And another pattern for me, 2 4 6!

@kewpie said
It's easy enough to check, Rusty. On the thread list page it shows the number of posts in the thread.
This is the 244th post.

Two dollars each, or 245 dollars. Popular with marketers to get you 2 buy more.

@wajoma said
The OP looks like it was written by a man, yet phranny claims to be a woman. Someone needs to get their story right.

Phranny regularly starts threads with an article written by Heather Cox Richardson, and normally attributes the article. Obviously a simple oversight in this case, as all regular readers would know.
Try voicing "phranny" and the first name that comes to mind is Fran, Frances (female names) and Francis (male name) so it's not certain that the poster is female, but given the poster's non-aggressive posture it's more likely that they're female.

You have two choices. Mess around with names and genders and insults and in the process destroy the purpose of the thread - that's trolling. Or treat other posters civilly and refuse to engage in rubbish posting - that's adult behaviour. Over to you.

@averagejoe1 said
That was not the worst thing he has done in his life , you shluld google all his lying, I thought you would know not to 'go there'. All the family coal mining is a lie, and how about raised in a below average financial household, with puertoricans, blacks, Jews, (Phjew) but saying a few days ago how they would not let his family join the Club. Hmmmmmmmm. Join a Club?
...[text shortened]... reepy climate maniacs. Costing us all big time.
I know,,,,,you hate Trump. That is about it.

Just for the sake of whataboutism, Avjoe, let's just pretend they're ALL bad.

Trump was there first. Whatever the bad thing is. Let's see him get his just deserts. Then, and only then, can we start investigating the next guy, Biden.

Try to concentrate. One at a time, please.

@very-rusty said
I believe the true count is gone now. 🙂

-VR

It's easy enough to check, Rusty. On the thread list page it shows the number of posts in the thread.
This is the 244th post.

Sir Andrew Davis, orchestra conductor, 80.

@rookie54 said
241
is one short of 242
which is 200 long of 42
which is the answer to everything

I'll take that 2.4.2 pattern, thanks rookie.

240 pennies in a pound, in the good old days before metrication made so many things easier.

@drewnogal said
How many tries would it take for us to get that 13 digit number?
Would one and a half dozen years be long enough? That’s 157,680 hours?

A decent supercomputer could crack it in a day, but there's a cost for computer time. For my $500 limit I don't think they'd bother.

We oldies just had radio, and even then people became alcoholics. Pile on cinemas, TV, internet, streaming services, mobile smartphones. It's impossible for a kid to grow up in any society (excepting maybe the Amish) without being constantly bombarded with advertising and propaganda, peddled by people whose lifeblood is money. What amazes me is that so many kids still manage to get through it and become mature, responsible adults.

@very-rusty said
LOL...Just make sure you don't give out the rest of the number on your credit card. 🙂

-VR

Just how stupid do you think I am? 13 unknown digits is enough protection. But thank you for giving me another pattern number - 234.

Australia made the mistake of not restricting vaping sales as they wanted to encourage smokers to use vaping to help quit. Now we have an epidemic of kids vaping they've restricted vape sales to prescription-only at pharmacies. I suspect the kids will start getting their vapes from the friendly drug dealers because the genie's out of the bottle. Normal smoking is dying out here, has been long before vapes arrived.

232
Last 3 digits of my credit card, and another pattern number. I love patterns.

228
For those of you who grew up with tables, it's 12x19. I had a maths teacher who thought 12 wasn't enough so we went for 20. It's been surprisingly useful over the years.

Thanks Rusty for 2.2.2