isaacullah
2388 posts
Apr 11, 2013
6:02 AM
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Hi all! I just noticed nacoran has had his 6666th post! With that auspicious event, it got me thinking how many of us have amassed a large quantity of posts, say, more than 2000 posts. A quick survey of the threads on the first two pages of the board gives me the following list of members in the 2000+ Club:
The 2000+ (posts) Club
nacoran 6666+
kudzurunner 4000+
tookatooka 3000+
MP 2700+
Kingly 2500+
isaacullah (Me) 2300+
groyster 2200+
barbequebob 2200+
Frank 2100+
eharp 2000+
HobostubsAshlock 2000+
GregHeuman 2000+
JoeL
HarpNinja
toddlgreene
Mrverylongusername
JonSparrow (no longer on forum, but much loved)
waltertore (no longer on forum, but much loved)
Buddha (RIP)
Considering also date of membership (most listed above are 4+ers), Frank is the youngblood on the block, and he's moving fast! :)
I'm sure there's more of us up here in the lofty high-post realm, so feel free to pop in on this thread and I'll add you to the list (the door man won't let you in otherwise!) Also, several of you are getting REAL close, so start posting!!! :)
There are also several old-time members who may not have spent as much time typing as us 2000+'ers have, but who nonetheless should get some kudos for sticking around this long! Add your name here, and we'll make a special "extended" list for MBH'ers that've been around for more than 4 years!
4+ (years) Club
lumpy_wafflesquirt
Buzadero
Honkin_On_Bobo
LIP_RIPPER
Tuckster
harmonicanick
bluemoose
KingoBad
harpnwillys
mr_so&so
Blocker
RyanMortos
gmacleod15
oldwailer
geordiebluesman
superchucker77
Hollistonharper
Snakes
geordiebluesman
Philosofy
shaneboylan
Patrick Barker
wheezer
Ant138
Oisin
~Isaac
EDITED to add name from below. I can't be bothered to search out everyone's actual current number of posts, but if you chime in below, I'll add them! :)
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lumpy wafflesquirt
704 posts
Apr 11, 2013
6:58 AM
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Can't find my first post, but I have found a post that says
lumpy wafflesquirt
16 posts
Mar 23, 2009
12:09 PM
so I am just over 4 years :^)
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Buzadero
1052 posts
Apr 11, 2013
7:08 AM
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Quantity? Isaac. Really?
You're better than this.
(but, I'm not) I'm too lazy to look for my post count. Prefering to post and see what comes up after my more than four years......
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Honkin On Bobo
1112 posts
Apr 11, 2013
7:44 AM
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Hahaha.....great thread.....seeing my post count a few months back had the opposite effect on me. It basically told me I was posting too much (under the theory that anytime spent posting is time that could be spent playing/practicing/listening). I actively started posting less, I therefore have no hopes of (and no desire to) catching the leaders.
Great thread anyway.
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LIP RIPPER
672 posts
Apr 11, 2013
8:01 AM
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Nate, you give a different meaning to post therapy.
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nacoran
6669 posts
Apr 11, 2013
8:51 AM
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Lol. Yeah, if I could focus as much on writing lyrics I'd have a few albums by now. :)
Google search "2000 posts" @modernbluesharmonica.com should give you all of them unless someone deleted their 2000th post.
Frank
Kudzurunner
Tookatooka
Isaacullah
eharp
Walter Torre
Joel L
Jon Sparrow
Buddha
Greg Heuman
Kingly
HarpNinja
HobboAshlock
Toddlgreene
Mrverylongusername
Groyster1
TN Frank, maybe?*
You could use the same filter at other totals to flesh out the list. I'm surprised I didn't see Dave Payne in there. He's been around forever with several very active spurts.
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Tuckster
1267 posts
Apr 11, 2013
8:54 AM
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Tuckster
3 posts
Apr 19, 2008
10:40 AM
Yikes! I need to get a life.
I don't post too much anymore because a)I've already said it: b)somebody else says it a lot better.
Frank is in the running for most posts per time on the forum. The only other person I can think of in the running is the near legendary Jon Sparrow.
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tookatooka
3242 posts
Apr 11, 2013
9:20 AM
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3rd from top. I'm honoured to be in such good company.
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DoubleJ
1 post
Apr 11, 2013
11:25 AM
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The first step on a long journey.
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harmonicanick
1864 posts
Apr 11, 2013
11:29 AM
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old-time Nick, best wishes to all on this great forum!
ps TN Frank, wish he would return..
