TIMES is a variant of MANY that expects the number of times Forth should execute the preceding text.

0 VALUE #TIMES        \ Counter
: TIMES ( n -- )
  #TIMES 1+ TUCK      ( #times+1 n #times+1 )
  0 TO #TIMES         \ Let's be careful.
  = STOP? OR          \ n-th time or STOP?
  IF DROP EXIT THEN   \ We're through.
  TO #TIMES 0 >IN ! ; \ Increment counter and again.

) BL [rtn]
) DUP EMIT 1+  96 TIMES DROP [rtn] ?

The number of times Forth should restart the line is passed on the stack to TIMES. The value #TIMES is an internal variable used by TIMES. When this variable is inadvertedly initialized to -100 or worse, to 100 ...