The thread killer's thread is dead

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The discussion revolves around the closure of the "Thread Killer" thread, which has sparked a mix of frustration and nostalgia among participants. Users express their disappointment over the thread's demise, particularly blaming a member named Zooby for its closure. There are humorous exchanges about reviving the thread, with references to "Franzbear," a fictional character symbolizing the thread's spirit. Participants share memories of the thread's impact, acknowledging its role in fostering community engagement and entertainment. Some suggest starting a new thread to continue the fun, while others debate whether to let the old thread rest in peace. The conversation is marked by playful banter and a sense of camaraderie, highlighting the emotional investment members have in their online interactions.

Should the "Thread killers thread" be reopened?

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  • #51
Don't you remember all the fun we had pposting in franzbear? :rolleyes: ...we...umm...we had fun! and what about making a PF record of 10,000 posts!? huh!? if we wanted to do that without franzbear, we'd have to do it in the "stupid question" thread! and everyone wants that thread dead!
 
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  • #52
arildno said:
Occasionally, a decomposing corpse omits sounds which can be misinterpreted as "Please revive me"

These signals must not be heeded.
True. As gasses escape the body past the vocal chords, it can make sounds, but it's nothing more than wishful thinking to believe it's alive and speaking.
 
  • #53
I'm going to vote yes, I already miss the little fellow. :cry:

Of course, someone could smuggle him out of the old thread and into the new one. :approve:

I do have something up my sleeve for that 10,000th post. We'll see if it happens. o:)
 
  • #54
evo...you're the super mentor...just bring it back! you had no reason to close it anyway! it was fun! :cry:
 
  • #55
Since we are talking about it... What on Earth is Franzbear? I'm sure its in the thread somewhere, but I'm not reading through 8000+ replies to find out.
I think i gave up on page two or three when it appeared.
 
  • #56
^ Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I searched inside the thread for the answer, but it seems to come as a kind of bogus thing. I think it it just the name for the thread. If not, it must be something to do with franz?

I think there are two options for the thread:

1) We let it go up to 10k posts, and then lock it.
2) Keep it dead.

With 1, there should probably be some kind of prize :smile:
 
  • #57
Franzbear is the electronic love child of Moonbear and Franznietzche. He is the heart and soul of the thread. It is he that everyone has tried to kill by drowning, freezing, burning, exploding, suffocating...you name it. Early in the thread he became a zombie and therefore impervious to harm.

How can you not have read ALL of the posts? Hmmmpf!
 
  • #58
Evo said:
Franzbear is the electronic love child of Moonbear and Franznietzche. He is the heart and soul of the thread. It is he that everyone has tried to kill by drowning, freezing, burning, exploding, suffocating...you name it. Early in the thread he became a zombie and therefore impervious to harm.

Y'all are nuts, and that's saying a lot coming from someone like me :wink:

How can you not have read ALL of the posts? Hmmmpf!

Er, I'm sorry...
 
  • #59
hypatia said:
After watching Pet Cemetery, I believe, that things dead, should remain so.
Hypatia's right. If you bring it back there's always that chance it could turn evil on us. I keep imagining franzbear with red-glowing eyes. :devil:

I was tempted to start a Weekend at Franzbear's thread where we keep dragging the poor thing around and propping him up to make him look like he's still alive. I think that would just be cruel to Moonbear, though.

BTW, did you get the bereavement wreath I sent, MB? I know these things aren't usually made out of chocolate but I thought it would be more comforting to you.
 
  • #60
Math Is Hard said:
Hypatia's right. If you bring it back there's always that chance it could turn evil on us. I keep imagining franzbear with red-glowing eyes. :devil:
It already was threatening to take over other threads. It was quite a monster that somewhere around post 2000 or so, we just lost control of.

I was tempted to start a Weekend at Franzbear's thread where we keep dragging the poor thing around and propping him up to make him look like he's still alive. I think that would just be cruel to Moonbear, though.
*sniffle* Yes, that would be cruel, just dragging his poor, lifeless body around.

