# Patting myself on the back **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 1999, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710 "1999-09-12T12:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 1999, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/1 "1999-09-12T12:00:00Z")
This, like 95% my posts, is MPSIMS, which also applies for my posts in other Forums. There is really no useful material here for discussion.I’m referring to something you may notice if you click my profile.Only PapaBear and the moderators are allowed to give me shit this time. Due to the above situation(the profile), I will not post again until monday. ---
**Author:** ![BenDover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BenDover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenDover)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 1999, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/2 "1999-09-12T13:59:00Z")
Congratulations! Your 1000th post! Have a drink on me! Now who’s going for 2000? ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 1999, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/3 "1999-09-12T14:38:00Z")
Hmph. Nobody congratulated me on my 1000th post, and that was 232 (well, 233 now) messages ago! ---
**Author:** ![Contestant\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Contestant\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contestant_3)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/4 "1999-09-13T05:11:00Z")
I would have had 1000 by now but Lynn Bodoni arbitrarily delted a couple hundred of them a while back. * * * Contestant #3 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 1999, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/5 "1999-09-12T21:29:00Z")
Congratulations, sunbear! This is post #472 for me, someday I hope to hit 500. * * * “It’s _bacon_!!” ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 1999, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/6 "1999-09-12T21:45:00Z")
Congrats SunBear! 😃 * * * – **Kalél** _Common ¢ for all ages…_ “Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling much better now!” – John Astin, Night Court ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/7 "1999-09-13T00:51:00Z")
Thanks, folks. I decided to break my 12 hour silence in hopes that this will sink to the bottom, and then PapaBear won’t notice on monday. I gave him a hard time (nearly to the point of a restraining order) at his 900th post. Then somebody else did it for his 1000th. C3: hang in there, glad you’re still here, even if slightly stunted. Or slashed? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/8 "1999-09-13T01:54:00Z")
That’s nice and all… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/9 "1999-09-13T01:55:00Z")
…but remember… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/10 "1999-09-13T01:56:00Z")
…it’s the quality… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/11 "1999-09-13T01:57:00Z")
…not the quantity… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/12 "1999-09-13T01:58:00Z")
…that counts! ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/13 "1999-09-13T01:59:00Z")
🙂 * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/14 "1999-09-13T02:06:00Z")
hey sunbear pretty cool! I just hit 19!!! welllllll ive been reading the site for a couple years (one of the reasons for me getting internet) and lurking the message board for a long time but just started posting a few days ago. Hope to hit the grand mark some day next week… haha 🙂 * * * The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. -George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/15 "1999-09-13T02:12:00Z")
(This is to finish Satan’s posts) Burma Shave ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/16 "1999-09-13T02:50:00Z")
Thanks for the quantity of response. Now that I think of it, there are several people that have been here for months with hundreds of posts that I don’t remember ever responding to.(David B, for example, but I don’t do much GD stuff) But there are, on any day, some 100 (?) people posting, I’d guess. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/17 "1999-09-13T15:29:00Z")
With this job I’ve had (no work, surfing all day), I’m surprised I’M not at 1000 yet! All being said, congratulations, O Verbose One! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/18 "1999-09-13T15:55:00Z")
100 down; 900 to go! * * * **Abstainer:** _a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure._ **- Ambrose Bierce** ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/19 "1999-09-13T16:13:00Z")
Wow…and here I am with a whopping 3…\… ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710/20 "1999-09-13T19:38:00Z")
Sunbear said: > [@](#): > > Now that I think of it, there are several people that have been here for months with hundreds of posts that I don’t remember ever responding to.(David B, for example, but I don’t do much GD stuff) Well, see now – maybe you should. Just think how many posts you’d have if you perused Great Debates every day! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patting-myself-on-the-back/7710.md?page=2)