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Tuckster
1269 posts
Apr 11, 2013
12:06 PM
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Nick-136 more posts and you're in the club! :>)
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isaacullah
2389 posts
Apr 11, 2013
12:47 PM
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Nice! Added names above... It's kinda sad to see some departed/dearly departed names show up in the 2000+ club, but I guess that's the breaks for any such long-lived institution such as MBH!
@Buzadero: Can you just imagine what all hell would break loose if we even just tried to assess members by quality of post!?!? I'm not even gonna get involved in that one, brotha!! Lol! :)
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isaacullah
2390 posts
Apr 11, 2013
12:50 PM
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@nacoran: You've blessed this thread with the even more auspicious post-count of 6669! ;)
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bluemoose
855 posts
Apr 11, 2013
12:58 PM
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I don't post too much but I'm always lurking (so straighten up and fly right! ;)
First post Ap 7 2008 so I just had my 5th anniversary!
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shbamac
301 posts
Apr 11, 2013
1:01 PM
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I am just opting to add one more to my count... Which is about as useful as this thread.
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shbamac
302 posts
Apr 11, 2013
1:04 PM
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Hey look.. That was number 301! Hahaahhahahaha!
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shbamac
303 posts
Apr 11, 2013
1:07 PM
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Yes, I do realize that I am being a complete jackass. But look this is number 303. If I keep this up I will be there in no time.mi so want to be a part of the 2000+ club. It is want I've al way wanted!
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KingoBad
1279 posts
Apr 11, 2013
1:25 PM
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I'm in the 4+ year club, but not the 2k club.
I guess I just don't have that much to say...
I might of had more, but the captcha is responsible for the death of many posts... Probably a good thing too...
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SuperBee
1061 posts
Apr 11, 2013
1:46 PM
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I've probably deleted more than I've posted. I think we did have a quality appreciation thread at some point where people nominated their top five or ten most helpful/interesting forum members. Didn't seem too controversial
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harpnwillys
31 posts
Apr 11, 2013
2:00 PM
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I have been here since May 2008. When Adam only had 29 post to his name. Almost 5 years, I rarely post just read.
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mr_so&so
665 posts
Apr 11, 2013
2:39 PM
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First post Oct. 2008, so I'm in the oldtjmer's club.
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mr_so&so
666 posts
Apr 11, 2013
2:43 PM
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Devil made me post again.
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isaacullah
2391 posts
Apr 11, 2013
5:11 PM
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@mr_so&so: Yet another auspicious post-count! This thread is destined for glory! :)
@all: This thread is mainly a bit of fun, but my alterior motive was bring out folks like harpnwillys who've been around forever, but maybe who don't post much. I've been curious about how many of us old-timers still frequent the board. I know that some folks (like me) have reduced their general frequency of posting, but not their frequency of visitation. There was a time where I'd be posting a lot every day, but now that I've "grown up and got a real job", I find I don't have enough time to do it with the same frequency. Plus, having been around so long, I'm less interested in certain topics that I've seen come up over and over again, so I sort of skip over a lot... So, I just weigh in when the topic is of especial interest to me these days! :)
Any more old-timers or high-posters lurking out there? I'd love to see you pop in on this thread and say "hi"! :)
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Buzadero
1054 posts
Apr 11, 2013
5:20 PM
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Isaac, bubbelah. Let it go, man.
This thread is clearly a cry for help.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
2055 posts
Apr 11, 2013
5:29 PM
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Howdy
Dang looking at that list has names of members,who are still active,some that have gone on to other things,and Even one that,has passed,R.I.P,Its been a long strange trip,But well worth the holes in the souls of the boots worn,though these post.
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Blocker
140 posts
Apr 11, 2013
6:36 PM
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Just checked my first post which was on May 05, 2009 in the "where are you from? MBH forum members sign in....' pages". So nearly 4 years.
Despite being a lurker I still read the forum every day and do some work behind the scenes as a moderator (nacoran does the vast majority). I was interested (and embarrassed in my lack of posts) in reading that on the same thread Nacoran's 2nd post appears on the same page 3 days after me.
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nacoran
6672 posts
Apr 11, 2013
11:07 PM
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Blocker, it's okay, it's the steroids. They are going to put an asterisk next to my record in the books. :)
Now, an interesting side note, how many :)'s have I posted. :)
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Frank
2194 posts
Apr 12, 2013
3:50 AM
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My S:)M:)I:)L:)I:)E:)not only means I'm friendly :) happy :) and peaceful:) but more importantly it means that I love you very much :) I hope sharing this has been helpful at least to one soul is my prayer:) Remember, everyone smiles in the same language:) Share the joy of a gentle, caring smile today :):) :) :)
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isaacullah
2392 posts
Apr 12, 2013
9:38 AM
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@Blocker: It's really interesting to see the variety in posts versus time on the board. My first post is from Dec. 14th, 2008, and I've got 2392 posts (including this one), doing the math tells me I've made an average of 1.51 posts per day since the day I've joined! That's a lot. Doing the same math for nacoran tells me he has posted an average of 4.63 posts/day. On the other hand, you (Blocker), have posted only 0.097 posts/day!
