How soon will Danielle reach 100 comments?
Jul 19, 2007 Blogging, Link Love
If you read this blog and comment here regularly you may know Danielle and her quest to reach 100 comments on this very blog for the month of July. Currently she stands at 63 comments which leaves her 37 comments away from reaching her goal. I’m proposing a friendly little contest of sorts. Whoever most accurately guesses when Danielle will reach 100 comments will be the winner. I don’t have any fancy prizes to offer, however I’ve been receiving quite a bit of traffic lately so I’d be happy to put together a nice little write-up here about the winning blogger’s site. Perhaps we can even convince Danielle to write something nice about the winner on her site as well :)
So here’s how it will work. It’s simple really. Just guess which day this month you believe Danielle will reach 100 comments. Once she hits the magic number we’ll stop everything we’re doing and stand to applaud Danielle and her miraculous accomplishment. So who’s game? There’s 12 days left in this month, if Danielle doesn’t reach 100 we can always try this again next month :P
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July 4th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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July 19th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
And how do we do this without Danielle knowing what we predicted? You’ll HAVE to give her an immediate IP-ban NOW, or else she may find out…
July 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I don’t think it matters if she knows what people guess unless she decides to play favorites and make someone the winner :P
July 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
hmmmm Sunday early morning…Wha? Jus trying to be a bit precise…
July 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Ok. Fair enough.. Now, Danielle, tell me, what’s the plan? :)
July 19th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Oh boy… Just look at that top left corner. What happens if someone beats her to it?
July 19th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I don’t imagine she has a plan, since she hasn’t actually agreed to my little idea as of yet. I’m just hoping she will :mrgreen:
If anyone else gets closer to 100 in the next couple days, we’ll revise the contest :)
July 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
What a great friend you are Mike! :D
July 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I try :mrgreen:
July 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
ahhhhhhh this is soo much fun!!!!!! heheh a little contest soo i say she reaches the 100th comments on the 27th july at 7pm!!!!!!!!! hehehehe:D
July 19th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
@TBoy: My prediction is Sunday evening (can I split the day like that?).
@Danielle: Well, to help you out, I have two questions that you can answer (shhh…I suggest responding in two separate comments. :) )
1. I’m thinking of a number between 15 and 17. What number am I thinking of?
2. Hmm, now for the toughy: what’s your favorite color?
:D
July 19th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Great sassy molassy! Didn’t even notice how many comments she had racked up!
July 19th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Hmm – I just had the coComments thing happen to me – I just commented!
Anywho…
I won’t play favourites – I won’t remember the guesses anyways!
@Mark – My favourite colour is blue, pink is the colour that best represents my personality, red is the colour I wear the most. And the first math question, well I was under the impression that math was no longer a requirement on Mike’s blog! :P
@Bush – And it’s totally involuntary too – I even spent a whole night trying to tell myself “You will not comment on Mike’s blog today” but I gave in and commented on 3 or 4 posts.
Woohoo! A contest! And if you win I will do a nice review of your blog on my blog too!
July 19th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I told ya it happens, Danielle! I noticed your comment on coComments but it never showed up here :| I was just about to start investigating my database to see if the missing comment was still there somewhere. Very odd.
I think I’m still going to dig around and try to figure out what’s going on.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I think maybe it takes some time for the comment to get sent to the coComment server so you have to wait for the comment to appear – maybe I closed the page before this happened?
I am so on my way to 100 Comments on your blog!!! It’s just a matter of when! :D
July 19th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
That might be it. We could test the theory :P
I have faith that you’ll reach 100 :D I suppose I could make a prediction as well. I’m just not allowed to win..hehe. I’m going to say you reach 100 sometime on the 25th :P
Pewww. A skunk just passed by my window. *barf*
July 19th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Who knows huh? I can’t predict but I guess that is the point of the contest I suppose, it could happen tomorrow or a week from now, or two.
