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Lalwendë
10-21-2008, 06:01 AM
Do you get this?
I've noticed to my surprise that my 4,000th Post is heading this way with all the speed of Gordon Brown chasing an Icelandic banker. Some how I feel I ought to do something special with it, as I've tried to do on my Nth Posts in the past, but that risks a.) ending up starting a really rubbish thread that you thought was impressive and everyone else thinks "yawwwwwn" and b.) you look dead uncool.
In fact a.) and b.) there might even apply to this thread....
Do you store up cunning thread ideas for your Nth Posts, like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter? Or do you waste it on a WW post accusing Mithalwen of being a cobbler and upsetting her?
And do you actually care?
Rune Son of Bjarne
10-21-2008, 06:37 AM
I do care, but I do not store anything up.
It is more a case of me suddenly realising a special number is comming up and then either make some panic post or I decide that I will hang onto the post until I figure out what I want to do with it. The problem with the latter is that I always end up forgetting and use the special post on some random thing like "Palantir of Fortune"
skip spence
10-21-2008, 06:38 AM
And do you actually care?
I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous! :)
Lalwendë
10-21-2008, 07:04 AM
I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous! :)
I wouldn't hold your breath, I'm such a flibbertigibbet these days I might do just what Rune says and waste it being facetious :D
What' funnier is with every pointless post I make time is counting down and using it to go "Hey! That was funny!" in response to an Assigned To Mordor post (and is the process even possibly getting chat-skwerled just to add to the sense of misery) is increasingly likely ;)
Morthoron
10-21-2008, 10:49 AM
Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.
Legate of Amon Lanc
10-21-2008, 11:17 AM
When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.
Aganzir
10-21-2008, 12:15 PM
I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?
Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much.
I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts.
So no, no storing up for me.
Lalwendë
10-21-2008, 01:48 PM
I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?
You're just too cool :p I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...
Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.
Well uncannily I am just a couple below that and I'm watching that counter grow each time I post and look, you've just made it go down more...
Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.
Any more of those amusing letters to the editor sir and you will soon be going "Oh God, my 1,000th post! What do I do to mark it!"
I think I might use it for a Crazy Caption actually. Why the jiggins not? I have a load of thread ideas stewing on topics I've been wanting to discuss but the irony is here I am rambling on and....:confused:
Formendacil
10-21-2008, 05:06 PM
The only post I ever bothered to track the arrival of was the 500th--for the obvious reason of then becoming eligible for a title, though that still wasn't something that came my way for a good while thereafter, and was not necessarily a consequence of attaining that lofty figure.
Actually... I don't even know how many posts I have right now.
Morthoron
10-22-2008, 07:33 AM
Perhaps the criteria for posting milestones should be changed to reflect a more Barrow-Downerish model. For instance, one's eleventieth post (Bilbo's Birthday), or one's 1420th post (a proper mark, to be sure), or 3824 (seemingly, the amount of werewolf threads in the Mirth Section).
It's just a thought. Geeze, lycanthropes can be so touchy.
Mithalwen
10-23-2008, 11:20 AM
You're just too cool :p I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...
I missed 50K too :( - one of those times when I realised I was a couple of miles off one evening but forgot all about it the next morning. But it hit 51K tidily as I pulled into my parking space yesterday. Most exciting of all was when my old car had the speedo reading 54321.0 as I climebed a hill in Kent.
I did think my 5555 should be special then I forgot.
Eönwë
10-23-2008, 11:43 AM
I forgot about my 1000.
Aganzir
10-23-2008, 12:06 PM
Before the Downs I used to frequent a forum with no reputation system where an user's reputation kind of depended on the number of posts - the more the better. It was a serious forum with relatively strict moderators, though, so no spam posts were allowed (except in the mirth section where users could eg just post jokes and others comment on them like "Haha! :D:D"). There I was much keener on how many posts I had.
I really like the Downs' rep system. It encourages to write proper posts instead of just trying to add up to the post count.
Lalwendë
10-23-2008, 02:20 PM
I missed 50K too - one of those times when I realised I was a couple of miles off one evening but forgot all about it the next morning. But it hit 51K tidily as I pulled into my parking space yesterday. Most exciting of all was when my old car had the speedo reading 54321.0 as I climebed a hill in Kent.
I did think my 5555 should be special then I forgot.
