Countdown to 2000th member!

168 :D

No way!!! I love a countdown. :)

I was going to start this a week or so ago, but I figured should probably wait until we were under 100 to go. LOL Leave it to PeaBee! :oD How long do you guys think it will take? I think it's going to take a looooooong time. :o/

We could make up new names just to shorten the time. (Don't tell Tim.)

I like the way you think...

Well, here are a few:

1) PBJ
2) MrGrant (female -> male, and Confederate general to Union general)
3) TightLipped (Well, it does seem to be the opposite of an 'airy clam'...)
4) bignerd

What others? :D

*best Mary Tyler Moore whine* Mr. Graaaaaant!

5) redwatersprites
6) haven'treadmany
7) NotQuiteAllOfTheHouse WellActuallyJustOneRoomLibrary (space added to not have it autoshortened)
8) JohnnyReadsAlmostEverything

WontKitten? (couldn't think of a better opposite of steed, lol)

WontBear?

Laphroaig, of BITING RATTLER fame

OneSpittingCobra

TwoMintyMojitos

Hmmm.

Crabarry
Gems
AlaskaFriend
WilliamHorse?
Senorgrooism
HalflingQueen
Singlepoly
Gritwyrm
Piebuddy

GotJohnny?

*thumbs up* for littlegeek! :D

Three dancing dragons.

So...I'm feeling very slow....

are we making random lists of cool names or lists of cool alternative names for ourselves

for me...

dogpackboss (wishful of me)

manywordstalking

spendsometime

wishfulthinking

hum,,,,, I could do this for a while, but I think I'll quit now.

four Whirling Roombas

ThereWillBeCheese

On second thought, that's a bit disturbing. :oP

How about WhereIsTheCheese or GiveMeCheese

WhoMovedMyCheese

#20 - That could work. I haven't actually read that book, though.

Mine were supposed to be alternates. Some of the less obvious:

Gems (Jewels)
Singlepoly (Monohex)
Gritwyrm (Sandragon)
Piebuddy (Cakefriend)

Okay.. I find the name "PieBuddy" to be both adorable and hilarious.... as in "I am going to go to the diner with my piebuddies and we are going to try the apple, pumpkin, key lime and rhubarb."

Or, you could make up a name close to that famous website, and call yourself "PiePal" :D

#23 - I hate to admit to such things, but that's the only one that had me snickering while typing!

By the way, which do you find funnier, "Shut your piehole" or "Shut your cakehole." I've heard both, but somehow "piehole" is funnier to me!

I agree on 'piehole' being funnier, but mainly because 'pie' is a softer word that 'cake'

A simple test is a "Homer-ism" -

Say, out loud..... "mmmmmmm ....... pieeeeeeeee......."
or
out loud...... "mmmmmmmm...... caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake"

Pie just SOUNDS better.

Your all mad, and I love you all. I started to list the one's already done that I liked best - there are too many. Some of these alternatives are just great!

In the true form of AvaGoYaMug...

ManyTwigs

LeafLet

JustaParaBola

Masterhipness

CommodiousNerd

BreezyQuahog

CommodiusNerd! LOL

164 to go!

2000 members! In one little pub group? incredible. sweet. fun. happy making.

154 to go!!!

144 to go. ;o)

We need to add on to our little pub. The zoo animals have made it a little crowded (and smelly).

If the cobras would just stop spitting, we could keep it much cleaner. :\\

Although when they help to SPIT polish, the tarnish comes right off!

When planning for additions let's enlargen the Roomba closets and we could store the Floombas (or other bots) in there too. I also vote for a bigger spa/hot tub. A longer bar!!!!!!!! we need a longer bar! And does groo need a bigger refrigeration system for the PGGBs he makes for parties? Oh, the ideas....there are just so many of them.

More pools= more pool boys. Just a thought for the renovators... ;)

Well, our architects for the renovation assure us that the Green Dragon will be much, much larger on the inside than the outside.

