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.
  • #1,801
Moonbear, I already did get it--as much as there was to get--and explain it thoroughly. Stop trying to put me down.
 
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  • #1,802
BicycleTree said:
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/shrew/ The complete text of the taming of the shrew is here.

Now, just start with Act 1 Scene 1. Read the section where Baptista enters (Gremio's aside is a pretty obvious joke even if you don't see why the rest of the dialogue is humorous). Really, it's the same sort of humor you'd hear between two guys talking about a woman in a bar, just you need to get used to old English.
 
  • #1,803
BicycleTree said:
Moonbear, I already did get it--as much as there was to get--and explain it thoroughly. Stop trying to put me down.

:confused: I wasn't trying to put you down. Good grief! I was actually sticking up for you a bit there.
 
  • #1,804
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

GREMIO
[Aside] To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.
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Nobody ever laughs at plays on words.
 
  • #1,805
BicycleTree said:
Finally, someone who agrees that humor is cultural. Or did you only do that accidentally?
I never said that it wasn't culturally based. What I said, although not in so many words, is that your vision of it as a hate-fuelled xenophobic 'us against them' bonding ritual is a perversion of reality filtered through what I perceive to be a severely damaged psyche.
 
  • #1,806
BicycleTree said:
Moonbear, I already did get it--as much as there was to get--and explain it thoroughly. Stop trying to put me down.

Oh, I see the confusion now...you slipped in a reply between the post I was quoting and my reply...it wasn't there when I started typing. Type slower! :biggrin:
 
  • #1,807
BicycleTree said:
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

GREMIO
[Aside] To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.
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Nobody ever laughs at plays on words.

:frown: I do.
 
  • #1,808
I never said it was hate-fuelled, and xenophobic only by implication. It's cultural, in general tribal, and therefore encourages tribal bonding. Exclusion of members of other tribes is only by extension.
 
  • #1,809
BicycleTree said:
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/shrew/ The complete text of the taming of the shrew is here.
Don't need it. I have the complete works in my library, but the type's so damned small that I have trouble trying to read it any more. :frown:
 
  • #1,810
BicycleTree said:
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

GREMIO
[Aside] To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.
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Nobody ever laughs at plays on words.


People who aren't utter morons do.
 
  • #1,811
There's a reason why people _groan_ at puns rather than laugh at them... they might smile a little while groaning but they don't laugh.
 
  • #1,812
Moonbear said:
(BTW, I did catch the irony...just a slightly different interpretation of cultural there...you can eat your dinner now.)


See, she gets it.

The person with the PhD gets it. I am satisfied that my efforts went unwasted. mmm, yummy food.
 
  • #1,813
Moonbear said:
:frown: I do.
<profound relief> Glad to hear it. That is the basis of most of my posts, after all. I'd hate to think that I'd wasted them. :wink:
 
  • #1,814
BicycleTree said:
There's a reason why people _groan_ at puns rather than laugh at them... they might smile a little while groaning but they don't laugh.

Yes, they are utter morons.

That's the reason.
 
  • #1,815
Franz, I got it and explained it before she did.
 
  • #1,816
Danger said:
<profound relief> Glad to hear it. That is the basis of most of my posts, after all. I'd hate to think that I'd wasted them. :wink:


90% of my humour is based on irony and plays on words. Its how i weed out women not worth my time. Unfortunately, it weeds out almost all of them :frown: . Luckily not the important one. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,817
BicycleTree said:
Franz, I got it and explained it before she did.


Sure you did Bob. Sure you did.
 
  • #1,818
Food? who has food?
 
  • #1,819
BicycleTree said:
There's a reason why people _groan_ at puns rather than laugh at them... they might smile a little while groaning but they don't laugh.
Puns are deliberately designed to be groaned at. That's the whole point of their existence. It's a very specialized genre of humour. If someone actually laughs at one, then the constructor failed in his mission.
 
  • #1,820
She has acknowledged it... I am not an outlet for your drunken stupor. Find something else, punch the wall or something.
 
  • #1,821
Exactly, danger.
 
  • #1,822
BicycleTree said:
There's a reason why people _groan_ at puns rather than laugh at them... they might smile a little while groaning but they don't laugh.

