Congratulations - NJRick Reaches 100!!!

I wouldn't fancy smoking cigarettes that have been lurking in a donkey's bottom

I'm very surprised that the other authors you refer to haven't been complaining about the favouritism shown to you in that none of them have been lucky enough to have received a cigarette-shitting donkey.

Anyway, you will no doubt be delighted to hear that the matter has now been addressed. The code which was incrementing the total number of submissions by adding up those in each of the various document types was inside a segment which was also checking whether there was more than one of them such that the name of the document type could be pluralised, i.e. 2 stories (plural) as opposed to 1 story (singular). That meant in your case that the 1 snippet you had penned was excluded from your overall total meaning you had 99 rather than 100 items.

That situation has now been rectified, however, and your author page is now displaying the previously missing 'medal'. In the circumstances I think the cigarette-shitting donkey should be returned so that it can be given to someone who is currently medal-less yet deserving.

Having received my much-coveted medal, I'll be happy to comply. And thank you for the technical explanation (say WHAT????). But I DO get to keep the chicken hat, don't I?

Well congratulation Rick. It seems you have manged to stir up plenty of action but I feel like I dropped down a rabbit hole.

I guess it's his choice, but I think that Rick has made a bad deal here. Anybody can get a medal, but a cigarette-shitting donkey is something you just don't see every day.

Further, if I correctly understand Februs's technical explanation, if njrick had just waited until he had made one more submission, he would have scored both the medal and the aforementioned rare and coveted donkey.

It is almost worth taking up smoking for, in my opinion. On the subject of nj's painful lack of gratitude I can only say, how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless author!!

... Whereas I am sure Mr blimp will be truly grateful for his ravishingly handsome wing commander moustache



and a nice boxing granny set to play with after tea.

That better not be my boxing granny set that you've given him .. not that I begrudge the blimpster having it but it would have been nice to have been asked first ...

Many congrats NJR on reaching your first century. That's an impressive catalogue: wear your medal with pride, sir.

Less straight-facedly:
I think I speak for us all when I say that it's high time you stopped being the shy, retiring mouse Come out of your shell, man!! If Flopsy hadn't flagged it up, I don't think anyone here would have known you'd ever written anything at all.

To which purpose ... I propose that you share with us what would be your Top 5 Favourite Rick Marlowe Stories that you would urge us all to read (twice, and comment on), and your Top 10, and why not throw in the Top 25 too?

What a huge incentive to reach a century of stories! Wing Commander Blimp, it has a certain ring to it! I shall start reading the Daily Telegraph from tomorrow!