Finally, you slugs.

hhp

What’s the prize?

> Finally, you slugs.

I thought I caught you sleeping once before. ¦-)

True, Yves is one of only two members of the Florendo Nocturnal Typodiscourse Club. Actually, Tiffany is also a suspected member, although the conditions of her membership -namely pouncing between redesigns- need to be cleared up... amongst yourselves.

The prize? The crushing weight of perpetual expectation of course.

hhp

The prize? The crushing weight of perpetual expectation of course.

LOL

Yves did you get a shirt at TypeCon? That would be a fitting prize.

what?! hrant sleeps???

Instead of a shirt, Yves should get one of those posters found plastered about in Helsinki during AtypI :-)

ChrisL

Norbert,

I still think you were successful before.

ChrisL

Hey, I missed that! Right now Hrant leads by one post. :^P

Actually, now we’re ex aequo at 60 posts each! ;^)

Whoa, and now I’m leading again!? How’s that possible? It keeps changing all the time!

:^D

Yves is neck-and-neck again. Can he pull it out or will Hrant wake up in time to not go down as 2nd best 2 days in a row!

:-)

ChrisL

Bald Condensed: 64
hrant: 64
dezcom: 60
Norbert Florendo: 51

Chris, you can do it! You too, Norbert

A milestone in online discussion: I drop to THIRD.

hhp

Hrant,

the relief of years of pressure must feel wonderful.
All I can say is that you are now going for quality of remark and not quantity.

For me, I’m still suggesting that people should dress like Eric Gill (Sans underwear) for Halloween.

> You too, Norbert
Been there, done that. I caught him sleeping once before.

With this comment I will equal my age in posts. God, that is scary:-)

ChrisL

> you are now going for quality of remark and not quantity.

Huh. I was pretty sure I’ve been going for one-liners.

Which makes me point out: we should be looking at total ASCII, not number
of posts. Then Peter would probably come on top. Or maybe Alessandro...

hhp

Alessando would make it on one post alone :-)

ChrisL

News Flash: The Era of The Waffle was short-lived, with
a Greek-American designer-philosopher clawing into first...

hhp

LOL!!!

ChrisL

I’ll have waffles for breakfast, and souvlaki
for lunch, please. We’ll see how dinner goes.

hhp

Gee, I was hoping for a Babaganoush or at least some Schwarma:-)

ChrisL

I had to quickly do a screen-shot of the frequent posters box for posterity during my brief stint at the top because I know Hrant is a west coaster and will be up later than me :-)

ChrisL

Chris,

That’s because west is best, and people like east the least. ;-)

Hrant,
A way for you to add insult to injury would be for you to add posts by commenting on my new “Align” typeface here in the Sans Serf Critique area :-)

http://typophile.com/node/15626

ChrisL

The West can rest when the East contests your best guess will test this mess:-)

ChrisL

I think it should be mentioned that Hrant has been very busy this past week on the ATypI members discussion list, so that may explain his failure to maintain his usual lead on the Typophile pack.

I know, he has been busy deleting the automated posts from an out-of-the-office lister :-)

Hrant is well below his usual 100+ posts, otherwise we bottom dwellers wouldn’t stand a chance. I know my 15 minutes of fame is up :-)

ChrisL

A-HA! Take THAT, Zorba!!

hhp

Yasou!
I had my 3 days and now it is time to fade back into oblivion :-)

The strain of being on top was too much for me ;-0

ChrisL

Consider it a blessing that you dropped to second place, Chris.

I think someone was just about to create an OBEY DEZCOM campaign using your icon :∨)

“I think someone was just about to create an OBEY DEZCOM campaign using your icon :∨)”

My kids never obeyed me, why would anyone else :-)

Norbert, I’ll show your comment to my wife, I am sure she will get a BIG kick out of it :-<

ChrisL

Well Hrant, I now have reached Dalmation status:-)

I never in life ever thought I would get to 101 posts. You surpass this number almost daily for 5 years!

ChrisL

Hrant,
This will make 125 and my last post for the night. The floor is yours :-)

ChrisL

Well then, let’s finish the day perfectly tied! :-)

hhp

Amazing

- Hrant, Chris, Yves, Mark, Eben and the most prolific Typophile members -

I’am impressed.

Oups!

...And I appreciate all your crit and advice and the time you give to Typophile. Thanks to all of you, Typophile members.

