{"conf": "genx", "generated_at": "2026-04-26T08:00:02.954878Z", "threads": [{"num": 1, "subject": "genx conference bidness", "response_count": 48, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:23)", "body": "If you want to see the Spring the way it was when the genx conference was in it's heyday, check out: http://www.spring.com/~dbii/forum/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:24)", "body": "Then check out: http://www.spring.com:/~dbii/forum/deeper.html"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:26)", "body": "Then go to http://www.spring.com:/~dbii/forum/confs/genx.html which is frozen slice of what was once was."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:43)", "body": "There were 64 topics in the orginal genx conference. nike was the last person to post there on June 22, 1995. We ran caucus software back then. No web interface. That came later when David Bluestein did a redesign."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:50)", "body": "And now, for the original topic list: THE \"OK\" MANIFESTO 1. What's the point of \"OK\"? Well, what's the point of anything? 2. The better you understand something, the more OK it turns out to be. 3. \"OK\" emphatically rejects anything that is not OK, and fully supports any -thing that is. 4. \"OK\" may be the preferred drink of other people such as yourself. 5. Never overestimate the remarkable abilities of \"OK.\" WELCOME TO THE GEN-X CONFERENCE! Your genteel hostess Melissa Marie (suprnaut) Contents Item 1 ( 126) Introductions Item 2 ( 118) sex or ... Item 3 ( 40) Embarrassing Things I Did in the '80s Item 4 ( 27) First Jobs From Hell and Beyond Item 5 ( 96) OK Cola: Your Comments, Please Item 6 ( 12) My Favorite Emo's Story Item 7 ( 24) Julia Robert and ___?___ (Fill in the blank) Item 8 ( 4) Recommended Roadtrips for Genx'rs Item 9 ( 42) Roommates: the Good, the Bad and the Totally Deranged Item 10 ( 46) Coffeehouse Clique Item 11 ( 19) The Crow Item 12 ( 13) The Best (or Worst) Pick-Up Lines of the '90s Item 13 ( 0) \"Life After God\": Douglas Coupland's New Book Item 14 ( 17) GenX Marketing: Your Favorite Obnoxious Example Here Item 15 ( 1) Vignettes From the 13th Edge Item 16 ( 43) They Shoot Old MTV VJ's, Don't They? Item 17 ( 19) Speed Racer vs. Garfield - The Cartoon Topic Item 18 ( 13) I Love Lovejoy's! (604 Nueces) Item 19 ( 13) Tales from the Vat: Fast Food Horror Stories Item 20 ( 11) Reality Bites: Did anyone else hate this movie? Item 21 ( 14) Two BILLION Teens by the Millenium Item 22 ( 26) Prozac, En Vogue Item 23 ( 72) Bad 13th Gen Fiction Writing (Ongoing) Item 24 ( 32) My First Rock Concert Was ... Item 25 ( 64) the soundtrack of our adolescence Item 26 ( 15) Melrose Place - Predictions for Next Season Item 27 ( 26) Things from Childhood that I Really, Really Miss Item 28 ( 38) I Knew I Was an Adult When ... Item 29 ( 32) This is not my beautiful life ... Item 30 ( 31) Woodstock II: Sucking in Saugerties, NY Item 31 ( 10) Boomers-pension/social security=0 Item 32 ( 7) Genx Role Models -- are there any? Item 33 ( 34) Shacking Up Item 34 ( 44) Describe your perfect job here Item 35 ( 8) True Confessions: I didn't go to Lollapalooza Item 36 ( 5) Courting, Gen-X Style Item 37 ( 21) Models Inc.: Who Watches this Shit? Item 38 ( 5) Confession of a Billy Idol fan... Item 39 ( 10) X'ing it up, Austin-style Item 40 ( 26) UT-Austin Survival Stories Item 41 ( 12) The Walsh's vs. Valerizilla (or: Where the hell is Brenda?) Item 42 ( 26) The Movies of Our Adolescence Item 43 ( 33) What did you want to be when you grew up? Item 44 ( 70) Needful Things: Are we materialistic? Item 45 ( 32) The River Pheonix Syndrome Item 46 ( 21) C.D.'s for Twentysomethings Item 47 ( 55) gen-x concert reviews Item 48 ( 126) Republican take-over: are we screwed? Item 49 ( 18) concerts i wish i could have gone to ('60s-'70s) Item 50 ( 17) The \"I Hate Courtney\" Topic Item 51 ( 24) Falling into The Gap! Item 52 ( 23) The World through the Eyes of Genxers and How it Should be Item 53 ( 21) the first time i got drunk Item 54 ( 29) Political Correctness: How do I loathe thee ....? Item 55 ( 14) predictions for future mega-trends Item 56 ( 10) The Worst/Most Embarrassing Job I've Ever Had Item 57 ( 13) Did you have a good hair day? Item 58 ( 12) Winona Ryder Overkill Item 59 ( 20) Animaniacs: Cartoons for the Post-Modern Fringe Item 60 ( 2) Name your favorite/least favorite brady! Item 61 ( 17) GenX and the Spring on the World Wide Web Item 62 ( 0) The Brady Bunch Movie -- Okay, Who's Seen It? y Item 63 ( 0) Ok? what is the concept? Item 64 ( 9) MTV's The Real World"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (07:29)", "body": "Really, come on back."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "i don't know... can you?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (19:01)", "body": "or do you sense... ... interest? ... coyness? ... silliness? or was that... willingness??? *?*"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (09:52)", "body": "And my guess is that your answers are also 'incident specific or at least mood dependant...' *smile*"}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "there's a pill for that you know. *smile* big hug to you on this bright shiny morning WER!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (16:30)", "body": "thanks. been a pretty good day here. getting another new student (just because 'stability' in a classroom doesn't make sense to the district)"}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:30)", "body": "going alright. More crazy stuff regarding the student situation I 'vented' about before. He's okay now but Mom is in jail for child abuse and abandonment as well as drug abuse. And he's in another shelter."