kill this thread

saw it on a rerun last month, but I am older than you. Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles to the US
 
I received a prophecy this morning in my bowl of corn flakes which said I was to bring a scimitar in here and slay the thread.

Since I don't eat corn flakes I know this was a sign.
 
to slay or not to slay that is the question,
whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous posting, or to end this thread with a bare bodkin...by the what do you know what a bodkin is?
 
"it may interest you to know that I am the sole survivor of seven great catastrophies calculated to carry off every man and jack in the vicinity,so my expectations of surviving are...." Sergeant Quirt "What price glory?'