# 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:** 379
**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 28, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7566 "2022-09-28T08:51:19Z")
7319 = 13 x 563 [What about Prince? Funkier than Lionel Ritchie: [Raspberry Beret](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/prince/raspberryberet.html)) I was working part time in a five-and-dime ---
**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 28, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7567 "2022-09-28T08:57:02Z")
7320 Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” was what I came home to the day when my (now-ex) wife said, “It’s over; I’ve filed for divorce.” Then she told me that I was worthless, and that she was leaving. Many bad memories with that one. Let’s avoid that one, please. I was thinking “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which is a damn sight more serious than his “Practical Cats” book. ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7568 "2022-09-28T09:01:50Z")
7321, prime. [Oh, sorry, could not know this. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock it shall be then, with the Italian intro (can skip that one too, if so wished):] _S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse_ ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7569 "2022-09-28T09:11:28Z")
7322 _A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,_ _Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse._ _Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo_ _Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,_ _Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo._ Let us go then, you and I, [There! We get the Italian, and the English. We can carry on from here. And thank you for understanding about “Raspberry Beret.”] ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7570 "2022-09-28T09:13:49Z")
7323 = 3 x 2441 When the evening is spread out against the sky ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7571 "2022-09-28T09:26:50Z")
7324 Like a patient etherized upon a table; [Did I ever mention that I parodied this, here on the SDMB, years ago? Well, maybe not a parody, but certainly a different take.] ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7572 "2022-09-28T09:33:17Z")
7325 = 52 x 293 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, [I don’t remember you mentioning it, but I wouldn’t put it past you. Now go and find it, if you can, and share a link] ---
**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 28, 2022, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7573 "2022-09-28T09:48:11Z")
7326 The muttering retreats [Link at post 107 of this thread. The thread is, “If ‘A Christmas Carol Had been Written By Somebody Else,’” and I opted to do Eliot in the style of “Prufrock.”] Oh, a link: Like I said, post number 107: > [@If A Christmas Carol had been written by someone else](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-christmas-carol-had-been-written-by-someone-else/430814/107): > > I took this as encouragement that I should finish Eliot’s version of A Christmas Carol. So here it is, and my thanks to Sampiro for the lines he donated earlier. The Love Song of J. Ebenezer Scrooge, by T.S. Eliot O donna in cui la mia speranza vige, e che soffristi per la mia salute in inferno lasciar le tue vestige, di tante cose quant’ i’ ho vedute, dal tuo podere e da la tua bontate riconosco la grazia e la virtute. Tu m’hai di servo tratto a libertate per tutte quelle vie, per tu… ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7574 "2022-09-28T14:25:21Z")
7327 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels [You guys were either up really early or really late!] ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7575 "2022-09-28T14:28:35Z")
7328 = 25 x 229 And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: [My secret is a different time zone: it is 16:28 right now for me] ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7576 "2022-09-30T01:07:20Z")
7329 Streets that follow like a tedious argument [Or just couldn’t sleep.] ---
**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 30, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7577 "2022-09-30T05:30:20Z")
7330 Of insidious intent ---
**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 30, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7578 "2022-09-30T06:05:18Z")
7331 To lead you to an overwhelming question … ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7579 "2022-09-30T13:12:32Z")
7332 = 22 x 3 x 13 x 47 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” ---
**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 30, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7580 "2022-09-30T23:45:00Z")
7333 Let us go and make our visit. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7581 "2022-10-01T11:09:52Z")
7334 = 2 x 19 x 193 In the room the women come and go ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7582 "2022-10-02T02:04:41Z")
7335 Talking of Michelangelo. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7583 "2022-10-02T09:34:11Z")
7336 = 23 x 7 x 131 The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, ---
**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:** [October 2, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7584 "2022-10-02T14:20:39Z")
7337 The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes ---
**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:** [October 2, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/7585 "2022-10-02T14:27:48Z")
7338 = 2 x 3 x 1223 Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=378) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=380)