BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:38 AM

Congratulations on your 900 Peace - it will go down in history. The question now is will we get to 1000 before New Year? If we do we can all raise a glass to the 85 Billion thread's achievement as well as the New Year (it will be optional if you want to announce the fact publicly among friends and family or just keep it to yourself).

Our leader BDiBR will then surely give his his first, historic, New Year speach with tips and advice about how to approach 2007. I can hardly wait, he won't let us down, it'll be something real special.

So just 98 posts to go

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:53 AM

98 ways from here to there?
I think my brain hurts

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:16 PM

Thanks Emma B. It seems if we use this formula we can do it: Aa+Ba2+Ca3+85 billion = 1000 posts. It all seems so easy now.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:20 PM

WE ARE THERE. 1000. Nothin' left to do but fill in the blanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:48 PM

OK, no one is impressed. Piss on it then.

CMV

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:48 PM

OOPS.

CMVII

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,what, what, what
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:08 PM

novecentos e oito

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:09 PM

Now THAT was fuckin' impressive.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:20 PM

My apologies. I should not have said that. Instead. allow me to say, "Now THAT was fuckin' exemplary."

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:21 PM

Εννιακόσια ένδεκα

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:30 PM

Sorry, Rapaire. It's Greek to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:40 PM

It's my personal motto: 9-1-1.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:43 PM

What's a motto?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,what, what, what
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:45 PM

Oh dear,
what can the motto be ?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:52 PM

Nothin'. What's the motto with you?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:30 PM

my motto?

Lata videtur puga in hac?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM

"I can see a pug in the milk." Okay....

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:54 PM

OK then - how about

MY EPITATH -

Ergo agite, ocomites
Lacrimas mihi sestite inannes
Namque ego agam posthac
Tempus in omne nihil

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:58 PM

My educated guess is that you have posted a recipe for some sort of bug killer that destroys a relative of the termite family. Am I close?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:01 PM

The thread will NOT hit on eth ous and by sitting idle.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:08 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:10 PM

not even getting warm Peace

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:07 PM

Oh, fer goodness sakes! Let this old Latin Scholar at it!

Ergo agite, ocomites    =   Therefore agitate, O Committees
Lacrimas mihi sestite inannes = Cry to me [you] inane sestite*
Namque ego agam posthac = I want namque and agam** posthaste
Tempus in omne nihil = Doesn't time mean anything to you?


* Sestite: a type of light cavalryman popular in areas of Scotland never conquered by the Romans.

** Namque and agam: Roman precursor of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made with battered eels and cheese on toasted bread.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:10 PM

Showoff!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:13 PM

Simply demonstrates the value of a good Classical Education, old chap.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:15 PM

Latin is a language
Dead as dead can be;
First it killed the Romans,
Now it's killing me

All are dead who spoke it,
All are dead who wrote it;
all are dead who learned it -
Lucky dead, they've earned it!

Dies improbi capilli Cara?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 09:04 PM

So then, let this be my epitath:

Adicies in caccabum liquamen, vinum, oleum, cocturam, porrum et coriandrum concisum, esicia minuta, spatulam porcinam coctam tessellatim concisam, et in eundem caccabum iecinera et pulmones inmittes. Dum coquitur, teres piper, ligusticum, origanum, ius de suo sibi, vino et passo temperabis. Facies ut ferveat. Cum ferbuerit, tractam confringes et ex ea obligas, piper aspargis et inferes.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 09:06 PM

Piece of cake. It's a very long roundabout way of saying that the piper eats asparagus. Piper and asparagus are the important bits; the rest is just detail.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 10:09 PM

Trained at...Oxford, was it?, Peace? I've been known to hang around Scottish bands and yell, "Aw, yer piper eats aspargus!"

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 08:52 AM

I spent quite some time last evening, and I finally worked out the equation:

Energy = Motto x the speed of something in centimeters squared.

Or, as I like to write, E-mc^2.

Now if I can only work out what that something is that speeds along. I've tried gossip, ignornance, Shane (came out way, way too long a figure), pop music, and all sorts of times, like 4/4 and 6/8 and 12/8 and 16/32 and andante vivace and allegretto con multigraino.

Well, I hope to have it all finished in time for next year's Nobel Prize money.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:31 AM

Looks like someone else is already working on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:33 AM

OK, guys, up and at 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:00 PM

you'll need a damn big headstone for that epitath Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:02 PM

Do you suppose he was trying to compensate for something?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 02:52 PM

still trying to work out whether that's pigeon Latin Rapaire or a rather tasty recipe for Latin pigeon!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:00 PM

I'm getting hungry

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:04 PM

My favorite recipe for fowl is to stew 'em until the feathers float to the top. That's when you know they're done.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:49 PM

I've come back now all this highbrow Latin's subsided. As My great uncle Ebenezer of Lower Loxley once said: "All this fancy talk won't get the pigs in will it?" And he was right.

Ever had mock duck?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:19 PM

Yup. And I've ducked mock, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:22 PM

Ducks don't like to be mocked. They are very sensitive.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:23 PM

well I for one would never mock a duck!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:35 PM

You wouldn't dare mock a duck Emma, you have so much in common!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM

Hell! I wouldn't dare!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:41 PM

No ducks at the moment

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:22 PM

That's more like it. Only 56 posts to go and we make it 1000 before the New Decade.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:27 PM

This should make it 55.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:29 PM

Uh, I think we have a math problem here.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:57 PM

Huygens, we have a problem!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:59 PM

OK. Math is my thing. Here ya go. This is post 950. We have to make it to post 1000 by the New Year. By my calculations, we have 13 days to go or 14 if this is the 17th.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:00 PM

Uh, is this December?