BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:05 PM

I think this really says it all...

Don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:05 PM

Another:

"Once upon a time . . .".

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:02 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:55 PM

That's a piece of tail.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:53 PM

Here's one furlong . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:49 PM

"How long is a trice?"

About 3 furlongs per fortnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:46 PM

You are wide awake and bushy tailed, aren't you!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:40 PM

Oh. I thought How Long was a Chinese fellow.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:37 PM

A trice is about as long as a piece of string.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:32 PM

How long is a trice?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:15 PM

Hey, KB: Watch you don't herniate yourself . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:36 PM

How can we miss. It falls off and is brought back up. IWTATBM has given the thread new life more than once. Now that he has gone on to a new stage in life I will try to pick up the mantle. I can only hope that I prove worthy. I shall endeavor to persevere.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:19 PM

At this rate we will hit 85 billion in a trice.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Anonymus guest
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:57 PM

Good old KB

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:53 PM

Oh, IWTATBM, say it isn't so! We've been through so much. The dark days, the white nights. I don't know if I can, no, I don't know if I care to, go on without you. I know I should have posted more often and really, I meant to. I haven't been well you see. I also don't want to seem over-anxious. People can be so cruel with the endless whisperings and talking behind my back. They think I don't hear them but I do and they're on my list. Oh, despair!

BTW, I think the post from "Shimbles" should be deleted, or at least renamed.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Anonymous guest
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:45 PM

Good old Peace

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,ClantonHummond
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:39 PM

Oh, bog off, you moron.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Shimbles
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:35 PM

Perhaps it would be of more benefit to examine the reasons why threads like this are deliberately scorned and ignored by those members of this forum who regard themselves as more important than other people who may not have been here as long, but who nevertheless should have a right to say their piece in an equal fashion, and not be discriminated against in subtle ways or subjected to what can only be termed a torrent of abuse. Personal insults are tolerated when they are issued by the aforementioned people, but excoriated when they are issued by the latter. Perhaps we should all take a good look at what is actually happening and ask ourselves if this sort of behaviour is conducive to maintaining a healthy community of if it is not?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:28 PM

Oh, ye of little faith . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:24 PM

It is with great regret that I have to inform fellow posters on this thread ('specially the 100ers) it is my firm belief that this thread is now dead in the water. For a few heady days back in June it seemed as though we were at the start of something big. A radical young prophet by the name of Blind DRunk in Blind River gave a coded message that showed a few people (why so few?) a glimpse of eternity. Yes we were young. Yes we were foolish. But we wanted to make a difference (with Tee shirts and everything), but it wasn't to be. I for one can't continue with the hurt as each day passes with no more posts keeping us on track with our one billion goal. I'm not sure of the intentions of the other 'followers', but I for one am signing off a near (but not totally) broken man. You will never again see a post from 'good old' I was there at the beginning man, on this or any other thread.

Perhaps one day, however, in a few years time, you will read another post that will cause you to ask, "Could that person be...?. No surely not?... But is sounds a bit like him, though the name is different?..." ... It might be comrades, it might be.

But before I do go I just want to say a heartfelt 'farewell' to all my friends (if I can call you that?) who kept me entertained on cold summer's evenings.

Well goodbye then, you shall never hear from me again.

It's over.

Farewell

Farewell.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 09:41 AM

Danged right, Peace. I completely agree with whatever it was you said. (You goin' into politics now?)

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM

Protendum abrogitanus indolomante sidium.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:27 PM

We can but hope KB, we can but hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:21 PM

IWTATBM, your spare post idea sounds good to me. Keeps folks from being able to join on the whim of "First 100" poster (after a night at the bar (or pub) for instance) but without any sort of blackball possibilities. My question is, will our future selves abide by this?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:10 PM

I'll take it that from the non-response everybody is OK with my spare posts idea. Expect a tidal wave of requests any moment now.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:46 PM

Last time Shane picked up a gun he forgot to put the cork in the hole, put the gun in his pocket, the water all leaked down the front of his pants...and he never noticed, because the front of his pants are usually wet.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:28 PM

Shane: Do you mind putting down that gun? Then I'll leave.
Joe Starrett: What difference does it make, you're leaving anyway?
Shane: I'd like it to be my idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:08 PM

Hah! At the rate this thread is gathering steam, 85 billion is a mere trifle! I say we shoot for an even hundred billion!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:05 PM

Hey, Shane! This thread will help your love life.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:55 AM

I lived with a mountain lion for three years and she never did get used to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:19 AM

Please note that in the previous post I used the word BOY in the sense of an immature human male (or, in Shane's case, someone who is presumed to be human). No racial slur was intended.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:14 AM

Dear Shane,

Please feel free to visit Idaho. It's a lovely state, with great beer (yes, we'll even sell you Molsons if you really must drink Canada's answer to Budweiser). As for your offer to "STARAIGHTEN YOU OUT!!!", I go to an osteopath when I have back problems.

