A rolling, crossover dispute between Iwog and Dan, brawling from topic to topic, would put it over the goal posts in no time. Where are they when we need them?
I've thought the same thing OnVacation. If it were to happen this year, a meet up of some sort would be difficult for myself. Wife is turning 40 this year so I'm kind of planning big. Up your alley, might charter a catamaran down in the Caribbean for a week, though I know you're a monohull guy. Being on the water is fun either way.
I like G NYC Dude's idea too. There are sites where you can pool money and identity is private except to maybe the creator or anyone (I think). To get the pool bigger just make it like $20-100 bet on the date Pnet passes 1M.
Patrick can't bet since he could probably calculate based on commenting history data we don't have access to and could graph and estimate much better. So he gets a 10-30% host cut and hopefully that maybe covers fees to run this place for a bit. I know a few users have peaked behind the curtains and/or have met/know Patrick, so there might be some insider knowledge, but I don't care. I'd be game for a flat $100.
You hit the date you get the full pot minus Patrick's cut. Date based on West Coast time zone so there's no confusion. No one hits the date, first closest gets 50% Next gets 35% And 3rd gets 15% Values could be adjusted of course to make the winner a higher percentage. Same dates win it's split equally, though this is unlikely to happen.
Insomnia is great. 3:22am central. At least I got 3-4 hours.
Only catch I just thought about is spam posting to get it closer to your date. Even from regulars or the person that is close to hitting the date. Restrict the winner to 20 comments that day/week or something? If I see it's within 100 comments on my day, one could go ape shit commenting.
Maybe just block the comment total until we hit it? That's the most logical solution. Otherwise people will manipulate even though I dig most users here. Don't want to attract bots either. Shit, this is more complicated than I thought. We should try it though.
If your gonna spam post to win 100, man I feel sorry for your soul... Thay said, would I throw up a couple of extra comments if were at 999,996? Probably yes.
I propose we have a million comment party in June at some beer garden on the peninsula. Or maybe I'll sail over to Coyote point and you guys can bring lawn chairs and beer coolers to the dock.
We already got 4 o 5 regulars and I'm sure you could vet a couple more that are willing to travel for such a momentous occasion.
Who else would be interested in the Mega-comment party this summer?
I’d fly out. Not for this specifically. Family trip. I think I’m one of the babies on the site age wise. I’d do a lunch or dinner for sure though if the timing is right with anyone. I like beer so that’s a requirement.
I’ll be in San Diego late August 2023 for sure though unless some dumbass Covid variant comes out… oh wait. Long time out I know.
We’re likely building a house so vacation time is fucked. Jet setting days are coming to an end likely plus the kids are hitting the age where there is something everyday for them.
@WookieMan what date is good for you? Doesn't have to be right on the million comment date of course.
Not sure. We'll be in San Diego August 2023. Travel for me/us might be fucked this year. Doing the wife's 40th and I guess now my sister and mom are game to go to USVI around Xmas. Which is a fucking fortune that time of year. Already did Jamaica and Mexico this year so far. I lost my Southwest Companion pass, we added my nephew so travel expenses have jumped. And we want to build a house. Ugh. I'm disliking this year already.
My buddy actually just flew back from Hawaii today and had a layover in SF or LAX I believe. This is why I like the Caribbean and can deal with Chicago weather. I'm 3-4 hours from damn near anything I'm interested in including CA. He got to the airport at 5:30am... 6 hours. 3 hour layover. 4 hours to Chicago. ~1 hour drive from Chicago. If I ever do Hawaii it will be for 14 days, maybe more. He pounded edibles all morning I guess. He's a great dad and is home sick missing his two biological kids. We're kindred spirits. I'm high as a kite right now as well. If I was gay he'd be my guy personality wise. He's ugly as fuck though, not going to lie. Hairy greek. Again, I'm high.
I may sneak out there at some point solo. I like the freedom of traveling solo, especially with kids now. Who knows, maybe I could do a long weekend in May or early June. With points and no kids solo travel can be super cheap for me. Only travel game I haven't conquered is the rental car game. Besides the car or potentially eating out, I could do it for $100 for 2-3 nights.
Maybe we could guess who the FBI agent(s) are. Or maybe the Guv will take the opportunity to drone us en masse, or beam a DEW at us, or turn on a focused EMP 5G signal. The joints and cigarettes will light themselves, no need to re-warm the pizza.
@Onvacation Lately I really like hoppy beers. I went through a long red wine phase, but find red wine to be expensive and of inconsistent quality, even it is occasionally superb. And it tends to give a worse hangover than beer or white wine.
I also enjoy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. Those are always almost always good in my experience.
I don't usually drink distilled things, but some whiskeys are great.
@Onvacation Lately I really like hoppy beers. I went through a long red wine phase, but find red wine to be expensive and of inconsistent quality, even it is occasionally superb. And it tends to give a worse hangover than beer or white wine.
Have you ever had a Gewürztraminer or a Riesling? They are both sweet but high alcoholic white wines. They pair well with very spicy food. If you are eating something tremendously hot, they take the edge off. They work well with extremely spicy Indian and Mexican foods I find - although it's difficult to get those here - everything is Americanized and made more bland.
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You currently have 974,556 comments on this forum. Probably over a couple of million if you count all the deleted comments.
