*******MILESTONES*******

[Strong Atheist]

In Honor of newyawker99


Update: Except for a few people that I promised in the last thread I would put in this thread, I have tried to get only people who passed a mark (00, 000). That is the way I will do it from now on. PM me for anyone who should go on next weekend's list.


Please join me in congratulating
the following DUer's who achieved
milestones recently. :D


New Members :bounce:

3.14158675309
cherish44
Lost in CT
MrPerson

200 :bounce:

denbot
LNM
Sky Masterson

300 :bounce:

3.14158675309
cherish44

500 :bounce:

MrPerson

800 :bounce:

47of74

1,000 :bounce:

surrealAmerican

2,000 :bounce:

Silent3

3,000 :bounce:

blueraven95
FarLeftRage
PaddyBlueEyes

4,000 :bounce:

ZombieHorde

7,000 :bounce:

AwakeAtLast
Lavender Brown
Lyric
Zuiderelle

8,000 :bounce:

livetohike
racaulk
WillBowden

10,000 :bounce:

Drunken Irishman

11,000 :bounce:

Missy Vixen
RFKHumphreyObama

14,000 :bounce:

Pale Blue Dot

15,000 :bounce:

Ava

16,000 :bounce:

mopinko

18,000 :bounce:

Hippo_Tron

19,000 :bounce:

hfojvt
Mayberry Machiavelli

22,000 :bounce:

beam me up scottie
Jamastiene

30,000 :bounce:

crispini
merh

36,000 :bounce:

Forkboy

37,000 :bounce:

jobycom

38,000 :bounce:

graywarrior

41,000 :bounce:

billyskank

42,000 :bounce:

GoddessOfGuinness

60,000 :bounce:

CatWoman

65,000 :bounce:

CaliforniaPeggy

66,000 :bounce:

LynneSin

91,000 :bounce:

underpants

146,000 :bounce:

newyawker99



Update: I added a "Good News" section. The news in papers and on t.v. has always focused on negative things (wars, murders, etc.) and I always thought it would be nice to have a "good news" section. I think this will be even more necessary soon, given the state of the economy... :scared:



Good News:

JackBeck Quit Smoking 1 Month Ago! :toast:

WannaBeGrumpy's kitty is ok! :toast:

underpants lost 60 lbs! :toast:

47of74 left the 700 club! :toast:

Hawkeye-X has a son! :toast:



Recent Birthdays :party:

Barenakedlady
crimsonblue
HarukaTheTrophyWife
miss_american_pie




Update: Due to the ... weirdness going on with the number and "other" names (look closely at the profiles of 80 - 90% of the user names starting with numbers or "other", check out the number of posts and the start dates. You really have to look at a LOT of them to get the full picture; I would start with the 8's and move to other numbers... :scared: ) I am going to have a "floor" number of posts to make it to the Quiet types or Elders list... sorry, but there are FAR too many with "0" posts due to the... weirdness...



Quiet Types: :bounce:

Angel
Angiewnsb
beavers
CarbonDate
Chomp
denbot
Goldensilence
Heidegger
hlthe2b
J-Lo Biafra
LNM
Lolivia
Lordquinton
momto3
Onehandle
proggy
Seaker
SPanara
SpankMe
SPedigrees
tiddlywinks
tigerwoods
vard28
zonker


Honored Elders: :yourock:

0007
Angel
Aristus
ashling
Bake
billyskank
CarbonDate
CatWoman
DainBramaged
Darth_Kitten
denbot
DS1
EarlG
Elad
FarLeftRage
Forkboy
geniph
GoddessOfGuinness
GOPisEvil
graywarrior
GreenPartyVoter
groovedaddy
HarukaTheTrophyWife
IndianaGreen
jobycom
jody
Jokerman
Johnyawl
laconicsax
LynneSin
matcom
Missy Vixen
MrScorpio
newyawker99
Pale Blue Dot
Rabrrrrrr
RetroLounge
Richardo
RFKHumphreyObama
ScreamingMeemie
Sequoia
Skinner
supernova
symbolman
The Magistrate
trof
trotsky
underpants
vixengrl
WillBowden
WilliamPitt
Zomby Woof

Congratulations everyone! :toast: :thumbsup:

Remember, if you see a newbie today,
please give him/her a big DU welcome.
It really does mean a lot. :D

[Montauk6]

1. Here's some music to read all this by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRfdlcQ_MZw

[Strong Atheist]

18. Sorry I missed your 4000, will put it next

week...

[Montauk6]

37. I YAKKED THAT MUCH????? Wow...

[TZ]

2. It really is wonderful of you to do this!

Congrats to everyone! :toast:

[Strong Atheist]

8. Thank you for taking the time to look! nt.

[Sky Masterson]

3. 200 woohoo!

I'm a regular chatty cathy :D

[Strong Atheist]

5. Congrats!

:toast:

[AwakeAtLast]

4. Wow! I didn't even know I passed 7,000!

Thanks for posting!

I really like the good news part, too!

:bounce:

[Strong Atheist]

7. Than you for the kind words. We all owe newyawker99... nt.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Congrats, Milestoners!

:toast:


And thanks for doing this! :hi:

[Strong Atheist]

9. Hey, been a long time...

:hi:

[blueraven95]

10. Congratulations to all the milestoners!

and thanks again for doing this!

[Strong Atheist]

11. .

:blush:

newyawker99 deserves ALL the credit...

