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Welcome to......
Kill This Thread XLI
The following rules were established by Kent Shakespeare at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:
The rules:
1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!
2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and response nses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.
3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.
4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.
Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....
I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - PALADIN (eff YEAH!!!)
XVI- Quislet, Esq.
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - none
XIX - none
XX - Quislet, Esq.
XXI - thoth lad
XXII - Ann Hebistand
XXIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXV - Invisible Brainiac
XXVI - Quislet, Esq.
XXVII - thoth lad
XXVIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIX - Eryk Davis Ester
XXX - Invisible Brainiac
XXXI - Invisible Brainiac
XXXII - Ann Hebistand
XXXIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXXV - none
XXXVI - thoth lad
XXXVII - Ann Hebistand
XXXVIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIX - Thoth Lad
XL - Invisible Brainiac
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Re: Kill This Thread XLI - Mid Life Crisis
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Watching my sports team lose yet another game, kept me from the last thread. But this one will go better than their results.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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I'm eager to see if your sports team will be able to kill this thread again!
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There's every chance. They're bottom of the league.
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Always a chance 
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It's the hope that hurts.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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Especially when it is dragged away once you reach the very edge
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I don't think my team have ever had a feeling that they were surely going to win a thing, so the edge is usually some way off.
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seems like it's more "well, if we end up winning it's gonna be a pleasant surprise anyway, so let's just do whatever"
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My nose bleeds if we get to a certain height in the league table. A reaction to such a rare exposure to such altitude.
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You have your own spider sense going on!
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Bystander 1: Crumbs! Doc Ock must be about to attack!
Bystander 2: Yeah, 'cause thoth Lad has just bled to death over there.
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Bystander 3: It's the shock of that bloody footie win innit!
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Fortunately, the above scene is very unlikely. Even nasty genie would be hard pressed to make us a successful team to trigger that.
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Kinda like that joke about one ex-president of the Philippines. A genie appears to ex-president and tells him he gets 3 wishes.
Ex-President: (shows map of the Philippines) I want you to connect all 7000 of the islands of the Philippines by bridges!
Genie: I'm not powerful enough to do that.
Ex-Pres: Okay, then make me a genius!
Genie: Wait, let me see that map of the Philippines again...
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Someone was saying to me that political satire was gone, because you couldn't make it up based on recent events.. But history shows that you never underestimate the power of greed and incompetence to fuel comedy.
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Better to laugh at it than to cry because of it
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
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Not when you pass onions around
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An issue when you're cooking with others, and you can't tell if it's the onions or an emotional response.
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“I’m sorry, why are you crying about the glass of milk you spilled?”
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Some people do milk situations to get an emotional reaction.
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Sadly that tends to curdle their relationships
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Putting up with someone who constantly over reacts, would cheese anyone off.
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That would be really rotten
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