April 02, 2006

2006 Roll Call: Curious Accountant. As this is typed, the Monkey member count is listed at 4,800. Here's a thread where each Monkey can chime in with a roll call number: we can see at the end how many are actually out there.

You can respond in one of four ways: 1. (read last number posted, increment by 1), post your number and name. 2. Post "FSIR" (fucking stupid idea, Ralph) 3. Post "witty" banter (that does not increment the number, but allows you to dethread, as per usual) 4. Completely ignore #1-3 and just try and screw things up. It would be interesting to see how many unique users will read this and post to this. But, this is probably headed for disaster. Blame me now.

posted by RalphTheDog 18 years ago
  • 1. RalphTheDog. See? Easy.
  • 2. (two) kokokokokokokoko
  • 3.14159 pi for all
  • For Won Neigh Tea of the Clan of the Feckless says me feeling (knock on wood) wreckless
  • GET THIS MOTHER FUCKING FIVE OF THE MOTHER FUCKING PLANE. 5
  • 4.53 the only non whole prime I know. Ralph what drugs have you been prescribed so far? Have you been taking them as directed? Simply curious.
  • Bugger phucker. My number seems so small now.
  • You didn't include your user number, so were you going for #4? (I don't know mine either, but you can see it by clicking on my user name in the "posted by" line. In fact, you could compile accounting data on who shows up by setting up a spreadsheet and recording the names/numbers of those who've posted or commented recently and how often. Since I'm an accountant, I've occasionally felt the urge to call up all the user profiles in number sequence and do some sort of spreadsheet, but then thought "why?" I mean, being numbers prone,I would find it interesting to see statistics on active users, but my take on the creative and fun loving majority here is that they'd not be amused. It's lonely being an accountant.)
  • 6 or 9. Debaser626 (oh.. and I don't think RTD was referring to your actual User ID, but just the number of posts.. which would make me either 6... or 9... I'm confused!!!
  • Forget 6 or 9 - 69 dude!
  • I'm 10! (Well, actually I turned 42 today. But what was your question?)
  • waitingtoderail stole my 10, so I'm 11. Just for the people who are still counting.
  • I guess that makes me 7 or 10 the borg calls me 'monkey578' this is a fuckingstupidideaTM brought to you by your friendly neighborhood RalphTheDog every comment I make is witty so I want to tell you all about a very important social campaign that a friend of my is spearheading: STOP TECHTONIC PLATE MOTION NOW!!! the pernicious spread of techtonic plate movement is a plague in our times...do what you can to stop it today. brought to you by Citizens United to Nullify Techtonic Shifting.
  • I'll get this back on track and call myself 12, since I'm the 12th person to respond.
  • Actually, why don't you just download a weeks worth of content from MoFi and write a perl script grab each unique name from the "posted by" link, then sum the names? Hell, when I'm done with my homework I may just do that.
  • 13
  • Thanks, K-head. Indeed, you're 12. Sigh.
  • Ladyknight, I thank you as well. We're now serving 14...is there a 14 in the house?
  • Number of FPPs and comments is also available in one's profile, which is accessible by clicking on the same personal area. You think you're confused? 6 or 9 what? "Debaser626 has posted 36 links and 779 comments..." and your ID adds to a 5. Your comment here is number 258857 on thread 11522. Help! Oh, wait, is that number of comments on this thread? Hmm. And, yes the idea that Los Angeles is moving toward San Francisco on its plate disturbs me to no end. On the other hand, I'd be a lot closer to the beach if I lived long enough.
  • I know. It is 4 o'clock, and you all need to watch Wapner. Cling to this albeit low-tech premise for one second, please: A gazillion alleged members of Mofi. How many are actually actively reading posts this week? We tally things up by everyone sequentially chiming in, one, two, three, etc, ad nauseum, until things sort of level out, and in the end, we get to see a pretty accurate count of current active members. Not so hard, right? Now...is there a 14th person who has not posted yet?
  • Mare you're so terribly old. 42 is not middle aged, allow no one to deceive you on this, 24 is almost middle aged but 42? Well 42 is just old. I have no idea how you must feel about your fast approaching death, yet I feel drawn to you for advice from the ages. Your wisdom must be great. When I was a youngster, a mere whelp of a boy, I would run to school each day with pens and old library books, concerned not to be late. For those that turned up after 08:30 would have their butts whipped till they were bloody, and would have to face standing up from the unforgiving wooden chairs, more than 2 hours later, ripping the solidifying scabs from their poor bottoms. I shall tell you this, scraping blooded skin from chairs was enough education for me, and many others. The only thing left to ask is what on earth is this thread about?
