# What should I do for my 1000th post? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343 "2000-06-04T03:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/1 "2000-06-04T03:44:56Z")
I guess I’m getting a little long in the tooth. I thought about doing a post where I seriously share what I’ve learned here. I thought about trying to do something funny. I thought about doing a 1000th post party like I’ve seen others do. Maybe Wally might give me that Sig as a present. But, I feel kinda depressed, like I’m having a mid-post crises or something. DO I have another 100 posts in me? Or, will my keyboard just lock up in mid-post one day? I think of all the things I wanted to do and didn’t. The stupid things I said that were wrong. How can I go on? Maybe I should just stop here, never get to that 1000th post and start over again with a new name. Maybe I can sell my 1000th post. What should I do? ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/2 "2000-06-04T03:46:59Z")
> [@](#): > > What should I do? Reply to this message. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/3 "2000-06-04T03:50:03Z")
Ok, now what? (and don’t get tricky, I know what’s coming next, but I won’t fall for it. I’m not as gullible as I used to be.) ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/4 "2000-06-04T04:00:28Z")
Now you respond to _this_ message, of course! (Silly me, I figured you’d have posted at least one more message somewhere on the board before seeing my response.) Or you could go worship me in Great Debates. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oncle_Biere_1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/5 "2000-06-04T05:24:53Z")
Just ignore my 1000 post for you. I didn’t see this one, but saw you at 999 and figured you had forgotten. How dense is that? Here’s to 999 and 1001 as well, in case I miss the official one ! ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/6 "2000-06-04T05:31:08Z")
Dear Scylla, I would love to hear the latest news on your groundhog extermination efforts. Got any more Nazi groundhog stories? ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/7 "2000-06-04T16:12:02Z")
We are waiting with bated breath for number 1000. You have at least another couple of thousand in ya. Have a glass of wine on me. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/8 "2000-06-04T16:23:38Z")
Well you could use your 1,000th in the pit to aknowledge my aknowledgement that I was whooshed by your tounge in cheek post. Or not. I don’t know since I haven’t reached 1,000 yet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/9 "2000-06-04T17:26:23Z")
well whatever you do, happy 1000 Scylla. ---
**Author:** ![Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oncle_Biere_1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/10 "2000-06-04T18:27:31Z")
Sure, make 1000 a masterpiece. We can wait. (Hope it’s not too long - I spilled my punch into my lap and it’s chafing.) ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/11 "2000-06-04T23:24:02Z")
HRRRRRRRARRRRRRRRRRUNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!! ahhhhhhhhhh. Whoo! That’s been building for six months. Anybody got any TP? Thanks everybody for putting up with me! (I wrote an interminable sappy thing discussing all I learned, the fun I had, the great discussions, and how I found this board and the great people on it. Pretty unreadable actually. In the end I guess it’s probably best to go for the yuck.) ---
**Author:** ![SteelToes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@SteelToes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteelToes)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/12 "2000-06-05T00:46:11Z")
Hats off to Scylla everybody! (If you wear a hat in the Board Room. If not, go git one and hurry back her!) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-my-1000th-post/21343/13 "2000-06-05T01:04:26Z")
Ya already did it, Scylla. You hung around this asylum, got yourself thoroughly adopted, accepted and enjoyed, “whoosed” both Ayesha and I (hard-bitten cynics that we are) and have generally enriched, enlivened, educated and amused your fellow inmates. Now dontcha go get all angst-ridden on us. Just by chance I brought a cooler of microbrews, jerky, Mudslides (thanks, Lynn!), two slightly squashed bags of tortilla chips and a bowl of nuclear guacamole. Uh…you don’t have any pets, furnishings or appliances you’re really attached to, do you? Celebration in honor of Scylla! Long may you wave. Veb