I wanted to celebrate reaching 1000+ comments on my blog. Today, the 1000th comment was hollered by Zerovoltage! Congratulations, dude! I’d like to thank every person (stinking spammers excluded!) who has ever taken the time to holler back… by listing the name of each hollerer (and link, if available). My friend Jude would argue that I’m link baiting, but my motives are pure. What could be a better way (that won’t cost me a cent, haha) than to spread some Technorati boosts and Google juice? I’ve made a list of 326 unique commenter names responsible for 1009 comments! 
[ UPDATE March 23, 2008: New 2222+ comments milestone list over here. ]
I officially started blogging on Aug. 29, 2006. Since then, it’s been a blast with several significant hiccups and headaches — spammers, unfriendlies, blogger’s ennui, technical maintenance and fixes. I know that compared to other blogs, my blog doesn’t get that many visits and comments, but I’m still a happy camper! Through blogging, I’ve dusted off my so rusty coding and testing skills… and made a few good online connections to interesting people and their websites. In some ways, blogging to a Filipino audience has helped me to reconnect to my ethnic roots. Yes, I’m not even kidding.
OK, the list. It was relatively easy to gather the data by copying & pasting the results spewed out by Top Commentators. I set this awesome plugin to display the top 2000 commenter names. Next, I copied and pasted all the name links to this post. I also cross-referenced a SQL table to determine who submitted the 1st, 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, 500th, 600th, 700th, 800th, 900th, 1000th and 1009th comment. Of the 1009 comments, 39 were made by me. Technically, if I subtract my comments and IF I don’t write another one, e.g. the future 1039th comment is really the 1000th!
My fat cat Max sez to keep feeding him tasty comments! Fill up his bowls!
The names appear from highest # of comments made (# of comments are indicated in brackets) to lowest #. The first 20 notables (who have each made 10+ comments) are highlighted in green. Names that are underlined are the 1st, 100th, 200th… to 1000th, and 1009th commenter. Strangely, Ms. Evilgenius has hollered the most with 38 comments… and was also the 200th, 500th and 600th commenter! Coincidence… or is she truly an evil genius… with waaaaay too much time on her hands? 
So very strange…
My friend Jude said that I’d get more repeat visitors and commenters if I didn’t write such damned long entries and if I replied to your comments on my OWN blog. Sorry, but I do try to visit and holler back on YOUR blogs.
Of course, this list doesn’t include e-mail (death threats, coupons, gift certificates, spam, love letters, etc.), MyBlogLog hellos, MSN Messenger hellos… telepathic messages… and messages sent via carrier pigeons. And actually… my friend Pedro submits many comments under many fake names because of his manifold soul and Jude is really Jessica Alba (ugggggggh)… Plus half of this blog was really coughed up by a phlegmy fat putty tat.
THANKS! Kisses… to all the gay men who send me love letters. Uh-huh.
Oh, please click the button below and vote for me (in 3 categories)? 
Adieu,
fruityhollerific
Glad to see the plugin came in handy! I never tried setting it to 2000 names, but it’s good to see that it worked. =)
OMG! Congrats on your 1000 comments. I have 524 so far and I’ve only started my latest blog 2 months ago! How cool is that noh? Hehe.
Here’s to another 1000!
By the way, I LOOOOOOOOOOVE your cat. Can I kidnap him (or her)?
Whew! Just looking at the list made me sweat from all the hard work that you’ve done to compile it.
Congrats on your 1000+ Comments Milestone!
Color me blonde, but I think I got lost in the calculation for the 1000th blogger somewhere.
Hummmmm my dear friend, you have reached new plug levels and I hafta take my hat off to you. Congrats on your success and why don’t any gay men e-mail me???
I’ve been wanting to do this! But what the heck, I’m special! Rawr!
Congrats! Will be looking forward to the real 1000th commenter.
Maybe I’ll just submit 28 legitimate comments after this just so I could be the chosen one!
Congrats.
Max looks very cabbage-y in the pic again, lol.
And Hide and Seek is one of the songs I overplay. :p
Weeeeehheee!! Any party, fruity? Tell us where the grand celebration will be at? Max already has his party food!
Kiss
Fendi
Wow, congratulations. Milestone indeed.
Is Max up for grabs?
Looking forward to more fruity posts and the next 1000 comments!
Wow. You really took the time to put all our names in… *applause*
Love the cat. Reminds me of the look my own cat gives me when he wants his food.
Wow!!! That’s a lot!! I’m on the 700 club!??
I just need Sparta 300 to make it! (Oh well, I’m not making sense anymore… hope to reach 1000.) 
Haha, the security word is ohmibod.
That is a fat cat.
Congrats on the 1000 comments. It’s great to have a response, ain’t it?
Awww… I thought I won something!
But it’s ok… I’ll be holding the spot till the real one hollers! 
Max looks really cute and round, he on the diet yet?
Wew… seems like I have three comments only… Hahaha. I just got around your blog a few weeks ago, hehe.
Anyhow, congrats on your 1000th comment.
More comments to come! 
Ugh, I am so gonna win this! Lol! Sometimes, I usually get a little bit feisty on some competitions. Max is sooooo cute. I could just hug him all day!