Some puns are bad puns, and thus get a groan, but some plays on words and innuendos are really funny, and yes, I really do laugh. Besides, it wasn't just that one line that was funny there. The entire dialogue had me laughing, I can't just pull one line out of context to show it. Did you read that entire section of dialogue?

Though, does humor require one to be laughing out loud? I would still consider something humorous if it made me smile or chuckle. And I also enjoy jokes that you know you should groan at, but you can't stop yourself from laughing anyway.
 
  • #1,823
franznietzsche said:
See, she gets it.

The person with the PhD gets it. I am satisfied that my efforts went unwasted. mmm, yummy food.

Well, I could hardly leave you there starving, especially when you seemed to be getting grouchy from hunger! :-p
 
  • #1,824
franznietzsche said:
The person with the PhD gets it.
Hey! Let's not forget the guy who never finished high school! I got it too.
 
  • #1,825
Guess I'm out for the night, later all. No hard feelings franz.
 
  • #1,826
BicycleTree said:
She has acknowledged it... I am not an outlet for your drunken stupor. Find something else, punch the wall or something.


I've got two guns. One for each of you.

(i know you won't get it, maybe someone worthwhile will).

Moonbear said:
Well, I could hardly leave you there starving, especially when you seemed to be getting grouchy from hunger!

Its not hunger that's making me grouchy, its withdrawals from not talking to tiny for a week :frown: .

BicycleTree said:
Guess I'm out for the night, later all. No hard feelings franz.

What are those?
 
  • #1,827
hypatia said:
Food? who has food?
I have candy, little girl... :biggrin:
 
  • #1,828
BicycleTree said:
Guess I'm out for the night, later all. No hard feelings franz.

Goodnight.

Phew...good...you guys were typing too fast for me! I kept finding 10 new posts everytime I got a reply typed. My head is starting to spin.
 
  • #1,829
Moonbear said:
Goodnight.

Phew...good...you guys were typing too fast for me! I kept finding 10 new posts everytime I got a reply typed. My head is starting to spin.


You need to learn to keep up.
 
  • #1,830
franznietzsche said:
IIts not hunger that's making me grouchy, its withdrawals from not talking to tiny for a week :frown: .

Tiny? Is this your pet name for her? Well, if you're going to keep talking about her, maybe you should make up a nickname for her anyway. It gets a little awkward constructing sentences that refer to her only as she. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,831
franznietzsche said:
You need to learn to keep up.

I thought that was the guys' job? I assist by sitting here looking pretty. :biggrin:

Okay, mostly it's that I'm three hours ahead of you here! So I'm not quite as awake as you are.
 
  • #1,832
Moonbear said:
Tiny? Is this your pet name for her? Well, if you're going to keep talking about her, maybe you should make up a nickname for her anyway. It gets a little awkward constructing sentences that refer to her only as she. :biggrin:


Yes, that is her nick name, i use it far more often than her actual name really. Its kinda got a funny story behind it...well not really funny in Bicycle's sense, but funny in the not normal, hmmm, sense.
 
  • #1,833
Moonbear said:
I kept finding 10 new posts everytime I got a reply typed.
Same here. And Lucy was doing my typing for me again half the time, so of course I had to do it over before posting.
 
  • #1,834
Danger said:
Same here. And Lucy was doing my typing for me again half the time, so of course I had to do it over before posting.


Silly kitty.

I had a cat named lucy once. But we called her lucifer. :devil:
 
  • #1,835
franznietzsche said:
Yes, that is her nick name, i use it far more often than her actual name really. Its kinda got a funny story behind it...well not really funny in Bicycle's sense, but funny in the not normal, hmmm, sense.
Tell us! Tell us! I call my girlfriend Pulchrid :bugeye: . It too has a (probably much more so) interesting story behind it.
 
  • #1,836
Smurf said:
Tell us! Tell us! I call my girlfriend Pulchrid :bugeye: . It too has a (probably much more so) interesting story behind it.


Yours is probably much funnier.