}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:43)", "body": "God, I'm sorry Stacey. How is he doing through all this?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "he's one heck of a kid. resilient, strong and usually very upbeat. He doesn't keep things in and so we've been able to talk a lot about conflicting emotions (loving Mom/hating the things she's done) which help keep him from having festering feelings. If my own life were more stable (financially and otherwise) I'd certainly put my name on the foster parent list!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (21:12)", "body": "don't blame ya there...sounds like a good kid, glad he is able to talk about it..."}, {"response": 26, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:04)", "body": "Even without being a foster parent, you are still making a huge difference in those kids' lives..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:19)", "body": "they bring an awful lot to mine as well!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (15:58)", "body": "How old is the spring?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:02)", "body": "Conceptually, going on 10 years. ON the net, going on 5 years. March 21, 1999 will be our 10th anniversery from the point of conception and the fifth anniversery of going on the Internet. We started out as a telnet service. Our web anniversery will be the 4th year on March 21, 1999."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:14)", "body": "That's amazing! Is there going to be a party? Because that date sounds pretty free and possible to me . . ."}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (07:41)", "body": "I think we should have a *major* party for our tenth anniversery."}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (08:03)", "body": "Great! I MUST make it this time! Mike, how does March sound to you?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (13:25)", "body": "You must!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (13:32)", "body": "And I will. I really hope the others will come too."}, {"response": 35, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (14:39)", "body": "all going as planned... I shall be in Berlin on March 21, 1999"}, {"response": 36, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (16:37)", "body": "What's going on there?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (21:19)", "body": "Acoustical Society of America meeting... I'm tagging along!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (02:16)", "body": "I knew it! I'll be going to America, and you will all end up in Germany or Switzerland on that precise date!"}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (08:39)", "body": "not me, I'm pretty much stuck where I am..."}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (09:13)", "body": "At least I'll eat well - which would more that compensate for my loneliness."}, {"response": 41, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "try the tiramisu!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (11:03)", "body": "just make sure I'm at work before you come by..."}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (20:39)", "body": "Yeah... I blew that one. Sorry."}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (11:44)", "body": "no need to apologize, oh passing ship..."}, {"response": 45, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (22:11)", "body": "oh... Frigate!"}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (00:49)", "body": "ever notice how that word is startling close to frigid?"}, {"response": 47, "author": "PT", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (12:19)", "body": "Did you notice she named the most powerful ship that is allowed to travel solo."}, {"response": 48, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (17:18)", "body": "semantics semantics... go ahead, just TRY and put meaning into my words!"}, {"response": 49, "author": "PT", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:23)", "body": "Are you trying to say that your words are meaningless?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "jgross", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (21:52)", "body": "her ship is midnight blue and it blew right by.... the water is so cold now it's like frigid or something...."}, {"response": 51, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (21:52)", "body": "*laugh* Jim, that had just as much meaning as that flyer that froze to the windshield of my car this morning... tres poingant!"}, {"response": 52, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 25, 1998 (09:44)", "body": "and why didn't you post said flyer on here, Stace?"}, {"response": 53, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (15:08)", "body": "oh, well..."}, {"response": 54, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (20:35)", "body": "oh well what??? (throw be a bone, I'm telnetting)"}, {"response": 55, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (22:28)", "body": "the flyer on your car, why you no post so all of us could share?"}, {"response": 56, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan  7, 1999 (03:31)", "body": "methinks you must be referring to the church post bazaar sale flyer that got all stuck in my windshield with the wet snow..."}, {"response": 57, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jan  7, 1999 (11:51)", "body": "probably"}, {"response": 58, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul 30, 1999 (12:20)", "body": "but then again... genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 10, "subject": "My HorrorScope for Today", "response_count": 212, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  1, 1998 (22:40)", "body": "Sounds like the perfect April Fools horoscope for you, wer!