# Since I'm here, I always wondered just how long you could make one of these thread ti **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 10, 2000, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011 "2000-03-10T08:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr.Watson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/1 "2000-03-10T08:31:00Z")
Answered that question in a hurry. Dr. Watson “Don’t try this at home, this man is a pathetic amateur.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/2 "2000-03-10T13:26:00Z")
Now you need to try it using all "i"s and again using all "M"s, just to see if the font affects the size. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Watson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/3 "2000-03-10T14:23:00Z")
Gads, I hadn’t thought of that. There’s just no rest fer the curious around here . . . Dr. Watson “All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” – E. A. Poe ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/4 "2000-03-11T02:16:00Z")
I gotta call the techs, my “cyberslap” key is not working. (Lucky for you, Dr. Watson.) your humble TubaDiva _Quoth the Raven, “404.”_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/5 "2000-03-11T04:30:00Z")
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii’MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMM sorry. Dr. Watson “Don’t try this at home, this pathetic amateur is a sick man.” [Note: This message has been edited by TubaDiva] ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Watson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/6 "2000-03-11T05:34:00Z")
Triple damn! Now I just found out how people manage to stretch the damned threads out from horizon to horizon. I learns something new every day around here. Sorry about that. It seemed like a good idea at the time . . . Dr. Watson “Wisely shutting up now.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/7 "2000-03-11T20:55:00Z")
But Ma, I didn’t think he’d really _do_ it. . . ! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/8 "2000-03-11T22:12:00Z")
If Dr. Watson jumped off the cliff, would you go right behind him? your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/9 "2000-03-12T03:51:00Z")
Nope. However, the preceding suggests that if _I_ dared _him_ to jump off a cliff, we might have to look for his body on the rocks, below. I just wanted to deny my culpability as an _agent provocateur_, (even if I was guilty). 😉 * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Watson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/10 "2000-03-12T04:12:00Z")
And from the acorn, a mighty oak . . . Some folks think it’s easy bein’ a fool. Anyway, what’s the limit on uninterrupted characters before the damned thing decides to take yer post coast to coast? Or was it something else that triggered the horizontal explosion? Dr. Watson “Village Idiot’s Apprentice.” ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/11 "2000-03-12T05:23:00Z")
I wanna saw 80 characters, but that may or may not be right. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/12 "2000-03-12T05:25:00Z")
I wanna SAY 80 characters, too. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Watson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Watson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Watson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/13 "2000-03-12T07:10:00Z")
I saw more than 80 characters too, so I’m gonna guess that what you say you saw is as close to the answer as I need to be. I promise, in the future, never to try to take **Tom** up on his jokes. The fella can be downright hazardous to a man’s reputation, bandying about that kind of internally referential irony without even sendin’ up a signal flare . . . Dr. Watson "Recent Graduate, **‘tomndebb University of Gotcha!’**. " ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/14 "2000-03-12T23:23:00Z")
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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-im-here-i-always-wondered-just-how-long-you-could-make-one-of-these-thread-ti/1011/15 "2000-03-13T02:41:00Z")
Louie, please don’t do this again. your humble TubaDiva who is fixing this thread one more time and then probably closing it, because I’m irritated.