When will the 100,000th post be made?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:03 pm

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.

Marc Meakin · Post by **Marc Meakin** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:24 pm

September 5th 2010 at 4.05pm

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:30 pm

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

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:34 pm

November 21st at 9pm.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:40 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:That free notepad is mine.

It's way better than that dude.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:42 pm

September 20th 2010, 5:16.23 pm GMT

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:55 pm

September 20th 2010, 5:16.22 pm GMT

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:55 pm

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

Marc Meakin · Post by **Marc Meakin** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:34 pm

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?

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:35 pm

2010/10/14 00:00:01

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:18 pm

August 17th, 00:30

Hugh Binnie · Post by **Hugh Binnie** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:23 pm

30th August 2010, at 5 pm.

craig · Post by **craig** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:58 pm

20th December at 3pm

Phil Makepeace · Post by **Phil Makepeace** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:39 pm

November 19th 2010, 6:25pm

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:42 pm

8th September 2010 at 11.12pm.

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:07 am

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

Lesley Hines · Post by **Lesley Hines** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:58 pm

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

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:11 pm

Things are hotting up!

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:26 pm

Damn, I lost.

Adam Gillard · Post by **Adam Gillard** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:31 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:in it's 25 months

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:52 pm

Damn, I was sure I made a guess.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:26 pm

Adam Gillard wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:in it's 25 months

Another valuable contribution.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:57 am

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

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:18 am

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

Please post more updates like this!

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:28 am

97,694.

Yes, I'm a geek!

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:13 am

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 · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:35 pm

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.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:19 am

97777 posts (inc. this one)

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:54 am

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

Thanks.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:46 pm

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.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:26 pm

97879

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

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:54 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote:97879

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

Does it include this one?

Howard Somerset · Post by **Howard Somerset** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:57 pm

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.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:01 pm

Now I've got to count them again.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:02 pm

97944.... I think.

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:38 pm

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.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:36 am

97990

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:02 pm

98000!!!

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:32 pm

98027

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:05 am

98349

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:16 am

Rhys Benjamin wrote:93349

Is it really necessary to keep doing that

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

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:31 am

James Robinson wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:98349
Is it really necessary to keep doing that

I don't mind.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:22 am

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.

Ryan Taylor · Post by **Ryan Taylor** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:34 pm

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:39 pm

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 · Post by **Phil Makepeace** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:49 pm

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:53 pm

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...

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:19 pm

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:12 am

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.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:39 am

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

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:23 am

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.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:55 pm

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.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:10 pm

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.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:21 pm

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?

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:23 pm

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.

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:43 pm

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.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:01 pm

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.

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:02 pm

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.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:03 pm

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

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:05 pm

6 posts to go!