# When in discourse of sequential threads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906 "2020-06-22T17:57:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/41 "2020-07-18T13:34:12Z")

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Non-political Trump question  
What are you going to do in your last week on earth?

C’mon, it’s way too early to get depressed about the election.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/42 "2020-07-18T23:55:09Z")

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What inexplicable things does your cat do?  
Free dive to bottom of Mariana Trench, yes or no?

A few times, yes. But he stopped when he found out there were no tuna down there.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/43 "2020-07-19T13:51:15Z")

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Little dirty tricks  
Looking To Buy My First Telescope

They’re so little I have to buy a telescope to see them.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/44 "2020-07-19T23:04:50Z")

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Should I/How do I report suspected food poisoning to the CDC  
Is V-8 Enough

Yeah, it’s a weird orange-red color and it’s fulla vegetables fer chrissake. Gotta be poisonous.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/45 "2020-07-20T17:10:02Z")

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What can you say to a non-white person who hates BLM so much  
Flies! Friggin’ flies!

Yeah, just change the subject gracefully.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/46 "2020-07-20T18:23:33Z")

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Today in nature I saw  
Kleenex boxes - Am I nuts or is this normal?

It’s nuts to consider them natural, but not nuts to see them occasionally.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/47 "2020-07-20T22:29:45Z")

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Most intelligent marsupial  
Why did Communists carry cards?

They fit nicely into little Commie pouches.\*

\*although opossums generally aren’t into collective action.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/48 "2020-07-20T23:20:50Z")

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What is the worst or most condescending advice you have been given?  
M-O-O-N that spells MMP

That manages to be both, as well as not a little bizarre.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/49 "2020-07-21T01:11:01Z")

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**Is it illegal to have a clothed erection in public?**  
**Musicians inappropriately “getting into the music**

Doesn’t get much more inappropriate than that.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/50 "2020-07-21T01:29:14Z")

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Heh. “Getting into the music” indeed.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/51 "2020-07-21T01:30:33Z")

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**What can you say to a non-white person who hates BLM so much**  
**Which US Presidents need a definitive book written about them?**

Changing the topic of conversation is often effective.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/52 "2020-07-21T11:36:03Z")

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Dear Scientists, After you create the COVID vaccine, would you please invent  
Kleenex boxes - Am I nuts or is this normal?

You’re nuts.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/53 "2020-07-21T13:09:23Z")

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Oh, the scourge, the heartbreak and embarrassment. And the pain, yes PAIN  
I’m in love with a vacuum cleaner

It’s heartbreaking to know they’ll never love you back, and pretty painful if you attempt certain acts on certain models.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/54 "2020-07-21T15:28:23Z")

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Today in nature I saw  
Oh, the scourge, the heartbreak and embarrassment. And the pain, yes PAIN

Man up, it’s just a friggin’ mosquito bite.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/55 "2020-07-22T16:09:38Z")

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**Enalzi is no more. Hail Bort!**

**Thoughts on an Epstien like operation**

**Weirdest names you’ve ever heard**

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/56 "2020-07-23T13:16:37Z")

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Weirdest names you’ve ever heard  
Are you ethnic?

Cause ethnic people have weird names amirite?

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/57 "2020-07-23T13:22:53Z")

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**I’ve never figured out**  
**If the World Was Going to End in Six Months**

Yeah, it probably is. (A pandemic! _Murder hornets!_ And there’s a comet.)

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/58 "2020-07-23T14:43:28Z")

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I had a burger, fries, and a cold draft beer at a bar  
I got hired by the Census!

Yeah, it’s hard to find good help these days. ☹

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/59 "2020-07-23T15:04:30Z")

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If the World Was Going to End in Six Months  
Grocery Coupons: Worth it or not worth it?

I could die happy, if I knew I’d gotten 50 cents off on an 8-pack of toilet paper.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/60 "2020-07-23T19:28:02Z")

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**What is the worst or most condescending advice you have been given?**  
**Thoughts on an Epstien like operation**

To do, or not to do…

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