This is my 1000th post! Well, counting the old fora, but it took me a long time to get here. I first registered in 2008, although I had been reading the fora since 2006.
One thousand posts might not feel like an accomplishment to the faster posters among us, but it does to me, so I'm throwing myself an old-fashioned 1000th-post fora party. There used to be fora parties all the time, and people would bring delicious virtual snacks. There were also lots of running in-jokes, most of which I've forgotten.
So my virtual snack offering will be fresh pains au chocolat (or chocolatines if you're a francophone Canadian, or chocolate croissants if you're not a French-speaker at all). We have an amazing French bakery up the street, and they're still hot — the chocolate is still melted!
It's been a long semester, and we ain't done yet, so come enjoy the fun and games!
Adding sliced strawberries, blueberries, pound cake, angel food cake, and whipped cream to the party table.
Woohoo! Congrats!
Adding Junior's cheesecake to your goodies.
In belated honor of pi day I have brought pies-- strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin and dutch apple. With ice cream of course, and some sharp cheddar for those who like it with their apple pie.
Damn it, now I want these treats for real!
Quote from: Puget on March 18, 2021, 01:01:12 PM
Damn it, now I want these treats for real!
That's always the problem, isn't it?
Here's rakija from Croatia!
Would you like a fluffy towel fresh off the fax machine?
Who is watching the hamster?
Remember, it's a mere 9000 more posts before you get a cabana!
Félicitations! May the next 1000 be twice as fast or more!
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 05:36:39 PM
Would you like a fluffy towel fresh off the fax machine?
Who is watching the hamster?
Remember, it's a mere 9000 more posts before you get a cabana!
At the rate at which I post (1,000 posts / 13 years), that will take me a mere 117 years.
You are a millennium. Congrats.
Quote from: traductio on March 18, 2021, 06:31:27 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 05:36:39 PM
Would you like a fluffy towel fresh off the fax machine?
Who is watching the hamster?
Remember, it's a mere 9000 more posts before you get a cabana!
At the rate at which I post (1,000 posts / 13 years), that will take me a mere 117 years.
Do you have something better to do than hang out here for the next hundred years? Inconceivable!
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 06:42:53 PM
Quote from: traductio on March 18, 2021, 06:31:27 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 05:36:39 PM
Would you like a fluffy towel fresh off the fax machine?
Who is watching the hamster?
Remember, it's a mere 9000 more posts before you get a cabana!
At the rate at which I post (1,000 posts / 13 years), that will take me a mere 117 years.
Do you have something better to do than hang out here for the next hundred years? Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Quote from: marshwiggle on March 19, 2021, 04:18:48 AM
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 06:42:53 PM
Quote from: traductio on March 18, 2021, 06:31:27 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on March 18, 2021, 05:36:39 PM
Would you like a fluffy towel fresh off the fax machine?
Who is watching the hamster?
Remember, it's a mere 9000 more posts before you get a cabana!
At the rate at which I post (1,000 posts / 13 years), that will take me a mere 117 years.
Do you have something better to do than hang out here for the next hundred years? Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
LOL!
I'm in worse shape. Been on the fora since 2006, I think - even before the "new" format. I don't think I've made 500 posts yet.
Congrats, Traductio!
Allez-y! Felicitations! Bien fait!
Je voudrais un pain chocolat avec un the nature, merci bien.
And I'll bring a tray of <<papillions>> (heated split croissants with a Bernaise-like sauce, and various small bites of cherry tomato, asparagus, sliced and soft cheeses that look like butterflies, hence their name...)
Oh, and some hot cocoa/choco chaud...
And, yes, I suspect the HE is asleep in the fluffy towels as usual...
Someone might want to look for the donkey, too....before he falls in the Infinity Pool and upsets the Immoral Porpoises...
M.
Hmm. I wonder if we need an *actual* clubhouse here....
traducio probably should have gone into the sweat lodge. New whippersnappers like me were sent to the clubhouse as being unworthy of the sweat lodge.
That's why the thread that was just a list of who had hit 1000 posts was titled "The Lodgers".
I joined after the houses were defined, so I could have this wrong, but I always thought the name "sweat lodge" was replaced by "Clubhouse" after some concerns about appropriation were raised.
The name "Lodgers" was kept, I think, because the listing thread had already been started and was maintained by a copy-and-paste of the quote function (like the old P/A thread) and it was too hard to re-do, so the name stood.
But that was far back in the mists of time, so again, I might have gotten it wrong.
Anyway, I think I was in whatever it was...
(Also, don't we have a copy of the last post on the thread that Mountainguy created on the Old Forum when he closed down the clubhouse? I thought I remembered getting it copied over, or maybe even copying it as a quote...)
M.
The appropriations thing was small beans next to the fact that I joined and managed a thousand posts in under two months when it took the original June 2006 joiners almost a year. The nasty clique led by crazybatlady (first into the sweat lodge) was quite rude about newcomers who hadn't really earned it getting to be senior in name only. They would not let me in the sweat lodge and so DrStones proposed Zorastor's Clubhouse at the End of the Universe. Yeah, you could probably find a few posts about appropriation, but that wasn't the driver to the clubhouse.
Those folks continued to be rude for years. Merely reading from the beginning in 2003 and then joining "late" (in 2007) meant I was still just an upstart newbie in some quarters, even to the move here in 2019.
Yeah, the thread was kept because it was copy and paste. I did many of the updates for years until I didn't think the list was worth doing since it wasn't an accurate reflection of who were active members of the community with status, especially as people greatly reduced their participation and yet wanted respect for joining early.