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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Meant to mark quadruple 7s, but could not shut up long enough. Need a thread to mark all 8s, which at my current rate, should be within the week.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Nice. Title.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Think I'd better post here since I was asking after such a thread in the Styx!

The (maybe not so) grand total of 700 posts since Oct 09. Now if there was a counter for posts read I would score much more highly!

The way I'm going I suspect a large percentage of the next hundred are going to be taken up with everlasting sentences and being offensive in the Circus.....
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lucia:


The way I'm going I suspect a large percentage of the next hundred are going to be taken up with everlasting sentences and being offensive in the Circus.....

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Naught wrong with that. How you do expect the august host of All Saints has gathered at least 20,000 posts?
 

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Posted by The Weeder (# 11321) on :
 

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Originally posted by PeteC:
being offensive in the Circus.....

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Originally posted by The Weeder:

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Originally posted by PeteC:
being offensive in the Circus.....

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That sounds like a fabulous idea for a game....

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Doesn't it, though?

*ahem* I mean, um, why didn't you take the effort to notice it earlier? I swear, some people, have to do everything for them, can't even look themselves—the nerve! I, for one, am not amused!
 

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Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :
 
[Amem... clears throat]

Campbellite
All Saints Host

[ 24. January 2014, 02:02: Message edited by: Campbellite ]
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Bugger! Meant to mark 8000.
Did the maths and the average of 4.23 seemed a bit low, so I checked my recent posts and found it to be over 16 per day!
Somebody please check, I think I might be mousethief or Wodders sockpuppet.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lucia:

The way I'm going I suspect a large percentage of the next hundred are going to be taken up with everlasting sentences and being offensive in the Circus.....

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you'd better get on with it ... those easily offended have been mute a good while now ...
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Oh - and that would be 17,000 pieces of drivel.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Congratulations, Zappa - I've got a long way to go before I reach that level of drivel ...


 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

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Originally posted by Zappa:
Oh - and that would be 17,000 pieces of drivel.

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Zappa, do not be so hard on yourself. I remember at least one non-drivelly post.


Or, well, not too drivelly.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Hmmmph! Any resemblance to non-drivel may indicate hacking.
 

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Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Registered Dec 2004 and just got to 500.

Must try harder I suppose....
 

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Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :
 
Possibly trying too hard ..

16,000
 

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Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
I need to make sure my 10,000th is not
a) a host post
b) an Everlasting Sentence

but

c) deeply insightful wisdom.
 

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Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :
 
Like "possibly trying too hard" ?

[ 13. February 2014, 09:16: Message edited by: Barnabas62 ]
 

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Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :
 
Post #1 was in Hell
Post #12,000 was in Heaven.

I guess I am making progress.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Congratulations, Campbellite - at least you're heading in the right direction ...
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Eutychus:
I need to make sure my 10,000th is not
a) a host post
b) an Everlasting Sentence

but

c) deeply insightful wisdom.

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Go for it. 1 in 10,000 is going make it look like a fluke whatever you write though.
 

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Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
Just so it's not a post in Hell.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Congratulations, Eutychus!
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
In honour of Pi day, 3.14 (March 14) although I am a day late. I have 4524 posts in 4 years since I was welcomed to the boat. That is 3.14 posts per day from my just now calculation, if all months are 30 days. So I thought that was worth commemorating, even if my math is questionable.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I reckon this one should be 10,000.

Blimey - five figures ...
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Congratulations or condolences, I know not which to offer.
 

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Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
I've missed not only my 6k, I've now also raced past my Shipmate number. Ach well.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
No auspicious post number, just keeping this out of the Oxfam box.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Not sure if I should be ashamed of myself or not, but I've just posted my way into 5 figures, without paying attention, so this is #10003. I am however quite some way down page 4 of the most prolific posters, so there are quite a few people ahead of me.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Right. 9,000. I swear it is true, I once had a life. Might not be so bad if anything near 10% of those had been worth posting.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
I just realised I made top five.

Is this my rock bottom?
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Kelly, well it certainly says something about you...

As for me, yet again I reach the next hundred milestone in the Circus! Will I make it to 4 figures by the end of the year?!
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
I've just noticed that I passed 38,000 earlier on today! No big deal really.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lucia:
... Will I make it to 4 figures by the end of the year?!

