# Don't Bump This Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859 "2018-09-06T04:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/721 "2019-04-10T01:22:00Z")
Hello country Bumpkin! ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/722 "2019-04-10T05:20:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Over in Great Debates we’re discussing who wrote Shakespeare’s plays… \*To die, to sleep– To sleep–perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what bumps may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. \* ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/723 "2019-04-10T06:07:27Z")
Bumping is such sweet sorrow. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/724 "2019-04-10T06:53:59Z")
_But soft, what light through yonder window bumps? It is the east and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she._ ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/725 "2019-04-10T14:12:31Z")
Love means never having to say you’ve bumped. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/726 "2019-04-10T17:17:24Z")
_Et tu, Bumpus?_ ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/727 "2019-04-10T17:25:15Z")
Ill bumped by moonlight, proud Titania. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/728 "2019-04-10T17:32:36Z")
If we bumpers have offended, Think but bumps, and all is mended, That you have but bumper’d here While these bumps did appear. And this weak and idle bump, No more yielding but a dump, Bumpers, do not reprehend: if you bump this, we will mend: And, as I am an honest bumper, If we have unbumped bumpers Now to 'scape the bumper’s tongue, We will make more bumps ere long; Else the bump a bumper call; So, good bump unto you all. Give me your bumps, if we be friends, And Annie shall rebump amends. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/729 "2019-04-10T17:36:47Z")
OK. Edit: Dammit. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/730 "2019-04-10T19:24:02Z")
_From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be rememberèd— We few, we happy few, we band of bumpers; For he to-day that bumps with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here to bump, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That bumped with us upon Saint Crispin’s day._ ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/731 "2019-04-10T19:32:44Z")
Well, I’ll be bumped! ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/732 "2019-04-10T19:50:29Z")
_What is bump? a word. What is in that word bump? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no._ ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/733 "2019-04-10T20:22:09Z")
I saw the best minds of my generation BUMPED by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters BUMPING for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, ---
**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:** [April 10, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/734 "2019-04-10T20:40:39Z")
Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to bump the eloquent silence of God and Nature. But the bumping to which you have called me must be performed;—grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy as I bump. ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/735 "2019-04-11T00:41:39Z")
Hillary wanted to put up bump. Bump!" Trump said, referring to the energy policies of his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton. “If you have a bumpmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, OK?” ---
**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:** [April 11, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/736 "2019-04-11T05:05:09Z")
Trump only hires the bumpiest people. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/737 "2019-04-11T05:29:47Z")
Who’s paying for that bump? ---
**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:** [April 11, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/738 "2019-04-11T05:45:10Z")
Four score and seven bumps ago… ---
**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:** [April 11, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/739 "2019-04-11T13:15:21Z")
Julian Assange has been bumped out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. His next bump will probably be directly to prison. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/740 "2019-04-11T14:03:56Z")
Bumped for good ol’ Julian with an obligatory _Monty Python_ bit: [Monty Python (Life of Brian)- You're nicked! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CGauwoKcw) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859.md?page=38)