# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![TheOtherOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@TheOtherOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOtherOne)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/81 "2001-10-14T19:15:51Z")
“They sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!” Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/82 "2001-10-14T19:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\*Hi my name is Elvis Presley… \*\* You know… I always suspected that. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/83 "2001-10-14T19:16:33Z")
“Thankya…thankya very much” Elvis Presley ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/84 "2001-10-14T19:19:29Z")
I think I just wet my pants watching your hip action! Can I get you a PB&banana sandwich, fried just the way you like it??? _Please!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/85 "2001-10-14T19:25:54Z")
“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition” John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/86 "2001-10-14T19:41:31Z")
“I like lemon pie!” -Allie W. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/87 "2001-10-14T21:32:45Z")
“I saw a coyote on the way to work Friday.” --my husband. Wonder where it works. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/88 "2001-10-14T22:08:05Z")
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Has to be one of the best openings to a book ever. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/89 "2001-10-14T22:17:10Z")
“I looked at it and I wasn’t impressed”-Mrs. Garforth, my old English teacher on internet pornography ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/90 "2001-10-14T23:33:11Z")
Should I shoot him now or wait till I get home? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/91 "2001-10-15T00:26:51Z")
“Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I’ve always wanted and now I have it. I rule!” - Lester Burnham ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/92 "2001-10-15T00:45:56Z")
“Giving money and power to govenment is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” -P.J. O’Rourke ---
**Author:** ![saudade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@saudade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saudade)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/93 "2001-10-15T01:45:05Z")
“Didn’t your momma teach you to knock?” Abraham Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![saudade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@saudade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saudade)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/94 "2001-10-15T02:17:42Z")
Ok ok…here’s a quote that is supposedly real. “If the English language was good enough for Jesus Christ, then by God, all good Texans should speak it.” Ma Ferguson, Texas Governor ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/95 "2001-10-15T02:55:06Z")
“'Tis better to be brief than tedious” —William Shakespeare ---
**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 15, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/96 "2001-10-15T03:38:37Z")
“Isn’t sanity really just a one-trick-pony anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick: rational thinking. But when you’re good and crazy, oh, the sky’s the limit!” The Tick ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/97 "2001-10-15T03:56:59Z")
My personal favourite : “Life is not a rehearsal” - Unknown 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/98 "2001-10-15T03:57:47Z")
The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: ``Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.’’ - Edward R. Harrison (a cosmologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/99 "2001-10-15T04:06:39Z")
David Lynch quote from interview in Sunday’s Buffalo News, as copied into my notebook: “You better love your work, and the doing. Because what comes after, there’s no guarantees. Sometimes, you get the frosting on the cake. Sometimes you don’t. But if you love the doing and you believe in what you do, it’s OK.” (He was talking about his reaction the ABC cancelling “Mulholland Drive.”) And another quote – a two-fer post – I created for a future novel: “A brass monkey can get a degree in journalism if it can get someone to bring it to class.” ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/100 "2001-10-15T04:17:40Z")
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