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Keep playing Everlasting Sentences and Limericks - it'll be a piece of cake.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
How many? Post, then check,then edit!

5420! At least it's accurate.

[ 15. June 2014, 08:23: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Just passed 5,000.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
According to my reckoning, this should be 11,000.

Crikey.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
I'm looking forward to your 11111!!
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
And, by my calculations, here it is! Not very exciting, was it?

I think my next Big Milestone will be when I reach my Shipmate number, 11803. See you in a few months ...
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Missed 8000. I think I must have also missed making the top 100 shipmates by number of posts. (AT the moment, Wood is at number 100 with just over 7500.)
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I currently sit at number 70. Past at least one host who has been aboard 7 years longer.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
My 15863rd post.

I missed most of the round numbers, so I thought I'd celebrate this one.

[ 07. September 2014, 08:21: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Celebrating post number 15,000. Finally. That averages out to about 1154 posts per year.

Wodders, I hear you chuckling.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I've just clocked 15,000 as well - typically, by commenting on the best way to chill liquor.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Our fellow Heaven Host Ariel is several thousand posts ahead of us. I guess we're just smelling the roses, Firenze!
 

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Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :
 
Just noticed that, by posting now, I can record number 5000.

Less than 500 a year, so I must have some life IRL or something.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
30,000 posts are sneaking up on me at the speed of light!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
5555 is nice.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
9721. Prime number, good as any, I suppose.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
And an everlasting sentence makes it 900...
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I've just gone past my Member Number (11803); this post should have been it, as I noticed that I'd just posted 11801 and posted another one, but then it jumped ...
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Just passed 6000. This also means that I've reached page 7 of the Directory. But I have some people on my tail, notably quetzalcoatl and no prophet's flag is set so...
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I reckon this one should be 11911, which has a pleasing symmetry about it.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Having thought "I must keep an eye open for No. 12,000", I appear to have whizzed past it ...

Piglet, talking b*ll*cks since September 2006.

eta: at number 12021, this one has quite a pleasing symmetry to it as well.

[ 16. December 2014, 02:48: Message edited by: Piglet ]
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Reached 5000 this morning.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Goodness gracious me.
Past 10K and did not even notice.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Coming up to 1,000 posts. Seem to have increased rapidity once I got the hang of some of the Circus games. Not quite on the scale of some here but it feels like going from 3 to 4 digits is a yardstick (not a milestone - that'd be from 4 to 5).
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
There's nothing quite like joining in a few Circus games to notch up your post-count - by my reckoning this one should be 12345, which is nice and sequential.
 

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Posted by Sarasa (# 12271) on :
 
This should be my 1,000 post. I don't know how some people manage to post so much and have a life outside the Ship. I seem to spend a lot of my time on board....
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sarasa:
... I don't know how some people manage to post so much ...

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In some cases by posting a load of tosh ...

Congratulations on your first K.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
My current post count is nothing special, but I just found out that I surpassed Wesley J. I only mention this because I like Wesley J. I'm on page 7 of the index right now, in rather illustruous company.
 

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Posted by Barefoot Friar (# 13100) on :
 
According to my calculations, this ought to be Post 1500! Woooo!
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I've been an annoyance shipboard for 5 years and 6600 posts.
 

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Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on :
 
This is 7,500. I don't post nearly as much as I used to.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
This should be 13,000. Crikey.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I reached the milestone of 30,000 earlier this month!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Sir K., you make my 13,000 pale into insignificance.
 

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Posted by Light User (# 14254) on :
 
I'm typing this just to check what my post count actually is.

*scuttles off back in to the shadows*
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I reached the milestone of 30,000 earlier this month!

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Congrats! And I just reached 20,000 while I wasn't looking.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by Light User:
I'm typing this just to check what my post count actually is.

*scuttles off back in to the shadows*

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You came aboard at about the same time as me Light User.

I am heading towards 10,000!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
6666. The Beast overdid it a bit.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
6666. The Beast overdid it a bit.

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Perhaps it's a great big beast ...
 

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Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
I'm on the Ship most days but don't always have anything to add to these discussions which are stimulating/ balm to my soul in equal measure.

