# 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:** 33

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/641 "2018-05-15T11:57:03Z")

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\*\*What name was given to the lowest Ottoman army foot soldiers?

Weather Balloons.  
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We learn a little every day

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/642 "2018-05-15T12:38:37Z")

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\*\* Nuclear survival? How would you do it?  
Recommend me some slippers \*\*

It’s the end of the world as we know it - but I have comfy feet.

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/643 "2018-05-15T12:53:12Z")

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\*\* And now, Russian women in high heels  
I’m still alive, I promise  
Wallet returned—without the cash \*\*

That’s the best outcome you could have expected.

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/644 "2018-05-15T14:15:49Z")

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\*\*Is Flying REALLY The Safest Way To Travel?

Debunking of the Ghost of Flight 401?

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/645 "2018-05-15T16:21:47Z")

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**So a funny thing happened when I got pulled over today . . .  
My first colonoscopy!**

Did they find any contraband?

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/646 "2018-05-15T17:00:20Z")

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Separated by one:  
\*\*14th Human Foot washes ashore

Men’s Footless Panty Hose  
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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:** [May 15, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/647 "2018-05-15T18:35:53Z")

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\*\*Nuclear survival? How would you do it?

One afternoon and evening in Vegas

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“Shoot! A feller could have a pretty good time in Vegas with this stuff!”

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/648 "2018-05-15T20:04:36Z")

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\*\* Have you ever encountered my favorite Wiener?

What is the most unnatural food you can name?

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/649 "2018-05-15T20:37:20Z")

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**God and Life  
Would it be ethical to create an AI capable of feeling suffering?**

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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:** [May 15, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/650 "2018-05-15T21:50:47Z")

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\*\* Is this double vision, monovision or both?  
Cats! My god, right? \*\*

Nope, just one opossum. You might need a new prescription.

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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:** [May 16, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/651 "2018-05-16T11:33:37Z")

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\*\* Two vehicle search cases heard at Supreme Court today

My first colonoscopy!  
\*\*  
Only if you view yourself as a “vehicle”.  
“Sir, will you step out of your pants, please. Put your hands on the police car and spread your legs.”

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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:** [May 16, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/652 "2018-05-16T13:19:13Z")

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\*\* Could the Big Bang universe be bigger than we see on screen?  
A cocky cock-up  
television shows that decided to add kids \*\*

All this applies to Howard Wolowitz, who is cocky and thr father of two kids that we know of (and possibly more, given his past hound dogging)

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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:** [May 16, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/653 "2018-05-16T14:08:28Z")

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\*\* Okay, Football Players Beat their Wives, but in Golf…

Okay, I get it, you love your mother. Enough already!

\*\*

TMI

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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:** [May 16, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/654 "2018-05-16T16:12:53Z")

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**What’s for dinner?  
American version of Vegemite**

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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:** [May 17, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/655 "2018-05-17T13:35:25Z")

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\*\* Margot Kidder dead at 69.  
A cocky cock-up\*\*

69?

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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:** [May 17, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/656 "2018-05-17T15:37:58Z")

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**What do modern Japanese think of Kamikaze pilots  
Ever been in a car that’s gone airborne?**  
Even if your car is airborne, you’re still a driver & not a pilot.

> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> \*\* Two vehicle search cases heard at Supreme Court today
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> My first colonoscopy! \*\*  
> Only if you view yourself as a “vehicle”.

Vehicles that do less than 5000 miles a year are emission test exempt; the first year I did over 5000 on my bike there were some comments that I was now required to go for an “emission” test. :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:** [May 17, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/657 "2018-05-17T16:52:21Z")

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\*\* 14th Human Foot washes ashore  
FCC fines robocaller $120 million \*\*

Guy just wouldn’t take no for an answer. ☹

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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:** [May 17, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/658 "2018-05-17T17:14:59Z")

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\*\*I need to send a bottle of liquor from the USA to India. How should I do it?

Ever been in a car that’s gone airborne?

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\*\* Solutions to problems that don’t exist

Murder by Keyfob  
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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:** [May 17, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/659 "2018-05-17T18:21:31Z")

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\*\* moving US embassy to Jerusalem thread  
Have you ever encountered my favorite Wiener? \*\*

It might be easier to find Hebrew National Wieners than Ball Park Franks.

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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:** [May 18, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/660 "2018-05-18T15:40:22Z")

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\*\* How do you move to a foreign country and never learn to speak their language…  
Well, I just took a Hydrocodone and I don’t see what the big fuss is about. \*\*

“Tu no hablas nuestro idioma!”  
“Like…whatever, dude.”

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