Were we supposed to put the posts in a straight line? Its just that some of them look a bit irregular to me.

Do you have your glasses on, geg dear? Those aren't posts... Those irregular things are the fforum members, and they refuse to stand in a straight line. Some sort of Treehouse regulation, I think. I haven't gotten around to reading the regulations, so I'm not sure.

FORTY TWO MORE POSTS TO GO

42. The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. If you can't find it here, you don't need it.

Only 31 more posts to go - surely its time to hang up the bunting?

re irregular fforum members. their alignment is quantum, right?

no way they could be aligned, somewhat like the uncertainty principle: if you know how many fforum members you have you can't tell where they are.


It's bloody 33C here today and the f*******g airconditioner has just broken down. #@&&***)^!!!!!!!

It must be Hell where you are! Eat a pie marked "s" for snow.

Only a handful of posts left.

Geg, why do you only want to hang one Spice Girl?

8 more to go!!! I can't stand it. Never was particularly good at waiting...

Bunyip, it's cold over here, come visit. It's been hot, now it's raining and cool, they are mentioning frosts and sleet!

Hangs up lots of Posh Scary Bunting and gets ready.

It's the next post, so I'd better start taking the wire off the bottle of champagne and get the glasses ready.

Are we there yet?

Streamers, bunting, balloons, cheering but most daring of all

a pie for SkidMarks marked with 100,000 (and a S for SkidMarks).

I hope my elderly steam modem gets this uploaded before the next milestone.

Post 099,999


Post 100,000


The Winner!

It's like high tech bunting.

Woo hoo! Congratulations SM for hitting it on the nail. Congratlutions to everyone else for making it happen.

But where is Egon?

In heralding this auspiciously suspicious moment, I return, from beyond the 100k postmark.

They use stamps there.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I should apologize for the 68k of bunting in my post. On my 56k dial-up it makes a noticeable difference in loading time, and I imagine that it affects some of the small screen high tech devices others use. Very thoughtless of me. Face

All I can do now is try to achieve the next page of this thread as quickly as possible, but I don't know if page length is determined by a count of posts or by quantity of bytes.

I've just done a quick test. I uploaded as jpg, and I've now looked on my computer at a conversion to png and gif. Results:

Jpg . 23k
Png . 08k
Gif . 04k

I promise to post more responsibly on the 1,000,000 post landmark.

I'm reminded of a time in the early 80s when I spent roughly half a day rewriting a 6510 machine language routine to reduce it from 130 bytes to 128 bytes. It was a garbage collection routine for... (free slice of geek-cake if you can guess the machine), and it reduced garbage collection time from several seconds (sometimes tens of seconds) down to a time not perceivable by human senses.

Them was the days, them was.

A thought occurs. I wonder if I should edit the post to replace the jpgs with gifs...

Nah. I'll just write a long and rambling post to speed the arrival of the new page.

And while I remember - Congratulations to SM for his very apposite post.

Umm a C64, or it could have been the 1551 disk drive.