# The thread that exists for the sole reason of raising your post count **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201 "2001-10-13T04:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/1 "2001-10-13T04:36:46Z")
Just quote someone, anyone. “When I grow up i wanna go to bovine university” -Ralph Wiggum ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/2 "2001-10-13T04:37:58Z")
“Just quote someone, anyone.” -clayton\_e ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/3 "2001-10-13T04:38:02Z")
“It is impossible to be both an employee and a service elevator.” - K.F. Barber, my Symbolic Logic prof, explaining mutually exclusive relationships. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/4 "2001-10-13T04:39:37Z")
“Excellent,” – M. Burns. I was going to proclaim this thread dopey, bcause I can just see this being poo-pooed as a waste of space, but you’ve wriggle around it nicely with the quoting deal. That and I want to pad a little (working on a little milestone, I am). “This was no boating accident.” – Hooper, _Jaws_ ---
**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 13, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/5 "2001-10-13T04:42:59Z")
“Well, it’s not _technically_ a nut, but sperm still wiggles.” - **Me** ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/6 "2001-10-13T04:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*proclaim this thread dopey > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/7 "2001-10-13T04:45:40Z")
Post count? You mean we’re supposed to count our posts? What a novel idea. I can’t think of any quotes right now. I’ll come back later with a few. ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/8 "2001-10-13T04:48:14Z")
“Hey, stop that!!!” or “Hey, put that down!!” or “Don’t you _ever_ hit your sister again young man!” -Mom ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/9 "2001-10-13T04:48:30Z")
“This is some fucked up repugnant shit!” ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/10 "2001-10-13T04:48:53Z")
“If you hear sirens, do become alert.” –Prof. Al Curran, Smith College Department of Geology (to students on a paleontology field trip re a dam they were standing below) ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/11 "2001-10-13T04:50:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\* > I was going to proclaim this thread dopey, bcause I can just see this being poo-pooed as a waste of space, but you’ve wriggle around it nicely with the quoting deal. > \*\* hehe, yeah, thought about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/12 "2001-10-13T04:51:54Z")
“the evil-doers” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kritter)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/13 "2001-10-13T04:57:56Z")
I went to a nude beach last year, but I got arrested. Why? Well, the charge was “putting on my sun block to fast”- **Geechy Guy** ``` ;) :D ``` ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/14 "2001-10-13T05:02:50Z")
"If you were a juice you’d be _Veryfine!_ Remind to start a Pit thread about that quote someday. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/15 "2001-10-13T05:05:43Z")
“Osama, I’m gonna make you my personal Where’s Waldo? . But unlike that confusing book, I will find you.” W. Farrel as GWB on SNL ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/16 "2001-10-13T05:07:25Z")
“Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.” From _Anguished English_ by Richard Lederer ---
**Author:** ![boomvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/17 "2001-10-13T05:11:09Z")
“… it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.” –Niccolo Machiavelli ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/18 "2001-10-13T05:11:20Z")
“I don’t care if he is evil, you don’t give a man a shot in the pills. It’s just not cricket, baby.” – Austin Powers ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/19 "2001-10-13T05:41:08Z")
“For nine bucks you gotta figure you’re gonna get a shitload of fish.” -----My dad, tonight at dinner ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/20 "2001-10-13T05:43:16Z")
“Uh, hellooooooooooo - trying to concentrate here!” - My six-year-old, irritated that her sister and I were talking while she was playing the Dreamcast. “Oh, no - I can’t eat THAT.” - My four-year-old, looking at the pan of chop suey I made for dinner the other night. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201.md?page=2)