I really cant believe it!! 53 days in, and I have reached the magic number of 500 Followers!!!
I am so happy that so many people, and some bots too I'm sure ?? have decided to follow me. Thanks a million to you all!
The main places where I hang out are at the #Freewrite ran by the wonderful @mariannewest, #Beersaturday ran by the beer-loving and great fun @detlev, #fiftywords which has become one of my favorite spots ran by two lovely ladies @miniature-tiger and @jayna, #punday ran by the super cool @improv and #music where @qsounds is the man! (or woman!? not sure actually..)
I do pop in and out of other places, but I'd say a lot of my followers have come about through these great little havens, so thank you very much for your help and support along the way folks 👍
Hello Mr. Ablaze🔥, that's all very nice and interesting, but you mentioned something about an SBD giveaway in your title
Right you are!! OK, so I am going to give away 75% of the SBD earned by this post by next week. I will guarantee a minimum of 0.5SBD regardless of how much the post makes.. The winner will be picked randomly.
So what do I have to do to qualify Ablaze??
Time for some fishing 🎣
Ok the following is what you need to do to win the free SBD
Step 1 : Upvote + Resteem this post.
Step 2 : Leave me a comment, any comment, but one that makes me laugh would be great 😊
Step 3 : Non Followers should FOLLOW me also to be eligible.
So thank you again to all of you 500 really special people!! I look forward to the journey ahead, I wonder how many days it will take me to get to 1000 followers.... 🚀🚀
When I think of 500, this classic song from the Proclaimers pops straight into my head! Check out the pic after you watch the video for a giggle..
Assuming the lads started in Leith where would they have ended up after walking 500 miles, and then 500 more!!
Hopefully you enjoyed that post.
I try to post every day, so feel free to follow me and check out some of my other posts here
Peace Out
Ablaze 🔥
What's the difference between a snowman and a snow-woman?
........Snowballs ...LOL
Lol good one!
Okay, this is funny.. 😆
Ha ha ha, love it!!
You are in the draw and you are assigned NUMBER 1
i have nothing to say who make you laugh
Hi @nuckly, thanks for stopping... I'll give you something funny to say for the next time...
Two elephants walk off a cliff...
Boom Boom :o)
You are NUMBER 13 in the draw. Best of luck
Nice Post, I am also new to Steemit and want to connect with new like-minded people. I have started a campaign so we both can get more followers.
Follow/Follow campaign is a fun way to gain more followers on Steemit. This is a cool idea to get more followers - comment on the post (https://steemit.com/follow/@sagarraj1/follow-follow-campaign) and I will follow you on Steemit if you follow me.
this is a very bad idea and there are people here on Steemit with lots of power who will downvote you for an activity like that. follow for follow is not cool.
Here are three good articles which will help you to be successful on this platform.
https://steemit.com/content/@zingali/newbie-steemians-or-do-s-and-do-not-s-or-8-tips
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatamidoing/it-s-a-great-time-for-new-users-to-earn-sbd-by-leaving-good-comments
https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/the-complete-steemit-etiquette-guide-revision-2-0
Congrats on your steemit achievement.. keep up the good work :)
Thanks very much @aburmeseabroad much appreciated... Not sure if you want to be considered for the SBD giveaway, just to let you know, you have completed 2 out of the 3 required steps, just a resteem to go if you want in.. Thanks for stopping by :o)
Haha! You know how the lyrics go buddy!!
"I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks 1000 miles
And rolls up at your door"
This is one of our favorite car-singing songs!!
Also, as for your piccie:
"I don't suppose anyone's seen my laptop around here? I think I dropped it in the water and it's time for my bloody beer review!!!"
To be honest my friend - it is a pleasure writing in the freewrites and comparing notes with you!! Here's to many posts to come!! 😄
Actually, it's "...To fall down at your door" But the version above is what we've been singing in the car for the last however many years lol
LOL!! I'm terrible for getting the lyrics of songs wrong myself! My wife gets a good laugh out of it 😎
You are NUMBER 2 in the draw
Ha ha ha, brilliant, got a good chuckle out of that!! Thanks a million for taking the time to stop by, and you're right about the Freewrites - I love them and our little community, that welcomes in new people every day, some stay, some wander onwards..
Congratulations!!! That is such an achievement!! Wishing you very many more!!
Thanks a million as always @mariannewest!!
You are NUMBER 3 in the draw
Congo man !! achievement to be celebrated . good luck for the future :P , make 1000 in no time
Hey @pranithreddy, great to see another one of my Freewrite pals dropping by, thanks for the kind words..
You are NUMBER 4 in the draw
What is green and sits crying in the corner?
The incredible Sulk
Ha ha, very good, that's what they used to call my sister funnily enough :o)
You are NUMBER 5 in the draw
I'll have to share a joke back too...
Did you hear about the magic tractor?
It drove down the road, and turned into a field!!
Bravo @ablaze!! You've been fast.. to 1000 now!
Thanks a mil @f3nix, 1000 will be harder I'd say, but happy to have gotten this far..
..and this fast! 🤙😎
Ya, I'm delighted!! Hopefully I can keep it up..
I love giveaway! 😆 u made me follow you. Wish you good luck to achieve 1000 followers in less than 50days.
Hi @kulasago, thanks for those kind words, and good luck in the SBD giveaway
you are NUMBER 6 in the draw
That's amazing, 500 followers in 53 days. I know strippers that don't have that many followers, but they do make alotta cash. 💸
Ha ha ha, you're a gas man @wonderwop!! Another buddy from the Freewrites!
you are NUMBER 7 in the draw. Good luck.
