Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #1,601
Danger said:
No, I certainly can't. In fact... wait a second... my keyboard's moving around...
...where was I? Oh yeah, I think that I'd Superglue her eyelids open just to be on the safe side. Given half a chance, she'd probably turn me into a chocolate bunny.

:devil: Muwhahahahahaha! I like that idea, a chocolate bunny. Gives brand new meaning to the phrase, "Bite me!" :smile:
 
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  • #1,602
Moonbear said:
:devil: Muwhahahahahaha! I like that idea, a chocolate bunny. Gives brand new meaning to the phrase, "Bite me!" :smile:
Melts in your mouth, not in... Hang on a sec... :rolleyes: where are those censors...?
 
  • #1,603
Danger said:
Melts in your mouth, not in... Hang on a sec... :rolleyes: where are those censors...?


 
  • #1,604
Danger said:
Melts in your mouth, not in... Hang on a sec... :rolleyes: where are those censors...?

I'm a serious M&M addict. Recovering addict. I haven't touched M&Ms since...um...I can't remember, I seem to have blocked out all memory of that traumatic day I gave them up. :-p Well, I'm pretty sure it counts as an addiction. If you put a 1 lb bag in front of me, I just keep eating them until I'm sick, and even then, I'll keep eating, no matter how bad I know it is for me.
 
  • #1,605
Danger said:
Melts in your mouth, not in... Hang on a sec... :rolleyes: where are those censors...?
Hey Moonbear; if that got 3 's from the poor kid, let's hope he never checks out 'What weird foods do you eat?' #3. :wink:
 
  • #1,606
Danger said:
Hey Moonbear; if that got 3 's from the poor kid, let's hope he never checks out 'What weird foods do you eat?' #3. :wink:

It was the thinking about Moonbear that did it.
 
  • #1,607
franznietzsche said:
It was the thinking about Moonbear that did it.
Hey Moonbear; Do you want me to hold him down for you, or would you rather chase him around for a while first?


Better decide quickly. I'm going to bed in less than 5 minutes.
 
  • #1,608
Danger said:
Hey Moonbear; Do you want me to hold him down for you, or would you rather chase him around for a while first?


Better decide quickly. I'm going to bed in less than 5 minutes.

Its not my fault she's old enough to be my mother :frown:

Or almost at least.
 
  • #1,609
Danger said:
Getting creepy? Your bio doesn't mention a birth date, but since you're still married and still working, I was probably creepy before you were born. :biggrin:
I'm 47. I think we've been creepy pretty much the same amount of time. :biggrin:


Ooops, my mistake. I checked your profile, you've been creepy longer. tongue: :biggrin:
 
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  • #1,610
Danger said:
Hey Moonbear; Do you want me to hold him down for you, or would you rather chase him around for a while first?

You better hold him down, I'm obviously getting too old to chase him around too long. :smile: Though, it's much more fun to just wait, and let him worry what I'll do to get even a while longer. :devil:
 
  • #1,611
franznietzsche said:
Its not my fault she's old enough to be my mother
I she were my mother, she couldn't have weaned me with a crowbar :-p; if she were yours, you probably wouldn't have survived your first bath. :-p

Moonbear said:
it's much more fun to just wait, and let him worry what I'll do to get even a while longer.
Ahh, yes... anticipation...
 
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  • #1,612
Danger said:
I she were my mother, she couldn't have weaned me with a crowbar :-p; if she were yours, you probably wouldn't have survived your first bath. :-p

Lovely. Really. Just lovely.

*go to your happy place**go to your happy place*

ah...
 
  • #1,613
The thing about Andy Kaufman is that he discovered ways to influence people, to alter their behavior, and couldn't get over the fact that they could be toyed with so arbitrarily. He performed for his own amusement. Imagine you discovered that by saying "bethvezbip" you could make anyone, anywhere, say "why thank you." And then you went around saying "bethvezbip" to everyone you could find, just to wonder at the response--the predictable, controllable, yet incomprehensible response--of the people saying "why thank you." That's the way Andy Kaufman treated humor. He found out what was funny, but he didn't know why, and there didn't seem to be any deeper meaning to it. So he played with humor just to watch and wonder at the reaction.
 
  • #1,614
Humor itself is a pretty arbitrary cultural trait. It takes a while for kids to develop a sense of what what separates the "funny" from the "not funny." It's not a natural instinct; it's just something you do to indicate, "I'm part of your crowd." Like shaking hands.
 
