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Happy New Year to you, Crunchydillpickle!

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Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blister ↗s.<br><br>Wil540 art (talk) 14:50, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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::Ah yes, those days were particularly difficult for pickle editors. Some of my ancestors accidentally chiseled themselves into spears. Anyway, thanks for the message and happy new year! I am constantly learning incredible ↗ things ↗ thanks to editors like you. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Start the new year with a pickle award!

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{{font|size=17px|Hi {{BASEPAGENAME}}, you have been awarded the Pickle Barnstar for inspiring a revolution!}}<br>I don't think our paths have ever crossed, but saw your name on the Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2025 page, and based on your user name, think you deserve one of these awards I made a while back. Feel free to share it with anyone you think is worthy of a pickle award. Happy new year.<br /></br> Netherzone (talk) 01:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC) (a.k.a. Picklezone)
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:Oh wow, thank you. Will you be at Wikipedia Day? I'd love to meet you! I hope you've had happy holidays ↗ and that your new year is extra crunchy. Out of curiosity, what made you such a hot springs aficionado? Are there any particularly interesting springs I should read about? Thanks for all you do for Wikipedia! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:04, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::thumb|Japanese Macaque soaking in an Onsen ↗ (hot spring) ↗ Hi, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I think hot springs are such amazing natural phenomena and have an interesting history in terms of human use since ancient times. Even animals like hot springs, here's an image of Japanese macaque ↗ monkeys using hot springs and a link to some capybara soaking in hot springs ↗ which has been covered in scientific literature ↗. What's not to like? Netherzone (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

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Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! voorts (talk/contributions ↗) 21:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

A glowing recommendation

Please see Glowing pickle demonstration ↗. RoySmith (talk) ↗ 19:52, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

:Wow, what ''can't'' pickles do?! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 22:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Duct tape

Hi, why did you vandalise the duct tape article? I hope it was a mistake, you have an interesting user page. Thanks! Opok2021 (talk) 00:52, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

:Oh my goodness, that was not intentional. I was testing some wikitext/formatting stuff and meant to just preview the changes, not publish them. Apologies for the mistake. I will be more careful! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 04:37, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
::No worries Opok2021 (talk) 15:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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I did it again

Remember the barnstar you gave me on 29 May 2024. Well... I did it again in March 2025. You can see it on my contribs log.

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:Okay, I'll do at least a few :-) Thanks, @User:Robertsky! By the way, I think I briefly met you at Wikimania a couple years ago?! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 20:06, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

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A horse hatnote for you

Pickled greetings to you and yours!

I was reading your (really fun!) userpage and saw your idea about a list of all the horse name disambiguations. I actually stumbled across this one earlier today, maybe you already know of it but just in case you don't: Newspaper of record ↗

Have a great day!

Toadheart (talk) 22:22, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

:Yahoo ↗! Impressive ↗ discovery ↗. Outstandingly ↗ whimsical ↗ shenanigans ↗: what a pleasure ↗. Wishing well ↗, Adios ↗!
:P.S. What a nuisance ↗ ordeal ↗ it currently is to write in horses! Lol Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 21:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
::I will try my best ↗ to be a marvellous ↗ humorist ↗: my thinking cap ↗ is on.
::Hooray! ↗ I give thanks ↗ for the kind ↗ plaudit ↗. Was ↗ going to take a casual look ↗ at horse names but it has an addictive nature ↗; I've got the bug ↗! I'm a deep diver ↗! I could go on-and-on ↗...
::All the good ↗ & good cheer ↗ to you!
::Just F Y I ↗, I love ↗ Wikipedia because it is user friendly ↗ and has lots of citation ↗<nowiki/>s. hahaha xD Toadheart (talk) 18:19, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

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Thanks for the edits, cool username 2607:FEA8:D860:D000:4C45:BD5C:C30:5C54 ↗ (talk) 06:36, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

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:Awwww, thank you @User:DaniloDaysOfOurLives! I think you were the first person to wish me a happy birthday as I'm a few hours behind UTC, and it made me happy. :-)Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 07:58, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
::I am so so happy to hear that! I hope you have a gorgeous rest of your day and continue getting lots of lovely messages 🥰🫂 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:17, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
:Happy birthday, Crunchydillpickle! I was trying to think of an appropriately pickly adjective for you. I hope your birthday is...sour? Hmm, that doesn't sound great. Trying again — I hope your birthday is...crunchy? Not sure what that'd mean. I hope your birthday is...briny? ...well-preserved? Maybe there's something related to the dill part ...weedy? Nope, that's even worse. Anyways, I'm at a loss. But I hope you have an excellent birthday filled with whatever it is that a crunchy dill pickle's heart desires! <span style="border:3px outset;border-radius:8pt 0;padding:1px 5px;background:linear-gradient(6rad,#86c,#2b9)"><span style="color:#FFF;text-decoration:inherit;font:1em Lucida Sans">Sdkb</span></span> <sup>'''talk'''</sup> 19:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
::Thank you!!! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 07:09, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

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New partnership: Swissdox

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Continentally concerned conceptual artists

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:Thank you! I didn't know about Lowell Darling until now, and it looks like his page could use some updates and improvements... maybe I'll do it this weekend :-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 19:18, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

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