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I always did have fun doing this.
Might I be so bold as to request a sticky?
 
Anyway, 2004!
New Characters Introduced:
Specialist Steve
Commander Jaguar
Mr. Pompoms
"The Woman"
Second-Life Ellen
Second-Life Mrs. Dunkel
Second-Life Kaoli
Second-Life Archie
Second-Life Tony
Second-Life Tedd
Noah
Diane
Rhoda
Lucy
 
Returning Characters Who Did Not Appear Last Year
Principal V
Greg
Demonic Duck
 
This Year's Count:
Grace: 78
Ellen: 56
Nanase: 45
Elliot: 42
Damien: 32
Vlad: 30
Hedge: 30
Guineas: 27
Tedd: 22
Dr. Sciuridae: 19
Susan: 15
Sarah: 13
Justin: 11
Mr. Verres: 9
Nioi: 9
Second-Life Ellen: 7
Second-Life Kaoli: 6
Jeremy: 5
Commander Jaguar: 5
Second-Life Tedd: 4
Noah: 4
Brownie: 3
Specialist Steve: 3
Diane: 3
Mr. Pompoms: 2
Principal V: 2
TC: 2
Mr. Guyur: 2
Second-Life Archie: 2
Rhoda: 2
Lucy: 2
Amanda: 1
Greg: 1
Demonic Duck: 1
Gen. Shade Tail: 1
Melissa: 1
Mrs. Pompoms: 1
"The Woman": 1
Second-Life Mrs. D.: 1
Second-Life Tony: 1
 
Full Count:

When you have something, and then loose it, you sometimes don't realize how much you miss it until you get it back
So, in honor of the Crazy Counting Guy in our Moperville-adjacent community, a tribute from another Crazy Counting Guy.
 

I'm back, ladies and gentlemen.
When the thread was lost after the forum reboot and an old version was recovered, the amount of re-calculating that would have taken me was somewhat demoralizing, and I kept putting it off. Long story short, I ended up moving, losing the original count entirely, and never got around to starting up again.
 
Well, I'm currently sitting around with nothing to do, have acquired some fancy new pens, and thought I'd try them out with a new-and-improved version of the character count. Improved for me, at least. Now each year's worth of appearances in my notebook will be color-coded. Neat! That does sort of mean I have to start over, which is actually more work than trying to pick up where I left off, but whatever.
 
I'll be posting the counts one year at a time until I catch up. Here's 2002:
 
Elliot: 136 (1st to 50, 1st to 100)
Tedd: 127 (3rd to 50, 2nd to 100)
Grace: 102 (4th to 50, 3rd to 100)
Sarah: 91 (2nd to 50)
Ellen: 52 (5th to 50)
Greg: 41
Nanase: 37
Goo: 30
Susan: 28
Justin: 21
Mr. Verres: 16
Jeremy: 12
Tony: 9
Dr. Germahn: 6
Amanda: 5
MN Science Teacher: 5
Principal V: 5
TC: 4
Hedge: 4
Rat: 4
Matt: 4
Vlad: 3
Unusagi: 3
Travis-san: 3
Demonic Duck: 3
Beta Tedd: 3
Liz: 3
Damien: 2
Beta Ellen: 2
Guineas: 1
Mr. Dunkel: 1
Mrs. Dunkel: 1
"Ronin": 1
Screaming Girl: 1
Gen. Shade Tail: 1
Lord Tedd: 1
 
 
Bold denotes a member of the main cast. Obviously I don't need to indicate which characters made their debuts this year, as that would be all of them. That feature will begin in 2003.
 

