# Sequential Threads: Now with more cowbell!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 24, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252 "2010-02-24T13:41:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/21 "2010-02-26T03:55:20Z")

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\*\*The scariest thing you can think of

How long has it been since…

Dinner at the James Beard House, NYC \*\*

My God, it’s been ten years! :eek:

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/22 "2010-02-26T08:55:44Z")

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**Well, my new cockatiel is already injured.  
WTF, cats?!?**

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/23 "2010-02-27T00:47:46Z")

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**Fun Things to Build in Your Spare Time?  
Jet packs! Get your jet packs here!**

Homemade jet packs! For people who find commercially-built jet packs to be insufficiently dangerous!

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/24 "2010-02-27T04:22:09Z")

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**Leading Sunni party to boycott Iraqi election  
The Republican Obstructionist Tactic**

So, the Republican party is now outsourcing obstructionism to other countries. Interesting.

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/25 "2010-02-27T09:00:12Z")

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**When have you been just utterly incapacitated by laughter?  
1972 Munich Olympics and The Planet of the Apes**

That’s a pretty f’ed up sense of humor right there.

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/26 "2010-02-27T20:32:46Z")

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**What kind of person is a Navy person?  
Gay Syrian Car Salesman**

Really.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/27 "2010-02-28T00:53:32Z")

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**Recommend a movie made since 2000 that you think most people haven’t seen.  
The two sides of aluminum foil**

Wow, not even IMDB has heard of this one.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/28 "2010-02-28T06:51:53Z")

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**For all those people who wanted a real fillibuster  
Why not abolish the Senatorial filibuster?**

Yeah, of course…wait, what?

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/29 "2010-02-28T08:24:53Z")

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**The basic gist of your national anthem**  
**Fukeneh ! Go Canada Go**

**I’m getting $830,000 from the United Nations “Global Relief Agency”- Whatever shall I spend it on?**  
**Stupid Things You Tell Your Kids To Get Rid Of Them.**  
**Ask the child of money**  
Well, that kind of backfired.

**I feel old.**  
**I had no idea boobs could do that**  
I suppose the ravages of age are inevitable.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/30 "2010-03-01T00:55:42Z")

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**Co-Worker Gets Surprise: $1,600,000 Deposited Into His Account!  
I’m getting $830,000 from the United Nations “Global Relief Agency”- Whatever shall I spend it on?**

Wow, you two are lucky. I wish I had that kind of luck.☹

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/31 "2010-03-01T01:10:13Z")

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\*\*When have you been just utterly incapacitated by laughter?

Dad in hospital. \*\*

Now that’s just mean.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/32 "2010-03-01T03:43:26Z")

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\*\*The hardest thing I have ever had to write.  
2010 Olympics Closing Ceremonies \*\*

You wrote it all by yourself? That’s pretty impressive.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/33 "2010-03-01T07:10:31Z")

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**What’s the worst way to go?  
Going to Spain! (tips, suggestions, etc. appreciated)**

The worse way? Put yourself in a box and mail yourself there. Make sure you have air holes though.

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**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/34 "2010-03-01T07:58:18Z")

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**Battles your parents won’t give up on  
How can I get my son to EAT?**

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/35 "2010-03-01T15:59:49Z")

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**What’s in your “Room 101”?  
Your own conception**

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/36 "2010-03-02T02:13:23Z")

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From my “subscribed threads” page:

**A Straight Dope Murder Mystery. Part 4.  
The Celebrity Death Pool 2010  
What’s the worst way to go?**

I sense a theme.

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/37 "2010-03-02T09:29:26Z")

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**Overheard in the break-room…  
Co-Worker Gets Surprise: $1,600,000 Deposited Into His Account!**

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/38 "2010-03-02T13:25:45Z")

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**Add this to the list of ways I do not want to go  
WTF, cats?!?**

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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:** [March 2, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/39 "2010-03-02T13:34:52Z")

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\*\*My boyfriend had to admit to me that he was right  
I’ll take Self-Delusion for 400, Alex.  
\*\*  
Yeah, he “admitted” you were “right”.

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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:** [March 2, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-now-with-more-cowbell/530252/40 "2010-03-02T13:39:15Z")

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\*\* What’s wrong with my la(w)nmower?  
Are there any other gods that died for me?\*\*

Well, I tried praying to Toaster God and Lord of the Microwaves and nothing happened, so that can’t be a good sign.

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