Countdown to Bungo's 1000th Post!

Join me as we countdown to my 1000th post! I've never stayed on any online forum long enough to reach 1000 posts. So this will be a first!

Break out the buckie!   

Put on some seasonally appropriate music!



And join in the festiveness!  

Ooh, I look forward to your impending accomplishment, Bungo! I'm very glad that you decided to stick around here this long, and I hope you'll keep coming back. I'm a little surprised to hear that you've never broken a thousand anywhere else though, to be honest, since you seem pretty forum-savvy.

Thanks, Eldo! I tend to be a quick study with acclimating to a new online environment. And I find that the layout and code used here is A LOT easier than on torn. And the people are nicer too!   

I've posted plenty on reddit, but I don't count that as a forum, and I'm not sure if I've ever passed 1000 comments. There really is no way to check there. I'd have to sit and count them all.

I noticed a bunch of Reddit GIFs appearing on the forum when you first joined that I'd seen elsewhere, but not on here before. :DI'm a little jealous of your ability to just slip right in; I always take months to get used to a new online community.

I'm not really fond of the forum software on TORn either; I get that they're trying to mimic the style of their old forum but it's too clunky IMO.  I've been a big fan of phpBB for quite some time so it was a no-brainer to go with that when picking a host and setting up the forum.  It doesn't have all the bells and whistles as vBulletin, but it's free and open source and that's a plus for me.  It was even more of a plus when I was 16 and had no income.

I sneak right in. I blend right in.

If torn is fine with their antiquated forum software, that's fine. It just means that it deters me from posting there. Posting pictures is a pain the ass. And I don't think my irreverence would be appreciated.   

I used to be a mod on lotrplaza.com and I was actually something of a hard-ass when it came to rules and being on-topic and serious. But when I started running this place we already had the Banks clan established and I knew I didn't wanted to try to stop the glorious weirdness. So I decided to try basing the rules on principles of forum libertarianism and we ended up with one of the most irreverent Tolkien forums out there.

In my experience, irreverence is the way to go. It's the only way that prevents you from taking yourself, or the subject matter, too seriously.   

And I think it's good for the blood pressure.   

Not getting too stressed out about inconsequential stuff is an ongoing effort for me.

It is for me, too. But I try to keep it in mind everyday.

You know, Eldo, lately I've been trying to not sweat the small stuff, or the big stuff. (Although I will admit that most of the big stuff is scary.)

But I just remind myself that I'm not always going to be here, and eventually the earth will be consumed by the sun. So, I shouldn't really sweat any of it. It has been a surprisingly comforting thought to me.

Bungo's Fun Facts: An ex-King's Singer had an affair with one of the professors at my undergrad. He's a late-middle aged spindly looking man; and she's a short, portly, jaded woman who looks much older than she is.

Congrats on almost getting to 1,000 posts, Bungo   
It took me forever to make that many, partly because I was posting here and in Bree.

1000 posts! {{{They are noisy these Breelanders }}}

I shall stand by in the bar of the Muck n Duck Bungo and await you triumphant total- I assume you know the house rules- that its your round on your 1000 post   

ooooh  a thousand  well done.. soon at least. 

i like post count though

Damn, and I was catching up so quickly.  

All appropriate salutations when the time comes, Bungo.

Break out your dancin' shoes.

 

Grab a drink.



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2 to go!

You should take a screenshot for posterity.

1!

I will!