# Anthracite at 3000...a case study **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608 "2001-04-28T05:41:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/1 "2001-04-28T05:41:22Z")
I’ve always been a fan of Anthracite - and I recently saw that s/he is so so close to the magical 3000 posting mark and hey, I wanted to say **WOO HOO!** 🙂 So tell me a story about coal… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/2 "2001-04-28T12:48:32Z")
I’m also a fan. Although, perhaps with a lot more fluff and a lot less substance in her posts, and a bit of determination, she could overtake handy! 😛 [sub]And Anthracite is very much a SHE, btw[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/3 "2001-04-28T13:30:25Z")
Congratulations to my darling **Anthracite!** :🤗: Brilliant, insightful, caring, and a VERY fine writer…we are lucky to have her in our community! Cheri ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/4 "2001-04-28T14:16:32Z")
3000 and no waste, fighting the good fight, ignorance is doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/5 "2001-04-28T14:28:46Z")
I had my first board-crush on **Anthracite** before I was even a member. The threads she posted to I always read first. Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/6 "2001-04-28T14:36:16Z")
Happy 3000th, Una and I hope that fierra gives you the present you want. 😉 Keith ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/7 "2001-04-28T15:12:28Z")
“Anthracite” reminds me of a rare, perhaps precious earth mineral or stone. Being that, let me take out my handy tool, a Webster’s dictionary & see what it say: a hard natural coal of high luster differing from bituminous coal in containing little volatile matter and in burning very cleanly — called also hard coals. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/8 "2001-04-28T18:52:22Z")
Congratulations to our board’s diamond in the rough! ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/9 "2001-04-28T20:56:26Z")
Congrats, **Anthracite**! I also really enjoy reading her posts, as they are always very well written. Also, she’s just a really cool person. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/10 "2001-04-28T22:46:39Z")
Thank you very much, **seth**. However, you may not have noticed that my **Fierra** was also at 1000 posts. So I started another thread here [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69195](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69195) So we could share our 4000 posts together. I do deeply appreciate this thread, and really love the nice things everyone has posted here. Thank you very, very much. Una ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthracite-at-3000-a-case-study/63608/11 "2001-04-29T00:45:30Z")
Congratulations, **Anthracite**!