Will We Hit 3 thousand Members Today??

Ooo, I hope so.....that would be fantastic!!

If we do, can we have a party???

Yeah a party!! We can all get drunk & come here & hang out LOL

DRUM ROLL,We're at 2997!!!!!

Karen

PARTY!!! How about a toga party!!! Not long till we hit it now!

TOGA,TOGA,TOGA!!

2 MORE TO GO!!!
Then it's "Party City"!
(or "Party Computer?")

(Chrissy...Me and Gardenmom do that every night!!! )

2,999!!!
And I am the only one here!
(Well, besides one "guest", which I assume is really Bill incognito, WATCHING me!!! )

3000!!!

Party's started here!
(I'll use any excuse!)

3000!!! WooHoo!!!!!

Happy 3000!!!!!

FYI....
It took 279 days to get our first thousand members...
It took 246 days to get our next thousand members....
It only took 130 days to get our next thousand members...

Any bets on how long it will be till we are running 4000 strong??

Karen

According to my calculations, 92 days.
Can we put money on it? I have 5 bucks burning a hole in my pocket!

What date is that Cindy?
You're on!
I've got $5 on December 27, 2004.
Who's holding the pot?

October 11th

Send your money to me. I'll hold it.

I'll put a few bucks down on 100 days....since that's one of my lucky numbers.....Wow, 3,000 members

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OK, loz...got you down for October 19th!

SEPTEMBER 22ND!!!

I'm writin' 'em all down on a calendar.

wow o.O someone here loves to gamble!

November 11th But i'm not putting money down ^.^ I'll give it to whoever is closest.

You don't actually believe I'm going to give anyone 5 bucks if I lose, do you?

I'm in!

November 22

Karen

When All Else Fails...Guess,5 bucks huh...High Stakes aren't we! I will say, and This isn't Laura's guess, October 19th. I'll Hold the Pot

Loz already has October 19th, so if you win do you split the pot?

Rats!!! Ok, My guess is 9/26

Got it!
You guys guessing separate, or is this a "Phil and Laura" bet together?

Are we really BETTING? Do I need to send 5 bucks to someone? (Is there ANYONE here we can trust to hold the cash? )

And, what happens if no one guesses the exact day? Closest one wins?

October 31st...just as Daylight Savings time ends...some lady from Massachusetts - wearing a tall pointed hat, and dressed all in black - will log on at the Salem CyberCafe, and register as member #4000...whoo!

Can I take that as a bet and put you down for October 31st?

Ah-hem.....I'll hold the pot..... :p Sure give it here.....I'll keep it nice and safe.....I wont' be tempted to go shopping with it or anything.....lol

Cindy I guess like you said, if nobody hits the exact day it should just be whomever is closest.....unless 2 people are equally as close before and after the day, then would we go with the closest without going over???

I was born to gamble, although sadly my wallet doesn't know that....

Count me in!

Here's how it stands so far:

Sept.22 ------------Weezie
Sept. 26 -----------Phil and/or Laura
Oct. 11 ------------afgreyparrot
Oct. 19 ------------Loz
Oct. 31 ------------Allthumbs
Nov. 11 ------------Nako
Nov. 22 ------------Gardenmom
Dec. 27 ------------Bill

i'm not betting, so i'll hold the pot and send a nice fat check to the one who is the closest!

i was just thinking how it seemed to take forever for 1k and 2k. now, wow, 3 just flew by!!

Can we REALLY bet? (Didn't know if that was acceptable or not.) If not, I'm content with just the thrill of the contest! I'll ask Bill!

Cindy

I've got my five bucks to put in the pool!

Nope Cindy...Laura will have her own "entry" into the Errr..."Pool"

We need some pool RULES.

When do we stop the "entries"?

Can we "enter" more than once?

Who holds the money, or do we just PM our address if we win to everyone and they all just mail it directly?

Do we take "PayPal"?
(I love PayPal!)

I agree with Cindy,we need to have a cutoff point for guesses.
I dont see anything wrong with everybody just mailing the 5 bucks to the winner.
1 guess should be the limit,dont ya think?

This is gonna be fun!

