# Sequential Threads 2000 (and 18)! **URL:** \ **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:** 80
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1581 "2018-12-20T13:41:13Z")
\*\* Given the spate of amazon package thefts, has anyone invented a practical countermeasure? Code Adam and storekeeper’s privilege\*\* How do I know you don’t have a kid hidden in that Amazon box? You’re staying right here until the cops arrive. :mad: ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1582 "2018-12-20T14:59:09Z")
\*\* Given the spate of amazon package thefts, has anyone invented a practical countermeasure? Desiccants? \*\* Bait boxes filled with desiccant packets, to turn thieves into dried hulks - genius!!! ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1583 "2018-12-20T15:15:35Z")
**What kind of parents name their child Adolph Hitler? Is there a place for non-politically correct speech?** That name is definitely non-politically correct. \*\* Tell me about your colonoscopy Me Choose a Router!\*\* Roto-Rooter? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1584 "2018-12-20T16:59:37Z")
\*\* Is there ever any appropriate way to hit on a coworker? Remember seasonal fruit? \*\* Nice line, but a bit chancy - especially if you keep harping on bananas and melons. :dubious: ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1585 "2018-12-21T01:36:32Z")
\*\*Help Me Choose a Router! Assistance and advice sought for woodworking / furniture repair. \*\* What do you mean, “I didn’t mean _that_ kind of Router?” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1586 "2018-12-21T10:31:53Z")
**What color was this car? What is the boiling point of THC at 1 atm?** I say it was green, you say it was red, but, like, what if the green you see in your mind is my red, man? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1587 "2018-12-21T14:31:57Z")
\*\* It’s dawn - at 8.50 am Happy solstice, all! \*\* Says it all ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1588 "2018-12-21T16:38:01Z")
\*\* Not enough votes to override a veto? What is the job title of the galley-slave drum beater? \*\* Nancy Pelosi’s executive assistant? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1589 "2018-12-21T20:01:26Z")
\*\* Is there a place for non-politically correct speech? Tell me about your best sneaky gift-wrapping \*\* You should’ve seen Elizabeth Warren’s face when she eagerly opened the box of Godiva chocolates, and instead there was a copy of “The Turner Diaries” in there. Tee-hee! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1590 "2018-12-21T20:20:49Z")
\*\*It’s been blowing since Tuesday Tornado Touches Down West of Seattle \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1591 "2018-12-21T23:19:23Z")
**Which National Park Did You Last Visit? Is there a place for non-politically correct speech?** Sorry, Hyde Park doesn’t count as a National Park. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1592 "2018-12-22T15:57:05Z")
\*\* fake news, this time out of Germany Steal copper and have sex \*\* sounds fake to me ---
**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:** [December 22, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1593 "2018-12-22T17:09:24Z")
\*\* Is there any market research that indicates serious DEMAND for self driving cars?! Self driving cars are still decades away \*\* Be careful, there’s a Mini-Cooper cruising up and down your street, and it looks _pissed_. :eek: ---
**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:** [December 22, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1594 "2018-12-22T19:22:02Z")
\*\* I drove my Mini Cooper through 4" of water Steal copper and have sex \*\* I think something is misspelled–is it “Cooper” or copper" and/or “steal” or “steel”? Anway, how was the sex? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1595 "2018-12-23T14:14:22Z")
**Advice on buying books for a second-grade girl All of the other reindeer were jerks.** Other good modern children’s titles are "Charlotte’s Web of Lies and Deceit, “Frosty the Serial Groper” and “The F.D.A. Cracks Down On Green Eggs and Spoiled Ham”. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1596 "2018-12-23T14:36:41Z")
**Probability question. Which folder contains a photo of a particular object?** ---
**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:** [December 23, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1597 "2018-12-23T17:28:24Z")
**What’s your favorite Christmas carol? Christmas Cookies!** [I’ve heard worse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCmeKs8Zpk&frags=pl%2Cwn). _I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe The ones that look like Santa Claus Christmas trees, bells and stars I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe Now, Christmas cookies are a special treat The more she bakes the more I eat_ ---
**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:** [December 24, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1598 "2018-12-24T01:55:23Z")
\*\*Random Voice Chat w/ Flip-Phone? Wild Mynas, Parrots (and other talking birds) \*\* When did Verizon introduce beak dialing? ---
**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:** [December 24, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1599 "2018-12-24T13:31:49Z")
\*\* Who has baby Jesus? Santa Claus is coming to the MMP!! \*\* And for that lucky person expecting a flat-screen TV who’s getting the infant Messiah instead, Merry Xmas! ---
**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:** [December 24, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697/1600 "2018-12-24T14:48:07Z")
\*\* Should we get a budgie? Do you give your pets gifts at Christmas?\*\* Your cat will love a budgie. For Christmas dinner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-2000-and-18/805697.md?page=81)