ForumGarden is almost to 500,000 posts!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:42 am

Okay! Stats so far:

It's 8:41 a.m. Pacific Time : Posts: 499,240

Let's guess when we will break the 500,000 mark!

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:04 am

spot mentioned that this morning.

I think it will be 10:51 pm your time tonight.

I'll do my part anyway.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:07 am

Oh no...there's gonna be a posting frenzy. :wah:

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:16 am

Uncle Kram;512639 wrote: Oh no...there's gonna be a posting frenzy. :wah:

That's why I know my guess will be way off!

(padded post #1.) sorry hamster!

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:18 am

Lets see let me think.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:19 am

I'll say 1:44 am your time

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:19 am

Make that 1:43 am your time

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:20 am

I won't partake in such foolishness.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:25 am

Posts: 499,278

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:30 am

ARE WE THERE YET.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:31 am

499,283

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:35 am

koan;512659 wrote: I won't partake in such foolishness. :DI can tell

.....are we there yet? :-3

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:42 am

Tombstone!

You might have to install toilets in here for Uncle Kram. :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:43 am

I don't think there is anybody back there....

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:43 am

Oh I want to be me, me, me! :wah:

Question: Who posted the first post ever then? Was is Lincoln or something? :wah:

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:46 am

Galbally;512698 wrote: Oh I want to be me, me, me! :wah:

Question: Who posted the first post ever then? Was is Lincoln or something? :wah:
Another good question is: Who were they posting too?

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:22 am

who was the very first fg member?

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:33 am

7.16 p.m. Pacific Time

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:47 am

Hamster;512746 wrote: Must have been Tombstone??
I wonder if he was on his own buddy list or used to P himself. Oh sorry...I meant PM himself

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:00 pm

guppy;512744 wrote: who was the very first fg member?In the beginning the Administrator installed the server and created the database. The database was without forums and void, and darkness was upon the face of the user list; and the ForumGarden account tailored the front page of the system.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:05 pm

spot;512781 wrote: In the beginning the Administrator installed the server and created the database. The database was without forums and void, and darkness was upon the face of the user list; and the ForumGarden account tailored the front page of the system.

:wah: :wah: :wah: :wah:

and on the 7th day he created a moron and so it is said on this day jimbo joined

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:16 pm

jimbo;512783 wrote:

:wah: :wah: and on the 7th day he created a moron and so it is said on this day jimbo joined :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:18 pm

I want to hear the whole story, spot. Ignore the moron :rolleyes: and fill us in!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:30 pm

Does the half millionth poster get a bottle of champers and a weekend in Paris, Tombie?????

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:35 pm

AussiePam;512806 wrote: Does the half millionth poster get a bottle of champers and a weekend in Paris, Tombie?????

Oh yeah, I am onto that one, Paris, ah the city of light, reservations at the Ritz, a stroll through the Marais, and dinner at the Cafe Victor Hugo with a charming young lady, a night walk up the seine to Isle De La Cite, and then the metro home to Pigalle (I can't afford anywhere more glitizy, and anyway, I like red light distircts) of course you have to avoid the rioters as well, and be careful of your wallet, but ah Paris.

Where are we now at the post count tombstone? And were you the first FGer, or is that a scandalous rumour put out by god?

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:38 pm

[QUOTE=Galbally;512812]

Where are we now at the post count tombstone?

that's what I wanted to know, how do we find out when we get to the 500,000 mark?? did we already achieve the goal.....

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:41 pm

I hear you, Galbers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just read the "favourite junk food' thread.. and so am even more driven to head for somewhere where food is not deep fried twinkies or buffalo wings with deep friend peanut butter sauce and four cheese topping..

I'm currently actually looking at getting an apartment in Montmartre for late April. I've never stayed that end of town before, but my daughter is desperate for un petit noir at dawn in the Rue des Abbesses.. whatever turns you on!!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:50 pm

AussiePam;512820 wrote: I hear you, Galbers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just read the "favourite junk food' thread.. and so am even more driven to head for somewhere where food is not deep fried twinkies or buffalo wings with deep friend peanut butter sauce and four cheese topping..

I'm currently actually looking at getting an apartment in Montmartre for late April. I've never stayed that end of town before, but my daughter is desperate for un petit noir at dawn in the Rue des Abbesses.. whatever turns you on!!

