# 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:** 79
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1564 "2019-11-06T00:54:40Z")
1642 Sat on a tuffet ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1565 "2019-11-06T05:42:44Z")
1643 Eating her curds and whey ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1566 "2019-11-06T07:02:54Z")
1644 Along came a spider … ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1567 "2019-11-06T08:14:34Z")
1645 He sat down beside her ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1568 "2019-11-06T08:49:59Z")
1646 And frightened Miss Muffet away. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1569 "2019-11-06T09:06:22Z")
1647 Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1570 "2019-11-06T17:04:55Z")
1648 But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did not. This is actually one of my favorite lines in American literature. Love the rhyme, and the definitive last syllable! ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1571 "2019-11-06T18:12:23Z")
1649 Nope, not looking it up. My favorite thing about the Grinch story is the description of the Who’s ‘feast on roast beast’. As a child I thought ‘roast beast’ must be very good. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1572 "2019-11-06T22:21:59Z")
1650 He brought everything back, all the food for the feast! And he, he himself, the Grinch, carved the roast beast! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1573 "2019-11-07T02:08:54Z")
1651 He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1574 "2019-11-07T02:48:37Z")
1652 Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1575 "2019-11-07T11:20:14Z")
1653 Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1576 "2019-11-07T11:24:17Z")
1654 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1577 "2019-11-07T14:38:09Z")
1655 Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, “I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!” ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1578 "2019-11-07T15:26:36Z")
1656 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1579 "2019-11-07T22:37:13Z")
1657 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1580 "2019-11-07T22:39:34Z")
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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1581 "2019-11-07T23:42:37Z")
1,659 ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1582 "2019-11-08T00:31:36Z")
40.743097[sup]2[/sup] ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/1583 "2019-11-08T00:46:34Z")
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