I wonder how much time that all relates to? Let's say it takes me about 5 minutes on average to write a post (I'm just guessing here). That would make (2392*5)/60=199.3 hours, or 8.3 days of me typing posts! That's a lot! Doing the same for nacoran tells me he's spent at least 555.8 hours, or 23.15 days posting here, and that's not including his moderator duties! Wow!
Buz, I guess we ARE making a cry for help! Lol!
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nacoran
6675 posts
Apr 12, 2013
11:11 AM
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I'm a fast typer. Back in college I was good for about 4 pages an hour writing papers.
I wonder what GH left at. If he's close to the 2000 mark maybe we could bring him out of retirement to chase the dream!
I'd like to give a shout out to the other the other Admins/Mods we've had at one time or another. DutchBones, GH, Buz, the Todds (how awesome a band name would that be?), Blocker, and of course Kudzu himself for running this crazy farm. (Did I miss anyone?) Tooka for running the Blow Your Brains Out, Bluemoose for his Webbrain, Isaac for organizing a FB page so it was easier to get in touch with people off list, the guys who tried (even though Wikipedia killed it) to get a Blues Harp Wiki Portal up. (A blues harp wiki is still on the list of things I'd really like to accomplish), and all the people I've become friends with on FB too, and all the people who've added comments that helped everyone else get better, laugh, think or even just gave this place a sense of community. :)
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Buzadero
1058 posts
Apr 12, 2013
11:22 AM
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Amen, Nate.
In all sincerity, I hope to eventually meet as many of you as I can in person. As with all other things in life, it is tough to coordinate. Even people like Bone who are right in the neighborhood of where my office is I have yet to meet.
It's nice to have the banter and repartee with good people online. But it's a real pleasure to meet face to face.
By the way, where the hell is Todd L. Greene these days?
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RyanMortos
1457 posts
Apr 12, 2013
11:27 AM
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Like KingoBad I'm a member of 4+ (years) Club but not 2000+ post club.
My first post was Nov. 2008, the good ol' days.
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gmacleod15
201 posts
Apr 12, 2013
11:51 AM
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Not much of a typer but a daily visitor...and
just past the 4 year mark!
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mr_so&so
667 posts
Apr 12, 2013
11:58 AM
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I'm pretty sure oldwailer, geordiebluesman, and superchucker are on the 4+-year list too.
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isaacullah
2394 posts
Apr 12, 2013
12:09 PM
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Nice call So&So! List is up-tp-date! Any more old-timers/high-posters still lurking out there? Come on out and celebrate! ;)
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nacoran
6677 posts
Apr 12, 2013
12:22 PM
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As best I can tell, GH's last post was #1980. Last I heard he was still doing music, just not as much harmonica.
I really wish I had an easy analytic tool to break down some of these numbers. Just something that would sort out the top couple hundred posters and their total, the longest memberships, let people type in quickly and see who else started around the same time as them, who posted in the most threads that they also posted in, there is a program that does something like that for Facebook. Wolfram Alpha. You have to give it a lot of permissions, but it creates all sorts of graphs. my favorite is one that shows how my friends know or don't know each other. It looks like (well, I guess it is) a network map. I see clusters of local friends, school friends, gaming community friends, harpers, local musicians, family, all just laid out.
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isaacullah
2395 posts
Apr 12, 2013
12:48 PM
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@Nate: Stephen Wolfram wrote the book called "A New Kind of Science", and is one of the foremost scholars in Complexity Science. He was a child prodigy, and wrote some of the first cellular automata models. He also started a software company to market his statistical package "mathmatica", which was pretty powerful for it's time. I think he's into self-replicating knowledge and genetic algorithms these days, so it's no surprise his company is doing this kind of thing. I just installed it as an app on my FB page, and find it to be very interesting. It adds real "social network analysis" to your "social network"! ;)
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nacoran
6686 posts
Apr 12, 2013
1:14 PM
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The earliest posts I can find:
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332700.htm
Feb 14, 2008 (Listed by GH as the first thread)
but,
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332605.htm
Feb 14, 2008 10:16 Am
Featuring Superchucker77, 1 post :)
But let's see if we can hack the url:
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/
Seems to be standard on all forum threads, 332605 seems to be the first thread I can find. The next one is 332700. My quick two test threads are 5349545 and 5349546, so they seem to number sequentially. That math is kind of scary... it can't be going up purely numerically- maybe across multiple mac builder sites? Test 3- 5349548, test 4-5349549. Making posts doesn't seem to add to it, so I'm guessing it's total posts across different forums, but part of the hash is us, so the only two ways I can think to search for earlier posts would be to keep typing "feb 13, 2008"@modernbluesharmonica.com in Google, then "feb 12... etc. or to keep searching with the whole URL string and lowering the last number one at a time. I'm not sure I'd structure it that way. Anyone could get a lot of site analytics from both the site, and across Macsite's entire collection of sites pretty easily. You don't want the competition knowing how big you are.
