# 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:** 87
**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 6, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1722 "2023-07-06T11:50:23Z")
**Car wash in Reading PA** **How do people fall in the water and not resurface?** I don’t know, but watch out for that deep puddle by the waxer. ---
**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 6, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1723 "2023-07-06T13:32:52Z")
Do Capital Gains Screw the Poor? Who or what, is your favorite villain? It’s gotta be Snidely Buffett. ---
**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 6, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1724 "2023-07-06T14:26:37Z")
**How do you routinely use flashlights in and around your home?** **Have you ever had an Enema?** ---
**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:** [July 7, 2023, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1725 "2023-07-07T06:44:59Z")
**Things you loved as a kid that you now think are terrible** **Your go-to ox penis recipe** ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1726 "2023-07-07T08:18:43Z")
**Italian Rules for food and drink** **Your go-to ox penis recipe** ---
**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 7, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1727 "2023-07-07T13:53:18Z")
“It is better to use a beam of light than to curse the darkness.” ---
**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 8, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1728 "2023-07-08T16:48:11Z")
Who, or what, is your favorite villain? Most-regretted baby names It’s a good thing that Mr. and Mrs. Whiplash didn’t give in to the impulse to name their baby boy “Shirley”. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1729 "2023-07-09T13:57:47Z")
**Ways You’ve Felt Old Recently** **Double hip replacement!** ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1730 "2023-07-10T20:53:29Z")
**Can my camera be saved? (It got wet)** **Free dive to bottom of Mariana Trench, yes or no?** ---
**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 11, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1731 "2023-07-11T13:11:33Z")
Space colonization What’s with Subway There’s an untapped demand for meatball subs over at Ursa Major. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1732 "2023-07-11T19:04:54Z")
**Most-regretted baby names Everest: Just Don’t Do It** I don’t see what’s regrettable as long as you don’t insist that it be pronounced “eve-rist” like the original, and that of course the baby’s name is not actually “Everest Justdontdoit Jones”. ---
**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 14, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1733 "2023-07-14T19:17:53Z")
If you had to pick a small country to live in Tackiest Souvenir? A t-shirt that says “I Blinked And Missed Liechtenstein”? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1734 "2023-07-15T18:59:20Z")
**Two-Sentence Horror Stories A creepy missing person case (July 2023) Bad, bad, bad Hair day! Remember Mr. Fuzzy?** ---
**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 15, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1735 "2023-07-15T20:42:52Z")
What have I created in my refrigerator? Series you’ve recently watched, are now watching or have given up on My favorites are “Fifty Shades of Green” and “It Might Be Meat, It Might Be Cake”. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1736 "2023-07-16T02:05:56Z")
**What does calling out someone’s name, and only that, mean in your household?** **Tree identification** “MYRTLE!” ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1737 "2023-07-16T11:12:42Z")
**4 University of Idaho students stabbed to death** **Amazon has locked me out of my sales AND personal account** I think the punishment should be a tad harsher than 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:** [July 19, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1738 "2023-07-19T15:47:47Z")
Is there a current role for public intellectuals? What does calling out someone’s name, and only that, mean in your household? It means that your beloved has finally taken the hint and stopped calling you “Dumbass”. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1739 "2023-07-20T16:16:04Z")
**More Jokes** **Would You Pay Thirty Bucks For A Great Wiener?** That’s what she said! Geddit, geddit? ---
**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, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1740 "2023-07-23T18:44:51Z")
Another divorce/lottery question How can I send money to an individual in Nigeria? “Hi, I have $50 million in assets I don’t want to lose in a divorce. Can you hold them for me? I just need $200 up front as a good faith deposit…” ---
**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, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906/1741 "2023-07-23T23:51:22Z")
Weird things are happening with my car - what might be wrong? Should I use a whetstone to sharpen my knives? If your car is turning into Christine, you’ll need a bigger knife. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=86) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads/911906.md?page=88)