The architects include Antoni Gaudí, Leomund the Red, Cass Gilbert, MC Escher, Eileen Gray, Dr. Stephen Strange, Zaha Hadid, John Stewart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Albus Dumbledore, Andrea Palladio, George Bailey, Kenzo Tange, Dr. Fate, Adolf Loos, Ponder Stibbons, Stanford White, Leonardo DaVinci, Papa Smurf, Sir Christopher Wren, King Cheops, Baba Yaga, Frank Furness, Sabrina Spellman, Frederick Law Olmsted, and some guy named Mithrandyr.

I believe MC Escher will be responsible for the Pub Library.

But MC Hammer will be responsible for the entertainment. It's Hammer time!

#37 - I might have a nomination for a pool boy. A young man was wandering around the hotel I work at in the nude a couple of nights ago. Sorry, I neglected to get a picture!

#41 - Hopefully your hotel has a pool!

Oh, it has a pool, but he was nowhere near it!

time to get one of those cameras you can hide in your beehive hair do; you do have a beehive hair do, don't you?

#38 May I nominate an additional member to our architectureal committee, namely Friedensreich Hundertwasser? His guiding principles were:
1. A straight line is an abomination.
2. Land used for buildings is stolen from nature, and must be returned.

Tonight I'll post a picture or 2 of Hundertwasserhaus, Vuienna (DV).

Absolutely! We need more curvy architects!

#44 - Of course I have a beehive hair do! Where did you think all the bees had gone?

Only 135 to go!

As promised in #45, here are 2 pictures of Hundertwasserhaus.

From across the street


An apartment with semi-outside staircase

Cool! Where are these, Hugh?

Loewengasse 41-43 / Kegelgasse 34-38, Vienna 3, Austria.

The building was designed as subsidised housing (Vienna 3 is NOT a classy area!) and is now distinguished as the block with the longest waiting list and the tenants least likely to move out in the whole city.

ETA precision to the address.

Wow, Hugh, those are amazing pictures - I want to live there!

Big Thank-you to Jennie and Amber! I'm tempted to post some more of that extraordinary place.

I also thought it would be fun to live there -- for about 15 seconds. It's in a relatively quite run-down inner city area (not as bad as the equivalent parts of Durban or Johannesburg or Nairobi, but nowhere near as nice as most any small town you can think of), and you have a permanent crowd of tourists rubbernecking around the building. And, subtropically spoilt as I am, with all due respect to mid-continent mid-latitude residents of first-world countries, I do like being warm in winter as well as summer!

That is definitely some awesome architecture.

127 to go!

Are there one hundred and fourteen more folks out in LibraryThing universe who just need to join us...today?

Probably not...

well, maybe if we all got in a circle and started chanting....um, let's see .... what should we chant?

world peace, world peace, whirled peas...

Maybe we could post in all the other groups that we are giving away free virtual cheese with each membership.

Subliminal advertising!

I put a (subtle) advert on my profile! You never know, it might just work!

*sends in a floomba to clean up the whirled peas which suddenly appeared all over everything* Hey! Has someone been chanting again?

Only 105 to go???

Amazing it worked!

Who can resist whirled peas?

subliminal advertising! (and whirled peas!)

Is it time to start a pool?

We've got one out back!

#67 - That's pool (1) . This is pool (2) : A fund containing all the money bet in a game of chance or on the outcome of an event.

Although I guess the pool boys could hold the fund.

I'll bet they're fun to hold, too.

Slippery when wet!

I think it's a great idea for the pool boys to hold the funds that are going to start pouring in. I will even sacrifice my time and energy to help. I'll stay with the pool boys and count the money. I will count very slowly and make sure the counts are correct. I will probably have to spend most of my time watching the pool boys counting the money.

I'll help!

Entry fee is two clams. I'll go for January 22, 2010.

Entries accepted until member count is 1905.

One
Oh
Two
to
go!

I'm in. Does one geoduck count as 2 clams?

(Is that a geoduck in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?)

Oh dear. I seem to have been incorrect. Sorry.

lol @ MerryMary!

#75 - What's your prediction?

?

The sun'll come up...tomorrow!

Bet your bottom dollar...

*sings happily*

You'll lose the blues . . .

This has to be the group with the most members who have ADD, if the above posts are anything to go by. Oh, shiny!

