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Vompatti 
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Posted: February 18 2010 at 03:43 |
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I'd like to write a novel while eating potato chips.
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zappaholic
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:44 |
It'll take me at least the rest of my life to get to 5 digits at the rate I'm going.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Dean
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:00 |
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this post count game is a doddle.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:57 |
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Yeah, plus we would have to factor in the number of times they go out to eat, average number of days people miss one or more meals, vacations, etc.
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Dean
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:56 |
 SaltyJon wrote:
That's assuming only one recipe is used per meal. Let's say that each meal has a main dish, along with 1 side dish at lunch and 2 at dinner. That makes it 20,000/[(1+2+3)*365]=9 years, 48 days and breakfast.
Edit: We've also left out dessert. I'll not bother updating my calculations, though.
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Me thinks Raff meant 20,000 different recipes so there will be a recipe duplication ratioto factor in.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:38 |
That's assuming only one recipe is used per meal. Let's say that each meal has a main dish, along with 1 side dish at lunch and 2 at dinner. That makes it 20,000/[(1+2+3)*365]=9 years, 48 days and breakfast. Edit: We've also left out dessert. I'll not bother updating my calculations, though.
Edited by SaltyJon - February 17 2010 at 18:38
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Dean
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:34 |
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SaltyJon
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:33 |
If I weren't on PA as much as I am...I could probably be pretty good at playing bass right now. 
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Raff
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:31 |
Congrats on your 20k, Scott  ! If nothing bad happens, I should be reaching that mark in a couple of months or so. What else could I have done instead? Perhaps tried 20,000 recipes (I probably have many times that number at home) .
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Epignosis
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:21 |
Dean wrote:
It's a damn good job we don't have a word-count tally running too because that would be really embarrassing: Hello, my name is Dean I have verbal diarrhoea and have nothing worthwhile to say but If I use enough multisyllabic words without any form of punctuation I can give the outward impression of being quite informative and erudite without actually conveying a message of any kind or adding anything of importance to the thread. |
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SaltyJon
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:21 |
rushfan4 wrote:
Time to update this thread to 20,000 other things I could have done. :
What is really, really freaky, is that I am now tied with Padraic who also reached 20,000 posts today. As most of you probably remember his user id used to be Natural Science before he changed it. As soon as I reached 20,000 posts, my iTunes randomly selected Natural Science as the next song to play. |
Eerie. 
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Dean
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:18 |
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It's a damn good job we don't have a word-count tally running too because that would be really embarrassing: Hello, my name is Dean I have verbal diarrhoea and have nothing worthwhile to say but If I use enough multisyllabic words without any form of punctuation I can give the outward impression of being quite informative and erudite without actually conveying a message of any kind or adding anything of importance to the thread.
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Epignosis
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:07 |
No, no...it's 10,000 plus 20,000...
...because I voted for beer. 
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rushfan4
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Posted: February 17 2010 at 18:02 |
Time to update this thread to 20,000 other things I could have done. :
What is really, really freaky, is that I am now tied with Padraic who also reached 20,000 posts today. As most of you probably remember his user id used to be Natural Science before he changed it. As soon as I reached 20,000 posts, my iTunes randomly selected Natural Science as the next song to play.
Edited by rushfan4 - February 17 2010 at 18:17
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:56 |
Or found my 10,000 posts thread... Gosh, when did that occur? 
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progismylife
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:54 |
You could have found my 10,000 posts thread and then condemned the act of marking such an embarrassing achievement
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:52 |
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You could have come camping with me on Saturday. It was amazing.
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:25 |
hahhahaha... belated Congratulations Dean... make that 10145 home brewed beers for you
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Dean
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:22 |
Pah!, Just noticed I've over-shot my 10K 'anniversary' by 145 posts. 
Hey! We joined within a few days of each other.  ... man, you have the same life as me... you need to get out more. 
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micky
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Posted: March 01 2009 at 19:11 |
hahah.. this thread was hopefully not a farewell and kiss my ass thread... maybe he is taking my advice and making those 10000 beers.. rushfan4
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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