Skunks are cute but smelly. I wish they did not smell bad because then I would pet them. Provided they are friendly and don’t bite my hand.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
I had a friend in high school that had dark hair with a white streak going through the middle of it all, just like a skunk. Weird guy. Good person, but weird.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Ooh skunk would be a good Halloween costume (yes I am already throwing ideas around – it comes sooner than you think you realize). When I was a kid my dad would call me Moufette which is French for skunk. Sort of embarrassing nickname.
July 20th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Ya know I don’t think there’s any way to save this where it actually sounds like a compliment, but I think you’d make a very nice skunk :P
July 20th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Hmm my guess would be sometime on the 25th.
July 20th, 2007 at 5:48 am
My guess would be: 24rd, 11:00 AM
Mike: why not list the # of your own comments as well? I’m sure we would ALL be glad to do the interview with you, should you be the 2000th commenter yourself.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I am going to guess Wed. the 25th at 7pm.
July 20th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I’ll go 27th at 1pm. And I hope an update comes out for coComment where it speeds/snycs things up a bit better.
July 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
It’s going to be July 31st before ten a.m. She’ll just make it. Damn, I dropped my crystal ball…
July 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
That’s so cool of u Mike… I’m guessing it will be 29th July 12pm!
July 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Hang on… Not really knowing Danielle, of course, but come to think of it.. what would be in it for her? Nothing really is there? So she might just want to prove some point, and just do what she expects non of us to expect – and NOT make it to 100 by the end of this month. She’ll probably go all the way up to 99 and then control herself firmly. So my new guess is: August 1st, 00:01
July 20th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Unless we all make an effort and manage to draw her attention away from the subject and get her to auto-comment spontaneously, totally forgetting this contest :P
July 20th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Oh – I will make it by the end of the month! I am on a mission… and there is not such thing as mission impossible for me.
I will comment freely as I normally do – not forcing myself to comment but not forcing myself not to comment. :)
July 20th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I’m feeling kinda yuck right now and need to go lay down for a while, but later I’ll put together some sort of thing in my sidebar to keep track of everyone’s guesses, Danielle. I think that will be easier than wading through the comments here :)
July 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
“not forcing youself to comment but not forcing yourself not to comment.”
Hey.. we could use that, somewhere in small print underneath this guy and his beautiful donkey :)
July 20th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Is it just me or is Christy maybe going to make it to 100 as well? I have some competition!
July 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
You’re still waaay ahead of her though :P
You hit 70! Thirty more to go…hehe.
July 20th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Don’t worry Danielle, I’m not up to competing for comments, not after Mike creamed me in technorati…I’m still hovering at 10, 900. (screaming)
If anybody over here has an extra second could you give me your opinion on my new template at writersreviews.com . Jos says it’s a bit wide and hard to read. I don’t care which template I choose, I just want the blog to be easily read. Thank you…sorry I ran out pork egg rolls Mike….
July 20th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I don’t think it looks too bad, Christy. I can read everything alright :)
Shrimp eggrolls would be acceptable as well ;)
July 21st, 2007 at 9:15 am
Mike, I hope you’re feeling better, it sounds (actually reads) like you have another Migraine again. Sorry you feel sick:(
…Look, I love you and you’re great and everything but the egg rolls are getting expensive so I’m going to have to leave you cat food from now on. It’s all I can afford as a B Lister, hope you understand.
I changed the template 5000 times so I’m not sure which version you saw, lol. I just wanted to give it some more color and structure. It was kind of just like a plain white blob.
As for this whole Danielle marathon thing….I will write a blog post about her and make her the reader of the day for two days if she reaches a hundred this month. (You Rock Danielle) I think if she makes it we should all post about her!!! I don’t really know how much of a prize that really is though…Hmm…lol
July 21st, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I didn’t have the migraine for once actually…lol. I was just a big stuffy, sneezy mess yesterday.
Is it the cat food with the realistic looking chunks of meat? I could probably roll that into an eggroll.
Danielle was awfully quiet around here last night. A couple more days like that and she may only just squeak by with 100 comments :-o Unless of course she goes on a commenting rampage ;P
July 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I went out with a friend last night and got silly silly after drinking several liters of sangria… oops! But now I am back and no way am I going out tonight because I missed my blog last night! :)
July 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Danielle you went drinking without me?
