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GMD Third Birthday Extravaganza Diary Index and Trivia Contest (UPDATED with trivia answers)

by: odum

Sat Feb 14, 2009 at 06:00:00 AM EST

(Bumpbed back up to the top. - promoted by JulieWaters)

Yes, three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
  • Total number of GMD diaries (as of the writing of this diary - includes all user diaries and draft diaries that might never have made it): 4020
  • Total number of GMD diaries by Jack McCullough alone (as of the writing of this diary): 101
  • Total number of GMD pageviews (give or take...no site meter for the first month): approximately 1,332,000
  • Most unique visitors to GMD in one day?: Approximately 32,000 (to view this diary)
  • Highest user ID number (as of the writing of this diary): 1044
  • Very first "real" GMD diary? VT Anti-Choice Forces Hitting Town Meetings (Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 01:13:45 AM EST)
  • Number of diaries that used the word "impeachment": 309

And now, for the trivia contest! The first folks to get right answers into the diary comments win the prize listed below. At least until I post the answers, then the game is over. And I'll do that whenever I get around to it. Let's say late Monday (and no, front pagers are NOT eligible. Buy yer own GMD schwag).

Hard trivia question: What was the first prominent national blog to put a link to GMD on its blogroll? PRIZE: A GMD bumper sticker!!! (Answer: MyDD.com)

Really hard trivia question: What local political figure stepped up to speak for Vermont Democrats by saying the following about GMD - "some of the local Dems are starting to get turned off on this site and the hate that is begining to spew here" ? PRIZE: A GMD mug!!! (Answer: Former VT GOP Director and current head of the housing section of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Tayt Brooks!)

Super-amazingly hard GMD trivia question: When the blog first started, there were four people who agreed to be front pagers - myself, kestrel9000 (then blogging under the username Ed Garcia), Jack McCullough, and 1 other person who never posted a diary, and informed me a couple weeks in that she just couldn't make the commitment after all. Who was this person? (Note: There's no way in hell anybody could know this... I don't know if Jack would even remember, so just go for the wild guesses - you might get lucky). PRIZE: A GMD sweatshirt!!! (Answer: Former Windham County Democratic Committee Chair, Lynn Bedell!)

UPDATED (& hijacked by) Caoimhin:  Birthday Announcement & Update, after the flip . . .

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