# CONTEST! - When will handy reach 10,000 posts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 16, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415 "2000-09-16T17:08:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/101 "2001-07-09T04:23:07Z")
damn you! stop torturing us!
come on!
i bet you could find dopers who would become your love slave if you would only post your 10000[sup]th[/sup] post!!!
just do it!
if not for the 5[sup]th[/sup] digit, then for the red-hot monkey sex!
JUST DO IT SOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
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### Author:  [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/102 "2001-07-09T05:47:14Z")
I think it would be funny if a moderator kept deleting old handy posts so that he could never get to 10,000. 8^)
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### Author:  [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/103 "2001-07-09T12:17:14Z")
Okay, Handy’s already skipped my birthday… and we’re still waiting! Maybe he wants some one else to start the Handy in here post…
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### Author:  [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/104 "2001-07-09T12:42:42Z")
I **warned** you about the quantum singularity. But did anybody at all listen? Noooo… 😛
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/105 "2001-07-09T13:36:13Z")
Oh! I know! He’s waiting for Friday the thirteenth!
Can he hold out that long?
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/106 "2001-07-10T05:02:44Z")
Whoo, redboss, thanks for the distinction. Howsabout I change it to: “hangin’ on to that penultimate moment…”
And handy, come on, Honey, let 'er rip!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/107 "2001-07-10T06:31:10Z")
Not to say he will, but what I would do if I were Handy would be to make my 10,000th post in this thread, giving my time and date prediction.
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### Author:  [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/108 "2001-07-10T07:10:13Z")
Careful all. We keep this up, he’s going to have performance anxiety and _never_ post his 10,000th.
Don’t worry, **handy** , all 15,000 members of the SDMB past, present, and future aren’t watching you pee. Really.
[sub]If that doesn’t give him psychological problems, nothing will.[/sub] 😃
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/109 "2001-07-10T12:11:28Z")
I’ve always felt that, at heart, **handy** has a very tricky side to him. I wonder what he is up to…it’s almost as if he is making a statement of some sort.
Then again, I hope that he is not sick or injured through some incredibly bad coincidence, and unable to post… ☹
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### Author:  [@dobbinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dobbinaire)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/110 "2001-07-10T12:37:01Z")
Has **Handy** perhaps already made a post and his count is stuck at 9999? Or _will_ it turn over? Y’all are killing me, I tell ya, just killing me :).
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/111 "2001-07-10T17:29:41Z")
FTR, vBulletin allows you to have posts up to 65535. So **handy** has a ways to go yet before he breaks vBulletin.
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### Author:  [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/112 "2001-07-10T20:30:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Anthracite \*
> \*\*FTR, vBulletin allows you to have posts up to 65535. So **handy** has a ways to go yet before he breaks vBulletin. \*\*
Pssst, hey **handy** , I think **Anthracite** just threw down the gauntlet. Hurry up, you’ve got work to do. 😃
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### Author:  [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/113 "2001-07-10T21:51:27Z")
Why 65,535?
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### Author:  [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/114 "2001-07-10T22:29:13Z")
I assume it’s because 65535 is 2[sup]16[/sup]-1. So vB is 16 bit.
Oh shoot, was I supposed to wait for **Handy** to explain that?? ack, this is so confusing!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/115 "2001-07-10T22:38:31Z")
Is anyone else even a little bit amused at the fact that people are now asking **handy** to post?
::crickets::
::more crickets::
:: punha walks out of the thread ::
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/116 "2001-07-10T23:50:10Z")
Maybe he just went away, not to return.
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### Author:  [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/117 "2001-07-10T23:52:46Z")
So, how about them dodgers?
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### Author:  [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/118 "2001-07-11T03:48:01Z")
These chase for post 10k is so exciting, it could be made into a movie.
Just imagine, as Handy prepares to hit the Submit Reply button that will send post 10k into the SDMB server, he gets abducted by aliens. Promptly, Cecil and his loyal army of dopers initiate a rescue mission to the deepest confines of the galaxy. Perils abound, space dogfights and blow-it-up action permeate the screen. I can picture George Lucas shivering in nervous terror as the imminence of such a blockbuster flick seduces fans away from the upcoming Episode 2.
Coming soon to a theater near you…
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/119 "2001-07-11T16:28:11Z")
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Gee, it’s to the point I’m kinda hoping for a sock puppet…
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/120 "2001-07-12T17:01:19Z")
[QUOTE]
\*Originally posted by RTFirefly \*
It’s now been over five days since handy’s [most recent SDMB post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1426442#post1426442) (in IMHO at 10:36am on 7/7).
The ‘SDMB’ qualifier is because he registered and [posted at Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000611.html) this morning. No need to check the morgues and hospitals.
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