Jeez thats mad, I know a very nice australian girl who actually lives in the Rue de Abbesses would you believe!!!!!!!!!:-2 !!!!!, (just friends BTW), and I have stayed in her flat, its pretty nice up round there actually, its gone a bit upmarket I think, though the area still has some dodgy spots. Weird huh? I bet if your daughter goes there, they would probably hear each other's accents one day in that cafe down the street and get talking! A lot of coincidnces going on around here lately. As for the petit noir, like you said, whatever your into! Yes, and of course the food is the best thing, man if I lived in paris I would definetly be about 3 stone heavier, god you can just walk around all day eating, and the patisseries, oh boy, pan o chocolat for breakfast, there people know how to live! :wah:

Jeez, so are you planning to get your place on Rue De Abbessess? Thats kinda mental, I must tell her to look out for you, aussies being good neighbours and all that!

Tater Tazz · Post by **Tater Tazz** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:54 pm

My guess would be the witching hour!!!!!!!!!!! midnight.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:56 pm

The film 'Amélie' has a lot to answer for, Galbers!! I expect I shall be taking Romy to the Canal St Martin to skip stones. I'd really like to drag her over to the Rue Mouff on market day. Bit touristy, but fun. And thinking of fun - most Sundays there's a fun run in the Bois de Boulogne.. and then ya watch the old codgers from the south messing around with their boules, well petanque... :sneaky: Do you get across the water often?

I'm hoping to get some hiking in too in the Gaeltacht.

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:01 pm

koan;512794 wrote: I want to hear the whole story, spot. Ignore the moron :rolleyes: and fill us in!

The things you talk me into sometimes...

OK, just to help get to the half million post mark.

And the Admin said, Let there be validation: and there was validation.

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And the Admin called the validated Users, and the visitors he called Guests. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And the Admin said, Let there be a forum list in the midst of the front page, and let it divide the messages from each other.

And the Admin made the forums, and divided the message space for word games from the message space for discussions: and it was so.

And the Admin called the main user forum list "Relaxing in the Garden". And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And the Admin said, Let the user discussions be gathered together unto one place, and let some informative sticky threads appear: and it was so.

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And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And the Admin said, Let there be a login option in the user interface to distinguish the Members from the Guests; and let them be for Administrators, and for Moderators, and for Guests, and Newbies:

And let them be validated with a password to give update rights to the database: and it was so.

And the Admin made two great validations; the greater validation to rule the Moderators, and the lesser validation to rule the Users: he logged their accesses also.

And the Admin set the text boxes in the header title to give validation upon the site,

And to rule over the Moderators and over the Users, and to divide the validated from the guests: and the Admin saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:06 pm

Okay who actually read spots post?

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:06 pm

YZGI;512845 wrote: Okay who actually read spots post?

I got to listen to him read it aloud!

I'm pushing him for the rest of it :yh_clap

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:07 pm

AussiePam;512834 wrote: The film 'Amélie' has a lot to answer for, Galbers!! I expect I shall be taking Romy to the Canal St Martin to skip stones. I'd really like to drag her over to the Rue Mouff on market day. Bit touristy, but fun. And thinking of fun - most Sundays there's a fun run in the Bois de Boulogne.. and then ya watch the old codgers from the south messing around with their boules, well petanque... :sneaky: Do you get across the water often?

I'm hoping to get some hiking in too in the Gaeltacht.

Seriously though, my friend really does live on the rue de abessess, are you going to move anywhere near there, its all monmarte isn't it? The last time I was in Paris was in april, I was just hanging out with her and our American friend who lives in London, who I was also hanging out with in London, (Kensington, very nice). I know quite a lot of aussies in London as there are a lot of them there, they seem to like it, and don't mind the rain so much.

So you are also planning a trip to the Gaelteacht as well eh? So Galway, Donegal, Claire, Kerry? Which one? You will love it, if you havn't been there before, and of course you have great Irish (way better than me), god I wish I had your gift for languages.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:29 pm

Galbally;512849 wrote: Seriously though, my friend really does live on the rue de abessess, are you going to move anywhere near there, its all monmarte isn't it? The last time I was in Paris was in april, I was just hanging out with her and our American friend who lives in London, who I was also hanging out with in London, (Kensington, very nice). I know quite a lot of aussies in London as there are a lot of them there, they seem to like it, and don't mind the rain so much.

So you are also planning a trip to the Gaelteacht as well eh? So Galway, Donegal, Claire, Kerry? Which one? You will love it, if you havn't been there before, and of course you have great Irish (way better than me), god I wish I had your gift for languages.