Beer garden's are cool. Maybe late spring, early summer, after you made a million.
If Iwog and Dan with the red Volvo were still here you'd already have a million.
Flash mob an open house, or an AirBnB rager...
Hookers and blow! Accept no substitutes!
I'll start it up.
March 17 @ 11:11 PST.
(St. Patrick's day)
I like G NYC Dude's idea too. There are sites where you can pool money and identity is private except to maybe the creator or anyone (I think). To get the pool bigger just make it like $20-100 bet on the date Pnet passes 1M.
Patrick can't bet since he could probably calculate based on commenting history data we don't have access to and could graph and estimate much better. So he gets a 10-30% host cut and hopefully that maybe covers fees to run this place for a bit. I know a few users have peaked behind the curtains and/or have met/know Patrick, so there might be some insider knowledge, but I don't care. I'd be game for a flat $100.
You hit the date you get the full pot minus Patrick's cut. Date based on West Coast time zone so there's no confusion.
No one hits the date, first closest gets 50%
Next gets 35%
And 3rd gets 15%
Values could be adjusted of course to make the winner a higher percentage.
Same dates win it's split equally, though this is unlikely to happen.
Insomnia is great. 3:22am central. At least I got 3-4 hours.
@Patrick what yo you think?
Only catch I just thought about is spam posting to get it closer to your date. Even from regulars or the person that is close to hitting the date. Restrict the winner to 20 comments that day/week or something? If I see it's within 100 comments on my day, one could go ape shit commenting.
Maybe just block the comment total until we hit it? That's the most logical solution. Otherwise people will manipulate even though I dig most users here. Don't want to attract bots either. Shit, this is more complicated than I thought. We should try it though.
I propose we have a million comment party in June at some beer garden on the peninsula. Or maybe I'll sail over to Coyote point and you guys can bring lawn chairs and beer coolers to the dock.
We already got 4 o 5 regulars and I'm sure you could vet a couple more that are willing to travel for such a momentous occasion.
Who else would be interested in the Mega-comment party this summer?
Well. I'm a drunk!
So much for my guess... sites sitting at 992,220. Close but no cigar.
I'm all for a party and a bet! I should be excluded from the bet because I have database access.
I'll turn off the counter when we get within 100 comments or so.
There is that beer garden we met at twice in San Mateo. I'll try to think of alternate places as well.
I’ll be in San Diego late August 2023 for sure though unless some dumbass Covid variant comes out… oh wait. Long time out I know.
We’re likely building a house so vacation time is fucked. Jet setting days are coming to an end likely plus the kids are hitting the age where there is something everyday for them.
@WookieMan what date is good for you? Doesn't have to be right on the million comment date of course.
I like beer too. And wine.
Hopefully that doesn't give the game away too much. Looks like it will be somewhere around tax day.
So maybe the party should be Sat April 16th or Sunday April 17th. Any opinions?
May is better.
Not sure. We'll be in San Diego August 2023. Travel for me/us might be fucked this year. Doing the wife's 40th and I guess now my sister and mom are game to go to USVI around Xmas. Which is a fucking fortune that time of year. Already did Jamaica and Mexico this year so far. I lost my Southwest Companion pass, we added my nephew so travel expenses have jumped. And we want to build a house. Ugh. I'm disliking this year already.
My buddy actually just flew back from Hawaii today and had a layover in SF or LAX I believe. This is why I like the Caribbean and can deal with Chicago weather. I'm 3-4 hours from damn near anything I'm interested in including CA. He got to the airport at 5:30am... 6 hours. 3 hour layover. 4 hours to Chicago. ~1 hour drive from Chicago. If I ever do Hawaii it will be for 14 days, maybe more. He pounded edibles all morning I guess. He's a great dad and is home sick missing his two biological kids. We're kindred spirits. I'm high as a kite right now as well. If I was gay he'd be my guy personality wise. He's ugly as fuck though, not going to lie. Hairy greek. Again, I'm high.
I may sneak out there at some point solo. I like the freedom of traveling solo, especially with kids now. Who knows, maybe I could do a long weekend in May or early June. With points and no kids solo travel can be super cheap for me. Only travel game I haven't conquered is the rental car game. Besides the car or potentially eating out, I could do it for $100 for 2-3 nights.
Rewarm pizza? From you I was expecting something like "warm the dead bodies for necrophilists."
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Looks like post million will be somewhere in between, closer to tax day than early May.
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Can't make it on Easter.
@Patrick What's your favorite drink?
I'm all for May, June works too, but it's far away from the million post and close to summer holidays.
@Onvacation Lately I really like hoppy beers. I went through a long red wine phase, but find red wine to be expensive and of inconsistent quality, even it is occasionally superb. And it tends to give a worse hangover than beer or white wine.
I also enjoy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. Those are always almost always good in my experience.
I don't usually drink distilled things, but some whiskeys are great.
Have you ever had a Gewürztraminer or a Riesling? They are both sweet but high alcoholic white wines. They pair well with very spicy food. If you are eating something tremendously hot, they take the edge off. They work well with extremely spicy Indian and Mexican foods I find - although it's difficult to get those here - everything is Americanized and made more bland.
There are dry rieslings, BTW.
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