"Sequential Threads" in real life

Yesterday Mr. S told me that he experienced a sequential thread of a sort, and he wasn’t even online at the time. (He’s not a Doper, only knows what I tell him about this or that thread, and in fact barely spends any time online. I think he checks his e-mail about once a week, which is fine because he hardly ever gets any. But I digress.)

He was channel surfing with the mute on, so the closed captioning was running as he surfed. Know how sometimes when you go from a show that has CC to one that doesn’t, the last caption will just hang there on the screen over the new show? Well, he switched from a Showtime movie to some 700 Club-type show with a bunch of religious talking heads, and here’s the caption that remained (he paraphrased from memory):

THESE FUCKERS ARE ALL THE SAME.

He said it reminded him of “those sequential threads from your message board.” I agreed and thought it was well spotted! (And we had a good laugh as well.)

Anyone else have these?

Just the other day on CNN.com under Entertainment, paraphrased from memory:

German Authorities Watching Madonna
Poop on a Plane
The first was a story about Madonna’s self-crucifixion and the second about the making of the movie Snakes on a Plane.