Karen

You can all send me 5 bucks each when I win....lol Seriously though, I think sending the 5 bucks to the winner is fine.....as long as nobody backs out of sending it just because they didn't win....... :rolleyes: :p

o.O paypal... i don't have a credit card though >.<

Ahh, but that's the beauty of PayPal!
You don't HAVE to have a credit card! Just any bank account that they can transfer money to and from. I always keep money directly IN my PayPal account, though, for those little Ebay emergencies that I don't want Andy to know about! But, usually I just let them put it on my credit card, so Andy will pay it! (He just shakes his head, but he pays!) You can do it so many ways. Just keep money in it like a checking account, or let them take it out of your savings or checking account at your bank, or put it on a credit card. Most people on Ebay pay with PayPal when they buy something from me, and I just let the money build up. If it gets to be a LOT, I have them transfer some of it to my checking account. I could not live without PayPal!

POOL CLOSES AT 10 PM EASTERN TIME TONIGHT!!!

I have a question for Bill...

The numbers (3086)or something like that, of members is not the same as the last member (3054) that joined. Who are those invisible members???

Cindy

Those 32 people got "poofed" for improper behavior!

Alrighty then!!!

(That might not be a subject I need to be bringing up! )


*poof*

ooooo Bill got mad o.O

*pets bill* Thank you for being a good moderator and keeping dirty mean people off the board!

Cindy, I don't think you'll have anything to worry about in the poofing dept. like those people did!!!
We love you waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much!!!!

Weezie

4000 members when???

Weezie... September 22nd
Phil-n-Laura... September 26th
Cindy... October 11th
Loz... October 19th
Nicholas... October 31st
Phoebe... November 11th
Karen... November 22nd
Bill... December 27th

hmmmmmmmm..........

Great minds.....!!!!!!!

I started to bring this up yesterday!

Looks like it's gonna be between you and Gardenmom! (...and this is gonna cost me 5 hard earned bucks!)

What are you gonna do with all that money if you win?


Cindy

I suggest you take a vacation and let ME handle the forum while you're gone!

ROFL!!!
Now THAT might be interesting to sit back and watch! <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />

Believe me...it would be VERY interesting!

...and you talk about ! ! ! ! !

(You ain't SEEN ROFL yet!)

Karen

I hate to be the party pooper here, but you can't really go by the dates we all have really....remember Bill had it for a while that new members couldn't join....back when we were having all of those problems......So, whoever wins probably won't be the real winner......

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Loz...... registrations were only suspended for 3 days....

Hey, you can ugghhh all you want.... :p , but those 3 days may have been big days of registration.....lol You never know.....

Jeez, did I miss the whole thing? The party, the "pool" , the rolling around and peeing my pants ? Will I get poofed for saying that? I want in; January 3

Oh, I did miss the whole thing, I just checked the dates, I'm not in,

I'm pretty sure I didn't get it right!!!

Gardenmom!
At the current rate it's going, you're going to just about hit it right on the nose!



Way to kick the guru's butt!



Cindy

Yee-Haw!

I knew my anniversary was good for something

Karen

The party isn't over til the fat man sings!
:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

Yeah...you can keep the number down if you start *poofing* people right and left!

:p

Age before Beauty,my dear!



Karen

LOW BLOW! :p

I won't have to poof anyone to win!
You'll see........

Wanna bet?

Duh....... You already lost 5 bucks.... remember? <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />

Hmmm...$5...$10...$15...$20...$25...$30...Oh Yeah Baby!



Karen

Duh! I remember!
Today was my "day"!

So, I've gotten better at cipherin' now!

A day late and $5 short

Karen

:p

LOL

Karen

Check it out, G-Mom!
Look how many members we have now!


Cindy

Cindy, I think it's 'PUTER PARTY.

Let's rock!

I'm Merme and I approve Cindy S.'s approval. So why aren't YOU running for president, kid?

Merme

You think if I was President they'd let me hang out on the garden helper forum all day?



Cindy

Sure thing, kid. You'd bring a whole new meaning to the lyrics "Oh Beautiful! For spacious skies, for amber waves of grain!...." Who could resist a president able to do that?!

You'd get my vote in a heartbeat.

So what part of KY do you live in? I lived in Cincinnati for 12 years and got familiar with various parts of KY. I'm particularly fond of camping in the Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, as well as Lexington's Horse Park.

Merme

The Daniel Boone National Forest is right by my house!

I'm about 80 miles south of Lexington.

COOL!

Cindy

Oh! You live in one of the loveliest regions of our entire country, you lucky girl!

