# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/41 "2001-10-13T13:34:16Z")
“Lately, the only thing keeping me from becoming a serial murderer is my distaste for manual labor.” -Dilbert ---
**Author:** ![planasaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@planasaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planasaurus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/42 "2001-10-13T13:38:10Z")
Real Men Dress Warm ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/43 "2001-10-13T13:53:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Asylum \* > \*\*_“Poo-tee-weet?”_ \*\* Kurt Vonnegut??? right? “Men are jerks, Women are psychotic”-Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/44 "2001-10-13T14:22:17Z")
A pretty face (duh nuh nuh nuh) A pretty face (duh nuh nuh nuh) Oh what a gorgeous mind… -Sly and The Family Stone ---
**Author:** ![eirroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@eirroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eirroc)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/45 "2001-10-13T15:04:27Z")
“When you place someone’s hand in a bowl of water when their sleeping and they wet themselves that’s called a wet dream isn’t it” My 15 year old while I was driving her back home. Me :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/46 "2001-10-13T16:13:25Z")
“Youth is wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/47 "2001-10-13T16:23:27Z")
She’s Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice He takes her once a week on the alter like a sacrifice. – Queensryche, _Spreading the Disease_, **Operation, MindCrime** Then there’s the one in my sig. ---
**Author:** ![rayniday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@rayniday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayniday)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/48 "2001-10-13T16:24:05Z")
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” ~Douglas Adams For one more, see my sig. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/49 "2001-10-13T16:29:33Z")
“Hey guys, as soon as I finish writing this song, we can get the game started” - Francis Scott Key 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/50 "2001-10-13T16:29:36Z")
“Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this!” – Tony Soprano ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/51 "2001-10-13T16:31:19Z")
“The answer is fries” ~Comic Book Guy" “Burrowing is not an option for camels.” ~Dr. A.T. Vawter, ecology professor at Wells College ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/52 "2001-10-13T16:35:48Z")
“If you’re going to be easy, don’t be cheap. If you’re going to be cheap, don’t be easy.” -Mom ---
**Author:** ![cykrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@cykrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cykrider)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/53 "2001-10-13T16:39:31Z")
Lance Armstrongs conversation with his doctor after a **6 hour** brain surgery: Doc: “Do you remember me?” LA: “You’re my doctor.” Doc: “What’s my name?” LA: “Scott Shapiro.” Doc: “Can you tell me your name?” LA: “Lance Armstrong…and I can kick your ass on a bike any day.” (Lance’s book: It’s not about the bike. is a wonderful read) Fire The sun is well asleep Moon is high above Fire grows from the east How is this Hate so deep Lead us all so blindly killing killing Fools we are If hate’s the gate to peace This is the last stop —DMB, “The Last Stop” “TK421 why aren’t you at your post?” –Starwars “Shut up brain or I’ll stab you with a Q-tip.” –Homer ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/54 "2001-10-13T16:42:50Z")
" ‘But why do you want to be a woman Stan?’ ‘I want to have babies.’ ‘You want to have babies! But you can’t have babies’ ‘Don’t you opress me’ ‘I’m not opressing you, it’s a biological fact. Where’s the fetus gonna gestate in a box?’ " John Cleese/Eric Idle and some woman I forget her name… Life of Brian ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/55 "2001-10-13T16:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > _from Steven Wright_: > I’m a peripheral visionary. I can see the future, but only way out on the sides… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/56 "2001-10-13T17:02:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dead0man \* > \*\*Hey Homey! I can see your doodle! (Ned Flanders) > > \*\* Father, hide your shame! (Lisa Simpson) ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/57 "2001-10-13T17:11:28Z")
“We don’t take kindly to your big-city, drunken Bush daughters.” - Mark and Brian radio show ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/58 "2001-10-13T17:12:23Z")
These seemed appropriate here: > [@](#): > > _from [Oscar Wilde](http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Wilde.html)_ > > Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a **quotation**. > > A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. > > Only the shallow know themselves. > > Bad artists always admire each others work. > > I am not young enough to know everything. > > Life is far too important to be taken seriously. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/59 "2001-10-13T17:33:26Z")
“When you get to the fork in road, take it” - Yogi Berra ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/60 "2001-10-13T17:37:17Z")
**Vincent Vega:** “And you know what they call a… a… a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?” **Jules:** “They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?” **Vincent Vega:** “No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.” **Jules:** “Then what do they call it?” **Vincent Vega:** “They call it a “Royale” with cheese.” **Jules:** “A “Royale” with cheese! What do they call a Big Mac?” **Vincent Vega:** “A Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it “le Big-Mac”.” **Jules:**"“Le Big-Mac’! Ha ha ha ha! What do they call a Whopper?” **Vincent Vega:** “I dunno, I didn’t go into Burger King.” From one of my all-time favorite movies, “Pulp Fiction”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201.md?page=4)