# Let's take it to a million posts!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851 "2000-11-12T02:49:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/281 "2000-11-20T02:22:16Z")

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I think I should get the guys all to come to work as their favourite comic character so that they can get home without using the lift.

Eg. you could wear you underpants on the outside and pretend to be superman and fly down to the ground floor.

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**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/282 "2000-11-20T02:23:25Z")

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Or I could chew up a whole pile of gum and stick it to my hands and pretend to be spiderman and crawl down the wall leaving a sticky white web trail behind me.

what else?

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**Author:** ![DoZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DoZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoZ)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/283 "2000-11-20T02:24:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \*  
> \*\ ***Do Z** tell me about you. \*\*

What do you want to know?

Real name Greta Dusenberg. 26. Travel a lot.

You?

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**Author:** ![DoZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DoZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoZ)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/284 "2000-11-20T02:31:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by J. Noble \*  
> \*\*No one answered my question. Do you think this will become a legendary thread? \*\*

I think your thread’s days are numbered.  
On this similar thread :  
\*\* [Post Club Meeting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38606)\*\*

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> \*Originally posted by Lynn - Administrator \*  
> \*\* I’m closing this thread. I’ll delete it in a day or so, if I remember it. I’ll do the same to any similar threads I see, no matter which forum they’re in.
> 
> Lynn  
> Administrator  
> For the Straight Dope\*\*

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/285 "2000-11-20T02:43:07Z")

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AAAAHHHGGGG!!! POST FASTER! POST FASTER! WE CAN’T LEAVE IT OUT IN THE COLD! MUST MAKE 1,000,000! OR ATLEAST 7 PAGES HERE.

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/286 "2000-11-20T02:45:03Z")

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But there’s nothing stopping me from making another one. I can just disguise it.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/287 "2000-11-20T02:48:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Do Z \*  
> \*\*Real name Greta Dusenberg. 26. Travel a lot.
> 
> You? \*\*

Real name Sarah. 19. I wish I could travel more.

Hi, **Lynn**!!

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**Author:** ![The\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@The\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bean)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/288 "2000-11-20T02:52:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by J. Noble \*  
> \*\*AAAAHHHGGGG!!! POST FASTER! POST FASTER! WE CAN’T LEAVE IT OUT IN THE COLD! MUST MAKE 1,000,000! OR ATLEAST 7 PAGES HERE. \*\*

Sorry, I’d like to help but…

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**Author:** ![The\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@The\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bean)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/289 "2000-11-20T02:53:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by J. Noble \*  
> \*\*AAAAHHHGGGG!!! POST FASTER! POST FASTER! WE CAN’T LEAVE IT OUT IN THE COLD! MUST MAKE 1,000,000! OR ATLEAST 7 PAGES HERE. \*\*

Maybe just 1, since you asked so desperately.

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**Author:** ![The\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@The\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bean)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/290 "2000-11-20T02:56:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by J. Noble \*  
> \*\*But there’s nothing stopping me from making another one. I can just disguise it. \*\*

Don’t have to fight it. As the thread goes, so goes the nation. If we pass 1,000,000 and they trash this thread, we can just cross the line again. Can’t stop progress.

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/291 "2000-11-20T03:05:04Z")

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The tyrannical moderators are trashing this thread. Their secret motives are to never let the SDMB get to 1,000,000. I want this thread to go to 7 pages by tomorrow. We’ll show them.

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**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/292 "2000-11-20T03:05:53Z")

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Ha ha ha! We WILL overcome the authorities! Rebell! Be FREE! okay I think I can stop now  
_pad_

Kitty

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/293 "2000-11-20T03:10:45Z")

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Taking the hippy stance! Good idea Kitty. MORE POSTS! MORE POSTS! MORE POSTS! MORE POSTS! GO GO GO GO GO GO!

I’m calling you a hippy, just the stance.

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/294 "2000-11-20T03:12:44Z")

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I meant I’m NOT calling you a hippy. I need sleep.

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/295 "2000-11-20T03:15:08Z")

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Six more to go to page seven. We can do it!

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**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/296 "2000-11-20T03:22:55Z")

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Oh why not call me a hippy? I don’t look the part except for maybe the long hair and bandanas I tend to wear.  
All together now:  
HELL NO WE WON’T GO!  
yay!

Kitty

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**Author:** ![The\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@The\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bean)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/297 "2000-11-20T03:23:11Z")

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Do you think longer posts make it go to more pages faster?

Want to count a couple of pages and see if it’s uniform?

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**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/298 "2000-11-20T03:39:22Z")

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Wouldn’t that take enormous effort? Why not just keep posting?

Kitty

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**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/299 "2000-11-20T04:03:37Z")

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Hey does anyone know any hippy-ish stuff? It was much before my time. Any advice for aspiring hippies?

Kitty

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/300 "2000-11-20T04:10:34Z")

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I will now bump this thread to page 7.

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