# The Most Useless Thread EVAR!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703 "2016-09-01T20:52:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703/21 "2016-09-04T15:22:09Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> I would say the thread about how the Egyptian Pyramids were built by geyser power was actually more useless.

On the contrary! I learned a lot about Egyptology, the pyramids, and the geology of Egypt from posters’ various attempts to hammer through **cladking** ’s invincible ignorance.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703/22 "2016-09-04T15:26:09Z")

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> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> Nonsense. It’s pronounced MiPSIMS.

Thank you! MIP Sims!

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703/23 "2016-09-04T21:01:51Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> (MPSIMS, pronounced EM puh sims. Yes we have had a thread on that).

> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> Nonsense. It’s pronounced MiPSIMS.

> [@digs](#):
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> I say “Mip’-Sims” because in my brain MPSIMS stands for “Mom I’d Play SIMS with”.

> [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](#):
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> Shit. I’ve always been saying EM _pee_ sims. And you know what? I’m not going to stop. And by the way, Jiff is a peanut butter. Gif is a short repeating video.

> [@Martini\_Enfield](#):
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> I’ve always pronounced the abbreviation as “Em Pee Simms” too; I figure it conjures up images of a futuristic German submachine-gun; likely firing pulse munitions or something else requiring a cool acronym-y designation like “SIMS”.
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> Just to explain the joke, “MP” is the German military designation for “Submachine Gun” (literally _Maschinenpistole_; ‘machine-pistol’); think MP-40 or MP-5.

> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Thank you! MIP Sims!

Y’all be trippin. It’s Mix eez pit lik.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703/24 "2016-09-06T13:34:58Z")

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Anyone who pronounces MPSIMS any way other than Em puh sims should line up, tongues out, at the wildebeest behind **El\_Kabong**.

Um, while I’m on the subject, **Kabong** , it looks like you’re enjoying that just a bit too much. Move over and let the pronunciation impaired have their chance.

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