120,000

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1. Brooks Moses says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:38 pm

   One twenty thousand FRIST!
2. Lucien Spelman says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:38 pm

   HA! I did it!
   WoooHooo!

   I’m a new fan and created at least two others after buying them Old Man’s War.

   I intend on following your work, and so do they.
3. Brooks Moses says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   (What? I’m suggestible. And somebody had to do it.)
4. Lucien Spelman says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   HA! I did it!
   WoooHooo!

   I’m a new fan and created at least two others after buying them Old Man’s War.
5. Lucien Spelman says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:40 pm

   Crap. Looks like I didn’t do it. And I doubled up the posting, so now I look like a tool.

   Whatever.
6. Jordan Lapp says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   120,006!
7. Josh Jasper says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:59 pm

   120,007
8. Josh Jasper says:
   November 25, 2008 at 6:59 pm

   Can I get that on a con badge ribon or something?
9. JS Bangs says:
   November 25, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   No thanks, man. I’m saving myself for Number One Million.
10. Sam says:
    November 25, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    The flaw in this, of course, is that people could have posted on other stories in the meantime…
11. Brooks Moses says:
    November 25, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    Sam @10: They _could have_, yes. But, according to the “blatherations of others” in the sidebar, they didn’t. (The most recent comment not on this thread was at 6:20, and John made the post at 6:32.)
12. Xopher says:
    November 25, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Nevertheless, Brooks, your comment (according to the link) is number 120,614. So I’m not sure what happened there, except that maybe deleted ones keep their numbers, but weren’t included in John’s total.
13. Xopher says:
    November 25, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    One hundred twenty thousand, six hundred and SIXTH!
14. John Scalzi says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Xopher:

    It counts the ones that are in the spam trap but not currently deleted. Since those don’t make it onto the actual comment thread, they don’t do toward the total of verified comments, even if they have a number.
15. Patrick M. says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    And this is when you need to re-order them without changing them and sell it in a book. I’m sure they can all be strung together in a coherent fashion to explain the meaning of life.
16. Deb Geisler says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    Into the Valley of Whatever rode the 120,016. (Doesn’t scan well at all.)
17. eviljwinter says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Whoo hoo!!! I’m number 120,00something!
18. burvegas says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Phineas and Ferb rule!

    But do you have a beaver tail and a bill?
19. Chris Sullins says:
    November 25, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    The stylish thing, of course, would be to have made a substantive comment on another post, which would have both counted as the 120001st comment and rendered the first-posters here inconsequential and petty. Seems there was a six-minute gap in which to do it.
20. MWT says:
    November 25, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    120,020!

    See, now that’s a pretty number. ;)
21. MWT says:
    November 25, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    … or not. Curses at the people who commented on other posts! *shakes fist*
22. mensley says:
    November 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    LOTSst!
23. MarkHB says:
    November 25, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    Am I fashionably late?

    I was rendering.
24. MarkHB says:
    November 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Gouraud obviously wants to post too, he’s soaked my spacebar with cat-drool.
25. shane says:
    November 25, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    Who was comment number one (000001)?
    Who will be last?
26. John Scalzi says:
    November 25, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    The very first comments on the blog are here. Note that they were imported into this most recent blogging software install after others, so the numbers in its URL do not reflect this.
27. shane says:
    November 25, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Oh how disappointing. It looks like they didn’t do the “woohoo first comment” thing in the olden days. ;-)
28. An Eric says:
    November 26, 2008 at 12:20 am

    Geez. You would think somebody would have honored Scalzi and Whatever by using the momentous milestone occasion of posting the 120,001st comment by posting the cure for cancer, or announcing first contact with an extraterrestrial species, or with a mathematical formula pointing to a cheap, new and boundless pollution-free source of usable energy. Or, if not that, then at least a graceful sonnet or maybe a link to a beautiful painting in Scalzi’s honor or a YouTube video of a moving inspirational dance performed to a symphonic piece written and worked up in honor of this blog. But no, instead it’s just a lot of scrambling up top to pile into the slot and shout the equivalent of “woo-hoo!”

    As if Scalzi’s blog doesn’t even rate a dirty limerick or cute online haiku in honor of the 120,000 previous comments. Not even something along the lines of:

    autumn’s trees are bare;
    one-hundred twenty thousand
    comments precede me

    Underachievers. That’s what we have here. We should all be ashamed of how we’ve failed John here today.
29. Tania says:
    November 26, 2008 at 12:29 am

    Eric. Dude.

    Whatever.
30. Kelson says:
    November 26, 2008 at 12:41 am

    I can has one hundred twenty thousand and thirty?
31. Woolcifer says:
    November 26, 2008 at 1:36 am

    wake me at 130,000
32. Chuk says:
    November 26, 2008 at 2:17 am

    I want to be commenter number one hundred twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-six.
33. DG Lewis says:
    November 26, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Back in the olden days, we chiseled our comments on stone tablets that we hand-carried to show all the other people who read the Whatever.

    And we liked it.
34. Nathan says:
    November 26, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Yes DG Lewis,

    I remember well the drawing on the cave wall of the cured Mastodon meat adhering to the sabre-toothed tiger. I still have my comment tablet from that. It says, “Uaiuohueom, rrrrrrrrr!”

    Good times, good times.
35. JustAnotherJohn says:
    November 26, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Dude. That’s a lot of comments. Congrats!

    Also, since I’ll be AFK for a couple of days doing the family tour thing, Happy Thanksgiving to you John and fam, and to the rest of my fellow Whateverians (whatevers? whateverites?).
36. KIA says:
    November 26, 2008 at 10:35 am

    Good point, JustAnotherJohn. I, too will be afk for extended periods this weekend, and I wish to express my thanks to Mr. Scalzi for his many years of hard work and all of the visitors who keep the site interesting. Happy Thanksgiving, all.

    / Whateverers?
37. Andy Smith says:
    November 26, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Just let me know when we get to 131070, I’m a sucker for posting Mersenne primes.
38. JLR says:
    November 26, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Mersenne Primes…lol… we are all nerds.
39. Andy Smith says:
    November 26, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Nerd, check. And if I miss that one I have to wait till we hit over half a million posts.
40. Greg London says:
    November 26, 2008 at 11:47 am

    120,000 words closer to skynet achieving consiousness.
41. JReynolds says:
    November 26, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    I think that Whatever should be made into a multi-movie epic, like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.

    The movie for this thread could be called 400 x 300 (giving 120,000). Sample Dialogue: “Madness? This is SCAAALZI!!!”
42. Andy Smith says:
    November 26, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Tonight we blog in HELL!
43. Aaron Haynes says:
    November 26, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Bah, I’ll be trying for 123,456.
44. Kelson says:
    November 26, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Chuk @ 32 & Aaron @43: race you both to the 1-2-3-4-5-6.

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