# 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:** 42

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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 9, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/821 "2001-01-09T14:44:22Z")

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I may be a Canuck but I can appreciate a good mess of grits(maybe people wouldn’t be as turned off if they weren’t called a mess of grits…). I’ll also have some toast too, but I’ll pass on the rest, I’m watching my waistline you know…

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/822 "2001-01-09T14:58:52Z")

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Mmmm, grits and fried eggs, sausage and biscuits and gravy. Hoo-boy, is it Sunday already?

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/823 "2001-01-09T15:00:04Z")

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In fact I’m trying to get right out there where I can see it better.

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**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sue)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/824 "2001-01-09T15:37:23Z")

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/825 "2001-01-09T16:40:08Z")

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[sub]Meat Loaf’s “A Kiss is a Terrible thing to Waste”, cranked, via winamp.[/sub]

Morning! Hey… someone brought breakfast, cool. 🙂

Oh, I’ve lived in the south all my life, and I still haven’t acquired a taste for grits. It’s still slightly flavored sand to me.

[sub]Blues Brothers 2000, “Love Light”[/sub]

Anyway, I can’t wait to hear this demo tape.

Did anyone bring the Orange Juice?

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**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/826 "2001-01-09T16:44:05Z")

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Hi DW…all ready for the lunar eclipse? (no grits of course…😉 )

Heehee!

Hi Struuter again! baby steps? You mean that thing is learning to walk?!?!

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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 9, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/827 "2001-01-09T16:45:55Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Cobravert \*  
> **I watched a movie yesterday called Boondock Saints…**

If you liked that, you should watch _Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels_. Two really good movies, IMHO.

BTW, I’m preparing lunch. It’s a dinner/lunch sort of thing: Garlic chicken oreganato over lamb ravioli Alfredo.

Delicate flavors, complimenary and delightful.

No side dishes, I’m afraid, so you’ll have to bring your own.

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**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/828 "2001-01-09T16:52:21Z")

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Hey, here I am! I’ve just been patently standing by, letting all you amatures wear down ol’ Threadbeast here…

Yep, Just sittin’ here watching, and waiting…

Watching and waiting…

watching and wanindnnnn_Skznzzzzzzzz_

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/829 "2001-01-09T17:02:06Z")

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Wake up man, You’re our only hope.

(plus I just love throwing buckets of water)

ain’t I a stinker

\>sneaking up behind struuter with…

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/830 "2001-01-09T17:06:17Z")

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Boy just can’t stay in it, can he? No endurance, I tell ya.

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**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/831 "2001-01-09T17:15:08Z")

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_Spwaa__Sputter_ _gack_

I’m awake! I’m awake! Whud I miss?  
Aw damn. It isn’t dead yet.

Hmmm…I will be right back…  
_exits, stage right_

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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/832 "2001-01-09T17:28:04Z")

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:: clapping ::

Thank you, **Mermaid**. That **p-will** needed a bath. All that rooting around in barns and cellars left a layer of funk on him. 😉

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/833 "2001-01-09T17:28:09Z")

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There he is…

So, now that breakfast is over, and the slideshow is gone, what’s for lunch?

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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/834 "2001-01-09T17:39:15Z")

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What’s for lunch? That’s easy. I’ll be, uh, wolfing down some of the **Snowman’s** garlic chicken and lamb ravioli. Sounds way to good to pass up. I’ll bring some garlic knots, and a bottle of Reisling.

Hey TS - how 'bout you marry Mermaid, and then adopt me? I’d no doubt pack on a hundred pounds from eating so much, and get clogged arteries, but I’d die happy with a full belly!

[sup]heh…almost forgot.[/sup]

:: kicks Thready in the shin just for laughs ::

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/835 "2001-01-09T17:53:15Z")

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dumps bucket of water on Saint Zero  
squirts Dire Wolf with water pistol …down boy!  
throws bucket of water at thinksnow but is amazed to see it turn into a blizzard and fall on TS in “all the right places”

Huh? How’d you do that?

Just for fun dumps water on her self, completely soaking thin white t-shirt (Oh no, now you can see right through it:p) and sprouting fins, again.

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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 9, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/836 "2001-01-09T17:58:57Z")

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Rats just when the thread was starting to die down, Mermaid injects some sex into it…now it will never die…::sigh:: I guess I’ll sit down and have my muamburger now…

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**Author:** ![beeblbrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beeblbrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beeblbrox)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/837 "2001-01-09T18:06:26Z")

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_stabs at it with a dull butter nife_  
umm die.

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/838 "2001-01-09T18:09:39Z")

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doesn’t even bother to sneak up on Odieman.

Walks right up to him-still wearing the wet t-shirt  
(hmmmmm, it looks like it’s really, really cold in here)

slowly and sensuously pours water all over Odieman

Oooops, I think I spilled some more water on myself

(giggle giggle giggle)

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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 9, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/839 "2001-01-09T18:19:40Z")

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::Odie feels cold water running down my neck…:: Whaaat!?!  
I look up and see Mermaid in a cold-wet tee shirt…Hello how are **you** doing…Care to pull up a blanket…

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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 9, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadkillers-2001/48015/840 "2001-01-09T18:19:57Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Dire Wolf \*  
> \*\*Hey TS - how 'bout you marry Mermaid, and then adopt me? \*\*

:eek:  
What? She’s not bethrothed?

\<shock, surprise and disbelief\>

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