# 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:** 53
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1042 "2019-07-07T01:36:40Z")
Hope you feel better, bumps aside. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1043 "2019-07-07T02:29:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I bumped my knee on the corner of a bench. My high school chemistry teacher asked me to state a sentence in which I included one of the inert gases. I replied, “I bumped my neon the table.” ---
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1044 "2019-07-07T04:54:04Z")
My high school chemistry teacher kicked me out of lab, for sprinkling iron filings into a “bumpson” burner. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1045 "2019-07-07T10:00:45Z")
How’s a kid supposed to learn? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1046 "2019-07-07T12:28:01Z")
Yeah, I got bumped from class. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1047 "2019-07-08T15:52:10Z")
Yesterday Ringo Starr bumped his age up to 79. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1048 "2019-07-09T01:30:34Z")
Hope he didn’t bump too hard, at that age. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1049 "2019-07-09T01:33:50Z")
He should be used to bumping, playing the drums as long as he has. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1050 "2019-07-09T03:03:24Z")
But how has all that bumping affected his hearing? ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1051 "2019-07-09T04:47:17Z")
Well, his eardrum got bumped a lot by sound vibrations, meaning that his malleus, incus, and stapes got bumped a lot. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1052 "2019-07-09T11:48:09Z")
No bumping bones about it. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1053 "2019-07-09T13:57:57Z")
Leonard “Bones” McCoy is a doctor, not a bumper. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1054 "2019-07-10T00:00:04Z")
Some people can be both doctors and bumpers. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1055 "2019-07-10T06:49:37Z")
_I’m your bumpin’ man, that’s what I am I’m here to bump, however I can Be it early mornin’, late afternoon Or at midnight–it’s never too soon…_ ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1056 "2019-07-10T10:52:57Z")
That was bumpin’ great! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1057 "2019-07-11T01:45:43Z")
Bump on, **Spoons**! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1058 "2019-07-11T04:48:11Z")
Bumpin’ on bumpin’ on, **EH**! ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1059 "2019-07-11T05:29:54Z")
Get a room you bumpers! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1060 "2019-07-11T06:12:03Z")
\*On a morning from a Bogart movie, In a country where they bump back time, You go bumping through the crowd like Peter Lorre, Contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun, in a silk dress, bumping Like a watercolor in the rain. Don’t bother asking for bumplanations, She’ll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat.\* ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-bump-this-thread/820859/1061 "2019-07-11T15:20:17Z")
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