Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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In summary, Franzbear is the most prolific thread killer in the forum. He has killed at least 12 threads and is likely responsible for 21 more. His ability to kill threads is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
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Evo said:
Today has been one. Started out this morning when my co-worker, male, aged 32, seemed in perfect health, keeled over and died. Makes you realize that you never know.
How are you doing?

I'll be away this weekend (at least Saturday) for a family gathering. My aunt has been cremated and those of us that can make it are going to meet at her house.

I don't know what to say about your coworker. I feel for his wife and children. Would some sort of care package to his family be appropriate. Maybe even just some flowers and personal letters.

When I was in the navy there was a man that was in his late twenties. One night he died in the lounge and people found him in the morning. I think he had an aneurysm too. He didn't smoke, he exercised regularly and I doubt he was on drugs. Sometimes these things just happen.
 
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  • #4,692
Huckleberry said:
I read that same thread and I felt a sudden urge to urinate.

Here's one that keeps me awake at night.
"I bless the rains down in africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had"

Where has Artman been lately? He's up to something dubious, that's for sure.
Still no time to divulge sinister plans.

Muhaaaahaaha.

Later.

:devil:
 
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BicycleTree said:
Certainly, but it has to be trained. Have you ever tried to stand up on an accelerating/decelerating or turning bus? It isn't easy at first. I remember at the beginning of this year when I had trouble keeping my balance just because I stood up and walked down the aisle as the bus was coming to a stop.

You don't need to be able to ride a bike to keep your balance standing up. That knee-jerk reflex is actually part of the response that helps you keep balance while standing. I'm rather short, so when I'm stuck standing on buses or trains, I often have difficulty reaching the strap (or my arm REALLY hurts from stretching for it), so I learned to balance without holding on, and you already know how much I don't love biking. It's a different type of balance and different muscles you need.
 
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DocToxyn said:
Yeah, I called Moonbear at work, she thought I was a stalker, but I would never do anything like that... :rolleyes:

*jots down the date and time of Moonbear's last post in log book of Moonbear's activities and lights another candle on shrine to the PF goddesses*

:smile: Hey, we should crash enigma's place when we're in D.C. He's not too far from there. :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
You don't need to be able to ride a bike to keep your balance standing up. That knee-jerk reflex is actually part of the response that helps you keep balance while standing. I'm rather short, so when I'm stuck standing on buses or trains, I often have difficulty reaching the strap (or my arm REALLY hurts from stretching for it), so I learned to balance without holding on, and you already know how much I don't love biking. It's a different type of balance and different muscles you need.
Buses or trains? :rolleyes: Probably that means "trains."

A bus takes much tighter turns than a train does, and a train's acceleration is much less sporadic and sudden than a bus' acceleration. This was no ordinary reflex I'm talking about. I was actually looking out the window at the time, and the bus suddenly braked hard because the car in front of it turned into a parking lot.

You don't _have_ to ride a bike for balance, but it sure helps. A few weeks ago I surprised myself at how good my balance was, standing on a flat floor. I realized that I could stand on one foot and move the other foot all around me and do one-leg knee bends at the same time without wobbling at all. This was without having specifically practiced that, just spontaneously finding out I could do it.

The muscles are different between bus-balance and bike-riding but they are shared. Upper thigh muscles, for example, get very strong in bicycling and they are the same muscles you use to maintain a springy bent-knee posture against acceleration. Bicycling is a very whole-body workout.
 
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The idea came to me in a dream (honest, I am now dreaming of ways to dispose of Franzbear ) . It's just so simple. I'm surprized I haven't thought of it before now!

Muahhhaaahahahaha! :devil:

Later; got to run.



<chokes out high pitched evil laugh -- (think: Bill Murray in Caddyshack)>

Ehhhhehhhehhh! :devil:
 
  • #4,697
Artman said:
The idea came to me in a dream (honest, I am now dreaming of ways to dispose of Franzbear ) . It's just so simple. I'm surprized I haven't thought of it before now!

Muahhhaaahahahaha! :devil:

Later; got to run.



<chokes out high pitched evil laugh -- (think: Bill Murray in Caddyshack)>

Ehhhhehhhehhh! :devil:
This is why you were thinking of dreaming.
 
  • #4,698
You know what's interesting? Posts like that, all alone, have a "close this window" button at the bottom of them. Why?
 
