WWTBAM Bored

The annual posting of the infamous Black Tuesday list!

From our then-record setting posting day, January 23, 2001.....


150129 : A Breakdown Of Yesterday's Record - 1342

49 Hits / 3 Recs
Posted by: littlebeast13


Yes, I was bored...


HarvSilk- 110

aussiegirl828- 73

minimetoo26- 65

amazonium- 53

rhoadsc- 52

Corn9977- 51

ImWaiting- 46

Sir_Galahad- 46

SportsFan68- 44

BackInTex- 42

Im_Ace- 33

macsdaddy1967- 30

earendel100- 29

wild_bill_76- 29

Eyegor- 29

DasBooch- 28

littlebeast13- 26

ScrabbleTed- 23

traininvain- 21

lakecitygal- 20

txnazfan- 19

jemmylegs- 17

NE1410S- 15

nitrah55- 14

AlphaDummy- 13

footballguy17- 12

EMSDano- 11

roohead_2000- 11

boilerguy77- 10

golfmanbob- 10

bigdrawman- 10

John9826- 10

ASchlutt- 9

Todd_Rundgren- 9

TheCalvinator24- 9

bbking52- 8

GeniusParks- 8

ABCsMole- 8

7:

janice1123

Oelwein_Boy

puppie96

cabbyjoe59

tgirl78

ceej2000

brianna315

samcat23

dominodoggy

6:

Millionaire1maniac

wazzu_kate

MarleysGh0st

ArdmoreRich

lilclyde54

5:

Cyncty666

Kazoo59

lookingforspace

rockhardnj

DanSallinen

dougie_monty

taurnguard

christie1111

THEM_MINI_ACE

4:

mysterms

megaaddict

BIGAL1234

WBAM

L_wellman

efrankel

3:

Millawanna

bmcn40

momruns56

aimee6737

ntnBO

da323232

tubadave

carsc23

triviaqueen34

dilettante88

kmpec

a1mamacat

kimiata

OzrobinRedwing

2:

billyblastoff321

hbomb47

ironlady40

MarishkaJJ

HF_Jai

skypilate

esvt

ndsuspock

newtoyou

gotnohoney

marcymatt

rs136

WANNABE82

elwoodblues32

drubin333

nattysmom

xodar123

1:

PierreBayle

fredwert

dosstom

AB_Normal57

HeartThrob45

jupdike55

Killer_Tomato

marylou4032

waynewaite

jonny2591

tocqueville3

gwtwfan16

robo5323

NDSBend

Fickle_Finger_of_WWTBAM

aksheryl

cmeenow

BJ_Moose

smokey9534

PJunior

SEMPERFI1977

J_C_DRUM

Exeter571

RePete222

cabrina23

mikey0909

milliwanna

babsnc

Team_Player

neoneyez

miamiclay

targethead

chill3070

vails11

HOYA86

silverscreenselect

geoffil

damagedb4u

twinkle1173

SassiesDad

HoosierHoopster

Anthonybaliola

nins99

piggo_funny

BiggerThanVegas

kusch0

jtmattox

Tallika

My posting total looks so pathetic on that list. But, hey, I was still a newbie at the time!

And I still had the attitude (acquired from other forums) that all posts should be meaningful, to keep the signal to noise ratio high.

What was the topic, concern or conspiracy theory of the day?

(In addition, where was I? Was I not posting in January? Was I working hard? Was I off auditioning somewhere?)

See that!

There was life on this bored before me and there will be life after me!

7:

janice1123

Oelwein_Boy

puppie96

cabbyjoe59

tgirl78

I was SUCH a chatterbox, bitd

t.

silvercamaro wrote:What was the topic, concern or conspiracy theory of the day?

The dual threat of the infamous Phone Game lockout and a Gus chase that night (Notice the Post number of the original post)

silvercamaro wrote:(In addition, where was I? Was I not posting in January? Was I working hard? Was I off auditioning somewhere?)

My recollection is that you were very limited in your posting during my first year on the Bored (early summer 2000 through Summer 2001). In fact, you once made one of Eyegor's "Lost BB's" lists of posters who hadn't posted in a while back when he was the primary Bored historian....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:
My recollection is that you were very limited in your posting during my first year on the Bored (early summer 2000 through Summer 2001). In fact, you once made one of Eyegor's "Lost BB's" lists of posters who hadn't posted in a while back when he was the primary Bored historian....

lb13

I know there was a period of time when I didn't post much on this bored. I kept on reading it, though. As a result, I felt like I knew everyone pretty well, but I was a stranger to many of the then regulars for a while.
(They thought I was a newbie, but to me, they were the recent arrivals.)

Ah, memories. LB and I had taped our respective disappointing episodes the previous week, and were waiting for them to air a week later. But at least I was able to dull the pain by researching glowing vegetables. I was reading the board back then, but hadn't posted yet, as I recall.

TheConfessor wrote:Ah, memories. LB and I had taped our respective disappointing episodes the previous week, and were waiting for them to air a week later.

I think the episode we both considered to be the most disappointing was the same one....

Obviously I was reflecting on that on the anniversary last Friday. 7 years, unbelievable....

lb13

One additional note for those who wonder why they can't crack into the elite tiers of the rankings....

The above list was actually pretty typical of the average day on the Bored from January - June 2001 (Covering the Verbose Class and the early part of the Morose Class)... at least on the top end of the list (There just wasn't as many with so many posts each day, but 50+, even 100+ posting days by individual posters were not uncommon). And when you factor in 2 years of Seven Clues (Dr J, who still sits in the Top 30, was basically an active poster on the Bored for just those 2 years), this is why the bars are set so high....

lb13

It's still incredible to me that I only posted 9 times that day.

silvercamaro wrote:What was the topic, concern or conspiracy theory of the day?

(In addition, where was I? Was I not posting in January? Was I working hard? Was I off auditioning somewhere?)

January 2001 had over 6,000 posts inthe GC. I know that many of us mostly posted over there and lurked over here.

Jaybee

jaybee wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:What was the topic, concern or conspiracy theory of the day?

(In addition, where was I? Was I not posting in January? Was I working hard? Was I off auditioning somewhere?)

January 2001 had over 6,000 posts inthe GC. I know that many of us mostly posted over there and lurked over here.

Jaybee

That's a lot of posts!

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

jaybee wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:What was the topic, concern or conspiracy theory of the day?

(In addition, where was I? Was I not posting in January? Was I working hard? Was I off auditioning somewhere?)

January 2001 had over 6,000 posts inthe GC. I know that many of us mostly posted over there and lurked over here.

Jaybee

That's a lot of posts!

Yes, it is.

However, beast's stats were from one day, not the whole month. We posted close to 1000 posts/day for a sustained period.

Of course, a particular game show was in its heyday.

Stats for the first 6 months of 2001 for the PRoG and the GC:

January 2001: 17436 ..... 6325

February 2001: 16704 ..... 6986

March 2001: 25639 ..... 9364

April 2001: 34344 ..... 9742

May 2001: 31432 ..... 6075

June 2001: 23761 ..... 4508


Of course, we had the advantage of having a flood of newbies compared to the invite only GC, plus we had more extraneous stuff going on that they would do in chat. One interesting thing I never noticed before is that for both Boreds, April 2001 was the most prodigious month in the Bored's history. I always blamed our April spike on the robertl30 factor, but I doubt that would have been the reason over there....

lb13