# How bored are the Teeming Minions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007 "2001-01-08T15:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/1 "2001-01-08T15:41:53Z")
I’m pretty bored right now, so… 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer! Take one down, Pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/2 "2001-01-08T15:48:12Z")
ninety eight bottles of beer on the wall! ninety eight bottles of beer on the wall, ninety eight bottles of beer… take one down, pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/3 "2001-01-08T15:59:19Z")
I would have to answer: very bored ninety seven bottles of beer on the wall… ninety seven bottles of beer on the wall, ninety seven bottles of beer… take one down, pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/4 "2001-01-08T16:11:22Z")
I’m busier than a cross-eyed cranberry picker: ninety-six bottles of beer on the wall… ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/5 "2001-01-08T16:18:29Z")
I’m _never_ bored becuase _I_ have _inner resources_. ::smug face smilie:: Aw, who am I kidding? Ninety-five bottles of beer on the wall… ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/6 "2001-01-08T18:36:17Z")
ninety four bottles of beer on the wall, ninety four bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/7 "2001-01-08T18:42:17Z")
93 bottles of beer on the wall, 93 bottles of beer… Take one down, pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/8 "2001-01-08T18:49:20Z")
92 bottles of beer on the wall. 92 Bottles of beer on the wall. 92 Bottles of beer. Take one down pass it around… ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/9 "2001-01-08T19:17:15Z")
Eleventy-four beetles of borr on de wall… Eleventy-four beetles - _Ack!_ :: Tygr is tackled by a crowd of annoyed Dopers, then tied up and gagged for messing up the thread. :: ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/10 "2001-01-08T19:26:04Z")
Hell, if we’re all this board, lets get into something interesting Eighty-three pipe fulls of crack on the wall Eighty-three pipe fulls of crack Blow it out Pass it about… ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/11 "2001-01-08T20:05:39Z")
Eighty two body bags hung on the wall, eighty two body bags, take one down, pass it around, Eighty One bodies to throw on the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/12 "2001-01-08T20:43:48Z")
Eighty-one sacks of burning vomet on the wall Eighty-one sacks of burning vomet take one down, chug it on down Eighty-two sacks of buring vomet on the wall (i felt like being gross, it’s a habit…) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/13 "2001-01-08T21:01:13Z")
Criminy, people! Where are y’all from - South Florida? We went from 92 to 83 with an eleventy-four thrown in for good measure. Am I going to have to get the Supreme Court involved in this count? 91 through 84 containers of something on the wall 91 through 84 containers of something take one down do something with it… Now were back in balance. Proceed beginning with 80 - and son’t make me come back in here and clean up your mess!. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/14 "2001-01-08T21:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \* > **Criminy, people! Where are y’all from - South Florida? We went from 92 to 83 with an eleventy-four thrown in for good measure. Am I going to have to get the Supreme Court involved in this count?** \<_Dangerously close to an Election hijack_\> Yes, I believe that the Broward County Elections Board has just recently certified that eleventy-four\* is the final tally for the losing candidate. By a strange co-incidence that is just the number needed to nullify the previously declared winner and over-turn the Supreme Court decision. * * * _…or some OTHER imaginary number. \<_/Dangerous hijack\*\> ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/15 "2001-01-08T21:22:36Z")
**Tygr, Doc Jack** I live in Canada, i was counting in **metric** 😉 Upham ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/16 "2001-01-08T21:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Upham \* > **I live in Canada, i was counting in metric** Well, crimineys, no WONDER! Goddam furriners sneaking across the border just to screw up our God-given right to count things our own way. GET OUT you dam’ Canadian pinko subversive-type! Us enlightened, God fearin’ ‘Mericans KNOW what sorta Immoral countin’ systems y’all got down THERE in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/17 "2001-01-08T22:06:17Z")
80 Canadians counting metric in the states… 80 Canadians counting metric… Take one down… Slap him around… 79 Canadians counting metric in the states… Apparently I’m both bored AND random today… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/18 "2001-01-08T22:14:00Z")
79 toddlers trashing my house 79 tod-le-ers There’s really only two, But it seems like 79, So I’ll just hang one on a coathook until they quit screaming and trashing my house and demanding cookies and another Elmo movie and torturing the cat and the dog and eating my lip gloss… Oh, sorry. 78 toddlers trashing my house! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/19 "2001-01-08T22:28:38Z")
over the river and through the woods… jb ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bored-are-the-teeming-minions/49007/20 "2001-01-09T04:48:13Z")
78 'mericans with Nukes in the States 78 'mericans with Nukes Take one down… hey, how’d we get to 0 alredy?