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We recently forgot to celebrate the forum's second birthday, and in it's 25 months of existence we've accumulated 77,471 posts. But when will post 100,000 be made? Make your prediction by 7 March. The closest guess wins a fantastic item of Countdown memorabilia that I stole from the studio a while back.

September 5th 2010 at 4.05pm

October 20th, 6pm. That free notepad is mine.

November 21st at 9pm.

Ben Wilson wrote:That free notepad is mine.

It's way better than that dude.

September 20th 2010, 5:16.23 pm GMT

September 20th 2010, 5:16.22 pm GMT

Tomorrow. Zef and I are going to stay up all night spamming the forum.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:That free notepad is mine.

It's way better than that dude.

Is it the fruit machine from Calendar Countdown?

2010/10/14 00:00:01

August 17th, 00:30

30th August 2010, at 5 pm.

20th December at 3pm

November 19th 2010, 6:25pm

8th September 2010 at 11.12pm.

I'll take a wild stab at January 19th 2011 at 9:36pm.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:That free notepad is mine.

It's way better than that dude.

It's not the RW Memorial Trophy is it? Cos just after an interesting conversation with Jay about security I found myself standing unattended next to an open cupboard with something that looked awfully like it in it.

Heck it's the closest I'm gonna get to it then!
22:40 on 03/07/2010

Things are hotting up!

Damn, I lost.

Charlie Reams wrote:in it's 25 months

Damn, I was sure I made a guess.

Adam Gillard wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:in it's 25 months

Another valuable contribution.

It's currently 97,686 posts..... (including this one)

Rhys Benjamin wrote:It's currently 97,686 posts..... (including this one)

Please post more updates like this!

97,694.

Yes, I'm a geek!

The way I see it, if it hits any time between now and November 5th, victory shall be mine. Wonder if there's any way I can slip some speed into James Robinson's coffee to get him to recap faster...

Ben Wilson wrote:The way I see it, if it hits any time between now and November 5th, victory shall be mine. Wonder if there's any way I can slip some speed into James Robinson's coffee to get him to recap faster...

Oh and I should add that if I do win this fantastic prize, it'll get added to the prize pile at COLIN.

97777 posts (inc. this one)

Rhys Benjamin wrote:97777 posts (inc. this one)

Thanks.

Ian Volante wrote:

Rhys Benjamin wrote:97777 posts (inc. this one)

Thanks.

You bastard Ian, now he's going to have to count them all again.

97879

Unless I say, that always includes the post I'm writing.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:97879

Unless I say, that always includes the post I'm writing.

Does it include this one?

Rhys Benjamin wrote:97879

Unless I say, that always includes the post I'm writing.

Do another 2119 posts just like that one, but upping the number each time, and you'll soon get that coveted 100,000th.

Now I've got to count them again.

97944.... I think.

Ben Wilson wrote:The way I see it, if it hits any time between now and November 5th, victory shall be mine. Wonder if there's any way I can slip some speed into James Robinson's coffee to get him to recap faster...

Unfortunately I wouldn't touch it, as I despise coffee. Nothing like good ol' English tea for me.

97990

98000!!!

98027

98349

Rhys Benjamin wrote:93349

Is it really necessary to keep doing that

P.S. You're 5,000 out.

James Robinson wrote:

Rhys Benjamin wrote:98349

Is it really necessary to keep doing that

I don't mind.

Looks like it's down to me and Carson with 7:30pm on Friday being the turning point. And at the rate things are going right now, I'm going to miss out by literally a few hours.

Ben Wilson wrote:Looks like it's down to me and Carson with 7:30pm on Friday being the turning point. And at the rate things are going right now, I'm going to miss out by literally a few hours.

Head over to the Mass Noun Plurals thread.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:Looks like it's down to me and Carson with 7:30pm on Friday being the turning point. And at the rate things are going right now, I'm going to miss out by literally a few hours.

Head over to the Mass Noun Plurals thread.

I'm not THAT desperate.

Phil Makepeace wrote:November 19th 2010, 6:25pm

Ben, you mean between me and you. I think you have until 6.12pm tomorrow evening. Could be close.

Phil Makepeace wrote:

Phil Makepeace wrote:November 19th 2010, 6:25pm

Ben, you mean between me and you. I think you have until 6.12pm tomorrow evening. Could be close.

