# When in discourse of sequential threads **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/902 "2021-11-04T15:53:56Z")
**Lack of low-wage workers… where have they gone? Should you ever even go to an interrogation room with the police? Like, even with your lawyer?** They all went into an interrogation room and never came back. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/903 "2021-11-04T17:18:22Z")
Why would trick-or-treaters knock rather than ring? A question about vampires The onus is on _you_ for inviting them in. 😱 ---
**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:** [November 4, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/904 "2021-11-04T19:03:09Z")
A question about vampires Without saying your age, what’s something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn’t understand? Transylvania 6-5000 doesn’t mean anything to the younger generation of vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/905 "2021-11-07T01:41:23Z")
**Meet Bob Men’s Underwear…with no fly** Something’s bobbing, all right. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/906 "2021-11-07T07:20:39Z")
**My first colonoscopy is coming up… woo… what to expect? Ever been to to high school reunion?** Whatever sort of school was that? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/907 "2021-11-07T23:34:46Z")
A horse question Can you really end up on the sex offender registry for public urination? “Officer, what’s going on in that corral is shocking! Do something!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/908 "2021-11-09T00:37:43Z")
**Without saying your age, what’s something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn’t understand? Strange Plumbing Issue** No, that’s something from your present that they wouldn’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/909 "2021-11-09T14:50:13Z")
**Strange Plumbing Issue** **Is eating Jello equivalent to drinking all the water used to make it?** What goes in must go out out. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/910 "2021-11-09T16:15:43Z")
**Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across** **Biden’s Two Trillion Dollar Infrastructure (American Jobs) Plan** I thought I heard something about that. Where can I find out more? ---
**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:** [November 10, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/911 "2021-11-10T15:22:10Z")
**Columbus Day v Indigenous People’s Day v Leif Erikson Day** **What can we learn about immigration?** ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/912 "2021-11-11T02:22:14Z")
Biblically speaking, G\*d apparently got mad at America’s sins and struck us with a plague. What was our sin? Bad, bad, bad Beck was a bad, bad, bad Doper in her early days Think of it as the Ultimate Pitting. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/913 "2021-11-11T15:34:43Z")
A question about vampires If you don’t vote, why not? The polls close before it gets dark, duh. And the mail-in ballots smell like garlic. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/914 "2021-11-11T15:47:13Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A question about vampires > If you don’t vote, why not? [transylvanian accent] But I’m NOT dead! I’m UNDEAD! What? Of COURSE I came into this country legally! [/transylvanian accent] ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/915 "2021-11-11T17:07:27Z")
**WTF was Popeye always singing?** **Beans, Beans, Beans!** "I’m Popeye the Sailor Man! (Toot! Toot!) ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/916 "2021-11-12T15:06:46Z")
A vampire can’t enter your country unless you invite him in. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/917 "2021-11-12T21:29:28Z")
So who invited Dracula into Great Britain? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/918 "2021-11-13T00:34:17Z")
It’s a standing invitation. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/919 "2021-11-13T06:44:20Z")
**Suspicious vehicle in front of my house … what would you do?** **Please post your personal ghost stories here** “So I rapped on the window of the car at about 2 in the morning, and all of a sudden there was this flash and “Bang!” from inside the car, and, well, I’ve just been sorta floating around here above the sidewalk ever since.” ---
**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:** [November 13, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/920 "2021-11-13T22:37:56Z")
Is the daytime sun yellow? Is Eggnog Kosher? Eggnog is fine. But now I realize why there are so many Jewish vampires. 👀 ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/921 "2021-11-13T22:52:21Z")
**Wondering if I can paint this?** **Electrical wiring in U.S. government buildings overseas?** Probably not. And it seems like an awful lot of trouble anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=47)