# Sequential Threads 2000 (and 18)!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 1, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697 "2018-01-01T18:27:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 12

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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:** [February 15, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/221 "2018-02-15T11:24:41Z")

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**You wouldn’t download a city…  
How do you pronounce “extraordinary” and “often”?**

At least not often. It’s extraordinary.

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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:** [February 15, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/222 "2018-02-15T11:54:48Z")

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**"Shit-eating grin" - origin?  
Full body orgasm with oral sex**

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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:** [February 15, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/223 "2018-02-15T16:38:48Z")

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\*\* What Existed Before Anything Existed?  
Living in the post office\*\*

Just recently, they unearthed the fossilized bones of someone who’d been waiting on line in the post office to mail a package since the Mesozoic era.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/224 "2018-02-15T19:08:07Z")

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**Candy hearts written by a neural network  
I think I should get the Nobel prize for this**

Don’t book your flight to Stockholm just yet.

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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:** [February 15, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/225 "2018-02-15T20:22:42Z")

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\*\* If Dopers Wrote Candy Hearts

Candy hearts written by a neural network

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/226 "2018-02-16T02:39:44Z")

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**Cape Town water: impending crisis  
What Unconventional (but still good) Advice Do You Have?**

Cut your showering back to once a month.

**2018 Mass Killings in the United States  
Explaining death to a child**

“See all those people laying there with holes in them? They’re dead.”

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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:** [February 16, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/227 "2018-02-16T13:42:54Z")

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\*\*Can USPS supplies be used differently than the intended use ?

Living in the post office  
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“Yeah, I just made my bed by putting down a few layers of bubble wrap held together with packing tape and covered with a bunch of Overnight Mail boxes taped together. It’s real comfy.”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/228 "2018-02-16T14:41:53Z")

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**If the fate of the universe is a big crunch…  
What Existed Before Anything Existed?  
Game Theory and Chinese Auctions**

Final bids! Place your final bids!

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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:** [February 16, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/229 "2018-02-16T15:02:09Z")

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\*\*Tell me about Chuck E. Cheese

Generally speaking, how many masculine groups/cutulres are there?  
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I think anthropologists have identified three different Masculine Subcultures living in Chuck E. Cheese – The Gamers, the Nerds, and the Tough Kids.

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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:** [February 16, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/230 "2018-02-16T15:36:32Z")

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\*\* What Unconventional (but still good) Advice Do You Have?

I think I should get the Nobel prize for this

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“Winner of the Nobel Prize for Unconventional but Good Advice goes to…” (opens envelope) “…Dan Savage!”

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/231 "2018-02-16T20:50:48Z")

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**Training book for dogs   
BMW 325i for tracking?**

I’d suggest a [Haynes](https://haynes.com/en-us/bmw/325i/1999-2005) manual.

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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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/232 "2018-02-16T22:42:17Z")

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**Confused about the Mueller indictments  
Tell me about Chuck E. Cheese**

It’s the [nexus](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chuck-E-Cheeses/207964602559120) of the Trump-Russia connection. Be very afraid, and never get the borscht pizza. :eek:

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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:** [February 17, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/233 "2018-02-17T03:45:25Z")

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**Is Cecil Adams immortal?  
What’s the life span of a skyscraper?**

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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:** [February 17, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/234 "2018-02-17T04:22:59Z")

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**Rod Serling’s description of The Twilight Zone also describes the Internet  
A Plague of Cats!**

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**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/235 "2018-02-17T13:14:47Z")

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I have way too much cat hair in my nose

I should get a Nobel prize for 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:** [February 17, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/236 "2018-02-17T17:49:27Z")

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**The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of school children  
Tell me about Chuck E. Cheese**

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/237 "2018-02-17T18:08:46Z")

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**Tell us about your daily work lunch experience (not the food, everything else)  
Hey- stink bugs stink like Cilantro!**

I, uhhh, can’t make it to meet you for lunch. The boss, ummm, just called an important meeting. Yeah, yeah, that’s it I have a meeting.

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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:** [February 17, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/238 "2018-02-17T18:45:23Z")

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\*\* What would happen if males and females traded sexualities?  
2018 Diet and Fitness Thread \*\*  
Males, females, or both?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/239 "2018-02-17T19:43:45Z")

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\*\*What’s for dinner?  
I wanted Chinese, dammit!  
How to make chicken chunks in curries more tasty  
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Sorry, you’ll just have to settle for curry.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/240 "2018-02-18T02:35:13Z")

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\*\*Kid screams nonstop for 8-hour flight  
What should I have done? \*\*

There are lots of options.  
[ul]  
[li]Earplugs[/li][li]Asked to change seat[/li][li]Buy yourself some drinks[/li][li]But the kid a drink[/li][li]Air rage - slug mom (or kid); get plane diverted, get arrested.[/li][/ul]

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