You are way too kind on the language thing. My Irish is rusty as heck, I'll hafta get out me books and work on that a bit. I'm in the process of arranging a weeks independent walking round the Dingle area. Will have company to and from Tralee and then launch out on my own. Looking forward to it. Solo walking is how I keep sane, well... my kinda sane.

The Rue des Abbesses is sort of just down hill from all the kerfuffle in the Place du Tertre... so you get normal Parisians there. That metro also has one of the last original art deco signs. Nice. The apartment we're looking at is just off the R des A.

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abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:33 pm

spot;512841 wrote: The things you talk me into sometimes...

OK, just to help get to the half million post mark.

And the Admin said, Let there be validation: and there was validation.

And the Admin saw the validation, that it was good: and the Admin divided the validated from the visitors.

And the Admin called the validated Users, and the visitors he called Guests. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And the Admin said, Let there be a forum list in the midst of the front page, and let it divide the messages from each other.

And the Admin made the forums, and divided the message space for word games from the message space for discussions: and it was so.

And the Admin called the main user forum list "Relaxing in the Garden". And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And the Admin said, Let the user discussions be gathered together unto one place, and let some informative sticky threads appear: and it was so.

And the Admin called the user discussions General Forums; and the gathering together of the controversial posts called he Religions & Beliefs: and the Admin saw that it was good.

And the Admin said, Let the General Forums bring forth Introduction threads, and Members News, and Just For The Fun Of It, whose seed is in itself, upon the General Forums: and it was so.

And the General Forums brought forth Introduction threads, and Members News, and Just For The Fun Of It, and the Admin saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And the Admin said, Let there be a login option in the user interface to distinguish the Members from the Guests; and let them be for Administrators, and for Moderators, and for Guests, and Newbies:

And let them be validated with a password to give update rights to the database: and it was so.

And the Admin made two great validations; the greater validation to rule the Moderators, and the lesser validation to rule the Users: he logged their accesses also.

And the Admin set the text boxes in the header title to give validation upon the site,

And to rule over the Moderators and over the Users, and to divide the validated from the guests: and the Admin saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.:rolleyes: If you really wanted to help out you'd have split that 1 post into 18.

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:36 pm

Hey, creation isn't easy, give the guy a break!

I'm still waiting to see how the heck we arrive at jimbo. :wah:

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:37 pm

Anyone for tennis?

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:37 pm

Coffee?

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:38 pm

AussiePam;512869 wrote: You are way too kind on the language thing. My Irish is rusty as heck, I'll hafta get out me books and work on that a bit. I'm in the process of arranging a weeks independent walking round the Dingle area. Will have company to and from Tralee and then launch out on my own. Looking forward to it. Solo walking is how I keep sane, well... my kinda sane.

The Rue des Abbesses is sort of just down hill from all the kerfuffle in the Place du Tertre... so you get normal Parisians there. That metro also has one of the last original art deco signs. Nice.

Yes, Rue De Abessess, when you look out of her window, you are looking up the hill, which is quite steep as well, its a nice street I think, some nice shops, not too busy, some nice cafes down a few doors from her flat as well, so its nice in the summer to hang out, and not have to go into the city centre, I have also been at that metro entrance as well, its down the road from where she is.

As for Dingle, sure me dears I know it well, I have stayed in Dingle Town, Ventry, and up at the cottages near Inch beach. Dingle is just brilliant, you will love it, Mt Brandon and the connor pass are spectacular, and there are lots of places to walk, make sure and go up mt brandon, its fanastic, but be careful at the top cause on one side its a gently slope up to the summit, the other is a sheer 3,000 footd drop into Irelands only fiord. Also, make sure to get yourself across Dingle bay to the Beara pennisula and the Ring of Kerry, you have to see Moll's Gap and the Magilicuddy Reeks, they are spectacular as well, I love west kerry, its gods own country. You will have to tell me what you make of it when you get there! And don't worry you will soon brush up on the Irish over there, though of course people will speak english to you as well. You are very good at languages, don't be bashful about it, its a gift!

cars · Post by **cars** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:57 pm

Here's my contribution to that awesome number! Early Congrats Tomb!

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:01 pm

abbey;512872 wrote: :rolleyes: If you really wanted to help out you'd have split that 1 post into 18.

That would so be cheating, Abbs. I stopped where I did because nobody had shopped today.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:06 pm

Wow, half a million!