# Thread-ending posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454 "2001-09-29T04:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/1 "2001-09-29T04:26:34Z")
So, I thought it would be funny (and encourage others) to run Osama Bin Laden’s name through an anagram server [for this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88918). Surely others would find more humorous examples! Instead, lo these past six days, the thread is as limp as, well, something limp. I wondered at first, “What gives?”, but now I wonder what other people’s thread-killing posts have been. Not anything that got them banned, or the thread locked, but just ones that threw a dose of cold water on a raging fire. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/2 "2001-09-29T04:59:21Z")
I think this one is funny. One day, lo these many months ago, my 3-day old self wandered into [a very promising thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1236885#post1236885) Oooh, I thought, look at all the shiny fun people at play in here! I want me some of this action! So I jumped in, but all I could think of to post was a correction of a minor mistake that **iampunha** made. Shazam! Instant thread death. This was, of course, very damaging to my precarious newbie ego. So a day later I went back, posted an apology, and begged that the thread resume its former glory. It died AGAIN. Then, some days later, godblezzit if **Esprix** doesn’t revive the damn thing, and the party continues a little longer, with no mention from anyone of my big 'ol faux pas right in the middle. Damn, I felt like an ass. Come on, this was The Gay/Lesbian Movie Drinking Game! You mean to tell me **that** thread died a natural death? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/3 "2001-09-29T05:08:00Z")
_Hmm. A most interesting query, From our very own “Bad” luminary: What kind of post Is sure to molost, a thread permanent or temporary?_ ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/4 "2001-09-29T05:36:01Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53683](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53683) ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/5 "2001-09-30T07:02:43Z")
OH dear…I seem to have killed this one as well ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/6 "2001-09-30T07:24:56Z")
well, nothing to add, but for your sake **bdgr** ; _ **Ressurection!** _ now i’ve killed it. or whoever has something worthwhile to add has. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/7 "2001-09-30T07:38:29Z")
erg. i just read your thread. that was insensitive and now i have that sinking feeling… i’m really sorry about that bdgr… ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/8 "2001-09-30T16:35:34Z")
The only thread I remember killing in recent memory was this lovely little scrawl which abruptly ended after I brought [Satanism, zoophilia and bestiality](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89990) into the discussion. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/9 "2001-09-30T16:39:42Z")
Last year I killed a thread so hard that it not only god locked and earned me a warn, but got deleted too !!! It was about Pit Bulls, and oh it was a pip ! ( Or, a Pit… 😃 ) Sorry, no link since it no longer exists. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/10 "2001-09-30T19:20:26Z")
Way back in May I killed [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71692&pagenumber=2), until someone revived it 4 months later, then I killed it AGAIN! Well technically, it struggeled on for one more post, but I really don’t think **Shelbo** should get the credit. After all, it was obvious that it was I that had mortally wounded it. 😉 Maybe I should practice my technique more? ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/11 "2001-09-30T19:30:49Z")
I seem to kill my own threads by thanking people for their trouble, when they try to answer my question. LOL Anywayz; this is one more for your thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/12 "2001-10-01T09:07:37Z")
**Thread killers of the SDMB Unite!!** [sub](I started out as a thread-killer … and still I do my evil magic upon the cool and unsuspecting … heh, heh, heh …)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/13 "2001-10-01T14:34:51Z")
I’m determined to be the one to kill this thread. It’s my special SDMB Talent[sup]tm[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/14 "2001-10-01T14:36:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*I’m determined to be the one to kill this thread. It’s my special SDMB Talent[sup]tm[/sup]. \*\* Does your talent always work? ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/15 "2001-10-01T14:52:14Z")
I always manage to be offtopic enough to kill any thread. On any BB. SFN, BABB, SDMB. They hate me =( On another topic (what a great way to kill a thread) isn’t it disappointing when you work up a GREAT flame and the flamee ignores you? _SCREAM_ ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/16 "2001-10-01T14:52:31Z")
There’s one of those Internet _laws_ (I think it originated on Usenet) which goes something like: > [@](#): > > A thread is over when someone is called a nazi. The law has a name (named after the guy who made it, I think he’s one of the founders of the EFF) but it evades me now… ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/17 "2001-10-01T14:54:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skip \* > \*\*There’s one of those Internet _laws_ (I think it originated on Usenet) which goes something like: > > > [@](#): > > > > A thread is over when someone is called a nazi. > > The law has a name (named after the guy who made it, I think he’s one of the founders of the EFF) but it evades me now… \*\* Godwin’s Law? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/18 "2001-10-01T15:00:11Z")
Well, I’m very good at killing threads, so I’d better get in on a piece of this action. Here is how I often kill threads: (1) Readers fall asleep during my rambling, unable to hang on until I actually make a point. They wake up disoriented, forget where they were, and head off to Cafe Society to write a movie review. (2) I discover a thread a good 12 hours after everyone has already gotten tired of its content but dangit, I simply must add my $.02 anyway! (3) I post something that I think is a witty or interesting addition to the discussion, but that comes off to others as a pointless and abjectly ridiculous hijack which they refuse to honor by replying to it. Most of the time, however, I tell myself that I was just so thorough, so well-reasoned, and so logical that no one could possible add anything else. Self-delusion is a very helpful thing for the thread-killer’s ego. Trust me on that one. ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/19 "2001-10-01T15:08:04Z")
Ha ha ha LOL! I’ll remember that! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454/20 "2001-10-01T15:56:01Z")
Of course, as I learned from experience, as soon as you post a thread complaining about your talent for killing other threads…it turns into a threadkilling contest. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ending-posts/84454.md?page=2)