# It Came From The Crypt (Sequential Threads 2019)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 1, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052 "2019-01-01T18:39:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1141 "2019-09-19T14:08:55Z")

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**Airline passenger throws coin into airplane engine for good luck  
Well, that was that! --aborted vacation**

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1142 "2019-09-19T14:25:37Z")

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**Could you cook food with a light saber?  
Auction of Anthony Bourdain’s possessions**

I warned him to be careful sautéing the onions…☹

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1143 "2019-09-19T14:26:19Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> **Airline passenger throws coin into airplane engine for good luck  
> Well, that was that! --aborted vacation**

Nice!

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1144 "2019-09-19T15:12:02Z")

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**How averse are women to asking a man out?  
Financial dilemma: What would you do?**

Don’t worry, the default is dutch for women asking out men unless you surprise him with an extremely fancy restaurant.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1145 "2019-09-19T15:17:52Z")

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**What is the first sentence from the book you are currently reading?  
Ric Ocasek - The Cars, RIP**

Wow! That came out fast!

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1146 "2019-09-19T16:22:40Z")

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\*\* America opens the Borders. Then what?  
Going to permanent Daylight Saving Time\*\*

Whoa hold up there. I’d be all for open borders if it didn’t lead to permanent Daylight Saving Time!

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1147 "2019-09-19T17:25:14Z")

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**America opens the Borders. Then what?  
Atrial Fibrillation… Sigh…**

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1148 "2019-09-19T18:36:38Z")

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**What was Dracula’s end game in moving to London?  
green beans?**

It’s the only place that doesn’t add garlic.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1149 "2019-09-19T21:06:14Z")

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\*\* Financial dilemma: What would you do?  
Anyone try Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression\*\*

I’m so poor with no prospects, might as well take the Special K Challenge.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1150 "2019-09-20T18:18:09Z")

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**September’s shot already (mini-rants)   
Will this election also be decided by the perverse American fetish for GUNS?**

Definitely, since they killed September.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1151 "2019-09-20T18:32:46Z")

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**When your strongest values collide  
My birthday, your cake. What’ll it be?**

I’ll take your cake since I hold it stronger as a value than my birthday.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1152 "2019-09-20T23:13:28Z")

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**How averse are women to asking a man out?  
What utilitarian value does an AR-15 have**

It makes him a bit more likely to agree to a hot date at the Dairy Queen.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1153 "2019-09-21T01:07:34Z")

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**Alternative to making music CDs?  
Funny fruitspreads**

Ripping CDs is too expensive: how about some “Gobbo Thurston and the Raving Tacos”-branded fruitspread?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1154 "2019-09-21T12:01:01Z")

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**What would have been the effect of a US capital in St. Louis?  
“Stealth” type van living**

For awhile, most of Congress would be sleeping in a van … DOWN BY THE RIVER!

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1155 "2019-09-21T13:33:46Z")

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\*\* For non-gun owners: What would you fight to keep as much as guns are fought for in America?  
National Honor Society\*\*

“I’ll give you my National Honor Society pin when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1156 "2019-09-21T13:47:27Z")

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\*\* Should we get a budgie?  
Well, I own an antique piano  
When your strongest values collide\*\*

Owning a budgie vs. keeping the piano clean? Well, don’t let the bird shit on the piano?

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1157 "2019-09-21T14:08:33Z")

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\*\* What’s the root of the opprobrium against desiring pleasure?  
Help me buy an inflatable yak\*\*

Desiring pleasure??

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1158 "2019-09-22T14:03:58Z")

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**How are mice getting in my basement?  
National Honor Society**

Dem’s some smart mice.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1159 "2019-09-22T14:28:54Z")

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**America opens the Borders. Then what?  
Northerners who moved south.**

Y’all need a wall.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-came-from-the-crypt-sequential-threads-2019/827052/1160 "2019-09-23T08:44:51Z")

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**We send a message to the aliens. What’s the creepiest thing they could send back?  
Short Skirts in 1970’s/80’s junior high and high school. What hosiery did they wear?**

Pictures included.

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