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.
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BicycleTree said:
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WTF is that bicycleTree?
 
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  • #3,852
An exclamation mark's shadow... no, actually it's a test. Does that fit all on one line on your screen?
 
  • #3,853
BicycleTree said:
An exclamation mark's shadow... no, actually it's a test. Does that fit all on one line on your screen?

no, let me check it when I get home.

EDIT: no, you did something wrong, checked it on word.
 
  • #3,854
Darn... I'm thinking I may make a text picture that is that long but it wouldn't be worth it if most people can't see it.
 
  • #3,855
I did what?
 
  • #3,856
Danger said:
I don't know if any of you real scientists bother looking at Scientific American, but they had a picture of a Tasmanian devil last year that looked almost exactly like that cat except for a pointier snout. Maybe the parents were trying to teach the kid respect for animals the hard way. :eek:

Hey franzbear, its your uncle Toxyn again, time for your trip to the zoo! Here we are at the big cat exhibit. Guess what pal, I slipped the keepers a little cash so we could get a behind the scenes look at the kitties. Here, let me rub this on you before I open the cage door, I know it smells like hamburger, it's really just sunscreen, can't have you getting sunburn! In you go...Wow you run fast franzbear , that lion sure looks sad he didn't get to give you a big hug. Are you sure you don't want to go back in? OK, I've got another surprise for you. Here put these mice in your pockets, we're going to the reptile exhibit...you're sure to get some good hugs there :devil: .
 
  • #3,857
Danger said:
I don't know if any of you real scientists bother looking at Scientific American,
They pretty much pre-digest the articles found in Science (a good thing when Science goes over your head, still happens on topics outside my expertise). I used to enjoy it when I was in college and used to have the time to read it, but don't bother with it any more.

Maybe the parents were trying to teach the kid respect for animals the hard way. :eek:

They must be getting parenting advice from my mom. She'd think up something like that...let the kid get bitten, she'll learn not to do that again! Mom also believed that the only way to teach a kid not to touch a hot stove was to just let them do it once. :rolleyes:
 
  • #3,858
DocToxyn said:
Hey franzbear, its your uncle Toxyn again, time for your trip to the zoo! Here we are at the big cat exhibit. Guess what pal, I slipped the keepers a little cash so we could get a behind the scenes look at the kitties. Here, let me rub this on you before I open the cage door, I know it smells like hamburger, it's really just sunscreen, can't have you getting sunburn! In you go...Wow you run fast franzbear , that lion sure looks sad he didn't get to give you a big hug. Are you sure you don't want to go back in? OK, I've got another surprise for you. Here put these mice in your pockets, we're going to the reptile exhibit...you're sure to get some good hugs there :devil: .

Hey, wait! Don't forget to bring the catnip for those nice kitties! :biggrin:
 
  • #3,859
DocToxyn said:
Hey franzbear, its your uncle Toxyn again, time for your trip to the zoo! Here we are at the big cat exhibit. Guess what pal, I slipped the keepers a little cash so we could get a behind the scenes look at the kitties. Here, let me rub this on you before I open the cage door, I know it smells like hamburger, it's really just sunscreen, can't have you getting sunburn! In you go...Wow you run fast franzbear , that lion sure looks sad he didn't get to give you a big hug. Are you sure you don't want to go back in? OK, I've got another surprise for you. Here put these mice in your pockets, we're going to the reptile exhibit...you're sure to get some good hugs there :devil: .
:biggrin: :-p
 
  • #3,860
Evo said:
:biggrin: :-p

He's just such a natural with the kid, isn't he? :approve:
 
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  • #3,862
Bicycle tree, once again, you have failed...
 
  • #3,863
Failed at what? That wasn't supposed to be an image. It was another test, for the length of a bar versus the length of a lowercase l. For the Speedster thread.
 
  • #3,864
BicycleTree said:
Failed at what? That wasn't supposed to be an image. It was another test, for the length of a bar versus the length of a lowercase l. For the Speedster thread.