Hence the fact that this is only post number 500 in two years of being on board.....

But I love it here, so thanks to you all!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Here's to your next 500, Mrs. B!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
By my calculations, this should be 14,000.

verbose piglet


 

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Posted by Jammy Dodger (# 17872) on :
 
I think this should be 300. Nothing in comparison to most people on this thread but seemed like a nice round number.
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
i have been a Shipmate since God was a boy/girl/both, and still it's taken me this long to reach 9,000 posts!
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
I've just reached 3,000 posts (on another thread), which is an average of almost precisely a post a day. Neat.
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
This will be post 6666. Is that better or worse than 666?

 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
It's bigger ...

Good on you!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
7,000 (once again, quetzalcoatl got here just before me)
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Are you two having a competition?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
No not really, but we've been changing places a lot of times recently.

No prophet on the other hand has overtaken me some weeks ago, and is way ahead of me already.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Sometimes it only takes for you to start playing one of the games in the Circus, and your post-count shoots up.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
True. I'm only rarely in the Circus and when I am, it's mostly on the FLP thread.

I'm not a post count fetishist, but I like to proclaim it here whenever I've hit a round number. What I do like to do sometimes, is to check on which page I am in the directory. I'm on page 6 at the moment, in the company of some very illustrious people.

I wonder how high I can go. I'll never overtake mousethief of course; I think my limit will be somewhere around page 5 or 4.

Anyway, I'll be travelling for the next three weeks, and I don't know how much I'll be able to post.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
11566 is not a significant number,* but I like my title for this thread.


*Other than being too many by a significant margin.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
I believe this is post number 16,000 for me! Only took a bit over fourteen years.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Congratulations JJ!
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Nothing at all to do with numbers but I realised that last month I had been aboard for 10 years!

...and no time off for good behaviour!

...or possibly no good behaviour
 

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Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Nothing at all to do with numbers but I realised that last month I had been aboard for 10 years!

...and no time off for good behaviour!

...or possibly no good behaviour

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Seeing that I am two numbers in front of you, and was instrumental in your arrival on the Ship, I have just had an OMG moment.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Wodders dear, if you ever show signs of good behaviour, we'll start to worry about you.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I just passed 17777 ... just had a nice kind of shape to it.

However I fear I'm slowing down in my old age, and if I'm still there will soon be knocked off Page One.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
(Yup ... bloody Doublethink. has just sped past me and Comet's around my nether regions )
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
First page!?!????!!!

I really DO need to get a life.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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Zappa: and Comet's around my nether regions

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Haven't seen her in a while.
 

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Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
She's busy keep folk entertained in the frozen tundra.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
7500 is a nice number.
 

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Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
I might as well mark the significance of my post count - 1234.

Not bad for ten years, I am probably a lot more talkative here than in the flesh.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
First page!?!????!!!

I really DO need to get a life.

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Better than being on Page 3. I swear I've kept my top on.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
It feels like I've been on something of an odyssey to get to this many.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Four sevens in a row.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
This is getting scary - by my reckoning this should be number 15,000.

Piglet, talking complete nonsense since 2006
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I've just past 12,000. Piglet, your count might be higher, but your post rate is lower than mine, and your content superior. So you'll not take my crown as the Monarch of Malarkey just yet.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
... your content superior ...

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You're too kind.
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
I find that having watched 9000 approach I have now passed it.
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
5678
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by North East Quine:
5678

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For reasons which are numerically completely illogical, that has given me this as an earworm.

And now I've given it to you ...
 

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Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
And with this post I have made 20,000 very boring posts.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Congratulations, Uncle P. - and no, they haven't been boring at all.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
...or only 19,999 of them!



Congratulations, young sir.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
8000.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
12221 I like the symmetry.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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lilBuddha: 12221 I like the symmetry.

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124 to go for another nice number.
 

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Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :
 
Miraculously noticed that I was one away from halfway to 5000 on my last post.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Well, well , well. I seem to have made a 1000 posts! Not sure how many of them actually held something significant...

However I have read many more posts than I have written in my time here, and many others have written things which have significantly impacted my thinking on a whole range of issues. Or made me laugh. Or sometimes both! So many thanks to all!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Here's to your next thousand, Lucia!
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
It is amazing at the low numbers of some of posters who feature prominently in my mental image of the Ship.
 

