# 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
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### Author:  [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/121 "2001-07-12T18:01:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Montfort \*
> \*\*Maybe he just went away, not to return. \*\*
Oh he will show up right as someone else is about to reach 10,000, just to steal the spotlight.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/122 "2001-07-12T21:28:18Z")
I should point out the silver lining with respect to handy’s not posting: **Handy is not posting.** 😃
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/123 "2001-07-13T00:38:37Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Attrayant \*
> \*\*I should point out the silver lining with respect to handy’s not posting: **Handy is not posting.** 😃 \*\*
Now, that’s not nice. **handy** is an integral part of the fabric of this Board, and of this community. I may still be a relative newcomer here, but I still do appreciate the history contained in **handy’s** posts.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/124 "2001-07-13T04:12:25Z")
“Relative newcomer” at 3,400+ posts?
Think again.
Esprix
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/125 "2001-07-13T04:23:53Z")
10,000…right…about
NOW!
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/126 "2001-07-13T05:13:32Z")
All I have to say is… Handy… Bwwaahahaa!! Good show man, way to keep the tension up, I love it.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/127 "2001-07-13T14:48:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*
> \*\*“Relative newcomer” at 3,400+ posts?
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> Think again.
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> Esprix \*\*
Relative to 9999 posts, perhaps, is my point. Handy had 5000+ posts IIRC when I was still lurking and too afraid to post here.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/128 "2001-07-13T15:03:36Z")
OK. F\*\*\* \*\* Handy\*\*!
Wait a bit and I’ll break the 10,000 mark!
Wait… it’ll be a while, but wait…
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/129 "2001-07-17T19:49:03Z")
The tension fails to mount.
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/130 "2001-07-18T11:06:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by **lurkernomore** \*
> Gee, it’s to the point I’m kinda hoping for a sock puppet…
Gee… ya _ **think** _???
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/131 "2001-07-18T11:16:45Z")
unless i just have extreme good fortune, i’d say we don’t know when he got his 10,000th post… that is to say, the meter now says 9999, but i somehow highly doubt that he just happened to be there when i opened this thread.
on a totally different note… handy: I noticed that you mentioned Pacific Grove in your post and in your profile, and I just had to add that I lived there for 11 years (well I lived in pebble beach but most of my friends as well as my school were in pacific grove) and i envy you greatly for living there
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/132 "2001-07-18T14:21:10Z")
Kaje - quick lesson in VB - the post count by your name is the total number of posts you’ve made, not the number of that particular post. Find one of your first posts and you’ll see that’s true.
We will know when handy hits a thousand.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/133 "2001-07-18T14:58:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Zyada \*
> \*\*We will know when handy hits a thousand. \*\*
Or **ten** thousand. 😛
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### Author:  [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/134 "2001-07-18T15:18:17Z")
It’s vaccation times folks,
don’t you think he’s gone because of that?
Or maybe not, he might just want the attention,
and o’boy do he gets it.
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/135 "2001-07-18T15:26:29Z")
Psst…
Maybe if we all promise to stop talking about him, maybe he will decide that we’ve hyped him enough and post his 10K barrier breaker.
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/136 "2001-07-18T20:53:11Z")
This is like our own little “missing intern” story!
The news is splashed everywhere, but it’s really not that big of a deal, all things relative.
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### Author:  [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/137 "2001-07-18T21:35:27Z")
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> The tension fails to mount.
Huh huh huh, you said “mount”!
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### Author:  [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/138 "2001-07-18T21:42:55Z")
I don’t care anymore.
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### Author:  [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/139 "2001-07-21T01:51:09Z")
Well, **Anthracite’s** original prediction of July 22 is coming up. I’m guessing this is what he’s waiting for.
[sub]Happy pre-birthday Anthracite! :D[/sub]
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-when-will-handy-reach-10-000-posts/33415/140 "2001-07-21T02:10:28Z")
**handy** said
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> Ah! But you all forgot the surf comes into Pacific Grove in the fall/winter [fewer posts]. Cold weather [more posts]. More women in my life [fewer posts]. Flu season [fewer posts]. Visiting London [much fewer posts]. Board crapping from too many posts [?] Could happen around July. Anyone want to use my account to make it sooner? Just kidding on that part:-)
If someone already said it, forgive me.
He went to London with a new babe, caught the flu while surfing, and someone from home called and told him the board took a permanent crap. 😃
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