# 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:** 12
**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 13, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/221 "2019-09-13T14:43:01Z")
That’s _MISTER_ Doofus to you! ---
**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 13, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/222 "2019-09-13T14:45:08Z")
Hey doofus, cut the act, we know you’re not the dead guy. ---
**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 13, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/223 "2019-09-13T15:35:24Z")
Ooooooh a dead guy? Scary! ---
**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 13, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/224 "2019-09-13T15:48:53Z")
Have you heard about the mysterious doper who’s posting in this thread even though he died seven years ago?.. well, I have a confession to make… IT’S ME!!! ---
**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 13, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/225 "2019-09-13T17:17:29Z")
I am getting genuinely tired of people around here feeling the need to make these huge ‘confessions’. Hopefully, burpo’s admission that he drove four miles over the speed limit on his way to work this morning will be the last such we hear for quite some time. ---
**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 13, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/226 "2019-09-13T17:59:30Z")
I’ve got a confession too. I once shot a man for snoring too loud and you can read all about it in Time Life Books. ---
**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 13, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/227 "2019-09-13T18:49:50Z")
I confess that I have never bought a Time Life book about life in the Wild West. ---
**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 14, 2019, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/228 "2019-09-14T08:53:37Z")
Isn’t there a Time Life book about life in the Wild West? ---
**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 14, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/229 "2019-09-14T09:32:30Z")
The wild west wasn’t so wild, you’d be more likely to die of boredom than in a gun fight. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/230 "2019-09-14T11:22:22Z")
Oy vey, if this isn’t closed within the next few pages I will be very surprised. ---
**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 14, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/231 "2019-09-14T13:37:07Z")
Uh, take it easy pal. No need to get that angry, this is not the wild west, you know. ---
**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 14, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/232 "2019-09-14T16:01:27Z")
Goddamn it, .99999… = 1, when are you morons gonna get that? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/233 "2019-09-14T16:16:56Z")
Please. Explain like I’m 5yo. ---
**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 15, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/234 "2019-09-15T02:33:16Z")
Daystrom tensor analysis clearly shows us that an irrational number carried to at least the fifth decimal place is the functional equivalent - at least under a Huang differential formulation, _duh_ - as the next whole number larger than it. ---
**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 15, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/235 "2019-09-15T02:56:16Z")
Just like\* pi \*does not equal “3” no matter what the [Indiana legislature said!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/236 "2019-09-15T02:58:34Z")
I have 3 pies. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/237 "2019-09-15T04:57:15Z")
I think what the OP is getting at is that through a combination of seemingly disjointed.subject matters we can reach the singular wholeness of experience. The fraction must be the entirety. Enlightenment with the great Oneness is found in the understandig that it all equals one AND it could not be otherwise. Think of it in terms of something simple: If you have three pies do not you really have a single conceptual idea of dessert? I think you cannot argue the former. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/238 "2019-09-15T05:04:08Z")
Want dessert? ---
**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 15, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/239 "2019-09-15T11:37:26Z")
I’m hungry. What’ve you got? ---
**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 15, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/240 "2019-09-15T15:26:02Z")
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