"And another NEW GURU, NEW GURU!"

[prometheus578]

All Hail Planedick... our newest Guru!

Geez, Planedick...
Nice going!

Sorry that I was slow on this one.
I usually keep better track of member's numbers, and such.
I was watching your slow rise up the ranks...
"Oh, plenty of time... he's still got a ways to go yet."

But, I'd forgotten just how greedy and grabby some people are.

How was it, Planedick... saw the finish line up ahead and decided to sprint there?
Post a quick mad rush of "fluff" to reach the top?
Runs at an even steady pace for months, but then, in the last two weeks, slams in 36 quick posts!
It's your own fault... not mine.

But, anyway....

ALL HAIL GURU PLANEDICK!!!
Doesn't matter how he got there.... just that he's here now.(Whether we like it, or not)

[John]

Did you know...

That there are 34 Guru's? (not counting maximan & pggg)
Looks like I started a trend. It's getting kinda crowded up here, though.

[randy]

Hey, don't tell the new guys about the virgins and free beer..oops!

[fredintoon]

Don't worry, John

the older ones will start to die off soon.
And alas, there is no beer, there are no virgins. Not on this site anyway. And to entitle a list member "Guru" at the thousandth post regardless of content equates prolixity with wisdom where the converse is far more likely to be true.
As some fellow said in his valedictorian speech, "When I first came here I knew bugger nothing but today I know bugger all."

[Wildkat]

Congrats!

The beer is a bummer... but you're lucky not to get the virgins...


Yes fred... everyone knows life isn't fair... but most (pretty much all) of the people who have achieved Guru here... deserved it... and my title is being changed... so...

[Stralya]

Hey Fred..

In order to return some balance to the Universe, I promise to die when I hit 999.

Dan
Zen Master.

[egsols]

In order to return some balance to the Universe, I promise to die when I hit 999

If I ever get to 999, I am sure Mr. Murphy and his council will revisit the Guru requirements and raise the required post number.

Just like when they raised the drinking age in Ontario to 19. Many young lads, having abstained for just under 18 years, didn't get to celebrate their as per their original hopes!

[fredintoon]

Not all of them

"when they raised the drinking age in Ontario to 19. Many young lads, having abstained for just under 18 years, didn't get to celebrate their as per their original hopes! "
Hi Ernie,
you can join the army and be sent to Afghanistan to be blown to bits at age 17, You can vote for the arsehole of your choice at age 18 but you can't buy a beer until you are nineteen? Effin' ridiculous, right? But only the eldest sons were so afflicted. Everyone else borrows their elder brother's ID.

[egsols]

you can join the army and be sent to Afghanistan to be blown to bits at age 17, You can vote for the arsehole of your choice at age 18 but you can't buy a beer until you are nineteen?

Yeah and you can operate a 5000 pound weapon, with little training, at age 16.

Everyone else borrows their elder brother's ID.

To H^%$ with fake id, back then a beard and a pot belly was all that was required for a flat of brown bottles. (And all of us surely abstained until we reached the required age!)

[egsols]

But I digress,

sorry Planedick,

CONGRATS on your new GURUship!!!!!!!

[prometheus578]

Drinking age in Illinois was 18.
Then they raised it.
So then all us young hoodlums would drive to Wisconsin to drink and then drive back.

I, uhmm... sort of lost my '70 LeMans that way... Ran it into a ditch.
Hitched a ride into town from some local drunks for a tow truck.
Ok.. so now tow truck is sitting in the middle of the road, winching me out.
Here comes another carload of Illinois drunks...
They swerve to miss the tow truck... and slam into me still in the ditch.

Man, I loved that car!