# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/161 "2019-09-11T02:28:22Z")
It’s funny your bring up ‘Green Proof’. Which is probably the best Brechtian-lizard film ever. ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/162 "2019-09-11T02:30:44Z")
Can anyone name this movie (sketchy memory) there’s this igauna and he gets into MIT becuse a typo… That’s all I got folks. ---
**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, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/163 "2019-09-11T02:34:40Z")
There have been numerous, rigorous economic studies and models to show environmentally based approaches are even more cost-effective than traditional approaches to maximize profit. The umbrella name for it is “Green Proof.” ---
**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, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/164 "2019-09-11T02:58:13Z")
Not that I’m at all interested in the topic, but what have you got against traditional economics? ---
**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, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/165 "2019-09-11T03:24:31Z")
I’ve got a real problem with traditional economics. ---
**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, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/166 "2019-09-11T03:29:26Z")
Yes, it’s a terrible movie, but it’s bringing money to the local economy, and if I understand traditional economics correctly, that’s a good thing, right? ---
**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, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/167 "2019-09-11T03:34:02Z")
I consider it a terrible movie, regardless of the money it’s making. ---
**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, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/168 "2019-09-11T04:05:09Z")
Has anyone else seen the new sex comedy _John R. Bolton, Stalwart Defender of the Free World_? Despite Trump just having fired him, I guess it’s raking in the bucks at the box office. ---
**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, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/169 "2019-09-11T10:14:08Z")
I just heard that John Bolton has been fired. ---
**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, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/170 "2019-09-11T10:44:32Z")
Anything interesting in the news? ---
**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, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/171 "2019-09-11T11:10:08Z")
Look I hear what you’re saying, but recuperation’s going to take about six weeks - that’s a LOT of time to fill! ---
**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, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/172 "2019-09-11T12:57:54Z")
So you’re going to try to post all the lyrics to their songs while you’re home recuperating? Do you know how many songs they have? ---
**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, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/173 "2019-09-11T13:14:12Z")
It would be neat if the post sequence in this thread could be rearranged backwards. ---
**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, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/174 "2019-09-11T13:59:43Z")
Except for the fact that Walt Whitman isn’t really known for being a rhyming poet. Moreover, there’s no documented evidence that he ever fed, much less owned an iguana. ---
**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, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/175 "2019-09-11T14:08:13Z")
I hear that a previously-unknown collection of rhyming poems by Walt Whitman has been discovered in the National Archives, along with his handwritten notes for the care and feeding of iguanas. Pretty weird! ---
**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, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/176 "2019-09-11T14:14:33Z")
What’s the weirdest bit of trivia you know? ---
**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, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/177 "2019-09-11T14:18:40Z")
“…The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound” Boy, they sure don’t write 'em like America used to! Looks like it’s time to take my medicine again and watch some more daytime tv. ---
**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, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/178 "2019-09-11T14:40:39Z")
You have a cite for what you’re saying about the pre-WWII experiments in directed energy weapons? What kind of tech was even available to make death rays in the 1920s? ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/179 "2019-09-11T14:48:09Z")
Well, maybe so, but what you don’t know is that Whitman, aside from a poet, was an accomplished mathematician and theoretical physicist. He was part of the team of scientists who made, iirc, the first attempt at a an energy weapon, back in the XIX century, which led directly to the creation of the first Death Ray weapon a few decades after his death. ---
**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, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/180 "2019-09-11T15:00:09Z")
I said in addition to being a poet it was POSSIBLE that Whitman could have had a successful career as an MMA cage fighter had that existed as a viable career option back then. Am I the only one that thinks he had a deeply suppressed violent streak? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=10)