# This is my 5,130th Post!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799 "2006-08-15T07:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/41 "2006-08-16T02:07:45Z")
This is my 470th post! Let’s party! Usually by the time I hit a thread someone has already said what I wanted to but better than I would have. If “me too” posts weren’t banned I’d be over 20,000 by now 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/42 "2006-08-16T03:20:29Z")
This is my 8,140th post! YAY! I rock!!! ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/43 "2006-08-16T03:53:03Z")
_sniff sniff_ Do I smell someone’s pants on fire? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/44 "2006-08-16T03:58:33Z")
Why am I seeing ads for DUI attorneys? Was it the word “party”? ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/45 "2006-08-16T04:06:46Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] This is my twelve thousand and somethingth post. Presuming an average of, say, fifty words per post (I’m as apt to pound out a lengthy screed as dash off a one-line drive-by), I’ve basically written five or ten novels here. And no _actual_ novels, y’know, elsewhere. So, yeah. :o [/QUOTE] So, was it just happenstance this particular post contains exactly fifty words? Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/46 "2006-08-16T04:28:04Z")
382 ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/47 "2006-08-16T04:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mtgman] So, was it just happenstance this particular post contains exactly fifty words? Enjoy, Steven [/QUOTE] Wow. I’m impressed you thought to check his word count. What inspired that? Using MS word it is 48. So I’m even more impressed you physicaly counted them you have far to much free time. Yeah so do I ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/48 "2006-08-16T05:16:14Z")
[QUOTE=boytyperanma] Wow. I’m impressed you thought to check his word count. What inspired that? Using MS word it is 48. So I’m even more impressed you physicaly counted them you have far to much free time. Yeah so do I [/QUOTE] I’m a big fan of fortuosity. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/49 "2006-08-16T05:19:54Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Humm, looks like 6,843. Surely THAT deserves some sort of party. Maybe a cake. And a clown. [/QUOTE] I’ll say, it’s not often your count can be expressed as the sum of two cubes. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/50 "2006-08-16T09:52:22Z")
Lordy me, I feel positively impotent here. I do remember thinking, “Whee! A hundred!” when I passed the mark, but I didn’t note it. I hope it would have been worth at least a balloon. Maybe a balloon animal. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/51 "2006-08-16T10:43:25Z")
[QUOTE=Foldup Rabbit] …I hope it would have been worth at least a balloon. Maybe a balloon animal. [/QUOTE] Just for [you](http://theballoontwister.tripod.com/group1.html)! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/52 "2006-08-16T10:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Foldup Rabbit] …I hope it would have been worth at least a balloon. Maybe a balloon animal. [/QUOTE] Paging **Doc Cathode**! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/53 "2006-08-16T14:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mtgman] So, was it just happenstance this particular post contains exactly fifty words? [/QUOTE] :eek: Copying and pasting into Word, like **boytyperanma** , I also come up with 48 words. Not sure whether or not “y’know” should be one or two, or if the smiley counts. Either way, it’s darn close; and no, it wasn’t intentional; and yes, you both have too much free time. 49 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/54 "2006-08-16T16:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] :eek: Copying and pasting into Word, like **boytyperanma** , I also come up with 48 words. Not sure whether or not “y’know” should be one or two, or if the smiley counts. Either way, it’s darn close; and no, it wasn’t intentional; and yes, you both have too much free time. 49 [/QUOTE] I consider compound words as two words. Unless either part of the word can’t stand on it’s own like co-dependent or pre-historic. But compound words where they hyphen is intended only group adjectives to disambiguate meaning, those are two words, IMHO(which does not count as four words). Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/55 "2006-08-16T18:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mtgman] Unless either part of the word can’t stand on it’s own like co-dependent [/QUOTE] In that case it would be independent. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/56 "2006-08-16T21:30:16Z")
So… it depends. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/57 "2006-08-16T21:33:38Z")
Kind-of. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/58 "2006-08-16T22:41:14Z")
This is my 18,769th post! Booyah, 137 squared! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/59 "2006-08-17T00:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=Mbossa] This is my 8,140th post! YAY! I rock!!! [/QUOTE] One can only assume the hamsters ate the other 7705. Now to the important part of this thread: “y’know” should be counted as one word. It’s a contraction, see? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799/60 "2006-08-17T03:20:47Z")
The Google ads are all about balloon animals now… heh… If I posted as often as I thought to I’d have horrendous carpal tunnel symptoms instead of the mildly twitchy forearm tendon I have today which makes me accidentally move stuff around when using my touch pad. It feels like my middle finger wants to flip the bird all the time, but I’m not pissed off at anyone. Interesting feeling, don’tcha know… \<–two words, yes, due to contraction action. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-5-130th-post/368799.md?page=4)