2003!
New Characters introduced:
Brownie
Duck
Bill
Drake
Melissa
Dan
Minion
Mr. Tensaided
Mrs. Pompoms
Dr. Sciuridae
Mr. Brown
William
Gillian
Mr. Guyur
Original Grace
Nioi
 
This year's count:
Elliot: 102
Tedd: 88
Ellen: 85
Grace: 79
Nanase: 73
Sarah: 71
Susan: 61
Justin: 48
Mr. Verres: 29
William: 25
Gillian: 25
Hedge: 19
Damien: 13
Brownie: 12
Jeremy: 11
Dan: 8
Mrs. Dunkel: 7
TC: 6
Guineas: 6
Duck: 6
Mr. Dunkel: 5
Dr. Germahn: 4
Amanda: 4
Bill: 4
Dr. Sciuridae: 4
Nioi: 4
Tony: 3
Melissa: 3
Vlad: 2
Gen. Shade Tail: 2
Lord Tedd: 2
Mr. Tensaided: 2
Drake: 2
Minion: 2
Mr. Brown: 2
Screaming Girl: 1
Mrs. Pompoms: 1
Mr. Guyur: 1
Original Grace: 1
 
Full count:

I'm back, ladies and gentlemen.
When the thread was lost after the forum reboot and an old version was recovered, the amount of re-calculating that would have taken me was somewhat demoralizing, and I kept putting it off. Long story short, I ended up moving, losing the original count entirely, and never got around to starting up again.
 
Well, I'm currently sitting around with nothing to do, have acquired some fancy new pens, and thought I'd try them out with a new-and-improved version of the character count. Improved for me, at least. Now each year's worth of appearances in my notebook will be color-coded. Neat! That does sort of mean I have to start over, which is actually more work than trying to pick up where I left off, but whatever.
 
I'll be posting the counts one year at a time until I catch up. Here's 2002:
 
Elliot: 136 (1st to 50, 1st to 100)
Tedd: 127 (3rd to 50, 2nd to 100)
Grace: 102 (4th to 50, 3rd to 100)
Sarah: 91 (2nd to 50)
Ellen: 52 (5th to 50)
Greg: 41
Nanase: 37
Goo: 30
Susan: 28
Justin: 21
Mr. Verres: 16
Jeremy: 12
Tony: 9
Dr. Germahn: 6
Amanda: 5
MN Science Teacher: 5
Principal V: 5
TC: 4
Hedge: 4
Rat: 4
Matt: 4
Vlad: 3
Unusagi: 3
Travis-san: 3
Demonic Duck: 3
Beta Tedd: 3
Liz: 3
Damien: 2
Beta Ellen: 2
Guineas: 1
Mr. Dunkel: 1
Mrs. Dunkel: 1
"Ronin": 1
Screaming Girl: 1
Gen. Shade Tail: 1
Lord Tedd: 1
 
 
Bold denotes a member of the main cast. Obviously I don't need to indicate which characters made their debuts this year, as that would be all of them. That feature will begin in 2003.
 

It's going to be a while before this is up and running again, since while I still have and use my notebook, it's been a while since I've updated it and I relied on the thread in the old forum to remind me of when I left off. I've heard rumors of an attempt at data recovery, but barring that I'll probably have to recount a lot of things to make sure I'm on track.

EDIT:
It occurs to me that the rules for appearances were in the original thread, which was deleted. Here are my criteria:
-On panel appearance (duh)
-Off panel dialogue
-Partial appearance. This one is iffy, but I usually require around 25% visibility (or a face) AND clarity as to who the character is. Said clarity must exist in the strip itself, not including context from previous strips. Rare exceptions have been made to the visibility requirement, such as when The Boar died and only its hoof was visible, but I generally stick pretty hard to it.
-Flashbacks and fantasy sequences count
-Recurring apparitions that are not real, such as Susan's personality aspects, are counted as "semi-characters"
-Characters with alter-egos (such as Elliot) receive credit for the appearances of those alter-egos, and the alter-egos themselves receive credit as semi-characters
      -If two alter-egos appear in the same strip (like Cheerleadra and Heidi, say) they would both receive individual credit, but Elliot would only be counted once
-Different versions of the same character, like Zeus/Jerry, or any alternate universe versions like Beta Tedd or Second Life Ellen, are counted as separate characters

He just has to make sure he has his phone on him whenever he transforms, I guess.

