Hatrack River Forum: One Million Posts.

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Who will the one millionth poster be? What wondrous things will he or she say? Will there be a prize?

It's happening right now, on HATRACK!

Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :

Where does it say the cum. post total?

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Great. Now I've got another thing to do instead of work. [Big Grin]

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/ubbmain/ultimatebb.cgi

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

999,950

50 to Go!

Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :

Does the winner get a special prize?

Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :

Doesn't it cycle, though? Like some threads disappear as they get too old, and the posts related to them are no longer in the count. I thought I remember reading a thread about this the last time we got close to a big round number.

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Shh. Let us have our fun. [Smile]

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Only 43 left to go.

Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :

We better do it soon, I got school tomorrow.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I gotta go pick up my car from the airport parking lot where my mom left it. I'm not sure if were on pace without, like, a last post thread or something.

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

I'm guessing under an hour.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Yeah, we're down to 25. We need some kind of "Which Lost character are you?" quiz. Or something. Or "Which Presidential Candidate are you?"

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

quote:
Originally posted by pooka:
Yeah, we're down to 25. We need some kind of "Which Lost character are you?" quiz. Or something. Or "Which Presidential Candidate are you?"

I can't be certain, but I don't think the one I just took was for this election cycle. Though it did say I was some guy from Maryland named Petrouka. Which gets eerier the longer I think about it.

I don't know why I'm editing this post instead of burning bandwidth.

P.S. I just realized I quoted my post instead of editing it.

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Like this?

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I'm Ventura-Badnarik!

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

I think I wound up as Thompson-Romney the first time I took it, but I was definitely aiming for Tommy Thompson. [Smile]

(Edit for spelling, because I'm a putz.)

Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :

10 (9 with mine) to go!

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Almost there...

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I think I should start deleting old posts to keep it from happening.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

I've got LastPost (before a million)

Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :

Edit: I feel like this should have more prominence, Being as it is the millionth post on Hatrack. So I'll post my favourite quote by Uncle Orson, which really encapsulates why I joined Hatrack in the first place.

"My books don't deal with the adolescent dream of finding yourself without the restraints of parents or the responsibility of dependents. Real people don't ride off into the sunset. When the sun sets, you still have to make dinner and do the dishes."

Here's to a million more last posts, blayne blogs, detailed analysis of jewish custom, the way they do things in Sri Lanka, cute things that children do, current events, and inquiries into the status of the Ender's Game movie, it may not seem like much, but that's the beauty of Hatrack, it doesn't do anything.

Edit 2: Fixed Ceylon typo

[ December 07, 2007, 12:33 AM: Message edited by: dantesparadigm ]

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

I was too busy watching it roll over. [Smile]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Oooo! You darn kids! I gave up and went to do my errand, and I missed it! [Wink]

Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :

"one...MILLION...posts"

[/Dr. Evil]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

[Big Grin]

Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :

dantesparadigm - I like that quote a lot. A real lot.

Here Here!!!

(can't resist - sri lanka or sri lana? *wink* )

*raises hand... blinks eyes, dips forehead*

ps - i'd not read that quote before. reconfirms my gladness re: having stumbled here...

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

Cool! One million!
Congrats dantesparadigm on getting the post.
[The Wave]

Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :

At least pooka laughed. [Smile]

Posted by Slim (Member # 2334) on :

One million is big. But...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qOYf_1I4VBQ

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

quote:
Originally posted by steven:
At least pooka laughed.

Once one person laughs, it's not really considered necessary to post others. Lots of perfectly funny things get said around here and no one acknowledges that they laughed. Some of the professional humorists get pages and pages of appreciative laughs, but on the whole I'd say it's rarer than not. I mean, it would be kind of annoying to have to scroll through 3 pages of laughs to find out why people are laughing every time.

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Ooooh! I got a mention! [Smile]

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

dantesparadigm, that was a great millionth post you did! Congratulations!

Here's to a million more posts about the sublime metaphysical beauty of making dinner and doing dishes. =)

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

quote:
Originally posted by steven:
At least pooka laughed.

For some reason that made me think about Ayn Rand.