# Summertime...and the sequential threads are sleazy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 20, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788 "2012-06-20T21:21:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/441 "2012-08-25T11:51:32Z")

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\*\*There was a common thread to the Lincoln,Garfield,McKinley and Kennedy assasinations  
WTF Norway?!! \*\*

Yep, Norway. They’re more dangerous than you think.  
**Sexual hangups  
Eating like a kid**

“Look Carol, it’s irritating enough that you insist on eating with your fingers; but do you have to keep making those funny sounds all the time while you do it?!”

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/442 "2012-08-25T13:34:58Z")

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**What’s in the 100 year old Norwegian mystery package? It’s being opened tomorrow 8/24.  
Computer Virus Attack**

It’s a Trojan package! Don’t op… Dammit, too late. Hang on, why does my laptop suddenly smell of lutefisk?

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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:** [August 25, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/443 "2012-08-25T16:17:31Z")

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\*\* What’s in the 100 year old Norwegian mystery package? It’s being opened tomorrow 8/24.  
Personal insight\*\*

“Ja, the motorcar will never replace the horse.” Gee thanks, Grandpa Sven.

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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:** [August 25, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/444 "2012-08-25T17:34:10Z")

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**Unleash the Mind  
Where are the lines drawn on what is rational and what isn’t?  
Paranoia in the year 2200**

😕:eek::smack:

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/445 "2012-08-27T02:21:32Z")

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**Stuff that took you too long to realize  
How to live long-term on a million dollars**

On the other hand, now I have a garage full of hookers and blow. Tell me if you need any.

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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:** [August 27, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/446 "2012-08-27T02:46:34Z")

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\*\*I say “Islam” What’s the first thing you think of?  
teaching foreign language sounds to babies \*\*

Thanks, but I want the kid’s first words to be “mama dada”, not “Allahu Akbar”.

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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:** [August 27, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/447 "2012-08-27T12:49:00Z")

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\*\*Todd Akin [rape does not result in pregnancy]  
Why kill the bear? \*\*

“You’re not here for the hunting, right?”

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/448 "2012-08-27T15:03:58Z")

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\*\*Prince Hairy in Las Vegas  
Saw a firefly last night  
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Well, good for him.

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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:** [August 27, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/449 "2012-08-27T18:40:22Z")

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\*\*What makes brains grow (in an evolutionary sense)?  
SABOT hit on human body  
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Well, it certainly makes them occupy a greater amount of area.

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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:** [August 27, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/450 "2012-08-27T20:06:19Z")

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\*\*A secret you will never tell anyone  
I’m not your “boss”  
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Because your boss is THE ILLUMINATI! Whoops, I wasn’t supposed to t

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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:** [August 27, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/451 "2012-08-27T20:06:33Z")

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\*\* Plausibility of putting an elephant in to space  
Traffic reports\*\*

“It’s 10 after 5, we now go to Jumbo for our Eye In The Sky satellite traffic update.” _“ARUNGGHHHGAH!!”_

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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:** [August 28, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/452 "2012-08-28T11:55:28Z")

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\*\*More fake facts  
New law in Arizona states ‘pregnancy begins two weeks before conception’  
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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:** [August 28, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/453 "2012-08-28T11:56:21Z")

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\*\* Crazy screaming lady  
Seemingly Innocuous Last Names That You’d Refuse to Live With\*\*

“Mom, I’d like you to meet my fiancee, Sarah Crazy Screaming Lady.” “ **Hi!!** ”

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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:** [August 28, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/454 "2012-08-28T12:15:52Z")

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\*\* Royal Flush  
If you flushed every toilet in the Empire State Building simultaneously…  
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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:** [August 28, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/455 "2012-08-28T12:53:12Z")

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\*\* How soon does Dulcolax work? Requesting TMI pre-colonoscopy.

Royal Flush  
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\*\* Poll: Why Do You Watch Trashy\* TV (Answer Only If You Actually Watch)

Booksnobbery  
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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:** [August 28, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/456 "2012-08-28T13:01:53Z")

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\*\*Ingredient lists that don’t really tell you much.

Why didn’t the Anglo-Saxons replace Saturday with a Norse god?  
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[reading] “Contains Sun, Moon, Tyr, Woden, Thor, Freya, and Saturn. Hmm.”[/reading]  
“Hey, Olaf! What’s a ‘Saturn’?”

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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:** [August 28, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/457 "2012-08-28T13:04:43Z")

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\*\* I should like to point out:

More fake facts  
\*\*  
Please do.

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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:** [August 28, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/458 "2012-08-28T13:15:30Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> \*\* Royal Flush  
> If you flushed every toilet in the Empire State Building simultaneously…  
> \*\*

…they’d play “God Save The Queen”?

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/459 "2012-08-28T15:02:11Z")

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**If you were arrested for a high-profile crime, what about you would the media have a field day with?  
Sexual hangups**

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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:** [August 28, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-and-the-sequential-threads-are-sleazy/625788/460 "2012-08-28T18:01:45Z")

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\*\*Why kill the bear?  
Does this create a strong password?  
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