Does this also mean he could start his car just by thinking about it, provided he had his keys? The possibilities are endless.

Also, Dan's commentary immediately made me think of Louis C.K.'s routine, "Everything is amazing and nobody's happy." (Might be NSFW, depending on how your boss feels about certain words, and about you watching YouTube videos when you're supposed to be working.)
Seriously though, language. Don't watch it if that's going to bother you.
 
 

That's brilliant! It means I'll still have to go back a little bit, but better a month or so than fourteen years. Thanks!

That's brilliant! It means I'll still have to go back a little bit, but better a month or so than fourteen years. Thanks!

SUCCESS!!!
By crawling on Yahoo, I found this!
http://98.139.21.31/search/srpcache?p=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.910cmx.com%2Findex.php%3F%2Ftopic%2F12506-crazy-counting-guy%2Fpage-21&fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fcommunity.910cmx.com%2findex.php%3f%2ftopic%2f12506-crazy-counting-guy%2fpage-21&d=4885896186891855&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=Pqex-tbJMmWt2XDsVR9PG_I0DpaEALaO&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=DNfsCj166XBTLIAadZH4QQ--
Most recent count as of January 9th 2016 is here!

It's going to be a while before this is up and running again, since while I still have and use my notebook, it's been a while since I've updated it and I relied on the thread in the old forum to remind me of when I left off. I've heard rumors of an attempt at data recovery, but barring that I'll probably have to recount a lot of things to make sure I'm on track.

EDIT:
It occurs to me that the rules for appearances were in the original thread, which was deleted. Here are my criteria:
-On panel appearance (duh)
-Off panel dialogue
-Partial appearance. This one is iffy, but I usually require around 25% visibility (or a face) AND clarity as to who the character is. Said clarity must exist in the strip itself, not including context from previous strips. Rare exceptions have been made to the visibility requirement, such as when The Boar died and only its hoof was visible, but I generally stick pretty hard to it.
-Flashbacks and fantasy sequences count
-Recurring apparitions that are not real, such as Susan's personality aspects, are counted as "semi-characters"
-Characters with alter-egos (such as Elliot) receive credit for the appearances of those alter-egos, and the alter-egos themselves receive credit as semi-characters
      -If two alter-egos appear in the same strip (like Cheerleadra and Heidi, say) they would both receive individual credit, but Elliot would only be counted once
-Different versions of the same character, like Zeus/Jerry, or any alternate universe versions like Beta Tedd or Second Life Ellen, are counted as separate characters

It's going to be a while before this is up and running again, since while I still have and use my notebook, it's been a while since I've updated it and I relied on the thread in the old forum to remind me of when I left off. I've heard rumors of an attempt at data recovery, but barring that I'll probably have to recount a lot of things to make sure I'm on track.

EDIT:
It occurs to me that the rules for appearances were in the original thread, which was deleted. Here are my criteria:
-On panel appearance (duh)
-Off panel dialogue
-Partial appearance. This one is iffy, but I usually require around 25% visibility (or a face) AND clarity as to who the character is. Said clarity must exist in the strip itself, not including context from previous strips. Rare exceptions have been made to the visibility requirement, such as when The Boar died and only its hoof was visible, but I generally stick pretty hard to it.
-Flashbacks and fantasy sequences count
-Recurring apparitions that are not real, such as Susan's personality aspects, are counted as "semi-characters"
-Characters with alter-egos (such as Elliot) receive credit for the appearances of those alter-egos, and the alter-egos themselves receive credit as semi-characters
      -If two alter-egos appear in the same strip (like Cheerleadra and Heidi, say) they would both receive individual credit, but Elliot would only be counted once
-Different versions of the same character, like Zeus/Jerry, or any alternate universe versions like Beta Tedd or Second Life Ellen, are counted as separate characters