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Does this thread really have over 53,000 posts?!? I don't have time to see how it got so long. Can anyone fill me in?
53,176 posted on 05/14/2003 5:14:51 AM PDT by tame (Has anyone heard of "diet rite" cola (no sodium)?)
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To: tame
LOL. Its all aout listening carefully to the other persons point of view, thoughtfully dismantling it, fending off responses in kind, and starting over. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Topics endlessly debated: OSAS, "Mary Worship", RC Church as "Great Satan" sabbath keeping as opposed to the Lords day, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, Works, Dispensationalism, etc. etc.

Throw in HockeyTalk, bad jokes, and personal asides and let it run for 3 years.

53,178 posted on 05/14/2003 5:28:41 AM PDT by ventana
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To: tame
Can anyone fill me in?

Catholics and Baptists break off talks, we continue them here with some other denominations thrown in for good measure. Add our resident Jew, football, hockey, baseball, horse talk (and lifting), yo momma jokes and some greed and envy (in trying to be the one that posts the xx,000th post) and you've got the Neverending Story.

Welcome abord!

53,179 posted on 05/14/2003 5:34:13 AM PDT by al_c
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To: tame
(Has anyone heard of "diet rite" cola (no sodium)?)

Yes.

SD

53,183 posted on 05/14/2003 5:52:19 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: tame
Does this thread really have over 53,000 posts?!? I don't have time to see how it got so long. Can anyone fill me in?

Hi tame, welcome to The Neverending Story!

This is 53,000 posts on the current thread. The Neverending Story began on 3/24/01, back in the day when FR did not have the thread navigation tools it now possesses. As a result, there was a practical maximum limit of around 200 posts per thread, after which they would get too long to load. So we would start a continuation thread. There were 162 threads under this system before the new navigation tools were implemented. Then we had our first long thread, of over 37,000 posts. When FR set up the religion forum, we stopped using that thread, and started the new, current one in the religion forum. According to John Robinson, the maximum number of posts one thread can hold is 65,535.

You just stopping in, or are you gonna stick around for a while?

53,205 posted on 05/14/2003 7:23:59 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: tame
Welcome. They forgot to mention motorcycles and vacations.
53,210 posted on 05/14/2003 7:31:05 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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