BS: New Short Thread Challenge!

Subject: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:12 PM

Okay. We all know by now that you can start a thread on any inane subject whatsoever...like "who will post last to this thread?" etc...and it will simply go on and on and on and on...possibly forever.

We know this. No need to continue beating a dead horse.

Here is a far more challenging test of your creative abilities. Start a thread that is so infernally uninteresting and totally dull that no one bothers adding to it and it ends at ONE post. Yours.

This isn't easy. Let's see if anyone can manage it. Good luck. Posting to this thread will not help you achieve this incredible coup, needless to say. No, you will have to start a new thread with a title that simply doesn't interest anybody at all. Like I said, good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Nerd
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:14 PM

True, but it will thwart your attempt!

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:17 PM

You dirty dog.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:20 PM

"Here is a far more challenging test of your creative abilities. Start a thread that is so infernally uninteresting and totally dull that no one bothers adding to it and it ends at ONE post. Yours. "

I COULD start a thread with the threat I would post ALL my sonnets, and mail them to anyone who posted on that thread. Think that would work?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:22 PM

Well, Little Hawk, I think my "Polka Concert in Belgium" thread a couple of years back was a successful earlier contender in a similar challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:23 PM

Yeah. That was brilliant. I was thinking back fondly to that one when I started this one. It's not easy to post something that interests absolutely no one.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:48 PM

I've done it a few times.

Of course now that you've raised the challenge, eveyone will be looking for them and foil the attempt.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:21 PM

...three still in the running...

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:37 PM

I thought it was New Short Bread Challenge. This thread is so boring I can't even

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:50 PM

nd it ends at ONE post.

After how long, exactly? There's no "there" there by this definition.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 May 04 - 07:19 PM

there was the "Intelligent assessment on Fascism" thread - that made it to just two posts.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: harpmaker
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:06 PM

Does the winner get a prize?
I might have a go (if ime not doin nowt) I recon I know who'll win this.
Not mention any names, but she plays a plastic gui-------- &-

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:07 PM

That is surprising, freda! I think the Short Thread should meet these criteria: It should garner no response whatsoever in the first 24 hours or until it falls off the board into the limbo of past threads. It doesn't matter if it later resurfaces due to the activity of some pest like beardedbruce. It doesn't matter how long the initial post is that launches it. This suggests an interesting notion to me...if the original post were not only very boring, but also incredibly long and tedious to get through, I would think this would increase the chances of the thread not being responded to. It might help if it's written in Danish too. Or Swahili.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:11 PM

until someone post a translation...

I resent being called a pest- I feel that if I am asked a question that I have information about, it is my duty as a good mudcatter to add to the discussion.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:12 PM

there are a number of threads, which since I can make no contribution to, I do not post in.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:18 PM

Yeah, yeah...I bet you would even stoop to searching through the hundreds and hundreds of expired threads just so you could find ONE that had only one post...and then you would post something to it in order to spoil it. In fact, I bet you are doing that right now, aren't you?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Cluin
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:26 PM

One of the stupider ideas come up with around here.

Bravo, Little Hawk! Keep up the good work.   ;)

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:27 PM

nope

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 04 - 08:49 PM

Do null posts count?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 10:12 PM

Cluin - so stupid you tried to cheat!

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Cluin
Date: 19 May 04 - 11:12 PM

Whaddaya mean "tried"?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 11:57 PM

The more that the Clones to your post - the worse your attempt was.
HA!

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:06 AM

Dead thread?

You ride a dead horse.

Your not going to far.
Maybe as far as it takes to climb up on a dead horse and hopefully it hasn't been dead for a long period of time.
It would certainly take a person of courage to ride a dead horse that has been dead for a certain period of time.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:35 AM

I dare you to contribute to this thread: International TV Theme Song Lyrics Needed

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:10 AM

You have far too much time on your hands LH!

j

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:37 AM

So true. Since I have ceased pursuing women the time just mounts up and mounts up. What to do, what to do?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:04 AM

re your post of 19 May 04 - 08:18 PM :


Having made a bet, you have now lost. I have won.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:49 AM

I refuse to accept that ruling without corroborating evidence.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:52 AM

OK, Little Hawk, the main problem is that you had the word "Challenge" in the title. Now really, you should know better than that! These folks won't pass up something so blatant.

What you needed to do was to have the title itself be so boring that no one ever takes even a look at it.