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Posted by Jengie jon (# 273) on :
 
High posts normally means they satisfy at least two of four conditions

• been a host at some stage including on private boards
• played games in the circus extensively
• organised something on the ship
• been around for a long time

Firstly none of these reflect the quality of their posting. Secondly, those who have been around a long time nearly always had a more profligate pattern of posting in the past.

Jengie

[ 02. February 2016, 18:10: Message edited by: Jengie jon ]
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I think you greatly underestimate the number of those of us who simply cannot shut up.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 

 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 


Jengie has a point though: I know my posting has increased rapidly since I've been a Host (reading threads that I might not otherwise have, and sometimes finding I've got something to say); and a few rounds of Mornington Crescent will fairly rack up one's post-count.

Keep it up, I say - the more the merrier!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
My post count racked up organising things a few years back. (Fitness Race, three years of the Secret Santa)
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
I'm just my usual shy, unassuming self with hardly a word to say to anyone.


 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
My post count racked up organising things a few years back. (Fitness Race, three years of the Secret Santa)

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It will soon be "12345."

 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
It will soon be "12345."

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quote:

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Pigwidgeon: It will soon be "12345."

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quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:

quote:

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
It will soon be "12345."

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That's given me another earworm.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
I suspect lilBuddha will get there first - and she arrived years after me. (We're both on page 3 which is embarrassing). And I had noticed that 12345 was close, but I'll forget and miss it, as I have for all the other milestone posts.

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lilBuddha: The next significant number is frustratingly distant.

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quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
And damn it to hell, I could not shut my mouth for long enough to mark when it occurred for me...

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Pigwidgeon: Just like when the odometer in your car is about to flip over to some significant number and you totally forget to watch at the right time.

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At one time, I seriously considered reversing
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:

quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
And damn it to hell, I could not shut my mouth for long enough to mark when it occurred for me...

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Just like when the odometer in your car is about to flip over to some significant number and you totally forget to watch at the right time.

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quote:

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Originally posted by LeRoc:

quote:

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Pigwidgeon: Just like when the odometer in your car is about to flip over to some significant number and you totally forget to watch at the right time.

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At one time, I seriously considered reversing

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Doesn't work. Just watch Ferris Bueller.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Well, just noticed my last post was 43999 so I think this may well be 44,000!

...and every one a gem!

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...or something.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Diamonds, every one!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
OK, some weeks later, this should be post 12345

(and yay, I've managed to pay attention for long enough to do this)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
OK, some weeks later, this should be post 12345

(and yay, I've managed to pay attention for long enough to do this)

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wooooooo!!

I have a screen shot for you to help you celebrate!

I am heading rapidly for 11111
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Caught it!

11111


 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Well done ma'am.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
You totally should make that your Christmas card,. The preview was awesome.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
LOL, passed 9,000 without noticing.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
It must have been yesterday that I missed passing 44444 - it would have been fun to spot it but...
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I've just noticed that I'd whizzed past 16,000 without noticing. I noticed when I was at 15,99something, but must have got carried away.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
No significant number, but I just got onto Page 4 of the Directory. (I had to overtake cliffdweller to do it; sorry )
 

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Posted by mdijon (# 8520) on :
 
All the 1's. Well, all 5 of them - others are working on 6.
 

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Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
This is post #6666. Only took me 12 years.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
And with this, 18,000.

Slowing down the drivel/dribble these days though. Doubt I'll ever crack 20,000.
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
7777. Quadruple perfection for those who go by the symbolism of biblical numbers.

Hardly.

Like some other Shipmates, I posted almost nothing for several years after coming on board.
 

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Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
This should be 30,000.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
It was indeed, AC - congratulations!
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
45678



I actually remembered to post something, which has amazed me, usually I just seem to sail on by.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
WW -
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
By my reckoning, this should be number 17,000.

Nearly ten years of meaningless witterment ...
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Well done, ma'am!
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
I've just passed 6000.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Good on you, NEQ!
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I keep missing significant numbers to my great annoyance. I finally noticed and it is amazing how the calm it engenders.
This should be

13431
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
...and I think this should mark 46,000 - with Mousethief still heading off into the distance!

