# Thread summarizer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635 "2007-04-03T23:25:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635/21 "2007-04-06T13:13:14Z")

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At least I’m not a _half-finished_ buffoon. Now what was this thread about, anyway?

Sailboat

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635/22 "2007-04-06T19:47:18Z")

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Actually, you want a summary? Just read the Google ads, and post something accordingly.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635/23 "2007-04-07T00:18:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Frank]  
Eightysix posts is very long? Perhaps you shouldn’t pit **tomndebb** anytime soon; those suckers tend to drag on for ten or fifteen pages!  
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And I **still** can’t get any jackboot points.  
I need a better class of **Pitter**.

[QUOTE=Autolycus]  
Summarise threads? No no no. Dont do that. Just skip to the bottom and post something that makes you look like a complete buffoon. All the cool posters are doing it!  
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Ahhh! You think you’re being cool!

😛

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-summarizer/398635/24 "2007-04-07T03:53:08Z")

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[QUOTE=tomndebb]

Ahhh! You think you’re being cool!

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I am always cool except when I am not 😃

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