# Threadkillers 2001!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 1, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015 "2001-01-01T21:16:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/41 "2001-01-01T23:12:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by Odieman \*  
> > \*\*or “Send in the Clowns” \*\*
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> Me thinks the clowns are already here.
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> One more post to 200, should I waste it here? \*\*

Waste it! I’m offended. This thread has clowns and chimps…If you think you can do better, go ahead and post somewhere else! We’re thru, I wanna start seeing other people! It’s not you, it’s me. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/42 "2001-01-01T23:17:28Z")

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We work and work and work for you and this is the thanks we get???

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**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:** [January 1, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/43 "2001-01-01T23:19:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Cobravert \*  
> Waste it! I’m offended. This thread has clowns and chimps…If you think you can do better, go ahead and post somewhere else! We’re thru, I wanna start seeing other people! It’s not you, it’s me. 🙂 \*\*

You know it all depends on the definition of waste.  
With that this is my 200 post, none more meaningful.

You want to pet my monkey?  
Pet my monkey! Pet my monkey!  
No, really pet my monkey.  
😃

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**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/44 "2001-01-01T23:21:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Odieman \*  
> \*\*We work and work and work for you and this is the thanks we get??? \*\*

Not to mention, the freakin’ tuba-players…geez. You think this stuff just grows on trees? I’ve gotta go for a walk. No! leave me alone right now! I have’ta think about our future together. Stop it! Get your hand of my ass! I’m serious!

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/45 "2001-01-01T23:22:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \*  
> \*\*  
> You want to pet my monkey?  
> Pet my monkey! Pet my monkey!  
> No, really pet my monkey.  
> 😃 \*\*

And what a cute little monkey it is.

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**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/46 "2001-01-01T23:24:51Z")

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This is just out and out padding right here.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/47 "2001-01-01T23:26:58Z")

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> _Originally posted by Jester \*  
> \*\*  
> The object? Kill the thread. It’s that simple. What defines “killing?” You have to have the last post on the thread for a period of at least 24 hours. If somebody else posts within that time, you have to try again, by posting again._\*

Wait: on this thread or on any thread?

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/48 "2001-01-01T23:28:29Z")

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Yup

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/49 "2001-01-01T23:28:32Z")

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If it’s any thread, I think I can claim victory in a few cases. But alas, I think it’s this one, Zoggie.

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**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/50 "2001-01-01T23:29:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Simetra \*  
> \*\*This is just out and out padding right here. \*\*

If you’re gonna bring out the padding this early, I believe you have no chance. (ummmm, this wasn’t padding) This was filler, yep that’s it, just filler.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/51 "2001-01-01T23:30:09Z")

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People, people:

I am the only 'Doper to have slain threads in each and every forum. I killed the last one of these, I’ll kill this one as well.

[/Homer]That was just a lie.[/Homer]

You got to ask yourself: Is it my eruditosity? Or am I simply cursed? (Or complexly cursed, for that matter.)

Whatever. The touch of death resides in my return button.

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Where’s the jello?

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**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:** [January 1, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/52 "2001-01-01T23:36:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Simetra \*  
> \*\*This is just out and out padding right here. \*\*

You know padding, placed in strategic locations, can enhance ones…ah… attributes. 😃

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/53 "2001-01-01T23:46:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \*  
> \*\*
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> > \*Originally posted by Simetra \*  
> > \*\*This is just out and out padding right here. \*\*
> 
> You know padding, placed in strategic locations, can enhance ones…ah… attributes. 😃 \*\*

Yes, but such a let down once one is finally stripped down.

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/54 "2001-01-01T23:50:01Z")

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Well the toys can help improve the experience, then.

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/55 "2001-01-01T23:57:41Z")

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Toys? Did someone mention some toys? What did you have in mine, Odie? 😃

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/56 "2001-01-02T00:00:07Z")

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ERK!!! Talk about an embarrasing typo!! ::blushes profusely::

What did you have in minD (mind mind mind mind)?

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/57 "2001-01-02T00:04:31Z")

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Ohhh something from the industrial line I guess…

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**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/58 "2001-01-02T01:12:36Z")

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Is this the right place? I think I’m lost.

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**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/59 "2001-01-02T01:19:37Z")

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Nope here is where here is, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/60 "2001-01-02T01:28:23Z")

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No, it’s over there ::points vaguely::

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