# Hijack this thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809 "2005-12-22T16:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/61 "2005-12-23T20:07:59Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Oil and vinegar, with a little salt and pepper, is good on salad; but I like ranch dressing better Whoa. For a minute there I thought I was at the [my penis is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=350246&page=1&pp=40) thread. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/62 "2005-12-23T20:12:29Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > Have you ever noticed how Kenneth Brangh’s mouth seem to have no lips? He’s just got a hole that opens and you can see his teetn. Weird. I have, and I’ve often wondered what Emma Thompson saw in him. She’s English, he’s Irish, so perhaps they just like to fight. They were married about 10 years, I think. I just don’t think people are meant to be monogamous for that long, and that marriage should be a 5-, 7-, or 10-year contract with the option to renew at the end, if both agree. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/63 "2005-12-23T20:20:23Z")
Is there anything more useless than a monogamous Mormon? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/64 "2005-12-23T20:28:14Z")
when I was in All-County Chorus (in 1976), Norman Luboff was our guest director ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/65 "2005-12-23T20:32:04Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Is there anything more useless than a monogamous Mormon? Is that in any way like a monotheist Mongoose? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/66 "2005-12-23T20:33:25Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Is that in any way like a monotheist Mongoose? As much like it as a Catholic cobra. ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/67 "2005-12-23T20:34:27Z")
Were Riki Tiki Tavi and Rin Tin Tin related? ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/68 "2005-12-23T20:34:33Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Is that in any way like a monotheist Mongoose? Now you’re just being silly. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/69 "2005-12-23T20:36:33Z")
> [@initech](#): > > Were Riki Tiki Tavi and Rin Tin Tin related? Same initials. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/70 "2005-12-23T20:36:55Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > Now you’re just being silly. Well not just now. Very often in fact. I think Riki Tiki Tavi and Rin Tin Tin are very distant relations as both are Carnivores. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/71 "2005-12-23T20:38:32Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Well not just now. Very often in fact. > I think Riki Tiki Tavi and Rin Tin Tin are very distant relations as both are Carnivores. Do Carnivores eat carnivals? If so, what did they do with Samson? ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/72 "2005-12-23T20:49:17Z")
Remember that Simpson’s episode with the carnies? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/73 "2005-12-23T21:02:25Z")
What ever happened to Carnie Wilson? ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/74 "2005-12-23T21:04:34Z")
> [@initech](#): > > Remember that Simpson’s episode with the carnies? Did you know that ‘carnival’ derives from the Italian “farewell to meat”? And that reincarnation literally means “back in the meat”? Doesn’t seem that desirable a fate when you think of it that way, does it? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/75 "2005-12-23T21:07:00Z")
_I_ don’t want to come back as a hamburger! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/76 "2005-12-23T21:12:50Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > _I_ don’t want to come back as a hamburger! > [@anyrose](#): > > What ever happened to Carnie Wilson? Did she come back as a hamburger? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/77 "2005-12-23T23:26:57Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Did she come back as a hamburger? What was the greatest comeback you ever saw in sports? I once watched a basketball team that was trailing 68-50 with four minutes to go force overtime and end up winning on a halfcourt shot at what turned to be the FINAL buzzer. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/78 "2005-12-24T01:09:29Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > What was the greatest comeback you ever saw in sports? I once watched a basketball team that was trailing 68-50 with four minutes to go force overtime and end up winning on a halfcourt shot at what turned to be the FINAL buzzer. Speaking of 68-50, **68** is one of my favorite numbers… George Carlin did a show in Denver about 20 years ago in which he did his new version of the Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television. It had morphed to about 200 by that point, but the one schtick that schtuck with me all these years was: … [ul] [li]Sixty-Nine[/li][li]71, which is 69 plus two fingers, and…[/li][li]68, which is “you do me and I’ll owe you one.”[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/79 "2005-12-24T01:20:25Z")
> [@Kilvert's Pagan](#): > > Speaking of 68-50, **68** is one of my favorite numbers… > [/list] Whatever happened to number runners? It used to be a favorite element of the underworld, but I haven’t heard a thing about it in years. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/80 "2005-12-24T01:22:19Z")
> [@Kilvert's Pagan](#): > > Speaking of 68-50, **68** is one of my favorite numbers… George Carlin did a show in Denver about 20 years ago in which he did his new version of the Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television. It had morphed to about 200 by that point, but the one schtick that schtuck with me all these years was: > > … > [ul] > [li]Sixty-Nine[/li][li]71, which is 69 plus two fingers, and…[/li][li]68, which is “you do me and I’ll owe you one.”[/li][/ul] Ceecil Adams owes me $5. You’d think he could afford to pay me with all those books he sells and the Google ads and all. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809.md?page=5)