I'm glad I'm not alone in this odd little pleasure ;)
It's only in three posts' time (two now, actually - unless I get skwerled and have posts wiped for making up rambling threads like this of course!). :eek:
It always strikes me that Downers are a celebratory bunch, any excuse for a bit of a party, Tolkien's birthday, Bilbo's birthday, the Barrow Downs' birthday, the opening of an envelope.... so you surprise me, though you could all be much cooler than I am being all old now and having to find cheap thrills in things like numbers ;)
I'm oblivious as to my number of posts. All i know is that i'm horrible when it comes to posting here. .___.
Oh, look. Two seventy.
Shastanis Althreduin
10-24-2008, 07:49 AM
Lal is only 2 posts away! *cheer!*
Rikae
10-24-2008, 08:04 AM
I remember trying to think of clever things to say in my 666th and 1000th posts, but I think when they actually arrived, I forgot & made some inconsequential WW post. Or - no, wait, if I recall correctly 666 was something appropriately evil - can't remember what or find it again, though.
Thinlómien
10-24-2008, 08:04 AM
I don't really think I should be doing something special with 100th, 1000th or 3000th post or so on, but I do keep an eye on my post count and wait for the great numbers. Currently, 5000 is not very far away...
Rikae
10-24-2008, 08:05 AM
And the above appears to have been my 1499th post... so here's to 1500, and nothing clever to say! :smokin:
Thinlómien
10-24-2008, 08:07 AM
(Cross-posted...)
I remember trying to think of clever things to say in my 666th and 1000th posts, but I think when they actually arrived, I forgot & made some inconsequential WW post. Or - no, wait, if I recall correctly 666 was something appropriately evil - can't remember what or find it again, though.Aieeeeeeee, Rikae, watch out! Your 1500th is just one post away! :eek: :D ;)
Legate of Amon Lanc
10-24-2008, 08:44 AM
It's only in three posts' time (two now, actually - unless I get skwerled and have posts wiped for making up rambling threads like this of course!). :eek:
Now, here's a good idea - what about this: you start to make off-topic posts now, and they are deleted all the time, and this way you may celebrate your jubilee post over and over again:cool:
Mithalwen
10-24-2008, 11:02 AM
I'm glad I'm not alone in this odd little pleasure ;)
You are not - the odd thing is it is a habit I inherited from my mother who was otherwise the least number orientated person imaginable. Her very good school gave up trying to teach her maths and she had to give up a hotel job she loved because she had to make good any errors out of her pay and she couldn't afford to stay!
Eomer of the Rohirrim
10-24-2008, 03:38 PM
4000, eh? I can... yes, I can just about see it myself. ;)
I don't know how it happened though, Lal: you're a newbie, really. :p
This thread should be closed because it's only going to encourage people to get their post-count up. Unless a moderator deletes this post, I will have essentially stolen one.
Yes, I also obsess.
Lalwendë
10-24-2008, 03:52 PM
This is my 3999th post! :eek:
The very next one is IT!
OK, now if you lot were all real meanies you'd post something guaranteed to make me HAVE to bang out a post instantly and hit 'send' before I even had time to think about it :D
God, Eomer, I remember joining here and you were this old-timer! And you are not so far off I note...
Who has the most posts? Is it still H-I or Mr Saucepan?
I'm off to bind my fingers down...
skip spence
10-25-2008, 12:50 AM
This is my 3999th post! :eek:
The very next one is IT!
OK, now if you lot were all real meanies you'd post something guaranteed to make me HAVE to bang out a post instantly and hit 'send' before I even had time to think about it :D
God, Eomer, I remember joining here and you were this old-timer! And you are not so far off I note...
Who has the most posts? Is it still H-I or Mr Saucepan?
I'm off to bind my fingers down...
Ooo, only one left! Really, you can't fail Lalwende. When Alan Shearer scored his 200th premiership goal it would not have mattered at all if that goal were a poorly struck penalty that somehow found the net (it wasn't), his fans would have celebrated it with great gusto nonetheless. So just go ahead, get it over with!
Oh I also attach significance to numbers. I can drive many extra miles just to see that milometer reach a certain landmark or keep staring a digital watch for minutes until it reaches 22:22:22. Although I'm far from any particularly auspicious postcount on this board I will probably feel a tinge of sentimentality and importance when or if I reach lets say an even thousand.
Lalwendë
10-25-2008, 02:27 PM
I have a thing about always looking at the clock when it says 22:22 as well! It spooks me out actually...
