# 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:** 43
**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 8, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/842 "2019-07-08T05:26:24Z")
En français: Huit cent trente-deux. ---
**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 8, 2019, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/843 "2019-07-08T06:08:06Z")
Encore une fois, en français: Huit cent trente-trois. ---
**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 8, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/844 "2019-07-08T13:33:14Z")
In Latin: Octingenti triginta quattuor. ---
**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 9, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/845 "2019-07-09T04:40:04Z")
Too lazy to do anything else: 1. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/846 "2019-07-09T05:19:24Z")
836 was a leap year ---
**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 9, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/847 "2019-07-09T10:45:32Z")
837 wasn’t, but we’re trying to get to our goal. ---
**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 9, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/848 "2019-07-09T12:19:13Z")
Pippin I, King of Aquitania, died in the year 838. ---
**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 10, 2019, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/849 "2019-07-10T06:51:07Z")
Nobody I’m aware of died in the year 839. ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/850 "2019-07-10T10:21:33Z")
But in 840, 17-year-old Charles the Bald became king of the Franks. (This may be why hot dogs don’t have hair on them.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/851 "2019-07-10T21:56:52Z")
In 841 there were [Vikings in Dublin](https://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/7747.jpg?v=1512739548). ---
**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 10, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/852 "2019-07-10T23:19:27Z")
Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia, died in 842. My guess is that he didn’t leave any descendants. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/853 "2019-07-11T01:33:44Z")
Qiu Shiliang, Chinese eunuch official, died the next year, in 843. The same is probably true of him. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/854 "2019-07-11T03:03:32Z")
844 is one of the area codes used for toll-free numbers. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/855 "2019-07-11T04:59:54Z")
1. And I got nuthin’. ---
**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 11, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/856 "2019-07-11T07:38:45Z")
Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia, was born in 846. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/857 "2019-07-11T15:36:47Z")
In 847, Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, became archbishop of Mainz after the death of Odgar. But you knew that already. ---
**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 11, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/858 "2019-07-11T17:54:51Z")
In the Chinese calendar, the year 848 was 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3544 or 3484 to 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3545 or 3485. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/859 "2019-07-11T23:14:56Z")
849 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/860 "2019-07-11T23:52:17Z")
an even 850 ---
**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 12, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/861 "2019-07-12T03:33:24Z")
An odd 851. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=44)