Soon 10000 Members !

[rover]

Two weeks ago I posted a thread under the title "Members 9,286"

Kindly notice that today (The Good Thursday ?*): "Members: 9,747".

This means a pace of 230 new members per week.

This means we will round the 10 000 in 7 or 8 days.

Cheers,
Ruben


(*) for a better designation, honouring our New Bartender, could anyone remind me what month are we living in according to the secular calendar invented bv the French Revolution ?

I think membership has been slow the past couple weeks Ruben, I suspect with the new news today we got a bump and with interest we will hit the 10,000 sooner than later, but I expected to have already happen.

 

[Topdog1]

"(*) for a better designation, honouring our New Bartender, could anyone remind me what month are we living in according to the secular calendar invented bv the French Revolution ?"

What, we should call him Janus?

/Ira

 

[mwooten]

"(*) for a better designation, honouring our New Bartender, could anyone remind me what month are we living in according to the secular calendar invented bv the French Revolution ?"

What, we should call him Janus?

/Ira

Well, I think we are still in Nivose.

Michael

 

[Topdog1]

Well, I think we are still in Nivose.

Michael

Ok, I'll bite: What's that? 😕

/Ira

 

[mwooten]

Ok, I'll bite: What's that? 😕

/Ira

Nivose is from the latin word for snowy, nivosus.

 

[ruben]

Nivose is from the latin word for snowy, nivosus.

and my question ? 😕

 

[mwooten]

and my question ? 😕

"...could anyone remind me what month are we living in according to the secular calendar invented bv the French Revolution ?"

 

[ruben]

Yes MWOOTEN,

You are right, excuss my misunderstanding (in addition to my ignorancy), we indeed are in the month of Nivose (snowy), as I became rather impatient and opened the Britannica Online. [What an irony to learn about the French Revolution from an encyclopaedia of a royalist land...]

Since I cannot see any linguistic connection between, "snowy" and RFF new era, or new bartender, I propose to see this historical day as The Good Thursday, more in tune with the fact that Jorge's head remained on place, and involved with RFF future.

A pleasure to have learned from you,
Ruben

PS:
The member 10000 will enter RFF at the month of Pluviôse (“rain,” January 20 to February 18).

 

[mwooten]

" The member 10000 will enter RFF at the month of Pluviôse (“rain,” January 20 to February 18)."
...and then we should do something to celebrate. I doubt our new bartender will bye a round of drinks for the entire bar maybe we should follow some of your suggestions.
Ruben, you should start a "words/no-words" thread showing portraits of our favorite rangefinder camera the day we cross the threshold of 10,000.

Take care,
Michael

 

[rover]

Looks to me like tomorrow....

 

[peter_n]

The German Leica forum passed 10K members a few days ago. I was pretty stunned by that as the discussion forum is pretty moribund WRT activity.

 

[ruben]

"Members: 9,999"

🙂

 

[dcsang]

"All we need is one more pin Rodney"

(those that remember the old Lite Beer commercial will get this one.. )

Dave

 

[mwooten]

Ruben,
Is the party at your place?

Take care,
(one of the happy ten thousand) Michael

 

[popstar]

Yup, I noticed we hit that 10,000 mark today. I hope some of the new members will stay/remain/become active and add to the community. Pretty cool plateau I guess.