  • #1,615
BicycleTree said:
It takes a while for kids to develop a sense of what what separates the "funny" from the "not funny."
I'm still working on that. :redface:
 
  • #1,616
Danger said:
I she were my mother, she couldn't have weaned me with a crowbar :-p; if she were yours, you probably wouldn't have survived your first bath. :-p

:smile: You mean babies can't swim naturally? You actually have to hold their head out of the bathwater? :-p
 
  • #1,617
Math Is Hard said:
I'm still working on that. :redface:
Well, that's what I mean. You have to find out what is funny and what isn't funny from talking to other people. It's not something you just know; it's a mostly arbitrary set of customs. It does have some basis in instinct, but what we find instinctually funny--which is generally other people making fools out of themselves or injuring themselves--is a far cry from the cultural meme of humor. We do not find anything particularly funny unless it falls into the instinctual category or comes from our own culture. There's a reason all of Shakespeare's jokes fall flat to us in the 21st century.
 
  • #1,618
BicycleTree said:
There's a reason all of Shakespeare's jokes fall flat to us in the 21st century.

That's because people are idiots. Not because they're not funny.
 
  • #1,619
No, it's because they're not funny. Even Douglas Adams recognized this. No doubt Shakespeare's comic relief had some humor when it was first performed--but arbitrary and culture-tied as humor is, that humor is now gone.
 
  • #1,620
I never found Andy Kaufman the least bit funny. He was too emotionally removed from his audience for me to find him funny. I don't think he liked people and it showed in his work. His wrestling act was just sad. Just my opinion.

I guess you can rank him up there with Shakespere.
 
  • #1,621
I agree about the emotional removal and the dislike of people. But not funny? Well, I haven't seen him so I couldn't say for sure, but some of Jim Carrey's depictions of his acts were funny. Sad? I doubt it. He was a spiritual seeker, and _that_ showed in his work. A trained monkey who then discovers greater aspirations cannot embrace his prior work completely without distaste and cynicism.
 
  • #1,622
BicycleTree said:
I agree about the emotional removal and the dislike of people. But not funny? Well, I haven't seen him so I couldn't say for sure, but some of Jim Carrey's depictions of his acts were funny. Sad? I doubt it. He was a spiritual seeker, and _that_ showed in his work. A trained monkey who then discovers greater aspirations cannot embrace his prior work completely without distaste and cynicism.
Jim Carrey can be funny. Kaufman was inventive, possibly a "comic" genius, but I still didn't find his humor funny. He did things like stage arguments and fights, stay in character to the point of angering people. I found him difficult to watch, not funny.
 
  • #1,623
I've done that often online--picking a personality and sticking with it. Kaufman's humor is reversed. Maybe he's not funny, but he makes you be. It's funny if you know what he's doing and appreciate that he's not just talking, he's creating situations where he is not the only comedian.
 
  • #1,624
BicycleTree said:
I've done that often online--picking a personality and sticking with it. Kaufman's humor is reversed. Maybe he's not funny, but he makes you be. It's funny if you know what he's doing and appreciate that he's not just talking, he's creating situations where he is not the only comedian.
I do understand it, I just don't care for it. It's often meanspirited and just make me dislike him. This is why I thought that he did not like people.
 
  • #1,625
Artman said:
I do understand it, I just don't care for it. It's often meanspirited and just make me dislike him. This is why I thought that he did not like people.
I got to go with the Artman on that one. His 'Taxi' role was funny because it was written by the staff who did all the rest of it. His 'foreign man' stand-up was a long and uncomfortable prelude to the Elvis shock ending. Can't say as I cared for his own routines at all. Most of them were just embarrassing to watch.
 
  • #1,626
I don't think it's meanspirited so much as it is satirical. The only thing causing any trouble to anyone is their own reaction--it's their fault if they don't get the idea, and that's the game.
 
  • #1,627
The subjects of his routines become a satire on their own reactions.
 
  • #1,628
BicycleTree said:
No, it's because they're not funny. Even Douglas Adams recognized this. No doubt Shakespeare's comic relief had some humor when it was first performed--but arbitrary and culture-tied as humor is, that humor is now gone.


No, i still laugh at cuckolding jokes.

For that matter, i make cuckolding jokes.

And the gravedigger's scene in hamlet. Or the patrolmen in Much ado. But i always laugh at idiots, so that's nothing new.

Hamelt's remarks to ophelia during the player's performance.
 
  • #1,629
BicycleTree said:
The subjects of his routines become a satire on their own reactions.
makes it clever, not funny.
 
