Thread Killers: A Scientific Study

[arwalden]

Who will ultimately kill this thread? (Or will it die on its own?)
-- Allen

[terrya]

1. Kick. Let it live for now. :-) eom

[kmla]

2. OK, I'll try.

Or, who knows. Maybe this will become the "How quickly will this thread die" forever thread (from Ozymandius).

From here on out, someone killed it. It cannot die on it's own with at least one reply...

[goobergunch]

64. I concur. How quickly *will* this thread die?

:evilgrin:

[EV1Ltimm]

3. I'm a heavyweight when it comes to killing threads...

I'm still waiting for the belt to be delivered.

[Bunny]

4. Hey, I'm no slouch in the thread killing department!

I kill a lot of my OWN threads, fer cryin' out loud!

[EV1Ltimm]

5. uh oh, thems is fightin' words!

:)

[Bundbuster]

16. Is that considered suicide? n/t

[catmandu57]

6. This thread is doomed

DOOMED. I am the thread killer.

[EV1Ltimm]

7. we'll see

:P

[democracyindanger]

8. dupe

Nothing new to see here. Move along.

[TXlib]

9. Just start discussing anal sex in graphic detail

that'll kill it.

[montana_hazeleyes]

10. I'm in

I am the Ted Bundy of thread killers.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. I'm going to post....

And watch it die.
Duckie

[Liberal Christian]

12. Kick

[Arugula Latte]

13. I am always the last to post on a thread

Let's see if it works this time...

[Endangered Specie]

14. well see about that

[Insider]

15. west side story

that oughtta do it

[nemo137]

28. nah. composed by bernstein, therefore immortal.

[LincolnMcGrath]

17. Amateurs

[Cannikin]

18. Howdy Allen!

Just stopped by to kill your thread!

[Endangered Specie]

19. Thread Killing is an Art

Let me illustrate...

[greendog]

20. 325 of 405 greendog posts have been threadkillers....

Seems that way, anyway. :)

[Lizz612]

21. 325/405

Thats still a good solid 80%. Thats a B!!

[LincolnMcGrath]

22. Thank You for the tech help!

[Thor_MN]

23. Can a thread die if it is watched? There has to be some Quantum

implications here.

[populistmom]

24. Boobie Bunny is good at scaring people away

[dweller]

25. (another excellent habitat for the nefarious, and wiley wild

Rabrrrrr thread-killer.....let's just blend into the background here and wait.......shhh....as soon as he senses the helpless prey, he'll appear..............)




dp

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. It will be me...

I just have this feeling.

Does the thread-killer win a prize?

[CanuckAmok]

27. No it won't. ....n/t

[kmla]

29. Well, it won't be you either.

Heh heh.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. yes it will...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

34. No way, there Goddess... I am as baaad as you

so there.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Well one thing's certain...

It's not going to die anytime soon... ;-)

[nuxvomica]

30. *whack* *thud* *gasp*

This thread is now dead.

[kmla]

31. Like a bad coroner, you have just pronounced it dead...

...when it was still breathin'.

Quite a resilient thread. Bounces back...

[arwalden]

33. You're Just Like Quincy

[renegade000]

35. *steps in*

*waits*

[Skittles]

37. RABRRRRRRRRRRR WILL KILL IT

YES INDEED

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

38. Oooooh, I am afraid... mommy! she said the bad man's name!

Nooooo, Not Him!

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. HA HA!!

My name is a killing word!

No one withstands the weirding way!

[Endangered Specie]

39. best way to kill a thread, post at 1am

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. But it's still there in the morning...

;-)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

41. I will not let you kill this... I MUST have the last word.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

75. but perhaps if I hide my post in the middle of all the others...

nobody will really notice.

[TrogL]

42. Best way to kill a thread

Post something so totally off the wall, so glorious, so inscrutible, so outrageous that nobody can think of anything to reply.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

43. Don' t I know it?

[kiahzero]

44. It seems to me this is an open invitation for thread necromancy

Mmmm.... necronomiconical goodness...

[earthman dave]

46. Feel the chill touch of the grave!

Consider it killed...

