I'm 125 away from 10,000

[xmas74]

Let's get this over with.
Ask a question, make a comment-I'll reply back.

[yewberry]

1. Did you know

that you joined DU on my birthday?

[xmas74]

2. Really?

Happy very early birthday to you! (I think it was in January).

[yewberry]

4. It was.

What will your 10,000th post be about? Will you say something nice about low post counts?

:7

[xmas74]

8. I never say bad things about low post counts.

We all started there at one time.
10,000 post? Can I have a sex thread or post pics of hot men?

[yewberry]

32. Oh, no,

I wasn't suggesting you did! I was making fun of my own post count, after being here for, well, 3 1/2 years or so.
:blush:

[xmas74]

36. You're doing just fine.

Some of us have more free time on our hands than others(Read: the others probably have a life).

[xmas74]

3. Kick

I'm now 114 away from 10,000. Let's get this puppy done.

[tjwmason]

5. It's dark outside now.

Is that the sort of comment desired? :shrug:

[xmas74]

9. Dirty.

About men in kilts. I love comments like that.

[tjwmason]

14. You show me a man in kilt

I'll show you something dirty. :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

17. I've found the pics

but they all say illegal code.

I'll keep looking.

[tjwmason]

20. Are you looking for any particular pics?

:shrug:

[xmas74]

21. I don't want fat old men.

Seems most of the others are registering funny on here(even the ones in my photobucket. I wonder why?)

[tjwmason]

23. Argh - crisis - xmas74's dirty pictures aren't working.

It would help if the kilt is being worn like a true Scotsman - then there's very easy access.

[xmas74]

25. And this one pic it obviously was.

It was rather sexy-especially w/ no shirt on.
Access to everything in site.

[tjwmason]

26. That sounds very yummy indeed.

Damn the not workingness of it.

[xmas74]

27. I know!

I love pics of men w/ no shirts wearing kilts.
I even ran a search, just for you and put on some porn sounding music in the background to "get me in the mood".

[tjwmason]

28. That sounds like real fun

:evilgrin:

[xmas74]

31. It is.

You should try it sometime.

[tjwmason]

33. I definitely well do so.

I had a look for the type of pics you're wanting - and I couldn't find them either :cry:

But then I also realised that they wouldn't be allowed on here either.

[xmas74]

35. My fave pics would never be allowed on here!

[tjwmason]

42. Nor most of mine.

Fewer than 90 needed now - one last big push.....:D

[xmas74]

43. More dirty pics!

I love dirty pics. Of course, looking at them gets me sidetracked over the actual goal of obtaining 10,000 posts!

I cannot control myself when I see hairy men w/ no shirts wearing kilts.

[WCGreen]

55. I guess that shuts me out....

And I look so cute in a kilt....

[xmas74]

56. I'm talking 70 year old men

who have no business showing their goods.
I found the pics. I was not amused.

[WCGreen]

57. Ewwwwwwww

[xmas74]

58. Someone must be turned on by them.

They came up in a search for "hot men in kilts".

[bigwillq]

6. Do you think

you will reach 10,000 by today's end?

[xmas74]

10. If I keep on it.

I've done 1000 in a couple of days before. Depends on my mood.

[tedoll78]

7. Have you ever seen a professional analrapist?

t-hee-hee.. :P

[xmas74]

11. Nope-just amateurs.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Whatever I can do to help! Why the name xmas74? I assume it

is your birthdate.

[xmas74]

13. Kind of.

I was born two days too late. I should have been a Christmas baby but was probably afraid of the world at the time.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. I don't blame you. You knew back them too ...........

[xmas74]

18. Evil men back then too.

I just barely missed the dark soul that was Nixon as president.

[In_The_Wind]

16. Have you finished this years Halloween Costume.

[xmas74]

19. Yep.

Callie is Guinevere. I don't know if I will dress up or not(depends on finances).

[In_The_Wind]

22. Sweet Guinevere ... the Lady of the Lake.

I'm sure she will be beautiful.

What color is her gown?

[xmas74]

24. Purple-just like she asked for.

I hope that the KC Star website does put her pic up next week. My brother got married at the RenFest and they took her pic in her wedding costume. If they do put it up I'll send you the link.

[In_The_Wind]

29. that musta ben one helluva great wedding ...

M'lord ...

M'lady ...


and all that ...

[xmas74]

30. They were introduced at the Joust as Lord and Lady.

Second marriage for her, first for him.

[In_The_Wind]

38. Not just a year and a day come what may ...

but the real - till the last sunset sentiment ...



may their marriage be a successful one ...