  • And, randomaction - if one waits until one is prescribed drugs, well... do you have to wait for someone to tell you to eat or to breathe? Time's a wastin!
  • And, randomaction, I'm 48, so shut the fuck up.
  • I'm a lil' drunk, so I'm member number 2911. I've posted 16 links and 616 comments on MonkeyFilter since February 08, 2005 and post 23(?) on this thread. I;m fucking lost.
  • Grover96, you're 15! Next! (Ralph, why people are having a hard time with this concept is puzzling to me as well!)
  • Sweet sixteen over heah!
  • Saturday night (for many), April Fools (ditto) excessive alcohol (Medusa and Pete), and whatever else must be cobwebbing the Monkey mind. 16 with mothninja, carry on.
  • 17.
  • 18! I'm flying to Cancun and getting wasted.
  • 19. Wunderbar. I have mild bitterness about this number, although that will change in September. It is not my age.
  • 20.0 this post 20.1 listening to Porcupine Tree 20.2 doing my taxes 20.3 drinking much beer 20.4 in the dark 20.5 by myself 20.6 getting up to get another beer. 20.7 eh, you know the rest!
  • It's not even dinner time in California, and I am sober, dammit! (not for long, I have to go to some wild-n-crazy bachelorette party-on-a-bus tonight *shudder*)
  • (not for long, I have to go to some wild-n-crazy bachelorette party-on-a-bus tonight *shudder*) Wasn't that a movie with Keanu Reeves and Sandra B?
  • psst... Medusa... I think randomaction has teh hots for you.... Seriously speaking... I love posts like this, (even though I'm derailing it right now) I click on more profile names due to posts like these, where I wouldn't otherwise. So... Thanks, RTD! You're bringing the MoFi community (at least in me) closer together!
  • I bet this FPP breaks 100 posts... btw... :)
  • Shit, I never even considered putting up a a bone fide profile. Now you got me thinking.............. ....................
  • 20. Employee No. 1729 I don't post a lot, but I read a lot. Next?
  • (actually, schlim, that'd make you 21) Calling 22....
  • Number 22, lurker extraordinaire at your service.
  • Oops, my eyes tend to glaze over any number with a decimal. Sorry.
  • woof.
  • 1) Not getting the point/procedure of this post. 2) Not getting "springing forward" tomorrow, which robs me of an hour of my life and feels like a tax "break" which will be "made up" in the fall. And I don't know what my "number" is. Sounds like Scientology to me.
  • Assuming Cynn is 23, Number Twenty-Four, Priest Of The High Church Monkey, Vertex Of Life here! ..actually, in the christan church they have a position called a primate. Heh.
  • ...And don't some religions have a "prelate" position? Pre + late. I'm not getting that either. **Cranky**
  • I only lurk
  • Sleepyangel reporting for doody... numero 25 if Vertex the poet says so...
  • Hello everybody. My name is Squalor and I am an Alcoholic.
  • Damn Squalor, way to kill my buzz...
  • 27, or 1897. I was so trying to hold out for 42.
  • 28, I think. *returns to lurking the RSS feed*
  • 29! *also returns to lurking via RSS*
  • Retank, come back!! As I recall, I like you!
  • ... Plus, I don't understand anything about RSS. So, squalor and the others may as well uncloak, because you're wuss if you don't.
  • Randomaction, you could be hurt. You could be hurt bad! You could be hurt REAL BAD by some old person. Yah, GramMa's gonna hurt you, boy! Old!? My skinny white ass--don' gimme "old"! Hunh! You're gonna pay for that "old". They call me GramMa. GramMa BlueHorse. 133. And that is NOT my age, mister!
  • *sigh* Okay, thanks for chiming in, GramMa BlueHorse, but since you hadn't before, and since you follow roll call number 29, you're 30. Is this so hard, people? Okay, who's 31?
  • You go, GramMa.
  • this is comment #57 made by user #24.
  • *sings* eight six seven five three-oh ni-yyyi-nah
  • Sergeant Storybored Schulz at 34, prrrresent and accounted for!
  • So this is a line-up and sing-out kind of record, sirrah? What is your point? Is this a feel-good exercise or is it a census? Just curious.
