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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread The Life Cycle of Threads #12641 12/12/00 06:12 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi OP Carpal Tunnel OP Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I suppose this has been done to death, but if so I haven't smelled any corpses redolent of mortal corruption just yet ... Anyway, what drives threads? Somebody has an idea to throw into the ring and duly does so. People respond and the thread rapidly but surely veers wildly off in some unintended (but usually interesting) direction totally unintended by its author. Like this one will. Then, after a while, they just "peter" out. Stop. Cease. Desist. People no longer post to them, and they are eventually archived. Why? What drives it? I'm currently watching the thread I started on Rodent-Related Sayings. If no more posts are made to that thread for, say, the next couple of days, I'm picking that it'll die. Comments on the back of a postcard, please ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted The Life Cycle of Threads Capital Kiwi 12/12/00 06:12 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads emanuela 12/12/00 07:41 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Max Quordlepleen 12/12/00 07:46 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Capital Kiwi 12/12/00 08:11 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Max Quordlepleen 12/12/00 08:17 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Capital Kiwi 12/12/00 08:27 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads wsieber 12/12/00 09:53 AM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads of troy 12/12/00 02:26 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Capital Kiwi 12/12/00 03:04 PM Re: Mixed Metaphors Faldage 12/12/00 06:33 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads of troy 12/12/00 02:57 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads tsuwm 12/12/00 04:11 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads maverick 12/12/00 04:15 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads of troy 12/12/00 04:25 PM Re: The Life Cycle of Threads Faldage 12/12/00 06:25 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,997 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 729 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 24 A C Bowden 15 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,958 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,956 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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