What should the topic of my 30,000th DU post be?

[TahitiNut]

In keeping with the odometer mentality that compelled me to drive very slowly and watch my car complete its 100,000th mile in sedate splendor, I notice that this is my 29,999th post on DU since first signing up in early 2002. In that 3.5 years, I've probably made between 300 and 3,000 (depending on who's counting) posts that were worth reading. I'm not really sure whether that's above or below average. The subjects of those posts, mostly in General Discussion (yeah, I'm a masochist) have included Viet Nam, the draft, income distribution, unemployment, Social Security, ethics (especially deontological v. teleological), corporatism, voting, and a variety of other topics about which I know little enough to fit into a post short enough for the average DUer's (of which I'm one) attention span. Those posts also included many in the moderator's forum during the six months it was my privilege to serve.

So, I'm a bit perplexed. The 30,000th should be somehow symbolic, it seems to me. So, I solicit the advice of DUers. Just WTF should it be?

How say you?

(Please note: Until this critical dilemma is resolved, I just can't post ... even to reply in this thread. After all, to do so would make this thread moot, wouldn't it?)

[KitchenWitch]

1. It should be an overly dramatic "Goodbye to DU" post

:rofl:

Just kidding!

[Guy Fawkes]

2. I think sentimentality and humour are the two main routes...

so you should, instead, give me money.

[kid a]

3. its always celebrate these life milemarkers thinking about your exes

[qnr]

4. Well, I voted for a rant on the intolerances, but on second thought, that

seems a little intolerant.

[Parrcrow]

5. Tuna Casserole

but not in the Tuna Casserole forum.

[Straight Shooter]

6. Other

Write about something you love instead of something political. Make a post about sailing. :)

[Wapsie B]

7. Whatever your favorite subject happens to be

or whatever's occupying your thoughts at the moment. That's what I'd do.

[Floogeldy]

8. Cardboard

:)

[hfojvt]

9. if Nader bashers are considered an example of intolerances

why is bashing them or (ranting about them) considered tolerant?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Because it's not intolerant. It is just ranting and bashing.

[lakemonster11]

11. How should I know?

It's taken me well over a year to get anywhere near 500!

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Kick

[Avalux]

13. Kick!

:kick:

[wildhorses]

14. IMHO you should do a poll

regarding nuts in Tahiti...

[knowbody0]

15. something so fucking profound

that our brains will itch

[proud patriot]

16. I want to hear about your travels

Your life has been so full of travel and I never get to
travel . sooooooooooo :hug:

[TahitiNut]

17. Well, the honeymoon is over. (Post #30,000 is a time for retrospective.)

Here's the happy, satisfied bride, the former TahitiNutess, on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on our honeymoon in 1972. Cute, huh?




Here're the happy couple a couple of days before, leaving from the airport on the morning after the wedding, on our way to Jamaica via Miami. Yes, that's me on the left - the taller, hirsute one. Cute, huh?




Roll the calendar back nearly two years to the summer of 1970. Gaze upon the Viet Nam Veteran taking his solo motorcycle trip north of Lake Superior. I was about eight months out of Nam, pretty freaky, and having gained back about 20 pounds of muscle (between the ears) and losing about 105 pounds of ugly fat (the first wife). Cute, huh?





(sigh) Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. :shrug:




The fact that this thread dropped like a stone due to an apparent lack of interest offers me little motivation to invest much time in this post.

[knowbody0]

19. you look really familiar!

i was hoping for profound, but nostalgia works. sigh

[TahitiNut]

21. I am familiar.

I've even had my face slapped because of it. :silly:

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Ah, youth.....

Congratulations on 30,000 posts.

[intheflow]

22. I tried to answer.

I wrote a long reply. But I got a weird bug when I tried to post, and all was lost. It was late & I decided that was a sign from God telling me it was bedtime.

Dig the tie in the honeymoon photo. :thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

25. I really loved that tie. The design was woven into it.

I've never seen one like it since. Not quite a knit, it was a fine-textured weave almost like a tapestry, and had a finely 'rippled' surface like micro-corduroy. I'm really not a "tie kinda guy" but that one was comfortable, tasteful, knotted easily (reverse Windsor), draped nicely, and was unique.

I guess I'm rather strange to remember a tie even after more than 32 years. :dunce: :shrug:

[NNadir]

23. OK, now that we've got that out of the way, what's with the ex-wife?

Surely there's better things going on.

[TahitiNut]

26. Well, I almost took a third bite at the apple ...

... 13 years ago, but she recovered her sanity and we parted friends.

So, the picket fence and Leave It To Beaver lifestyle just wasn't in the cards for me, I guess. :shrug:

I have a very good (female) friend and we talk about "growing old together" (as companions) when our other familial obligations are concluded. I kinda like that idea.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. Congratulations on 30,000!!

[chookie]

24. A love sonnet

...to me, who has had a crush on you a long time. There! -- it's OUT. :-)

Think of the rhyming possibilities.

[TahitiNut]

27. It's been my experience that sobriety and a good rest will cure that.

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[chookie]

28. Nope

When I wake up, I still love you. :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. It should have been something about yaks, or thongs, or....

ya know...some shit like that!

:hug: Congrats, friend!

[TahitiNut]

30. Thanks, m'luv!

Happily, I've so far been more than able to accumulate 30,000 posts without EVER resorting to yaks or thongs or dingbat-nominations.

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

31. It should be about ME

of course.