Bollocks, didn't read as far down as your post. Oh well, fortunately I have plenty more COLIN prizes up my sleeve. Might announce a couple of the spot prizes, see if it generates some posting interest...

Didn't read this?

We've had "the 100,000th post" already. We've yet to have 100,000 posts.
I'm not trying to be annoying, I would have thought it was the sort of vital semantics that you guys would love to talk about.

Whilst the thread says "the 100,000th post" and not 100,000 total active posts, Charlie quotes the accumulated total as "77,471 posts", whilst the post itself was the 78,210th.
So there's conflicting info going round.

I kind of wish there was a massive prize on offer here and then some of you might actually engage with my statistical study rather than ignore me like some kind of countdown forum freak.

Matt Morrison wrote:Whilst the thread says "the 100,000th post" and not 100,000 total active posts, Charlie quotes the accumulated total as "77,471 posts", whilst the post itself was the 78,210th.

Which is kinda the reason I'm going by the counter on the bottom of the page.

Ben Wilson wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Whilst the thread says "the 100,000th post" and not 100,000 total active posts, Charlie quotes the accumulated total as "77,471 posts", whilst the post itself was the 78,210th.

Which is kinda the reason I'm going by the counter on the bottom of the page.

DON'T TRUST THE MACHINES

Ben Wilson wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Whilst the thread says "the 100,000th post" and not 100,000 total active posts, Charlie quotes the accumulated total as "77,471 posts", whilst the post itself was the 78,210th.

Which is kinda the reason I'm going by the counter on the bottom of the page.

Yeah sure, but it's not one being accurate and one being inaccurate, they are counting two separate things.
Ah well, I hope some joker posts "the 100,000th post" and then deletes it and posts "the 100,000th post" again.

Matt Morrison wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Whilst the thread says "the 100,000th post" and not 100,000 total active posts, Charlie quotes the accumulated total as "77,471 posts", whilst the post itself was the 78,210th.

Which is kinda the reason I'm going by the counter on the bottom of the page.

Yeah sure, but it's not one being accurate and one being inaccurate, they are counting two separate things.
Ah well, I hope some joker posts "the 100,000th post" and then deletes it and posts "the 100,000th post" again.

Of course, if the counter hits 100 000 by this evening, the whole point is moot anyway.

So crack to it, Morrison.

Ben Wilson wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:I'm going by the counter on the bottom of the page.

Yeah sure, but it's not one being accurate and one being inaccurate, they are counting two separate things.
Ah well, I hope some joker posts "the 100,000th post" and then deletes it and posts "the 100,000th post" again.

Of course, if the counter hits 100 000 by this evening, the whole point is moot anyway.

So crack to it, Morrison.

I'm going to delete one of my posts for every new post that is made AND LEAVE YOU HANGING IN OBLIVION FOREVER.

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm going to delete one of my posts for every new post that is made AND LEAVE YOU HANGING IN OBLIVION FOREVER.

I'm looking forward to when you have a negative number of posts. But as for the "100,000th post", although we'll know when the counter has reached 100,000 will it be a viable task to work out which post triggered it, or does that not really matter anyway?

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm going to delete one of my posts for every new post that is made AND LEAVE YOU HANGING IN OBLIVION FOREVER.

I'm looking forward to when you have a negative number of posts. But as for the "100,000th post", although we'll know when the counter has reached 100,000 will it be a viable task to work out which post triggered it, or does that not really matter anyway?

Given the volume of autism this forum possesses (and I include myself in that) I will be amazed if we don't have someone identifying it almost immediately.

Michael Wallace wrote:I will be amazed if we don't have someone identifying it almost immediately.

I was thinking this earlier. I started thinking about how to work it out and before I'd spend like a second on it I thought, fuck it, Robbo will know.

I'm glad you're all getting into this now. Not so mental now am I? Actually, I never do those autism OCD test things on Facebook, maybe I should start.

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Michael Wallace wrote:I will be amazed if we don't have someone identifying it almost immediately.

I was thinking this earlier. I started thinking about how to work it out and before I'd spend like a second on it I thought, fuck it, Robbo will know.

Not likely.

Matt Morrison wrote:I'm glad you're all getting into this now. Not so mental now am I? Actually, I never do those autism OCD test things on Facebook, maybe I should start.

I do one at exactly 7.32pm every day!!!111

6 posts to go!