# The Greatest Thread Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838 "2007-02-27T03:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/61 "2007-02-27T08:22:02Z")
I think the first rule of the Greatest Thread ever should be that you don’t talk about the greatest thread ever The second rule should be… Free pickles. Hah, bet you didn’t see THAT coming 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/62 "2007-02-27T08:38:53Z")
Free pickles, eh? This is turning into a dilly of a thread. But “The Greatest Thread Ever”? Well, that’ll depend on just how many free pickles there are, won’t it? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/63 "2007-02-27T09:31:02Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Free pickles, eh? This is turning into a dilly of a thread. But “The Greatest Thread Ever”? Well, that’ll depend on just how many free pickles there are, won’t it? [/QUOTE] A lavender’s blue thread, dilly, dilly. Or, rather, lavender’s green. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/64 "2007-02-27T10:09:35Z")
I’m eating a pickle right now. Actually that’s a lie, but in truth i am heading to the 'fridge to GET one now. I also just had cybersex. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/65 "2007-02-27T10:31:03Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Free pickles, eh? This is turning into a dilly of a thread. But “The Greatest Thread Ever”? Well, that’ll depend on just how many free pickles there are, won’t it? [/QUOTE] Well, there are going to be plenty. This thread is so great I’m going to contribute two 5 litre jars of pickles. Home made. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/66 "2007-02-27T10:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] I don’t understand the pickles sold in movie theatres that I saw in the US. Pickles are not movie food to me! Popcorn is! Ice cream is!But not pickles. [/QUOTE] You get pickles at the movies!? Holy cow! Over here we don’t get anything but frisked when going to the movies. If the find even as much as a chewing gum they go for the whole body cavity search thing. And when we find our seats, we have to share it, so we sit like pickles in a jar. Great thread this, ripping up our repressed and pickled memories. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/67 "2007-02-27T13:39:19Z")
I keep hearing about all these free pickles, but the greatest [del]pickle[/del] thread ever should have free energy. Free energy and dancing girls. Yes definitely Free energy and dancing girls. Oh and Beer! Can’t forget the Beer. So Free energy and dancing girls and Beer and of course pickles. BTW: What type of pickles, is it a variety? I would like a nice crisp fresh garlic dill please. Wait, what was I talking about? 😕 Jim ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/68 "2007-02-27T13:47:51Z")
I can see where this is going and i’m not having pickle pie made by monkey butlers, greatest thread or not. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/69 "2007-02-27T14:28:20Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I keep hearing about all these free pickles, but the greatest [del]pickle[/del] thread ever should have free energy. Free energy and dancing girls. Yes definitely Free energy and dancing girls. Oh and Beer! Can’t forget the Beer. So Free energy and dancing girls and Beer and of course pickles. BTW: What type of pickles, is it a variety? I would like a nice crisp fresh garlic dill please. Wait, what was I talking about? 😕 Jim [/QUOTE] Hey, where are our dancing **boys**? Or is that role filled already by the pickles? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/70 "2007-02-27T14:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Hey, where are our dancing **boys**? Or is that role filled already by the pickles? [/QUOTE] Sorry babe, you gotta make do. Besides, who’s going to do the dancing? Get on stage! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/71 "2007-02-27T14:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Hey, where are our dancing **boys**? Or is that role filled already by the pickles? [/QUOTE] Sure, sure, either way, whatever floats your boat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/72 "2007-02-27T14:41:59Z")
Well, I guess I ought to contribute at least one post if this is actually going to be the Greatest Thread Ever. All I want to say is ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/73 "2007-02-27T14:51:18Z")
I can’t believe that the greatest thread ever is almost entirely about pickles. I don’t even like pickles. Pickle, with a bit of cheese, now that’s nice. Anyway, this thread just goes to show that you can’t successfully self-identify without something to back it up. Like I could say I’m King of Switzerland - but I’m not really. This is the worst post ever in the greatest thread ever. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/74 "2007-02-27T15:06:11Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] I can’t believe that the greatest thread ever is almost entirely about pickles. I don’t even like pickles. Pickle, with a bit of cheese, now that’s nice. Anyway, this thread just goes to show that you can’t successfully self-identify without something to back it up. Like I could say I’m King of Switzerland - but I’m not really. This is the worst post ever in the greatest thread ever. [/QUOTE] What sort of cheese? I mean we do need to strike the proper Cheese and Pickle combination, do we not? ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/75 "2007-02-27T15:23:22Z")
I don’t know what I can do to add to the greatness of the Greatest Thread Ever. So, in an attempt to be artsy, I will recite - from memory - a poem I memorized in 8th grade. Sit back and enjoy ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost. Who’s woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. The little horse must think it queer to stop without a farm house near between these woods and frozen lake this darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep of easy wind and downy flake. These woods are lovely, dark and deep. But, I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep. Thank you for your time. [sub]if there is any mistakes in that poem, bite me. I memorized it 14 yrs ago :)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/76 "2007-02-27T15:32:40Z")
Thank you, **brewha**! That’s just what this thread was lacking, a poem to go with the pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/77 "2007-02-27T15:53:42Z")
My problem with the flying monkey butlers is what they do when they’re not flying. I think they need rocket skates. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/78 "2007-02-27T15:56:43Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] My problem with the flying monkey butlers is what they do when they’re not flying. I think they need rocket skates. [/QUOTE] And diapers. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/79 "2007-02-27T16:12:58Z")
Oh, that reminds me… I was supposed to get some pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-thread-ever/393838/80 "2007-02-27T16:17:30Z")
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