Look, I’m telling you. Knock it off. Don’t make me come over there. You don’t want me to come over there. I’m telling you.
Shouldn’t it be “thread,” not “tread”? 
Just bugging ya. 
Somehow, “the idle threat tread” makes me think of exactly how one would walk while issuing idle threats… you know, the placement of your feet on the ground, the exact pounds per square inch your feet would exert upon the ground, etc.
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That does it! I warned you! That’s going too far! There’s gonna be a letter about this in the Times tomorrow!
Are we there yet?
That’s it, Dave. One more misspelling in a thread title and I’m gonna … I’m gonna … YEAH! And don’t think I won’t either!
Thats it! I’m pulling this t(h)read over! You’re walking from here buddy! This is for you :smack: :eek: :smack: :eek: :smack: :eek: :smack: :eek:
And don’t let me catch you by yourself at recess. Whoo-boy!
Oh yeah? Well, I’m gonna tell my big brother, and he’ll make sure you get yours. You better watch it, boy, I mean it.
Oh, excuse me . . . I thought this was the Idle Treat Thread.
:: Scarlett tiptoes out, sheepishly ::
Ha! My Mom’ll take care of your stupid “big” brother. How come we never see this alleged “big brother”? I’ll bet you’re talking about your pet goldfish.
You talk pretty big for a guy that eats bugs for a living.
Here, you dropped this: :smack:
I promise you, one more outburst like that and…uh…you’ll be sorry!
For the love of God stop doing that! If you don’t stop I’m going to do something, and I don’t know what that is, because everyone has always done what I say!
You people simply don’t know how to begin doing this right! Those threats aren’t idle! They’re merely vague! When The Offspring gets mouthy I have been known to threaten to pack her in a carton and mail her to a random post office box number in Kankakee. Or to the Arizona Home for the Terminally Rude. Now that’s an idle threat.
So just shape up, or there’s going to be smoke on the water. I swear I will come over and clip you one. Especially you, Horseflesh. (Hey, Dave, are you sending over the little big brother or the big little brother?)
Listen, all of you. If you don’t cut the racket this second, and I do mean this second, I’m coming down there. Don’t think I won’t.
Pffft. Send 'em both over. No matter how many times they sing “I’m A Little Teapot” I will not be intimidated.
Favorite overheard Idle Threat:
“If you do that ONE MORE TIME, I will make myself the center of your Universe!” (Intone the bolded part like you were Darth Vader.)
You know, it would’ve been a funnier thread title if it was “The Idle Treat Thread”. ::Pelts everyone within range with Hershey’s Kisses::
Those weren’t idle threats in my adolescence, with slight modifications (not via mail, not random shipment), they actually happened! :eek: Hey, Offspring of SparrowHawk, it wasn’t bad, you’ll survive. 
Now you want idle threats, you had better watch it, or I’ll call you by your first, middle and last names, and you know what that means.
You watch your mouth, Mr. or Ms. Smartypants, or I will come over there myself, and then you’ll know I mean business! I’ll give you something to cry about!
They FedExed you to a specific post office box number? :eek:
If you guys don’t cut it out, I’m going to turn this car around right Now! And don’t think I won’t!
And anybody who gets caught singing “I’m a Little Teapot” gets left at the next reststop.
If you don’t stop that, you’ll be WALKING home
So one day we left my sister at a gas station in the middle of the desert (thinking she was hiding under sleeping bags). She was scared witless when we came back 10 minutes later.
Years later, sigh, my father actually did this. Took me a couple hours…
And if you louts don’t knock off this nonsense, you’ll find yourselves on a slow boat to China! I’m SERIOUS! (But my bank account is weak.)
Train, to a specific person. I didn’t get a return ticket home until 5 days before school started, though!
If you don’t be quiet right now, you’re going to bed early!
Ha, as if we’d really sleep anyway!
That’s enough. That’s EEE-NUFFF!!!
All of you, knock it off, or I’m gonna crack your heads together so hard, you’ll be cross-eyed for a week!
I swear, I’ll pound you so hard, you’re mother will feel the vibration!
***KNOCK!
IT!!
OFF!!!
NOW!!! ***