I’m sure I’m not alone in wondering but go along with the old folks and their ways anyway just to get along and make them feel smarter. Anyhoo. Mr. Lodestone parlayed about a month ago that as a new member he was impressed that I had achieved ‘Hamper status’. I didn’t know where to turn to. And so now, I’m turning to you.
Not being privy at the time, would someone explain ‘The Hamper’ to me? I’m
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Get over 100 comments* on your post and you receive an Afterword hamper packed full of goodies. It has been a while since I qualified for one but my recent One Direction post is a slow burner and is sure to surge past the threshold before long.
*Your own responses do not count.
This is so exciting and what my life has been leading up to!
Like most of the best things in life, a hamper is a figment of the imagination. HP Saucecraft’s imagination in this case.
You’ve hit upon something there without realising it.
Not only is the hamper illusory, the benchmark for earning a hamper is somewhat imprecise. In HPs case the target is something like 10 more comments than his current total. An asymptotic target if you like.
Thanks for the credit, tig. Other initiatives, including the “Afterword T-Shirt” award for a phrase that seemed to represent the blog, for good or ill, seem to have fallen into disuse. Good to see one of my proudest creations, “Lodestone Of Wrongness”, still getting an airing.
Afterword t – shirt gets a regular airing.
What? What? HP is my dad? Not one present, not even a card…
Mum always said she found me under a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer.
I think it was HP would coined the term “Fatdadding’ to indicate the naked hamper grab tactic of starting a list thread and providing most of the replies yourself.
To which I would like to add “Hamplify’ meaning to repeatedly bump your own thread to the top of the Recently Updated in the desperate hope of celebratory foodstuffs, when the poor weak thing should have been allowed to die a natural death days ago
I’ve created my own category –
Marybenneting’
(probably won’t catch on).
Kay’s Christmas Hamper, full of exotica, like tinned ham.
I bet there were family fights over who got to the Corsair chicken in a tin first. That whiff of sophistication and international air travel must have been irresistible. And if it wasn’t first on the menu, then that trusty tin could happily do pantry time for decades.*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4693520.stm
* other brands of whole chicken in a tin were available.
Mmm, tinned chicken.
Or ‘Trapped Chicken’, as Bob Mortimer referred to tinned products on that lovely fishing series with Paul Whitehouse.
“Corsair Tinned Chicken” – zero results on Google. That’s spectacular!
Not nearly as scrumptious as “Cock-a-Doodle ‘Tato, the really big potato. With the chicken inside”. I’ll wager.
The Independent once had an article about ‘chickenability’ I got a letter printed mentioning those very words.
Delve as I did , I could not see one Fray Bentos pie in that hamper.
‘Chinese Figs’, though.
Everything looks like stuff you could just have picked up in Mac Fisheries, or Dewhursts.
C’mon kids! 53 more comments on Lene Lovich and I’m a winner!
I’m with Keef on this one – “a paltry honour” 😉
I’ll hazard a guess that Lene was no fan of Corsair chicken in a tin.
It is one of my enduring regrets that I have never achieved hamper status on this blog (weeps, throws self on bed, pummels pillows).
But then again, who would wish a hamper containing No Parlez, Atlantic Crossing, ABBA Gold or indeed anything by Richard ‘Shouty’ Thompson?
The Hamper was awarded to the first person who could be so outrageous that they got banned from the site. There was a trial run where someone called @bricameron won hands down but at the time there was no prize awarded. Now it’s up for grabs so @Mrbellows fill your boots, what are you waiting for?
Are you suggesting some kind of reincarnation shenanigans has been going on here @SteveT? All of us have been here before in one guise or another…..
Mr Crosby, Mr Stills and Mr Nash have definitely all been here before.
Not forgetting their junior friend in every way, Mr Young
Indeed I used to be two separate gorillas.
I remain two small dogs
Only two more to go for Fatima.
I would like to see the return of “pushes sandwich to one side,” used regularly in its pomp to denote an unsavoury mental image conjured by reading a post. Or should I say “blog comment. ” *rolls eyes*
If this attained any measure of longevity my life would not have been lived in vain.