I signed up for mt.gox about a week ago, at that time the verification queue was >10,000 and I'm still about 5000 now. My plan was to buy one bitcoin to gamble

I signed up for mt.gox about a week ago, at that time the verification queue was >10,000 and I'm still about 5000 now. My plan was to buy one bitcoin to gamble with; presumably that was the plan of the several thousand others in the queue as well. So, based on that, with something like 1000 new verified (hence able to easily trade) people coming into mt.gox a day, I'd expect this to go on for a while...