# The Backward Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320 "2005-04-01T23:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/41 "2005-04-03T03:58:06Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > I’m going to come right out and admit I made up **Atomic Badger Racing** as a sock for myself. However, since I’m so clever with language, I’m sure nobody has suspected a thing, as **ABR** sounds like a 25-year-old black lesbian vegetarian, and I’m a 45-year-old straight white omnivore. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/42 "2005-04-03T04:03:10Z")
Ah so it was a 1920s Style Death Cigar. ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/43 "2005-04-03T04:05:24Z")
Ah so it was a 1920s Style Death Cigar.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/44 "2005-04-03T04:06:26Z")
Ah so it was a 1920s Style Death Cigar.\*\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/45 "2005-04-03T04:32:51Z")
Sorry for the double post. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/46 "2005-04-03T04:33:52Z")
Wait – are you saying the goat was capable of superluminal speed, but only during lent?!? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/47 "2005-04-03T04:39:58Z")
Fantastic!! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/48 "2005-04-03T05:15:29Z")
Wait – are you saying the goat was capable of superluminal speed, but only during lent?!? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/49 "2005-04-03T06:17:58Z")
!lapO iH ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/50 "2005-04-03T06:30:20Z")
But what about the children involved? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/51 "2005-04-03T06:33:52Z")
I can just see someone like **FilmGeek** being please about this situation. What a fiasco. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/52 "2005-04-03T08:45:17Z")
It’s really quite odd, given that there are accounts on the internet of this kind of thing having been done before, with no real results. On the other hand, certain pepole here would be thrilled to hear this. ( **FilmGeek** , I’m talking to you…) ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/53 "2005-04-03T17:16:29Z")
**danceswithcats** keeps quoting things that haven’t yet been said, and soon after someone says them! It’s like he’s quoting the future! I wonder if he’ll do it again. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/54 "2005-04-03T17:54:08Z")
Band Name!!! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/55 "2005-04-03T20:30:48Z")
Sheesh…these guys are acting like a bunch of Rabid Pope Abusers. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/56 "2005-04-03T21:03:54Z")
It’s a miracle that this thread hasn’t been moved. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/57 "2005-04-03T21:38:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Hey **Shibb** , how you doin? 😉 Hey babe, not bad. But the mods have been pretty strict on flirt threads lately; besides this is hardly the thread for that. Let’s take it to email. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/58 "2005-04-03T22:17:34Z")
I’m outta here. You people are sick. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/59 "2005-04-03T23:24:57Z")
Supporting stupidity since 3791. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320/60 "2005-04-04T00:07:40Z")
Well, I just thought I’d add a touch of civility to this thread and ask: Hey **Shibb** , how you doin? 😉 GT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backward-thread/297320.md?page=4)