# The Post Count Padding Party **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682 "2000-08-09T06:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/41 "2000-08-09T15:31:06Z")
Ahh, 100 posts! This calls for a smilie: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/42 "2000-08-09T15:57:25Z")
Is anyone still in here? {here … here} Hello? {hello … hello} Echo {echo … echo} … Now batting for Manny Mota {mota … mota} Pedro Borbone {bone … bone} Thank you, thank you. This ends out little tribute to _ **Airplane** _ :: bows, counts posts, leaves :: ---
**Author:** ![orestes543](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5e925/32.png) [@orestes543](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orestes543)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/43 "2000-08-09T16:44:10Z")
Gee, wonder how many times I should do this before I leave this room. Well, this should be 40. La,la,la,la,la,la,la. 😃 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/44 "2000-08-09T16:49:10Z")
What? Did you say **over**? **Nothing** is over until **we** decide it is! Was it over when the…Germans bombed Pearl Harbour? _Germans? Forget it, he’s rolling._ **Hell no!** And it ain’t over now! 'Cause when the going gets tough… _::silence::_ The tough get going! Who’s with me? Let’s Go! Aaaaaaaa… ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/45 "2000-08-09T17:10:47Z")
Now, Silo. Don’t you know that this post count padding thread thing has been done before? ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/46 "2000-08-09T17:31:37Z")
You say I can post anything (well, just about). The Way It Goes Sometimes… Murphy’s Laws **Murphy’s Original Law:** If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. **Murphy’s Law:** If anything can go wrong – it will. **Murphy’s First Corollary:** Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. **Murphy’s Second Corollary:** It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. **Quantized Revision of Murphy’s Law:** Everything goes wrong all at once. **Murphy’s Constant:** Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. **The Murphy Philosophy:** Smile… tomorrow will be worse. **Conclusions:** 1.If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong. Corollary - If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then. 2.If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong. 3.Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. 4.If anything can’t go wrong, it will anyway. 5.If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. 6.If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. 7.Everything takes longer than you think. 8.You never find a lost article until you replace it. 9.If nobody uses it, there’s a reason. 10.You get the most of what you need the least. 11.Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. 12.Mother nature is a bitch. Thank you very much. Please, no applause. Just throw money. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/47 "2000-08-09T17:57:34Z")
Only 841 posts till I hit 1000. Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/48 "2000-08-09T18:02:54Z")
JimmyNipples, I think you want to either pose those words to the Pit (Fexual Acts thread) or ask Alphagene. ---
**Author:** ![Althea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@Althea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Althea)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/49 "2000-08-09T18:04:14Z")
you say that i am a beautiful girl that the world would bend over herself for a gentle smile from my eyes as you speak my thoughts focusing not on your words but on the way you don’t completely chew your steak before you swallow chunks of beef forming strata in your stomach dead cows don’t deserve perpetual stagnation neither do i my stomach is churning you’re right. i am a beautiful girl and i hope a nasty bowel infection infests your wretched intestines until your ass chokes on your esophagus death arriving in constipation as you stare at your rotting guts in your lap and scream ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/50 "2000-08-09T18:09:40Z")
Are there no _Animal House_ fans out there? OK, how about this: Vince, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for? Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zools knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/51 "2000-08-09T18:10:32Z")
Xizor, I’ve always wanted to yell something in a crowded room too, but my mom wouldn’t let me. And there was a law against it. Lets see if it applies here… ``` FIRE! ``` ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/52 "2000-08-09T18:10:35Z")
Y’all are a buncha wackos, comin’ in here, padding your counts, makin’ fools of yerselves… uh, what? Oh, nevermind… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/53 "2000-08-09T18:14:50Z")
At this rate, I may reach 1000 posts before the end of the year. Since everybody else is doing poetry… **Ode To Jell-O** If I could eat Jell-O all day long, I’d be a happy guy. Living on Jell-O can’t be wrong, And without it I would cry. I’d like to eat Jell-O throughout the day, Over studying and straining my neck. I’d like to get Jell-O as my pay, Instead of a boring paycheck. Jell-O has many forms-I love them all, Especially when topped with cool-whip. It can be made right at home or bought at the mall, And there’s a recipe for jalepeno Jell-O chip dip. Jell-O makes me happy, maybe like a drug, Plain Jell-O-made in my sink. But some add hooch to it, and make it a slug Ironic, don’t you think? I could eat Jell-O throughout the night, I think Jell-O was in Mom’s womb. A world with no Jell-O- there’s a fright. That would bring imminent doom. They say Vitamins are what you need, If you don’t want to die. Since Jell-O has few, I’m in trouble indeed, And I wanted to say good-bye. As I lay here, on my death bed, I am a happy dude. “Why?” you ask-“are you screwed in the head?” Nope–Jell-O is Hospital food. ``` -Vance Lassey ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/54 "2000-08-09T18:17:00Z")
I’m a virgin GPP. This is my first time doing it: Gratuitous Post Padding. Words from a famous Adams: All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground… and miss. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/55 "2000-08-09T18:22:26Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/56 "2000-08-09T18:45:35Z")
gratuitous post: Guess the song from which this lyric is taken: “Now they both know what it’s like inside a pornographer’s trousers” ---
**Author:** ![needspeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@needspeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needspeed)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/57 "2000-08-09T19:07:31Z")
Gratuitous piling on… Laugh and the world laughs with you. Either that or somebody forcibly strait jackets you and takes away your shoelaces. (Bastards.) Smiles are free at [http://www.angelfire.com/indie/brainingdamage](http://www.angelfire.com/indie/brainingdamage) for anybody interested. peace, needspeed ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/58 "2000-08-09T20:09:22Z")
Darnit! I forgot what I was gonna say… ---
**Author:** ![Rappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@Rappy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rappy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/59 "2000-08-09T20:18:06Z")
post pad huh? hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/60 "2000-08-09T20:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunshine \* > **Are there no _Animal House_ fans out there?** I knew the quote! I wasn’t going to be a post-padder, but Movie Quote Trivia is my thang… > [@](#): > > **Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zools knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!** Ghostbusters. That’s Rick Moranis (as Lewis Tully) doing the talking. Good job on knowing the whole thing! Here’s one: “Werewolf?” “THERE wolf. There castle.” (OK, it’s a gimme.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682.md?page=4)