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Bloody Hell!
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: March 28, 2007 08:38PM

2 days off and 131 posts!
How can I catch that back?

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Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: robcraine (---.mcb.net)
Date: March 28, 2007 08:55PM

Easy... you see the 'Mark all as read' button...

What do you mean that's cheating?

Rob

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Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: MartinB (155.232.128.---)
Date: March 29, 2007 09:02AM

Moohahahahaha!

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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

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Zambezi_Bushbaby (155.232.128.---)
Date: March 29, 2007 09:30AM

You sure most of it isn't uninteresting that you can just mark all as read?

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"I've always believed that it would be up to the young people to save the Endangered Wildlife for the future." - George Adamson.

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: March 29, 2007 08:00PM

It's more the overwhelming feeling of haveing to go through 131 posts rather than any other thing.

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Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: nemades (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: March 30, 2007 12:57AM

Good luck on your magical voyage of discovery!

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.static.dsl.dodo.com.au)
Date: March 30, 2007 03:26AM

Everyone stop posting til he catches up... Unless it's interesting, of course...

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: March 30, 2007 06:21AM

I will resist the temptation to post..........Oh!

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.static.dsl.dodo.com.au)
Date: March 30, 2007 04:03PM

speaking of temptation to post, how much does it bite that online shops charge a FORTUNE to post to Oz???

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: MartinB (155.232.128.---)
Date: March 30, 2007 05:27PM

Your fault for leaving yourselves so out of the way. :P

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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

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: nemades (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: March 31, 2007 01:07AM

It works both ways, it cost me quite a lot to get a book delivered from Oz as it still aint published in the UK, worth it tho!

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: March 31, 2007 07:12AM

Bonzai Kitten Wrote:
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> speaking of temptation to post, how much does it
> bite that online shops charge a FORTUNE to post to
> Oz???

It is still @#$%& than collecting in person, although if you do decide to do that, allow some time to drop in for pie.

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Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.static.dsl.dodo.com.au)
Date: March 31, 2007 01:33PM

I'll do that. lol.

But still! Seventeen US for something that weighs maybe twenty grams! (grumble grumble) Oh well.

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Zambezi_Bushbaby (155.232.128.---)
Date: March 31, 2007 07:07PM

Hmmm rather expensive as long as it reaches its destination I guess....

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"I've always believed that it would be up to the young people to save the Endangered Wildlife for the future." - George Adamson.

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: April 02, 2007 05:03AM

I win! 167 new posts in two days! Woo!

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: April 02, 2007 05:04AM

Darnit, I lost.

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Zambezi_Bushbaby (155.232.128.---)
Date: April 02, 2007 06:37AM

I am happy with a nice number of around 8 posts per day... lol.

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"I've always believed that it would be up to the young people to save the Endangered Wildlife for the future." - George Adamson.

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.static.dsl.dodo.com.au)
Date: April 02, 2007 12:54PM

I should really try to beat that, while I'm off work...

Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: April 02, 2007 02:02PM

Congratulations! You certainly managed to beat it today. (However, I am slowly but surely catching up with your total of posts.)

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Re: Bloody Hell!
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: April 02, 2007 07:57PM

That isn't the game!

Over at the Banks forum we have a sad little game where we get our user name accross all forums, sad I know, but still.

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