# Thread Murderer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459 "2003-03-31T15:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/21 "2003-04-01T06:53:20Z")
You guys and gals are pikers when it comes to thread murder. I’m the tops, or bottoms, and it’s beginning to wear on me. Sometimes I can’t get to sleep for as long as 5 minutes over it. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/22 "2003-04-01T07:14:42Z")
Ok, so I went and counted. I have killed 78 threads. So, **if you don’t know i won’t tell** , killing a few threads is no biggie. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/23 "2003-04-01T08:10:03Z")
just so it won’t be 79. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/24 "2003-04-01T11:49:53Z")
Don’t think of it as “killing”. Think of it as “giving the Thread the rest it so richly deserves”. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/25 "2003-04-01T15:41:11Z")
Yeah, that’s the way I looka at it. ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/26 "2003-04-01T16:10:04Z")
11%. It feels so much lower. I wonder what Uncle Beer’s kill percentage is. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/27 "2003-04-01T16:59:36Z")
so what’s wrong with having the last word? ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/28 "2003-04-01T17:57:21Z")
_ahem_ nothing, except when it’s a blow to your ego and makes you lose sleep at night, wondering [drama]WHY WHY WHY ☹ WHY ME??!!! Doesn’t anybody love me??!! [/drama] ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/29 "2003-04-01T19:24:15Z")
I have never lost any sleep over it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/30 "2003-04-01T20:22:37Z")
I killed a thread in Reno once… ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/31 "2003-04-01T21:15:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*I killed a thread in Reno once… \*\* Just to watch it die? ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/32 "2003-04-01T21:26:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*I killed a thread in Reno once… \*\* Singing pirate transvestite songs again, eh?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/33 "2003-04-01T21:40:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by \*\*if you don’t know i won’t tell \*\* > … lose sleep at night, wondering [drama]WHY WHY WHY ☹ WHY ME!!! Doesn’t anybody love me!!! [/drama] well if you don’t know i won’t tell 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/34 "2003-04-01T21:40:46Z")
I killed a thread in Reno once… Just to watch it die. I killed a thread in Reno once… Just to up my count. I went to the MPSIMS to share But when I explained my problem Noone seemed to care! Sorry, I told you guys (in another thread, which I killed) that I’m bad at poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/35 "2003-04-01T23:25:18Z")
Oh! That’s \*poetry.\*I thought it was a snappy little number you can sing whilst dressed as a pirate transvestite. Silly me. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/36 "2003-04-01T23:32:14Z")
Last time I checked my thread-slaying percentage was hovering around 25. I can do this one in if you’d like. ---
**Author:** ![green\_dragon\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@green\_dragon\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_dragon_1)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/37 "2003-04-02T00:46:10Z")
i’m tempted to post just to keep it alive, but dwyr’s post would be such a fitting end… oh. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/38 "2003-04-02T01:04:41Z")
Shouldn’t we all have our lawyers present? And watch this be the last post of this thread. Sigh… (Sorry, **dwyr** ) ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/39 "2003-04-02T01:37:34Z")
Why? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459/40 "2003-04-02T04:51:35Z")
Because we’ve all admitting to killing. Y’know, thread killing…murder… Sorry, bad joke. I’ll shut up now. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-murderer/165459.md?page=3)