My parents (and various teachers) often commented upon my capacity for waffle, an ability I have never lost!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Long may you waffle, WW!
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
WW, that is an admirable skill!
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Dammit, I just missed 13579. I need to stop looking at my post count.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
13666

Bwahahahahahaha!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
I just noticed that my last post was number 17,000. Heavens above!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Good on you, JJ!
 

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Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
This post should prove that I desperately need a life.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
You have one more than Sir K, but you don't appear on the list.
 

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Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
I guess it's another one of the charming little quirks in the software.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
The list has now updated -- congratulations!
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I seem to have just made the 10,000 post in Ecclesiantics.

Not my 10,000 post there. The 10,000th post.

Well done us.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
This post is 14142, but merely noticing the palindromic glory of 14141 in my post count was such a soothing balm as to be comical.
And it is an additive prime as well.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
14641

Small pleasures. But these days, one takes what one can get.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I can quite understand that, LB. I realised a wee while ago that I'd gone haring past 18,000 without noticing.

Posting too much, moi?
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
Sunscreen needed on that pale skin. Bump
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
I can quite understand that, LB. I realised a wee while ago that I'd gone haring past 18,000 without noticing.

Posting too much, moi?

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And pushed me off the first page


( )
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:

quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
I can quite understand that, LB. I realised a wee while ago that I'd gone haring past 18,000 without noticing.

Posting too much, moi?

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And pushed me off the first page


( )

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quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
... And pushed me off the first page

( )

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Good heavens, so I did!
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Since Doubthink is, regrettably, no longer posting, you will soon be back on the first page.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Dafyd:
I've just noticed that I'm in five figures.

I'd noticed I was coming up but I missed the actual post.

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Much like watching the odometer on your car. The second you look away it turns over.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Noticed I missed 15651. I've missed loads, but anticipated that one and blew right past it.
I occasionally check my posting rate and decided to compare it to a truly prolific poster. I almost had a heart attack when his total number and rate was the same as mine. Then I realised I had too many windows open and took the figures from the wrong one.
My still too high rate is half of his.
There have been small bursts, but my overall rate is 5 a day.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Congratulations, Amanda B. Reckondwythe -- I notice you just passed 10,000.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Oh 16016, Where Art Thou?

Bugger it, one post before this one.

Two posts before this one. Stupid slow updating post count

[ 20. July 2017, 17:29: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
I just hit 20,000. It took me six years to get to 10,000, and it's taken me ten years to get to the next 10,000.

Moo
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
By my calculations, this should be 19,000. Goodness, how did I get there?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
12345

Just missed it, I knew I would!


 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
After 9 years on the ship, I just passed the 1000-post mark!
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Bumping this up in the realisation that I am unlikely to reach the magic 10,000 before the current Ship reaches its final destination.

Considering I've been here since ... oh, since God was a boy - I think I've been remarkably restrained, don't you?
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
I don't even know where to look for my post count number.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I don't even know where to look for my post count number.

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I’m the bottom left of your last post, right above the red Logged, it says Posts: 5831. That is your post count number. At least at the time of this writing.
Don’t look at mine, it is far too high. I’m just glad it doesn’t say Relevant Posts...

[ 15. December 2017, 13:57: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I'd been looking forward to 20,000 (what a full and active life I have!), but I don't think even at my most verbose I'd make it before the re-launch.

Maybe I should start playing all the games in the Circus - that doesn't half rack up your post-count ...
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
We shall all be equal, if for but a moment.
Anyone care to run a book on how many posts mousethief will have made before the new Ship finishes her shakedown cruise?
I'm betting a four digit count before the drydock fills enough to float her keel...
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
Good grief I never realized the system was keeping tabs on me like that!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'd been looking forward to 20,000 (what a full and active life I have!), but I don't think even at my most verbose I'd make it before the re-launch.

Maybe I should start playing all the games in the Circus - that doesn't half rack up your post-count ...

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Oh go on!

Then take a screen shot of the amayzing 20,000 to frame.



 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
And 20,000 posts (the crucial one on prayer thread).

