# The hijack thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002 "2000-10-15T15:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/1 "2000-10-15T15:51:14Z")
We all come from different backgrounds and races and religions and creeds and colors and sexes and ages and parenting and IQ levels and typing skills and run-on sentence making abilities. But there’s one thing we have in common: our love to talk about what we feel the thread should be talking about. So we hijack the thread. Well, I figured if it’s that popular, I might as well give everyone a safe outlet for doing so. I consider it a public service, of sorts. HIJACK THIS THREAD. That’s right, respond to the last person and, using that person’s comments, go off into the tangent that you want to talk about. No, it’s not “I like bermuda.” and then “yeah, and I really hate meat.” Your only rule is that it must in some way appear that you’ve actually read the previous post’s comments before completely ignoring it. OK, here goes: Why are there so many speedtraps on the road? Don’t they have anything better to do than hit their monthly quota? I pay their taxes and here they are charging me for just driving a mile over the speed limit. Stop that robbery at the Quik-E-Mart, don’t keep hassling me! ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/2 "2000-10-15T15:57:42Z")
And speaking of speedtraps, is speed the same thing as methamphetamine? There are lots of accounts in papers around here of meth labs getting busted. Is it all right to hijack my own post? It sure would be nice of people to come post at [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42313) thread. How’s that for a hijack, Enderw23? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/3 "2000-10-15T15:59:00Z")
[hijack] I just want to say that this has been done before. A lot. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/4 "2000-10-17T01:47:36Z")
Speaking of a lot, I think I’m going to drink a lot of beer tonight. I’m so pissed! The dog took a crap in my bedroom! Aggghhh!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/5 "2000-10-17T02:02:12Z")
And speaking of [Beer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41960), someone’s favorite uncle is named after it. -----😛 —////\\ [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Kalahari\_Khala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kalahari\_Khala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalahari_Khala)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/6 "2000-10-17T02:20:11Z")
Uncle, shmunkle. Ants are everything. And everywhere. Who has a solution? I used to apply cigar ashes to ant trails, but then they just took up smoking! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/7 "2000-10-17T02:48:25Z")
Oh yes cigar, aren’t Monica Lewenski joke just getting so old. The President was wrong, let’s just get on with electing a new one. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/8 "2000-10-17T03:58:44Z")
Speaking of elections, have you seen [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42420)? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/9 "2000-10-17T04:01:14Z")
And I am so sick of those political commercials. They give new meaning to the phrase ‘commercial radio’. I think the ratio now is 6 minutes of commercials to 3 minutes of actual news. And I’m really pissed that my favorite talk radio station now plays Rush Limbaugh! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/10 "2000-10-17T05:19:44Z")
I never really understood the concept of “ratio” until I had a boyfriend who had the habit of making everything either in ‘direct proportion to’ or ‘inverse proportion to’–like “Our chance of getting to the movie on time is in inverse proportion to how good the previews will be.” Somehow this got the point across better than any of my math teachers. I wonder what happened to him. He’s probably an assistant manager at a Radio Shack by now, it’s been 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/11 "2000-10-17T05:26:39Z")
Speaking of Radio Shack, I really, really want to make a Battle Bot. I wonder if I can get some servos there… ---
**Author:** ![Wetling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Wetling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wetling)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/12 "2000-10-17T05:34:21Z")
That Battle Bots show is pretty cool. But I really like the Man Show. Its really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/13 "2000-10-17T05:42:21Z")
Did the word ‘cool’ ever go out of style? Seems like I used it a lot as a kid (along with groovy and heavy), and then it was a word nobody used (like groovy and heavy), then it was back again. Or maybe it was just me. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/14 "2000-10-17T05:47:07Z")
My personal favorite was ‘Whoa’. I never used ‘heavy’ that much. Speaking of heavy, I’ve been trying to lose some weight recently, but nothing seems to be working. I try to stick to my diet, but there’s so much temptation out there! –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/15 "2000-10-17T06:45:41Z")
Well, since you are talking about “whoa” and diet, why is it that those PETA idiots want to ban the eating of horsemeat? And, in CA, here, they succeded. I ate a few horseburgers once- tasty. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisP_One_Kenobe)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/16 "2000-10-17T06:56:07Z")
I could have sworn that the cafeteria in high school served Horse-burgers. That place always served the worst food. Has it always been universally bad, or was that just me? ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/17 "2000-10-17T10:41:51Z")
Yeah, it was just you. Speaking of people who are bad, no-one can beat Michael Jackson. Now HE was bad, although not unfortunately in the way he meant it. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/18 "2000-10-17T15:19:20Z")
Did you know Wesley Snipes was in the video for ‘I’m Bad’? ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/19 "2000-10-17T16:15:59Z")
So long as the part wasn’t Wesley Crusher, the insufferable know-it-all brat from Star Trek TNG. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002/20 "2000-10-17T16:20:10Z")
Oh, I didn’t mind Wesley. He wasn’t so bad. He had great posture. Ever notice that? Really great posture, especially for a kid his age. Must of been those Star Fleet uniforms. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijack-thread/37002.md?page=2)