diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index c2ff39a..76dee53 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Makefile.PL
 MANIFEST
 bin/feedgnuplot
-t/00-load.t
 t/manifest.t
 t/plots.t
 Changes
diff --git a/t/00-load.t b/t/00-load.t
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a99850..0000000
--- a/t/00-load.t
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-# require a threaded perl for my tests. This block lifted verbatim from the cpantesters wiki
-BEGIN {
-  use Config;
-  if (! $Config{'useithreads'}) {
-    print("1..0 # Skip: Perl not compiled with 'useithreads'\n");
-    exit(0);
-  }
-}
-
-use Test::More tests => 1;
-use Test::Script::Run;
-
-run_ok( 'feedgnuplot', ['--help'], 'feedgnuplot can run');
-