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#1 Post by Buffacuse » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:34 am

...to avoid going bold this week.

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#2 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:38 am

I thought you made this gratuitous post cuz you were participating in the gus hunt. :D

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#3 Post by earendel » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:39 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I thought you made this gratuitous post cuz you were participating in the gus hunt. :D
There's a hunt afoot?
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#4 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:41 am

earendel wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I thought you made this gratuitous post cuz you were participating in the gus hunt. :D
There's a hunt afoot?
Yep. Only 45 to 95,000. :)

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#5 Post by earendel » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:42 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
earendel wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I thought you made this gratuitous post cuz you were participating in the gus hunt. :D
There's a hunt afoot?
Yep. Only 45 to 95,000. :)
Well, only 43 now. But it's a slow hunt.
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#6 Post by ne1410s » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:44 am

I have never had a gus.
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#7 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:46 am

ne1410s wrote:I have never had a gus.
There are only four of us on the Bored right now, so your odds looks pretty good.

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#8 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:48 am

Cool, I didn't realize that there was a gus hunt!

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#9 Post by franktangredi » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:16 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cool, I didn't realize that there was a gus hunt!
Okay, I'll bite. What does this mean?

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#10 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:20 am

franktangredi wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cool, I didn't realize that there was a gus hunt!
Okay, I'll bite. What does this mean?
We were battling to see who could make the 95,000th post on the Bored. PSM got it.

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#11 Post by franktangredi » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:25 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
franktangredi wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cool, I didn't realize that there was a gus hunt!
Okay, I'll bite. What does this mean?
We were battling to see who could make the 95,000th post on the Bored. PSM got it.
But who's Gus?

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#12 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:30 am

franktangredi wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
franktangredi wrote: Okay, I'll bite. What does this mean?
We were battling to see who could make the 95,000th post on the Bored. PSM got it.
But who's Gus?
gusgerbils was the very first poster on the very first WWTBAM forum, the People's Republic of Go®.

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#13 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:38 am

Gosh, Frank, you didn't notice the games we played over here while you had folks trying to figure out Tangredis in the GC? 8)

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#14 Post by JeanieWho » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:42 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
franktangredi wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote: We were battling to see who could make the 95,000th post on the Bored. PSM got it.
But who's Gus?
gusgerbils was the very first poster on the very first WWTBAM forum, the People's Republic of Go®.
Does guserbils know there's a hunt named in his honor??

p.s. Frank, I know how you feel!

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#15 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:42 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:gusgerbils was the very first poster on the very first WWTBAM forum, the People's Republic of Go®.
And that poster's screen name is said to have been in honor of a real gerbil, named Gus. That little fellow is no longer with us, but his avatar can be seen in the following MM's profile:

profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=376

:)

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#16 Post by franktangredi » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:02 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:Gosh, Frank, you didn't notice the games we played over here while you had folks trying to figure out Tangredis in the GC? 8)
I didn't even know there was a here here then.

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#17 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:05 pm

franktangredi wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Gosh, Frank, you didn't notice the games we played over here while you had folks trying to figure out Tangredis in the GC? 8)
I didn't even know there was a here here then.
Well, here was over there on Go.com, but we still consider this a continuation of the same Bored, despite the occasional change of address. :D

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#18 Post by kayrharris » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:07 pm

I hate Gus hunts. LB is sleeping, so I need an opportunity to build up my post count.
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#19 Post by kayrharris » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:08 pm

I'm still building. This is just the foundation.
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#20 Post by kayrharris » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:10 pm

He's 55 ahead of me. I'll never catch up unless someone has something to talk about.

I need to go my nails done. That might take priority.
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#21 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:05 pm

Buffacuse wrote:...to avoid going bold this week.

I only post to change my avatar.
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.

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#22 Post by earendel » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:32 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
Buffacuse wrote:...to avoid going bold this week.

I only post to change my avatar.
Which is more often than most people change their underwear! :P
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#23 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:21 pm

JeanieWho wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
franktangredi wrote: But who's Gus?
gusgerbils was the very first poster on the very first WWTBAM forum, the People's Republic of Go®.
Does guserbils know there's a hunt named in his honor??

p.s. Frank, I know how you feel!

I am very positive gusgerbils (a.k.a. Meg Hurley, who used to have a gerbil breeding site on the internet that that picture of Gus came from) has no idea there's a hunt named in her honor. She only made a couplr throwaway posts in the old, old days of the original WWTBAM Bored. And she only wound up with Post #1 due to the fact that one of her's was the earliest post ABC could recover from the Great Bored Crash of November 1999....

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#24 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:23 pm

kayrharris wrote:He's 55 ahead of me. I'll never catch up unless someone has something to talk about.

I need to go my nails done. That might take priority.

Well, we all have our priorities..... :P

Maybe the game will run 20 innings tonight and you'll get some more catch up time.....

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#25 Post by kayrharris » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:42 pm

One can only hope.

Or I can pull a Uly and post on each and every thread whether or not I have anything to contribute. 8)
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