Oh, boy, the home page says we have 1900. Is that the most up to date number? Only 100 to go. Go Team, Go!

#82 - Yep, I just spotted that, too. w00t!

Hey, Groo! Get the PGGBs ready! We have a party just around the corner.

99 to go!

huh?

oh, duh, 98 to go....

98 bottles of PGGB, 98 bottles of brew, drink one down, stumble all around.....

Okay, so what? I'm not a poet or song writer. :)

That's ok, we loves ya anyway!

This is the shortest 2-digit interstate in the country, and not only doesn't cross a state border, it's all within a single COUNTY!

The first state highway I probably ever rode on. :D

#96 - Nice! And, wow! Won't be too much longer!

Thanks clamairy, how could I miss Herbie!

#91

My county!

This is the Benjamin Button thread.

Yes!!!

I am so tempted to join....but how special would it be to be the actual 2000th?!

just get 36 of your friends to join first;)

I hear that there is a million-dollar prize that will be given at random to one of the next 37 people to join.

How weird is that! I heard the same thing, Mr A, and way over here on the left coast of the US of A.

#107, 108

People hear lots of stupid things ;)

I think the confusion arose when someone thought it was a million *dollars* rather than the real prize of a million *clams*. You know how these things are...

oh....clams.....well, then that is a good incentive! Come and get 'em. Steamed? or Fried? or in a Stew?

I want my Cherry Stones on the half shell, thank you, with just some lemon slices.

#105 - We make much hoopla out of such things in this group. It might be worth your while to wait. :oD

clam just wants the million clams for herself. I hear that she's busy creating 36 sockpuppets right now.

I've got the world's largest bucket of cocktail sauce mixing here...

>113 clamairy:
I could do with some hoopla...

I've plenty of hoops, but I'm sadly lacking in la.

Maybe you'd offer your hoops, and someone else a la or two, and it'll be like Stone Soup

Ooooohh! Hula hoops? I wanna play! I have a jump rope to contribute as well. And how about my jacks set?

#118 - We do have a big soup kettle here behind the bar somewhere...

If we're making Stone Soup I'll bring the stone!

I'll bring the joining!

Party! hey everybody, there's a party brewing.

I wonder if we can substitute another variety of la - French? Ooo la la?

I am so happy to get to post this image. :D

And a mighty, fine image it is, Pea Bee.

w00t! We're down to 30. Although I am afraid that Gross-Out thread may drive off a few folks. :oP~

Maybe we can keep it quiet until they've joined.

I never knew!! That thread is an abomination! This just ruins it for me. And I so wanted to be the 2000th member!

:-(

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay out of the kitchen.

But I did just add entry #7.

I am afraid to look...

why are there big dogs in the kitchen?

I'm not sure, but I think one of them is named Assbinder...

#133 - You know, it is kinda like, "If you can't stand the heat, stay under the porch."

That means we lost one. We were at 30 yesterday when I typed post #127. Oh well...

Do we think we'll break 2000 before year's end?

I know this is goning to sound really stupid, but I'll join in if someone can tell me hiw this works :

#138 - I think we've got a shot. 137 people have joined in the four months since you started this thread. We've got seven weeks until the year ends.

#139 - Go here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thegreendragon#forums

and on the upper right hand of your screen click where it says 'Join this Group.'

So I join and we're 138?

LOL, I clicked on your profile and you already joined, and it was a few weeks ago!

No, we have 31 one members to go before we hit the 2,000th member mark.

I know I've figured that out. But thanks :)

I am an honest person, so I'll admit it: I have my heart set on being #2000. But I also want to join regardless. I considered joining now, and unjoining just before the big 2K, then rejoining as #2000. But I won't do it. Unethical. But now I've given the strategy away to anyone who wants it, undermining my own chances. I oughta whack myself upside the head.

we all do that - whack ourselves upside our heads - regularly; just don't let anybody talk you into drinking a PGGB before you try the whack. Triples the effects and then the blue boobies or is it the roombas start looking good to date.

OK, its Friday night and I am home alone. I'd better stop.

