# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/121 "2004-04-30T17:48:44Z")
If we were judging by that, I would’ve already won at least twice. It’s almost discouraging. 😉 ---
**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 30, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/122 "2004-04-30T18:35:47Z")
Right, that’s it. Death doesn’t do it, Zombies don’t do it, Mods won’t do it. I guess I have no other choice. :scatters hamster food around: Come and get it, boys! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/123 "2004-04-30T18:51:08Z")
So I was walking to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams when I accidently stepped into an alternate dimension and soon I was abducted by some aliens from space that kinda looked like Jamie Farr… ---
**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 30, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/124 "2004-04-30T18:57:55Z")
In drag or in uniform? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/125 "2004-04-30T21:23:57Z")
Not sure, but they sucked out my internal organs and they took some Polaroids and said I was a darn good sport and as a way of saying thank you they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/126 "2004-04-30T21:29:19Z")
And you chose to come back now? Why not some time exotic? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/127 "2004-04-30T21:39:52Z")
Well, I had them send me back to last Thursday night so I could pay my phone bill on time. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/128 "2004-04-30T22:54:55Z")
I suppose that makes sense, but why not just go far enough into the future that the phone company’s gone banjript? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/129 "2004-04-30T22:58:04Z")
> [@Some mentally challenged buffoon](#): > > I suppose that makes sense, but why not just go far enough into the future that the phone company’s gone banjript? Errr… bank **k** r **u** pt :smack: ---
**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:** [April 30, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/130 "2004-04-30T23:03:17Z")
I give up. self-:wally ---
**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 1, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/131 "2004-05-01T00:23:29Z")
Oh, no you don’t…you’re not self- :wally-ing your way into killing this thread! And to be honest, I thought “banjript” was just your way of trying to sound like an old codger or something… 🙂 ---
**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 1, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/132 "2004-05-01T00:35:16Z")
I wonder if Godwin’s law works in this situation… WARNING: TASTELESS Hitler would have found a Final Solution for this thread a long time ago ---
**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 1, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/133 "2004-05-01T00:52:30Z")
You’re quite right. That was \*very \* tasteless and highly inappropriate. In fact, I’m so offended, I really think this thread should be shut down right now, with absolutely no follow-up posting. ---
**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 1, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/134 "2004-05-01T02:23:53Z")
Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/135 "2004-05-01T02:59:28Z")
I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin when I got a nasty papercut and, well, to make a long story short it got infected and I died **OH, WHY WON’T THE SMILIE STAY GREEN?** :mad: totally screws with the whole hitchhiker’s theme. ---
**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 1, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/136 "2004-05-01T05:12:07Z")
Oh, for the love of…_does this mean we have to deal with the undead again_?? Cripes…have _any idea_ how expensive Purina Zombie Chow is getting these days?? ---
**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 1, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/137 "2004-05-01T05:18:34Z")
No, this thread is only MOSTLY dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/138 "2004-05-01T06:32:00Z")
Dead puppies!!! ---
**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 1, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/139 "2004-05-01T13:17:29Z")
… That is all. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558/140 "2004-05-01T14:04:51Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Oh, for the love of…_does this mean we have to deal with the undead again_?? > > Cripes…have _any idea_ how expensive Purina Zombie Chow is getting these days?? As if I ever left! :mad: Besides, I did make it up to heaven with St. Peter by the pearly gates and it’s obvious he doesn’t like the Nehru jacket that I’m wearing; he tells me that they’ve got a dress code. :rolleyes: Well, he lets me into heaven anyway but I get the room next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity and every day he runs by screaming… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-havent-killed-a-thread-all-month/239558.md?page=8)