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Posted on: December 4, 2008 10:33 PM, by Greg Laden

So close .... remember, if you use a real email address when leaving a comment, I'll be able to attribute that comment to you if it happens to be 20K plus or minus 1.

If you want the hat. Or the thong. Or whatever.

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19959...

Posted by: Andrew | December 4, 2008 10:36 PM

Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 4, 2008 10:47 PM

There's a thong?
That has to go to me.
I wanted the hat for myself but now I think I've got to have the thong for the little woman.
What do I have to do for both?

Posted by: ggab | December 4, 2008 10:56 PM

ggab,

me.

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 4, 2008 10:57 PM

The hat is so close I can smell it.

At least, I hope that's just the hat I'm smelling.

Posted by: K. | December 4, 2008 11:09 PM

Ok, I can't keep my eyes open any more, I'm bowing out for the night.

Congrats to whoever wins it!

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 4, 2008 11:19 PM

Must resist urge to spam Greg with 40 comments...

Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | December 4, 2008 11:21 PM

Josh - 40 comments is a lot more reasonable than my original plan to spam him with 350 of them... :)

Posted by: Ian | December 4, 2008 11:23 PM

As a guy, I totally want the thong. That way when girls accuse me of only thinking with one thing...

Posted by: Jonsi | December 4, 2008 11:24 PM

Wait, there's a hat involved? But no monkey?

Posted by: george.wiman | December 4, 2008 11:25 PM

I think a monkey would be a good alternative prize.

Posted by: K. | December 4, 2008 11:31 PM

No fair! I want a monkey (but only if it can shoot a machine gun).

Posted by: The Science Pundit | December 5, 2008 12:06 AM

...

Surely the count has been exceeded by now, no..??

...tom...

Posted by: ...tom... | December 5, 2008 12:08 AM

I figure we'll just keep going until Greg tells us it's over.

Posted by: K. | December 5, 2008 12:13 AM

...
...truelol...

Yeah, I gathered that was your strategy, from all your entries in the 'comment roll'.

Not that _I_ would engage in such behavior..!! (just kidding ya...)

...tom...

Posted by: ...tom... | December 5, 2008 12:17 AM

I have thought a few times in the past little while about letting it go and just going to bed. But my cat decided to take a nap on my lap, so I don't see myself getting up right away :-)

Posted by: K. | December 5, 2008 12:19 AM

"Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch..."

Niagara Falls

Posted by: Doug Alder | December 5, 2008 12:46 AM

Mug anyone?

Posted by: Chris C. | December 5, 2008 12:48 AM

Huh.

Posted by: Azkyroth | December 5, 2008 12:53 AM

I've never won anything this cool.

Posted by: EricJuve | December 5, 2008 1:21 AM

Who wouldn't want a nice hat?

Does it have bells?

And, hey, who are all of these parvenus who are suddenly posting comments? Some of us have been here all along!

Posted by: Zeno | December 5, 2008 2:09 AM

...

@Zeno: Hey, it takes something important to decloak...

...tom...
.

Posted by: ...tom... | December 5, 2008 2:22 AM

I don't get the 20K plus or minus one thing. What's that about? Why not just 20K?

Posted by: Joel | December 5, 2008 2:38 AM

Because there are three things. One for 19,999; one for 20,000; one for 20,001.

19,989?

Posted by: John | December 5, 2008 2:51 AM

�The central commenter and her/his standard deviates will each receive a hat or a mug or whatever.�

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/life_is_good.php

Posted by: Chris C. | December 5, 2008 2:52 AM

Hat, hat, hat, hat! *dances*

Posted by: Akheloios | December 5, 2008 2:56 AM

Are we there yet?

Posted by: John | December 5, 2008 3:11 AM

Love the idea of the "Central Commenter", in his/her secret fortress under the ice at the North Pole, fiendishly manipulating every thread in the blogosphere to whatever diabolical end is in the plan.

Posted by: chris y | December 5, 2008 4:18 AM

"I think" everyone should take advantage of this resource... fascinating stuff!

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR121.-&viewtype=side&pageseq=38

Posted by: Chris C. | December 5, 2008 4:27 AM

I heard Joe Rogan say that we hit 20k weeks ago, but that "Greg", an obvious government agent, is still collecting names of people who dare to "I think"...

Posted by: Leandro | December 5, 2008 4:39 AM

I'd like the thong, but unless it comes with a matching woman to wear it it wouldn't be all that useful to me. A hat without a monkey is useless, too (I'll take a chimp or a bonobo as a subsitute.)

Yep, a mug - that would be just the ticket.

Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | December 5, 2008 5:17 AM

So what's the word?

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 5, 2008 6:18 AM

Okay, I give up. It's after 2AM her and I've got to get up in the morning at 6. By that time one of you east coasters will have posted and won. Damn! I guess maybe I'll just have to buy that hat or mug. I'm pushing 60, my wife's not far behind me and we're both getting a little gray and frumpy. Neither one of us would be doing the world a favor by sportin' a thong.

Posted by: Rick Quarton | December 5, 2008 6:22 AM

Aw Rick,

You read Greg Laden's blog, which in all likelyhood means you have a brain, and further, that you use it.

You don't need no stinkin' thong to be teh sexay hawt.

Kisses

...and kisses to your Mrs.

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 5, 2008 6:33 AM

Say, TUIBGUY has gotten a full 10% of the comments that GLB has gotten. Three left to go, and there will be a 2000th comment. No prizes, just honor.

Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | December 5, 2008 6:45 AM

Mike, you should at least offer naked pics or something.

Posted by: JanieBelle | December 5, 2008 7:05 AM

Okay, how about naked pics of JanieBelle? Or Kate. If I offered naked pics of me, I would never get another comment.