Summertime Sequential Threads

With the “end of the world” in 2012 fast approaching, let’s consider…
Playing chicken with the debt limit?

May as well borrow and spend all we like, really…

**For kids who have just come to the US, what should they learn about our culture and history?
Conservapedia’s Greatest Conservative Songs **

Wouldn’t be my first choice.

** You’ll never guess how I got out of debt!

Zipper Keeps Falling Down
**

we’re getting a lot of mileage outta that zipper thread title.

**Wow… truth is stranger than fiction - “Could this be happening? A man’s nightmare made real”
I just broke up with my boyfriend **

I think you’re overestimating your appeal just a little bit.

**Where does the electricity on ones body go when we die?
Do I really need to remove my alternator to have it properly tested?
**

Poll: Were you good at high school mathematics?
How many pairs of shoes do you have?

Let’s see, arrange all the shoes on the x-axis, square the soles, carry the five…half a loafer? I guess I wasn’t all that good in math.

**What a thunderstorm in Champaign, IL last night
Really… Horse semen? **

Thunder, lightning, hail, and splooge!

**Wow… truth is stranger than fiction - “Could this be happening? A man’s nightmare made real”
Canada moves closer to eliminating the penny **

**Tell me some interesting trivia that no one else knows at the SDMB
In Florida, Shark jumps YOU **

Poke holes in my Business Idea, please!
Poll: On buying condoms.

Sort of defeats the purpose, if you ask me.

**Do you still use a “phone book”? How do I get them to stop delivering one?
What processes are unbelievably antiquated?
**
Phone books, but try getting them to stop delivering one.

What can I legally do to your car, purse, etc?
Earth, Wind & Fire & Water

Don’t forget the grievous swarm of flies and hail of locusts, which also make excellent practical jokes.

**Sometimes, a little help goes a long way…
Super-vision or super-hearing? **

Now, I don’t have to buy a newspaper. I just read the neighbors paper in his kitchen from the comfort of my living room.

Fingernails scraping on a blackboard
Easter Bunny

Hippity, hoppity, SCREEEEEEE! Easter’s on its way…

You’ll never guess how I got out of debt!
Rest in peace, Maggie

You collected on the insurance?

**Poll: Hypothetical Road Trip: Aggressive Vegan vs. Extremely Pregnant Woman
Poll: Do dating couples still sit close together in the car? **

"We weren’t really fighting, officer, just having a disagreement. “Get away from my carrots! I’ve got cravings!!!”

Song lyrics I misunderstood
bake a frozen crust first???

If that’s what you’re getting out of “Helter Skelter”, you need to cut back on the drugs, man.

**I just broke up with my boyfriend
Need alibi for giant gash on forehead/Share tales of conspicuous wounds earned while inebriated **

from CNN’s home page:
**What is beauty and who has it?
‘Ugly Betty’ gets married **

Suggest make-up for a clown bride
What have you never done?

Nor will I ever.

Whitey Bulger, finally arrested at 81
I think I really missed out on something.
Well, that was unexpected

Vivid dreams in which a full-formed mythology springs out of your subconscious - ever had them?
Parents, "Wow, I wish someone had warned me about that!"

I need to find a company to print a magazine
Is this sociopathic?

It depends on the content.