Member Count...

[Cynthia]

1,333.

We are on fire.

[Félix]

[Phil]

It's Getting Hot in Here

[Sally, la reina]

Oh Clark Phil. Thank you SO MUCH for putting that in my head.

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Am I the only girl who gawks at passing fire trucks to see if the firemen are cute? I don't chase them. I just want to see if they are. I have no idea why I am compelled to know.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I imagine there are other gawkers. Not including me.

[Jim]

I haved a friend who is a captain at a fire house, and one day he was out in the truck doing fire inspections, but they drove buy my work as I was getting in my car, and I didn't see them coming and they honked the horn on the fire truck right as they went by. They scared the living shit out of me, and I bet they are still laughing.

[Phil]

They drove right buy?

[Jammies]

Phil, I think they drove rite buy.

Amber, I always look at fireman for eye candy.

[[deleted user]]

Ha! You can't know, Phil, what pleasure I take in someone taking the piss out of Jim for a change!

(That needs to go in the "double meanings" thread...)

[Jim]

Phil wrote: "They drove right buy?"

Almost, I am having a hard time seeing anything that I am typing, The angioedema is making it difficult to see much. Eyes are almost swollen shut, but not quite.

similar to this today.
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[[deleted user]]

What?

Sure, now I feel like an ass...

Sorry, Jim. Here's your piss back.

*takes piss from Phil, hands to Jim*

[[deleted user]]

Allergic or hereditary?

[[deleted user]]

Airway okay?

[Jim]

Its been going on and off for about four weeks, eyes, eyebrows, hands, arms, lips and tongue.

There is apparently something in the air right now according to the allergist. I finally took a day off of work.

Phil can keep my piss :-)

[[deleted user]]

Hear that, Phil? Score!

Sorry, Jim. Hope you feel better.

[evie]

Poor Jim! Hope you feel better soon. Does a cool compress help reduce the swelling?

[Phil]

::takes a drink of diet coke::

::wonders why it was warm::

SPIT TAKE!

[Scout]

Yay. The member count goes up. Mostly made up of lurkers who are afraid to post (with good reason), but they make a great audience for the thirty or so who do.

[[deleted user]]

Stop.

[[deleted user]]

Can't tell on the phone. Scroll down.

[Sarah]

[Félix]

I got a charge out of that one.

[Phil]

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Four of those makes my wife a happy camper."

After you roll over and go to sleep, of course.

[Phil]

I've heard stories about the ex-husband. Emphasis on "ex."

[Heidi]

I remember a time when we were excited about 300. 1507 now, though... whoa.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I can't figure out how we have 1507 members and only 25 people who post regularly.

[Susan]

Ha! I was going to say somethiing to that effect.

[evie]

Lurkers in the crawl space?

[Susan]

In the walls?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::swiffs::

[Heidi]

I think it's like having a Disney World membership or some such thing... The people who live near there actually get value out of it and the people who travel to there and only sign up for savings don't get the same kind of value out of it.

I think some people sign up just to say they're in a group. Maybe they stalk us. Maybe they're covert operatives. Maybe they're just shy or too scared to post here. Maybe they thought it would be fun but they got busy and then forgot they joined this group... who knows.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Maybe 80% of them are sock puppets. We can hope!

[Susan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Maybe 80% of them are sock puppets. We can hope!"

::Snort::

BunWat wrote: "The Wolves in the Walls

"There are wolves in the walls!" she said.

"Nonsense," said her mother.

"Never," said her father.

Then the wolves came out of the walls."

Dubs, you are fantastic!

[Scout]

I wondered at the time why adding members was a big deal when the group, as a whole, was so aggressively narrow-minded.

[Sally, la reina]

I still don't think of "member" in the politically correct way.

[CD]

Sally wrote: "I still don't think of "member" in the politically correct way."

Ouch. . .

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

1,621.

Hmm.

[Cynthia]

Indeed.

[CD]

Lobstergirl wrote: "1,621.

Hmm."

That's first rate.

In fact, it's prime . . . ;)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Wow it is prime. Sharp eye.

[Scout]

I don't get the importance of the member count, but I guess I'm glad we have more members, more viewpoints to share. Seems lately that the group is more open to all points of view.

[Sally, la reina]

There are about 100 members remaining. Could we revitalize? Lobstergirl? What do you think?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Time for a bake sale? A raffle? How bout a raffle with $100 tickets, winner receives a tiny house.

[CD]

Sally wrote: "There are about 100 members remaining. Could we revitalize? Lobstergirl? What do you think?"

I am curious about '100' members. The 'TC' home page shows 1640 as of this AM.

Is there another metric about active users not apparent or obvious?

We do need more active participants I agree.

Contest with no meaningful award other than a big virtualRaspberry or the all time favorite 'attaboy'? Very Terminal Coffee.

Or a survey for all the members to ignore or not at will?

I'll crawl back in to my den; also known as a kitchen and cook something for the crowd now.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I think Sally was exaggerating downward. Of course, the number of members who actually participate is only a tiny fraction of 100, so it's really even worse than her exaggeration.

[CD]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I think Sally was exaggerating downward. Of course, the number of members who actually participate is only a tiny fraction of 100, so it's really even worse than her exaggeration."

I understand. . .

Looks to me as if a lot of usage and active membership rapidly declined last year.

Too much or Too little Politics?

Maybe a 'member drive'. ( TC-esqe commentary should be inserted below)



Or we could pretend we started another group (remember that tempest in a tea kettle) and then recruit everybody to the 'original'.

I could tell everyone in a never ending series of posts about the coffee variants I've personally tried in the past 6 months.

???????

[ virtual knocking on screen ] Is there anybody out there ?

[evie]

I'm still here.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Hi evie.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

CD wrote: "I could tell everyone in a never ending series of posts about the coffee variants I've personally tried in the past 6 months. ."

Well there are a bunch of coffee threads.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...