  • #1,630
BicycleTree said:
I don't think it's meanspirited so much as it is satirical. The only thing causing any trouble to anyone is their own reaction--it's their fault if they don't get the idea, and that's the game.


You're double-talking like dubya here. Just give it up already.
 
  • #1,631
Kaufman was indisputably a great comedian.
 
  • #1,632
BicycleTree said:
Kaufman was indisputably a great comedian.
He couldn't have been. If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that several of us are disputing it. :-p
 
  • #1,633
BicycleTree said:
Kaufman was indisputably a great comedian.
No, it is disputed. Many people find his humor, especially his last acts, offensive, distasteful and unfunny.
 
  • #1,634
Y'know... much more discussion of Kaufman in here, and we really a are going to put this puppy to sleep. :eek:
 
  • #1,635
Danger said:
Y'know... much more discussion of Kaufman in here, and we really a are going to put this puppy to sleep. :eek:
Nah, it'll just be faking its death. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,636
Artman said:
Nah, it'll just be faking its death. :biggrin:
How much we going to spend on the funeral? I mean, bein' as it's fake and all, I don't want to shoot for a velvet lined coffin. Perhaps we should contact someone from Genco...
 
  • #1,637
Danger said:
Y'know... much more discussion of Kaufman in here, and we really a are going to put this puppy to sleep. :eek:

I tried that...that's what the blue needle was for. It didn't work.
 
  • #1,638
Danger said:
How much we going to spend on the funeral? I mean, bein' as it's fake and all, I don't want to shoot for a velvet lined coffin. Perhaps we should contact someone from Genco...

How about a plain pine box? I'd suggest cement shoes, but I can't find its feet. :bugeye:
 
  • #1,639
How is everyone doing?
 
  • #1,640
mattmns said:
How is everyone doing?

Everyone?! You want to know about everyone?! That'll never kill this thread if we have everyone coming in here telling you how their day is going, what mishaps have befallen them, all about...wait a minute...it could work.
 
  • #1,641
Moonbear said:
I tried that...that's what the blue needle was for. It didn't work.
Jeez... you ninnie! I told you a dozen times--the green needle! The blue needle was for Smurf!
 
  • #1,642
Danger said:
Jeez... you ninnie! I told you a dozen times--the green needle! The blue needle was for Smurf!

:eek: Somebody better go check on Smurf. :redface:
 
  • #1,643
Moonbear said:
:eek: Somebody better go check on Smurf. :redface:
Immediately! Since that needle was meant for the thread, poor Smurf is probably coiled up in a basket somewhere being attacked by a kitten. :eek:



Hey! We're at 194 pages! If we pass 200, do we get to collect a 'go'?
 
  • #1,644
Danger said:
Immediately! Since that needle was meant for the thread, poor Smurf is probably coiled up in a basket somewhere being attacked by a kitten. :eek:

Poor Smurf. :frown:

Hey! We're at 194 pages! If we pass 200, do we get to collect a 'go'?

Page counts differ depending on how many replies per page you have your settings on. But, we are approaching 3000! I think tonight will be the race to the 3000th reply (darn, we're less than 100 away and I have to leave in a little while...I could easily miss it).
 
  • #1,645
Moonbear said:
(darn, we're less than 100 away and I have to leave in a little while...I could easily miss it).
Okay... quick everybody! Quite being so deep and thoughtful and just start posting like maniacs. We don't want Moonbear to miss the eclipse... :biggrin:
 
  • #1,646
Danger said:
Okay... quick everybody! Quite being so deep and thoughtful and just start posting like maniacs. We don't want Moonbear to miss the eclipse... :biggrin:

You don't think they care, do you? It's one less person in the running to hit 3000. Wait, we haven't heard what the prize is yet. For 2000, Evo gave away a "get out of banning free" card (better check the expiration date on that). :biggrin:
 
  • #1,647
What the...? I've been away for almost 5 minutes and nobody's done anything here?! Get on it, people!
 
  • #1,648
Danger said:
What the...? I've been away for almost 5 minutes and nobody's done anything here?! Get on it, people!

Where is everybody? At this rate, maybe it's better to wait until I get back. I still have a little time.
 
  • #1,649
Moonbear said:
Where is everybody? At this rate, maybe it's better to wait until I get back. I still have a little time.
Well... if he's a young'un, he'll probably be finished and asleep in plenty of time for you to sneak out. :wink:
 
  • #1,650
BicycleTree said:
Kaufman was indisputably a great comedian.


The last 3 pages of this thread have been disputing that.

Once again, you're sounding like the president.
 

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