Hey, I didn’t notice until now, but I’ve ust passed the 1,000th post mark! Quite an accomplishment for someone who really can’t play diddly on the whistle, eh?
When I’m allowed into the Hallowed Grounds, I’m requesting those Chocolate Cigars be made available. 
All the Best, Tom
HIP
Happy 1000 post to you
Happy 1000 post to you
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Happy 1000 post to you.
HOOP,
Best wishes,
Jerry
HOORAY! 
Huzzah!
And may I say how much I’ve enjoyed your company and your posts too TomB! Thoroughly good chap! (I can’t play the whistle for candy either)
Hey, are you really Tom Bombadil? 
Thanks, Martin. As to the Tom Bombadil question, that’s a riddle, so you have to figure it out.
He appeared as an old man, at least in hobbit eyes, with a wrinkled and ruddy face, bright blue eyes, and a bristling brown beard. He was said to be taller than a typical hobbit, but too short to be a Man, so he seems to have been about five feet in height. His costume consisted of a blue jacket and yellow boots, and he wore an old and battered hat, surmounted by a feather. He seems to have preferred to wear a swan-feather in his hat, but before he met Frodo and company on the banks of the Withywindle, he had acquired the feather of a Kingfisher instead. In his own house, rather than a hat, he wore a crown of autumn leaves, perhaps revealing something of the elemental powers he possessed.
All the Best, Tom
Congratulations, Tom.
. . . and may you have many more. 
Will O’Ban
Well, it took you long enough, but congrats anyhow. 
Just try to post more often in the future.
Congratulations, Tom! And may your second 1000 be as good as your first 
Yay Tom!
Thanks All!
If I have a choice, I would like my smoking jacket to be red & blue- NO, not for political reasons. Those colors should enable me to cover both the Red Sox and the Patriots.
See ya in the lounge.
All the Best, Tom
I will, now that we have a completely non-whistle board. Finally, something I understand- non-whistles!!
Tom