7400~St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Scotland, in the town of Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton. He was captured at age 16 by Gaels and taken to Ireland, where he was sold as a slave.

7401

we really have to hurry:p

7402~Exactly!!!!

7403~ I hate not completing things

#7404~Can we count by 100s? 1000s? :D

7405~True, Lil. And you haven't imparted all of your conversion tactics to me yet. :D

7406~Of course, I *am* on that quest for 10,000 posts before the end of July...

7407~Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first century A.D. under Platform 8 of the King's Cross Railway Station in London.

7408~There is only one time zone in China, although the country covers 3,691,521 square miles and geographically could be in five different zones. The government requires clocks throughout the nation to conform to those in the capital, Beijing.

7409~On the island of New Guinea, one-third of the world's languages are spoken. More than 700 distinct native languages can be heard.

7410~Sweden was the first country to produce the leather we know as suede. Suede is what Sweden means in French, and the name was first used in the phrase gants de Suede, or "gloves from Sweden."

7411 ... IAKG, you're just a wonderful fountain of knowledge. Danke!

7412~IAKG smiles at her new epitaph :D

7413
OMG! Crying as I'm typing IAKG you rock! 10,000.00 by 7-31-03!!!

#7414

7415~Wish me luck. I'll need it. :D

7416~Good LUCK!

#7417~1219 to go...

7418 Think you'll make it?

7419~I think I have a pretty good shot at it. I only need about 60 posts a day. :D

7420~Is that all? LOL

7421~At one point, my average was 54.something, and that's including weekends, when I barely posted. :D

7422~So you're gonna really spend a lot of time here to the end.

7423~Probably no more than usual...just post some more :D

7424~Posting more, enjoying it less?

7425~I *always* enjoy posting, at least to the games. :)

7426~Then get with it girl, times a wasting.

7427~ I know--I'm just not multi-tasking well tonight!

7428~Just what is taking the most of your time?

7430~I'm in chat and responding to emails and trying to do work, all while trying to post. :D

#7432~Sounds like a bit too much.

#7434~ Whither shall we go?

7435... OK I'll come back and post... this would be the calc for 10k posts by the end of the month... as you can see it would be doable, but it is going to be close... sadly I am not in the mood to post much more at the moment....

-Toast (still looking for alternate bandwidth)


PIXIES "ONE MILLION er... TEN THOUSAND" THREAD END CALCULATOR
-Toast

start time: 5/9/03 9:59 PM
reply goal: 10,000
current time: 7/7/03 9:25 PM
reply count: 7,317

still needed: 2,683 replies
elapsed time: 58 days 23 hours 26.0 minutes

reply rate: 124.1 replies/day
OR 5.17 replies/hour
OR 0.086 replies/minute

time to goal: 31,141 minutes
OR 519 hours
OR 22 days
OR 0.1 years

est. achievement date: 7/29/03 12:25 PM

#7436~ We're trying!!

#7437~I'll definitely keep trying. You all may get a bunch of trivia in the next several days. :D

--7438--

OK... if we're gonna do this... time to put this thread into gear... I'm gonna go get some ice cream and them come back with some topics to post...

BTW... anyone seen Eliza... we need her help!

#7438~Please give us trivia IAKG.