On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:12:00 -0700, Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> Well, here are the stats on "your" blake: Tallying his posts from yesterday
> and today, blake posted 65 times. ONLY SEVEN of them were about food, and of
> those seven, several were of the "I've never had that" type, with no further
> contribution given. That gives him a "food percentage" of 10.8%
>
> Here are Greg's stats: 16 posts over that same time period, with 5 posts
> about food. So *he* has a "food percentage" of 31.3% -- MUCH better than
> "your" blake.
>
> Since sf was mentioned, I checked out her posting over that same interval.
> Her stats a 69 posts, with 35 posts about food, for a percentage of
> 50.7%. Not bad at all, when you consider how many non-food-related posts
> there were in the thread about garbage-scavenging!
>
> Now let's check out Sheldon: Only 24 posts, with 9 of them being about food,
> for a percentage of 37.5%. (Of course, some of the posts which *were* about
> food were completely wrong.)
>
> Finally, let me take cyber**** out of my killfile, reset the server and
> download the headers for that same period... I see 33 posts, with 11 about
> food -- TWICE as many food-related posts as "your" blake! (and a respectable
> percentage of 33.3%.)
>
> And for the record, my own stats a 62 posts total, with 33 posts about
> food. (Most of the others were about Christine's trip-planning.) That
> equates to a percentage of 53.2%. Here's some of that one-upsmanship: I
> posted almost three times as many food-related posts as "your" blake and
> Greg COMBINED, while *still* posting fewer total posts than "your" blake.

Thanks for counting. In all fairness, we should count a week's
worth and then announce the new charter members of, "The 51% Club"
which comes with a complimentary killfile :-)

ObFood:+ Foster Farms Lime Tequilla Wings are a real bummer. I
can't stand that artificial lime flavor reminiscent of Trix cereal
<shiver>. Golden Grahams for me (been 25+ years, they probably suck
now too).

-sw