[xmas74]

39. I hope that it is too.

They have so much going for them.

[drmom]

34. So, once you are over 1000 there IS a way to see your actual

post count?

[xmas74]

37. Click on the little profile face at the top of your post.

[wildhorses]

40. how tall are you?

[xmas74]

41. On my drivers license? 5'5.

According to the Army? 5'0. (I almost enlisted once many years ago)
According to my doctor? 5'2.

[wildhorses]

46. I am betting that ...

your doctor is correct...
did you lie about your weight on your DL also?
Doesn't everybody?

[xmas74]

47. Didn't lie

Just never changed it. I weighed 92 pounds when I got my license and I've never felt the need to change it.

[wildhorses]

52. good rationalization

may I borrow it...if I ever see the need?

[xmas74]

54. Of course.

I'm very generous w/ my rationalizations.
Fact is, I obtained my license when I was 16 but they don't need to know it was that long ago that I weighed 92 lbs(when I graduated from high school I was up to 98 lbs. Those days are long gone).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. No questions come to my enfeebled brain at the moment.......

But just let me say that you always seem ready to have a very good time!

I'll bet you're a party animal in RL!

Early congrats on making 10,000...I still have a few more posts to go....



:yourock: :hug: :loveya:

[xmas74]

45. I used to party all the time.

I have a five year old now so no parties for me. Our idea of a great time is to eat popcorn, drink hot cocoa and watch Halloweentown on the Disney Channel.

[xmas74]

48. 79 more posts till 10,000

[hfojvt]

49. are you at work or at home?

How is the job situation?

[xmas74]

50. At home right now.

I found a job and accepted it. Low pay but at least it's a job.

[hfojvt]

51. what do you consider low pay?

as a % of minimum wage. I make 218% of minimum wage and some people think that is low pay. Probably talking about low bennies too.

[xmas74]

53. A little bit better bennies than I had.

I will say this about the pay-it's considered to be under the poverty line in my county. They had a report in the paper about 2 years ago for my county. A single mother w/ 1 child would have to make around $14 an hour to pay for everything(rent, utilities, groceries, daycare, gas, insurance, etc). I make well below that now.

[hfojvt]

61. I can never think of $13 an hour as low pay

I cannot believe such a report, but then again I own a house and have no idea what day care costs. Of course, my employer pays about $2.3 an hour for my health insurance and that is 43% of the minumum wage right there. Then there are paid holidays and paid vacations which I did not have in previous jobs.

[xmas74]

62. Rent around here for a two bedroom runs about $675 a month.

Daycare is $400-500 a month. I figured that if you commuted(as most do in my town) and made $13 an hour you'd have about $200 left-before taxes. Once you take out taxes, any kind of 401K and health insurance you would be a few hundred in the hole(and that doesn't include if you are trying to put away any money at all for your child's future education).

Most of the jobs around here are barely paying min. (college town). I'm making just a few over that now.

[hfojvt]

66. that sounds high, and I thought they were high here

My house payments were only $225 but I just paid it all off. Commuting is probably not as expensive as owning a car is. I was able to give mine up about two years ago instead of getting a new one. I just think it is insulting to people who make $8 an hour when some report calls people making $13 an hour 'poor'. Lots of people would love to be that 'poor', but $675 is alot of rent to pay.

[xmas74]

70. It's so expensive because it's a college town.

They figure they can get 2-3 college kids per bedroom and they charge w/ that sort of thinking. And they know that, between the college kids who have children(state will pick up the bill) and the military(subsidized childcare services) they can charge outrageous amounts of money for daycare.
I make much less than $13 an hour and I have to live w/ my parents in order to survive. Commuting-wise, you have the insurance(much higher if you commute to work), the gas and the wear and tear on the vehicle. $13 is considered "poor" because of how high the cost of living is around here. Our Chamber of Commerce stated that the average rent in '04 for a 2 bedroom apt was $675 a month. We also have no public housing in our town. They've been addressing the situation because so many working families cannot afford to live here anymore and are moving to smaller towns to try to get by. Also, we are close enough to KC(one county over) that some are moving out of Jackson Co. into our county for cheaper land prices. That is causing property rates to go through the roof at a rapid rate w/ no industry in the area to support it.
It sucks but that's the way it is around here now.

[lakemonster11]

59. I'm now one away from 500.

[WCGreen]

60. Okaty, post again...

[xmas74]

63. And now you have 500.

Congrats to you!

[lakemonster11]

142. Thanks!

[xmas74]

64. Be back in a couple of hours.

It's time for me to play Girl Scout leader.

