# 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:** 44

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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:** [July 2, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/861 "2018-07-02T11:36:00Z")

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\*\*Help with a craft project - plaster of Paris substitute

Making Diet Ice Cream  
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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:** [July 2, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/862 "2018-07-02T11:49:45Z")

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\*\* Strange creature caught on my phone!

I, too, got a new kitten  
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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:** [July 2, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/863 "2018-07-02T12:18:34Z")

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\*\* Little black balls on the body  
Do you need to regularly disinfect your cell phone?\*\*

: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:** [July 2, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/864 "2018-07-02T19:34:57Z")

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\*\* Thank you, Unca Cece  
Little black balls on the body \*\*

And if you renew your Dope subscription for three years, we’ll throw in a unique set of gallstones and an inguinal hernia.

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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:** [July 2, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/865 "2018-07-02T19:38:57Z")

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\*\*Songs to kill a buzz  
Fixing my vibrator \*\*

It’s no longer buzzing

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/866 "2018-07-03T11:42:12Z")

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\*\*A little game I play to amuse myself - It Is What It Is

Am I a bad person for doing this?  
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Yes. It’s evil to perpetuate that trendy phrase

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/867 "2018-07-03T13:29:40Z")

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**Tell us about something you’ve done once - and only once - and will never do again.  
Am I a bad person for doing this?**

Not if you never do it again.

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/868 "2018-07-03T15:06:11Z")

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**Tell us about something you’ve done once - and only once - and will never do again.  
Write the world’s best clickbait**

Because if you write the best, the stuff you wrote before, by definition, wasn’t the best.

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/869 "2018-07-03T17:44:43Z")

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**What are the biggest questions remaining in the study of recent human evolution?  
Cramps causing actual damage**

You’d think we’d have evolved to prevent that!

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/870 "2018-07-03T20:25:09Z")

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\*\* My grandson exhibited at the Met  
Am I a bad person for doing this?\*\*

Depends on what you mean by “exhibiting at the Met”.

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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:** [July 3, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/871 "2018-07-03T21:01:28Z")

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**Why do Americans forget their ethnic roots?  
Gun Rights**

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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:** [July 4, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/872 "2018-07-04T05:14:33Z")

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**Little bloody footprints all over my house  
Strange creature caught on my phone!**

A vampire mouse?:eek:

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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:** [July 4, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/873 "2018-07-04T11:43:11Z")

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**I don’t understand why my girlfriend said this to me.  
I got $35K to invest. What would you do?**

It’s puzzling because I _know_ she doesn’t have $35K to invest, ifyouknowwhatimean.

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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:** [July 4, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/874 "2018-07-04T13:33:13Z")

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**Tell us about something you’ve done once - and only once - and will never do again.  
Little bloody footprints all over my house**

Yeah, that’s the last time I shoot a leprechaun in my pajamas.

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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:** [July 4, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/875 "2018-07-04T17:00:53Z")

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\*\*Things I’d forgotten cats do.  
Shooting at a Maryland Newspaper \*\*

Cats!

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/876 "2018-07-04T17:07:17Z")

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**Robin Cam!  
Things I’d forgotten cats do.**

Ah, poor Tweety, we hardly knew ye.

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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:** [July 5, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/877 "2018-07-05T13:31:32Z")

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**Slang terms for money  
Sell me on Silver Surfer**

“Silver Surfer” would be a bad, but not the absolute worst, slang term for money.

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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:** [July 5, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/878 "2018-07-05T13:41:10Z")

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\*\*Is it common for young adults with no jobs to get thrown out of their parents house?

Would you try living as an animal?  
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“Honey, is that Junior sleeping in the dog’s house?”

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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:** [July 5, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/879 "2018-07-05T16:39:00Z")

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\*\* Couple find unique message during bathroom remodel.

What if 0.999… does not equal 1?

\*\*  
“What does it mean?” they asked each other.  
Not being mathematicians, they never did figure it out.

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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:** [July 5, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/880 "2018-07-05T19:06:54Z")

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\*\* Podiatrist = quack?  
Anybody have a better idea on how to fight forest fires?\*\*

Once the doc fixes our feet, we’ll just stamp that fire out.

**Write the world’s best clickbait  
Did you hear the good news/Have you got any good news**

Well, that’s pretty damn weak. :dubious:

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