# 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:** 68
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1342 "2022-08-23T02:03:01Z")
**Did you ever have a nickname unrelated to your given name? What’s “stupid”?** ---
**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:** [August 23, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1343 "2022-08-23T14:57:58Z")
**Question on building a chicken run** **Will it flush? (Need answer fast!)** **Vision question** **Couldn’t the Webb telescope get better photos of Jupiter?** ---
**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:** [August 23, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1344 "2022-08-23T15:20:04Z")
**Say something that is true to a person in 1985 that will make you sound like a crazy person** **What are some of the greatest things you know now that you wished you knew back then?** ---
**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:** [August 23, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1345 "2022-08-23T23:48:27Z")
Getting into Vatican Museum - Oops Help me pick out a coffee table Leo X had some nifty furniture. But you’ll need to grease the museum guards. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1346 "2022-08-24T00:39:08Z")
**Give me examples of challenges which are Whelming** **Longest Ingrown Hair You’ve Had?** I had to change the blade in my razor, but I was up to the challenge! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1347 "2022-08-24T10:59:05Z")
**Do you consider these phrases passive-aggressive? Does this count as useful exercise? What’s the temperature at your house these days? How Many First Cousins Do You Have?** Now, I’m not _saying_ you’re an inbred sloth who’s wasting electricity, I’m just asking questions… ---
**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:** [August 25, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1348 "2022-08-25T17:45:07Z")
Separated by 10, but worth it: **Smarter minds and, uh, butts in the MMP** **Your smart-ass response when the doctor’s assistant asks how much you drink** ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1349 "2022-08-26T01:45:21Z")
**Would you buy a stickshift car in 2022?** **Is this why they call us old farts?** ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1350 "2022-08-26T20:40:11Z")
Cattle Mutilations Have you disabled Windows 10 updates? There’s no time to waste! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1351 "2022-08-27T23:40:05Z")
**Can older women dress young? How do the (college) kids these days do research for school?** I swear, ma’am, I’m not just hanging out on this corner to film every woman. It’s research for a college course! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1352 "2022-08-29T11:37:05Z")
**Question for tree experts** **Just how does generalized anesthesia really work?** Well, most trees aren’t very much awake to start with, so it doesn’t matter. Except for Ents and Huorns. If you leave them alone they’ll just fall asleep. In an emergency, try an Ent Draught. I don’t know what you do about Apple Trees in Oz or the tree from From Hell It Came. Or Groot. Try having Mantis do a mind meld with Groot. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1353 "2022-08-29T13:56:14Z")
What’s your Renaissance humanist name? Disneytize your name Goofy Agricola, at your service. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1354 "2022-08-29T19:59:39Z")
**One thing that would make your life happier** **Denatured alcohol - wait, WTF** ---
**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:** [August 31, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1355 "2022-08-31T12:41:33Z")
Do you consider these phrases passive-aggressive? How Many First Cousins Do You Have? If you want to rag on my West Virginia heritage, be open about it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1356 "2022-08-31T18:43:09Z")
**Saw an ad in a local paper for “white milk”. What does that term mean to you?** **Suppressed Animosity** ---
**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:** [August 31, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1357 "2022-08-31T21:21:15Z")
**Personal opinions on Rat poison** **The case for nuclear power** That’s right, nuke the little bastards! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1358 "2022-09-02T15:05:16Z")
**Things you don’t “get” anymore General car talk** I used to get it, before NPR stopped playing reruns. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1359 "2022-09-02T18:16:25Z")
Separated by four: **I can do amazing things with my eyes** **Eyelid eczema - anyone else?** ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1360 "2022-09-03T17:46:49Z")
**A plane threatens Walmart** **A first experience with old airplane** Well, whatever you do, don’t crash it into a Walmart. (Too soon?) ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1361 "2022-09-04T13:58:26Z")
Let’s talk about the science of leaving the fridge door open Apollo 13 Design Change It _seemed_ like a cheap way to achieve cabin cooling, but the weightless drinks and condiments got really messy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=69)