Cranberry hits 3000!!

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:09 am

way to go, cran

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:48 am

The memories! How many remember when Cran was Touw?

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:52 am

Walden wrote:The memories! How many remember when Cran was Touw?

I do. Hah, you just reminded me of it. I even remember what it stood for.

Congrats Cran.

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:05 am

FJohnSharp wrote:3000 hits is a one way ticket to Cooperstown, ya know.

Not if Cran's real name is Pete!

All the Best, Tom

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:28 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
Walden wrote:The memories! How many remember when Cran was Touw?
I do. Hah, you just reminded me of it. I even remember what it stood for.

I was thinking about that as I read through this. Congratulations, Cran!

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:35 pm

I don't know what Touw is, but my first memory of Cranberry has to do with killing somebody's Grandmother.

toughknot · Post by **toughknot** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:18 pm

Congatulations

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:23 pm

Oh and ditto

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:33 pm

touw isn't capitalized, though it probably should be. I think I've killed a few people and I've eaten a couple more while I've been here. It's been an extremely rewarding experience, though. I've cried a lot, grown a lot, and learned a lot. Seriously.

Thanks, everybody.

NZ_Chris · Post by **NZ_Chris** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:58 pm

Congrats Cranberry ... 3000 eh? And you don't look a day over 2500

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:06 pm

Cranberry wrote:touw isn't capitalized, though it probably should be. I think I've killed a few people and I've eaten a couple more while I've been here. It's been an extremely rewarding experience, though. I've cried a lot, grown a lot, and learned a lot. Seriously.

Thanks, everybody.

But you haven't created a flamewar of apocalyptic proportions in... at least a month! You're mellowing!

g

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:33 pm

It's all downhill from here!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:45 am

glauber wrote:
Cranberry wrote:touw isn't capitalized, though it probably should be. I think I've killed a few people and I've eaten a couple more while I've been here. It's been an extremely rewarding experience, though. I've cried a lot, grown a lot, and learned a lot. Seriously.

Thanks, everybody.
But you haven't created a flamewar of apocalyptic proportions in... at least a month! You're mellowing!

g

I'm mellowing with age (I'll be 20 in 13 days *gulp*).

Hoed · Post by **Hoed** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:01 am

Hey Cranberry,

congratulations with your impressive number of posts. Although we started out in the same period on this board, you have Way surpassed my contribution to the board

(nevertheless I visit this board a couple of times each day to read up).

... but ... my main question reading through this thread is: why on earth would anyone be intersted in www.applesnail.net . How did you come up with an interest in "tropical and sub-tropical freshwater snails from the family Ampullariidae"?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:09 am

Hoed wrote:... but ... my main question reading through this thread is: why on earth would anyone be intersted in www.applesnail.net . How did you come up with an interest in "tropical and sub-tropical freshwater snails from the family Ampullariidae"?

I've always had fish tanks, and sometimes people put snails in their tanks. Many snails are genetically both male and female, so it's difficult to keep their populations under control. However, apple snails (also known as mystery snails) are one of the few snail species which are either male or female, and not both, so they're easier to keep from breeding like mad and producing thousands (literally) of descendants.

Apple snails also ship well (you can mail them just like a letter or John Allison's cat), come in lots of colors, and when they get big enough you can watch them eat, literally. You feed them green beans, peas, algae wafers, and spinach, and you can see their teeth and mouths as they eat it.

They're adorable.