# Summertime Sequential Threads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983 "2011-06-01T17:41:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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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:** [July 1, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/261 "2011-07-01T16:52:15Z")

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\*\* Commissar is a troll.  
Worst Principal Ever \*\*

Well, he _did_ give us time off for Lenin’s birthday and the May Day parade…

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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:** [July 1, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/262 "2011-07-01T18:36:11Z")

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\*\*Asteroid Passes Within 7500 Miles Of Us?  
Parents, “Wow, I wish someone had warned me about that!” \*\*

What were we supposed to do? Yell, “DUCK!?”

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/263 "2011-07-01T22:17:12Z")

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**Fall River public pool (now with human corpse!)  
How many people are spending their holiday at the lake or river this year?**

All the people, because they can’t use the pool.

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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/264 "2011-07-01T22:38:42Z")

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**A question I’ve been wanting to ask for years re: Post-coitus glass of water penis dip…**  
**The Many Flavors of Gatorade**

Well, you asked.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/265 "2011-07-01T23:12:01Z")

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**Owie! What’s wrong with my foot?   
Scorpions On A Plane**

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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:** [July 2, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/266 "2011-07-02T03:17:35Z")

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**Tricky PC diagnosis  
Private-eye License required for computer repair?**

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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:** [July 2, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/267 "2011-07-02T04:57:54Z")

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**What processes are unbelievably antiquated?  
Making offers you don’t want accepted and refusing when you want to accept.**

Amen to that.

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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:** [July 2, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/268 "2011-07-02T15:49:20Z")

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**You’ll never guess how I got out of debt!  
2011 Summer Postcard Exchange**

Yeah, you’d be amazed how many people offer you money to stop sending those &\*(^#! postcards.

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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:** [July 2, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/269 "2011-07-02T19:43:08Z")

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**Obama’s “New” Counterterrorism Strategy  
Chiropractors-yea or nea?**

Nea. I don’t see how this could possibly work.

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**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/270 "2011-07-02T21:58:11Z")

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A couple that have struck me lately in **IMHO** :[ul]  
[li]How old is too old to become a father?[/li][li]What processes are unbelievably antiquated?[/li][/ul]and[ul]  
[li]What should I have done? (This thread has boobs folks!)[/li][li]How do you keep your glasses from fogging up[/li][/ul](Must be the aspect of Mars and Neptune — usually I don’t notice these.)

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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:** [July 4, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/271 "2011-07-04T00:08:46Z")

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**Ask the Local TV News Videographer  
What would you do if you witnessed someone physically abusing his girlfriend?**

Well, if I thought it would be sensational I’d take out my camera and start rolling.

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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:** [July 4, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/272 "2011-07-04T14:46:11Z")

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**Straus-Kahn case falling apart. Duke lacrosse, etc.?  
Bribing people to sterilise themselves, Part 2: Get the snip, win a blender says India.**

Only a limited solution, if you ask me. For one thing, I bet this guy can afford to buy a blender.

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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/273 "2011-07-04T18:28:52Z")

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**Fish tacos**

_Carnac opens the envelope_

\*\*What Are You Cooking Now? \*\*

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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:** [July 5, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/274 "2011-07-05T02:05:48Z")

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\*\*Strep Throat from Hell  
“A green tongue?” This is a thing? \*\*

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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:** [July 5, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/275 "2011-07-05T03:11:17Z")

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**Drink A Shot Every Time You Hear “Fireworks” By Katy Perry This Weekend!  
Ever see a fiddle with a man’s head on the peghead?**

No. Guess I’ll need a few more shots first.

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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:** [July 5, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/276 "2011-07-05T05:56:09Z")

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**How effective is corporal punishment in correcting children’s misbehavior?  
Not intending to hurt doesn’t take away the hurt**

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/277 "2011-07-05T12:29:35Z")

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\*\*I am a Communist.

I love bad/odd translations… \*\*

I don’t think _Das Kapital_ says quite what you think it does.  
\*\*Would you look at this?!

led zeppelin and rice cookers \*\*

Not often you see those together at a concert.  
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My friend has ‘convicts’ living in her house

I think I really missed out on something. \*\*

Nothing you would actually enjoy.

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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:** [July 5, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/278 "2011-07-05T12:29:45Z")

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**Good Candidate For Rapture  
Bedbugs!**

There’ll be scratching when they call the roll up yonder.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/279 "2011-07-05T12:35:24Z")

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The Straight Dope Answerbot finally crashes:

\*\*What’s wrong with my Dawn Redwood?

Unknown tree\*\*

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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:** [July 5, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983/280 "2011-07-05T16:28:14Z")

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\*\*Why are the stars on the Republican elephant upside-down?  
Fireworks  
\*\*  
Naw, I’m pretty sure they’re not fireworks.

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