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Pretty sure Lunar is the most active trader. Doesn't matter with the scoring because you can only find posts from the past few years.

I just ate brussel sprouts

devans77 wrote:

Drizzle them with olive oil, sea salt , fresh ground pepper and place them in a smoker at 225 for 75 minutes...

I don't think brussel sprouts are bad at all.

I haven't tried the following, but I once read about deep fried brussel sprouts, and the writer was raving about it.

On a different note, but still brussel sprouts related, a friend of mine said that he went to a restaurant and one of the best things he tasted during that meal was a brussel sprouts dish. And this guy likes food. He didn't rave about steak, or anything else. He raved about the brussel sprouts dish.

Maybe people are just not preparing them right?

Sprouts are amazing if prepared properly. We always thought it was a rich kid veggie growing up. Never had them until I was 32ish.

They stink like a bad fart.

MrBean wrote:

This is true.

KCPenguins wrote:

This is also true.

@benstylus, @bill, @John, @grenadier

Most of the questions aren't answerable, ...stuff that isn't tracked, privacy issues, etc.

I think the answer to most of these questions is probably Bill.

Fair enough. I only posted this topic because I hit my 22 year mark and was only wondering about site stats.

Surely you can reveal who has had the longest avatar, at least?

I meant this topic to be a bragging rights by the users, for their feats, not a Brussel sprout eating competition.

I like brussel sprouts with melted cheese and garlic

DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
Sounds great.

How do you prepare it?

The few times I've had brussel sprouts, they were the bagged frozen type. Can be tricky to prepare in a non soggy way.

bill wrote:


Just pick random people and give a Brussel sprout opinion, memory or recipe.

How about the post plussed or negged post? That should be searchable I would think.

When Bill archives old posts, they lose the scoring. So we only have scores for the last 1.5-2 years worth of posts.

Cut fresh Brussel sprouts in half and put in a gallon zip lock bag. Dump in olive oil with seasonings such as onion and garlic powder along with bread crumbs. Shake up the bag and throw them in the oven for 30 min or so and they will be edible

nonamesleft wrote:

Not sure, i never made it myself, just a consumer
i just know those are the main aspects of it - melted cheese and garlic lol, and its kinda fried together i guess

Brussel spouts on the Blackstone cooked in bacon grease with sea salt and pepper. Little crunchy on the outside, yum

Mine are unfair since I've run some Secret Santas and such, but here are mine:

Subtime transfers: Total: 1030 transfers; 77,357 days
Subtime receipts: Total: 1057 transfers; 76,605 days

Willyum's are much more legit! He's always been a giver.

I think it's fair to say that willyum has helped the site the most through subtime.
Also, that John has helped the most through the Amazon link.

Neither has asked for anything in return.

Thank you both!

If you click on the Scores page, you can get some of the stats you want (though, as Scott mentioned only for the last year or so).


lordly_llama wrote:

Congrats! I know a lot of people post about this and I don't always come up with something to say, but it's amazing and humbling to have so many people stick around for so long. We made something good here, together.


The max length of an avatar is 80 pixels, many people are at 80 pixels.

I assume you mean the oldest avatar?

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Akira but hasn't signed on for 7.5 years.
Part of the trouble with stats like this is they will often expose how much the site has declined...

If I have time, I'll try to come up with something that shows the top 10 oldest avatars for currently active subscribers. But, that will take some coding to figure that out.

Top 10 oldest avatars for currently active subscribers

10) Aug 6 2008 tonymack21
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9) Jul 18 2008 Bishop
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8) Jul 12 2008 Feeb
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7) Jun 26 2008 Shadowrunner
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6) Jul 12 2007 Hans
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5) Apr 8 2007 sailorneorune
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4) Jan 18 2007 Auron
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3) Dec 21 2004 gkmaclean
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2) Oct 16 2004 sinnie
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1) Apr 10 2004 Bighab
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I still miss back when you could see all of a users' past avatars.

The color change of the Link costume is really neat.

Phoenix Wright slapping the table is a fun one. I remember seeing that on the site years ago.

MrBean wrote:

Brussell sprouts have actually been cross bred and modified in recent years to be less bitter and better tasting. The brussell sprouts of 5+ years ago are not the same brussells you are getting today

bill wrote:

So, (not-so) fun fact... I also use Amazon Smile for all of my orders. I had raised over $425 for a charity on there that I picked years ago. Amazon is shutting Smile down and sent me a notification that the charity that I had chosen never completed their repeated requests for the payment information, so they couldn't send the money to them. They had me pick another charity (which I did).

Imagine being a registered charity on Amazon -- someone raises over $400 for you -- and you never complete the paperwork to get paid. (And I KNOW that there were other accounts who had also chosen that charity -- as their actual total was like $650.) Oh well.

*shakes head* Nice of amazon to let you pick another at least.

Yeah, I give them credit for that. I got an email that basically said "Hey! You've chosen a charity that we haven't been able to pay and we're getting rid of Smile soon -- so pick another before the 15th or we'll just give it to a charity that we pick."

nonamesleft wrote:

Hard to believe I made that almost 15 years ago...

Still waiting for Bill's brussel sprout entry...

I don't like Brussels sprouts.

bill wrote:
What about regular cabbage? (Red or green)

Bishop wrote:
Wow. Cool.

I actually love cabbage. Mostly green, but red is good too (just stains anything it touches).

Scott wrote:


That was a thing? I don't remember that,

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

It's been a while, but iirc, you just clicked on their avatar and a page would load that showed all of them in reverse chronological order.