Keep asking questions and I'll answer them later when I get home and get my kid in bed.

[HEAVYHEART]

67. How many gs badges have you sewn?

[xmas74]

71. Not very many yet.

Daughter is a Daisy. And many of them now are iron-ons (but not very good iron-ons).
Back in the day I had a fair amount.

[Shine]

65. OK, here are some questions:

How'd you come up with your user name?

Were you born in '74? at Christmas, perhaps?

I'm impressed that you're already pushing 10,000 posts and you've only been at DU since Jan. What's the most you've posted in a day? Ballpark it.

What part of the country do you live in? How old is your kid? Boy or girl?

You can respond to these questions separately, if you're really motivated to increase your postage total. ;)

:hi:
~Shine

[xmas74]

73. I was born two days after Christmas in 1974.

[xmas74]

74. Question two:

No idea. I used to work all night and get into conversations w/ people. I've had easily over a hundred posts in a night just talking to one person all night long(usually MissHoneychurch).

[xmas74]

75. Question three:

I live in the Midwest-West Central Missouri to be more precise(less than 40 minutes from the Truman Library). I have a five year old daughter.

[xmas74]

76. Quote:

"You can respond to these questions separately, if you're really motivated to increase your postage total."

Great idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

[UrbScotty]

68. The sanctity of my marriage is under attack! What should I do?

[xmas74]

77. You are asking this question to a single mother

who never married and has had, on more than a few occasions, gay men making out w/ each other on my living room couch.

Ok, my suggestion: Quit allowing the Baptist Sunday School teachers to marry and divorce every other year. If my local religious teacher has been married five, six or seven times then they have no f*cking clue about the sanctity of marriage.

[UrbScotty]

143. LOL! Thank you!

:evilgrin:

[xmas74]

144. You're quite welcome!

[Arugula Latte]

69. All right. How in the holy hell did you get so many posts all in

about a 9-month period? :shrug: I've been here since friggin' 2001 and I haven't even broken 5,000...

[xmas74]

78. Post late at night.

Pick a buddy and have threads that are nothing but conversations back and forth w/ each other.

And don't be afraid to lock a few threads. Makes the conversation more fun.

[Arugula Latte]

83. How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a

Tootsie Pop? :shrug:

[xmas74]

84. The world may never know.

But Mr. Owl says that it takes three.
"A-one, A-two, A-three.
Three."

[salin]

72. Why were there 76 trombones in the big parade?

isn't that overkill?

[xmas74]

79. Depends on the size of the marching band.

You do realize that there were 100 and 10 cornets close at hand, don't you?
(sorry, I was a trumpet player and I like to point out that we had more players in the Music Man.)

[salin]

81. dang - I once played the trumpet

(middle school and beginning of highschool) and I didn't remember that - til you pointed it out (and suddenly I heard the line in my head) - great catch.

SO revised aren't 76 trombones and 110 trombones & cornets still a bit of overkill?

*in advance - congrats for hitting the 10K mark!*

[xmas74]

82. Thank you.

Here are the lyrics:

Seventy six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos;
the cream of every famous band.

Seventy six trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds,
There were horns of every shape and kind

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering, all along the way
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons
Each bassoon having his big fat say

There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
Thundering, thundering, louder than before
Clarinets of every size and trumpeters who'd improvise
A full octave higher than the score

Seventy six trombones hit the counter point
While a hundred and ten cornets played the air
To the rhythm of 'Harch Harch Harch!'
All the kids began to march
And they're marching still, right today

(and I had a one rating in middle and high school for concert and jazz trumpet. My band also racked up alot of one ratings for marching).

[xmas74]

80. 61 posts away from my goal

[hfojvt]

85. yes and I need 19

or 18 now to make a mere 4000. Odds are that you will beat me.

[xmas74]

86. I need 48 more.

Just keep replying to anything and you will beat me easily.

[hfojvt]

101. I don't think so

between the time you posted this and the time I read it, you were down to 39. I got up to get some lemonade and you are down to 37. I still need 16. Too much multi-tasking. Drinking lemonade, watching early edition, doing family research, and putting too many words into my posts.
I could not even think of a way to entertain zombienixon.

[xmas74]

102. No one can entertain ZombieNixon.

Don't even try.
Just post somewhere that * is a p*d and you'll get a few hundred replies.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

87. So how's it going?

[xmas74]

88. Not too many more left.

I should hit it tonight.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

89. Only 46 to go!! Is that true?

[xmas74]

90. 45 now.

