# Trailing off?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 24, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402 "2003-10-24T21:22:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402/1 "2003-10-24T21:22:08Z")

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Give me some real-life examples of when you’ve trailed off into nonsense.

Board example: From a recent post of mine:

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> Because… As we all know… Candles are often used as… Trebuchets… By roman… Cats…

This is after I’d accidentally said that Zenster had flown off a candle.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402/2 "2003-10-24T22:54:49Z")

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No, honey, I wasn’t flirting with her. really. Well maybe a little, she looks like my cousin. I mean, it looks like it’s time for the show. I know i left it here somewhere. You gonna finish that?  
[paraphrasing a dinner conv with my GF at the time]

All Trek Doper threads end up trailing off into nonsense. Look for yourself! No links for you!

;j

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402/3 "2003-10-24T23:56:04Z")

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Did I hear a “niner” in there?

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailing-off/209402/4 "2003-10-25T02:29:07Z")

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Hey! A lot of people spend seven years in college.