Something else to do in the "northern" off season!
 

I noticed that Mike (Irishmafia) is nearing the 5K mark on posts. Let's set up a pool to see who gets the closest as to when this happens. Of course, this is merely for fun, no wagering please.

I'll start the ball rolling by saying that it will happen on Wednesday, 11/15/06.

At what time of the day?

Bob

Give me November 11th...

Oh now...come on. That's splitting hairs, isn't it?!?!? :eek:

I will go right in the middle.....November 13

If you think about it, Irish can stay at 4999 until HE is ready to make someone a winner and once he goes beyond 5000 every one of his posts will carry the total (5000 + x) so if you are not online when it happens, you may never know. For some reason, I just don't think that Mike watches his total posts quite as carefully as he watches B&S, S&O, F&F though.

BTW November 10:D

Nov 9th!

Sooner if he keeps post whoring by starting "Dakota email me" threads.
:D

If he starts to hold out at 4999, call tie base goes to the runner a myth.. or say the black part of the plate isnt part of the plate.

Well, looks like Nov 9th isn't going to happen, and My 11/11 doesn't look too good either.

People can post what they see though.

4988 right now, at 4:03 CST on Nov 9.

Give me Nov 13, noon.

10 to go as of 2030 hours ET 11/9

I give up, hes obviously sandbagging. This is a rigged black sox type deal here.

;)

And the winner is...... :D

And the winner is..... :confused:

If one is to believe Mike with his post "Just to put it to rest.... " (which given the time stamp it does appear likely), it occurred yesterday 11/13 at 12:52 PM ET. Which would make Andy the winner because (1) he called 11/13 first and (2) he didn't specify a time.

obviously rigged my mbcrowder and irish...

sad really

:cool:
;)

Another pool?
 

Dakota seems to be closing on 4K now... (Posts: 3,942)

I'll take a stab at 12/23/2006.

Nah. 12/30/06.

If I seem to be taking too long for you guys, somebody could just post something about constitutional interpretations or libertarianism to get me going... ;)

The "libertarian world" is so vile and filthy that it is by far the most unrealistic and ignorant of all political persuasions. The "I have a dream speech" for Libertarians would go something like thus:
"I have a dream today. A dream where crack houses, whore houses, and schools would all legally coexhist on the same street". I have a dream that one day all Drugs would be on the market without regulation. Let the market determine whether a drug will kill your sick child or not! I have a dream today of that freedom!"

Hows that?

I didn't say I was a (capital "L") Libertarian, but I do lean that way with respect to the proper role of the federal government. State and local government is another matter (or used to be before the 14th amendmend made us all one big happy overpowering government...).

The states and locales do have a proper role in exercising their police powers, including regulating public nuisances and laws regarding public safety. However, even that is being abused by the anti-smoking, anti-alcohol, and anti-fat nazis.

How's that? :cool:

Tom's last 56 posts took 32 days, off-season I guess. Factoring in holidays and a couple of horses finally dying, I'll extrapolate that to 35 days. That works out to Jan 2, which I'll pick.

Crap, I was hoping you were one of them "Disband the FDA cuz its not in the constitution" "if the market demands a red light district next to the elementary school who are we to regulate?" libertarians.

We probably agree on more than we disagree then, since you have a brain, unlike hard core libertarians/anarchists so unfortunately I cannot provide for you the post whoring opportunities you need. :D

As you said, crap! (Increasing the post count on the cheap....) ;)

You're dream is realized! Such a place already exists.


It's called Washington, DC.

:( I have decided today that I do WAY to much READING of these discussions and WAY to little time POSTING!:eek: I guess most of the time some of the discussions are just way to much flaming of other posters. I just try to sift through everything thats been said and try to pick up some solid knowledge.
:D Now I'm only 4,945 some odd posts behind irish!:D ;)

Hey, if you consider what we do here "flaming", you must consider the baseball board to be a freakin' inferno! ;)

:D That's exactly right Dakota! LOL I wasn't speaking of the softball board in particular when I said about flaming.I was commenting on the forums in general how stupid they can get. I belong to ABUA and NFHS also and I can't get over how stupid some people can get. I will say that the baseball board seems to be the worst.:rolleyes: I don't look at all the boards here just the ones for my sports which are baseball,softball and wrestling so maybe somewhere else is worse.
I just want to let you guys know how great I think this place is!Like I said I don't post much but I READ everything trying to learn anything I can.

I was gonna say, here on the softball board there is nothing remotely near flaming. Even when we disagree, we tend to do it with style.

:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Okay...it is time to post something about constitutional interpretations or libertarianism to get Tom busy posting!!! He hasn't made 4K yet!!!! :D

Will this work
 

Well.... could be that one could view the umpire as part of a facist governance of a highly regulated system of softball.

Will that work.

I predicted he would do it yesterday, so he's probably tormenting me.
My new guess is the 10th.

Actually, it is the off-season, holiday season mellowness.

Fascism on the softball field is OK by me, so long as I'm the one in charge!

It's called Washington, DC.

New motto for the district's license plates:

"Washington, DC—A Work-Free Drug Place."



In Trenton, New Jersey, years ago, the operators of a day care center complained about the crack house nearby. Authorities immediately investigated and promptly shut down . . .

the day care center.

Well....the actual date was 1/25/07. We should have gotten into a discussion about background checks a long time ago! :D

I was still closest. :D

Yeah. The second time around! :rolleyes:

Second-guessing is a national past time, even when it's aimed at yourself.

BTW, second is like a silver medal in the Olympics, everyone else but the gold winner thinks second was ok.

Second place is the First Loser. :D ;)