# Finish this sentence please **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843 "2025-12-18T23:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/1 "2025-12-18T23:12:31Z")
Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/2 "2025-12-18T23:14:56Z")
Myriad by myriad, eon by eon ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/3 "2025-12-18T23:15:09Z")
Infinity by infinity. (I’m sure there’s a real answer😉) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/4 "2025-12-18T23:16:53Z")
To Infinity and beyond! ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/5 "2025-12-18T23:17:33Z")
aeon by aeon. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/6 "2025-12-18T23:17:42Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia… ~~…eon by eon, era by era…~~ ETA: …[mega-annum](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mega-annum) by mega-annum, giga-annum by giga-annum… ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/7 "2025-12-18T23:23:10Z")
Age by age ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/8 "2025-12-18T23:28:27Z")
…eternity by eternity ---
**Author:** ![3AxisCtrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/ecd19e/32.png) [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/9 "2025-12-18T23:41:38Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > … millennia by millennia… Shouldn’t this be “millennium by millennium” ? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/10 "2025-12-18T23:45:42Z")
I think you are correct for this (the best kind of pedantry 🙂 ). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/11 "2025-12-19T00:00:58Z")
While we’re being pedantic … It’s reasonable for the OP to ask us to _continue_ the sentence. Because of the way numbers work we’ll never _finish_ it. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/12 "2025-12-19T00:20:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Because of the way numbers work we’ll never _finish_ it. 😁 +1 to whatever anyone else posts. Do I win the thread? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/13 "2025-12-19T00:21:57Z")
You’re right. Good catch! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/14 "2025-12-19T00:23:17Z")
…etc. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/15 "2025-12-19T00:48:26Z")
…this is some bullshit. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/16 "2025-12-19T01:00:28Z")
To Hell and back? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/17 "2025-12-19T01:09:51Z")
Kalpa by kalpa. If I remember this concept correctly, a kalpa is the length of time it takes for a condor flapping its wings to gently brush a mountain over and over every day until the mountain is ground to dust. Or as wiki puts it > Cyclic day of Brahma in Hindu cosmology lasting 1,000 Yuga Cycles containing 14 Manvantaras and 15 Sandhyās. It is followed by a night (pralaya) of equal length, forming one 24-hour day of Brahma’s 100 360-day years. Hope you’re taking notes. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/18 "2025-12-19T01:18:04Z")
Interesting. The bird barely touching something enormous (like a mountain) and grinding it to dust is a parable (usually about the nature of eternity) I have seen often in many forms but I never knew someone coined a word counting it as an increment of time. Cool. Another to add to the list of weird measurements. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/19 "2025-12-19T01:40:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > While we’re being pedantic … > > It’s reasonable for the OP to ask us to _continue_ the sentence. Because of the way numbers work we’ll never _finish_ it. 😁 Au contraire. To be even more pedantic, as it stands now, it’s not a sentence, finished or otherwise. It has neither a subject nor a verb. Ergo, I propose: Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia, I am getting better and better. Now it’s a finished sentence. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/20 "2025-12-19T01:54:47Z")
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