<p>When would you call Java's <code>thread.run()</code> instead of <code>thread.start()</code>?</p>

Call
```
thread.start()
```
, it will in turn call
```
thread.run()
```
.  Can't think of a case when you would want to bypass
```
thread.start()
```
and go directly to
```
thread.run()
```