# How did that thread end? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410 "2008-10-04T03:26:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/21 "2008-10-05T17:21:23Z")
Did the Cooler of Death ever get opened? I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/22 "2008-10-05T19:51:46Z")
Did that guy ever tell his coworker that his pee (the coworker’s) had little black parasites in it? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/23 "2008-10-05T20:26:28Z")
I want to know about the carpooling coworker who wouldn’t turn on the A/C. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/24 "2008-10-05T20:49:59Z")
I wonder if the thread \*\* eleanorirgby\*\* is referring to is the one that was called \*\* I am the other woman\*\* ? or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/25 "2008-10-05T20:56:18Z")
I wonder if the thread \*\* eleanorirgby\*\* is referring to is the one that was called \*\* I am the other woman\*\* ? or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/26 "2008-10-05T22:01:00Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Did the Cooler of Death ever get opened? I can’t remember. Was that the “A curious parcel arrived at my door” thread that **Balance** started? Or a different one? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/27 "2008-10-05T22:38:19Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Are you thinking of **START**? I think that was his name. I think a lot of people may have thought he was a sock or something. I always liked him. His schtick was that he was a religious kid who had a lot of problems figuring life out - you know, “my friends steal at the drive through” and such. He came on one day and claimed his brother had died of an asthma attack. I don’t know, he wrote about it very movingly but I suppose it could have been a fake. We stopped seeing him when he said he had to move in with his dad, who was very strict. Yup–that was him. He was just a kid. There are probably a lot of "just a kid"s here, really. **casdave** –no idea, maybe. I once tried searching under affair, but it came up with too many hits. I’m most interested in that thread, though. My jaw still drops a bit when I think of her attitude: why doesn’t this middle aged woman just let me fuck her husband? I’ll say this for it: the Dope is broadening. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/28 "2008-10-05T23:29:27Z")
Remember the guy who made out with that woman, and she had a rich boyfriend that she was allegedly going to dump? They didn’t go “all the way,” preferring to wait. But then the bf was going to buy her a computer for her birthday and she ended up sounding like a total user/gold digger. The OP regretted it but I don’t know whether he told her off or let it just fade to black etc. And, I don’t know if he ever got his calculator back. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/29 "2008-10-06T08:52:57Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Was that the “A curious parcel arrived at my door” thread that **Balance** started? Or a different one? I was wondering about the curious parcel one. It took too long for him to post the “solution” so I gave up paying attention but I wonder from time to time how that turned out. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/30 "2008-10-06T09:49:31Z")
It really only works if you’re sure of the wording, but you can search by title only. So, **Jack** , [set your mind at ease](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440833&highlight=curious+parcel). ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/31 "2008-10-06T09:51:57Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Did the Cooler of Death ever get opened? I can’t remember. [This what you’re looking for?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=177712&highlight=evil+cooler+death) ---
**Author:** ![Dryfreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@Dryfreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryfreeze)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/32 "2008-10-06T16:22:20Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Then there was one about a young male–can’t remember his name. The details are sketchy, but some thought he was a troll and others didn’t, but he got himself out of a corner (of his own making) by saying his little brother was either critically ill or dead–can’t remember. I always felt sorry for him (and his brother). Don’t know what happened to him. It is very possible that you are referring to me. I created a thread very similar to this many years ago regarding marrying the daughter of my father’s ex-mistress .. .. .. I will dig this up shortly and give the link. _edit_ is this the thread ? [I am getting Married . . SOON (a bit long) - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263829) If this is the case . . . we are married . . . for four years . . .having some issues . . . working it out . . . This enticed me to come out of doper retirement btw. ---
**Author:** ![Dryfreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@Dryfreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryfreeze)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/33 "2008-10-06T16:30:00Z")
Apparently I took the wrong part of the quote from eleanorigby’s message. Below is the correct one: Last one: a poster here either married or was engaged to someone his parents didn’t approve of. ( **Cello** something?) He posted about his anger re his parents etc. Never did find out what happened there. Did they get married? Did the parents come around etc? No idea. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/34 "2008-10-06T16:37:20Z")
Nope-sorry, but never heard of you! I think the poster was\*\* Alistair McCello\*\* and they were definitely engaged (can’t remember if his fiancee was a Doper as well) and his parents didn’t approve due to either religion or race or some such. That’s how he left us–parents not speaking to him and he and his future wife moving in together. I’m not sure how someone ends up marrying the child of their father’s ex-mistress, but I’m glad I didn’t have to do the seating arrangements at the wedding. 😉 **Lobotomy-** -I vaguely remember that thread. She was surprised that some here expressed amazement and disgust that she would wait until she got the computer or whatever before she ended it with him. I think she just stopped posting–the righteous indignation was too much for her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/35 "2008-10-07T02:04:24Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I want to know about the carpooling coworker who wouldn’t turn on the A/C. I’d like to know how that turned out as well. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410/36 "2008-10-07T03:36:44Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > **Lobotomy-** -I vaguely remember that thread. She was surprised that some here expressed amazement and disgust that she would wait until she got the computer or whatever before she ended it with him. I think she just stopped posting–the righteous indignation was too much for her. 🙂 [underlining mine] Wait, I thought that the poster was male. He was tutoring her or something? She had his calculator, which was worth something like $170? She had to cut short the phone convo because she was rolling up to Mr. Gotrocks’ place. If the femme fatale ever chimed in, I missed it ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-that-thread-end/466410.md?page=1)