# This thread is just about this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908 "2003-08-22T12:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/141 "2003-08-24T18:11:04Z")
Geeeeeeezzzzzzz, Chefguy – you joined about when I did, and you’ve got ten times more posts? You thread-hopper, you! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/142 "2003-08-24T18:18:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*You mean Eric the Thread, don’t you? \*\* Ya see, when you say it _quickly_, it _sounds_ like “Eric Thread”. This is called ‘subtle humor’, but there’s no smiley for it, so _try_ to pay attention. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/143 "2003-08-24T18:50:51Z")
(Sigh) That’s what happens when a slow and literal mind trips over subtlety. Not a pretty sight, is it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/144 "2003-08-24T18:55:39Z")
Puff Threaddy, or P.Thread. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/145 "2003-08-24T21:31:40Z")
What’s a pirate’s favorite thread? Yaarrrrrn. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/146 "2003-08-24T22:00:36Z")
And a fiddler’s favorite thread is… Now, don’t everybody try to answer at once. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/147 "2003-08-24T23:37:34Z")
When the dread thread Bobbin Comes hob-and-nobbing along, along There’ll be no more Doping when he starts Snopesing What’s wrong, what’s wrong! Yes, it’s time to take my meds. Yes, I’ll go sit quietly in the corner now. ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/148 "2003-08-25T01:00:29Z")
I think your trying to avoid something **Zeldar**. Come out with it, what’s on your mind? It isn’t strig is it? Is it? Did your cat do something bad with string and then you weren’t allowed to have string? Did you have a guitar and break a string? Never learn how to play because of your deep seated fear of string? It’s OK. We here understand and your coat will only be a little tight. It’s an all weather one by the way so don’t fret. Hob-nobbing is illegal in Alabama and Virginia, just to let you know. Arkansas has it on the books as a felony but doesn’t inforce it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/149 "2003-08-25T02:19:17Z")
String Theory is all the rage. Thread Theory will unify Relativity and Quantum Mechanics and may bloody well give us God’s number so you can ring him up on the tele. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/150 "2003-08-25T02:21:35Z")
Point. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/151 "2003-08-25T12:09:50Z")
The names nominations thus far: Montague Mr. Mobius Thread Threaddy 206379 Zed Jeff Judge Thread Bob (or Bobbin) tunabreath Eric The Red Eric the Thread Eric Thread Puff Threaddy, or P.Thread Yaarrrrrn Thread Theory **vl\_mungo** , was Point a name nomination or a comment on this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/152 "2003-08-25T13:02:52Z")
This thread hasn’t really arrived yet. No thread can really be THE thread until \*\* iampunha \*\* runs naked through it. Those who are really expecting this thread to be something someday are eagerly awaiting this development. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/153 "2003-08-25T13:09:21Z")
I’m willing to run naked through it if **iampunha** is unavailable. Such is the sacrifice that needs to be made. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/154 "2003-08-25T13:13:58Z")
hijack/ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Ah fuck, **WIGGUM** , \*\*WIGGUM \*\* and **Homebrew** have ruined my statistics on this thread. And now so have I. \*\* If you’re ever in an accident caused by others, call **WIGGUM** , \*\*WIGGUM \*\* and **Homebrew**. We’ll either win you case or get you drunk /hijack yet I kept it within this thread. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/155 "2003-08-25T13:59:58Z")
What’s this? Some kind of thread? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/156 "2003-08-25T16:46:59Z")
(Struggling, struggling mightily, but finally overwhelmed by the Dark Side of the Force): I can’t control myself any longer. Has no one else realized the perfect name for this thread? Must I cease waiting modestly for another to propose it? Isn’t it obvious? This thread’s name must be: **EddyTeddyThready** ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/157 "2003-08-25T17:04:37Z")
This thread reminds me of the first chapter of a book I read recently. The book was called Metamagical Themas, Douglas Hofstadter wrote it, and if it weren’t for the end of this sentence (by which I mean, the part of this sentence after this parenthetical comment), this sentence would contain no direct mention of this thread. The third sentence in this post (which is in this thread), might tell you that Chapter One of Metamagical Themas was all about self-referential sentences (like this one), but then again, it might not. ((Getting all the necessary references out of the way (even though they aren’t really necessary)) this thread, this sentence, this horribly nested parenthetical comment (which reminds me of the programming language Lisp (but that’s a whole 'nother thread))) the chapter contained a story which I think was called something like “This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself” which referred to itself so often that it was very difficult to understand, not unlike this thread or this post. The previous sentence in this post, which is in this thread, began with an attempt to create a lot of self-reference without much meaning, right from the very first parenthetical comment, just to “get it out of the way” but it turned out that wasn’t necessary (for two reasons), so I left it in, just to make this post (in this thread) even more confusing. The next sentence is about this sentence. The previous sentence is about this sentence. “When preceded by itself in quotation marks, yields a sentence about this thread” when preceded by itself in quotation marks, yields a sentence about this thread. The person who posted this sentence will be 16 years old, about two hours after this post is posted, and he thought maybe he’d start a whole new MPSIMS thread about that, but then decided to hijack this thread (which still needs a name) and say it here. However, I feel the hijack is justified by all the self-reference. \*\*This sentence[b/] contain a coding mistake, a grammer mistake, a spelling mistake, and one other mistake. Or does it? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/158 "2003-08-25T17:21:43Z")
A thread by any other name… is just as twisted knotty stretched tangled frayed verbose kinky dangling yanked wound bare unraveled woven taut l o n g short flossy loopy silky pendulous stringy sinuous fibrous viscid filamentous **thready** … Your turn! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/159 "2003-08-25T17:59:49Z")
So a thread walks into a bar and says, “I’d like a double bourbon, please.” The bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve threads in here.” (sorry, couldn’t resist.) ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908/160 "2003-08-25T18:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > If you’re ever in an accident caused by others, call WIGGUM, WIGGUM and Homebrew. And remember, there’s no fee, unless we get money for you. …in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-just-about-this-thread/196908.md?page=9)