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5000 posts between prizes ?

Good job I've got my 'official' birthday coming up real soon.( as opposed to my real one)
I can eat cake then......

Gwyn

New York bagels, get thee away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel

The two most prominent styles of traditional bagel in North America are the Montreal-style bagel and the New York-style bagel. The Montreal bagel contains malt and sugar with no salt; it is boiled in honey-sweetened water before baking in a wood-fired oven; and it is predominantly either of the poppy "black" or sesame "white" seeds variety. The New York bagel contains salt and malt and is boiled in water prior to baking in a standard oven. The resulting New York bagel is puffy with a moist crust, while the Montreal bagel is smaller (though with a larger hole), crunchier, and sweeter.

In modern times Canadian-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is the first person known to have taken a batch of bagels into space on his 2008 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.[9] His shipment consisted of 18 sesame seed bagels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal-style_bagel

with pix

but not with cream cheese. :(


I loves me my Montreal bagels.

When No.2 and I ran off to Montreal to ride roller coasters, I snuck out of the hotel room on Sunday morning and took an $80 (yes, $80) return cab ride to the Fairmont bakery to buy several dozen, including a few of those all-dressed. We ate a lot of them and both took a lot home.

When we loaded our luggage into the taxi to go to the airport, the driver said, after we got into the cab, You've been to the Fairmont bakery, haven't you? Oh dear, I said, I brushed my teeth! But no, he'd smelled our luggage. :-D

Ice Ice Baby, there's only one thing I'd swap my cake for....and you won't have it in your house ;-)

Oh, okay, I see I'm being a little chintzy. How do we expect newbies to stay around if all we're offering them is the chance at a cup of tea after a year or three?

So.

100 posts -- you get a handshake, two air kisses and a piece of cake.

250 posts -- two pieces of cake.

500 posts -- more cake, just don't be greedy.

1000 posts -- a beverage of yr choice, and cake.

2500 posts -- an entire choccie cake

5000 posts -- another beverage, some more cake, and you may sign your posts with one of "revered", "learnèd", "special".

After that, for 10K, 15K, 20K, etc., pick yr own prize. Within reason!


Everybody happy?

Not likely.

I'm starting to know how it feels to run this website ...

There are some things in life I 'might' be prepared to give up, but my eclair is not one of them :-0

Janey
Thank you for the offer of a Montreal bagel..... Not sure that I've heard of one of those, but then I've never yet travelled to your shores.
It might be quite tasty, although I'm not keen on the packaged New York ones sometimes bought by other family members.

No.... I think I'll wait for cake please.


Gwyn

I'm sure Rose will give up her éclair. After all, she'll have the plaque she got for herself. Just call dibs!

Next week??? Don't you mean tomorrow ;-) :-P

Having said that if I hadn't deleted my original account I suspect my own word count would be considerably higher :-D

:-D Cat, you may be right about that ! But I shall be good and play by the rules ;-) * goes off into a huddle and makes long list of subjects for discussion/debate* >>>>>>

thought....if i put up a debate or two on which myself and JC are opposed I could probably get to 20,000 by next week :-D

I should have known somebody would come up with the "nudge" ploy ...

Just don't pick threads I've posted in!!!!

Or your sweet treats are forfeit. To moi, of course.


Yes, Cat, I think RR's post count is overly, er, modest.

Well Gwyn feel free to pat your own self on the back when it approaches!

Save it up and put it here, to claim your ... hmm, will you be wanting an éclair too?

They're such awful things, all cardboard and mush and unsweet.

I could offer you a Montreal bagel, the wonderful woodstove-baked ones, all-dressed (garlic, salt ...) if you're brave, with some fab cream cheese, mmmm .....

I think I'm hungry.

Rose there's plenty of time between now and August for you to reach 20,000 posts ;-) :-P

Of course if deleted posts were counted I'm sure you'd have double the current number by now ;-) :-D

Mmmmm..........2500 posts = choccie cake :-D

I'm off to add *nudge* to every thread I can find now to get my count up from a paltry 2241 - well 2242 including this one! LOL

Mary

Sputter, sputter -- make up my own rules -- now what would you have if I didn't?! 20,000 posts and nothing to show for it at all. Go calmly among the noise and whatever, and await your éclair with patience, sez I.

Well done Sylvia.
I noticed when my tally was creeping towards a 250 as the end numbers, but now have ages before the next milestone.

Gwyn

I do hate people who make up their own rules :-P....

you do realise this means I shall have to renew in August and continue to annoy those I have been annoying for years :-D

Ahem. 15K and 20K, no 19K.

No retroactive claiming of prizes either.

But there you go, you may have your éclair and your plaque for your 20K. That's within reason, I'd say.

Especially since I'd say the value of an éclair is about -6.99 currency units, myself. Bleach.


Uh, that was supposed to be a ble-ach-ing noise, not a household cleaning product ...

LOL!

...when I get to 19,000 (posts not years) , I want a chocolate eclair and small plaque saying " rambles a lot, but has amazing staying power considering...."

Yeah, yeah, another padder. ;-)

I'll expect to see posts called "." showing up anytime now ...

Well done Sylvia :-)

I'm working on mine