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5:20 pm, July 2nd, 2009 - 31 comments
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Now, 688 days in, we’ve hit 100,000… and the winner is (drum-roll)….
felix in typical hectoring form annoying Tim Ellis
Tim,
Care to back up the $70k claim?
And while you’re at it, the $1k claim as well? (I know that one was a wild stab in the dark but I also know you’re miles off btw.)
Also, when does ‘academia’ cross the line into ‘pseudo-academia’?
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Cheers.
The Standardistas
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WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!11!
Congrats felix
Post number 1,000,002! Ha!
Post number 1,000,002! Ha! OOps 1,000,003!
Too many zeros Ianmac 😉
If there’s a prize, then in all fairness felix should split it with me, since he wouldn’t have commented unless it had been on something I had written.
[lprent: 😈 ]
Ticket clipping tory.
Damn! I was so close! I’ll get you next time Felix!!!
Oh, it’s on!
1,000,000 – Bring it!
you published comment 99,999 moments before Felix. Which is still a pretty cool number.
You probably had the best odds of being 100,000 considering you’ve made nearly 2%(!) of the total comments. I’m guessing PB is the next most prolific commenter at just over 1%.
Hmmm – do I comment more than others lately, or is it just that I’ve been here since near the beginning?
I really do need another hobby don’t I…
I dunno but you had me crying with laughter over this comment:
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/definitely-not-the-sewer/#comment-144136
Can I help it if Dean reminds me of my Labrador?
There have been as many comments (682) in the last 48 hours as in the first two months. Exponential growth.. it’s fun!
I think the comment about banned commenters is unfair. Just to even it up I’d like to thank some of the commenters I’ve had the privilege to ban particularly dad, ‘sod and Felix. There’s a special place in my heart for the crazy ones (but not the dull ones).
The 100,000 doesn’t count the ones we had to delete or went into the spam… so 100,000 of pure gold… and there have already been another
2931. You crazy cats.captcha: Foraker’s drooping… that’s a very unkind insinuation about Ohio’s 37th governor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Foraker
felix is a great commenter.
this site is a sewer
[comment 100,069]
serpico = troll
The prize couldn’t have gone to a nicer poster – what is the prize, btw?
Apparently it’s Prestige, fame and glory. Sweet eh?
I reckon he should get an immunity from being banned card too. For a week at least.
Ha! Sometimes he gets a bit too sarcastic….
You’re all awesome.
You’re missed.
Aye – come back!
Ah, yes, that sounds familiar.
Now, back to lurking.
This place is turning into a regular haunted house.
Hey ghosts, why not try the Buddhist thing, seek perfection once more in another turn of the wheel…
I don’t have a problem with reincarnation from the point of view that we might be spiritual beings having human experiences and repeated earth lives allows us to develop – mind you, my wife reckons that if I’m correct then I’ll be the last one here!
Actually that was someone testing if the comments worked for anonymous users as I remember it (not me)
captcha: alighted election