# WOOHOO!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 9, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849 "2000-06-09T05:31:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/1 "2000-06-09T05:31:07Z")
I can’t be sure of the EXACT timing but I think I just claimed the 500,000th post.
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/2 "2000-06-09T05:32:20Z")
Alright - I was!!
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/3 "2000-06-09T05:46:33Z")
You rock, or whatever the current phrase is.
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/4 "2000-06-11T03:32:19Z")
Upon reflection I feel a bit childish validating my cyber-existence with a mere statistical representation. Especially one with a few more zero’s in it than normal.
After all it’s not as if we care about post counts or anything is it?
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/5 "2000-06-11T06:23:18Z")
I find it funny that in the month I’ve been here, more or less, I’m about to hit 100 posts. Which is probably more than I’ve said in the 5 years I’ve also been on IRC.
Sad.
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### Author:  [@AM\_PM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AM_PM)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/6 "2000-07-14T03:26:26Z")
Were you “watching the odometer” on the main menu?
How did you guarantee you would be next?
Or are there some near-misses lying in the dust?
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/7 "2000-07-14T03:42:27Z")
Big woop . . . anyone notice I am substantially past 500 posts in just over a month here?
That’s because I didn’t go bragging about it . . . oops 🙂
Oh well. Congrats, drp, I think . . . and no I do not want no steenkeen’ 500th post party!
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### Author:  [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/8 "2000-07-14T10:57:02Z")
Wadja win?
A car?
A washer/drier?
A refrigerator/freezer?
A full year’s supply of Dinty Moore Beef Stew?
The home version of our game?
Wadja win?
Huh?
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### Author:  [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/9 "2000-07-14T13:13:17Z")
Straight Dope - The Home Game.
I like that.
I know. He wins 500 free hours at AOL, right?
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### Author:  [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/10 "2000-07-14T14:54:34Z")
For others like me who didn’t know how to see if **dpr** was right, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=500000#post500000) is a link which will bring up **dpr** ’s first post in this thread as the 500,000 post. Congratulations **dpr**!
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/11 "2000-07-20T01:29:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by AM/PM \*
> \*\*Were you “watching the odometer” on the main menu?
> How did you guarantee you would be next?
> Or are there some near-misses lying in the dust? \*\*
Actually I had read a thread where someone had wondered (the day before) who would post the big number and happened to look up and notice it was only 70 or 80 posts away.
Fortunately it was during the day (Down Under) and post rates weren’t super quick so I had time to set up a New Thread in a second window and refresh the main screen/odometer. Then I just made an eductated guess.
And I didn’t win anything except the satisfaction of completing a self-set challenge. ALthough a SD hom game would be fun…
And Iampunha - it may not be something you want to brag about mate. Obsessions aren’t always healthy… 😉
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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo/21849/12 "2000-07-20T02:03:52Z")
Way to go, dpr! If I ever save up the change, I’ll send you a congratulationary package. The postage cost would be quite high. Are you shooting for the 1 millionth poster now?