BTW, did you get the bereavement wreath I sent, MB? I know these things aren't usually made out of chocolate but I thought it would be more comforting to you.
Yes, I did. Thanks. :smile: Though, I don't have much of an appetite, what with all this grieving and everything, but well...okay...maybe just one piece to make me feel better. *chomp* Hmm...that seemed to help a bit. Maybe just one more. *snarf* *gobble* Well, a little more couldn't hurt. Mmm...chocolate works better than Prozac. :approve:
 
  • #61
If some of us wish to continue posting, and some of us do not, then those who do not are obviously the ones who have lost the battle to continue posting.

So the question for those who said franzbear should RIP is: are you a wimp... or a wuss? Only you can decide.
 
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  • #62
Ah, what shall I haunt next?
 
  • #63
BicycleTree said:
So the question for those who said franzbear should RIP is: are you a wimp... or a wuss? Only you can decide.
hmmm... I've heard of w.i.m.p.s (weakly interacting massive particles) but what's a w.u.s.s.? :confused:
 
  • #64
w.u.s.s. is an acronym meaning "Whiny Underling Such and Such
 
  • #65
If some people want a thread to be open, and the thread isn't breaking any rules, it doesn't make any difference how many want it to be closed. If they don't like the thread, nobody's forcing them to read it.

I think this is a good compromise: re-open the thread, but ban those who voted "no" in the poll from posting in it by deleting their posts. Then everyone gets what they want.
 
  • #66
BT, that is the smartest comment I've ever heard you make
 
  • #67
That's an idea. Make it so that only anyone who has already posted in it can post in it again. Anyone who has not posted in a 24 hour period will be banned from posting anylonger. Eventually you will have a winner.
 
  • #68
No, that's stupid. It's an endurance contest, not a test of frequency. The best solution is to ban those who voted "no." They don't want the thread, so don't give it to them. Simple.

I notice that most of those who voted "no" were not frequent posters in the thread.
 
  • #69
TheStatutoryApe said:
That's an idea. Make it so that only anyone who has already posted in it can post in it again. Anyone who has not posted in a 24 hour period will be banned from posting anylonger. Eventually you will have a winner.
after post #10,000

and could we have some deal like if you're going on vacation you won'tb have to leave?
 
  • #70
Although it would be nice to reach the 10k milestone, let's just let it go.
 
  • #71
TheStatutoryApe said:
That's an idea. Make it so that only anyone who has already posted in it can post in it again. Anyone who has not posted in a 24 hour period will be banned from posting anylonger. Eventually you will have a winner.
Oooh, that's good. I could make that happen.
 
  • #72
Evo said:
Oooh, that's good. I could make that happen.
no, let the people who want to post in it, post in it. as for the peeople who don't, they don't get to post in it. this way, we'll get rid of moonbear, yet another benefit...

is she here?[/size]
 
  • #73
yomamma said:
no, let the people who want to post in it, post in it. as for the peeople who don't, they don't get to post in it. this way, we'll get rid of moonbear, yet another benefit...

is she here?[/size]
:rolleyes: rut roh...

cues in music from "Dragnet"

Of course no one here is old enough to remember Dragnet and the humor is lost on them. :frown:
 
  • #74
I've seen about 10 seconds of dragnet.

I still got your joke
 
  • #75
TheStatutoryApe said:
That's an idea. Make it so that only anyone who has already posted in it can post in it again. Anyone who has not posted in a 24 hour period will be banned from posting anylonger. Eventually you will have a winner.

Evo said:
Oooh, that's good. I could make that happen.

i think that sounds excellent. i'd revive the thread for that. it'd be interesting to see how long devotion to the thread lasted...
 
  • #76
yomamma said:
I've seen about 10 seconds of dragnet.

I still got your joke
Thank you yomamma. :approve:
 
  • #77
Gale17 said:
i think that sounds excellent. i'd revive the thread for that. it'd be interesting to see how long devotion to the thread lasted...
can we wait tilll 10,00 posts?

and can we have vacation time for this?
 
