# Where are the sequential threds of yesteryear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742 "2015-03-11T04:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [May 5, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/361 "2015-05-05T12:32:33Z")
\*\*Some things don’t seem like they need to be said Please play your bongo drums inside the house \*\* That, however, seems like it needs to be said. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/362 "2015-05-05T22:11:52Z")
They’re off by a few, but… **What does molten lava taste like? Unrequited Love** ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/363 "2015-05-05T23:11:25Z")
\*\*How the fuck do I even leadership? Butt-Nekkid. But Patriotic! \*\* 'Splains a lot about them gubmint folks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/364 "2015-05-05T23:48:39Z")
**Student Fails To Hack Into Computer, Sets It On Fire Instead Little things that bug you** Yeah, that’d bug me. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/365 "2015-05-06T01:59:24Z")
**How the fuck do I even leadership? Dense turgid lawyer-speak** Seems a lot of politicians think so. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/366 "2015-05-06T04:00:16Z")
**Do you eat Chinese food for Christmas? The “No, Both Sides Don’t Do This” Thread** Only one side eats Chinese food for Christmas ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/367 "2015-05-06T11:54:32Z")
\*\* How not to catch a mouse I can’t replace my cat Vincent… But I found Nemo! \*\* ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/368 "2015-05-06T11:56:15Z")
\*\*Veterinarian brags about killing a cat Workplace griping, anyone? \*\* ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/369 "2015-05-06T14:27:33Z")
There are five other threads between, but I couldn’t resist: \*\*How not to catch a mouse 56 years later they caught him! \*\* ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/370 "2015-05-06T14:46:01Z")
They’re only three threads apart now. But THESE are contiguous: \*\* How not to catch a mouse Dense turgid lawyer-speak \*\* “The party of the first part (henceforth “the mouse”) and the party of the second part (Victor Spring-Activated Entrapment Device, henceforth “the mousetrap”) agree to…” ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/371 "2015-05-06T15:39:43Z")
**How would you express these two lines of dialogue in more natural-sounding English? Dense turgid lawyer-speak** Gee whiz, how bad could it be for that to be an improvement? ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/372 "2015-05-06T16:01:14Z")
\*\* Thoughts on living in Tulsa, OK Poll: Holidays most associated with drinking\*\* In the latest poll results, Tulsa-ites have voted Christmas as the holiday most associated with drinking, narrowly edging out New Year’s, Labor Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, St. Swithin’s Day, May Day, Flag Day, the National Day Of Prayer… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/373 "2015-05-06T17:53:15Z")
Thread title/last poster combo: **How were the pyramids in Egypt built?** by Human Action ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/374 "2015-05-06T19:22:11Z")
\*\*Little things that bug you Just encountered y first click beetle \*\* ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/375 "2015-05-06T19:42:11Z")
\*\* Identify this fantasy guitar player story The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) by They Might Be Giants \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/376 "2015-05-06T21:05:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There are five other threads between, but I couldn’t resist: > \*\*How not to catch a mouse > > 56 years later they caught him! > > \*\* These are properly sequential now. You just need some patience, my friend. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/377 "2015-05-06T23:41:37Z")
\*\*How not to catch a mouse Unrequited Love \*\* Yeah, you can’t just sit around pining–you need to just open up and let the mouse know how you feel. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/378 "2015-05-07T02:19:56Z")
**6-Letter Word-Change one or two letters make a new word** **What’s up with the language police lately?** ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/379 "2015-05-07T12:17:49Z")
\*\* Dense turgid lawyer-speak Discontinuation syndrome, you mean withdrawal? \*\* Lawyer: “_MY_ term is more precise!” ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742/380 "2015-05-07T12:35:59Z")
\*\* Can a dead person be “accused” of something? How Did the Flies Get into the House?\*\* Y’know, maybe you should stop putting off Uncle Ernie’s funeral. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-sequential-threds-of-yesteryear/714742.md?page=20)