# The first 2015 Sequential Threads thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491 "2015-01-10T18:38:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/1 "2015-01-10T18:38:26Z")

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**Worst decision you ever made in school  
Zap! You’re now a tiger; what do you do?**

Yeah, I think if I’d majored in one of the sciences I’d be better off. At least, poachers would shoot at me less often. Still, the stripes are cool.

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/2 "2015-01-10T20:47:24Z")

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\*\*Tell me about Planet Fitness  
A new start, on a new Earth \*\*

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/3 "2015-01-11T00:07:03Z")

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\*\*Human shockwave tolerance  
His head just popped right off! \*\*

The shockwave exceeded the head-neck interface design tolerance.

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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:** [January 11, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/4 "2015-01-11T00:27:26Z")

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\*\*Zap! You’re now a tiger; what do you do?  
A new start, on a new Earth \*\*

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**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/5 "2015-01-11T16:20:28Z")

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\*\* The psychological damage from growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness  
“Fuck it, I quit.”\*\*

Must’ve been quite severe.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/6 "2015-01-11T16:50:20Z")

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**How many resolutions have you broken already in the MMP?  
"Fuck it, I quit."**

This is why I don’t bother to make New Year’s resolutions.

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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:** [January 11, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/7 "2015-01-11T17:37:10Z")

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\*\* His head just popped right off!  
“This is a no smoking flight”\*\*

They don’t fool around on Watch Your Ass Airlines.

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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:** [January 11, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/8 "2015-01-11T19:36:03Z")

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\*\* Gun owners: answering that 5AM knock at the door  
Extra-terrestrials\*\*

Since I went to full auto, them durn things don’t come around no more.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/9 "2015-01-11T20:05:12Z")

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**Man, 25, claims he has two penises  
"Fuck it, I quit."**

I mean, seriously. How can you compete?

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/10 "2015-01-12T00:31:07Z")

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\*\*Anyone Else Starting to Get Cabin Fever?

Man, 25, claims he has two penises \*\*

Followed by

\*\* Man, 25, claims he has two penises

Lumpectomy successfully completed \*\*

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/11 "2015-01-12T02:18:13Z")

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**Extra-terrestrials  
What discontinued items do you miss?**

Me and the gang used to pick up bags of McD.L.T.'s and Sonic Pickle-O’s for the long voyage back to Alpha Centauri, but now we’re stuck with freeze-dried Episcopalians.

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/12 "2015-01-12T13:46:31Z")

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\*\* Would you get into an indoor pool at the gym?  
Why don’t people bathe?\*\*

Uh, thanks, I’ll just hit the shower.

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/13 "2015-01-12T13:48:51Z")

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\*\* You spot an “alien”

A new start, on a new Earth

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The humans keep staring at us and pointing. Why can’t they leave Newcomers alone?

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/14 "2015-01-12T15:32:56Z")

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\*\*You spot an “alien”

Las Vegas: the people in orange with the escort cards  
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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:** [January 12, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/15 "2015-01-12T15:34:55Z")

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\*\* Extra-terrestrials

What’s the stretchy tube/scarf thing called that you pull over your head & goes around your neck?  
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On our world, we call it a “Fnarthix”. It’s made of Hoblygamit fur.

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/16 "2015-01-12T18:39:46Z")

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\*\* I’m firing one of my employees this morning  
Man, 25, claims he has two penises\*\*

Uh-oh, the EEOC is gonna be on your ass big-time.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/17 "2015-01-13T03:38:24Z")

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**Would you get into an indoor pool at the gym?  
Canoe the Everglades**

You can go anywhere in your imagination!

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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:** [January 13, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/18 "2015-01-13T12:43:45Z")

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\*\* Man, 25, claims he has two penises

Stuff that has happened to you that you are pretty sure that no one else has experienced.  
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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:** [January 13, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/19 "2015-01-13T12:55:19Z")

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\*\*How many years before mainstream USA culture will allow porn in mainstream movies and TV?

1. Why are so many people into having sex using their mouth and rear which spreads lots of germs IMO  
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Quite a few years, is my guess.

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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:** [January 13, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-2015-sequential-threads-thread/709491/20 "2015-01-13T13:54:34Z")

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\*\* Time frame to accept a job offer?

A new start, on a new Earth  
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Are we assuming FTL, or generation starships?

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