  • #78
TheStatutoryApe said:
That's an idea. Make it so that only anyone who has already posted in it can post in it again. Anyone who has not posted in a 24 hour period will be banned from posting anylonger. Eventually you will have a winner.
I like that idea. :biggrin: Of course, it's going to be tough convincing me to give up my current victory as thread-killer. But, perhaps for enough chocolate, I could be convinced to give you all one more chance, just in the name of sportsmanship...not that it's going to help. :devil: After all of yomamma's mouthing off about me around here, he can be sure he's never going to kill franzbear as long as I'm alive. :devil:
 
  • #79
It's too difficult to vote about closing the Thread Killer thread. I was able to get to know so many PF members there... But g'dangit, my hips hurt from walking around in that thread, and thinking of ways to kill franzbear all the time, well it was frickin'-frackin' morbid (though often fun, heh heh). We could start a new thread...maybe we should call it Garbage Disposal, or something like that? Nah, without tribdog starting the thread, I don't think it would work, and like they say, you can never go back... :cry:
 
  • #80
SOS2008 said:
It's too difficult to vote about closing the Thread Killer thread. I was able to get to know so many PF members there... But g'dangit, my hips hurt from walking around in that thread, and thinking of ways to kill franzbear all the time, well it was frickin'-frackin' morbid (though often fun, heh heh). We could start a new thread...maybe we should call it Garbage Disposal, or something like that? Nah, without tribdog starting the thread, I don't think it would work, and like they say, you can never go back... :cry:
Y'know, we need to get tribdog to stop lurking. I keep seeing he's online lately, but he's not posting...it's unnerving. With him gone this long, surely he has some wild escapades to share that would make matthyaoiuoiuuoiuoiuew's bump into a door seem like child's play. :biggrin:
 
  • #81
First,show me a photo of franzbear,then I'll vote for him.provided that he/she won't be ugly.I hope he lookes after his mother. :wink:
I think we should have a "Gossip Column" here.(I guess we could kill whole the site by it!)
 
  • #82
you haven't seen him?
 
  • #83
No smarty!I'm a n00b!
 
  • #84
be quiet you n00b!
 
  • #85
In the wake of franzbear's death, his most ardent followers have begun not only to claim he is not only dead, but they have also engaged themselves in acts of PM terrorism.

I vote for public cremation and deletion of franzbear's remains.

(That'll teach them..:devil:)
 
  • #86
i am glad it is ead, but i don't know why ?

Care to elaborate ?

marlon
 
  • #87
yomamma said:
be quiet you n00b!
nothing else the fossile of PF?
 
  • #88
anyway, you n00b, franzbear is the one in the middle:
 
  • #89
OMFG! Franzbear's dead!?!? Will there be a funeral? Or did I miss it? Sh!t! That'll teach me for not visiting in a week.
 
  • #90
you wankah, watch yo bloody mouth! :smile:
 
  • #91
damn! is that nose ring big enough?

You know if you look at the results of the poll, you will see that the names are in alphabetical order, and that yomamma is the only person whose name starts with a letter past M. :cool:
 
  • #92
mattmns said:
You know if you look at the results of the poll, you will see that the names are in alphabetical order, and that yomamma is the only person whose name starts with a letter past M. :cool:


Truely amazing... :wink:
 
  • #93
mattmns said:
yomamma is the only person whose name starts with a letter past M. :cool:
How do you spell TheStatutoryApe? :confused:
 
  • #94
Pff, that person voted after I stated that! Damn people trying to make me look like a fool I tells ya.
 
  • #95
mattmns said:
Damn people trying to make me look like a fool I tells ya.
:smile: :devil:
 
  • #96
  • #97
mattmns said:
Pff, that person voted after I stated that! Damn people trying to make me look like a fool I tells ya.
Lol... sorry, your comment made me want to look at the results.

So how do I look at who has voted anyway?

----edit----

Ah.. never mind.
 
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  • #98
has anyone noticed that zoob hasn't posted since he killed franzbear?
 
  • #99
Last night my wife and I are sitting on the couch. She was reading some parents magazine and I looked over and saw the title of the article-
"Danger at the Petting Zoo"
Numerous unsavory images flashed through my head, I shuddered briefly and went back to watching television.
 
  • #100
DocToxyn said:
Last night my wife and I are sitting on the couch. She was reading some parents magazine and I looked over and saw the title of the article-
"Danger at the Petting Zoo"
Numerous unsavory images flashed through my head, I shuddered briefly and went back to watching television.
:smile: :smile: Those poor sheep were never the same again. :-p
 

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