FIVE STARS!

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 6:49pm

I couldn’t figure out what was different with Andrew today, his hair was messy as usual and his speech impaired also like usual, but then I realized

HE HAS FIVE STARS!!

WOOOO HOOOO ANDREW

Welcome to the Admiral club

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Overmod · October 31, 2004, 6:52pm

Seemed like it was going to take forever… sorta like he was stuck in the 1990s for days and days…

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 6:53pm

It seems like he just joined, how can he have 5 stars? [;)]

Congrats [:)]

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 6:57pm

Him and Mark Hemphill must have this system rigged

[:D]

railman · October 31, 2004, 6:58pm

hey, who knows how you get there, cheers for making it to 5…I’m workin’ on three right now, but someday!

Junctionfan · October 31, 2004, 7:25pm

I know being Canadian is great but I had forgotten about the fringe benefits too.[:D]

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 7:58pm

Now wait just a cotton pickin’ minute, we all know that AL GORE invented the internet!!

FOFLMAO…

Sorry, I just couildn’t resist. Too much jibjab.com.

LC

[quote]
QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

Kevin, I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this, but if you look very carefully, you’ll see that every time you post you get one star, but I get one too, and Andrew gets three (it’s the Canadian rule).

But wait! You’re wondering why the Canadian Rule doesn’t apply to you, too. That’s because it also depends on time zone. Stars are not part of the space-time continuum (ask Zardoz to explain). Andrew lives to the west of you, so when you post, not all of the stars accrue directly to you, but are left stranded in the ethernet and float in place. As the world turns away from them, they become fastened to the first spam filter they find, which happens to be Andrew’s. Now, if you moved to the Maritimes, you’d find that you’d get the same benefit of planetary rotation, but only if you travelled around the globe to the west to get there (via China). Otherwise, as you moved east, some of your existing stars would come unstuck and wobble westward and become Andrew’s, thanks to the Coriolis Force.

Unfortunately for us south of the 42-40 line, we have to earn our stars the old-fashioned way, one at a time. It was originally thought that Canadians gaining extra stars was a phenomenon of the Van Allen radiation belt, but in truth it was a little-known codicil of the XXX Beaver Felt Hat Treaty of Okotoks, Alberta of 1892, which anticipated the Internet long before two grad students at U of I Urbana (my alma mater, thank you), invented it, and decreed that should stars ever be earned, that Canadians would enjoy and be the beneficial recipient of them 3 for 1, in exchange for four 1992 Norfolk Southern calendars, a two-pound can of coffee, a broken knuckle, and an unused pencil said to have been found under Collis P. Hun

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 7:59pm

Hey Andrew. Congratulations. You beat me to it…

LC

cherokee_woman · October 31, 2004, 8:02pm

Congrats Andrew. You sure got there FAST! But congratulations!

Anonymous · October 31, 2004, 8:06pm

QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

Kevin, I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this, but if you look very carefully, you’ll see that every time you post you get one star, but I get one too, and Andrew gets three (it’s the Canadian rule).

But wait! You’re wondering why the Canadian Rule doesn’t apply to you, too. That’s because it also depends on time zone. Stars are not part of the space-time continuum (ask Zardoz to explain). Andrew lives to the west of you, so when you post, not all of the stars accrue directly to you, but are left stranded in the ethernet and float in place. As the world turns away from them, they become fastened to the first spam filter they find, which happens to be Andrew’s. Now, if you moved to the Maritimes, you’d find that you’d get the same benefit of planetary rotation, but only if you travelled around the globe to the west to get there (via China). Otherwise, as you moved east, some of your existing stars would come unstuck and wobble westward and become Andrew’s, thanks to the Coriolis Force.

Unfortunately for us south of the 42-40 line, we have to earn our stars the old-fashioned way, one at a time. It was originally thought that Canadians gaining extra stars was a phenomenon of the Van Allen radiation belt, but in truth it was a little-known codicil of the XXX Beaver Felt Hat Treaty of Okotoks, Alberta of 1892, which anticipated the Internet long before two grad students at U of I Urbana (my alma mater, thank you), invented it, and decreed that should stars ever be earned, that Canadians would enjoy and be the beneficial recipient of them 3 for 1, in exchange for four 1992 Norfolk Southern calendars, a two-pound can of coffee, a broken knuckle, and an unused pencil said to have been found under Collis P. Huntington’s desk on Park Avenue, NYC.

I thought it was because of the Canadian Exchange Rate… [:D]

Those were some quick stars, you must have blown past me at some

Junctionfan · October 31, 2004, 8:28pm

Hey, the exchange rate isn’t that much. Last time I checked the Canadian dollar was worth $0.80 U.S

locomutt · October 31, 2004, 8:54pm

[#ditto] But Congrats anyway![:D]

Although I’m still trying to figure out Mark’s explanation.[:)]

dharmon · November 1, 2004, 12:14am

Congrats Andrew

Junctionfan · November 1, 2004, 6:24am

Thankyou everybody.

Anonymous · November 1, 2004, 6:55am

Congrats Andrew

jeaton · November 1, 2004, 7:46am

Gees. According to Mark, it looks like I am going to have to move to Canada if I am ever going to get 4 stars, let alone 5. Only problem is I want to go warmer rather than colder.

Cogratulations Andrew.

Jay

Junctionfan · November 1, 2004, 8:17am

Do what the Canadian geese do; stay south for the winter and come back when it’s warmer.[:D]

Puckdropper · November 1, 2004, 8:35am

I’m drinking water from Ontario, does that help?

(And eating tootsie rolls from Chicago.)

Mookie · November 1, 2004, 9:34am

QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

Kevin, I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this, but if you look very carefully, you’ll see that every time you post you get one star, but I get one too, and Andrew gets three (it’s the Canadian rule).

But wait! You’re wondering why the Canadian Rule doesn’t apply to you, too. That’s because it also depends on time zone. Stars are not part of the space-time continuum (ask Zardoz to explain). Andrew lives to the west of you, so when you post, not all of the stars accrue directly to you, but are left stranded in the ethernet and float in place. As the world turns away from them, they become fastened to the first spam filter they find, which happens to be Andrew’s. Now, if you moved to the Maritimes, you’d find that you’d get the same benefit of planetary rotation, but only if you travelled around the globe to the west to get there (via China). Otherwise, as you moved east, some of your existing stars would come unstuck and wobble westward and become Andrew’s, thanks to the Coriolis Force.

Unfortunately for us south of the 42-40 line, we have to earn our stars the old-fashioned way, one at a time. It was originally thought that Canadians gaining extra stars was a phenomenon of the Van Allen radiation belt, but in truth it was a little-known codicil of the XXX Beaver Felt Hat Treaty of Okotoks, Alberta of 1892, which anticipated the Internet long before two grad students at U of I Urbana (my alma mater, thank you), invented it, and decreed that should stars ever be earned, that Canadians would enjoy and be the beneficial recipient of them 3 for 1, in exchange for four 1992 Norfolk Southern calendars, a two-pound can of coffee, a broken knuckle, and an unused pencil said to have been found under Collis P. Huntington’s desk on Park Avenue, NYC.

Mark - the really scary part is - I understood this! And I think you are right-on with it!. [:o)]

Congrats Andrew!

Mook

Modelcar · November 1, 2004, 9:56am

Congrats on 5 stars to Andrew.