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Apr  4, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "Uh...what's your sign?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:32)", "body": "did'ya try something new?!?!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (09:59)", "body": "send me the article!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (15:08)", "body": "Why, looky here, it just perked up! And you only had to come to the spring..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (09:55)", "body": "'void of course' hmm... sounds like we have all encountered that at one time or another. My address? My physical address? 3857 S Clarkson Englewood, CO 80110 And I know you have the electronic addresses (several of them) so you've no excuse now!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (16:31)", "body": "yeah, but at least I know they're flimsy now!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (09:52)", "body": "flimsy, eh?!?! *smile*"}, {"response": 29, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (21:49)", "body": "gemini: avoid sharp pointy things yes, i got poked with four shots, four, I say....(you know, like typhoid, etc..)"}, {"response": 31, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:12)", "body": "yup *sniff*"}, {"response": 33, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:18)", "body": "oh, you read that? hell no, they're in the dog house *wink*"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "aw thanks, wer *hugz*"}, {"response": 37, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:28)", "body": "shot spots would be the least of my problems then *giggle*"}, {"response": 39, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:34)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (17:29)", "body": "well? (btw, shot spots still hurt *sniff*)"}, {"response": 43, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:31)", "body": "good! no, but an owie smooch will work *tears well up*"}, {"response": 45, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:40)", "body": "aw t'anks, feels much better now *smile*"}, {"response": 47, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:49)", "body": "dunno, where's da boo-boo?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:27)", "body": "Ahh...as opposed to the total clarity which prevails most days...."}, {"response": 52, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:27)", "body": "and MEthinks you are very perceptive! *laugh*"}, {"response": 54, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "ohmigod! a coping day!!! take notes for me please!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (17:25)", "body": "Per The Times and Jacqueline Bigar: Gemini: ***** (this means a dynamic day) Someone honors you and makes you feel wonderful. Accept a special offering or compliment. Others love you. Take time to share, whisper in another's ear or just talk. Tonight: Must I spell it out? BTW wer, where do you find your horrorscopes?"}, {"response": 58, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (11:30)", "body": "uh-oh"}, {"response": 59, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:25)", "body": "BTW, Wolf, how did things go yesterday? (*wink wink*)"}, {"response": 60, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (21:01)", "body": "no where fast (was a major grumphead, me, that is)"}, {"response": 61, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:41)", "body": "Awww, better luck next time the planets are aligned in your favor!"}, {"response": 63, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (13:05)", "body": "woohoo! sounds like a good one!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:12)", "body": "ooo, that sounds promising. mine probably said stay in bed!"}, {"response": 68, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (21:08)", "body": "when was that? *wink back atcha*"}, {"response": 70, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (21:59)", "body": "yeah right! like that would ever happen...."}, {"response": 71, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:42)", "body": "Today's The most casual conversation will be fraught with misunderstanding today. If it stops there then all's well and good, but if serious issues are discussed you could leave others with totally the wrong impression. Keep everything light and don't be drawn into committing yourself to uncertain schemes."}, {"response": 72, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:50)", "body": "They should just run that one everyday under Scorpio."}, {"response": 73, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:51)", "body": "They should just run that one everyday under Scorpio and I would be a big believer in astrology."}, {"response": 74, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:53)", "body": "bad day, Autumn? (both me kids be Scorpios...)"}, {"response": 75, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:16)", "body": "I'm afraid Response 71 is going to be the story of their lives!! (BTW, what are the dates? I'm Nov. 2)"}, {"response": 76, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:26)", "body": "the 8th and 14th, I hope... my little book says this about Scorpio moms: These mothers are either wonderful or not really maternal at all, although they try to do their best. If they take to child rearing, they encourage their offspring educationally and in their hobbies. These mothers have no time for whiny or miserable children but they respect outgoing, talented and courageous ones and they can cope with a handful."}, {"response": 77, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (00:11)", "body": "Oh, geez, you're gonna make a believer out of me yet!!"