It's Thursday night here. You had better go easy on the PGGBs.

oh, ya, its Thursday night here, too, I'm just confused. Too many chocolate cookies.

Friday night? Maybe you should have stopped some time ago? Not to pass judgment, of course.

of course

Love ya, maggs. Even when you're on another time continuum.

But maggie, don't the blue boobies always look good to date? ;o)

#146 - I, for one, plan to do my best Marlon Brando imitation and yell out "Stellar! Stellar!" whenever it is you join. I think your plan was used by multiple people back when we were nearing 1,000 members. Or maybe that was out 150,000th post... I know things got more than just a bit crazy in here at the time.

No wonder it's crazy...all the hoopla and everything... ;)

U haz hooplas?

we haz hooplas, you haz hooplas?, we haz hooplas! see the thread for selling hooplas...

It's 30 again. :D

Do we think we can do 2010 by 2010? :D

I hate sounding like a dufus, but where are you seeing the actual total members? The closest thing I see is the 312 members online (as I type). Also, is dufus really a word? Spellcheck says no. Fascinating, Captain.

Might try "doofus."

#158 DirtPriest on the group page, centre column, groups with the most members gives you The Green Dragon (1,972 members) or on the Green Dragon homepage just after most recent members there is a total.

I guess I am a doofus. Or dufus, as both show up as misspellings. I've been following this thread for months thinking it was LT members and wondering how there could only be 2000 LTers. That's why grade school teachers always say that there is no such thing as a dumb question. Not my best Spock moment.

We are here to guide and shape you, Grasshopper.

Oh! 1972 was a hell of a year for me. We moved to the sticks on the North Fork of Long Island (for which I am forever thankful) and I read The Lord of the Rings for the first time.

>164 clamairy:
Where was that clam? I spend a lot of summer time out there (Orient), and cycle all around the North Fork. More enjoyable it sounds than your 1972.

In Southold. All those potato fields are now vineyards! I was cycling, too, but back and forth to South Harbor Beach on Little Peconic Bay. (I was too young to drive.) I would move back there in a heartbeat if I were independently wealthy. I really miss that saltwater smell and the sound of gulls.

Wow, you Summered out there? From Philadelphia?

Good memory.

Yes, it is quite lovely there. Few cars or people, quiet marshes on peaceful bays... No, we didn't "summer" anywhere when I was a kid. We were so poor that -- well, we didn't summer outside the immediate vicinity.

I spend a good deal of time there now, having the good fortune to have married stellarwoman, whose father has a place out there.

Ah! I misread 'spend' as 'spent.' I don't make it over there as often as I would like to, sadly. My mother still lives in Southold and when we moved back to the East coast I swore I would be down there regularly, but it hasn't come to pass. (I love the wineries, too.)

Fortune favors the bold!

I can't wait until we get to Section 8.

Isn't a Section 8 what Corporal Klinger was always after in M*A*S*H*?

woohoo! Only 1:2.8-4.5 to go!

:oD

Pour MrAndrew another one! Get this party started.

Blast it, we lost two more.
:o(
Now were back to needing 18...

*thinks about bothering to edit above photo*

What I find amazing is we went from 168 to go, to 102 to go, in about 5-6 weeks, now since then, things have ground down to a trickle.

I wonder why?

It's because of all my competitors. We all want to be the 2000th, and we're proceeding mighty carefully!

You watch. It'll be someone with no idea we're counting down to 2000.

>181 jennieg: That comment just put a major damper on my evening.

;)

#179 - My theory is that people are joining at a decent rate, it's just that almost as many are bailing out. :o/

#180 - I believe that the bylaws state that any person who has previously posted in the Green Dragon forum cannot be counted as the x000th new member. I suppose you could bring this up at the next regional meeting in your area, except only members are permitted.

You are evil, suitable1. ;o)

#183 - Do you think it's the water buffalo or the cobras?

#186 - I think it is fear of carbs. There are just too many birthday cakes.

So that's the reason for the monthly birthday thread for next year!

#188 - One of them, yes! Though it will inevitably result in a lower post count...

Is posting on LT considered exercise?

#186 What is wrong with water buffalo - we need them for the mozzarella!