Now I wanna know: does anybody ever sing that "Cindy, Cindy" song to you? You know the one "You ought to see my Cindy gal, she lives a-way down south...get along home, Cindy, Cindy!"

Can't help it, curious minds want to know.

Merme

My cousins used to tease me with that song all the time growing up.
Whenever we came to Kentucky to visit, they'd sing it everytime they saw me!

I was actually NAMED after a song, "Cindy, Oh, Cindy".


GetalonghomeCindyCindyohcindy!

Cindy, we have something in common.....I was named after a song too......Frank Sinatras "Laura", courtesy of my dad.....

My sister was also named after a song. Made me wonder if my parents had no imagination on their own!

If we named kids now after songs, they'd have some pretty weird names...

Well, when we were getting ready to have Maxi, picking a name seemed like the hardest thing we'd ever done. We settled on Maximillian for his first name because it works well in a variety of ways. Maxi is cute for a child. Max is believable for an adult. And if he ever gets Knighted by the Queen of England, Sir Maximillian sounds just swell!

But we wanted to include something of Maine in his name because he is the first Mainer ever born on either side of the family. We looked at the names of hundreds of towns in the state and none of them worked for us. How could we name our kid Wiscassset or Ogunquit?! So one night at 2 AM, my then-husband sat up in bed and said "How about Casco?" It isn't just the name of our local bay, but it is also the name of our region where we were living the happiest days of our entire lives. So that became the first of his two middle names.

Each year I take him on a cruise of Casco Bay so he can get a ships view of "his" bay. When he was quite small, he'd tell people "My name is Maximillian Casco Bay!" and I'd remind him to leave out the Bay part. He'd chuckle and say "Oh, ok, Mama!"

Merme

That is an AWESOME name!
I love it!
I wish I'd have put that much thought into my daughter's name. My mom bestowed me with the same middle name SHE had, which I've always disliked.....so what do I do? Turn around and give it to my daughter as a gift to my mom! She hates it, too.

Cindy

Every family has gotta have traditions, Cindy. Maybe she'll like it better if you point that out by singing that one line by Hank Williams Jr "It's a family tradition!" making your eyebrows jump up and down while you sing it. Well, at least she'll be able to laugh about it if not exactly thank you.

Merme

I just pictured that!

Then, follow that up with some David Allen Coe...
"If That Ain't Country"

So, what IS your much despised middle name?

Me, I'm always a-weepin' and a-wailin because I don't have a middle name! So little Maxi got two.

Merme

I'll PM it to you!

You have to PROMISE not to tell!

Cindy

Ooooops!
I think I just accidently PM'd it to Bill!

You have to PM it to me? It is really as bad as all of that?! Yipes!

Maybe it isn't such a bad thing that I do not have a middle name after all. My name is Mary-Ellen (yes, it has a hyphen) but everyone calls me Mary-El for short. With my first name thus jointed into one word, my mom was too tired to think of a middle name that would go along with it. I'm the youngest of six kids, bless her heart. She had to have been running out of good ideas by the time I came along.

Merme

You guys won't believe this but I'm one of eight and I have no middle name ............My first name is Mary Ellen!!!!!!!!

Everyone except for my mother calls me Mel, and Cindy I want the middle name pm'd to me too.

HELLO!

Think thats bad
Have a about this.
My second name is May.
Mum called me that because l was born in May
Whenever people ask me my second name, l always say Mavis, but that is just as bad.

Doreen

Cynthia Louise
I like that name!

and now I know what to call you if I get mad at you.

Doreen May I like your name too!

Oh Please no,
that name is my Nemesis,

Doreen please, l promise not to upset you

Doreenxx

We're on our count down, of the last 50 people

Count is..........#3953


Weezie

***Cindy, I like your name too!!!

WOW...that hasn't taken long at all!

G-Mom

Reckon Mr. Bill's still feelin' quite so cocky???

What's it workin' out to be?
**Never was too good in math *

(That's why God made calculators!)

Don't know how to use them???

So far, the current rate has been approx. 3.5 members per day since we hit 3000.

BUT...since we only need 44 members to hit 4000 now, G-Mom will win if we get 2 new members a day.

(20 days 'til G-Mom's guess; Nov. 22)


Cindy

Ummm haven't read this entire thread ...
When lady J. signed on... Registered members count was 3956 but member # is 3986. Which #'s are you all going by??? Remember he had to POOF a few for unacceptable behavior!

We're going by the 3956 number.