# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/121 "2000-08-10T08:38:47Z")
Why the hell not. Beer #5 it is. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/122 "2000-08-10T13:50:32Z")
For those of you who are curious… bovine - cattle porcine - pig ovine - sheep canine - dog feline - cat avian - bird lapine - rabbit equine - horse caprine - goat simian - monkey piscine - fish cervine - deer colubrine - snake corvine - crows falconine - falcons leonine - lion lupine - wolf murine - rodent (mice and rats) oscine - singing passerine birds passerine - altricial songbirds of perchine habit psittacine - parrots taurine - bull ursine - bear vespine - wasps viperine - poisonous snakes vulpine - fox vulturine - vultures zebrine - zebras ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/123 "2000-08-10T16:04:15Z")
Hm… thought I’d start my day off with a gratutious padding of my post count. It could use the help, and I always seem to be blocked when it comes to starting, so maybe by posting in this forum I can overcome that blockage and get down to the business of posting. Or maybe this is a rationalization. Maybe I’m just being shy again. I was shy for ages, then got to the point where I didn’t care what other people thought. I have Yngwie Malmsteen’s version of Carry On My Wayward Son playing. I like it. I don’t think ya’ll will kill me if I post it here. Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more (guitar part) Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher,But I flew too high Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a mad man I hear the voices when I’m dreaming I can hear them say Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more Masquerading as a man with a reason My charade is the event of the season And if I claim to be a wise man, It surely means that I don’t know On a stormy sea of moving emotion Tossed about I’m like a ship on the ocean I set a course for winds of fortune, But I hear the voices say Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more No!(instrumental solo) Carry on, you will always remember Carry on, nothing equals the splendor Now your life’s no longer empty Surely heaven waits for you Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry, don’t you cry no more (instrumental solo) No more! (another instrumental solo) Sounds better in the mp3 I have. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@Zinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zinger)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/124 "2000-08-10T18:03:43Z")
I open as Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” TOMMORROW! Just thought I’d share this info. Wasn’t there someone else who was playing Puck?? Another woman or girl?? I don’t think she stayed here very long, though. Anyway… If it’s you, maybe we could talk about the role a little bit. 🙂 I’m having a helluva time with it, and I hope you are, too. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/125 "2000-08-10T19:17:53Z")
AHHHRGHH!!! My post count today dropped again today!!! 7 posts! time to get 'em back (hey that’s what this thread is for) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/126 "2000-08-10T19:19:04Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/127 "2000-08-10T19:20:25Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/128 "2000-08-10T19:21:51Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/129 "2000-08-10T19:23:20Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/130 "2000-08-10T19:24:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/131 "2000-08-10T19:27:08Z")
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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/132 "2000-08-10T19:28:32Z")
7, whoohoo! I’m back to where I should be! ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/133 "2000-08-10T19:41:54Z")
Hey… just between you and me… I think Silo started this to help him make the 1000 mark… ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/134 "2000-08-10T20:04:00Z")
I have a yellow bucket. ---
**Author:** ![CoyoteFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/67e7ee/32.png) [@CoyoteFish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoyoteFish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/135 "2000-08-10T20:20:49Z")
Actually, Aglarond, I was curious about that. Thanks for the list. ---
**Author:** ![CoyoteFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/67e7ee/32.png) [@CoyoteFish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoyoteFish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/136 "2000-08-10T20:22:37Z")
Man, am I glad no one here can smell my feet right now. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/137 "2000-08-10T20:41:47Z")
I just want to see how many posts I have. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/138 "2000-08-10T21:27:00Z")
Delilah walked in to the hat makers’ shop, handed $1,000 and said she’d be back in one year. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/139 "2000-08-10T21:28:17Z")
A cat will almost always blink when hit with a hammer. (No cats were harmed in the making of this post.) ---
**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 10, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682/140 "2000-08-10T21:39:23Z")
> [@](#): > > A cat will almost always blink when hit with a hammer. > > (No cats were harmed in the making of this post.) Not my cat. But she’d try to eat it. One of my favorite sigs: **Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.** Why? Because I’m padding my post count, that’s why. And because I have spent the past 2 hours on this damned message board instead of working, so I should get _something_ out of it…besides the new job I’ll have to find when they can my ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-count-padding-party/28682.md?page=8)