#190 - Not by me, but I'm sure there are LTers who find it so. (Though they shun us for other reasons as well; too much cheese, too much frivolity, and possibly too much FUN!)

#191 - Some folks have commented that they don't share the pool very well. (And I think they may scare some of the pool boys)

edited for second thoughts

The water buffalo are perfectly safe; it's the Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters that scare people off. They think we're all lushes...

#192 It's not possible! There's no such thing as too much cheese, too much frivolity, and possibly too much FUN! is there?

#193 I'm sure we put in a second pool (didn't we?) and (if I remember correctly) there were some new pool boys too.

#194 - clearly anyone who is frightened of the PGGBs has never ... well, I just don't know. How could someone be frightened by something so fine, so uplifting, so morally excellent? Now...blue footed pool boys - that is scary. I just don't know what is becoming of this world, these days!

#196 - Blue footed pool boys?!? Has someone been gene slicing again?

10?! That's scary. I'm going to have to start paying more attention.

boy, that is a flash from the past!

It's fun to see that people get the "10" reference. :D

Maybe we should hide the hazmat suits and put the SPITTING COBRAS back in the closet.

If we only have 10 more to go, then perhaps we should start washing the coffee cups and jelly glasses so we can start serving up the drinks at exactly that magic moment the 2,000th person joins.

C'mon and give me a hand here!

*Hands GeorgiaDawn a dish towel*

I'll help

Thanks, jillmwo and Maggs! This place does need cleaning up a bit.

and then we can have a pillow fight! yay!

Maggie, we are cleaning up! Are you going to go around and pick up all of those feathers?

no, Morphy's roombas will take care of them quite nicely after we get back up on the bar.

Do NOT turn those vile things loose until I have time to get way out of the way!

#194... I thought part of the attraction was that we are all lushes....

*attempts to lean nonchalantly on the bar and ends up on the floor. Stands up spitting feathers*

(edited to correct awful grammar - see what PGGB's do to you!)

The group zeitgeist says that there are 1903 of us.

"On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden rings
Looped around my intestines
Thanks, MrLector."

*laughing until I can't breathe*

Are we trying to scare them off, MrAndrew?

Or lure in a new variety of twisted soul?
;o)
Love it, MrA.

Finally got my daughter on - 2 to go!

Congratulations to stellarexplorer, our 2000th member!

Whoo Hoo! Time for a party??

*bows respectfully, while holding donkey ears behind head of emcee*

Tis rare indeed to have one's fondest aspirations realized! You have no idea the work that went into making this happen...

I forgot to thank my lord, Baal.

hey! GeorgiaDawn wants a PGGB! pass that pitcher over to her, she's the one sitting on the bar, as opposed to all of us sitting under it.

Party time!!! Get out the feather pillows. Don't tell Morphy...she might be tempted to let the (shhhhh) I didn't say it!

> 223
See posts # 105, 129, 146, 180 and 182.

I think we may have some hanging chad! Who is the person between LittleWriter and megaelim in the list of new members?

A ghost? A non-entity? One with a small footprint?

*does bad Marlon Brando imitation*

stellar!!!

Cool, The Invisible Man joined! (The H.G. Wells man, that is.)

where?

between LittleWriter and megaelim

LOL Clammy!

stellarexplorer, I can't believe you actually did it! *claps wildly*

Congratulations to our 2000th member.

You did it Stellarexplorer!!!

Oh my goodness! I'm in the presence of a star!?! Why are there no virtual mojitos and sparkling champagne cocktails?

Welcome to all of the new members, whether you are the 2000th or eleventy-eleventh!

>234 jillmwo:
Indeed I am not worthy....but I'll take it!

>232 MrsLee: I can't believe it either, but hard work was rewarded. For this one shining moment, the universe seems just.

#225 - Thanks, Maggs!

Here, stellar, have a PGGB! Better grab a hazmat suit just in case you spill any on you.

>236 GeorgiaDawn:
Thanks GeorgiaDawn! I was already wearing my hazmat suit just in case, so pass over that pitcher!

hey! boy! we need another pitcher of PGGBs over here...yes, on the bar, not under it!