# 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:** [August 10, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/962 "2019-08-10T01:45:13Z")

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**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:** [August 10, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/963 "2019-08-10T04:31:26Z")

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1. We’re getting there.

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**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:** [August 10, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/964 "2019-08-10T05:53:24Z")

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**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:** [August 10, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/965 "2019-08-10T06:06:08Z")

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The year 952 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/966 "2019-08-11T03:25:29Z")

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1. We’d get there a lot faster with more participants.

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/967 "2019-08-11T03:29:25Z")

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/968 "2019-08-11T04:02:43Z")

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1. What if some of us had multiple personalities?

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**Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/969 "2019-08-11T05:23:23Z")

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1. I doubt that the mods would like that very much.

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/970 "2019-08-11T05:57:17Z")

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1. The best catsup in the world.

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/971 "2019-08-11T06:27:44Z")

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/972 "2019-08-11T11:56:54Z")

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The Porsche 959 is a sports car manufactured from 1986 to 1993, first as a Group B rally car and later as a road legal production car designed to satisfy FIA homologation regulations requiring at least 200 units be produced.

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**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:** [August 11, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/973 "2019-08-11T22:16:17Z")

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1. One thousand years until JFK is elected US President.

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**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:** [August 12, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/974 "2019-08-12T01:56:56Z")

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In the year 961, the “Shroud of Saint Josse”, a rich silk Samite camel cloth from Khurasan, was made. It is preserved in the Abbey of Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, near Caen, Normandy.

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**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:** [August 13, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/975 "2019-08-13T02:51:21Z")

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The year **962** would only be 530 years away from when Christopher Columbus would not find a Western route to India, would not discover America, and would not bring the peacefulness of Christianity to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.

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**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:** [August 13, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/976 "2019-08-13T02:52:10Z")

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**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/977 "2019-08-13T07:51:16Z")

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The year 964 is a mere 893 years from the birth of Nikola Tesla.

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**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/978 "2019-08-13T23:29:21Z")

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**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/979 "2019-08-13T23:45:34Z")

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966 B. C. a year in which there were no recorded events. People just sat around.

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**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/980 "2019-08-14T03:23:44Z")

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967 B.C. People kept sitting around.

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**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/981 "2019-08-14T06:11:35Z")

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968 B.C. Some people fell over, others were pushed.

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