Could you at least add some text when you do stuff like that so we know you haven't gone off your rocker posting nothing but a bunch of lines?
 
  • #3,865
BicycleTree said:
An exclamation mark's shadow... no, actually it's a test. Does that fit all on one line on your screen?
It's 1 3/4 lines on mine. Does monitor size make a difference?

BicycleTree said:
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Hey! I see bars under the ?'s this time!

Moonbear said:
They pretty much pre-digest the articles found in Science (a good thing when Science goes over your head, still happens on topics outside my expertise). I used to enjoy it when I was in college
I guess I'll quit feeling dumb about reading it, then. I can't afford both, so I'll stick with the predigested one.

Moonbear said:
Mom also believed that the only way to teach a kid not to touch a hot stove was to just let them do it once. :rolleyes:
That can be pretty effective in a lot of cases, but there's probably a better way to impress them with 'Don't tease the crocodiles'.
 
  • #3,866
Moonbear said:
Could you at least add some text when you do stuff like that so we know you haven't gone off your rocker posting nothing but a bunch of lines?
I prefer to remain mysterious... :biggrin:
 
  • #3,867
Yeah, danger, I guess monitor size does make a difference. How did the bike not look like a mess to you?
 
  • #3,868
bicycle tree, I can't restrain any longer, where'd you get that stupid name?
 
  • #3,869
BicycleTree said:
Yeah, danger, I guess monitor size does make a difference. How did the bike not look like a mess to you?
Everything seemed to be where it was supposed to be, if the idea was to have bars wherever the bike wasn't supposed to be (like a negative). Instead of bars, though, it's all italicized question marks. It's just really hard to stare at something all curvy like that. It almost makes a moire pattern. Neither my eyes nor my monitor are that great to start with, so it's very uncomfortable to look at.
 
  • #3,870
BicycleTree said:
I prefer to remain mysterious... :biggrin:

Oh, in that case, you're doing a good job. :-p

Yeah, danger, I guess monitor size does make a difference. How did the bike not look like a mess to you?

Oddly, when you posted the bars in this thread, it wrapped them onto a second line without stretching the text box (although when yomomma quoted it, it did stretch the box it was quoted in), but when you posted the bicycle, it stretched the text box off the side of my screen, so I had to scroll to see the whole thing. At least it didn't wrap it and turn it into a mess. Or did you tell it not to break the lines?
 
  • #3,871
Well, actually the bike is pretty colorful with several different shades of gray, from dark-gray to dark-gray highlight to light-gray to white, not to mention touches of black in a few places. It's not supposed to be just a negative image. I'll darken it with the l's.

yomamma, I chose this name because it is beautiful.
 
  • #3,872
BicycleTree said:
Well, actually the bike is pretty colorful with several different shades of gray, from dark-gray to dark-gray highlight to light-gray to white, not to mention touches of black in a few places. It's not supposed to be just a negative image. I'll darken it with the l's.

The trouble is we'll never know if the problem is Danger's monitor or his eyes. :smile:

yomamma, I chose this name because it is beautiful.
And nothing to do with your nearly fetish-like enthusiasm about bicycling, huh? :-p
 
  • #3,873
Bicycletree, Monitor settings, format crossover from and to Macs or PCs, people viewing with reduced windowed screens, wrap around , these are some examples of what I meant earlier by you doing a good job with the illustrations even with forum limitations. It is a world in motion.
 