}, {"response": 78, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:46)", "body": "Thursday's: There's a touch of deception around at the moment, and you can't blame anyone but yourself! Gossip is rife and the rumours all add up to a wrong conclusion. In other words, two and two don't make five! If you're concerned about your security, such as the future solvency of a firm, don't panic just yet. Have confidence, as your fears are likely to be unfounded."}, {"response": 79, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:49)", "body": "oh wer, you should hear what i heard about you *grin*"}, {"response": 80, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:10)", "body": "from?!?!?!!!"}, {"response": 81, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:15)", "body": "*heehee*"}, {"response": 82, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:11)", "body": "do tell! do tell! (none of this private emailing crap! let's be PUBLIC!) *laugh*"}, {"response": 83, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (12:45)", "body": "The charitable impulses that make you such an endearing soul become a liability at the moment! Mercury moves into your eleventh solar house now, making you the target for every plausible rogue with a story of woe. You are more than prepared to help but make sure that any cause you support is genuine. At leasst you are assured of a convivial atmosphere with friends over the next few weeks."}, {"response": 84, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (01:07)", "body": "Saturday's: You must be careful today because the mixed rays of Mercury and Neptune confuse issues abominably. The unwise words of a friend could be taken as gospel truth which will mislead you. Anything begun today may be abandoned when common sense returns."}, {"response": 85, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (04:30)", "body": "Thursday: The movement of the Sun into your solar twelfth house suggests that the next month will be rather quiet and solitary. You may be quite busy on a day-to-day basis but behind this lies a need to retreat and reflect upon your progress. This is a wonderful time to repay anything that is owed to others, in the form of money, goods or obligations."}, {"response": 86, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (10:01)", "body": "this mean I'm getting that long ago promised back/neck rub?"}, {"response": 87, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (11:26)", "body": "you gonna be in arm's length anytime in the next month?"}, {"response": 88, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (23:27)", "body": "when I pick you up from the airport, I suppose!"}, {"response": 89, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (00:42)", "body": "*lol*"}, {"response": 90, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "The extra-lucky can look forward to a windfall or prize today. The influence of Uranus ensures that this will be an unexpected event that heads straight for your pocket. Follow your instincts and you won't go wrong!"}, {"response": 91, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "Hot damn! Better get that powerball ticket..."}, {"response": 92, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:59)", "body": "The day-to-day duties expected of you seem far too heavy a burden. The smallest task becomes a mammoth bind, taking you away from your imaginative inner world. Don't build molehills into mountains...just take the day as it comes."}, {"response": 93, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:22)", "body": "you sure that wasn't mine? (and a few days early, I might add)"}, {"response": 94, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:20)", "body": "Thursday's: You may notice that a friend is being a constant drain on your resources, both emotionally and financially. This has to stop, because it's about time this person stood on their own two feet! What were you saying, Wolf? *wink*"}, {"response": 95, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:51)", "body": "Where do you read those horrorscope things, hey? I wonder where people come up with that nonsense; the scariest thing is that they're sometimes right! I once read the personality description of Sagitarius, and was horrorfied - made me sound almost as b ad as I really am!"}, {"response": 96, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:27)", "body": "know what you mean riette! wer *sticking my tongue out at you*"}, {"response": 97, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:53)", "body": "hehehe..."}, {"response": 98, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (14:59)", "body": "actually, this one is for the week of June 26-July 2... The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Crabs, of which I am the official spokesmodel, is ecstatic that you've kept your suffering to a minimum while throwing off your chains. In our opinion, you've earned the right to sit in your underwear watching MTV and scarfing down chocolate eclairs for the next three days without feeling a bit of guilt. However, we earnestly hope you use your grace period in a more ennobling way, such as eating a ripe apricot out of the hand of your secret admirer under a spreading oak tree, or asking the three people who understand you best to describe in detail what's most wonderful about you, or setting out on a trip that resemble's Dorothy's visit to Oz."}, {"response": 99, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (18:07)", "body": "i luvs the puppy!! c'mere, you little sweetie.....*smooooooch*"}, {"response": 100, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:01)", "body": "This is turning richly bizarre!"}, {"response": 101, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:02)", "body": "Wer, get that puppy outta here - think Wolf wants to have him for dinner . . ."