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#1 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:57 am

No money at stake, just pride points. Post your prediction in this thread.

Our next gus is at 20000 posts. We stand at about 16700 as of the time of this post (to 3 sig figs, anyway). Please put your prediction as to Date and time (Bored time, please) that we achieve 20000 posts.

I'll go first: Tuesday, Dec. 11, 9:45 AM.
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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:02 pm

All someone has to do is promise me some yellow tulips and I will make sure their prediction comes true.
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#3 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:09 pm

Thursday, Dec. 13, 10:34 AM.
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#4 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:21 pm

Dec. 24, 2 AM EST.
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#5 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:37 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Dec. 24, 2 AM EST.
Ouch! You know something we don't?

:shock:
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#6 Post by Rexer25 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:39 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Dec. 24, 2 AM EST.
Ouch! You know something we don't?

:shock:
Please don't ever ask that of BobJuch. The answer is always yes.
Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!

That'll be $10, please.
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#7 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:01 pm

Rexer25 wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Dec. 24, 2 AM EST.
Ouch! You know something we don't?

:shock:
Please don't ever ask that of BobJuch. The answer is always yes.

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#8 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:19 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Dec. 24, 2 AM EST.
Ouch! You know something we don't?

:shock:
I certainly hope so! :P
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#9 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:22 pm

You 'better at math' people help me out here. For us to not get it done until Christmas Eve, means less than 200 posts a day, is that right?

I could do that all by myself. Get me and PSM going and we could do that without even breaking a sweat.
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#10 Post by AnnieCamaro » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:33 pm

I am not allowed to enter betting pools on the computer, ever since that time Rusty and I used my mom's credit card for a sure-fire bet on his goofy cousin at the racetrack.
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#11 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:55 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:I am not allowed to enter betting pools on the computer, ever since that time Rusty and I used my mom's credit card for a sure-fire bet on his goofy cousin at the racetrack.
How much did you win?
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#12 Post by AnnieCamaro » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:00 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
How much did you win?
I am not allowed to bet on things, and Rusty is no longer permitted to think that his relatives are faster than anybody else's relatives.

It was a sad day.
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#13 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:01 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:
How much did you win?
I am not allowed to bet on things, and Rusty is no longer permitted to think that his relatives are faster than anybody else's relatives.

It was a sad day.
oh

ouch

Good lesson learned, no matter what the price.
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#14 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:03 am

Speaking of bumping.

We're over 17000 now. I think I misunderestimated the percentage increase in posting rates, thanks to all the Bored Games going on.
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#15 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:35 am

I think it will be whenever aj says it will be.
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#16 Post by mrkelley23 » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:54 am

Bumpity-bump.

We'll probably cross the 18000 threshhold today.
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#17 Post by earendel » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:59 am

mrkelley23 wrote:Bumpity-bump.

We'll probably cross the 18000 threshhold today.
I'm notoriously bad about picking such things, but being 2000+ posts away and the likelihood that the gus chase will accelerate posting, I'd say next Thursday, 9:42AM, and the poster who will get the gus is PSM.
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#18 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:04 am

earendel wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:Bumpity-bump.

We'll probably cross the 18000 threshhold today.
I'm notoriously bad about picking such things, but being 2000+ posts away and the likelihood that the gus chase will accelerate posting, I'd say next Thursday, 9:42AM, and the poster who will get the gus is PSM.
:)

It probably won't be me. Though I like chasing guses, I never seem to get them when I try for them.
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#19 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:21 pm

Looks like nobody will get the right day on this one.

We're only a little over 450 posts away, and that's barely more than an average posting day around here lately. I think 20k's gonna fall sometime tomorrow, maybe even before noon.
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#20 Post by minimetoo26 » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:30 pm

I'm just doing my part for the total buildup, and to keep mrk from being the last post in too many threads. He hates that....
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#21 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:33 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:Looks like nobody will get the right day on this one.

We're only a little over 450 posts away, and that's barely more than an average posting day around here lately. I think 20k's gonna fall sometime tomorrow, maybe even before noon.
Cool!
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#22 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:47 am

mrkelley23 wrote:We're only a little over 450 posts away, and that's barely more than an average posting day around here lately. I think 20k's gonna fall sometime tomorrow, maybe even before noon.
WOOHOO!
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#23 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:11 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:We're only a little over 450 posts away, and that's barely more than an average posting day around here lately. I think 20k's gonna fall sometime tomorrow, maybe even before noon.
WOOHOO!
Yeah!
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#24 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:56 am

Is aj around?

I'll do some heavy lifting for an hour or so if he is here to get the gus.
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#25 Post by earendel » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:11 am

peacock2121 wrote:Is aj around?

I'll do some heavy lifting for an hour or so if he is here to get the gus.
It's gonna take a lot of "heavy lifting" - we're still slightly under 300 posts away.
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