# This thread goes backwards **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769 "2019-09-06T02:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/181 "2019-09-11T15:14:38Z")
Walt Whitman wrote and rewrote the “Leaves of Grass” poems numerous times. Supposedly it was some sort of meditation exercise he would perform when he got angry. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/182 "2019-09-11T16:24:53Z")
What? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/183 "2019-09-11T16:27:30Z")
You got five minutes to get rid of that word. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/184 "2019-09-11T16:41:14Z")
If you really think that, then you’re a retard. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/185 "2019-09-11T16:47:01Z")
I don’t have to take this abuse from you, I’ve got hundreds of people dying to abuse me. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/186 "2019-09-11T16:55:42Z")
You’re stupid. Your conspiracy theories are stupid, your taste in movies sucks, and you are unequivocally, unquestionably stupid. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/187 "2019-09-11T16:58:58Z")
Not now, Mom, I’m posting. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/188 "2019-09-11T17:47:56Z")
Burpo, what are you doing? You really should think before posting that sort of nonsense… ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/189 "2019-09-11T17:58:56Z")
Well that went over like a wet fart. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/190 "2019-09-11T18:47:11Z")
I don’t get the joke IG. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/191 "2019-09-11T19:05:15Z")
Pope Urban VI asked three cardinals in the Vatican one day, “What’s the strangest confession you’ve ever heard?” One of them looked around carefully and then replied, “This Latvian nobleman once told me he secretly called his cow ‘IG.’” ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/192 "2019-09-11T19:56:28Z")
The Pope was on a lengthy flight and was doing a crossword puzzle to occupy himself. He appeared troubled, and at length leaned over to the Cardinal seated next to him and asked in a low voice “what is a four letter word for intercourse that ends with ‘k’?” The Cardinal replied, “why, that would be ‘talk’ of course, your Holiness.” The Pope appeared relieved and asked, “may I borrow your eraser?” ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/193 "2019-09-11T20:06:46Z")
No, the punchline is, send this kid to fifth grade, I got most of those wrong myself. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/194 "2019-09-11T21:06:47Z")
Well - back from hospital! They did a pretty fine job I must say but the bad news is I have to stay off it for a month and a half. Blech. Luckily I have my deep abiding devotion to the music of The Wiggles to keep me entertained! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/195 "2019-09-11T22:03:14Z")
Hey, **Aspidistra** , how did it go at the hospital? How about recovery time? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/196 "2019-09-11T23:21:40Z")
**Aspidistra** , you should have known better than to try to do that with a vacuum cleaner. I hope you’re okay and heal up quick! ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/197 "2019-09-11T23:32:11Z")
Okay, so, there’s this teacher, and this know it all kid, and she takes the kid to the principal. “Johnny wants to go to the fifth grade.” He’s in third grade now. “I don’t think he’s ready.” So she asks him a bunch of questions. “What starts with F, ends with K, and means a lot of heat and excitement?” “Firetruck.” “What starts with P that a dog does and a man steps in?” “Pants.” “What starts with P that a man has in his pants that a woman doesn’t?” “Pockets.” She asks him some more questions, I forget what they are, and the principal says, " Give the kid what he wants." ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/198 "2019-09-12T00:40:21Z")
Does anyone know that joke about the kid who wants to skip a grade, and the teacher asks him questions? ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/199 "2019-09-12T01:20:38Z")
Anyone have any jokes? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/200 "2019-09-12T01:29:59Z")
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