BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 07:43 PM

Jim Dixon uttered something cosmic in another thread, regarding posts that kill threads. He said, "In every thread someone has to be last."

He's right. This is really something to ponder, so I have launched a thread to explore it in depth. Feel free to post and give your own thoughts on the matter.

WHO will be last in this thread???? Who will it be? And when will we know?

The suspense is mounting...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,JH
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 07:46 PM

I'll bet anyone a million bucks that I will not be the last in this one. Any takers?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 07:53 PM

Except with thread which have been officially closed, being last is always only provisional.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:00 PM

Yes! And that's what's so suspenseful about it, McGrath. One can bask in the distinction of having posted last on a great thread for days...weeks...months...even years...pointing it out proudly to other people..."See? My post was the very last one, way back on May 20, 1999."

And then someone suddenly posts to it! AAAAAARRRGHHH! And so it goes. Sic transit gloria mundi.

It's lonely at the bottom.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:21 PM

Surely, LH, you don't FEED there?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:39 PM

Nice try, Rapaire. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:50 PM

I've felt that I've "killed" a few posts around here. It's an interesting thing to see what'll happen with this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:54 PM

It won't be me.

But any of the "Joe-Clones" can easily achieve this status - they simply post, then close the thread...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 09:09 PM

You do know we've already done this exact thread once before????

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MMario
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 09:34 PM

man, that is SO DEEP, LH. Worthy of Shatner.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 09:54 PM

THE TWELVE NOBLE TRUTHS OF THE MUDCAT CAFE

In every thread someone has to be last!

At least 50% of Spaw's posts will allude in some fashion to farting.

Any post from John from Hull or Bobert will have at least one spelling error.

At least 90% of all threads on the subject of George W. Bush will have the word "moron" in them.

Bee-dubya-ell can't count worth a shit 'cause this is only five noble truths, ain't it?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Damon
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 10:11 PM

Would that be Lenny H Worthy of Shatner to which you are alluding there MMario?

I think I met him once, but I never knew where Shatner was...is it in Norfolk?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Allan C.
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 10:33 PM

Been here. Done this. (grumble, grumble, mumble...)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 10:38 PM

Sure, Spaw, but not under this title! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: flattop
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 10:42 PM

Is this title more metaphysical?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: SueB
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 11:24 PM

If I'm last here, it will represent one of the few times in my life I've ever had the last word on anything!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 12:12 AM

LH, JtS says you should have the last post right after this post from me.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 12:32 AM

Hawk, the title is irrelevant. Once you start something like this there are certain inevitabilities inherent. Just to point them out, let me tell you that the prvious thread was titled "Killing the Thread" and here it for your reading pleasure and as an object lesson in killing threads:

The Mudcat Café TM
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23443
449 messages
{excessive copy/paste deleted-JoeClone}

read it here --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 12:44 AM

Well THAT'S JUST SILLY!

Rochester! Mary! Oh, Don!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 12:55 AM

Spaw... (and I say this with the greatest affection and all) ...you're an asshole ...um, I mean, you're... well, an asshole.

;-)


( ...sure am glad I never posted to that silly killing the thread thread... well, maybe once... )

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 02:09 AM

Some grumpy mudcatter is bound to point out this is all a waste of time and of no interest to anyone, takes up our overworked hosts servers, or this thread already exists cos I started it and I dont like other people doing wot I am doing etc etc etc ad infinitum.

But he/she wont be the last because lots of people will post and say 'get that hair out of your arse' or 'lighten up' or just plain old 'get stuffed you grumpy git'

And they might be the last.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 02:17 AM

How 'bout if I just tell you to fuck off?

Nah.....that never works.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 02:33 AM

NO I am going to be the last. This is so boring that nobody will post after this.

I live in a sleepy little town (more like a village) called market Rasen in Lincolnshire, England.

I am going to wake them residents up by openeng a new folk club.

It is on Friday 26th starting at 8:00 until all the residents in Market Rasen are so fed up with the noise that they will come to the club to see whats going on. I will charge them a quid to find out. The money will allow me to pay artists I have booked such as Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher from Boston Lincolnshire and Touchwood from Sydney in Australia.

In order for me to achieve that, I need all of you mudcatters from far and wide to be there. I need as much noise as possible. If you don't come, I will keep on refreshing this thread until I am the last one to post.

See you all there or else :-)

thread.cfm?threadid=67830#1138433

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 02:42 AM

Friday the 26th March 2004, incase anybody was wondering.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:06 AM

Being the last to post isn't so bad. You can fool yourself into thinking that you have summed everything up in one concise, all encompassing paragraph such that no further discussion is necessary.

