# 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:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/361 "2014-01-21T02:44:03Z")

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These used to be close I swear!

\*\*My next-door neighbours cat is not long for this world  
Well the first bottle of Drano didn’t work. Now what?  
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Try a wood chipper?

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/362 "2014-01-21T03:34:05Z")

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\*\*Old folks using McDonald’s as an old folks’ home. What would you do?  
Firing squads \*\*

“I said _no loitering_, Grandpa! Ready…aim…fire!”

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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 21, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/363 "2014-01-21T06:31:26Z")

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**There’s Rioting in Our Streets, Part 3  
We Have Pigeon Eggs**

Every little helps. To the barricades, comrade, and throw them!

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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 21, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/364 "2014-01-21T07:18:16Z")

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**Florida Movie Theater Shooting Leaves One Dead In Altercation Over Texting  
Why do people keep their wallet in their back-pocket?**

'Cause they keep their guns in their front pockets!

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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 21, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/365 "2014-01-21T13:37:01Z")

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\*\*Please Swallow Their BS, They’re FAMILY…

I’ve been coughing up phlegm for 6 years. How to make it stop?

\*\*

Move away from your family.

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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 21, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/366 "2014-01-21T13:39:00Z")

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\*\* Is anyone here a practitioner of rootwork, Hoodoo, Chaos, or another strong magical tradition?  
What the bloody hell just happened with my nose? _TMI_\*\*

You have offended Turbinatro, the God of Sinonasal Secretions, and must sacrifice your first born to appease him. Pay the receptionist on your way out. Turbinatro demands cash.

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/367 "2014-01-21T13:56:58Z")

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**Should we move to South Carolina?  
If you had to leave your country, where would you move to?**

Well it wouldn’t be South Carolina.

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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 21, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/368 "2014-01-21T14:22:56Z")

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\*\* If Time Travel is possible

Is there a limit for the speed of internet?

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Nope – if Time Travel is possible, Google can give you results of your search before you even type it in!

Before you even _think_ of it!

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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 21, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/369 "2014-01-21T15:55:18Z")

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\*\* Good jokes you’ve heard recently  
Have you ever eaten something made by someone while you were on bad terms with them?\*\*

“Of _course_ I thoroughly cleaned and cooked the haggis, dear.” ♫

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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 21, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/370 "2014-01-21T16:17:15Z")

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**Why are the Iraqi car bombing casualties so low?  
If Time Travel is possible**

You’d think they’d keep going back until they got it right.

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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 21, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/371 "2014-01-21T19:26:22Z")

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\*\* Help me get started with this new crockpot  
Aging of Elves\*\*

No, that’s best done in a food dryer.

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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 21, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/372 "2014-01-21T20:10:36Z")

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\*\* Annoying police by remaining silent

NYC Police Cops Bloody 84 Year-Old Asian Man for Jaywalking \*\*

It wasn’t so much that he jaywalked, it’s that he did it so _quietly._

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/373 "2014-01-22T04:15:33Z")

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\*\*Have you ever eaten something made by someone while you were on bad terms with them?

I am somewhat afraid  
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I’m sure they wouldn’t _really_ try to poison you…

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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 22, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/374 "2014-01-22T13:33:40Z")

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\*\* What’s the oldest internet meme you can remember seeing/hearing?  
I fell really hard on my head today \*\*

There was a Usenet newsgroup devoted to this back in the late '80s, but it was really hard to understand the posts.

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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 22, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/375 "2014-01-22T14:36:54Z")

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**What Makes Insurance Companies Balk?  
Legality of dropping things into a volcano**

Your insurance company is not going to let you drop anything into a volcano even if it is legal.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/376 "2014-01-22T15:35:12Z")

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\*\* One of my cats died tonight.  
My next-door neighbours cat is not long for this world  
So, how hot is it in Australia? \*\*

Cat-killing hot.

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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 22, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/377 "2014-01-22T15:52:07Z")

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\*\*What does your partner call you in bed?  
Good jokes you’ve heard recently \*\*

Good, but sometimes \*mean \*jokes…

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/378 "2014-01-22T15:58:58Z")

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\*\* What- OTHER THAN guns- do you think people can’t be trusted with?  
Prostitution? \*\*

Never trust a whore.

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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 22, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/379 "2014-01-22T16:45:21Z")

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\*\* A question for those who believe that conception=personhood  
What to do about bugs in my grains?\*\*

A freshly-laid egg is already a bug-person, so hands off.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deck-the-halls-with-sequential-threads/675879/380 "2014-01-22T16:50:35Z")

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Hmmm…what’s going on in this neighborhood?  
**One of my cats died tonight.  
My next-door neighbours cat is not long for this world**

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