Anyway, I've done it!!! Next big step is 4444, because that is like a square number or something like that.
Eönwë
10-26-2008, 01:03 PM
I have a thing about always looking at the clock when it says 22:22 as well! It spooks me out actually...
Anyway, I've done it!!! Next big step is 4444, because that is like a square number or something like that.
I do that too!
4444 is a special number. Last time I had a post-count off a similiar nature was at 333- I'm sure that was ages ago for you.
Although I'm far from any particularly auspicious postcount on this board
Not really- how about in 12 posts (321) or in 24 posts (333)?
Lalwendë
10-26-2008, 02:51 PM
I do that too!
4444 is a special number. Last time I had a post-count off a similiar nature was at 333- I'm sure that was ages ago for you.
I wish I could look back and see what I was posting back then, but correct me if I am wrong, mod persons, I think you can only look back to at max your last 1,000 posts in a 'numbered list'?
TheGreatElvenWarrior
10-26-2008, 05:36 PM
I thought it was only 500... oh well. I've only got like 900 posts or something, when I get to 1,000 I should have a party, with Lauri, of course! Maybe a tea party.
But as to not just take up posts, when I got to a Ghost Prince or something, I was excited, because I could get a personal title... Well that happened quickly:rolleyes:... Anyway, I was excited when I got to be a Wight, I got an congratulation pm for becoming a Shade. I was like Yay, somebody notices me!
I remember Lauri came to school one day to announce that she was A Wight, because she had reached to lofty number of 101 posts!
Diamond18
10-26-2008, 07:44 PM
I used post #3500 to start a Werewolf thread. And I just noticed that now.
Eönwë
10-27-2008, 04:00 PM
My clock now says 22:22. It reminded me of this thread.
What is the significance of 22:22 and 11:11? :\
Rikae
11-03-2008, 08:23 PM
I don't know what the significance is for Eönwë, but if I look at the clock at 11:11, I tell myself I get a wish.
It's even better if it's 11:11 pm with the alarm set on my digital clock, because then it's :11:11. ;)
Brinniel
11-15-2008, 07:57 PM
I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum
I do that too...except in miles. Though it's been months since I've driven my car...
Anyways, I've noticed I now have less than 50 posts until I reach 2,000. That should be an exciting mark for me, especially since I don't tend to post as much as others. I also like to keep track of my posting average. I got excited when I hit 0.8 posts per day, though it'll be worth celebrating when I actually manage to reach 1.0.
Oddwen
11-15-2008, 08:47 PM
I wish I could look back and see what I was posting back then, but correct me if I am wrong, mod persons, I think you can only look back to at max your last 1,000 posts in a 'numbered list'?
Actually, I believe you can search for a members' posts within a certain timeframe, so if you know approximately when this post number would have occurred you might be able to find it. :)
TheGreatElvenWarrior
11-15-2008, 08:48 PM
I'm sitting nicely on 1.98 posts per day! Although not as much as some, still more than others I guess!
Although, most of my 1.98 posts per day are used on rubbish posts...
Oddwen
11-15-2008, 09:09 PM
Actually, I believe you can search for a members' posts within a certain timeframe, so if you know approximately when this post number would have occurred you might be able to find it. :)
Well scratch that - you can search in certain forums for posts up to a year old, or for posts older than a year, but it's not going to give you the number of the post.
Estelyn Telcontar
11-26-2008, 02:27 PM
Dear me, my very next post is number 6,666 - should I make it evil (menacing chat skwerlz), humorous (another bumper sticker, crazy caption, or so), memorable (writing why I love the Downs), or intelligent (perhaps a great new Books topic)? Knowing me, I will forget all about it by tomorrow morning and waste it on something completely trivial.
Lalwendë
11-26-2008, 04:08 PM
Quick! All provoke Esty so she wastes her post! :P
Brinniel
11-26-2008, 09:30 PM
This is my 2,000th post. Go me. :smokin:
Lalwendë
11-27-2008, 06:33 AM
This is my 2,000th post. Go me. :smokin:
Shouldn't this go in one of those "You know you're addicted to..." threads? It's Thanksgiving and you are an American and you are celebrating your 2,000th post? That's brilliant! :D
Thinlómien
11-27-2008, 03:30 PM
I'm doing a Brinn and dedicating this post for reaching 5,000 posts. And I will go to sleep right after writing this so I won't be tempted to break my nice even number right after reaching it. ;)
5,000 posts is quite a lot. Not that much for my almost four years here, of course - seemingly 3.46 posts per day. But that is actually quite a lot since I wasn't too active as a newbie, and there have always been holiday periods when I haven't posted anything for even weeks.
