So, Zeldar… are you lurking out there, hiding behind a gigantic ball of string, just waiting for someone to post number 199 so that YOU can be number 200???
Blonde, a mightier S word?!
Snorf!!
I just wanted it to happen. Didn’t need to be the one. Just wanted to say I lived long enough to see the blessed event. Sort of like seeing Mars come so close after so long a time. We can all tell the 2,000th generation hence that we were around when this thread only had 200 posts in it. They’ll think we’re kidding and that it’s not possible for people to live that long.
And we’ll just laugh.
Gee, my Canadian friend pronounces it differently, NoClueBoy: SNARF
[Sean Connery on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy]
Take ‘Swords,’ man!
[/Sean Connery on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy]
From www.m-w.com
Main Entry: 1thread
Pronunciation: 'thred
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English thred, from Old English thr[AE]d; akin to Old High German drAt wire, Old English thrAwan to cause to twist or turn – more at THROW
Date: before 12th century
1 a : a filament, a group of filaments twisted together, or a filamentous length formed by spinning and twisting short textile fibers into a continuous strand b : a piece of thread
2 a : any of various natural filaments <the threads of a spiderweb> b : a slender stream (as of water) c : a streak of light or color d : a projecting helical rib (as in a fitting or on a pipe) by which parts can be screwed together : SCREW THREAD
3 : something continuous or drawn out: as a : a train of thought b : a continuing element <a thread of melancholy marked all his writing>
4 : a tenuous or feeble support
5 plural : CLOTHING
- thread·less /-l&s/ adjective
- thread·like /-"lIk/ adjective
- Hi, Opal!
[Magritte]
Ceci n’est pas une thread.
[/Magritte]
A Moebius thread? Amoeba thread? Amnesia thread?
What is the meaning of “this thread” when this thread is removed from the question?
A suffusion of yellow.
So just how do they make gold thread, anyway? And is it difficult to sew with?
If I tell you, you have to give me your firstborn.
Here’s a challenge for Google fans:
Find the most bizarre sentence in which “this thread” is used but not in this thread.
Find the most bizarre website where “this thread” is used, but not SDMB.
Find as many separate meanings of “thread” when “this thread” is referred to, again external to and separate from, this thread.
Additional things to ponder:
Can this thread be worshipped? If so, what would that worship be called? What would followers of that worship be called?
What’s the most clever bumper sticker you can imagine where “this thread” would appear?
Could “this thread” be used successfully in political campaigning slogans?
Could “this thread” be used effectively in a high school debate?
How would Jeopardy! phrase questions about “this thread”?
And last and least:
Invent a totally nonsensical sentence using “this thread.”
This thread is palindromic.
No, it’s not.
Yes, it is.
That’s crazy! A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards.
Okay, so explain to me how you tell the difference between the front and back end of a thread. They look exactly the same to me.
Now you’re generalizing. This specific thread has a front but I can’t even see an end.
Perhaps you refuse to see it, you close-minded thread-hater!
Who ya callin’ a thread-hater, you anti-string traitor?
Oh, yeh? Well, your mama wears khaki threads!
How dare you insult my mother, you threadbare cretin!
Yarnhead!
Cord-chewer!
Moderator: I think it’s time we moved this discussion to the Pit.
I found this thread by doing what I do best, Lurking.
(As in, no I didn’t look on the first page, I’m actually on page 5. I order the topics decending from most replies)
It may be better to read the posts in this thread backwards. The sense of things decreases proportionally with how many posts you read. It probably works best if you skip around a lot. Don’t read the posts consecutively. Make notes so you don’t read the same post twice, but be sure to read them all before you pass judgment on this thread.
The thread is greater than the sum of its posts. This is made clear as you read the next post – the one that isn’t here yet. It’ll be along shortly. And it will clear things up for you, especially if you post it yourself and explain how it all makes sense now. Of course, if it still doesn’t make sense and you post to that effect, the next person will have that additional data and may be able to make sense of things better.
Just believe in this thread’s power to correct itself. It’ll all work out eventually. Things generally do.
Once a thread, always a thread.
It takes thread to know thread.
In for a thread, in for a hawser.
The thread doesn’t fall far from the bobbin.
Oh, thread – you’re such a spool!
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