Adland

Bittertruth beats you, he's 351 and the oldest active member off the top of my head (apart from me and crew)

You beat me by a few thousand, and I think I signed up in 2001.

Shit, that's years ago.

Yaknow, I was thinking of adding a userpoint system, where comments+posts add points so then the user number 'status' thing would be irrelevant, the highest points would count. ;P Purken only has eleven posts in seven years man!

Prisoner: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Prisoner: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Prisoner: I am not a number! I am a free man!
Number Two: (Laughter)

TDD, 32K'ers are a while back too - usernumber are over 80k these days! You're from a way older - younger? - generation. Ha!

I just realized there's a much lower user number (who's not crew) around here, I've nudged him toward this thread.

*recovering from nudge which was more like a poke*

I'm #49

The difference between a poke and a prod is the number of fingers used !!

Number 49 and just 13 posts?! I am number 32949 and I have 312 posts! Evil internet! Evil, evil internet!

I'm turning off the computer, and I'm going outside to play. Or at least to try to find some kind of life. Maybe I'll find a rabbit hole.

See, now you guys are forcing me to come up with some sort of point system where adgrunts get gold stars for each post and something for comments and something for rating, and uh, maybe a post versus user number thing, or ten stars for each post they made which someone else 'favorited' or.. *gets dizzY*

Let's make Adland just the old BBSs were back in the olden days. No images, avatars, or other fancy stuff. Nothing but green text and a flashing square cursor. If you can last through that, you deserve a gold star. I miss those days.

Don't tempt me mate, I know how to dress this up in a CSS skin that would add a blinking green cursor to the pitch-black empty screen and force y'all to type "dir" to see what the latest postings were. Hehehehee.

adgrunt deep.ed did it to his blog and I had a ball navigating it when it was like that. Apparently though, he said I was the only one who could manage. /geekalert.

FDISK

..and then install Linux. :P

Hey, two pokes, and we got two more posts from, Goodbye! ;) ;)

Of course, poking Zeus, who sometimes takes the earthly form of Claymore, probably isn't a good idea.

Oh, and Dabitch is Swedish. That means Viking. I don't think it is a good idea to poke a Viking too much.

Hah. But the results could be amusing. You can always tame a Viking with a Bishops Finger. ;)

I don't "tame" is the word people think of to describe me when drunk...

A true Viking.

Hah! I think I meant tame you as a bribe after poking to reduce the risk of danger.
Sorry, it was late and I was fried when typing that post.

TDD's word association.

Woman + Swedish = Viking

Viking?

# 3502 reporting for duty. I never looked up my number before.

I've created a monster!

Meh. Can I buy a lower number?

You think yours is high? #79065

I dare the first 80K user to come and pipe up in this thread. I'll buy yous a beeeeeer...

I'm #22855. I can't get a free beer, I've been here too long.....

P.S. Concerning Vikings - Apparently, I'm a Jewish Viking.

The Swedish Vikings had a substantial settlement in Ukraine (around 1100 AD [or CE]). My father's parents came from outside of Kiev, and my hair is blondish-brown (it's much lighter when I get some sun). It's very likely that somewhere in my ancestory, a Swedish Viking "planted a seed". (Of course, it's also just as possible that the story that my grandfather told about someone in the family being fathered by a member of the Romanov family is true. Which would mean that I'm of royal blood. That's why the guy at Ellis Island assigned a transliteration of the Yiddish for "noble" as my grandfather's last name). Probably both are true... :-)

[Remember that to be born Jewish, your mother has to be Jewish. They always know who the mother is....]

I'm #172 - suck it.

The Mensa publication Isolated M has built a superstition around subscriber ID numbers being good luck. People scramble to renew their subscriptions in time to be able to keep their own personal lucky numbers.

Maybe we can start the same superstition here. Then I can have two lucky numbers!

Did you just out yourself as a Mensa member? *bows to superior intellect* heh!

Love that idea, my lucky number is 1. :)

Old deleted accounts might suddenly be worth something for those who want their real lucky number. Wonder who #666 is. They haven't logged in quite some time.

If #666 ever becomes available, I'll take it!

Screw low - I want #666 too!