# Winning the thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401 "2009-08-23T17:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/21 "2009-08-24T18:36:05Z")
It was speculated that I **possibly** won a thread, but there was no confirmation. [Here is the thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=371720&highlight=Priceless) My post is #11. Speculation on my win is post #15. ---
**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, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/22 "2009-08-24T21:07:39Z")
No one has ever declared me the “winner” of a thread. However, there Ihave been many, many threads I’ve posted in where my post was so obviously brilliant, well written and cogent that no one else saw the need to post anything else to that thread. Ever. As far as I’m concerned, that counts as winning. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/23 "2009-08-24T21:59:06Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I… think I’ll just… stand over… not near you. > > Medical school, eh? Sure, I can understand why it’d be important for a doctor to know how to _remove a human head_. “Doc, my head is killing me!” “Oh, I have experience with this. Let me just find a scalpel.” > > So are you a doctor now? If so, what kind? If any kind of organ or system specialty, do you know how to remove that organ or system from the body? offtopic: Yes, **QtM** is now a full fledged doctor, and has been for some time. I believe he is a GP, working in a government run long term housing facility for the otherly moraled. Is that correct, doc? /offtopic ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/24 "2009-08-24T22:02:41Z")
Just not all the time. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/25 "2009-08-24T22:15:53Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > offtopic: > > Yes, **QtM** is now a full fledged doctor, and has been for some time. I believe he is a GP, working in a government run long term housing facility for the otherly moraled. Is that correct, doc? > > /offtopic I’m a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and I spent over 16 years in the private sector, where I did routine OB/Gyn, emergency medicine, urgent care, family practice, simple orthopedics, assisting in surgeries, doing infant and child care, cardiac stress testing, peer review, quality improvement, etc. ad nauseum. I have now spent over 7 years in the public sector in a maximum security prison and now help oversee the medical care provided to over 23,000 inmates across the state, doing a lot of the same things as above (except no real OB) plus other bureaucratic odds and ends and some teaching of medical students. And I can remove any organ from the body. It’s easier if the body is dead to start with. It will certainly be dead after I’ve removed the organ. Or it will wish it was. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/26 "2009-08-24T22:20:18Z")
Damn! With a post like that, somebody better get in here quick before Q is declared winner of _this_ thread. We can’t have no fancy doctor man winning this thread. What with him and his sciences and degrees and granny glasses and whatnot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/27 "2009-08-24T22:51:13Z")
My favorite thread win was probably this one (I’m post #4): [Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi never existed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8796027) ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/28 "2009-08-25T02:50:04Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > …And I can remove any organ from the body. It’s easier if the body is dead to start with. It will certainly be dead after I’ve removed the organ. Or it will wish it was. Yes, yes, no doubt, no doubt. But… well… [nitpick]does the appendix count as an “organ”? There might be times when the removal of an organ could be a good thing?[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/29 "2009-08-25T03:06:01Z")
Well, I won a thread on another message board, so unfortunately I have no evidence. The gist of it was that a particularly unpleasant denizen of that message board was complaining that we all better be nice to him because for all we knew he could be a serial killer. I replied, “Aren’t serial killers supposed to be charismatic and intelligent?” The owner of the site sent me a private message telling me that she laughed her ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/30 "2009-08-25T04:14:00Z")
I just won [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11480964). There was, however, some disagreement:- > [@](#): > > Seriously, this kind of no-content shit makes up 80% of the posts here these days. Maybe I’ll only get a silver medal ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/31 "2009-08-25T04:50:02Z")
I got a gold star from a moderator in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380947). I also won the discussion about the origin of the expression “[Batshit crazy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433628)” ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/32 "2009-08-25T05:07:34Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I just won [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11480964). There was, however, some disagreement:- > > Maybe I’ll only get a silver medal ☹ Are you kidding? There is no way your post beat [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11480392&postcount=10) in that thread. In fact, the linked post is the only one even worthwhile in that thread. Sorry, but you definately did not win that thread. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/33 "2009-08-25T21:44:41Z")
I won [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435571) (I’M BETTER THAN YOU!) with [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8954719&postcount=32) > [@fachverwirrt](#): > > I think of all my kids, God turned out the best. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8958677&postcount=54) the post declaring me the winner. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/34 "2009-08-26T02:33:50Z")
**NurseCarmen** said I won [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451052) with [this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9358328&postcount=32) Actually, I’d just as rather never had the whole misunderstanding happen. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/35 "2009-08-26T09:02:44Z")
I’m… not really sure what I’m gonna do with it, but turns out I [won a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10985109#post10985109) once, too, with this: > [@Oddest fetish site I've run across](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-fetish-site-ive-run-across/490677/63): > > Hmm, the objectophilia stuff is not all that strange to me – I’ve had relationships with congruently-faced regular polyhedra, but they were strictly platonic. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401/36 "2009-08-26T10:52:38Z")
If you don’t mind an oldie but goodie, I won not only the thread but the [Ultimate Rochambo Fighting Competition](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1098729&postcount=545) too, against some stiff competition. Admittedly I had to blow the place up to do it but hey, whatever works… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-thread/507401.md?page=1)