It seems the Marathon runner now has an insurmountable lead...

hhp

Lasse Viren moves in for the challenge! Or was it that Greek guy a couple of millenniums ago during the Peloponnesian War? :-)

ChrisL

“Say Good Night Gracie!”

ChrisL

Little historical mix-up
What we call a marathon today derives its name from an event that involved the runner Pheidippides, who ran 260 kilometres from Athens to Sparta in two days. He did this to announce the Persian landing at Marathon in 490 BC, and to request Sparta’s help to beat off the enemy. (No sniggering.)
The Peloponnesian war 431 - 404 BC Athens vs Sparta
Tim

”...He did this to announce the Persian landing at Marathon in 490 BC”

Well that pulled the rug out from under me :-)

ChrisL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4298146.stm

And interestingly, I’ve been mistaken for Persian many times.

hhp

And I have been mistaken for a guy needing a rug many times :-)

ChrisL

Good Night Gracie

LOL!!!

ChrisL

Chris most people won’t get the joke.

“And goodnight Mrs. Callabash, wherever you are.”
——————————————————————————
Yes, I’m old, but so’s the shnozola (Hachachacha!)

Inka, dinka dink, ka dinka dinka dinka doo!, I’got a million a’ dem!

ChrisL

“most people won’t get the joke” unless they smoke cigars :-)

ChrisL

“BANG ZOOM! To dah MOON Alice!

ChrisL

> unless they smoke cigars

That just burns me up. :-o

By George! I think he’s got it! }:-/

ChrisL

Hell has frozen over!
20 November, 2005 - 11:55am
Top typophiles in the last 10 days:

dezcom: 213
Miss Tiffany: 80
Mark Simonson: 62
sim: 58
Norbert Florendo: 55
Bald Condensed: 43
david hamuel: 40
David Bailey: 38
formlos: 37
hrant: 35

Gee... I hope Hrant hasn’t abandoned us. He must be very busy distributing “Obey Hrant” posters again. Hurry back!

My guess would be he is spending more time with his 5-year-old son—and rightly so.

ChrisL

He’s been very quiet everywhere. No sign of him on the ATypI member list either. Anyone know him well enough to phone and ask if he’s okay?

I don’t have his phone number but I’ll email him.

ChrisL

I believe he is in the process of moving. I must admit, though, it was something to log in and see his name nowhere near the top.

I’m anxious about Hrant, since one year, it’s the first time he is’nt in the most prolific posters Is somebody is able to talk with him?

He has not answered my email but Steve may be right. I remeber him saying he could not look up something in Bringhurst because his books were packed up.

ChrisL

Well I’m in the middle of moving too, and all my books are packed, but do you see me slacking? :)

That’s what I think.

“Well I’m in the middle of moving too, and all my books are packed, but do you see me slacking? :)”

I don’t know John, things have been pretty quiet on AtypI lately. The most exciting thing there is people whining about paying their annual dues. :-)

ChrisL

>if he’s okay?

Oh dear, I hope I haven’t scared off the poor sensitive fellow...

Good grief, I just looked and saw myself up there on the list...guess I’ve been enjoying my time here as well!

Oh Noooo!, David bumped off Hrant! :-)

ChrisL

Thanks for worrying. We moved house* and I’m typing this standing up in the alleged garage. But the whole thing is a ploy to drop off the prolific posters list(s) so I can reforge my identity and do a surprise ASCII blitzkrieg on all you slouches (except Chris “The 200 Club” Souvlakozos over there).

* Man, some of you are really paying attention. I’m the one who should worry...

hhp

Thanks for checking in, Hrant.
Meanwhile it will take a long time before anyone can top Chris’ posting record of “dezcom: 219”.

Meanwhile, you owe us a self-portrait of yourself via the South Park character generator.

“Wrong Again finger-and-toe-counting breath”

On Friday, November 18th, my total was 230 posts:

ChrisL

Hrant,

Where’d you move to? Still in the LA area?

He moved to Bouma Hills :-)

ChrisL

Chris,

That’s funny. He sure didn’t move to Tarzana. ;-)

I actually like Tarzana - I mean the font. Except for the “Q”.

Anyway, I only moved about 1/2 a mile actually.
But driving the stuff is never the hard part...

And for the record dearies, my all-time high
for posts in one day on a single list (Typo-L) is a
little over 70... Although that was in my yute.

hhp

hhp good to hear you are healthy and just busy.

