# Season of mists and mellow sequential threads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 23, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598 "2012-10-23T05:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/21 "2012-10-24T18:43:46Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> **Alone again. What’s wrong with me?  
> Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech**
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> There’s less harsh ways to imply she’s fat, you know.

Also this one:

I’m having a baby.  
Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech.

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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:** [October 24, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/22 "2012-10-24T20:27:21Z")

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\*\* Is Ashtanga yoga a religious practice?  
How do you use your anvil? \*\*

I visualize it as a feather, then drop it gently on non-believers.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/23 "2012-10-24T22:59:00Z")

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\*\*In Glengarry Glen Ross, what exactly are the salesmen selling?

Electric roasters for turkeys? \*\*

Yes. Yes, that’s it.

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**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/24 "2012-10-24T23:52:38Z")

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\*\*I had bariatric surgery yesterday!!!

Blow it out your ass, Le Pétomane\*\*

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/25 "2012-10-25T02:41:56Z")

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**My workplace caught on fire  
I Don’t Want to Work**

Fair enough, under the circumstances.

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/26 "2012-10-25T02:43:54Z")

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**I Don’t Want to Work  
I’m having a baby**

So much for the “modern woman”.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/27 "2012-10-25T07:20:13Z")

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\*\*Confessions of a Party Princess  
I Don’t Want to Work \*\*

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/28 "2012-10-25T07:47:16Z")

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\*\*Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech  
Weight Loss Support Thread [edited title] \*\*

'Yooou wooouuldn’t beeliiieeeve hooow muuuch I weeeiiigh."  
**statistics, sex and pudding  
Please reassure me everything will turn out okay**

There’s a 76.8% chance that she’ll think it’s pleasantly kinky and not a turnoff. As long as you wash the pudding off after.

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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:** [October 25, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/29 "2012-10-25T11:56:14Z")

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\*\* Would you date a telepath?  
Does my daughter have eating issues?\*\*

Nah, she just likes fatty foods. Trust me on this.

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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:** [October 25, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/30 "2012-10-25T12:28:55Z")

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\*\*Two questions on the Traveler’s Dilemma (statistics):  
Truck won’t start  
\*\*  
OK. What’s your second question?

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**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/31 "2012-10-25T16:09:52Z")

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\*\* Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech  
Ed Zotti speaking at University of Tennessee Knoxville October 24 \*\*

please don’t ban me, Ed

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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:** [October 25, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/32 "2012-10-25T17:49:16Z")

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\*\*So. You got cancer in your balls. And this entitled you to…  
Crappy science instruction  
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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:** [October 25, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/33 "2012-10-25T20:44:11Z")

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\*\* Ask the person who calls people–telephone surveys  
BEEP! Beep. Beep BEEP. BEEEEEEP!..beep beep…BEEP!! BEEP BEEP!!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! \*\*

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/34 "2012-10-25T21:47:47Z")

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If only it weren’t for a MMP in between.

**My workplace caught on fire**  
**Don’t fire on a NATO warship**

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/35 "2012-10-25T22:16:58Z")

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\*\*Almost 30, never had a relationship. Any advice?  
The Friend Zone \*\*

It’s great! You can be the guy she turns to for relationship advice, and cries on after she’s ignored it, and move heavy stuff for her, and never get laid!

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**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/36 "2012-10-26T02:23:45Z")

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> [@koeeoaddi](#):
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> \*\* Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech  
> Ed Zotti speaking at University of Tennessee Knoxville October 24 \*\*
> 
> please don’t ban me, Ed

Don’t ban me for loling, either!

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/37 "2012-10-26T12:46:38Z")

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\*\* Alone again. What’s wrong with me?

Need colonoscopy jokes!!

\*\*

Well, I’ve got _one_ idea…

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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:** [October 26, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/38 "2012-10-26T12:59:31Z")

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**Sump Pump - plugging into a UPS?  
There’s no etiquette-approved way to do this is there?**

Use a hose with a flower-print design.

> [@koeeoaddi](#):
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> \*\* Beluga Whale Imitates Human Speech  
> Ed Zotti speaking at University of Tennessee Knoxville October 24 \*\*
> 
> please don’t ban me, Ed

This belongs in the Greatest Sequential Threads archive.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/39 "2012-10-26T13:02:24Z")

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\*\*Beans, beans, good for your heart…  
Asinine disclaimers in commercials \*\*

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-mists-and-mellow-sequential-threads/638598/40 "2012-10-26T13:34:36Z")

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\*\* Feeling a bit depressed at my lack of ambition

I Don’t Want to Work  
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