# Deck The Halls With Sequential Threads!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879 "2013-12-09T08:01:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/321 "2014-01-16T17:20:43Z")

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\*\* Road Rage: what to do…  
Getting very confused about fruit as part of a weight loss program\*\*

But it sure comes in handy on I-80.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/322 "2014-01-16T18:27:53Z")

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**What movies have you actually walked out of?  
Smaug vs the Nazgul**

Jackson’s gone too far this time! :mad:

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/323 "2014-01-16T19:22:30Z")

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\*\*Tonya Harding, 20 years later  
I am somewhat afraid \*\*

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/324 "2014-01-16T21:52:43Z")

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\*\*Ask the intravert who’s taking an improv comedy course

One Word \*\*

Rutabaga?

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/325 "2014-01-16T23:49:03Z")

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\*\*Old folks using McDonald’s as an old folks’ home. What would you do?  
What’s your favorite F-Bomb? \*\*

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/326 "2014-01-17T13:02:28Z")

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\*\* I’ve been coughing up phlegm for 6 years. How to make it stop?  
Is anyone here a practitioner of rootwork, Hoodoo, Chaos, or another strong magical tradition? \*\*

“Phlegm begone! Ooga-chaka!!!”

That’ll be 50 bucks. Pay the receptionist on your way out.

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/327 "2014-01-17T13:42:23Z")

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\*\* You’ve just been banned from the Straight Dope. Now what?

Move US State boundaries for fun and profit!  
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I’ll show you, you sunzabitches.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/328 "2014-01-17T13:46:04Z")

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\*\* General aviation folk: talk me down…

Breasts in the wind

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No, that’ll just keep him up there longer.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/329 "2014-01-17T13:55:49Z")

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\*\*Ask the intravert who’s taking an improv comedy course \*\*  
\*\*So I Seem To Have Voluntarily Become Homeless \*\*

Your parents were right - you should have gotten that degree to have something to fall back on.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/330 "2014-01-17T15:28:15Z")

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\*\*Why don’t climate change deniers publish?

Global Warming progressing far faster than previously thought

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Ohhhhhhhhh…

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/331 "2014-01-17T16:27:48Z")

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\*\*Reasons guys like women to be fully shaved, other than pedophillia

Pit Bulls (continued) ( \*\*

There is a passing resemblance, isn’t there.

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**Author:** ![half-elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@half-elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/half-elf)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/332 "2014-01-17T18:23:39Z")

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\*\*I can’t stand my mom, I don’t know if I should move though… ideas?

How embarrassing is living with your parents? \*\*

Quite a lot, especially if you can’t stand them…

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**Author:** ![half-elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@half-elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/half-elf)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/333 "2014-01-17T18:28:43Z")

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\*\*Girlfriend emotionally attached?

Ask the guy whose girlfriend is marrying a woman. \*\*

Well she certainly seems emotionally attached to _someone_, thing is, to whom?

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**Author:** ![half-elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@half-elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/half-elf)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/334 "2014-01-17T18:31:14Z")

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\*\*What do you want to happen to your body after you die?

Is anyone here a practitioner of rootwork, Hoodoo, Chaos, or another strong magical tradition?\*\*  
Seems like you’ve got plenty of options there, buddy…

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**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/335 "2014-01-17T20:17:56Z")

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I want to start by saying that only one of these reflects my own political beliefs.

**Are you an expert at anything?  
“Republicans,” what’s your take on John Kerry and Swiftboating?**

That’s, like, the opposite of expertise.

**Juvenile delinquent taught at a university  
Stupid Republican idea of the day**

Combines crime policy and education policy!

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/336 "2014-01-17T22:39:56Z")

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\*\* Legality of dropping things into a volcano  
Android stuck on “Emergency Call”\*\*

You could just whack it with a sledgehammer. I admit that the volcano idea sounds more satisfying.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/337 "2014-01-17T22:41:25Z")

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\*\* Did the last ice age slow down our technological evolution?  
Why don’t climate change deniers publish?\*\*

Their fingers are still frozen to the keyboard.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/338 "2014-01-17T23:11:44Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> \*\*Ask the intravert who’s taking an improv comedy course
> 
> One Word \*\*
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> Rutabaga?

:: canned laughter ::

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/339 "2014-01-18T00:43:12Z")

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**Pit Etiquette, and relationships in other threads  
You torture a 4 year old child to death? You bet I’m going to pit you, bitch!**

“In retrospect, ‘Ask the Guy Who’s Torturing a Four Year Old to Death’ was perhaps not a good choice of subject for an MPSIMS thread.”

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/340 "2014-01-18T05:49:13Z")

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\*\*Do you “pretend” to enjoy things for the benefit of your SO?  
Why women lose appeal sooner than men \*\*

They have more shit you have to pretend to enjoy.

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