This makes me feel rather mummified, though. I mean, one could start questioning her degree of no-lifeishness after reaching such a number. :D
But I'm still happy to have reached such an impressive post count and I hope that some day, I will have doubled that number and reached 10,000. :eek:
Rune Son of Bjarne
11-27-2008, 03:36 PM
2.57 posts per day. . .
It is not very much if you consider how active I was as a newbie, I had an extreme post count in my first 6 months. Anyways I have had many periods where I have not posted for months and I guess it shows, i am 2000 posts behind Lommy!
Brinniel
11-27-2008, 10:17 PM
Shouldn't this go in one of those "You know you're addicted to..." threads? It's Thanksgiving and you are an American and you are celebrating your 2,000th post? That's brilliant!
Indeed. My 2,000 posts must be one of the many things I am thankful for. :D
Estelyn Telcontar
11-28-2008, 01:58 AM
So, the 6,666 post has been written - and it was a moderating post. :( It had to be done - sorry, folks. I promise I will make an effort to post something interesting soon. :Merisu:
Bêthberry
11-28-2008, 02:43 PM
So, the 6,666 post has been written - and it was a moderating post. :( It had to be done - sorry, folks. I promise I will make an effort to post something interesting soon. :Merisu:
pfft, Esty, a likely excuse! You could have left it for Ulmo to do and saved the milestone post for the next installment of, oh, I don't know, maybe something mildly interesting like REB III or a report about the book on music in Tolkien, the deadline for submission of which must be right around now. ;)
Beregond
12-07-2008, 12:16 PM
I have 900 posts here! This is my 901st! It took me 7 and a half years! :D
I have almost 20,000 at another forum. It was traditional to post a new thread rife with smilies, positively overrun with them, often arranged in a decorative pattern. But milestones are like birthdays: after a while it (you) gets old and you wonder if having made so many posts is a GOOD thing, or whether it's a sign of the absence of (what do they call it?) life...
Eönwë
12-27-2008, 04:01 PM
Nooo! I forgot my 1234th post!
Beregond
01-02-2009, 11:15 AM
Someone call emergency services, because I have 999 posts! :eek: Forgive the lame joke; I'm just excited.
Eomer of the Rohirrim
03-03-2009, 10:55 AM
4000 posts. A nice landmark to reach, and there could be only one thread on which to make said post: The Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread. :smokin:
Eönwë
03-03-2009, 05:17 PM
1500. Not too good, but I noticed.
TheGreatElvenWarrior
03-05-2009, 04:18 PM
1500. Not too good, but I noticed.This is more than 500 posts ahead of me, and you have been a member less time than I. This makes me sad, that I have more of a life than others...:(
Eönwë
03-26-2009, 01:36 PM
This is more than 500 posts ahead of me, and you have been a member less time than I. This makes me sad, that I have more of a life than others...:(
Are you saying that many Downers don't have lives?
All Downers have lives, it's just that some coincide more with the Downs than others... ;)
Rikae
03-26-2009, 02:30 PM
Oh no, post 2K is fast approaching! :eek: The 'downs will crash! The world's economy will collapse....! Oh yeah - too late.
TheGreatElvenWarrior
04-06-2009, 03:22 PM
Are you saying that many Downers don't have lives?
All Downers have lives, it's just that some coincide more with the Downs than others... ;)
No, actually I was complaining that I can only get on the Downs during my study hall at school, until they catch me.
Morthoron
04-14-2009, 08:33 PM
Well, I think I'll savor my 999th post before I am fully integrated into the 'Downer matrix. Perhaps I'll go argue with davem.;)
Morthoron
04-21-2009, 11:52 AM
Hmmm...I don't feel any different at 1000.
Perhaps it's like ingesting mescaline or mushrooms, and it takes a half hour or thereabouts to feel the effects...or so I've heard.
Eönwë
06-16-2009, 04:33 AM
I just passed my 2000th. I don't really feel any different.
Morsul the Dark
06-16-2009, 07:59 AM
I do save my Nth posts for cool stuff, then I forget about it and suddenly I've missed it...:eek:
then again EVERY Post I do is important especially such brilliant post of the past including this chest nut:
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=463575&postcount=7482
Rikae
06-16-2009, 12:02 PM
Epic fail (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=600203&postcount=153).
