# Look on in awe, mortals. I have attained 5000 posts. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686 "2001-06-30T02:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/1 "2001-06-30T02:35:42Z")
Bring on the naked dancing slave boys scattering rose petals, strike the lutes and zithers, and tremble in holy dread! And bring me the head of the San Diegan one on a platter! And bring the rest of him on the same platter, attached to the head (but without any clothes on!) ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/2 "2001-06-30T02:37:05Z")
Congratulation Matt, you truly are Montréal’s Eldest Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/3 "2001-06-30T02:38:15Z")
Roll out the red carpet! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/4 "2001-06-30T02:42:24Z")
Congrats Matt 🙂 Can I borrow a dancing boy or two? I’ll bring them back, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/5 "2001-06-30T02:46:50Z")
Hurrah for you, Matt! I’d just like you to know that you’re my favorite gay guy from Montreal. The fact that you’re the only gay guy from Montreal I know should not in any way diminish that. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/6 "2001-06-30T02:47:09Z")
Holy shit! Rock on! And just when I was starting to feel good about the number of my posts, too! Geez! _shaking head_ Say, let me borrow one of them dancin boys and it’ll make things ALL better, ok? Sound like a deal? Hell, could I be a dancing slave girl? That could be fun! _beams_ You KNOW you wanna… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/7 "2001-06-30T02:52:58Z")
That’s pretty good there, \*\*matt. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/8 "2001-06-30T03:39:32Z")
Ah…but why would you want 5000 posts when you could have **277**??? ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/9 "2001-06-30T04:41:45Z")
Good for you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/10 "2001-06-30T04:44:24Z")
I’m ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/11 "2001-06-30T04:45:33Z")
working ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/12 "2001-06-30T04:46:42Z")
on ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/13 "2001-06-30T04:47:49Z")
it. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/14 "2001-06-30T04:54:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **matt\_mcl** _ > > Bring on the naked dancing slave boys scattering rose petals, strike the lutes and zithers, and tremble in holy dread! > > And bring me the head of the San Diegan one on a platter! And bring the rest of him on the same platter, attached to the head (but without any clothes on!) \ Again? {Traipses naked dressed as slave, scatters rose petals, strikes zither with lute, trembles, climbs on silver platter, removes clothing} Just watch the teeth this time, buck-o! (And remember that I’m right behind you - what do I get when **I** read 5000, hmmm?) Esprix ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/15 "2001-06-30T05:00:48Z")
So Matt… Which post are you: Most proud of? Least proud of? Most memorable? Most embarassing? ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/16 "2001-06-30T05:20:17Z")
I don’t usually post in these threads, but since this is **five thousand** , and it’s you, and I see that Esprix is right behind you naked on that platter… Well, congratulations and is the bar open yet? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/17 "2001-06-30T05:28:12Z")
::runs naked through thread, pausing for adoration and booty-calls, then continues out:: There’s something . . . missing . . . from that. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/18 "2001-06-30T05:33:05Z")
**Handy** could be posting his **10,000th** and one of us newbies **wishbone** has logged his first 280 this month already. I can feel the breeze as he passes me. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/19 "2001-06-30T06:35:35Z")
And you yourself, **kniz** , with your next post, will log #300. Just 63 more and I join you, matt:) ---
**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:** [June 30, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686/20 "2001-06-30T07:15:20Z")
Goodness, that’s impressive, you’re making the rest of us feel all inadequate. Oh well, Congrats! Kitty [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-in-awe-mortals-i-have-attained-5000-posts/70686.md?page=2)