# 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:** 4

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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:** [January 15, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/61 "2018-01-15T14:15:40Z")

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**When you tell people where you are from , what do they usually say?  
You might be richer than you think you are: Unclaimed Money**

“Hi! I’m Ludovic and I live in San Francisco and earn $250,000 a year like: you know, I’m your average middle-classer!”

:dubious:

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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:** [January 15, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/62 "2018-01-15T18:59:22Z")

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**Burning something in a sealed unit.  
Animals and pain**

Tonight’s special: Jar-Charred Chicken.

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/63 "2018-01-16T14:35:12Z")

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**How do you want your chicken dinner?  
Chickenman has gone to the great coop in the sky.**

No chicken for me, thanks.

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/64 "2018-01-16T16:01:32Z")

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**Medics and Priests during WW(x)  
Mass and Energy**

The priests only say mass if they have enough energy.

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/65 "2018-01-16T16:40:51Z")

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\*\* How did/do “primitive” people trim their toenails?  
Breech loading rifles and the American Civil War\*\*

“Hold still, Ephraim, that left big toe still looks a mite uneven.”

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/66 "2018-01-16T17:53:59Z")

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\*\*Chickenman has gone to the great coop in the sky.  
How do you want your chicken dinner?  
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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:** [January 16, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/67 "2018-01-16T19:05:34Z")

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\*\* I Don’t Get This Science Joke

For the nerds: a proof that maths is sexy  
\*\*

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/68 "2018-01-16T21:54:38Z")

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\*\*In the US, can an off-duty rent-a-cop exercise arrest powers?  
How do you tell what is or is not OK to freeze? \*\*

Can’t they just say, Don’t move!" instead?

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/69 "2018-01-16T23:57:16Z")

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**What would be wrong with a norm of explicit, enthusiastic consent to every sex act?  
Is Fox News really all that bad?**

Supposedly, they’ve got the explicit and enthusiastic part down pat…

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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:** [January 17, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/70 "2018-01-17T14:22:25Z")

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\*\* It may be time for Americans to consider splitting up the UNITED States of America irst new post Post your unpopular opinions\*\*

Answered and asked

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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:** [January 17, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/71 "2018-01-17T16:59:41Z")

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\*\* Travel tips from a seasoned traveler  
Pineapple Casserole — What the Hell?\*\*

Hey, those Iowa bed-and-breakfasts can be a culinary treat.

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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:** [January 17, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/72 "2018-01-17T18:00:47Z")

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**What do you think of in the first 5 seconds when you hear the term “social engineering”?  
Trivial Things that annoy you**

Greetings Sir Ludovic, please to enter your Dope password because it has been :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:

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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:** [January 17, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/73 "2018-01-17T18:45:13Z")

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Thread title / last poster combo:

**What Happens When Your Child Outgrows Their Nanny?**  
Hilarity N. Suze

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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:** [January 18, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/74 "2018-01-18T03:23:38Z")

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**What do you think of in the first 5 seconds when you hear the term “social engineering”?  
Yer father’s mustache?**

Maybe, at least that’s what _I_ think of.

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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:** [January 18, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/75 "2018-01-18T13:28:18Z")

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\*\* Would this be murder?  
Lights dim when blow-dryer is turned on\*\*

…then Molly misses a step and falls down the basement stairs.

Diabolical!

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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:** [January 18, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/76 "2018-01-18T14:06:53Z")

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**If healthy young adults are dying from the flu this year why aren’t fatalities higher?  
Car overheated, Heater clamped off, is that why?**

No, you’re thinking of the plague, when people who habitually were near fires were affected less because the heat drove the fleas away.

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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:** [January 18, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/77 "2018-01-18T19:51:14Z")

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\*\* California couple charged with torture after police rescue 13 children.

I have neighbours from hell.

\*\*

I’ll bet they’re not as bad as the ones that California couple’s neighbors had

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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:** [January 19, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/78 "2018-01-19T00:06:00Z")

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**Song you didn’t fully understand until…  
Instant Pot - tell me about this trendy new gizmo**

Dude, have you really _listened_ to the airport noises in On The Run. They, like, represent the futility and alienation of modern life, man.

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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:** [January 19, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/79 "2018-01-19T16:41:58Z")

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\*\* Impending landslide near Yakima  
Love always finds a way\*\*

❤

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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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/80 "2018-01-19T21:28:37Z")

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\*\* Very heavy weight presses on laptop, which components likely to fail?  
Would this be murder? \*\*

“You bought a laptop. You named it ‘Brad’.”

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