Congratulations! Wow a special mention of my name!
Did you actually type and enumerate all the names? That was a looooooooooong list!
You should post more pictures of your cat.
Congrats on the 1000th comment. I have a long way to go before I reach that milestone.
Kawaii!!! Your cat is adorable!
Congrats on the 1000th comment! Haha… you’re making me wish I never stopped blogging.
Hihi… I’m off to vote for you!
Congrats on reaching your 1000 comments! That’s a pretty big and great achievement for a blogging site!
Oohh wow! That’s a lotsa comments!
Wow… over 1000 comments. I missed it by 3? 4 comments?
So am I the real 1000th commenter yet?
Wow… 1000 comments. My blog might not even be about 30% of yours, lol. Congrats for reaching such a number of comments!
Congratulations on 1000 comments! That’s really cool.
So I have one less comment than fruity at the moment??!! Not any longer. HAHA.
And the real 1000th commenter is actually the 1039th commenter provided that fruity does not write more and she does not get any spam / love / hate / freebie comments. Hmmm… too much to keep track… I think I’ll just write this one comment for Max.
(… and hope you’ve filled his bowl with food.)
Cat eyes like that freak me the hell out.
That’s Garfield in real life.
That cat is adorable.
Congrats on 1000 comments!
That’s so awesome. I went over 1000 comments, too, but most of them are me replying.
Awesome pluggage. That was a pleasant surprise in my Incoming Links in my WordPress Dashboard.
Also, I’m adding this to my dailies. Should have been there from the beginning. And I love your header image. I have no idea what’s going on in it and that’s a good thing. =D
Did you manually count the comments or did you use a plugin? (If so, what plugin?)
Congrats on hitting 1000 comments and here’s to more blogging!
Congratulations sa yo!!!
Wow, 1000 comments? That’s impressive! Congrats on hitting that milestone.
Ah Max looks like he’s hungry! Feed him comments people! XD
Can I answer the comment here?
Weeeh, I actually don’t like ranking the Pinoy blogs. (Just posted the banner from Yugatech because it was a first, haha! Took it down now.) For what? What does that achieve? And heck, I’d say you’re a Filipino — Avalonstar and 5ThirtyOne are included in the list, so why aren’t you? Tsk.
Anyway, the real reason why I’m a little against this ranking through Technorati is because the links to the site are mostly NOT relevant. I was just going to post something about it (in the works): How do you rank blogs? Using Technorati / Alexa / Feeds, or the relevance of the links?
Bah, if they’re happy with what they’re doing, fine. And thanks. Hehe.
On-topic: Too bad I won’t be the lucky 1000th commenter! Grrrr!
Congratulations on your 1000+ comments. I never thought about counting my comments, lol.
Congrats! It is a great milestone to get 1000+ comments. I don’t even think I got a hundred. Yet.
Mummy, I want more food!!!
– Max
There I am, number 73! Though I should go up now, since this is my FOURTH comment. Mahahahahaha.
Lovin’ the kitty! Mine gives me the same look when her bowls are empty too!
Congrats on all the comments.
Hopefully, you’ll get many, many more!
Meow…
Holy cow, kiddo!
And by the way, what makes a blogger “freaky”?
Wow, congrats on the comments. That’s pretty cool.
Wow, that is a long list! I am proud being one of them. I love your blog to the end of the Internet and back!
Oh my, 1000 comments, that’s really A LOT! Oh well congrats to the winner!
Cool! Hitting three birds with one stone. Celebrating a milestone, delurking AND creating a post… Ingenius! Hehehe… Congratulations!
Hi fruity,
Congrats! I’d like to thank you too for visiting my e-kubo.
Whooaaww!! I’m #28 and deeply honored. Let me just send some hugs to fruityoaty for reaching its 1000++++++ commenters. Yipeee!
PSSSTTT! I tagged you! I wanna know kung ano ano pang kaweirdohan mo! He he he!
Congrats… and I’ll bite. What the heck is link baiting?
Thanks for replying to my latest post, btw. Glad someone got something out of it other than “omg wall of text!”
Oh my, that cat is a cutie. c”,) Don’t you just love cute, fat and lazy cats?
Lol, that was really funny. I had a good laugh. Not only do you have such heavenly and tempting sweets, but you also have a heck of a humor.
It’s nice that I have been a part of your 1000 comments. That’s actually a privilege.
Anyway fruity, I’ve been away for the past 3 months trying to tweak my new blogsite and now it’s finally finished. And the address too is different from the one I have here before.
Now I can subscribe to your feed. Finally! God Bless and keep the sweets coming!
Next time, I will spam and spam this blog so that my name will be included on that list, hehehehe.
Wow… it’s a good thing that they’re not from spammers.
I’m the 145th person. *lol*
Congrats, btw.
I LOVE this picture.
Congrats with the 1000th comment.
Too bad, I just found out about your blog recently. I would have loved to be your 1039th commenter!
I’ll make it up by posting a comment in your old posts!
I’m number 98.
Yay me!
Congrats on hitting 1000!!!
@Nikki: Yay, indeed! Thanks for hollering!
Actually, I’ve got almost 2,000 comments now. I’ll be posting a special whopping entry for that.