# The Strangest Thread You've Seen On The Dope?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408 "2008-11-12T20:34:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/1 "2008-11-12T20:34:57Z")
I know this might start a little bit of bickering, but I’m going to suggest [this one](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10437716#post10437716). Not for its content, but for its odd revival by the OP, after _ **9 years**!?_ It kinda reminds me of “The Flight Of The Navigator\*”! Had **Sparky812** been tapping away merrily at his typewriter and then disappeared for over **9 years** , until replying to the thread he had started, he then realised what had happened, and now he’s having a bit of a lie down?
- If you haven’t seen it, get it watched, it’s a classic. 😃
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/2 "2008-11-12T20:42:21Z")
Will do.
But I reckon putting “Inigo Montoya” into the search engine will bring back a few strange threads.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/3 "2008-11-12T21:20:19Z")
Ah, the good old days.
Sometimes I miss that guy.
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/4 "2008-11-12T21:27:06Z")
I am probably misspelling the username, and it may no longer be available on search, but hands down: Freak Freeley’s meltdown.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/5 "2008-11-12T21:30:47Z")
I dunno; **ThaiDog** was pretty freakin’ weird.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/6 "2008-11-12T21:33:19Z")
Got be just about anything by **Surreal**. Guy’s got a gift for asking what look like the most trollish\* OP’s possible, which generally end up having perfectly answerable, GQ level answers. His recent one on left handedness and pedophiles being merely that latest, not the ultimate example of the oeuvre.
\*Please note, I’m not accusing \*\*Surreal \*\*of being a troll; as far as I can tell, he’s not. I actually really like him. I’m just amazed that he can and does sincerely and repeatedly ask questions that sound so much like trolling but aren’t.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/7 "2008-11-12T21:48:46Z")
> [@UncleBill](#):
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> I am probably misspelling the username, and it may no longer be available on search, but hands down: Freak Freeley’s meltdown.
Holy shit! That guy was a [fukkin genius](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=28450)!
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/8 "2008-11-12T22:21:22Z")
Strangest thread? Pan-fried semen is surely up there on the list.
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/9 "2008-11-12T22:56:41Z")
> [@UncleBill](#):
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> I am probably misspelling the username, and it may no longer be available on search, but hands down: Freak Freeley’s meltdown.
Second this.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/10 "2008-11-12T23:38:40Z")
> [@Flander](#):
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> Strangest thread? Pan-fried semen is surely up there on the list.
No, no, no. The one where the guy asked if it’s safe to feed semen to your fish, and anyway they seem to really like it - that’s way weirder than pan fried semen.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/11 "2008-11-13T00:00:07Z")
I think these threads should be linked to, because this OP has some seriously entertaining potential.
I’ve only been here a couple of years. I can recall a lot of drama, but not much bondafide weirdness.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/12 "2008-11-13T00:50:09Z")
For your aquaculturist enjoyment: [Is there any reason that semen would be bad for my fish?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249524&highlight=semen+fish+tank)
ETA - the best part is that after a bit, people actually start trying to answer the question. The question, remember, of “is it bad if I feed my guppies my man-juice”. Bad for the GUPPIES. God, if you don’t laugh somewhere in that thread you have some sort of humor-related birth defect.
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### Author:  [@kathmandu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kathmandu)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/13 "2008-11-13T00:57:17Z")
The one that immediately springs to my mind is Jack Dean Tyler’s (or John Dean Tyler’s?) thread involving the prehensile foreskin. That dude was obsessed with his wiener.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/14 "2008-11-13T01:01:38Z")
He was really more specialized than that - he was obsessed with his wiener’s _turtleneck_. We don’t get that caliber of nutjob around here anymore, it’s sad to say.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/15 "2008-11-13T01:02:26Z")
> [@kathmandu](#):
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> The one that immediately springs to my mind is Jack Dean Tyler’s (or John Dean Tyler’s?) thread involving the prehensile foreskin. That dude was obsessed with his wiener.
Prehensile? So it could pick up popcorn?
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/16 "2008-11-13T01:03:50Z")
**Zsofia** stole my answer. That thread really is a “must read”. I even love how succinct the OP was. . .
Title: Is there any reason that semen would be bad for my fish?
Content: Well?
::Snort::
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/17 "2008-11-13T01:43:13Z")
[Question about the Space Shuttle](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=140878). You’ll have to read it yourself, as no description I can give would do it justice.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/18 "2008-11-13T05:32:26Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> [Question about the Space Shuttle](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=140878). You’ll have to read it yourself, as no description I can give would do it justice.
I only made it to the first reply and I’m already laughing.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/19 "2008-11-13T14:25:59Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Prehensile? So it could pick up popcorn?
I missed this last night. I just got the strongest visual of it sneaking up over your shoulder like an elephant’s trunk to see if you had anything worth eating, and you’d look over and there it would be, not at all bashful, snuffling your hair.
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-thread-youve-seen-on-the-dope/472408/20 "2008-11-13T14:29:44Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> I missed this last night. I just got the strongest visual of it sneaking up over your shoulder like an elephant’s trunk to see if you had anything worth eating, and you’d look over and there it would be, not at all bashful, snuffling your hair.
Let’s hope it didn’t have a runny nose!
Btw, I did a bit of research on **Sparky812**. It was only 5 years he actually disappeared for. My thoughts are more along the lines of “Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers” now. I’ve got my eye on that one!
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