diff --git a/bin/feedGnuplot b/bin/feedGnuplot
index 70309a5..c17cbe3 100755
--- a/bin/feedGnuplot
+++ b/bin/feedGnuplot
@@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ use Time::HiRes qw( usleep );
 use IO::Handle;
 use List::MoreUtils qw( first_index );
 use Text::ParseWords;
-
-use Config;
-if (! $Config{'useithreads'})
-{
-  print "I require a threaded perl\n";
-  exit(0);
-}
-
 use threads;
 use threads::shared;
 use Thread::Queue;
diff --git a/t/00-load.t b/t/00-load.t
index 5687318..0b057f8 100644
--- a/t/00-load.t
+++ b/t/00-load.t
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 #!/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;