# The $500 contest. (Open to Dopers worldwide) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405 "2004-11-18T02:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/21 "2004-11-18T17:44:00Z")
Wait a second… I just had an idea! :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally you’re all a bunch of :wally 's! ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/22 "2004-11-18T17:48:39Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > The Barbershop Quartet Collection Agency of Doom will be dispatched to your residence, after which you will be mercilessly pummeled with four-part harmonies until satisfying the obligation. Now that’s just cruel! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/23 "2004-11-18T17:52:44Z")
> [@PetW](#): > > Wait a second… I just had an idea! > :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally > you’re all a bunch of :wally 's! _pssst_ they don’t have to post when closing a thread, so posting anything at all is a terrible, terrible idea. wait a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/24 "2004-11-18T18:09:58Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > _pssst_ they don’t have to post when closing a thread, so posting anything at all is a terrible, terrible idea. > wait a minute… Ha! Sucker!! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/25 "2004-11-19T04:12:51Z")
What are you going to do with the $500? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/26 "2004-11-19T04:18:01Z")
Ahhh! There’s a monster at the end of this thread! I’m so scared of monsters. So please, please, please don’t turn the post. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/27 "2004-11-19T04:33:25Z")
Excellent! This goes hand in hand with _my_ game! The first poster in this thread must pay _me_ $500! … You know, if I’m the last person who posts in this thread, it might work out. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/28 "2004-11-19T04:36:21Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Excellent! This goes hand in hand with _my_ game! > > The first poster in this thread must pay _me_ $500! > … > > You know, if I’m the last person who posts in this thread, it might work out. YOU TURNED THE POST! Here, I lovable, fury, old Shagnasty and nailing these posts together so we never get to the end of this thread. So please, please, please don’t turn the post. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/29 "2004-11-19T04:54:36Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > YOU TURNED THE POST! > > Here, I lovable, fury, old Shagnasty and nailing these posts together so we never get to the end of this thread. So please, please, please don’t turn the post. Best. Book. Eva. Shagnasty, you do realize that… …now you have to be the last poster for the sake of literary allusion, right? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/30 "2004-11-19T05:00:44Z")
Anyone want to place bets on which mod decides he needs 500 bucks and closes the thread? ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/31 "2004-11-19T05:31:30Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > Anyone want to place bets on which mod decides he needs 500 bucks and closes the thread? Do you still not understand the game? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/32 "2004-11-19T14:47:16Z")
Here’s my prediction: A few minutes before midnight, December 31, the SDMB will “mysteriously” go down. When it comes back up a few minutes after midnight, we’ll discover that somehow **nonpolar** was briefly allowed back on the board and ended up being the last poster to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/33 "2004-11-19T14:48:55Z")
> [@PetW](#): > > Do you still not understand the game? I do! I do! Aw crap. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405/34 "2004-11-19T16:20:28Z")
> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#): > > Ahhhh. Object lesson in reading very carefully. Which I didn’t. Don’t feel bad, I misread it at first, too. I was going to post and then e-mail a mod to lock the thread. Instant $500! But nope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-500-contest-open-to-dopers-worldwide/275405.md?page=1)