# The last word **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580 "2000-12-28T22:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/941 "2000-12-30T08:29:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silo \* > \*\*This thread’s pretty long. \*\* Yes. Have you had the “This is a long thread. Click here to review it” epiphany yet? "Hello & welcome, to Tomas Mann’s Majic Mountain. This thread is long, you might want to review it. & learn French. & a smattering of Latin. & economics. & politics. & Freudian psychology. & jello wrestling ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/942 "2000-12-30T08:45:08Z")
thatnks for watching it for me, doc. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/943 "2000-12-30T08:46:39Z")
I mean, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/944 "2000-12-30T08:49:22Z")
I think he was holding it for me actually, so if you don’t mind… Yoink yet again ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/945 "2000-12-30T08:50:39Z")
Wow. I participated in most of it and didn’t even realize we had covered all that. ---
**Author:** ![Tazma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tazma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazma)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/946 "2000-12-30T08:51:08Z")
:::wanders in off the street::: :: stamps snow off boots, takes off coat, sticks gloves in sleeve :: That’s some party y’all are having in here! :: squints ::: Gee, everyone is mostly nekkid and sticky…sorry, thought this was a message board, not a massage board! Musta stopped in at the wrong thread…I got bad directions over at IMHO. I’ll be on my way now…can someone draw me a map on the back of this coffee stained piece of paper here? ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/947 "2000-12-30T08:54:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DynoSaur \* > \*\*Wow. I participated in most of it and didn’t even realize we had covered all that. \*\* Yeah, funny how things fly by when you’re covered in jello and what not! ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/948 "2000-12-30T09:08:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Musta stopped in at the wrong thread…I got bad directions over at IMHO. I’ll be on my way now…can someone draw me a map on the back of this coffee stained piece of paper here? I’ll take that. :stuffs it into pocket: go past the jell-o pit to the pile of clothing and take a right, exit thru that door and you’re home free thanks for stopping by! :waves: ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/949 "2000-12-30T09:26:13Z")
I wonder how long this thread is gonna get? * * * Ad Noctum. Deep Thinker of the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/950 "2000-12-30T09:38:07Z")
pretty long. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/951 "2000-12-30T09:49:35Z")
20 pages and counting… ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/952 "2000-12-30T09:56:37Z")
Corvus! get outta my thread! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/953 "2000-12-30T10:01:23Z")
Okay, you can have the thread, but I get the last word. I mean, fair’s fair. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/954 "2000-12-30T10:06:48Z")
fair? what is this word you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/955 "2000-12-30T10:09:03Z")
The only word I speak of is the last word ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/956 "2000-12-30T10:14:09Z")
you mean this one? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/957 "2000-12-30T10:20:55Z")
I think this is going to set a new record! Boy, this last word sure has been around. Smells like it needs a bath. I hope I have time to clean it before the next person takes it from me. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/958 "2000-12-30T10:29:02Z")
hey bear, gimme that! you might be cute, but you can’t have TLW! ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/959 "2000-12-30T10:33:15Z")
Too late… mine now I’ll just mix it in with these copies and… Voila, which one is the real last word? ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/960 "2000-12-30T10:34:42Z")
:grabs all of them: doesn’t matter! I can sort them out later. 😛 I was **gonna** go to bed, but I see I can’t trust you guys around TLW… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580.md?page=49)