# Idle Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512 "2015-04-01T16:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/301 "2015-04-03T01:12:34Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > The board had to create a whole 'nother forum because he likes “thread games” The Thread Games forum being made had nothing to do with me. ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/302 "2015-04-03T01:16:06Z")
**Idle Thoughts** , when you are standing in line in the lunch-room at middle school, do you like to tap on the right shoulder of the person in front of you, and then you duck left, so when he/she spins around there’s nobody there? Do you like to make people in the lunch-room laugh while they are drinking milk so it comes out their nose? Funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/303 "2015-04-03T01:37:58Z")
Hey Miller, thanks for the clarification. That was some weird ass shit. The norm was askew. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/304 "2015-04-03T01:43:11Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > The Thread Games forum being made had nothing to do with me. Oh, yes it did. You know it, too. Don’t weasel out of this. It was a direct consequence of you unilateraly rewriting the rules of the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/305 "2015-04-03T01:44:02Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Whatever you’ve got planned for next year, please include me in it. I’m strongly considering pitting you for your oversight in leaving me out this year. That’s patent favoritism and I should not have to tolerate it. > [@kayT](#): > > Me too! Me too! (waves hand) They can have mine. I don’t like PM spam any more than I like email spam. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/306 "2015-04-03T01:47:05Z")
> [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](#): > > **Idle Thoughts** , when you are standing in line in the lunch-room at middle school, do you like to tap on the right shoulder of the person in front of you, and then you duck left, so when he/she spins around there’s nobody there? Do you like to make people in the lunch-room laugh while they are drinking milk so it comes out their nose? > > Funny stuff. You know … when I was very, very young and people engaged in that kind of horseplay, I recall how they thought that was just so very very funny. But then, when they got older and became adults, it seemed to turn out they were not so funny anymore. Their youthful years never really lasted very long as compared to their adult years. It was much more funny when they grew up but it was much more funny as long as they paid attention to them selves when they were young. Lah - dee - dah! Lah - dee - dah! It was plenty funny while it lasted. Don’t chew think? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/307 "2015-04-03T01:50:14Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > You know … when I was very, very young and people engaged in that kind of horseplay, I recall how they thought that was just so very very funny. But then, when they got older and became adults, it seemed to turn out they were not so funny anymore. Their youthful years never really lasted very long as compared to their adult years. It was much more funny when they grew up but it was much more funny as long as they paid attention to them selves when they were young. > Lah - dee - dah! > Lah - dee - dah! > It was plenty funny while it lasted. Don’t chew think? I don’t know. Justin Timberlake is a fraud, too. He didn’t bring sexy back. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/308 "2015-04-03T01:55:47Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Justin Timberlake is a fraud, too. He didn’t bring sexy back. I seem to get pitted quite a bit and I must tell you that I really don’t seem to mind anymore. I think that I have gotten used to it. So, please feel free to pit on me. I won’t hold her agin you. Go ahead and pit all you like. Really and truly, pit me all you like. it’s all OK. Really and truly. I don’t mind. Have at it! Honest and fer sure! I think it has worn off somehow. Really and for truly! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/309 "2015-04-03T01:58:30Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Justin Timberlake is a fraud, too. He didn’t bring sexy back. I seem to get pitted quite a bit and I must tell you that I really don’t seem to mind anymore. I think that I have gotten used to it, maybe. Maybe and fer sure. OK? Go ahead and pit away, dear. I don’t mind. Honest to goodness. Please feel free to pit on me all you like. I won’t hold her agin you. Go ahead and pit all you like. Really and truly, pit me all you like. it’s all OK. Really and truly. I don’t mind. I just need a little more medication and then I will be just fine. But I don’t think I want to post anymore tonight. It just seems to have lost its novelty on me. Sorry. But have yourself a good night and goodbye! Have at it! Honest and fer sure! I think it has worn off somehow. Really and for truly! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/310 "2015-04-03T02:07:53Z")
> [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](#): > > **Idle Thoughts** , when you are standing in line in the lunch-room at middle school, do you like to tap on the right shoulder of the person in front of you, and then you duck left, so when he/she spins around there’s nobody there? Do you like to make people in the lunch-room laugh while they are drinking milk so it comes out their nose? As your attorney I advise you to refuse any and all offers to look at his thumb, to avoid eating Hertz donuts, and if you ever hear the confusing term “ahomosezwut”… well, silence is golden. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/311 "2015-04-03T02:17:19Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > Oh, yes it did. You know it, too. Don’t weasel out of this. It was a direct consequence of you unilateraly rewriting the rules of the Game Room. The decision to make a new forum for Thread Games had already been made before that happened. A long time before it, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/312 "2015-04-03T02:24:25Z")
I can confirm that. It had nothing to do with Idle Thoughts. We debated and went back and forth for ages. Now, is this thread serving any further purpose? If not I’m going to lock it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/313 "2015-04-03T02:25:48Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > It will never be enough until **Idle Thoughts** pays each of you a most solemn, personal visit, dressed in sackcloth and covered in ashes to atone for this terrible, terrible offense. Actually, I’m pretty sure one of them Mod coffee cups would make me whole again. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/314 "2015-04-03T02:29:51Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > You know … when I was very, very young and people engaged in that kind of horseplay, I recall how they thought that was just so very very funny. But then, when they got older and became adults, it seemed to turn out they were not so funny anymore. Their youthful years never really lasted very long as compared to their adult years. It was much more funny when they grew up but it was much more funny as long as they paid attention to them selves when they were young. Did anyone try _reading_ this?! 😕 > [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I seem to get pitted quite a bit and I must tell you that I really don’t seem to mind anymore. I think that I have gotten used to it. > > So, please feel free to pit on me. I won’t hold her agin you. > > Go ahead and pit all you like. > > Really and truly, pit me all you like. it’s all OK. Really and truly. I don’t mind. > > Have at it! Honest and fer sure! I think it has worn off somehow. Really and for truly! Um… > [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I seem to get pitted quite a bit and I must tell you that I really don’t seem to mind anymore. I think that I have gotten used to it, maybe. Maybe and fer sure. OK? > > Go ahead and pit away, dear. I don’t mind. Honest to goodness. > Please feel free to pit on me all you like. I won’t hold her agin you. > > Go ahead and pit all you like. > > Really and truly, pit me all you like. it’s all OK. Really and truly. I don’t mind. > > I just need a little more medication and then I will be just fine. But I don’t think I want to post anymore tonight. > > It just seems to have lost its novelty on me. Sorry. But have yourself a good night and goodbye! > > Have at it! Honest and fer sure! I think it has worn off somehow. Really and for truly! What is your major malfunction, guy? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/315 "2015-04-03T02:30:12Z")
Dream on, big boy. Them Things is special. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/316 "2015-04-03T02:31:20Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Did anyone try _reading_ this?! 😕 Reads just like a Jack Handy quote. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/317 "2015-04-03T02:42:39Z")
If Jack Handy was played by Dennis Hopper on acid maybe. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/318 "2015-04-03T03:05:24Z")
IT calls ITself the happiest sadist. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/319 "2015-04-03T03:14:57Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I can confirm that. It had nothing to do with Idle Thoughts. We debated and went back and forth for ages. > > Now, is this thread serving any further purpose? If not I’m going to lock it. Dude, don’t let facts get in the way of a good RAILING TO THE HEAVENS!! \< clutches pearls \> ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512/320 "2015-04-03T03:17:00Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > The decision to make a new forum for Thread Games had already been made before that happened. A long time before it, actually. well, it took eight fucking months after that happened so… I just don’t believe you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts/716512.md?page=17)