# Why were these two threads merged?

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**Created:** [June 23, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-these-two-threads-merged/586541 "2011-06-23T11:18:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-these-two-threads-merged/586541/1 "2011-06-23T11:18:47Z")

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Two threads started by \*\*Le Jac \*\*seem to be merged.

> **[I wish to declare war on a foreign country.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=611318)**
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> Forget lobbying the Government to waste billions of dollars on new aircraft carriers, or signing up as a merc to go against the nasty foreigners. Why bother when I can send Rhythmdvl and a few other members of the Straight Dope Message Board to...

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13943553&postcount=234](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13943553&postcount=234)

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-these-two-threads-merged/586541/2 "2011-06-23T11:29:40Z")

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> [@I wish to declare war on a foreign country.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-declare-war-on-a-foreign-country/584464/298):
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> As the OP’s threads are all virtually identical, I’ve gone ahead and merged his latest Pit thread into the previous one.

**Le Jacquelope** focuses exclusively on two topics (outsourcing and women) and in the past, whenever one of his threads has slipped down the page or not gotten enough responses, he’s opened a new thread and started all over again. His threads are now being merged so they don’t take up too much real estate.

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-these-two-threads-merged/586541/3 "2011-06-23T11:42:49Z")

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Oops! I missed **Miller** ’s post.  
Wow, thanks for the quick reply.