# Trion's 100th post - A Retrospective **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896 "2000-04-12T18:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/1 "2000-04-13T05:51:00Z")
It has become something of a tradition around here to throw a party and pat yourself on the back when you reach the 100th post. Personally, I don’t think 100 is all that big a number so I’m gonna do something different. I’m taking this opportunity to look back at my posting history and see how I got here. Post 1: I delurk and am immediately accused of being a sock puppet. I don’t even know what that _means_. Must lurk more. Post 9: I join the fray at Great Debates. I mention that I like the gel toothpaste better than the normal kind. CalifBoomer says that this is an ad hominem and a flame war erupts. I retreat, bleeding, to MPSIMS Post 18: Bricker begins a series of 3-Minute Mysteries. In every one I am named as the corpse. Things aren’t going well. Posts 22 thru 73: In an attempt to get some respect I up my post count by posting 52 tests in About This Message Board. Everybody does it. Right? Post 81: There is a question on the toxicity of mushrooms over in General Questions and I know the answer. Sadly, in an attempt to answer before anyone else, I introduce an unfortunate typographical error into my post. We never hear from bedboy4 again. Post 97: Esprix tells me I’m not allowed to ask him anything. ## And that bring us to 100. Onward! “My mind reels with sarcastic replies!” - Snoopy ---
**Author:** ![Beauxeau\_IX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Beauxeau\_IX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauxeau_IX)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/2 "2000-04-12T18:05:00Z")
Personally, I prefer your 11th post, when the milk suddenly shot out of your nose. Man, I was dying at that one! ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/3 "2000-04-12T18:46:00Z")
Well, this post certainly shows that you are coming into your own… Thanks for making me laugh! 😃 _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Three days, 16 hours, 46 minutes and 20 seconds. 147 cigarettes not smoked, saving $18.49. Life saved: 12 hours, 15 minutes._ * * * Yer pal, Satan _ **Voted “Too Well-Liked to be a Moderator” by SD Staff** _ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/4 "2000-04-13T00:06:00Z")
Hey Trion, where’d you get your nick? What is the meaning? ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/5 "2000-04-13T00:28:00Z")
Of course, when I saw the thread, I read it as “Trojan’s 100th post” * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/6 "2000-04-13T00:37:00Z")
If I start a thread called “Coldfire’s 2150th Post - A Retrospective, post by post”, will you guys start hitting me? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/7 "2000-04-13T02:41:00Z")
_Start?!?_] * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING: Four days, 38 minutes and 23 seconds. 161 cigarettes not smoked, saving $20.13. Life saved: 13 hours, 25 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/8 "2000-04-13T02:54:00Z")
spoke- asks: > [@](#): > > Hey Trion, where’d you get your nick? What is the meaning? I haven’t mentioned this before because, frankly, it’s boring. It’s just a name I came up with that I liked the sound of. I thought of it when messing around with a role playing game ages ago. I was trying out the character creation system and came up with a character where the number three was significant - hence the “Tri”. The character got tossed (I was just getting used to the system anyway) but I liked the sound of the name. That’s all there is too it. Kinda dull, huh? * * * “My mind reels with sarcastic replies!” - Snoopy ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/9 "2000-04-13T19:26:00Z")
First of all, I laughed out loud at this. If you made any errors in the past 100, you more than made up for them here. I think we all can appreciate someone who can mock themselves. > [@](#): > > Post 97: Esprix tells me I’m not allowed to ask him anything. Where? Who? Wha? Esprix * * * ## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html)) “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.” ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/10 "2000-04-13T20:53:00Z")
## well congrats on your 100, I don’t think that I’ve even bothered to check my count lately, talk about mundane. \*\* _Sigh_. So many men, so few who can afford me \*\* _Original by Wally_ _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trions-100th-post-a-retrospective/15896/11 "2000-04-13T21:19:00Z")
The truth is, every time I see your name, I read it as “Tron”. but then again, I am really into glowing Frisbees. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.