Post number 300!! And I noticed it in time to celebrate before I went over the top!! Woo Hoo!!
Ever look down while you’re driving, and notice that your car is just then turning over another 10,000 miles on the odometer? That’s how I feel now…
Yaaaaaaaay Astroboy! (14)
I, meanwhile, have cleared 3000 posts in under . . . counting six months. Is that some kind of record? It doesn’t seem like even handy[ posts that frequently.
Thanks iampunha… weirdly enough, it took a loooong time to get to 100, and about 3 weeks to get to 300!
Is this addictive? What happens when I lose the house, and the fiancee leaves me? What about the kids???
Congrats. 
Now you have to have a paaar-teeee.
:: rubbing hands together and cackling maniacly as if I had some secret that no-one else knows about ::
(don’t worry, I do that alot… really)
Ack!!! That was my 300th too… my how time flies… Guess we have to make this a bigger party!!!
"Is this addictive?"
Yes.
"What happens when I lose the house, "
You will post in the Pit about how shitty this government is. We will come and comfort you and someone will start a thread in MPSIMS something to the effect of “Comfort Astroboy in his time of need”. Various dopers will offer to take you under their wing, where you will have to share the computer and thus will slowly be weaned off its addictive qualities.
"and the fiancee leaves me? "
You will post in the Pit about how she does not understand what we mean to you, and someone will start a thread in MPSIMS something to the effect of “Comfort Astroboy again; wives just don’t understand”. Several attractive (all female dopers are attractive. Read the FAQ) female dopers will start flirting with you and you will gain the impression that they are doing this because they want you, when in reality they are trying to make you feel better.
You’ll start having long talks with them. One will be single. You will move in with her and get married, at which point you will have two loves in your life: the SDMB and her. You will spend $50 on a T1 line, having gotten a good deal from a website offered by the Teeming Millions. You will procure a job online when another doper suggests a small but good online job-hunting device.
This job will basically consist of filling books with trivia. You will fill up books very quickly. A series will come out, you will become very wealthy, and your ex-wife will come back asking for some of it, saying that she wsa your inspiration.
A doper will come to your aid in court, testifying to how she broke your heart and quoting your own Pit thread, while you have started another about how exes suck the chrome off trailers, as dopers by the dozens chime in to wish you well or contribute their own horror stories (or bad lawyer stories, or both). Your money will stay yours.
"What about the kids???"
They will grow up with a fear of computers and fail miserably in life because Daddy loved the internet more than he loved Mommy. Later, one of them will tell a psychiatrist, while in tears and in therapy, that the Straight Dope Message Board was the ultimate reason for why Daddy stopped loving Mommy. Psychiatrist will interrupt to say that she is a member of the SDMB and her name is Brooke. Child, now almost grown up, will run out of the room cursing the Straight Dope and all its descendants. People will wonder what demon has possessed this person, as everyone by now realizes that there is no God but Cecil Adams and EdZotti (peace be upon him) is His prophet.
Good for you.
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gasp Your post count is so…big…
[sub]Ugh, I feel so dirty now…and not in a good way.[/sub]
Iampunha–that was brilliant (and not just because it gives us SDMB junkies some hope).
iampunha, my God! I didn’t know! It’s too late then? Is there nothing that can be done? Astro looks for a rope to end it all, but then says "Aw, F** it!" and sits back down at the keyboard*
KKBattousai, Thank you very much! You know what they say about guys with big post-counts, don’t you? Nudge, Nudge… Wink, Wink
BIG FEET, TOO!!! [sub]I wear size 16, and to my sorrow big feet means… nothing for other measurements…[/sub] 