[rbnyc]

47. It would be me...

...except that instead this will turn into one of those threads that won't die.

I betcha.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

48. I feel it is very important that I keep my average of thread killings

up.
Number 2 is just not good enough for me, so I have to have more. To that end, here is the first chapter of The Last of the Mohicans by the God of American Prose, James Fennimore Cooper.

invincible−−an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare
military endowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from
annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the
steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.* A wide frontier had been laid
naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and
imaginary dangers. The alarmed colonists believed that the yells of the savages mingled with every fitful gust
of wind that issued from the interminable forests of the west. The terrific character of their merciless enemies
increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare. Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their
recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative
of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous
actors. As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wilderness, the blood of the
timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within
the security of the largest towns. In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the
calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the
basest passions. Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was
becoming doubtful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the
possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of
their relentless allies.
* Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of the danger into which he was
heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage.
The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command
the American armies at a later day. It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang
with his well−merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the
author has searched for it without success. In this manner does the mother country absorb even the fame,
under that system of rule.
When, therefore, intelligence was received at the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage
between the Hudson and the lakes, that Montcalm had been seen moving up the Champlain, with an army
"numerous as the leaves on the trees," its truth was admitted with more of the craven reluctance of fear than
with the stern joy that a warrior should feel, in finding an enemy within reach of his blow. The news had been
brought, toward the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request
from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the "holy lake," for a speedy and powerful
reinforcement. It has already been mentioned that the distance between these two posts was less than five
leagues. The rude path, which originally formed their line of communication, had been widened for the
passage of wagons; so that the distance which had been traveled by the son of the forest in two hours, might
easily be effected by a detachment of troops, with their necessary baggage, between the rising and setting of a
summer sun. The loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest−fastnesses the name of
William Henry, and to the other that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning
family. The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a
force really by far too small to make head against the formidable power that Montcalm was leading to the
foot of his earthen mounds. At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the
king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men. By uniting the several
detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants
against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little
superior in numbers.
But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await
the approach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by
emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans 5

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. dream on, buddy

I'm taking this one down.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

50. hehe... you're it

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. offering an anti-tagging post,

but offering it negatively.

"You are no longer being not-it"

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

52. I know you think you understand what I thought you said, but

I am not sure that I understand what it is that you think I said.

[Rabrrrrrr]

61. Whoops! It almost got away from me!

RabrrrrrrThreadKilling(tm) - once dead, it stays dead.

[populistmom]

53. I still say as far as percentages of posts that are threadkillers

I rank pretty darn high!

[populistmom]

54. To illustrate my argument:

I have 48 archived posts this past week. 6 are threadkillers.

12.5% of my total posts were thread killers. Go ahead, top that!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

55. Well, I had 14 last week, so there

[populistmom]

56. But how many total posts?

[populistmom]

57. Just checked

You had 23 total posts. Uh, dude, you win! I humbly bow down to you, oh Master Threadkiller! :yourock:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

59. how do you search for that? duh question...

[populistmom]

60. First, hit the search button

on the right side, you'll see "click here to search the archives"
click it
write the name of person
Click "Lounge" (or whatever forum being searched)
put "author"
and adjust time period you're searching in
Click "search now"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. It survived my Windows reinstallation...

I guess it was waiting for me to come back and kill it. :-)

[wysimdnwyg]

62. Gotta give it a try!

Die! Die you stinkin' pile of trash thread!


I said DIE dammit!

[kmla]

65. But this thread is only mostly dead....

[Endangered Specie]

63. I will '.45' this thread.

[Rabrrrrrr]

66. Nope

I stopped that bullet!

[PVnRT]

67. KILLTHREAD

n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

68. Uhhh, nope...

Not today, dude.

[VOX]

69. Hey, let's talk about my marble collection!

Is it dead yet?
:evilgrin:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

70. I invoke the powers of the undead.... death to this thread!

[Endangered Specie]

71. I hope this doesnt turn into another "The thread that wouldnt die" thread

[goobergunch]

72. No! You can't kill it!

I must kill it!

/me stabs thread

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

73. Is this still here?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

74. Ayyyyyyyuuuup.... it don't go no where.