So here's the real challenge, folks-Start posting threads with really dreadful titles. I want to see if we can recognise them. Then of course the next step is not to be seduced into posting just to SAY it's a boring thread...I wonder if that's something we're capable of....:-)> (How do I look in a beard?)..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:20 PM

Almost is not good enough...My thread was spotted as it almost made its way off the page...I answered the challenge but was foiled..the thread was "To G.S Re Montpelier". All credit to the person who spotted me. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:36 PM

There's another one you missed, Georgiansilver, but I'm really hoping it stays the way it is. Don't be a spoil sport...and Stay Blessed yersself!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:57 PM

So the challenge is to start a thread that gains no additional posts uintil it falls off the page? Is that it? LH are you seriously suggesting I should waste my brain cells on this arbitrary, meretricious activity?

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:58 PM

I just proved that even a thread with no title and content attracts lots of contributors. Shows what a vacant and content-free lot we are, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:03 PM

Amos, As you seem inebriated with the exuberance of your own verbosity.....Yes!!!!. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:10 PM

Well, I ain't a-gonna.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:32 PM

Well, I did protest overmuch, but I was foiled.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:20 PM

Is tha tin or aluminum foiled?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:22 PM

Most of you have seen this - but in case you haven't:

Joe Clones Close This Thread

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:40 PM

Yes, I saw that, but I think it's a violation of the rules. Pretty sneaky. Blatant manipulation. Stacking the deck. Stuffing the ballot box.

Clever, though...

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 12:42 AM

L.H. Have you seen it recently - it's become a thread for only Joe Clones.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 May 04 - 03:55 AM

Darn! That "joe Clones" thread was the one I hoped was going to end with just the one posting...

You're right, Amos, someone is likely to respond to anything, and it must speak to our innate curiosity and need to "exhibit" by putting up our own form of graffitti.

   (Ellenpoly was here) :-D

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 May 04 - 03:57 AM

Little Hawk, I am so full of admiration for you as you have...here...started a thread using reverse psychology in an attempt to get the longest thread. It is working so effectively that I cannot see it failing. Hope you succeed friend. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 12:19 PM

It shall fail - it has been decreed.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 21 May 04 - 12:28 PM

Longest? Nahr -- the MOAB thread is already 2500 posts strong.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 12:37 PM

Try over 3000

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 21 May 04 - 01:08 PM

Yeah, I goofed there. :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 01:31 PM

No prob.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 04 - 01:40 PM

The MOABS is a gross offence against all common sense and self-discipline. As such, it is liable to go on indefinitely, I suppose. Thankfully one cannot say the same of really lousy TV shows or Presidents. They all finally go away if you wait long enough.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 21 May 04 - 01:47 PM

That's just because they need to be profitable, while MOAB labors under no such constraint.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 04 - 01:57 PM

Excellent point. I have always asserted that a profit-based system eventually wrings the life out of everything, but the interesting counterpoint to that is: it also wrings the life out of things that DESERVE to cease existing! Hmmm.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Amos
Date: 21 May 04 - 02:00 PM

Profit-based methods also bring about the injection of life into things.

Examples abound -- new technologies, new products, Wheaties and Cocacola, Levis and BF Goodrich tires, etc. Given a distinct profit potential and someone will come up with cheap hydrogen.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 04 - 02:08 PM

Yes. I suppose like anything else it has its good points and bad points.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 05:15 PM



You obviously aren't aware of daytime soaps . . .

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 May 04 - 03:48 PM

How long is this thread actually going to be then???

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 23 May 04 - 03:51 PM

This is the thread that never ends . . .

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Cluin
Date: 23 May 04 - 03:57 PM

It just goes on and on, my friends...

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 May 04 - 07:01 PM

When is it likely to end or is that "How long is a piece of string?"

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: JennyO
Date: 24 May 04 - 06:32 AM

Half of twice its length, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 May 04 - 10:33 AM

It will be hard to get the shortest thread. I have had a second attempt with "Lincoln Park a big thank you" (Lincoln misspelt of course) but foiled at the death again by someone who spotted me.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 04 - 10:53 AM

"From: Little Hawk - PM
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:49 AM

I refuse to accept that ruling without corroborating evidence. "


From an examination of those threads that are on the Mudcat, and my postings, it is obvious that I have won the bet. Just look at what I have posted to.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:24 AM

The only problem with this challenge is that there have been plenty of threads over the years that have died on the vine with only one post. The real trick is to figure out a way to find them.

By the way the BS: Joe Clones, Close This Thread! had died at this point too. The Clones didn't bother to follow through on their own idea.

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: JennyO
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:58 AM

Here's a one poster from July last year:

Anyone survive WOMAD

I guess they didn't!

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 24 May 04 - 12:07 PM

Well that one now has two posts. Any others?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: JennyO
Date: 24 May 04 - 12:24 PM

here is another one to spoil. Next?

Subject: RE: BS: New Short Thread Challenge!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 May 04 - 01:03 PM

Did I make the false assumption that the " New short thread challenge" started from the commencement of this thread????