# What the hell, is it with thread copiers??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 23, 1999, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154 "1999-11-23T01:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/1 "1999-11-23T01:58:00Z")

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Or is it some other way?

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Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![counterattackii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@counterattackii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/counterattackii)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/2 "1999-11-23T02:03:00Z")

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Since you were (hopefully) doing this for a joke, just let me say that that was uncalled for… It really pisses me off, and I was hoping for an ANSWER or SUGGESTION rather than bullshit.

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**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/3 "1999-11-23T02:27:00Z")

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It’s evolution in action 🙂

Thanks for the chuckle, and mess on my monitor manhattan.

::Going to get a fresh beer::

Oblio

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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/4 "1999-11-23T04:17:00Z")

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It is. Mebbee God does work in mysterious ways.

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/5 "1999-11-23T07:29:00Z")

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I have a SUGGESTION for ya. If you get “really pissed off” when someone takes a piss outta ya (nice work manny), don’t start a thread in The Pit.

It’s a damn MPSIMS post. There’s all sorts of banal effluvia over there. That’s exactly what it was built for.

Besides, it’s much more fun to **mock** the posts over there. For example, check out the forum’s [Kissing](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/002730.html) thread where the OP challenges contemporary human thought by suggesting that kissing is **good**. Not since scholars hypothesized that shit smells has the philosophical world been turned on its collective ear.

See? Now you try. 🙂

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Back off, man. I’m a scientist.

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/6 "1999-11-24T06:10:00Z")

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IOW, Alphagene:

Counterattack, **get over yourself, pal.**

xxoo  
-andros-

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**Author:** ![Phaedrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@Phaedrus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phaedrus)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 1999, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/7 "1999-11-28T07:15:00Z")

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Alphagene: Nice mock! I most heartily concur with the substance without the intention of its giver. Yes, the kissing thread is a hard thread to digest, so much deep thought there. I spend much of my time contemplating the hierarchical structure of the labyrinthine convulotions of thought that the prosaic exactitude connotes. The originator must be a genius. Maybe?

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For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 1999, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-it-with-thread-copiers/3154/8 "1999-11-28T20:47:00Z")

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Summbich, I missed the comma.

Good one, manny. 🙂

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This space for rent.