered. Or perhaps it is, if you are legendary bad. Can the word palooka be applied to a baseball player? Or is there a specific term?] ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7464 "2022-09-06T00:25:28Z")
7118 And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake; [No. Oh, there have been undoubtedly ballplayers named Casey, Flynn, and Blake; but Thayer wasn’t referring to anybody specific. He just needed some names, and chose those.] ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7465 "2022-09-06T04:57:16Z")
7119 So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Can the word palooka be applied to a baseball player? Or is there a specific term? [The Mendoza Line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza_Line) would likely be the closest parallel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=372) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=374)