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Anybody out there?
 
  • #4,700
No, it's just me.
 
  • #4,701
Ever just had one of those days?

Originally posted by Evo
This is very much like what happened a few years ago, I had to spend three week in Atlanta for a Convention, so my next door lady, a few years younger than me and and had daughters my girls ages agreed to keep them. Everything seemed ok for the first days, then one night I was preparing for a presentation and my daughter called me at the hotel to let me know that they couldn't wake up the girls mother that morning, she had died during night. They were all alone in a house with a dead woman. :rolleyes:
That sucks, Evo. Plus it's macabre for those kids. But I watched my dad die right before my eyes, so I'm experienced at that. And now I have to worry about friend dying and that added to the plethora of f*cking problems in my family is starting to wear on me. I need a beer. :frown:

"todo lo que se mueva es calne y la calne es placer"
 
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I gave myself a wiffle haircut yesterday.
 
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BicycleTree said:
This was no ordinary reflex I'm talking about.
A few weeks ago I surprised myself at how good my balance was, standing on a flat floor. I realized that I could stand on one foot and move the other foot all around me and do one-leg knee bends at the same time without wobbling at all.
I don't know what kind of klutzes you're used to hanging around with, but everything you mentioned is a perfectly ordinary reflex. I'm 49 years old with arthritis all over my body and a torn tendon in my knee, and none of that stuff is any kind of special occurrence for me. I've never fallen down, including when both feet went out from under me on ice (and that happens a lot when you're walking in Alberta).

I don't know what you mean about a 'close window' button. :confused:
 
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Yeah, you think it's easy? Slipping on ice is nothing compared to standing up when a bus is decelerating hard and unexpectedly. Bottom line is, if you haven't tried this specific activity, well, you haven't tried it.
 
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If you click my "This" link a few posts up it will take you to a single post alone on a page. At the bottom of that page there is a "close window" button.
 
  • #4,706
I like dead silence when I am asleep. There are few places where I can get that. I can hardly ever get it here.
 
  • #4,707
Cars keep rumbling over the bridge over the bay. A dull background ummm that never goes away.
 
  • #4,708
If bicycles were rumbling over the bridge over the bay, it would be pretty noises in the night by Locust Way.
 
  • #4,709
So anyway...
 
  • #4,710
Paper mills suck, I can safely say.
 
  • #4,711
Preemptive strike...
 
  • #4,712
But it's okay...
 
  • #4,713
Snatch!

*Huckleberry swooshes in with his floppy hat and shiny scimitar to snatch the 6000th post from Bicycle Tree.* :biggrin:
 
  • #4,714
Hooray! 10char
 
  • #4,715
Methinks ye did not best delay.
 
  • #4,716
Your wounded pride, try to allay.
 
  • #4,717
You've missed it, in the dust and far away.
 
  • #4,718
Being a Minion of Moonbear has its perks. :smile:
Do I get a medal for skill in the art of swooshing? :wink:
 
  • #4,719
In these parts, 6000th reply is what counts, is what they say.
 
  • #4,720
I see you startle in dismay.
 
  • #4,721
The minion ranks, in disarray, shout, "Foiled! Curses! Hell to pay!"
 
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BicycleTree said:
Bottom line is, if you haven't tried this specific activity, well, you haven't tried it.
I've tried it plenty. The way traffic and parking are in Calgary, I always take C-Train and buses. I was once also deliberately tripped by some idiot cowboy when I was bartending. Not only did I not fall down, but I only spilled one drink on a tray of 7 and managed to smack him in the head on the way back up. :approve:
 
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n-thousand-and-one's the n-thousandth reply, or that's the rule that now holds sway. I used to say, it's child's play, n-thousandth beats it, every day. But no no no, says the PF C.I.A.
 
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Danger, hey! Can you do knee-bends like I say?
 
  • #4,725
BicycleTree said:
Yeah, you think it's easy? Slipping on ice is nothing compared to standing up when a bus is decelerating hard and unexpectedly. Bottom line is, if you haven't tried this specific activity, well, you haven't tried it.

Nope, with slipping on ice, you have no traction under your feet to regain balance quickly. Buses are easier than ice. And, BT, that's buses AND trains. I wrote buses OR trains because you only take one at a time. No need to second guess what I write.
 

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