}, {"response": 102, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:04)", "body": "or mate with him (!?!?!)"}, {"response": 103, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:20)", "body": "now that would be too low even for a big bad ole wolf like me. he's way tooooooo young, oh but he's fresh meat...hmmmm, no he's too darn cute....."}, {"response": 104, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:41)", "body": "all the better for eating, right?"}, {"response": 105, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "*lol*"}, {"response": 106, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:20)", "body": "I'd love to rescue the poor little dear from you, but then he might have the little guinea pigs for dinner, and they're so sweet. They're sitting on my lap, sharing my cherries . . . more competition. Sigh."}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (01:26)", "body": "Monday the 13th's... My, you are in a restless mood today! If you can jump on a plane, leave the country and escape to a deserted beach, then do it! If, like the majority of people, you can only dream of such things, then take a mooch around your local travel agent and see what's on offer for later in the year. Your energy levels are high and you are keen to discover potential in other realms of life, too."}, {"response": 108, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (02:31)", "body": "OH, no need to spend a $hitload of money, Wer, you can stay in my flat on the desert beach - you'll love it! Go on, take that holiday, get on that plane, leave your kitchen at home and eat out in a place where one can actually afford it!"}, {"response": 109, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (21:02)", "body": "(and bring your spear) just kidding, riette! mr wolf and i joke about this when we go out to dinner and it takes absolutely forever for them to bring the entree. we say, what, did they have to catch the fish, kill the cow, or whatever fits the situation. my horrorscope said something like i've got too many fires burning and that i should keep my big mouth shut."}, {"response": 110, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (02:12)", "body": "OH, you're absolutely right, Wolf! Going out to dinner can take anything from two to six hours . . . It's a lazy, layed-back place where no-one gets impatient, everyone has time - that's what I love about it. It's such an easy, mellow pace to adapt to. Sometimes when evening comes, you think to yourself: now what have I done today? And the answer is: had breakfeast till 19:00."}, {"response": 111, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (22:27)", "body": "Tomorrow's... This is a good day to look forward rather than back, and to try to make a better future for ourselves and our children. Long- term plans of any kind will be successful, but start work on them now."}, {"response": 112, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (02:02)", "body": "OOh, that's deep. It is also from Bj\ufffdrn's guide to Philosophy - THE ESSAYS . . ."}, {"response": 113, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (00:50)", "body": "Saturday, August the First's: Today you seem to be in a party mood, and you'd far rather be happily engaged in stimulating conversation with your friends than getting on with your daily tasks. Unfortunately some things cannot be put off, but we think we can guarantee an enjoyable evening!"}, {"response": 114, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (07:12)", "body": "From the Microsoft page Infospace Horoscope: InfoSpace Horoscopes Sagittarius Even the tame and sober might be feeling all partied out. The Scorpio Moon fills you with exhaustion and vague dissatisfaction. Take a rest or just move slowly. There's no reason to push yourself right now."}, {"response": 115, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (19:16)", "body": "That sums my personal philosophy."}, {"response": 116, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (05:30)", "body": "And today we have: Economize in the nonessential areas of your daily life. It's hard to look at other people and not attempt to guess at their net worth. Call in your debts today, especially those that are past due. Guess I gotta pay some bills today. I knew that. And I have four rentors past due. And I have to pay our Internet access bill that's due every quarter ($1299)."}, {"response": 117, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (09:31)", "body": "and mine says: The conjunction of Venus and Mars in your area of personality makes sexual attraction a real possibility today. The combination of the two foremost male and female planets must spell love, or at least powerful infatuation. Only time will tell if this is going to be a lasting influence in your life, but at least it's fun while it's here! (and I'm going to the coast for three days here in a minute...)"}, {"response": 118, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (14:02)", "body": "Perhaps that means your wife's going to put on some skimpy bikini, and you'll be infatuated with her all over and ever anew again."}, {"response": 119, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (15:06)", "body": "How was the coast?!?! The ONLY problem with Colorado... completely landlocked!"}, {"response": 120, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:21)", "body": "Are there no lakes there?"}, {"response": 121, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:51)", "body": "plenty of lakes but no beaches... interesting fact... Colorado is one of only two state in the US where water flows out of but not into! (Hawaii is the other one)"}, {"response": 122, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug  7, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "How very strange. And you live in this Colorado place?"