  • #3,874
DocToxyn said:
Hey franzbear, its your uncle Toxyn again, time for your trip to the zoo! Here we are at the big cat exhibit. Guess what pal, I slipped the keepers a little cash so we could get a behind the scenes look at the kitties. Here, let me rub this on you before I open the cage door, I know it smells like hamburger, it's really just sunscreen, can't have you getting sunburn! In you go...Wow you run fast franzbear , that lion sure looks sad he didn't get to give you a big hug. Are you sure you don't want to go back in? OK, I've got another surprise for you. Here put these mice in your pockets, we're going to the reptile exhibit...you're sure to get some good hugs there :devil: .
Remember Franzbear, during your trip to the zoo, wait until the animals approach to intiate "aggitation phase." Have fun with your uncle DocTox. :biggrin:
 
  • #3,875
Moonbear said:
The trouble is we'll never know if the problem is Danger's monitor or his eyes. :smile:
I thought that your membership photos are pretty attractive, so it must be both. :-p
 
  • #3,876
Is this the most popular thread on PF?
 
  • #3,877
yomamma said:
Is this the most popular thread on PF?
If you mean in the sense that Bush is popular; the smart folks want it dead. Only problem is, everyone wants to be the one to kill it, so everyone else keeps sabotaging their attempts. :rolleyes:
 
  • #3,878
So thaaaatttsss it...


Bush is a damn idiot :mad:
 
  • #3,879
yomamma said:
Bush is a damn idiot :mad:
Do you really mean that, or are you just saying it so we'll think you're smart? :-p
 
  • #3,880
Danger said:
I thought that your membership photos are pretty attractive, so it must be both. :-p

That would explain why you're under the impression I'm well-endowed in the "chestal area" as Jay Leno would put it. :smile:
 
  • #3,881
yomamma said:
So thaaaatttsss it...

Ut oh! We've identified another pseudo-killer! You can't be a real thread killer until you've read everything in the thread and can identify the thread mystery too! (Right BT? :wink:)
 
  • #3,882
Danger said:
Do you really mean that, or are you just saying it so we'll think you're smart? :-p
Well he is...Remember the time he said feces instead of fetus 10 times! :-p
 
  • #3,883
Artman said:
Remember Franzbear, during your trip to the zoo, wait until the animals approach to intiate "aggitation phase." Have fun with your uncle DocTox. :biggrin:

Right, and if they are rude and run away or refuse to play with you, just back them right into a corner until they do! :approve:
 
  • #3,884
yomamma said:
Well he is...Remember the time he said feces instead of fetus 10 times! :-p
No. Luckily, we don't get his broadcasts up here. It was probably dealt with on 'The Daily Show', but I don't always get to see it.
 
  • #3,885
Where do you live>
 
  • #3,886
Danger said:
No. Luckily, we don't get his broadcasts up here. It was probably dealt with on 'The Daily Show', but I don't always get to see it.

Lucky you! As if network TV isn't dumbed down enough, they interrupt the regular programming to dumb it down even further with his speeches.
 
  • #3,887
ok

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everyone
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just stop posting, ok. thanks


cant i be the killer of this thread.. :frown:
 
  • #3,888
Nobody seems to like this guy. How did he ever get re-elected? Was Kerry so bad that Bush seemed an attractive alternative? We need to seriously consider a third and a fourth and a fifth political party. I don't like that there seems to be only two real choices for something so important.
 
  • #3,889
there are dozens of parties

and no, it doesn't matter who you elect - bush and kerry is actually same nwo
 
  • #3,890
Danger said:
If you mean in the sense that Bush is popular; the smart folks want it dead. Only problem is, everyone wants to be the one to kill it, so everyone else keeps sabotaging their attempts. :rolleyes:
Great analogy! :biggrin: Okay, so back to the business of sabotage...

I was just reading The Onion (but PF is still #1). They have the "In-action Heroes" for men who play it safe--one of which is the "Mama's Boy" doll (who was breast fed from the age of 7, and has never taken a risk because he has never left his mama's side). In the video on Mama's Boy, he and his mama are in the grocery store. A woman holding two melons (in front of her chest) approaches him to ask a question about the melons. I'm telling you, tribdog has been busy elsewhere, and I think this is where he has gone!

http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4117
 
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  • #3,891
cronxeh said:
there are dozens of parties
Yeah, but I mean real parties that are actually considered by the public. Doesn't almost every other democratic nation have more than 2 parties that actually win elections sometimes?
 
