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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 593615, member: 5719&quot;]This is officially my/our <b>one thousandth</b> post (regardless of what the counter next to my name says!) and as such, it&#039;s time for a little celebration.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, in honor of the milestone, I have made a small donation to support CoinTalk, and I encourage everyone to support this board in any way you can.&nbsp; Wish it was more, Peter... but the washing machine needed to be &quot;body bagged&quot; recently... ouch... so much for the numismatic budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, I&#039;d like to acknowledge all of you who have been such friends with us since we joined, especially those of you (and you know who you are!) who have honored Thalia Elizabeth with help with her collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>And third... and probably what you&#039;re here for... our modest contest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I have not seen it more than a few times, I find the British game show &quot;Countdown&quot; to be quite fascinating.&nbsp; One of the games is making the longest possible word out of letters that are randomly picked from stacks of vowels and consonants.&nbsp; I&#039;m usually quite outclassed by the contestants!</p><p><br /></p><p>So, here is the challenge: what is the longest common word in English (either &quot;the Queen&#039;s&quot; or &quot;American&quot;... OK, Aussie and Canadian is OK too) that can be made from the letters contained in the phrase </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">one thousand posts</font></p><p><br /></p><p>???</p><p><br /></p><p>Rules:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Just post your answer right here on this thread, so others can see what it will take to have the winner.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) I have to be able to find the word in a regularly used dictionary, either hard copy or online.&nbsp; If you want to help save me some time, please feel free to cite a definition for me (and probably teach me a new word...)</p><p><br /></p><p>3) It doesn&#039;t matter what the word is, it&#039;s the number of letters that counts.&nbsp; In case of ties, the first post with the most number of letters wins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>4) However, I&#039;m excluding proper names and scientific terms not in common usage.&nbsp; Otherwise, someone from Wales or a chemistry major would be a shoo-in to win, and that&#039;s not really fair...&nbsp; :headbang:</p><p><br /></p><p>5) No words that wouldn&#039;t be allowed on a regular CT post by the moderators.&nbsp; Besides, I know you can do better than &quot;four letter words&quot; :whistle:</p><p><br /></p><p>6) I&#039;ll close the contest on Monday night, 27 May 2009, at 9PM Eastern Time so that I can get a PM from the winner and get your winnings out the door on Tuesday.</p><p><br /></p><p>7) You can use as many occurances of the letter as there are in the phrase &quot;one thousand posts&quot;.&nbsp; For example, the letter <i>s</i> appears three times in the phrase, so it is OK to submit a word with three <i>s</i>&#039;s, for example &quot;sashes&quot; (which also means that plurals are OK) which counts for six letters.&nbsp; However, it&#039;s not OK to submit &quot;possess&quot; because that has four <i>s</i>&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>But speaking of possess... here is the item that you will possess if you win, and it&#039;s appropriate, I think, for this 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln&#039;s birth plus the 50th anniversary of a certain cent...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/ct/slabbed59obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/ct/slabbed59rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck, let&#039;s have some fun!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As they say on &quot;Countdown&quot;: time starts now...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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