Ulysse > Status Update
Ulysse
added a status update
Holy Moly I've just made my 5000th comment on GR! That's a 100 pages of comments. Almost a novella's worth of comments. Very first comment? 11 Feb 2018: "Sorry but you can't just write off somebody's work because she/he knows how to use a semi-colon!" (Written to a complete stranger back when everyone was a stranger to me). Favorite comment? About Julie's masseuse who didn't read fiction: "she only does friction."
— Sep 27, 2026 05:01AM
16 likes · Like flag
Comments Showing 1-14 of 14 (14 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
P.E.
(new)
Sep 29, 2026 11:33AM
:D I love it! I should get a peek at my own comments too someday!
reply
|
flag
I didn't know that you can view your own comments. I see that I've made 3200 comments, but I doubt that many of them are worth revisiting.
Ahhhh, nice try, sir, but what is *your* favorite comment?
You should, P.E. It’s fun (if time consuming)!
You might surprise yourself, Paul. I came across things I had zero recollection of having written. And they were not all dumb. Amazing what we forget!
That’s the one right there, Justin: my quip about the illiterate masseuse who is well-versed in friction. (This joke getting old yet?) 😉
Who realize you're on the top of the pick? Congrats, Ulysse.
Excellent! Congratulations on your 5000
Luís wrote: "Who realize you're on the top of the pick? Congrats, Ulysse."Thanks, Luís. I've reached GR's limit. A friend here pointed out that only the most recent 5000 comments are conserved. From now on each new comment I make sends one of my older comments into oblivion. Kind of like the human brain which can only retain a finite amount of memories.
Tumblyhome (Caroline) wrote: "Excellent! Congratulations on your 5000"Thanks Caroline :-) It's a good reminder of how much I procrastinate. A wake up call really, says he, as he writes his 5022nd comment...
I didn't realize they had stats on such truck, but it's nice you caught it before a "big" number and all. I just searched on my profile page and there it is -- reason for embarrassment and a reason the Great American Novel hasn't been written yet: 38,371 comments (38,372 if you count this one).All right, then. I'll shut up and be more circumspect going forward. You, on the other hand, have room to roam. Have fun!
Ahhh, okay, I thought Julie wrote that. VAnd that is a classic line for the ages!
Ken wrote: "reason for embarrassment and a reason the Great American Novel hasn't been written yet: 38,371 comments (38,372 if you count this one).Wow! Ken. that's almost 800 pages of comments. That's crazy. You've have already written the Great GR Novel and we're all characters in it!
It wasn’t clear in my comment, Justin, who the author of the joke was but that’s cool, Julie can take credit for it if she likes, I really don’t mind 😊