# Dopers do it in threads.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 1, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999 "2011-08-01T02:35:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/21 "2011-08-02T11:03:09Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> OK. If you made that one up, you’re good.

I did. It’s why I opened the thread in the first place.

News anchors do it nude from the waist down.

NPR hosts do it with promises of tote bags.

Pipe organists do it fortissimo.

Haskell programmers can do it without side-effects.

Formalists do it without ascribing much meaning to it.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/22 "2011-08-02T11:07:43Z")

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Contrarians don’t do it.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/23 "2011-08-02T11:11:16Z")

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Schrödinger’s cat may or may not have done it in a box.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/24 "2011-08-02T11:16:38Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> Schrödinger’s cat may or may not have done it in a box.

Lorentz does it where girth is more important than length.

Bell does it with nothing to hide.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/25 "2011-08-02T11:29:10Z")

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Einstein only ever did it theoretically.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/26 "2011-08-02T12:58:26Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> Einstein only ever did it theoretically.

Einstein did it [relatively](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Marriages_and_children) often.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/27 "2011-08-02T17:14:02Z")

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Literalists do it with their genitals.

(Lifted from [A Girl and her Fed](http://agirlandherfed.com/), though I don’t know if it was original there.)

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**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:** [August 2, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/28 "2011-08-02T21:05:36Z")

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> [@SnakesCatLady](#):
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> Hockey players do it on skates.

Football players have deeper penetration.

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/29 "2011-08-02T22:39:42Z")

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Statisticians do it with large numbers.

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**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/30 "2011-08-02T23:25:51Z")

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Weavers do it while they’re warped.

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**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-do-it-in-threads/590999/31 "2011-08-02T23:33:41Z")

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Trombone players do it in VII positions

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