I’m a comin’ after ya... you loosely-wrapped gyros!

hhp

Hrant’s had his double espresso. No more sleep until he’s past 100 posts!

Guess I better have a double Greek coffee then :-)

ChrisL

Hrant sneaks up riding his stealth Armenian rocket poster and closes the gap. He anjticipates, “TODAY WILL BE THE DAY I RESUME MY THRONE!!!”
:-)

ChrisL

But that’s mostly because you guys have been slacking.
I know because I’m still stuck keeping page 9 of the tracker at bay!

That said, with this post I did indeed [re]take
the lead... but the antimony is bittersweet. :-)

hhp

just found this thread now, and i had to crack up at paul d hunt saying

what?! hrant sleeps???

Cheers, Hrant! Keep on posting! :-)

Oh No! The mad Armenian Posting Machine has surged into the lead once more! Spurned on by anticipation of many sleepless nights to come—following the soon-to-be-born newest Parpazian baby. :-)

ChrisL

Hrant,
Let us know when that fatal call comes from your wife, “I think it’s time dear.” I just hope that your baby does not grow up to be a Modernist Chirographer :-)

Chris is lazy, Chris is lazy… (think of a grade school chant)

the soon-to-be-born newest Parpazian baby

Aw, she has your bouma, dear!

Not that anybody needs to care, but since I’ve sort
of unwittingly established a precedent of expectation
over the years, revealing the following might be useful:

For the forseeable future I’m not going to be able to look
over every thread. I will certainly follow threads that I’ve
posted in (thanks to the “my recent posts” tracker) and will
regularly scan the tracker for potentially interesting threads,
but please don’t expect to fling things like “hey Hrant what do
you think?” or “hah, that sounds like hhp’s dog” randomly in
the air and promptly get my once-typical Pavlovian reaction.
So: you’re not at all rid of me, but my ears are much busier now.

And if you happen to be feeling inadvisably kind and you run
into a thread that you think I’d be interested in, and maybe
it has a misleading title, my email server is always open.
Thank you thank you. As you were.

hhp

”...promptly get my once-typical Pavlovian reaction.”

or is that Pavpasian reaction :-)

Hrant,
We know you have a much higher calling now being papa. You may have to learn to be a one-armed typist now for your email. The sweet smell of baby skin is your treasure. Sleep well my friend when you can.

ChrisL

But Chris why would you let Mis Tiffany take your throne. Isn’t you who is slacking?

The throne weighs heavy.

ChrisL

Please! Keep the throne.

Sheesh.

I hate that tracker. :^/

Chris that sounds like a line out of the Lord of the Rings

”...sounds like a line out of the Lord of the Rings”

Well, maybe without the special effects.

ChrisL

Of course the throne weighs heavy only to those supporting it.
Tim Daly 1961-20__

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597)

Tim

Thanks Tim, I knew it had to be far older than “Lord of The Rings” for an old geezer like me to have heard quoted it :-)

ChrisL

Sorry Chris I misled you, that first line is my observation not part of the quotation (I will edit it).

The only reference I can find to the crown weighs heavy is this in the last stanza of a poem about oppression (presumably from South Africa), I am certain it is older than that but cannot track down any reference and my poor old brain won’t cooperate.

This crown weighs heavy on my head
Heavy on my soul
This crown overshadows the love in my heart
It overpowers the light from my face
My royal heritage
My royal feast

My favourite quote about thrones is from Rudyard Kipling (too easily written off as an apologist for Empire)
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936: The Story of the Gadsbys (1890)

Tim

Dude is back on top.
We take it Junior is a good sleeper :-)

I’ll bet the inlaws are in town this week and Hrant is getting spelled from papa duties :-)

ChrisL

Well, it certainly helps that you guys have been so quiet. Slackers.

hhp

So how is the little guy Hrant? (besides being a baby bouma)

ChrisL

Nocturnal.

hhp

So I’m almost only following threads I’ve already
posted to, and I was offline for 2.5 days, but I’m
still on top?! Typographic Silence Forum sounds
more accurate...

hhp

What can I say Hrant, I am a slacker :-)

ChrisL

I don’t think you’re a slacker Chris, I’d say you’re probably just slack off a bit ; ^)

Good to see you back André! How are your wife and daughter?

ChrisL