  • I am not a number! I am a free man!
  • No. Birdherder, you're 31. Storeybored, you're 32. I may give up soon. Kittenhead, what did I do wrong?
  • Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.
  • Turn me on, dead man. Chy, you're 33.
  • Looks like I'm #34.
  • I can do this, I can do this....um....thirty..um...five? *whew* (and unfortunately all I have is witty "banter". Then again I'm not sure about have. Or I.)
  • 36
  • Nuthin', Ralph. It's just a mighty silly group we have here, hard to rein in, is all. Mighty hard!
  • 37!
  • number 38 lalalalalalalalalalalala i am sooooooo trashed right now
  • Yessss! I have the coveted #38. I claim it. It's mine.
  • I am not a 40 year old virgin.
  • Nobody wants to be #41... everybody wants to be #42. Well, I'll be 41... actually, I'm member #74 and this is comment #73, and I'm #206 at MetaFilter and I'm 50-and-a-half years old and I once had a phone number that spelled out PUNS-PEN. So there.
  • The answer to life, the universe, and everything.
  • 43. Fortune and glory...
  • I thank Wendell for so thoughtfully stepping up and being #41, thus allowing me to be #42. I waited and waited and waited, until despair set in and I finally lost all hope. And then, at last, the shining light of Wendell appeared on the horizon and the coveted spot was mine. So, here's to all the monkeys who have gone before. /Julio Iglesias
  • 44th to this thread, 255th to the filter.
  • Love and a 45.
  • I'm drinking a few beers now and painting to celebrate my number 21 earlier, even though I was plain sober then and thought I was just 20. bah. Tecate cures all. I'm still 21!!!
  • 46? I used to be quite active here, but now I mostly lurk. Not sure what happened. Please convince me to do otherwise.
  • Do otherwise. it's late... can't do much more than that
  • 47! /unzips
  • forty-eight, I remain,
  • Forty... uh... forty nine? I've lost track, and I don't really understand what we're doing, or why. I just can't resist leaping into a mega-thread scrum with everyone else. I blame RalphTheDog.
  • I'll give 50 to someone else and will be happy with this being my fifth comment - which i've managed in a little over a year. Go me!
  • Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
  • and 50 I suppose.
  • Kirk here.
  • Spock there. McCoy directing an ice blue glare. Kirk there. Spock here. Dilithium crystals warping the chief engineer.
  • Presumably, what with what the kids can do with their new-fangled technology these days, someone with suitable access could just run a query on how many members have logged in lately. Yeah? Of course that would be less fun. And certainly less poo would be flung.
  • Er, 52? 53? This setting-the-clock-forward thing has me all screwy.
  • I! can't! post! FIFTY-FIIIIIIIIIVEE!!
  • 56. Woo!
  • 57. WooHOO!
  • Speaking of Krik and Spock... go on, click it! you know you want to
  • Bwaha! Cynnbad buggered the whole deal. You see? This is why you monkeys can't ever have anything nice. Good luck getting this train back on the tracks, Ralph - I take it you're the sort of chap who values accuracy in his censi. 58.
  • I are typing on teh Intarweb!!11 98?
  • 61
  • Wow, I was fuuuuucked up last night.
  • I mostly lurk now, but read reguarly. My id is 368, though.
  • lkc! Good to see you!
  • 62...?
  • Interesting demographic info: Of MoFi's first one hundred members, about 20 still participate or actively lurk. Several others are quite active on MeFi.
  • Hey Zanshin! WTFIU (What the F**k Is up?!) Lont time no see!!!
  • Occasionally, as one gets older, it's possible to learn something new. Unless of course your as thick as pig shit.
  • Siddy tree?
  • D626: eh, not much... wife, kid, school. ya know.
  • 8²
  • I'm active..but really high up..#3905. =P
  • 65?
  • 66. I guess. #1203. I actively ignore census data, though.
  • 67... summer of love.
  • 68. Very lucky number in Chinese.
  • 69. I promise I didn't wait for this number on purpose
  • Three score and ten.
  • Purple.
  • The number of bourbons and water I would drink tonight, if I were not afeared of going to work hungover at seven the morning on my fourth day on the job.
  • Another lurker...mostly 73
  • Seven tea FORE!!
  • Another lurker...mostly MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRE!!!11!EINS!1!
  • *75* Ah, numerology strikes again. Very funny, you !@&*#$ universe. big party on weekend. still having trouble to properly foucs on screen. ooooh.