About a year and a half ago, when i first decided to pursue her, my best friend soon after became single, and decided he also wanted to date her. Not good. We never really fought, but there was unspoken friction and competition for a while. At any rate, he had always called her runt, for probably a year before this, initially just to be an ass, and later on it stuck. Well, at the time it occurred to me calling her the same thing he came up with would be bad, making her think of him instead of me would have been counter-productive. At first she objected, saying she preferred runt, but i just kept calling her tiny. After a while my friend moved on and dated someone else, and the name just stuck. Of course, she doesn't know this story, but that's ok.
 
  • #1,837
franznietzsche said:
Yes, that is her nick name, i use it far more often than her actual name really. Its kinda got a funny story behind it...well not really funny in Bicycle's sense, but funny in the not normal, hmmm, sense.

Or maybe that is in the normal sense? Whatever...I just laughed so hard at that it sent me into a coughing fit (maybe I should have swallowed my orange juice before laughing). :smile:
 
  • #1,838
Moonbear said:
Or maybe that is in the normal sense? Whatever...I just laughed so hard at that it sent me into a coughing fit (maybe I should have swallowed my orange juice before laughing). :smile:


Even i didn't think it was that funny.
 
  • #1,839
franznietzsche said:
Even i didn't think it was that funny.

That might mean I'm becoming delirious with fatigue. I might have to get myself to bed soon. I just imagined you saying it totally dead-pan...the delivery was excellent. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,840
Moonbear said:
That might mean I'm becoming delirious with fatigue. I might have to get myself to bed soon. I just imagined you saying it totally dead-pan...the delivery was excellent. :biggrin:


Well that always does help, yes.
 
  • #1,841
Yeah, people immagining you saying this better than you did. That's a help.
 
  • #1,842
franznietzsche said:
Silly kitty.

I had a cat named lucy once. But we called her lucifer. :devil:
I just wasted about 10 minutes trying to find a previous post of mine that dealt with that. No luck. I'm too lazy to do it over, so when I finally find it during a slow spell, I'll pull up this quote and direct you to it.
 
  • #1,843
Smurf said:
Yeah, people immagining you saying this better than you did. That's a help.


So do we get to hear the pulchrid story?
 
  • #1,844
Danger said:
I just wasted about 10 minutes trying to find a previous post of mine that dealt with that. No luck. I'm too lazy to do it over, so when I finally find it during a slow spell, I'll pull up this quote and direct you to it.

If it helps, I remember you commenting on it...or was it Lucy-fur? (This is the appropriate place to groan.)

I can't remember what thread you mentioned it in though.
 
  • #1,845
Moonbear said:
If it helps, I remember you commenting on it...or was it Lucy-fur? (This is the appropriate place to groan.)

GROAN. Funny, but GROAN.

We called ours Lucifer as we reasoned it was possessed by the devil. Never a nice cat. Incidentally, i think the devil possessed my mother after it died. Or maybe both in tandem and transferred the remainder of its power over to her when the cat died. I dunno. But it would explain so much.
 
  • #1,846
franznietzsche said:
So do we get to hear the pulchrid story?
I'll admit I can't actually recall the details, I'll ask her tomorrow though and report back. I know that pulchrid is a shortened word from Pulchritudinous, which was in one of her lines in a school play in the drama class that I met her in (which is in itself a funny story, I dropped her)
 
  • #1,847
franznietzsche said:
GROAN. Funny, but GROAN.

We called ours Lucifer as we reasoned it was possessed by the devil. Never a nice cat. Incidentally, i think the devil possessed my mother after it died. Or maybe both in tandem and transferred the remainder of its power over to her when the cat died. I dunno. But it would explain so much.

I think all cats are possessed by the devil.
 
  • #1,848
Moonbear said:
If it helps, I remember you commenting on it...or was it Lucy-fur? (This is the appropriate place to groan.)

I can't remember what thread you mentioned it in though.
'Twas indeed the reference that I was looking for. I know that it was a long thread, and quite a while ago, but I've been flapping around here trying to follow all my favourite folks, that I can't even remember where I've been any more. (Where the hell am I now, for that matter?)
 
  • #1,849
Moonbear said:
I think all cats are possessed by the devil.
I'm not sure moonbear, do you really think he'd stoop that low?
 
  • #1,850
Moonbear said:
I think all cats are possessed by the devil.


I don't know about all cats, but i know at least two mothers who are for sure.
 

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