<p>No, this isn’t about the Superbowl, or who will win the primaries or general election. </p>
<p>But has anyone else noticed that the Parent’s Cafe is close to having 250,000 postings? OK, here’s the game: give me the date and time that the Parent’s Cafe will hit this mark.</p>
<p>My guess: 25 Feb, 1150 PM</p>
<p>How about the ‘who’? Does the 250,000th poster get a prize - like a shopping (posting) spree or something? Maybe they could be allowed x number of posts without the usual dissention but then again, I suppose it wouldn’t be any fun then.</p>
<p>Years ago when I lived near Boston, a morning radio show had an annual contest called “Big Bucks for Stuck Trucks.” They ran this contest every year near Labor Day weekend. See, one of the main routes into the college area in Boston is a road called Storrow Drive. Storrow Dr is restricted to cars only, because it has low overpasses. Yet every year, some college student with a rental truck would ignore the warning signs, drive onto Storrow Drive, and get stuck, thereby blocking up traffic for miles. The contest was simple: Choose the date and time the first truck would get stuck under a Storrow Dr overpass. In order to qualify, said truck had to be driven by or on behalf of a college student. People would call in and choose times like, “1:14 pm on Saturday the 3rd.” There was a winner every year!</p>
<p>Not to sound too ill-informed, but… where are you seeing the total number of posts in the forum? (thanks!)</p>
<p>It’s next to the link - </p>
<p>Parent Cafe ( 245,338 Posts | 7,886 Topics )</p>
<p>Based on Extensive Scientific Analysis using Extremely Complex Algorithms:</p>
<p>I’m betting 16 February 2008, 8:48PM.</p>
<p>Of course, we should do this by secret ballot. Otherwise folks can “stuff” the Cafe to speed up the date. Although they can’t slow it down.</p>
<p>BTW, although the Point Spread is daunting, I’m still betting on my Patriots. But only virtually. The smart money surely has to take the spread, no?</p>
<p>After Bullet told me he started this, I looked at him and asked why not 4:42 pm on the 25th…he looked at me quizzically why I would chose that time and the lightbulb went off…oh is that the time DD was born?</p>
<p>So on behalf of our DD’s 16th birthday my bet is</p>
<p>Feb 25th at 4:42 p.m.</p>
<p>Checking the current status of number of posts here on Parent’s Cafe, we are less than 150 posts rom reaching the amazing milestone of 250,000 posts in the Cafe. We will probably hit the milestone tonight (or at least tomorrow)!</p>
<p>Did we really have a quarter million things to say about the upcoming elections and the candidates, or does it just feel that way?</p>
<p>C’mon CC’ers!!! Less than 50 posts to go and we make it to 250,000 today!</p>
<p>In case nobody else was watching, the grand prize for the 250,000th post goes to emeraldkity4 for her post in the thread “Seattle Trip for D and her Dad…need ideas” which came in on Sun. 2/10/08 at 12:39 am (central) but that would still be Sat. on the West coast! Congrats ek4!!!</p>
<p>EK4:</p>
<p>Let us know what the prize was!</p>