}, {"response": 123, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sat, Aug  8, 1998 (17:49)", "body": "*smile* yep. The state is at a rather high elevation all around and so all the water flows down from the mountains, into our lakes and streams and then out to other (lower altitude) states..."}, {"response": 124, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (00:55)", "body": "Sunday's: You may find yourself having to face the sad fact that not everyone thinks in the same way as you. Your philosophy of life is very personal and it may not be anywhere near the views of those whom you live or work amongst."}, {"response": 125, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (01:59)", "body": "I was going to get mine from http://home.microsoft.com but all I get is: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f4' Variable is undefined: 'TimeDifs' /Default.asp, line 572 Talk about a HorrorScope."}, {"response": 126, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (02:01)", "body": "So I went to InfoSpace and they still had yesterday's: Sagittarius August 8, 1998 A great day for communicating your ideas and opinions to others; when even those who consider themselves superiors will be hanging on your every word and asking you for input. You may even surprise yourself with some original thought or plan which you did n't know you had in you. You have a visionary zeal about you today which will make everyone around you sit up and take notice. Others will appreciate what you have to say. A parent or child could seek you out to have a private talk, try not to be surprise by any revelations. And Sunday's: Your genius is matched only by your spaciness. People find you funny without necessarily understanding a word you say. Get others to tell you their stories so you can pick and choose the best and increase your repertoire. At a certain level, all experience is connected, so keep your eye on the other members of your group when making plans. Expand your horizons by taking on something new; a dance class, a computer program, or a new artistic means of expression. Learn from other people's mistakes."}, {"response": 127, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (02:05)", "body": "(scribbled)"}, {"response": 128, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (02:07)", "body": "(scribbled)"}, {"response": 129, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (02:33)", "body": "HA-HA!!! Your day sounds more and more like a default to me!"}, {"response": 130, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (08:40)", "body": "I'm starting out my day with a dance class today."}, {"response": 131, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (09:02)", "body": "A dance class!! What type of dancing? Sounds like a nice way to start a default day."}, {"response": 132, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (07:50)", "body": "It is. It's called Body Choir."}, {"response": 133, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (09:12)", "body": "Never heard of that. How does it work? Something to do with getting all your body parts to sing together?"}, {"response": 134, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (12:32)", "body": "You're on track. A lot of the dancers their are into Gabrielle Roth. It's free movement, a lot of body contact, intimacy, and warm, good vibes."}, {"response": 135, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (14:30)", "body": "Cool! So you get to feel your partners' thighs while pretending to dance - no wonder you're so keen on these classes!"}, {"response": 136, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (14:49)", "body": "Most perceptive, Riette. Today's ... You won't get very far without the support of friends or family, so don't leave behind the people that you love. Someone else's reality becomes far more important than your dream. Remind yourself who you're working for. What once seemed like a short haul is now an impossible distance. Can you still make the trek? Actively listen to the metaphors of great literature and the moral of every story and consider how these lessons can be applied to your own life. Look for lost items in the most obvious places."}, {"response": 137, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (17:00)", "body": "I'll go look under the bed for my missing necklace then."}, {"response": 138, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (00:30)", "body": "whose bed? Tuesday's... It can't fail to be a lucky day when there's such an excellent angle between Jupiter and Venus. These two planets cast their helpful influence over travel and create a deepening of understanding. A love affair that starts now has the most favourable chances. Be adventurous and get out into the world - there's nothing to fear."}, {"response": 139, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (01:28)", "body": "Except if you're married!"}, {"response": 140, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (07:22)", "body": "What did you say your sign was, Riette. (thinking ree head' now!)"}, {"response": 141, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (07:41)", "body": "No idea, Terry! But my birthday is 9 December1973 - what does that make me?"}, {"response": 142, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (08:01)", "body": "You're a Sagitarius, just like me. So the horrorscopes that I post apply to you as well. Ready for another one?"}, {"response": 143, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (11:26)", "body": "Of course yes!!! What does a Sagitarius do? On the little pictures, I mean. Which one is it?"