# I haven't killed a thread all month **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558 "2004-04-12T03:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/361 "2004-05-08T13:47:09Z")
I’ll do it. You get use to it after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/362 "2004-05-08T13:56:06Z")
Ain’t **harmless** a good sport? 🙂 \:_ **\<\<\\>\>** _ Oh my god! **harmless** has been shot! Oh geez, the blood…this is just…someone call 911! ☹ **harmless** , don’t you die on us (again)…oh, the humanit…err…zombiety! _Did anyone see who pulled the trigger???_ ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/363 "2004-05-08T14:18:18Z")
Um… Hal? That was just Harmless getting married and having a baby. (Shotgun wedding?) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/364 "2004-05-08T15:04:05Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Um… Hal? That was just Harmless getting married and having a baby. (Shotgun wedding?) 😃 That was too good. ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/365 "2004-05-08T17:44:52Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Um… Hal? That was just Harmless getting married and having a baby. (Shotgun wedding?) Of course, if this is really like Friends, she’ll be able to ignore the baby for hours at a time, with no consequenses! Isn’t TV parenting great? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/366 "2004-05-08T18:44:58Z")
I’m back. And to think 2 days of illness would try and stop me from killing this thread. But I proved them wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/367 "2004-05-08T18:49:52Z")
Perfect…undead births (hey, wait…who is the father?? Ooo…keep it a mystery…great ratings-grabber), **tick** \*barely \* surviving his _near-fatal illness_. Drama, people…high drama, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/368 "2004-05-08T19:05:00Z")
Watch out…the widdle one’s a biter, yes she is! 😃 Just like mommy. ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/369 "2004-05-09T04:58:12Z")
Had to save this one from the edge… it was 1 thread away from forever disappearing on page 2. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/370 "2004-05-09T05:07:29Z")
> [@Lando Griffin](#): > > Had to save this one from the edge… it was 1 thread away from forever disappearing on page 2. > > 😉 [internal monologue]_My arch nemesis, **Lando Griffin** , is online! Respond with something clever!_[/im] Ummmm… What? ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/371 "2004-05-09T05:37:25Z")
Ha! You can’t fool me! You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/372 "2004-05-09T05:42:22Z")
How’s about gas powered? ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/373 "2004-05-09T08:06:47Z")
Hmm, I suppose so. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/374 "2004-05-09T13:19:44Z")
\ Well, that about wraps this up. Threads over, folks…move along…nothing more to post here…there’s a good fellow…just move it along… ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/375 "2004-05-09T14:55:59Z")
Clothahump wanders in with his usual bewildered look, wearing an Orkin uniform and a large pump on his back. “Excuse me. Someone called for a threadkiller? Never heard of a thread before, but I’m hell on cockroaches.” With that, he starts spraying wildly throughout the thread. It begins to twitch and shrivel… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/376 "2004-05-09T14:58:23Z")
Noooo! Are you _insane_?? Don’t you know that using insecticide on a thread just causes it to mutate and grow stronger than ever? Ruuuuun!! Run for your lives!! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/377 "2004-05-09T14:59:19Z")
Leaving the undead harmless and a few cockroaches as the only survivers. Cockroach brains, anyone? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/378 "2004-05-09T15:02:11Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Noooo! Are you _insane_?? Don’t you know that using insecticide on a thread just causes it to mutate and grow stronger than ever? Ruuuuun!! Run for your lives!! That’s right, **Hal** , you keep running! ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/379 "2004-05-10T00:19:50Z")
Here’s hoping that **harmless** passed out from the fumes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/380 "2004-05-10T01:05:58Z")
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