I talk a lot.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
... Maybe I should start playing all the games in the Circus - that doesn't half rack up your post-count ...

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Oh go on!

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Challenge accepted!

This should be 20,000. .

[ 08. January 2018, 04:27: Message edited by: Piglet ]
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
Maybe I can make it to 15,000 before the relaunch. Or not.
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
I'm just picturing a weary Piglet, staying up all night, with aching trotter pressing the 'Add Reply' button just one more time.....

.....and then collapsing, and having to be revived with GIN.



IJ
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
I just wanna say how really, really, sorry I am, Lord, to just have used the word 'just' twice in one sentence, but I just really, really wanna get to my 10000 posts soon, before the Lord comes again, or the new Ship gets launched...

Ay-Men.

IJ
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
I just wanna say how really, really, sorry I am, Lord, to just have used the word 'just' twice in one sentence, but I just really, really wanna get to my 10000 posts soon, before the Lord comes again, or the new Ship gets launched...

Ay-Men.

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BF, you're a tube*. And a complete tonic.

* tube, (Northern Irish mildly derogatory slang) n. a fool. cf. eejitUsed in gentle mockery of someone who has done or said something daft.

[ 08. January 2018, 21:07: Message edited by: Piglet ]
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
We shall all be equal, if for but a moment.

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Actually, no. The Hosts and Admins have had something of a head start on the rest of you while testing the new software. A couple of us are past 100 posts already
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Also, it may interest you to know that in the new software, if a post or thread gets deleted it disappears from your post count as well!
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
And that makes 30,000 posts for me!!!

That's an average of 5.57 posts per day for nearly 15 years.

Egad
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:

quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
We shall all be equal, if for but a moment.

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Actually, no. The Hosts and Admins have had something of a head start on the rest of you while testing the new software. A couple of us are past 100 posts already

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quote:

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
And that makes 30,000 posts for me!!!
...

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Bravo!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Good on you, Marvin!
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Well done Marvin!
 

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Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
5141 days after I signed up, here I am at 2000 posts.

Mind you, I posted very little in my first few years, so most of those posts have happened since 2009.



Congratulations to Marvin!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Well done Japes!
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
I made it to 15,000 posts!

Okay, can we launch the new Ship now?
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Way to go, Ross!
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
But I'll never catch up to you, JJ!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Good on you, Ross!
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
...or to you, Piglet!
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 


I do talk the most awful lot of b*ll*cks, don't I?
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Yay Rossweisse! Well done.
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
I do talk the most awful lot of b*ll*cks, don't I?

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Nahh.

Thank you, Gill!
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Since I doubt I will make another 100 posts before the current Ship goes into dry dock ...

Mini-celebration alert!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I’m working on getting to 13,000 before we all walk the plank
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
Well, I passed the 10000 mark a while back.

May the Lord have mercy on my soul.

And on yours....

IJ
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I was hoping for 19,000 drivel-clicks, but I fear the plank may beat me, too ...
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
(though I could cheat )
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Do what I did: start playing the games in the Circus - it doesn't half rack up your post-count!
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Finally. Finally, finally!

18,000! It sure took long enough!


 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
Brava, JJ!
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Thank you, Ross! You made it all look so easy! I felt I was swimming upstream amongst the salmon!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
13,000!

Yay!

I’ve taken a screen shot for posterity

Now, bring on the New Ship!
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Way to go, Boogie!
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
Yay, Boogie! (I'm just hoping I don't make it to 16k before the New Ship launches.)
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
You have until Wednesday, Ross!
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
I might make it to 15,100.
 

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Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
Hmm, should I try and hit 18,000 by a run at Everlasting Sentences, or should I actually work?

Decisions, decisions...

(having seen, and regretfully passed, the aesthetically pleasing 17890...)

[ 26. February 2018, 12:18: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
 

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Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on :
 
Eutychus, I'd be happy to sign in as you and get that post count up!!!
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
Well done, Rossweisse! 15,105 just above....



IJ
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
Thank you, BF! I shan't make it to 15,200, though.
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
I think I shall have to make an attempt at 11800.
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
And this should be it... 11800, I hope.
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 
Brava, Nicole!

And tomorrow we all begin again.
 

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