1000 Post Club

[Ursa major]

Welcome to the club, Parson.

[Interference]

Ah, yes ... the door prize. I'm afraid we gave our last door to the 2000 club, would this mulled wine and bag of pop-corn do instead?

Welcome, btw

[Parson]

It is more than I expected. Being a once a year drinker of wine or so, and none at all of other spirits (except the Holy Spirit )I have no idea whether you just gave me a $50 bottle of wine or a $.50 bottle of wind. But I love popcorn!

Thanks! (Sips wine. Looks quizzically at the wine; and begins to chomp on the corn.)

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by Parson

I have no idea whether you just gave me a $50 bottle of wine or a $.50 bottle of wind.

If one can sell wind for even $0.50 a bottle, I sense a lucrative career change ahead ...

[Parson]

I've known people that you would pay not to break wind, but never anybody who could bottle it.

(Picture of Parson casting out the typo demon.)

[TheEndIsNigh]

Originally Posted by Parson

It is more than I expected. Being a once a year drinker of wine or so, and none at all of other spirits (except the Holy Spirit )I have no idea whether you just gave me a $50 bottle of wine or a $.50 bottle of wind. But I love popcorn!

Thanks! (Sips wine. Looks quizzically at the wine; and begins to chomp on the corn.)

Come on Parson.

Be realistic - 50 pounds ????

It's more likely to be made from the water the grape crushers wash their feet in.

[Grimward]

Hmmm, at the current exchange rate (a little more than 1.6 dollars to the pound), that would be more like an 80£ bottle, TEiN my good fellow (and happy new year, by the way). All the more indication that you're right, and that bottle was probably filched by HJ while Py and the other 6000 post club members weren't looking.....

By the way, Parse, did you happen to notice if Hatshepsut was looking for the hidden key under the doormat or something? Been hovering on the doorstep for quite a while now....

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Grimward

....All the more indication that you're right, and that bottle was probably filched by HJ while Py and the other 6000 post club members weren't looking.....

Hey, who said HIC anything HIC about HIC looking the other HIC way!......

[Grimward]

Well, indications from your apparent state of respiratory disruption to the contrary (), your stats would imply you'd be looking more in the direction of the 7000 club (they get Remy-Martin VSOP), Gol...

[GOLLUM]

Hey some Cognac to warm the brain cells. Cool....

[Parson]

Originally Posted by TheEndIsNigh

Come on Parson.

Be realistic - 50 pounds ????

It's more likely to be made from the water the grape crushers wash their feet in.

Does the dollar sign ($) get translated into the pound sign (£)? I was talking about a less valuable bottle wine (carefully tying so as not to call it wind) than that.

Okay Grim you said:

Hmmm, at the current exchange rate (a little more than 1.6 dollars to the pound), that would be more like an 80£ bottle, TEiN my good fellow (and happy new year, by the way). All the more indication that you're right, and that bottle was probably filched by HJ while Py and the other 6000 post club members weren't looking

Now I'm no math wizard but it seems like you meant to say 30 £, or more precisely 31.25 £ rather than 80 £ for the said bottle of wine.

(Parson now suspects that the prize for a 1000 posts is being shared rather more liberally than he at first imagined.)

[Ursa major]

We put the pound sign on the front of the amount, as you do with the dollar sign.

At, for example, a rate of 1.6 dollars to the pound, $160 would (all other things being equal, which they rarely are) be equivalent to £100.



* Ursa sees that he's the only member of the 4000 Post Club who has posted in 2010 (aor for months, in fact). He places defensive devices on all the 4000 Post Club's assets. *

[Parson]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

We put the pound sign on the front of the amount, as you do with the dollar sign.

At, for example, a rate of 1.6 dollars to the pound, $160 would (all other things being equal, which they rarely are) be equivalent to £100.



* Ursa sees that he's the only member of the 4000 Post Club who has posted in 2010 (aor for months, in fact). He places defensive devices on all the 4000 Post Club's assets. *

Pound sign in front of the amount! (Parson smacks head and thinks he should not have had that glass of virtual wine after all.)

But the defensive measures in front of the 4000 Post Club assets seems to be a wise investment. There are after all a half dozen or so who may get there one day.

[Ursa major]

It's the ones that pop in just long enough to borrow something permanently that the defences are for.



* Enters various silhouettes of a platypus into the Tumbleweeds' Defence Targetting System. *

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Parson

But the defensive measures in front of the 4000 Post Club assets seems to be a wise investment. There are after all a half dozen or so who may get there one day.

Nah, there's nothing of value left in there - we took them all with us when we passed on and upward...