# Nothing
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 31, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011 "2000-05-31T15:25:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@InsanityIncarnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsanityIncarnate)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/21 "2000-06-01T08:35:01Z")
good can come of this
ANd again I’m talking about nothing. Why does this always happen I just ramble on and on and there never seems to be a subject. I guess nothing is a subject,but…
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### Author:  [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/22 "2000-06-01T13:06:54Z")
…is what love’s got to do with it, got to do with it…
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### Author:  [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/23 "2000-06-01T13:19:30Z")
is apparently more than we realized.
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### Author:  [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/24 "2000-06-01T13:35:32Z")
But the clear blue sky…
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/25 "2000-06-01T13:50:40Z")
_psycat90_ Thats what I was gonna say!
Ah well here’s a contribution.
A man was passing a small courtyard and heard voices murmuring. He went in and saw an altar with a large zero in the middle and a banner that said ‘NIL’.
White-robed people were kneeling before the altar chanting hymns to The Great Nullity and The Blessed Emptiness.
The man turned to a white-robed observer beside him and asked, “Is Nothing Sacred?”
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### Author:  [@Spolvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spolvy)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/26 "2000-06-01T13:53:14Z")
to do when you’re locked in a vacancy.
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### Author:  [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/27 "2000-06-01T15:44:57Z")
(Breakfast Club? Cool!)
…makes it easier to pad your post count than posting to this thread…
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/28 "2000-06-01T15:47:14Z")
…but the best, baby!
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### Author:  [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/29 "2000-06-01T15:53:21Z")
… is better than God.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than God.
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### Author:  [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/30 "2000-06-01T16:18:52Z")
…is oblivion
…Will pad my post count like this thread
…from nothing leaves nothing, ya gotta have something, if you wanta be with me!
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/31 "2000-06-02T00:42:52Z")
…comes from Nothing. Nothing ever could.
So sometime in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/32 "2000-06-02T01:04:21Z")
…left to say, I guess. Just the same as all the rest.
… will come from nothing, you know what they say? Cheer up, you old bugger. Come on, give us a grin. See? It’s the end of the film. Incidentally, this record’s available in the foyer. Some of us have got to live as well, you know. Who do you think pays for all this rubbish? They’ll never make their money back, you know. I told him. I said to him, “Bernie,” I said, "they’ll never make that money back … fade out
panama jack
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Always look on the bright side of life.
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### Author:  [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/33 "2000-06-02T01:13:28Z")
…but net.
…left to lose.
…will ever be the same.
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### Author:  [@Argeable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argeable)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/34 "2000-06-02T01:19:40Z")
…has more inane cliches.
…likes a drunk.
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### Author:  [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing/21011/35 "2000-06-02T02:17:07Z")
…Da-mn dude your ship s-unk.
…Your shab-by ho’s,
…got you’z drunk.
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