  • I'm sure hanging out with all you drunks is not good for me.
  • sure it is! You can get drunk just on the atmospheric fumes!
  • 76 ?
  • *sneaks up behind cynnbad, steals her 23 and replaces it with my 77* 23! That's me! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
  • Were I not drunk I would never touch a crap thread like this. 3121.
  • Still here. 78.
  • As am I. 79. Hey fimbulvetr.
  • Interesting how you guys managed 128 comments, and you're not even up to 80 yet! 77, I believe. Haven't been posting much lately because this big project at work is causing me to...well, you know, work. Ralph, now you know what it feels like to be a substitute teacher.
  • 80.
  • "81!", says the boat.
  • I'll see steamboat's 81, and raise 1. Dibs on 82!
  • 83
  • 84?
  • Wait, a whole bunch of people posted while I was posting. So I'm not 77. Guess I'm 85?
  • OK, plus I obviously can't count.
  • Lara, that's a given. You work in a bank.
  • 86. That's 76 trombones + 10 Commandments. I command you to play the trombone!
  • 87. People are getting the count mixed up. (I would blame Wolof, but he's too much smarter than me and would mentally beat me up). Yes, people should put something in their profiles - you don't have to be too specific, but it is nice to know a little of where someone is coming from when they comment, so that they are more than simply a nickname.
  • Hey, Capt.
  • 88 - I think, but then again, don't ask me, I only lurk around here.
  • rocket88 should have totally been 88. But that's his own fault. Hi WPDK! Nice to meet you.
  • I was out at lunch. 88 is 89.
  • Lunch. When something this important is going on? I say again, your own fault!
  • 90. Just nine luftballons to go.
  • 91. *cough*
  • I get it! After 200 or so, Tracicle will stage a lottery draw and the lucky winner will have his/her choice of: one month of fearsome admin powers, or a blind date with whoever monkey they choose. Blind as in those taking place in pitch-dark restaurants where waiters use infrared googles. Lots of fun!
  • What?
  • And the Lord doth proclaim, "92."
  • Well, what am I, then?
  • I don't see Tracicle on this thread, so maybe she's ALREADY given up a month of fearsome admin powers. I could be wrong...
  • What number are we at again? (User #73)
  • Waiting for good ole 92.
  • No, 93. Geesh.
  • Hey Space Kitty, how do you find out your user number?
  • 94: the year of my BA.
  • BA Baracus? Awww yeah. I pity the foo'!
  • 95! Seniors RULE!!11!1!1!1one!! (actually graduated in 92. and 97. and 05. and oh hell I give up I'm done graduating now.)
  • Okay. So this (godawful) thread is groaning toward 100 actual warm bodies. This makes the Tracicle blog guesstimate: "I think in part it's because things are sort of...predictable of late, with the same people posting and commenting. We have almost five thousand members, maybe one hundred of whom actively take part." ... a very accurate assessment. So...Is this good? Bad? Neither? Statistcally predictable? About 2% of members admit to posting or lurking. What's up with the missing 98? No answers here, juest questions. oh, and by the way, the next time somebody tries something like this, ask the respondents to answer the roll call in hexadecimal. It is the only possible way that it could cause more confusion.
  • I am sooo not good with numbers, but always respond to a challenge.
  • 96!
  • 97. ook.
  • Ninety-Eight! Hex - 62 Binary - 01100010 ASCII - b Yes, I am a dork...
  • I just want to throw a Monkey Wrench in the werks.
  • ifay ouyay antedway oremay onfusioncay, ouyay ouldcay avehay ostedpay ouryay estionquay in pig latin...
  • Gretzky!
  • C triple digits for the rest of you I suppose...
  • Arrives late as ever but hey I brought beer.....
  • Oh good. I'm awaiting a call from Revenue Canada. /grabs beer
  • Me too. No. Me somewhere in the early 100s.
  • 107? I've lost count. Can we start over?
  • I think I'm 105, yed, but I wouldn't swear to it.
  • Strange, minda, you don't look a day over 25.
  • I'm here, but have no idea what number to put down
  • I dub thee 107.
  • Wait -- someone's missing. *counts heads* Allright, where's kit? Who's kit's bus buddy? We have the buddy system for a reason, you know...
  • I have no idea what my number is. We were supposed to be holding hands, I went for my juice and the rest of the field trip was gone.