}, {"response": 144, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (12:48)", "body": "You are on fire, and you are in no hurry to extinguish it. Lust and inspiration turn your life into an almost unbearable sensory feast. Naked desire appears on the faces of strangers. You are dangerous and happy to make the first move and the second. Getting a lot done in a little bit of time is your specialty. Romantic interludes and creative fun and energy are positively spinning out of control. A special bonus or won contest may grace you with a bit of luck."}, {"response": 145, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (13:54)", "body": "That doesn't sound like me at all.... Would you like to go for a roll in the hay? \ufffdBIG SMILE\ufffd"}, {"response": 146, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (16:49)", "body": "I think Sagittarius is an archer..."}, {"response": 147, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (17:56)", "body": "usuall depicted as a centaur, as well..."}, {"response": 148, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (19:10)", "body": "alright, are there any luny geminis out there? or am i the only one? (oh, but i won't be alone seeing as how i'm a \"twin\")"}, {"response": 149, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (01:10)", "body": "I'd have to say I had an engaging time with a very good woman friend tonight. We went to see the new Gary Sinese and Nicholas Cage movie. It was a good night. Now, let's see what's in store for us Sag's tomorrow, Riette. Your mood is an inspiration to children. Adulthood doesn't have to be a boring proposition after all. Playing games is research and development in its purest form. Delight your childish side with something silly, like a giant bouquet of balloons. Borrow someone else's children for an outing to the zoo or the playground, followed, of course, by ice cream afterward. A bit of unplanned travel may be dropping some getaway tickets into your hands at some point."}, {"response": 150, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (01:31)", "body": "I'm sure that is absolutely accurate in your case, Terry! And in mine, well: no way, Jos\ufffd! Only travelling I'm doing is to stick the poor kids into their playgroup, so I can work. Sigh. But we had yesterday together, and while there were no bouquets of balloons, we each had a mountain of ice cream in town. (It's damned hot over here.) Glad you had such a nice time last night, Terry. She's a lucky girl, I think."}, {"response": 151, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (13:19)", "body": "I'm a lucky guy. Haven't found any loaner children yet, just working away!"}, {"response": 152, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (13:47)", "body": "Perhaps tomorrow's horrorscope will be more accurate. And a horror-scope it's going to be: Elza and I have to have some stiches removed from her forehead and my finger."}, {"response": 153, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (16:51)", "body": "Wednesday's: Your status is about to be hiked up to fresh heights. You may be on the point of being promoted at work or gaining recognition in some other sphere of life. Even within the family, you could start to be seen as a person of substance and importance. Nice change for the better, isn't it?"}, {"response": 154, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (17:13)", "body": "ha-ha!!! THat's hilarious! To be seen within the family as a person of substance and importance; when my kids see me, all their little eyes say, is: FEED US!!!"}, {"response": 155, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (17:49)", "body": "They see you as a person with important food substances!"}, {"response": 156, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (01:31)", "body": "Yep, that's me! Food Factory Walton's the name! So what will today bring for us, Terry? Did you go to the movies again last night?"}, {"response": 157, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (10:40)", "body": "No movies last night. I had several meetings with prospective room mates. A lady from Japan and another from Morrocco. Todays: Sagittarius You probably had very vivid dreams last night and you're still feeling a bit dreamy. Your energy will be high today but there may be something which is not quite right -- something you cannot put your finger on. Keep busy and it will pass. Try to bury your head in the sand, or, failing that, in work. In fact, you can get a lot done today if you keep your nose to that famed grindstone. A co-worker may be asking you to take on part of an onerous task; it's not your job but you could make a few friends if you did your share."}, {"response": 158, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (10:56)", "body": "You only consider ladies for room mates? Clever man! Hmm - horroscope not too far off. I did have weird dreams last night, which left me tired, and a bit out of sorts today. Started a new picture, but I'm unhappy with it, yet don't want to just throw away a brand new canvas. What a pain. At least I managed to post a picture in art - what a cheering thought! HURRAH!! And is your day going according to the stars?"}, {"response": 159, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (12:31)", "body": "Pretty good, I'm plugging away. And don't forget those quotes around your url's."}, {"response": 160, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (13:50)", "body": "Quotes around my url's? Which quotes? I'll probably find out in art."}, {"response": 161, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (15:07)", "body": "The quotes before http and at the end of the url before the closing angle bracket."