just a note, Blake Madison started with LEJ's "True Detective Stories", I linked above, which was inspired by a post by Dave Swan in the "A challenge:a flea,an orange,a bicycle seat" thread.
For newer Catters, back in the early days, when those threads were started, there was not the breakdown of multiple pages of a thread. Max developed that later. We used to have just one looooooonnnng page to each thread, which sometimes got very hard to load in the earlier, slower days of the internet. So, when a thread got very long, people would often start part 2 and then part 3, etc., continuing the idea in a completely new thread.