Wow, amazing, congratulations! I love the #freewrites and this amazing community, too, and there I've actually stumbled upon felt.buzz's Inspector Dash, I guess you know him, right? There has been a new development, though, since he now does have kind of a shadow, Pinches, who was set up to follow him. But here, outside the #freewrite zone, she doesn't have to do that, here she is up for something else:
Pinches was exhausted.
When she had volunteered for „Pimp up detective work with music”-week, she had done so because she had been looking forward to get away from Thurman and his annoying Chihuahua Hulk for a few days.
That Hulk had taken up tap dancing hadn’t made him an iota less annoying, in fact, Pinches felt that he was even more energized now and could yap on for not only six but eight straight hours.
Plus: She volunteered because she thought that she didn’t have to follow Dash anymore, although that did have a few humorous moments, as long as Dash wasn’t eating. Which he did almost all the time, so ...
And music, sure, Pinches loved music. A few days ago, on this wild expedition to cloning companies, she had put the company Clone of the Dark on her list. She couldn’t explain it, but she had been humming “I’m a clone who walks alone” for the rest of the day.
Two days ago, “Pimp up detective work with music”-week had started, Pinches had brought a huge suitcase as it was supposed to be a retreat and had waited in front of the building at eight in the morning. At a quarter past eight she pulled out the invitation to have another look: Yes, 8 a.m., it said, nut there was something in the small print she had ignored so far: “Might be a bit later, depending on the fitness of the participants.” Okay – now she was a bit worried. Even more so when she looked up and saw a small group coming around the corner, a few with bit suitcases looked already quite sweaty. Pinches frowned. That suitcase of hers had not been a good idea.
“So glad you’re coming with us”, the guy in front of the small group called out. I didn’t want to start the song again until you’d joined us, but now....” and with that he held up an 80s Boombox and pressed a button.
She recognized the song immediately. She had heard it for the last time in the early 90s when her brother was practicing it with alternate lyrics because he wanted to sing it to a girl who lived 500 inches away. “And I would walk 500 inches and I would walk 500 more ...” She had wondered what girl under 20 would fall for a guy who made 500 inches sound like almost infinity. Well, the girl hadn’t fallen for Pinches brother, to be fair.
The group had reached her, the instructor smiled at her, waved the arm that didn’t have to hold the Boombox: “Let’s go, Pinches, we’re improving our skills to tail our targets, and we’re having fun at the same time.”
“Uhm, yeah ... I think I know the answer, but how far will we be walking?”
Thanks @storytllng.rocks What a treat, loved your little micro-story! Great to see so many of my Freewrite friends popping in to say hello with well wishes..
You are NUMBER 8 in the draw.. Best of luck!
Thank you! I'll probably put all the Pinches stories in one blog at one point, it's really great to interact not only in "real" comments but also in such micro-stories ... Dash and Jenkins are still ahead, though ;))
Absolutely, you should 👍
Guess what I just posted in this very minute, LOL!!
No way!! It was if I knew :o)
I know, I couldn't believe it!! Seems you've got the spidy sense, haha!
Congratulations. So… you want something funny? How about a word my then 12yr old son invented to describe a certain ocherous-colored, sphincter-faced speaker spewing his personally branded, flaming gilded sh*tstorm after descending a tackily glittering escalator in his gauche NYC hotel? That word is “nincomnomnipoop” (nin-com-nom-nee-poop). My son says “omni” in the middle makes it mean “infinitely stupid on purpose.” It’s fun to say out loud. Give it try:
NINCOM-nom-ni-poop
nin-com-NOMNI-poop
nin-com-nom-ni-POOP
Ha ha ha, your son sounds like a real character!!! Congrats on making him and then shaping him! Thanks for the congrats and for popping by with your funny story :o)
You are NUMBER 9 in the draw.. Good luck
Thanks
Time to fish !! But you look like jack Bauer and I don't think he can do what aquaman love most
Jack Bauer! Really ha ha, never got that one before... I usually get Brad Pitt or George Clooney... I jest!! :o)
You are NUMBER 10 in the draw
Congratualations!! Joine mee four anotter BEEER!! It's beersaturday!! Actually, I'm watching Jessica Jones, so I need a couple of more of more beers. You ever watch that? Fun. Congrats again. :-))
Ah thanks man, you're very good!! Hopefully we get the magic 80 this week in #beersaturday!! Never watched Jessica Jones.. I'll add it to my list... My sort of thing is Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Wire, Fargo, True Detective... Would it sit well in that list??
You are NUMBER 11 in the draw. Best of luck.
Jessica Jones: A Netflix Marvel comics series. Not my usual, but she's fun as a very cranky bad-ass character. Fargo was great, and True Detective. The others I was very late into and haven't made it back. Others I recommend: Justified, Luther (BBC), Jack Taylor (Irish). I think those would fit your criteria. Have a good one Dude.
Ah sweet!! Love getting recommendations.... Will add these to my list... Thanks a lot
Breaking Bad still fuckin rules! Unfortunately Better Call Saul was so slow..
Ya, it's in my top 3 for sure, just brilliant!! Yes Better Call Saul was nowhere close, it wasn't bad, just not a patch on Breaking Bad..
totally agree, I watched it out of nostalgia for BB
Hey buddy, please laugh
I want that giveaway anyway👈@ablaze
Can a kangaroo jump higher than a house?
Of course, a house doesn’t jump at all.
Ha ha... Thanks @yura81
You are NUMBER 12 in the draw
I'm just here to say hi to a fellow Freewriter and add my support to the payout, so don't include my name in the contest. Thanks for reading my blogs and for the support, I have been taking a couple of days off while taking care of things in life away from Steemit, but I did want to let you know that I appreciate you and to congratulate you on reaching 500 followers. Write On Brother!
Thanks a million @deaconlee Really appreciate your comment and very generous upvote 👍