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isaacullah
2396 posts
Apr 12, 2013
2:01 PM
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Yeah, it looks like everything before 10am Feb 14, 2008 is gone. But clearly there has to have been some stuff from before that, since several folks appear to have already registered by then, and there seems to be some continuity going on. Adam, do you remember the first post? I'm assuming it must have been by you...
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isaacullah
2397 posts
Apr 12, 2013
2:03 PM
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Ahh... Here's a clue: http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332604.htm
It says "Topic Deleted". Looks like all the very earliest posts are well and truly gone then... Too bad. I suppose it will just have to live on as "oral history"...
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nacoran
6687 posts
Apr 12, 2013
2:43 PM
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I wonder if it's on Wayback? Like I said though, it seems to skip numbers- it did when I posted a couple quick test threads. I'm betting those are on other Macbuilder sites, so, especially in the early days the forum when there weren't as many members the numbers might have been pretty far apart. The 'topic deleted' might just be showing up for any request that seems valid but doesn't give a result. The other way to track it down would be to look from the back forward, but since threads are in order by last post instead of first post, you can't just look at the very end of the list. I found a little trick-
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/blues_harp_forum.html?page=2
That's the URL for page 2 of the thread list. After trying for a couple minutes to hit the 'next button' or jumping page to page, I discovered you could just change the number and jump to the page. Right now we have about 710 pages of lists of threads.
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/blues_harp_forum.html?page=710 would take you to near the end then. From there you could scan the start date of posts.
Edit:
That's working, I've got some early ones.
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nacoran
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Apr 12, 2013
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So, to summarize, the oldest three posts that seem to remain in the archives are:
1. (oldest)
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332605.htm
Feb 14 10:16 am
2. http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332700.htm
Feb 14 5:14 pm
3.
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332717.htm
Feb 14 6:18 pm
And the oldest post from the proprietor of pucker, the Doc, the master of tongue block-
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/332700.htm
Thread:
Feb 16, 2008 10:28 AM
Post:
Feb 25, 2008
The earliest surviving thread was started by dewey.deloe.
Thread 3 was by a guy who sometimes stops by, master harp boxer and looper Superchucker77.
I know a while back when they imposed the character cap they deleted everything over 5k characters. If I was launching a site, I might take a moment to pontificate. Perhaps that was it's fate?
Just looking at those threads we have some 5 yearers. Brandon is the only one who I know who seems to be at the full five years that I recognize, although a few others I recognize popped into those 4 threads later, including some who may well have 5 years based on the number of posts they had at pretty early on (but not quite 5 years back.)
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snakes
697 posts
Apr 12, 2013
3:52 PM
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Pretty sure I've been on the forum over 4 yrs. I was at the first HCH and had been on the forum for some time before that event in 2010.
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snakes
698 posts
Apr 12, 2013
4:08 PM
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Yep, my 106th post is dated Feb 21, 2009. Guess I'm at least a 4 yr. old. LOL!
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Frank
2200 posts
Apr 13, 2013
3:59 AM
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There must be a terrible mistake in the # of my posts - or I must be abnormal...I'm pretty sure though that I am benefiting more from my participation - then what I'm giving out :)
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Grey Owl
67 posts
Apr 13, 2013
4:49 AM
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Right, the race is on!!
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Grey Owl
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Apr 13, 2013
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Right, the race is on!!! ;0)
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nacoran
6693 posts
Apr 13, 2013
5:31 AM
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Grey Owl, did you happen to write down your old post count? We can add them together, at least on paper. :)
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Grey Owl
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Apr 13, 2013
5:40 AM
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OK Nate, greyowlphotoart 1159, Grey owl 69.
So 9 add 9 = 18 carry one......................Dammit a paltry 1228.
Must try harder.
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Buzadero
1059 posts
Apr 13, 2013
10:34 AM
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Nate, you and Isaac are losing it. But, I must admit I just spent some time spelunking and have discovered my third post from 4Dec08. It was actually pretty fun doing the nostalgia tour.
What ever happened to Zhin and Zack?
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