Far worse is adding some witticism or apposite point in the middle of a hot topic and it falling on deaf ears. The subsequent posters reply to the posts immediately above yours and the discussion continues as if you had never been there. It makes you want to creep out of the room and wish that you'd kept your mouth shut.


Doug C

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:04 AM

I've got something to say too.
It's not going to be the last post to this thread, but.. it's going to definitely be my last post to this thread.
First and above all... What the fuck was that Spaw? Have you gone totally ballistic on us? Who the hell wants to read old history? To me that's like bringing up a tavern from 2003.
Second, I feel like I am a killer of threads, but it don't get to me cuz' I think it's only my destiny to put an end to certain threads,
and lastly, I look forward to the last post on certain threads, only because it was destined to be the last post.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:44 AM

The Last Post - hmm who recorded that?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:46 AM

Ah, but let's not forget that "The last shall be first, and the first shall be last" as the Good Book tells us. Now, here's a theological question for you all: what does that mean for the vast majority who are somewhere in the middle ?

- jeanie (holy hermit of Essex, who likes to ponder on these things)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: matai
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:49 AM

And I thought I was the only one who suffered from this kind of paranoia...but it's only 11.30 here. Good-night.

matai

ps I think it was the bugler

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:55 AM

Happy St Patrick's Day.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 08:04 AM

I hadn't realised it was St Patrick's day till tonight I saw a woman wearing a funny green brooch (a brooch made of green ribbon loops with flashing green lights??) & holding a silly green hat. Duh, I thought, it's St Pat's day

(is that boring &/or inconsequential enough to close the thread?)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 08:44 AM

Spaw...let me put this in as delicate a fashion as I can...

You're an idiot. :-) Still, it is nice to know that you're still out there, prepared to drop in occasionally and say something pointless and unnecessary. It feels almost like the old days.

Now go back to harassing the weimaraners.

- LH

p.s. Shatner rules.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Cluin
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 09:09 AM

The new winner in the Waste-of-Time Thread Sweepstakes!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 10:28 AM

With a little serious competition among self-proclaimed tread-killers, this could eventually rival the Mother Of All Threads (which I have neithe contributed to nor even read).

So Villian - when's that grand opening again - and what's the closest airport?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 10:56 AM

NEXT!!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ben Dover
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 11:18 AM

My name is also my hobby.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Crane Driver
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 11:30 AM

If "The last shall be first" etc, that makes things sort of circular, doesn't it? Rather like driving through Milton Keynes. And no, I DON'T rather like driving through Milton Keynes. Every damn roundabout looks the same. Rather like reading this thread. And no, I DIDN'T rather like reading this thread. Or the other thread inside it. How many threads can you pack into a thread? Is this thread drift or a dimensional rift? Hey, lets copy some other old threads to this one and really screw cyberspace. How do you set a theodolyte without using a match?

I'll get me coat

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 11:32 AM

Blackcatter
The nearest airport is Humberside.
The first night is Friday the 26th March 2004.
I am the last again :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: open mike
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 01:40 PM

as the thread unravels...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 01:44 PM

Ummm, being last at what?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 02:35 PM

Is that an International airport?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Peace
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:08 PM

A taxidermist is someone who mounts animals. In Canada, we call them sheep f##kers.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:19 PM

The nearest bigger airports are Nottingham East Midlands and Leeds. But then at least an hour car journey is necessary.

Humberside is a smaller airport that does flights to somewhere like Holland, Portugal etc. Don't know anymore.

Are you planning to come along then Blackcatter? Bit far to travel from Florida! I could provide a Heliport pad for you if you so desired. I mile from venue.

Cherrs
Les

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:15 PM

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Shlio
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:27 PM

As Dylan teaches (and I believe nearly everything that he sang when he wasn't talking through his ass or obviously stoned): "The first one now will later be last" and "you'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom".

Therefore - Little Hawk is destined to be the last poster to this thread.
(Just please don't let it be me)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,garydon
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:56 PM

And then there were NONE

Gary®

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: someone
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 06:14 PM

Hm - if it is true that someone has to be last in every thread, I will have lots of posting to do... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Joybell
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 07:44 PM

We're playing the game of "pass the parcel". Who will be holding it when the end comes? Me? Now? Will the last person please play "The Last Post" for us all. Joy

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Peace
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 08:30 PM

You're off the hook, Joybell.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 09:19 PM

it'll b a joke lone when they close this thread.