Eönwë
07-06-2009, 12:05 PM
Epic fail (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=600203&postcount=153).
Mine also disappeared into the endless realm of that game.
Morsul the Dark
07-06-2009, 04:28 PM
I watch my count with a hawk's eye!
LadyBrooke
07-06-2009, 08:23 PM
Well my counts not nearly as good as any of your's but I am quite proud of myself for finally reaching 50 posts. Especially since I spent my first few months too terrified of making a fool of myself to actually post anything.:rolleyes::o
Now to see if I can make 50 more before school starts again, and I am crushed under the weight of Pre-Cal, Bio II/Chem II, College Credit U.S. history, and AP English. Can somebody explain why I thought this would be a good schedule?:(
Inziladun
07-06-2009, 09:13 PM
Epic fail (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=600203&postcount=153).
My 1000th snuck in on me in my first WW game.
Nessa Telrunya
07-07-2009, 05:12 AM
Geez, now I feel so small and insignificant, with my tiny post count... Of course, the 100th is fast approaching, and this is the longest I've ever stayed on any forum. *cries tears of pride*
TheGreatElvenWarrior
07-08-2009, 07:43 PM
Geez, now I feel so small and insignificant, with my tiny post count... Of course, the 100th is fast approaching, and this is the longest I've ever stayed on any forum. *cries tears of pride*I remember that I made my first 100 posts in a matter of a week and a half, but a tiny post count doesn't always mean you're no good. There are many BDers that make wonderful posts and have really high reputation and they have less than 600 posts.
Morsul the Dark
07-08-2009, 08:14 PM
Well said sir, A good portion of my posts are guesses in quiz threads as well as plantir of fortune... so take it as you will. Of course we all have great posts but sometimes a higher count simply means a addiction, as I recall I once spent 27 hours straight on the forum 74 posts that period alone....ahhh summer vacation of high school how I miss thee
Eönwë
07-11-2009, 10:17 AM
Oh no! I missed my 2222nd post. I had been waiting for that... :rolleyes:
Morsul the Dark
09-21-2009, 07:18 AM
My birth year quickly approaches!:smokin:
Holbytlass
09-28-2009, 09:24 PM
I'm posting just to see what post I'm up to, since I haven't been in awhile....
EDIT: wow! I'm surprised I'm passed 1,000. O'course now I have to go back and see what lame thing I wrote in my 1000th post :)
EDIT again: Just as I suspected, nothing special....a reply to who should play Beorn in The Hobbit.
TheGreatElvenWarrior
09-28-2009, 09:43 PM
Oh, I missed my 1500th post!:(
Thinlómien
09-29-2009, 01:24 AM
Great to see you around, Holby. :)
As for me, I guess my next interesting one is 6543 or 6666. :D
Morsul the Dark
10-09-2009, 09:55 AM
I present to you all, this, my 2,000 post! *Fan Fare Music* What a glorious time I've had posting these 2,000 Posts and hope to get much much more:)
Pitchwife
10-13-2009, 04:07 PM
Just so I don't miss it, here's #500! Didn't think it would come so soon... well, thanks to the Quiz Room and Werewolf.
TheGreatElvenWarrior
11-26-2009, 05:55 PM
Almost to 1600!:D I love the Downs!
Galadriel55
08-18-2012, 08:34 AM
I look forward to reaching the next biggie with my post count, and I actually caught them in time in my first thousand or so, but now my trend is to remember until about 20 posts before, forget about it when the time comes, and remember again some 20 posts after. nd I am too lazy to go back and count the posts just to make a note in the end saying it's my n-th.
I recently missed my 4444, a post which I meant to post on this thread. I hope I remember to catch my 5000, but even more importantly, my 5555.
ETA: just realized I have a gross of reps! :D Good thing I didn't miss this one at least! :p
Morthoron
09-06-2012, 10:43 AM
Although still not something came my way after a while, does not necessarily result to achieve this noble figures.
I've read your sentence a few times. Sense not still make grammatically of speaking.
Mithalwen
09-06-2012, 01:01 PM
There is a vague sense that there might be some profundity in there if you ran it through Googletranslate a few times... but the screen name suggests Spam.
Inziladun
09-06-2012, 01:15 PM
There is a vague sense that there might be some profundity in there if you ran it through Googletranslate a few times... but the screen name suggests Spam.
