On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:38:02 +0100, Doctor John wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago, Stephen mentioned that he was fairly certain that
> I held the record for being the OP of the longest thread on this
> newsgroup. I begged to differ but the thought stuck in my mind and I was
> finally forced to check the stats.
> 
> According to my research, using the Mk 1 Eyeball and Intercranial
> Wetware for Humans v0.95, the results are as follows:
> 
> 1st	Tom Austin for 'Be very very quiet' on 25/11/2009 with a
> 	length of 618 - 4 and a bit months
> 2nd	Patrick Elliot for 'Getting Kenned Ham, without paying' on
> 	14/11/2007 with a length of 588 - 37 days
> 3rd	Warp for 'Is this the end of the world as we know it?' on
> 	24/09/2011 with a length of 545 - 34 days
> 4th	David H Burns for 'Tell me it isn't so' on 21/07/2009 with
> 	a length of 473 - 23 days
> 5th	Warp for 'A kind of revolution is happening in the United
> 	States' on 12/04/2011 with a length of 452 - 17 days
> and finally,
> 6th	Doctor John for 'Bl**dy Election (part 2)' on 30/04/2010 with
> 	a length of 365 - 15 days
> 
> John

I would've sworn that some of our MC threads went much longer (timewise 
and message-wise).

Speaking of which, Stephen seems to have let the side down - I didn't 
know we were up to episode 5 of the current series of Clue.  Fortunately, 
all episodes still on iPlayer. :)

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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