how many are here?

I don't think so. That used to be a feature with the old format, but I don't think it's available now. You can click on an individual member's profile and it will tell you if that person is online (next to their login name), but I don't know of any way to get a tally.

Even online status can be blocked by each member.

the login screen tells you how many members are currently online.
the register screen tells you how many members we have on A2k...

Why do you ask, Frank? Do you only save your best material for a crowded room?

The concern, in my opinion, is a non-sequitor, since I continually see many of the same people posting on certain topics, and a handful at that. Most of the "hard posting repartee" seems to usually be done by a small band of dedicated posters. I wonder if this group of dedicated posters show a common ancestor in their DNA? We could call this common ancestor Postus Continuous.

As long as we're not related to you, Foofie, we're doing just fine!

Hi, Jane, happy T day to you and yours.. are you cooking a goose?

We've put off our T day here, so I'm hanging out as usual, in between tasks.
Thinking of purchasing a capon tomorrow, never cooked one before.

I wish you a happy Thanksgiving as well, osso. We're leaving soon to be with
friends, I don't need to cook - so, right then and there I am a happy Thanksgiving camper!!

'k, have fun, catch up later.

Sorry, after the Black Death in the 1300's there was a lot of mixing, I believe, based on who was left alive and had children to support. We might both have a common ancestor circa the first millenium though. Europe did not have a huge population in the first millenium. My ancestors were known to utilize DNA left unguarded, in their attempt to breed an ubermadel for household chores, cooking and cleaning after a large family.

Oh Foofie, are you retracting your earlier sayings that you and your religious
fanatics never mixed DNA with gentiles? Now you're claiming to have
bred for domestic purposes, which would translate to your DNA being inferior and not able to breed an intelligent being. Oh my, new worlds open up here...

Supposed scholarly DNA analysis claims that a large percentage of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from a Middle-Eastern paternal lineage, and a local European maternal lineage. The theory being that many small groups of Jews in the first millenium came to Europe to have a trading post (aka, branch office), and the younger ones married local women. Ashkenazi Jews are just hybrids.

I do not think that Jews have a superior intellect. I personally think they often have just an average (median) intellect. However, the Gentile population being so much larger may mean that many Gentiles are on the left side of any bellcurve (less than average intellect). In statistics I believe it is called "kurtosis." Jews may have a narrower kurtosis, meaning they may just "cluster" around the mean.

The smartest people I have met, in my opinion, were not Jewish. They tended to be Protestant though, of British or German descent. I am just being candid (to a fault?)

Well, there's an all time thread diversion.

Breathtaking, considering the topic title.

What you've described is commonly called skewness which is the third moment of a probability generating function. Kurtosis, the fourth moment, is usually called weight in the tails. Somewhat amusingly the first four moments are collectively known as the senior moments.

Surely a buddhist knows that we are all here.

Ok , count me in.

me2

Where's frank?