[femmocrat]

12. What fun! Thank you, Strong Atheist.

I love reading these and love the "Good News" section! :applause:

Congrats to all honorees!

[Strong Atheist]

15. You are welcome!

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

13. Oh, wow. Thank you.

I didn't realize I had hit 22k posts. :woohoo:

[Strong Atheist]

14. You rock!

:toast:

[Dr. Strange]

16. Congratulations to Hawkeye-X!

:woohoo:

[TZ]

20. Hey look you got your sigline back!

I told you..:hug:
What do you think of my new sigline?:)

[Dr. Strange]

34. Oh, you're a sneaky one!

I'm keeping my eye on you!

[auntAgonist]

17. great thread!!

thanks!

Welcome to all new DUers.

aA

[Strong Atheist]

25. .

:yourock:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Congrats to all milestoners!

And thank you SO MUCH for taking this enormous job on!

Perhaps you could PM Skinner and find out if there were any special tools newyawkker99 had access to?

Just a thought...

:toast:

[Strong Atheist]

22. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=8523880#8524199

:scared:

[LNM]

21. Thanks, SA!

Maybe by next week I'll make to 300.

[Strong Atheist]

23. I will keep an eye on things! nt.

[LNM]

27. Ill make it easier for you. nt

[LNM]

28. And there.

Woo-hoo!4 plus years and I get to 300 posts. :bounce:

[Strong Atheist]

29. Ah. Thank you! nt.

[Forkboy]

24. Yay for the good news people!

:)

That's a nice thing to add. :thumbsup:

[Strong Atheist]

26. Thank you for the kind words. I REALLY do think that traditionally

to be "news" most things reported had to be bad...

You never hear: 6 billion people did NOT kill someone today, nor did they steal anything...

you just hear about the murders, the thefts, etc...

Sooo...

I have added a good news section...

[vixengrl]

30. This elder feels honored by a resurrection of one of the

neatest traditions of the DU Lounge internets--thank you for the community spirit.

:toast:

and thanks for reminding us of newyawker99--she must've welcomed me to DU three times, I've been such a low-count poster, but knowing there was someone keeping track of this unruly lot always touched me.

[Strong Atheist]

31. Thank you for the kind words!

:blush:

newyawker99 is the hero here.

I am just going to try to do this every weekend. So far, I have managed it twice.

She did it every day to every other day... wow... :wow:

[Swede]

32. Good stuff SA.

I saw a post by newyawker99 this week,glad to see her back.

[Strong Atheist]

33. WHAT!!!!!!!!!

Where?????? Not here in the lounge...

Please post a link!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swede]

35. It was in GD,but it's not turning up in my searches.

Maybe I'm mistaken,but I remember I was gonna post something like "glad to see you",but I figured I'd leave her alone.

[Strong Atheist]

36. I can't

find it either.:-(

If she is back, that would be BIG news!!!!!!

We would welcome her, and I would have to apologize for encroaching on her turf (the MILESTONES threads...)

If you see her again, let me know!!!!!!!!!!

Heck, let us all know!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FarLeftRage]

38. Thanks!

I do appreciate your worthy effort... Long may you run! :fistbump:

[Strong Atheist]

42. I am going to try...

and I am OCD enough...

:fistbump:

[mvd]

39. Congrats milestoners, and thanks for doing this, Strong Atheist!

It would make newyawker99 very happy. :toast:

[mvd]

40. BTW, I passed 50,000 recently

:wow:

[Strong Atheist]

41. Ok! I will give you a 50,000 next weekend, and add you to the permanent

Honored Elders (before 2003, currently) role call...

[davsand]

43. How about "dishonorable elders" instead?

This IS Democratic UNDERGROUND, after all!

For those of us old enough to remember back in the dark ages, we literally HAD an "Underground" and there WAS no such thing as "The Lounge." Back then being "lib-rul" was almost an unsafe thing. We came here to DU for refuge!



Laura

[Strong Atheist]

44. and I will add you, too, unless you don't want me to. Now, if you want,

you can be "dishonorable" if you insist on it, but I think that anyone who has been here a long time (currently I have arbitrarily picked 2002 or before; with one exception) deserves to be honored.

With time if I can keep this up, a new "class" will be added every year...

[davsand]

45. You can call me an "Old Fart' if you want to!

I appreciate you picking up the milestone job at all! It takes a lot of work and probably comes with very few thanks.

So, in advance, THANK YOU for what you do!


:hug:


Laura

Look for Raven (Will Pitt's Mom,) and Uly (never did know for sure how to spell Ulysses without looking it up) and Crewleader--they were all here for the early days.

:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

46. Thanks for the tips! I will add all three to the Honored Elders next

weekend...

:hi:

[mvd]

48. Thank you!

:hi:

[Shine]

47. Nicely done. This took a lot of energy and time to put together.

:applause: I commend you. :yourock:

:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

51. Thank you!

:blush:

[Mollis]

49. I really like the good news section

:D

[Strong Atheist]

50. Thank you!

:hi:

[ThomCat]

52. It's nice to see this list come back.

But, I'm not sure about the Honored Elders section. Seems a bit too much like brown-nosing. :shrug:

I love seeing welcomes for newcomers and congrats for milestones though. :)

[Strong Atheist]

55. Thank you for the feedback. nt.

[FloridaJudy]

53. I remember when I first joined DU

And the "milestones" were regularly published.

Cool to see this back. Thanks.

[Strong Atheist]

54. You are welcome! nt.