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Barbelith's 5000th member welcoming thread

 
 
gridley
14:47 / 23.04.04
Ok, people, as many of us admitted, we were a bit unprepared to suitably welcome our 4000th member to Barbelith. She came into this world while we were still debating the use of rhinos and boots.

By my very crude estimation (30 new users a day), I presume we will have our 5000th member sometime around Wednesday the 28th. That gives us a good five days to plan something amazing.

I've already placed a call to local zoo about securing a rhino that can hold its whiskey....

other ideas?
 
 
Jub
15:05 / 23.04.04
A brass band would be nice; and lots of glitter!
 
 
Bear
15:09 / 23.04.04
We should do something nice, maybe we could all send the person a PM welcoming them (how about an auto PM anyway with the WIKI and all that?)

Or maybe for one day/week we'd only talk about what the newbie suggested?
 
 
40%
15:11 / 23.04.04
Maybe we should just give them a good ol fashioned grilling.
 
 
LykeX
15:38 / 23.04.04
Wouldn't receiving 5000 messages overload the system, causing the person to be unable to log on or something. I'm just saying it's a lot of crap to sift through when you've only just gotten here.
 
 
gridley
15:45 / 23.04.04
hey, here's an idea. what if we all pledge to change our name's to some derivation of their name. it could be fun. especially if they have a name like mattsgurl4eva....
 
 
Bear
15:46 / 23.04.04
Yeah and probably a bit freaky, just throwing around ideas you know !!

How about we put all the active members name in a hat and the person drawn takes the 5000th out for a nice meal and few beers...

How about we change the background to a pic of the 5000th... or we all legally change our names to their ID?
 
 
Bear
15:46 / 23.04.04
Maaan that's spooky, I'm going home to watch the Matrix - heaaaad fuck.
 
 
agvvv
15:54 / 23.04.04
AGAIN!!! God damn it!! This is too much! I was gonna make this!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:41 / 23.04.04
Is this the point where I mention that the 5,000th member will actually be #5147?

I believe so.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
20:48 / 23.04.04
{Sound of shotgun being cocked}
 
 
gridley
13:46 / 15.04.05
Turns out that when I was predicting we'd reach our 5000th member sometime around April 28th last year, I was actually just about exactly one year off. Some day I'll master these psychic powers, I swear it! You hear me, brain? I own you, you don't own me!!!
 
 
agvvv
13:47 / 15.04.05
Damn you psychic powers guy! this gig is mine I tell you!!!!11 mine!!!!!!!!!1
 
 
Jub
13:56 / 15.04.05
6 more to go!
 
 
Jack Fear
22:55 / 15.04.05
FreakySte, COME ON DOWN!!!
 
 
gridley
22:59 / 15.04.05
Woo hoo!
 
 
Tom Coates
09:13 / 16.04.05
Just to remind people again (like i have to do every time that clock thing ticks over), just because there are now 5000 active members does not mean that the one that ticked over the counter to 5000 is user #5000. A block of multiple user accounts over the years have been deleted, some trolls have been disposed of, and these people are not counted. In fact user #5000 is Andrew Cooke. He joined earlier in the month and no one noticed. He has not posted.
 
 
gridley
13:27 / 16.04.05
Blah blah blah. I'm Tom. I use my own special version of math.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:45 / 16.04.05
Andrew will have to post if he wants a party ...
 
 
agvvv
14:59 / 16.04.05
Yeah come on Andrew! theres wine!
 
 
Smoothly
15:02 / 16.04.05
Tsk. I bet Tom was one of those people who celebrated the new millennium a year after everyone else did.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:40 / 16.04.05
Yeah, but he celebrated the 5000th member a year before the rest of us. Look at Andrew Cooke's membership record—he didn't join "earlier in the month," but in April 2004!
 
 
LykeX
21:04 / 16.04.05
So gridley was right after all.
Teach me of the hidden power, senzei.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
00:15 / 17.04.05
Doodz! I was just hanging out with Andrew Cooke. He hasn't posted because he lost his all of fingers in a street fight shortly after signing up, so he doesn't use the ole computators a whole lot any more. He's doing really well, though. His wife was just promoted to head nurse and he's waiting on a patent for some sort of chemical that will make him a bazillionaire. He says when he's rich he's going to build the world's first hot air balloon house.
 
 
gridley
14:03 / 18.04.05
Perhaps each of could donate one of our fingers to the poor lad?

Just think, if everybody did it, he could have thousands of fingers all wriggling and pointing...
 
 
andrew cooke
16:28 / 18.04.05
How about we put all the active members name in a hat and the person drawn takes the 5000th out for a nice meal and few beers...

sounds good to me.
 
 
grant
16:33 / 18.04.05
So, mr. cooke, what's your fancy?
 
  
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