> > I HAD to have the 8,888th post.
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> Uh oh... Sam, brace yourself. The 10,000th post will be here in short time. If Mousie was this obsessive over some obscure number, I'm heading for the hills once that counter reaches 9900!
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> mi "will probably be posting like a mad (something that begins with a 'B' but got filtered out) anyways" key

As a start, my initials are HH. H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. The house I grew up in was number 8. Just plain 8. There's more, but you get the idea...