# Oh well Got my Thread Locked **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783 "2006-02-16T12:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/21 "2006-02-16T15:27:08Z")
I can’t think of any time when my $14.95 was money so well spent. Oh wait, I’m paying $7.50. My cup runneth over.\* \*Psalms 23:5 for the conspiracy theorists ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/22 "2006-02-16T15:43:16Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > There’s a much better reason for it being closed: you really shouldn’t post while you’re fucked up on drugs. Are you kidding me?! Those are the most entertaining posts out there. I’d rather snicker my way through any number of insane numerological conspiracy posts than see yet another TMI thread about people’s anal lesions or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/23 "2006-02-16T15:43:56Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > And it’s all controlled by the Pentagon. We shall have to put a hex on them. But not until September ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/24 "2006-02-16T15:54:04Z")
Is there a way to subscribe to a user? This could be an interesting 30 days. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/25 "2006-02-16T15:58:25Z")
3141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609 … Tune in tomorrow for the next installment of this gripping tale of conspiracy and wank. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/26 "2006-02-16T16:00:24Z")
Who is that guy that who was claiming that Arafat was going to come back to life and be the Antichrist? I’m thinking thee way kook fight. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/27 "2006-02-16T16:04:19Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Is there a way to subscribe to a user? This could be an interesting 30 days. I’m sure he has a newsletter you can subscribe to. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/28 "2006-02-16T16:06:39Z")
Sigh. I am surrounded by evidence that other people have access to _much_ better drugs than I do. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/29 "2006-02-16T16:08:11Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > We shall have to put a hex on them. > > But not until September On the Ides. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/30 "2006-02-16T16:09:20Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Who is that guy that who was claiming that Arafat was going to come back to life and be the Antichrist? > > I’m thinking thee way kook fight. Thy way or the highway, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/31 "2006-02-16T16:11:22Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > We shall have to put a hex on them. Wait a minute. You want to take the representation of America’s pent up aggression and turn it into a hex symbol? Witch! Witch! She’s a witch!! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/32 "2006-02-16T16:20:44Z")
This reminds me of a series of Pogo strips. Since the swamp is pretty remote, nobody gets any mail. So, Churchy the Turtle took it upon himself to write letters to everybody just so they’d get letters. His letters were usually nonsense poems because he had run out of the usual mundane topics to write about. The buzzard with the top hat and flapping lid started a conspiracy theory that Churchy was sending out subversive mail and was using secret code for some dire purpose. He read one of the poems aloud, and his audience said they didn’t understand it. He replied “Exactly! It’s the things that we don’t understand that are dangerous!” So, some of the other nogoodniks of the swamp got together to put Churchy on trial, but he went into hiding. They put together a jury and read another one of his letters to them. Then they revealed it was the same thing forward and backward! So the jurors got together in their rocking chairs and corncob pipes and decided yes, Churchy was definitely guilty. One lady said, “What’s he guilty of, hon?” Another one said “Lord, I been so busy, I never paid that no never mind.” A third one said “You can be sure he’s guilty of whatever it was, though. Where they’s smoke, they’s fire.” So les, keep this up, and the swamp animals will get ya. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/33 "2006-02-16T16:50:02Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > We shall have to put a hex on them. > > But not until September Keep this up and I may be forced to slap you with an octopus. Jack ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/34 "2006-02-16T16:55:49Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > Keep this up and I may be forced to slap you with an octopus. Oh grow up already! It’s a non-issue. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/35 "2006-02-16T16:56:11Z")
Dayum, I think we’ve finally found the guy who’s sending out all those spam messages with the random-word-generated subject lines! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/36 "2006-02-16T16:57:54Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > Keep this up and I may be forced to slap you with an octopus. To atone for this sin of cephalocide, I suggest you perform a novena. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/37 "2006-02-16T17:02:31Z")
I thought [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=359132) would go a long ways towards explaining things, and then I realized that the username is different: **Eleusis** and **lesous**. Only one of these posters is tripping on mushrooms. Oddly enough, the correlation you’d expect seems to be inverted, though… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/38 "2006-02-16T17:03:26Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > And it’s all controlled by the Pentagon. Or the Pendragon, one or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/39 "2006-02-16T17:03:59Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Who is that guy that who was claiming that Arafat was going to come back to life and be the Antichrist? [Ephraim](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=331888&highlight=arafat+anti-christ). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783/40 "2006-02-16T17:05:00Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Is there a way to subscribe to a user? This could be an interesting 30 days. No kidding. If he manages to survive that long… Oh well. It gives a lovely light. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-well-got-my-thread-locked/344783.md?page=3)