Even spammers have angst. Sometimes so much they forget to advertise their product. ;)
Morthoron
09-06-2012, 02:17 PM
There is a vague sense that there might be some profundity in there if you ran it through Googletranslate a few times... but the screen name suggests Spam.
Infoleather? That seems to be a perfectly legitimate Tolkienesque moniker. If Tolkien worked on the Internet. For a hotel chain. In an Asiatic country. And spoke English as a second language. :D
Mithalwen
09-06-2012, 03:07 PM
Are we not forgetting Infoleatheriel lesser known sister of Beruthiel who loathed cats but who bred dogs and possibly wore tweed and sensible shoes?
Galadriel55
09-06-2012, 03:55 PM
There is a vague sense that there might be some profundity in there if you ran it through Googletranslate a few times... but the screen name suggests Spam.
It looks like somehting one of those (http://ackuna.com/badtranslator)can spit out. But my faith in Google Translate is not that high either...
Mithalwen
09-06-2012, 06:01 PM
"We mankind? Or we dance? My login information is vital, my hands are cold, I was looking for answers on your knees"
"Please go back and do it fast, the race also said a strong sense for the war, but the bread was intelligent, understanding of wealth, not only men also for people skills; But time and chance happeneth
This war must be that we can protect the destroyer, will eat the whole life of the building, but I don't like the definition for your own glory speed Warrior arrow lightsaber. Just love the protection"
Or not-that is the question: it is or the whip and fate in the heart or the problems at sea, and at the end of his weapons, theatre"
Oh Galadriel, what have you done..... at least you have got me over my 8K post angst. The first is my sig... kudos to anyone who can identify the others...
Galadriel55
09-06-2012, 06:46 PM
8K......wow. :eek: Congrats, Mama Wolf! *hugs*
The last bit sounds a bit like the ever so famous "to be or not to be". Least of all when I put the first couple sentences of the soliloquy into the translator it gave me a few similar words...
Nerwen
09-06-2012, 09:07 PM
I'm sure you're right, G55.
And I believe the second one (after Mith's translated sig) is from Ecclesiates –"the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong" etc. No idea about the next.
Mithalwen
09-06-2012, 10:30 PM
So far so right (very impressed and I shall bake cyber cake for you in the morning) . The second is much harder but on the Desert Island discs principle of Bible, Shakespeare, one other work it is Tolkien.. despite the light sabre..how in Arda did that get there?
Nerwen
09-06-2012, 11:15 PM
So far so right (very impressed and I shall bake cyber cake for you in the morning) . The second is much harder but on the Desert Island discs principle of Bible, Shakespeare, one other work it is Tolkien.. despite the light sabre..how in Arda did that get there?
Aha! It's Faramir to Frodo, isn't it?
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
Nerwen
09-06-2012, 11:18 PM
Oh, and "lightsaber" = "bright sword". Can't really argue with that...
Nerwen
09-06-2012, 11:41 PM
By the way:
"The same one Nerwen is not diabolic in the principle. " –Helmet.
Mithalwen
09-07-2012, 04:52 AM
Nerwen - you are a very scary lady! And snork. Yes it was just the way a different fantasy universe became the first option seemed quite surreal.. and the stream of nouns seemed as if it was beginning to panic...Anyway lots of kudos and cake for the ladies of Lorien.... lemon drizzle, Lamingtons... maybe something else..
MCRmyGirl4eva
09-07-2012, 04:21 PM
What post am I on? I don't really notice or care, but the people who do get a present. Here it is: :smokin:
Galadriel55
09-08-2012, 03:21 PM
What post am I on? I don't really notice or care, but the people who do get a present. Here it is: :smokin:
MCR, you're about to hit 200!!! Don't spend it on "Haha, that was funny" - or something along the lines of; write a good post and add on the bottom that it's your 200th. Please? :Merisu:
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
09-10-2012, 01:40 PM
I got my two-thousandth post up not long ago and didn't notice for about two days. I can't help feeling that if you take the same trouble over each one you'll automatically not waste those that happen to put lots of zeroes into your post count. There are so many things on the internet that are potential sources of angst; why make more? :smokin:
TheGreatElvenWarrior
09-19-2012, 11:47 PM
Goodness, I made it all the way to 2000 posts a while ago, but it sort of passed me by. Now I have hundred of posts to go until the next milestone. I don't think that I am to 2222 yet, that will be fun. :)
EDIT: Now I have reached 2222 posts, and passed it.
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