I'm such a loser.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

91. BUCK UP!! THERE WILL BE TIME FOR THAT AFTER YOU HIT

10,000!!

[xmas74]

92. I know.

Just proves that I have no social life right now.

I really should be out getting laid instead.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

93. Ooooo.

:donut:

[xmas74]

94. I'd stock up if I were you.

This could be an interesting conversation.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

95. I got a dozen.

:donut:

[xmas74]

96. Sounds good.

Are they Dunkin' Donuts, Winchells or Krispy Kremes?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

97. Krispy!

[xmas74]

98. Best when fresh and hot and the lights on.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

99. Krispy Kreme came to my area in N.CA. only about a year or two ago.

They are good!!

[xmas74]

100. Best at clogging your ateries.

We have them all over around here. Even the gas stations sell them.
I've been informed that my kid will be selling them as a school fundraiser. Guess how many dozen I will probably buy before it's over?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

103. Great. Then instead of me asking if anyone wants donuts, I guess

you'll be saying "I have some donuts. Just take them! Now!......... Please?"

[xmas74]

104. Yep.

And my neice will be selling Girl Scout cookies in another month or so.
That reminds me-I need to renew my membership at the community center. I'm gonna get so fat in the next few months!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

105. Exercise time!

[xmas74]

106. New Years will begin the starvation diet of the year!

I won't be able to fit into my clothes.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

107. Don't starve yourself. Just go back to your regular eating habits.

[xmas74]

108. I can't starve myself.

I like food too much. But cutting down on portions will definitely feel like starving!
At least I've added to my walking now. The price of gas has me walking more places lately. Maybe the added exercise will keep me from gaining quite so much.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

109. It won't be so bad then.

[xmas74]

110. But I'm still not looking forward to it.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

111. Yeah it's tough. I'm a food hound too.

[xmas74]

112. I love food.

I like to read cookbooks and try new things.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

113. Believe it or not, I'm going to try vegetarian cookbooks!

Let's switch over to the main post.

[xmas74]

114. OK

[Crazy Guggenheim]

115. So how's life in "The Heartland"?

[xmas74]

117. Kinda sucks sometimes.

Lots of fundies here. I just want to kick a few in their teeth every time they open their mouths.

[xmas74]

116. 14 posts left now.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

118. Thirteen now ..........

:donut:

[xmas74]

119. Getting close.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

120. How many now?

[xmas74]

121. 9 left

[Crazy Guggenheim]

122. Getting to party time!

[xmas74]

124. Very close now.

I'm ready to get it over with. This has been all day long and I've probably made over 150 posts today.

[AirmensMom]

123. You're getting pretty close.

Can I help out any?

:hi:

[xmas74]

125. Thank you for the assistance.

Just post something else for me to reply to and I'll be grateful. I'd like to finish this tonight.

[AirmensMom]

126. What's the weather doing?

[xmas74]

127. clear and kinda muggy tonight.

and yours?

[AirmensMom]

128. Same.

Will you ever try to do > 100 posts in one day again?

[xmas74]

129. Done it before.

Depends on what kind of mood I'm in.
So, your an airmen's mom. I have an airbase about 8 miles from my house.

[AirmensMom]

130. Yeah. Got a daughter and son-in-law in the A/F.

Lucky so far, but daughter will be going to Iraq. :scared:

What's the significance of your username?

[xmas74]

131. I was born two days after Christmas in 1974.

And I live really close to Whiteman AFB.

[AirmensMom]

134. Thought it was something like that.

I graduated from high school that year.

Never been there. Is it nice?

Bonus question:

Will you post your 10,000th post here or in a new thread?

[xmas74]

135. It's not too bad.

And I think you just got my 10,000th post.

[xmas74]

132. She'll be fine.

We can only hope for the best.

[AirmensMom]

136. Thanks!

Hey, you're there!

Congratulations!

:woohoo: :applause: :bounce:

[xmas74]

137. thank you!

And thanks for your help.

[AirmensMom]

139. You're welcome!

Now you can get some rest. :hi:

[xmas74]

140. Yes!

That will be so nice.
And you might as well finish off your last few to 300 while you're up.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

133. ONE MORE!!

[xmas74]

138. It's done!

Thank goodness.
Now I need to get a life.

[lostpuppy]

141. LOL I joined as of late.

congrats xmas74!!!

[xmas74]

145. Thank you very much!

[Wapsie B]

146. I see you're already over the top. Congrats xmas74!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:thumbsup:

:toast:

[xmas74]

147. Thank you!