Archetypal thread arcs

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The sex thread, in ten easy steps:

1. Facetious or possibly serious sex topic posted (generally about masturbation or anal sex)
2. String of quick-witted supposedly amusing short replies
3. A few longer attempts to discuss issue by usual suspects (may include some metaphorical fisticuffs, also by usual suspects)
4. The quick-witted replies become increasingly lavatory-oriented
5. Finally, one of them prompts a tangent, generally not sex-related but still icky, and incestuously in-jokey
6. Someone starts posting pictures, often of foodstuffs, and others join in
7. Things eventually start to tail off and thread shudders to a halt
8. A week/month/year later, someone posts "REVIVE!"
9. Someone else posts "best thread EVAH" or "worst thread EVAH" or something of that nature.
10. Thread stutters on for a few more posts, then dies again.

― Thread theorist, Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool! - yeah, that's pretty OTM.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

God, threads about threads are so meta < / elitist>

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I love threads about orcs.

*orcs cheer*

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

we need threads abt threads abt threads now!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Benoit Mandelbrot to thread!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

best thread EVAH (oops, out of order, sorry)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nutrition.org.uk/images/teachercentre/cheese.jpg

― robster (robster), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yes Alang yr WELL out of order!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(generally about masturbation or anal sex)

Haha, you said "anal"! And "masturbation"! Haha!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE!

― Cockfarmer In The City, Monday, 5 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I went to Cafe Revive in Marks and Spencers yesterday. It was okay. Not that good, but not that bad either. It was so-so. The tea was nice, but the cakes were a let-down.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No wonder if they had been revived like a thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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