I’m sorry for being Byzantine but could you say that again?
What?
We have people here from Byzantium?
Didn’t you see that bus load from Constantinople?
Who could fathom out their vicissitudes?
Did I kill this thread?
Why would you think you killed a thread?
Because there’s been no reply since mine?
Could you give it a little more time, before pronouncing it killed?
Or should we resort to a coroner’s acumen?
Is an acumen that thing the coroner sticks into the corpse to say it’s done?
It’s been two days with no new posts, so does this mean I have to go on the lam?
Perhaps, but what if the lam lies down on Broadway?
What if I had answered: “no, nobody did”? 
Would that mean that Peter Gabriel rejoined Genesis?
Am I the only one confused by that?
Would it surprise you to know that I am glad that somebody got that reference?
When did Arya Stark join the SDMB?
Did they ever ask out of sequence like this on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Is the Night King about to turn all Dopers into zombies?
When, exactly, does a Dope thread become a zombie?