If I misread your offer and you mean that you would attempt to do me physical injury, I really should advise you that not only did I teach hand-to-hand combat when I was in the Army but that I am also a very, very good shot with pistol, rifle, and shotgun.

Unlike you, I also have an extensive vocabulary and I'm not afraid to use it.

BOY, I can out-fight, out-drink, out-love, out-drive, out-think, out-argue, out-shoot, and out-last YOU and ten REAL men! My mother was a nuclear explosion and my daddy was a mountain lion! My grandparents were a hurricane, a tornado, a lightning storm, and a nest of rattlesnakes! The second-last man who messed with me I tore into a hundred pieces and scattered them to the wind! They never did find anything of the LAST man to mess with me, 'cause I ground him into dust! I drink nitroglycerin and Semtek for breakfast and spit explosions all day! I swin the Inside Passage every day for exercise and my wake washes away coastal cities! I use the Arctic ice cap to cool my drinks! I've IGNORED better men than you'll ever be, and I'm assuming you're a man because you sure as hell can't prove it physically, mentally or genetically!

Yes, please do come visit Idaho. It's a lovely state and I'm certain that you'd like it here. Why, you may never leave!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:26 AM

You flippin' bolthead, Rapaire! I'll get you! Yer time will come, you mungo-less looser! Get ready to kiss the glove, you flippin' retreaded halfwit son of a Sudbury crack skank! I have, like, had about enuff of yer stupid insults, you dumb corkpuller! I am gonna come down to Idaho one a these days and STARAIGHTEN YOU OUT!!! FLIP YOU!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:12 PM

Nah, Shane wears the thongs of ecstacy while engaging in the throws of ecstacy. So far he's never experienced either one -- just a doughnut hole at Tim Horton's (which he entered under the mistaken notion that the first syllable of the last name meant it had something to do with ladies of less than good repute).

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:19 PM

"You mean the THROWS of escstasy, you stupid FLIP!"

Shane, you twit, sober up. It is the "throes of ecstacy".

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 08:25 PM

Don't flippin' waste yer big words on me, eh? I ain't impressed!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM

And then defenestrated.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 05:09 PM

I move that Shane be included and then immediately excommunicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 04:44 PM

So we've reached 100, congratulations to all involved - sterling work. May I suggest that any requests for spare posts are required to be seconded by another member? Let me run you through an example and see how you feel...

(e.g.) "Malcolm Douglas has requested one of my spare posts in order to join the 'First 100' club. I am happy with this and would like a seconder. Is anyone willing to second that the afore mentioned Malcolm Douglas be admitted to the 'First 100' club?"

Just to prevent any misunderstanding, the Mudcat Malcolm Douglas has not (as yet) requested to join the 'First 100' club and the Malcolm Douglas that I am referring to here is, in fact, a fictitious character created by myself in order to illustrate the example. Indeed the 'First 100'club as a name is only an example of what the elite 100 members may want to refer to themselves as.

What do you think fellow 100 members?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 11:20 AM

I gotta start paying more attention. I coulda had #100 but didn't think about it. Maybe if I wear a thong to get myself into the throngs of ectasy. It's worth a try. Can't hurt, could be fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:51 PM

Shane likes the thongs of ectasy. He wears 'em all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:34 PM

You weren't here, Shane. They were throngs. Thousands of the little bastards.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:02 PM

You mean the THROWS of escstasy, you stupid FLIP! Not the throngs, the throws, eh? Everybody knows that. What a flippin' goof!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM

"It may not reach 85,000,000,00, but it'll definitely reach..."

Didn't have you down as a pessimist Bee-dubya-ell.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:22 PM

"Should've just said 85 billion instead of trying to type 85,000,000,000 while in the throngs of ecstacy."

Pass it over here will ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:38 PM

Sorry, in my state of excitement over being the one to make the hundredth post, I omitted a zero. Should've just said 85 billion instead of trying to type 85,000,000,000 while in the throngs of ecstacy. Fewer keystrokes anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:34 PM

It may not reach 85,000,000,00, but it'll definitely reach

100

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:25 PM

It's been running an average of slightly over 1.50669 posts per day, so at that rate it would be sometime around the middle of February, 155,253,147 CE.

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:05 PM

Hadrian's Wall was good KB, though it rained a fair bit. Took 2 days of walking from Wall's End to find the first bit of wall however (excluding the museum at the start). It was quite funny to see how much of the wall could be found in the surrounding buildings. Just wish now I had focussed more on the wall and its history and less time thinking about how this thread was doing (e.g. "If only this thread could have been started in Roman times."..... " I wonder how many times around the earth 85 billion miles of wall would go?"... etc, etc). Still I doubt the wall will be around for as long as this thread and perhaps one day people will be taking a journey back to the origin of it and wondering how we lived? Exciting .

Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 04:28 PM

Hey, IWTATBM, how was Hadrian's Wall?