# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![EVO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/141 "2001-10-16T12:46:44Z")
“Can I push in your stool for you?” - Gay guy in a bar ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/142 "2001-10-16T15:07:38Z")
“Did I not adequately explain the circle of trust?” ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/143 "2001-10-16T15:26:03Z")
“If I wanted your opinion I’d take my dick out of your mouth”-From a tshirt I want ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/144 "2001-10-16T15:42:50Z")
Hey y’all, watch this! - Redneck, just before death/disfigurement ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/145 "2001-10-16T15:52:52Z")
“It was a simple misunderstanding. The ministry’s head of the livestock section jumped the gun after hearing that the suspected [BSE-infected] cow was put down,” a ministry spokesman said Friday night. “He said he thought the carcass was reduced to ashes because whenever he saw overseas images of infected cows being put down, they were always incinerated.” From my first and only [url"=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89784"]pit thread. This was followed two weeks later by the health ministry announcing that all Japanese cows were BSE-free and safe to eat, and that they would be starting tests in a few months to prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/146 "2001-10-16T15:58:24Z")
Well, damnit, that’s one of my first coding screw-ups. ---
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/147 "2001-10-16T16:05:23Z")
“The dancer looks insane to one who cannot hear the music” ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/148 "2001-10-16T16:29:41Z")
“The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/149 "2001-10-16T16:54:52Z")
If you believe everything you read, better not read. –Japanese Proverb ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/150 "2001-10-16T17:14:18Z")
“Tables are great, but booths are like a vacation for your ass.”–Kevin Smith, from _King of Queens_ You know, I think I just found my new signature… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/151 "2001-10-16T20:18:35Z")
“Fascist.” - **DPWhite** to **Michael Ellis** during a Florida recount thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Mr\_Strange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Strange)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/152 "2001-10-16T20:32:07Z")
“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?” Guard in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/153 "2001-10-16T21:09:29Z")
“We can be walking porno billboards!” -K.H. ---
**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 16, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/154 "2001-10-16T22:06:28Z")
“Fat, drunk, and stupid, is no way to go through life, son”. -Dean Vernon Wormer, Faber College ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/155 "2001-10-16T22:25:20Z")
“You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid, stupid!” – Outer Space Guy (whose name I forget) on “Plan Nine from Outer Space” ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/156 "2001-10-16T22:34:37Z")
As Sartre was wont to declare, on occasion: “J’ai envie de pisser.” ---
**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 16, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/157 "2001-10-16T22:38:55Z")
“The internet. Is that thing still around?” - Homer J. Simpson ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/158 "2001-10-16T22:48:12Z")
Thats my stapler ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/159 "2001-10-16T22:51:22Z")
“Evolution? Let us pray that it is not true, and if it is, that it does not become common knowledge.” Mrs.Wilberforce ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201/160 "2001-10-17T00:25:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bandanaman \* > \*\*“Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony” - Dennis \*\* “BE QUIET!” -King Arthur [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-that-exists-for-the-sole-reason-of-raising-your-post-count/87201.md?page=9)