# 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:** 4
**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:** [April 18, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/61 "2004-04-18T04:46:13Z")
Hey, getting near 12 hours since the last posting…I think it might be dead now! ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/62 "2004-04-18T05:07:06Z")
…My stance on this issue is that the mass media basically controls the- Oops, wrong thread. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/63 "2004-04-18T05:13:47Z")
No problem. Accidental postings happen. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/64 "2004-04-18T07:02:53Z")
Hey, I seem to kill every thread I post to…um…too. Usually I’m not the LAST person, but even a great thread usually peters out within 3 posts of mine. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2004, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/65 "2004-04-18T09:33:37Z")
I’m glad I’m not late. That would just be awful. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/66 "2004-04-18T10:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m glad I’m not late. That would just be awful. I said you were in time to _watch_ the thread die. Not help out by bringing your own knife and stabbing it! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/67 "2004-04-18T16:56:45Z")
If people are still poking at this thread on Monday, I’ll come back and kill it then. Sheesh… amateurs. 😛 ---
**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:** [April 18, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/68 "2004-04-18T20:48:16Z")
> [@Low Key](#): > > I said you were in time to watch the thread die. Not help out by bringing your own knife and stabbing it! But it’s a really good knife, all shiny and stuff. Watch. DIE THREAD DIE! See. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/69 "2004-04-19T02:30:42Z")
Hey, nice stabbing action. I don’t think it worked, though… ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/70 "2004-04-19T04:12:36Z")
> [@](#): > > The Dead Thread That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead. > The End of the Front Page: 'Ere, he says he’s not dead. > The Hamster: Yes he is. > The Dead Thread That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not. > The End of the Front Page: He isn’t. > The Hamster: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill. > The Dead Thread That Claims It Isn’t: I’m getting better. > The Hamster: No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment. Now die already… 😉 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/71 "2004-04-19T11:10:59Z")
Let me try again. Batman style. Zang! Pong! Fnord! And just to finish it off, Whammo! ::sighs:: Well… ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/72 "2004-04-19T15:42:25Z")
Ok…I warned you, thread! Lessee, we tried poison, machete, knife, funny batman noises, general curses, poetry and rhyming, nudity, and Monty Python… I know! :harmless passes around baby pictures of the thread in an attempt to embarrass it to death: Hey, worked for my mom! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/73 "2004-04-19T16:02:07Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > :harmless passes around baby pictures of the thread in an attempt to embarrass it to death: > > Hey, worked for my mom! And yet, you’re still posting… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/74 "2004-04-19T20:50:37Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > And yet, you’re still posting… 😉 What? You trying to tell me that the undead can’t post here? You got some sort of _living_ requirement? You air breathers are all the same! _“Ooooh! You’re ear just fell off! That’s nasty!”_ Well, it happens! Get over it! :mad: I paid my $45.99 like everyone else, bub. besides, I’m just too damn stubborn to quit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/75 "2004-04-20T01:26:19Z")
This reminds me of a joke I heard once. See, there’s a doctor, and he’s sewing a blanket, and he’s having a lot of trouble with it. A nurse comes up to him and asks him what the difficulty is, and the doctor says - no, wait, that doesn’t come yet. The sewing thread, see, is - that’s not it either. Maybe the thread could talk? No… Ah, never mind. I’ll check back in when I remember it. Carry on. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/76 "2004-04-23T21:44:54Z")
No sign of life for four days. Oh yeah…I’d have to say it’s dead now. \ ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/77 "2004-04-23T22:01:43Z")
Just when I thought I was regaining my sanity… I’m stubborn, but Great Googly-Moogly I give up! 😃 yeah, right ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/78 "2004-04-23T23:26:32Z")
[cross the line] Maybe if we send it to Iraq [/cross the line] No pictures please! ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/79 "2004-04-24T02:21:01Z")
Threadkiller extrodinaire has arrived!!! Fear not! For I will be the one to introduce this thread to oblivion! _Ahem_ Herpes! Thank you! Thank you! I’m here all week! ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/80 "2004-04-24T03:03:56Z")
“Hermes”? What’s so thread-killing about that? Oh…wait. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558.md?page=5)