  • #3,892
yomamma said:
Where do you live>
Just outside of Calgary. See under avatar.

Moonbear said:
they interrupt the regular programming to dumb it down even further with his speeches.
We get some of the more humourous or irritating or just-plain-frightening bits on the national news, but it's never more than a couple of minutes and always analyzed by political and/or linguistics experts. Other than as a potential destroyer-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, he isn't taken very seriously up here. :approve:

cronxeh said:
cant i be the killer of this thread.. :frown:
Apparently not.

Huckleberry said:
Nobody seems to like this guy. How did he ever get re-elected?
In order to be re-elected, don't you have to be elected in the first place? Wasn't he quite definitely the loser of the first election until his conveniently-located brother or cousin or whatever stepped in and rigged the Florida vote? :confused:
 
  • #3,893
politics is all about useless people pondering their useless business for the improbable cause

(c) the cronxeh.
 
  • #3,894
In order to be re-elected, don't you have to be elected in the first place? Wasn't he quite definitely the loser of the first election until his conveniently-located brother or cousin or whatever stepped in and rigged the Florida vote?
You had to say it didntcha? I was trying to forget it and doing a damn good job at it, and then BAM! you went and said it.

I know what I have to do. I have to find a secluded little corner of the universe where I would like to settle down. Then I'll build a rocketship and I'll say to Moonbear "Hey, I got a basket of kittens in my rocketship. Want to see?" She'll get all doe-eyed and look in. Then I close the door and signal franzbear to hit the ignition. Doesn't matter how much time passes on Earth. I'm never coming back anyway.

Oops, only brought enough food and water for two. Sorry franzbear. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt so much after a few days. If you don't eat or talk then you can conserve water for much longer. The trip shouldn't take too long. A few years at the longest.
 
  • #3,895
Huckleberry said:
You had to say it didntcha?... ...The trip shouldn't take too long. A few years at the longest.
I must say, that was one of the most underhanded and effective segues I've seen in a long time. Johnny Carson would have been proud. :approve:
 
  • #3,896
okay this is pissing me off, cronxeh, how do you pronounce your name? :confused:
 
  • #3,897
yomamma said:
okay this is pissing me off, cronxeh, how do you pronounce your name? :confused:
He answered it here.
 
  • #3,898
SOS2008 said:
GA woman holding two melons (in front of her chest) approaches him to ask a question about the melons. I'm telling you, tribdog has been busy elsewhere, and I think this is where he has gone!

I just re-located that puppy's mailing address...since he hasn't been around here, I think it's time to drop him the snail mail to make sure he's still alive!
 
  • #3,899
Huckleberry said:
I know what I have to do. I have to find a secluded little corner of the universe where I would like to settle down. Then I'll build a rocketship and I'll say to Moonbear "Hey, I got a basket of kittens in my rocketship. Want to see?" She'll get all doe-eyed and look in. Then I close the door and signal franzbear to hit the ignition. Doesn't matter how much time passes on Earth. I'm never coming back anyway.

You know I'd drive you crazy if I was the only person you had to talk to in that secluded corner of the universe, don't you? I'm going to have to talk to the folks over in astronomy about finding those corners though. :smile:

Oops, only brought enough food and water for two. Sorry franzbear. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt so much after a few days. If you don't eat or talk then you can conserve water for much longer. The trip shouldn't take too long. A few years at the longest.

:rolleyes: What a waste. We can't even eat him if we run out of food, he'd probably be all tough and stringy anyway. Here franzbear, chew on a kitten tail.
 
  • #3,900
Moonbear said:
You know I'd drive you crazy if I was the only person you had to talk to
Here, Huck. Have a roll of Red Green's patented Moonbear silencer. <hands over duct tape>