  • Smed: They're not gone--the giggling you hear coming from behind the dumpster is your group.
  • 109 Camilo and I am back in NC tobaccoland, where it is still legal to smoke in a restaurant i don't smoke, either
  • BearGuy checks in at 110 "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
  • where in NC, Camilo? such a pretty state...
  • I rarely post, but I read, do I count, week late that I am? (Procastination and a bad memory) Also, my user ID is the lowly 9, if that matters in the slightest.
  • wow kirk, one of the top ten and we never hears from ya!!!
  • Wow. That's like reunion week in this little collegetown of mine when the last living guy from the Class of '29 shows up and is highly feted as the oldest alumni!
  • I got feted once. It was awesome.
  • What, I'm supposed to talk to you highbies? Pffft.
  • Lara, wait till Mickey comes in. It'll be like Methuselah coming down from the heavens to join us for a cuppa. 'cos, that makes me wonder: what does that make #1 and #2?
  • Just out of curiosity, I did a search for our first ten Monkeys. Starting at number 4 (after Mickey): Kimberly at number 4; certainsome1 at 5; coriolisdave is our 6th monkey; Wolof is at magic 7; Pez is numero 8; kirk's already here at 9; and dhruva makes 10.
  • passed 5K members - 5001, apparently.
  • gah, misread; passed 5.5K - 5501
  • Oh shit. I forgot to post on this thread. Don't banninate me, Tricycle, please.
  • Late again Skrik? See me after class!
  • Is it scary that I don't remember posting my comments?
  • Is it scary that I remember posting comments, but they're not here?
  • Boo!!! Is it scary?
  • Kit never did show up to this thread, did he? Must've fallen asleep on the bus.
  • honkz0r
  • Missed this thread first time around. *waves frantically* I'm here, I'm here! (what's my number?)
  • Missed this thread first time around. *waves frantically* I'm here, I'm here! (what's my number?)
  • Longest gap between a double post ever! kamus ftw! :D
  • (what's my number?) 6345789? That's a number I can get behind.
  • Missed this thread first time around. *waves frantically* I'm here, I'm here! (what's my number?)
  • wow- er... I guess it was actually posting all the time I was getting "error 500-internal server kablooie!" so sorry- please delete some of this, lest my idiocy be revealed to the world.
  • Haven't heard from kamus in a long time. I wonder if he's just lurking, or if he has quit mofi altogether?
  • 54-46 was my number, but right now, someone else has it. /misses kamus
  • hey -what the..? musta swallowed some invisible ink or something. also quite touched at getting to attend my own monkey-funeral thingy.
  • That's a number I can get behind. I am not a number, I am a free man! (or monkey)
  • THIS MANY!
  • A whole bunch.
  • Troll call.
  • I was really following this, and knew where we were in the numberflow and everything, and then I started seeing double and triple kamuses (kami?) and lost count. Anyway, I'm here for the '06 roll call (and with only 6 days to go! Whew!!) and I guess I'm like #...120? Or something?
  • Ha! Every person on this thread is actually a sockpuppet of mine. There is nobody here but me.
  • Well since apparently nobody can see my comments, I'm free to vent long standing spleen without fear of discovery. Let's see... YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF PATHETIC MENTAL MIDGETS!!! MEFI PEOPLE COME HERE TO LAUGH AT YOU!!! I"M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!!! damn, that felt g-o-o-o-o-d!
  • Is this a flameout? I'm in the mood for a flameout.
  • If you can see this- I would ignore the above comment- smells like a trap to me!
  • Why is Lara trying to stick her hand up my bum? I AM NO SOCK PUPPET.
  • Sock puppet, rock puppet, same thing.
  • You'd better hush or I'll pull out your seams.
  • I love it when you talk dirty.
  • It's good to have you back, Ralphie.
  • Tanks, Noonie. I was away for a while, as there was a subsidence in my understanding of Britney Spear's underpantsless underpants area, which caused a fumarole in the otherwise dormant Mofi crust. I just didn't see it coming.
  • You'll shoot yer eye out, kid.
  • *runs in breathless* Did somebody call for underpants?
  • That was no underpants. That was my wife.
  • Jamaica?
  • Nother year, nother dolla.
  • 2006 - The Year of Shunning Underpants...
  • I think it wasn't so much that the Underpants were shunned, but that the Underpants ran for their lacy lives. And could you blame them?
  • Don't shun Underpants. She's really very nice!