You want to know what’s insane? I just community messaged over 500 people asking them to exchange links. I don’t even like community messaging. I have become this desperate to reach 10K…hope you’re having fun with the A-Listers Mike…here take your cat food and make an egg roll…(crying)
July 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
@Danielle: You missed a golden opportunity! You should have been blogging immediately after drinking all that Sangria. I’m sure the results could have been very interesting :D
@Christy: Well technically I’m still a B-lister who just happens to be in the Top 10k. Mwahaha :mrgreen:
July 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I’m gonna get you Mike…and your little Alien too….(meanest evil face)
July 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pm
@Christy – Oh it was a great night – I am actually writing a post about a particular thing that happened to me last night!
@Mike – I was trashed – not drunk – trashed! We had sangria, then martinis, then shots of goldschlager, then other drinks I don’t remember at some other bar. There was no typing for Danielle (I know because I tried to turn on my computer and that was a chore! :P
July 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
@Christy: Pfft. Bring it on.
@Danielle: Well that’s why you need to start vlogging. Then there’s no need for typing :mrgreen:
July 21st, 2007 at 6:22 pm
That would have been hilariously funny – and any respect I have managed to garner over the past few weeks – lost in one drunken night of vlogging! :P
July 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Okay Mike let’s go… (takes first swing)
Danielle…it could be like the Paris Hilton tape…One night in Paris…only much more tasteful and not as creepy…but still if you were drunk enough it could circulate the Internet and you could make millions!!!
July 21st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Yeah the only unfortunate thing as that most people find Paris Hilton much more interesting than me – I lack the whole heiress thing. Even though really, I find her pretty dumb and dumb people really annoy me.
I am thinking of buying a digital video recorder though. You can get one for pretty cheap these days, and if I did that I would do some vlogging I think. But it would not be me sitting in front of the camera, I would make little movies. :) I have lots of plans.
July 21st, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Aww man. No tales of drunken Danielle? :P That could be a weekly feature – “Drunken Danielle” :mrgreen:
Nothing like sacrificing your liver for the good of your blog :P
July 21st, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Oh I think it would be fun to take a camera out with me – I get into some trouble and have funny things happen to me all the time. I need a broach-cam or a barrette-cam or something spy-like! :P
July 21st, 2007 at 10:03 pm
That sounds very James Bond-ish ;P
July 21st, 2007 at 10:52 pm
No, I think you meant Jane Bond!
July 21st, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Sorry, Jane :P
Twenty more comments to go! It’s so exciting :P
July 21st, 2007 at 11:12 pm
I am not even working up a sweat – this is going to be easy as pie. :)
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 am
Danielle, I’m pretty sure we will ALL do a post on you reaching the 100.
Some of us may even write a poem about it. But that would look so much nicer on all of our blogs, if you could provide an accompanying vidoe of you, trashed and singing, with a potato crisp on your forehead…
(OhMG, now I know what Flash-Mike is working on and wont tell us about)
July 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
That would be too funny! Too bad my webcam is lousy – but when if I get a digital video recorder I will most certainly be including some sillier moments. But I will think of something “equivalent”… :P
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
You’re also not going to tell us, yeah? “Equivalent”, duhh
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
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July 24th, 2007 at 2:34 am
Without reading the other responses I’m going to say the 29th because that’s my nephew Tyler’s birthday! :D
July 24th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I would like to gander a guess as to July 27th, and for the tie breaker, at 2:49 PM Mountain Tme
July 24th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Hmm… I’ll guess July 28! :D
July 25th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
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July 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
No one guessed the 26th… :(
July 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I just realized that..hehe. I emailed you thinking I knew the winner and then realized today is only the 26th. Doh!
July 26th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
YIPEE!!!! You did it Danielle! Mike should actually be paying you per comment as some kind of blogger support commission. I don’t know if I could ever make it to a hundred in a month, that’s tough. :)
July 26th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I think I’d end up going broke…hehe :P