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This may be the last update of the non-terminal thread for a while — I'm going to get beat up by some doctors today, and there are too many steps involved in thread closure and new thread creation and template updating to hand this job off to Mary. So the ol' portcullis may stay up for a while. A hard day of knives and needles demands a more inspiring video than usual to get it going…so here's Stephen Fry with some advice I'll be taking to heart. (Current totals: 10,888 entries with 1,101,198 comments.)

I treated you to a very pretty song in the last instance of the perpetual conversation, so now let's turn it over to a Christian to serenade you. I think you'll learn that the grand days of Christian music are long dead. (Current totals: 10,877 entries with 1,098,158 comments.)

I'm a big fan of Ray Bradbury, so I can almost identify with the young lady singing this song. I know, the last song in the thread without respite was nice to listen to as well, so I'm violating my usual habit of punishing you all with the noise here, but this one is worth it. Oh, by the way, not safe for work. Definitely not safe for work. (Current totals: 10,867 entries with 1,095,612 comments.)

Ooops, I got distracted and have let the long lingering thread linger too long. Here you go, new thread with a little song to tide you over. (Current totals: 10,830 entries with 1,088,950 comments.)

The peripatetic thread needs a dose of surreal insanity. Watch this video if you're sober and sane. This might be something. I don't know. Maybe I'm nuts. I don't know. Let me know. (Current totals: 10,815 entries with 1,086,411 comments.)

I think we need to move along from the thready thread to a new subject near and dear to all: spankings. First in line for a fearsome thrashing is the always obligingly easy Casey Luskin. By the way, that goofy Luskin business of comparing Darwin imagery to Jesus iconography gets lampooned here, too. (Current totals: 10,804 entries with 1,084,585 comments.)

I just can't keep up — I turn away from the blog for most of the day, and the perseverant thread just keeps dribbling on. Perhaps this little video is a metaphor. (Current totals: 10,797 entries with 1,082,903 comments.)

Time for more thread.

Compare and contrast: examine the Christian music video I used in the last instance of the Thread of Caterwauling alongside this lovely example of celebratory atheism from D.O.A. Some of you may not care for it, but it's at least music with a pulse, unlike that dead noise that constitutes modern religious music. (Current totals: 10,776 entries with 1,080,035 comments.)

I am cruel. I am heartless. I am evil. For this instance of the damned thread, I give you…"music". You knew I wasn't a nice guy when you came here. (Current totals: 10,755 entries with 1,077,020 comments.)

O Happy Day, let us open this edition of the thread insufferably prolonged with some romance! (Current totals: 10,731 entries with 1,072,626 comments.)

Well, traffic was down a bit yesterday, although the dedicated thread is going strong. I suspect that some of the readers here were distracted by some silly little game that was released yesterday, and the only way to get them back is to dangle the eye candy in front of them. Now we're all caught up on everything. (Current totals: 10,712 entries with 1,069,687 comments.)

The participants in the exhausting thread are hereby ordered to explain this impossible phenomenon: rainbows. I don't wanna hear any of your crazy Newton talk and refraction and water droplets, neither. (via The Skeptic's Field Guide) (Current totals: 10,691 entries with 1,066,521 comments.)

Jebus, I hope not. You may continue your previous perpetual parley. (Current totals: 10,663 entries with 1,061,738 comments.)

I have reset the wildly mutating thread to leap upon the latest internet craze! I'm on a horse. (Current totals: 10,638 entries with 1,059,133 comments.)

It's always party time in the exuberant thread, but now it's party time with magic tricks! (Current totals: 10,618 entries with 1,056,455 comments.)

A new open thread for those off-topic discussions.

Harvey Pekar would have fit right into the undendingly discursive thread, and now it'll never happen. Just think what he would have said about PepsiCo. (Current totals: 10,597 entries with 1,053,074 comments.)

The well-endowed thread* respawns, and a new terror arises: a brutal threat to crackers everywhere. (Current totals: 10,588 entries with 1,051,004 comments.) *Don't blame me, that's the main topic right now.

My wife is the one hanging out with celebrities this weekend, so no, we have not made the Minchin Accommodation. Please do continue whatever the heck you were talking about. I just had to make this clear to the spouse hanging out in Vegas. (Current totals:10,573 entries with 1,048,281 comments.)