# This Thread Is About Nothing
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265 "2020-01-11T05:40:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/21 "2020-01-12T19:35:24Z")
Thanks for nothing.
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/22 "2020-01-12T20:04:02Z")
You’re welcome, **furryman**. That really touches me. I know it wan’t about me, but still. I can’t count the number of times a day I give people nothing, and do I ever get a simple “thanks”? .
No, I do not
And yet, you, a stranger on the internet, has thanked another stranger for giving you nothing. It just warms my heart. You didn’t have to be appreciative of the nothing, but you were. And I salute you for that, sir.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/23 "2020-01-12T20:15:44Z")
About what you’d expect in a universe from nothing.
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/24 "2020-01-13T01:14:20Z")
“And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why.”
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/25 "2020-01-13T01:19:38Z")
There is a riddle:
_It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?_
The answer is in this thread title somewhere.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/26 "2020-01-13T01:28:42Z")
Nothing is everything.
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/27 "2020-01-13T01:46:43Z")
“Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free.”
_Me and Bobby McGee_
~VOW
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/28 "2020-01-13T01:59:16Z")
> [@EmilyG](#):
>
> There is a riddle:
>
> _It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?_
>
> The answer is in this thread title somewhere.
Nothing?
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/29 "2020-01-13T02:05:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
>
> Nothing?
Correct!
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### Author:  [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/30 "2020-01-13T03:22:32Z")
Monday, nothing.
Tuesday, nothing.
Wednesday and Thursday, nothing.
Friday, for a change, a little more nothing.
Saturday, once more, nothing.
Montik, gornisht
Dinstik, gornisht
Midvokh un Donershtik gornisht
Fraytik, far a noveneh
Gornisht pikveleh
Shabes nach a mool gornisht
Lunes, nada
Martes, nada
Miercoles y Jueves, nada
Viernes, por cambio
Un poco mas nada
Sabado otra vez nada
[Nothing, nothing, nothing…](https://genius.com/The-fugs-nothing-lyrics)
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/31 "2020-01-13T05:55:04Z")
Permit me to quote, _in full_, the Fourteenth Book of Bokonon:
> [@Fourteenth Book of Bokonon](#):
>
> **What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?**
>
> Nothing.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265/32 "2020-01-13T06:08:44Z")
A sweet nothing! Nice!
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