}, {"response": 162, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (16:03)", "body": "Thursday's: The entry of Venus into its natural home will do your financial fortunes the world of good over the next couple of weeks. This is the start of a profitable time in which money will come to you more easily. The true value of things also becomes an issue now, and you'll realise that quality of life is equally as important as making cash. You'll desire tasteful surroundings and comfort while Venus remains in your house of possessions."}, {"response": 163, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (16:07)", "body": "http://www.RealAstrology.com/ gives Cancer this one for the Week of August 13, 1998 When Henri Matisse's painting \"Le Bateau\" was first shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1961, it was mistakenly hung upside-down for a month and half. I have reason to believe that a beautiful part of your own world is similarly inverted right now. Are you perceptive enough to spot the transposition? Are you brave enough to admit it and shrewd enough to correct it? Or is it so painful to deal with this small mistake that you'll allow it to mushroom into a gaping, long-term error?"}, {"response": 164, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (16:09)", "body": "http://www.RealAstrology.com/ also says for SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21) Week of August 13, 1998 According to my reading of the astrological vibes, you will laugh more this week than you have in many moons. Harder and longer, too. Contradictions that in the past may have made you grind your teeth will now detonate your giggle reflex. Awkward moments which you might take too seriously at any other time will seem like entertaining slapstick. And then there's the fact that life in your vicinity is just going to be a lot funnier than usual. This could seem inconvenient, I suppose. What if you're convulsed with guffaws at a moment when you want to show how serious you can be? My advice is to avoid all situations that would require you to be sober and dignified. Give yourself the luxury of surrendering to the divine heehaw as much as possible."}, {"response": 165, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (02:05)", "body": "Waaa-haaa-haaa!!!! Ha-ha!!! Giggle giggle. GUFFFFFFFAAAWWWW! hee-hee-hee Hoo-hoo-hoo- BBBBBAAAAAAAA!!!!!"}, {"response": 166, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (11:43)", "body": "Friday's: Today's excellent conjunction of the happy-go-lucky Sun and practical, business-minded Mercury brings a number of offers and opportunities which will lead to more money coming your way. You could have a great business idea which is well worth developing. If you have had any disagreements with others lately, you will find it easier to communicate your needs."}, {"response": 167, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug 15, 1998 (00:15)", "body": "Saturday's: Some areas of your life will tend to slow down, while in other areas you'll be taking on more responsibility. You may find yourself in charge of some kind of project at work or running a social group. If you have to guide and influence others now, you may have to do so the hard way - by putting your foot down."}, {"response": 168, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Aug 15, 1998 (01:30)", "body": "Does smacking baby buttocks count as putting one's foot down?"}, {"response": 169, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 15, 1998 (23:12)", "body": "Which sign are you posting, wer?"}, {"response": 170, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (01:29)", "body": "mine, Cancer..."}, {"response": 171, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (01:31)", "body": "I still put my foot down over cupboard trashing yesterday!"}, {"response": 172, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (23:17)", "body": "InfoSpace Horoscopes Sagittarius This is a day to make promises of love, loyalty, or intent. Sign all contracts and commit to something that has tremendous payoff. Do not speak without thinking or act without adequate preparation. A sincere smile and a direct gaze go a long way toward helping your cause. Rather than trying to impress people with stories about your greatness, take an interest in themselves and their abilities. Feel confident that you can rely on your partner, either in your personal life or in the workplace."}, {"response": 173, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (23:20)", "body": "And for Monday, August 17, 1998 Sagittarius Don't bother buying a lottery ticket today -- there are better days to win. In fact, your luck isn't exactly in today at all. Finances don't seem so bright today, so focus your mind on creating better systems at work. Try to streamline your tasks, and if necessary, bring in some help for your tougher jobs. There may be someone in your office who's just dying to win the extra prestige that a big job could garner so don't be selfish about giving someone else a chance. You may be questioning the ethics of someone close to you."}, {"response": 174, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (00:14)", "body": "Sounds like you'd be better off not even getting out of bed tomorrow..."}, {"response": 175, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (00:28)", "body": "Sunday's: After a longish period of travelling retrograde, Pluto now moves to direct motion. This will help you make sense of a number of things that have been bothering you recently and then put them right. You may, for example, have been fighting against a confusing and worrying situation at work. Another possibility is that you've been feeling off-colour. Either way, improvements are on the horizon."}, {"response": 176, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (00:30)", "body": "Monday's: Money is coming your way! Of course, this will require some effort on your part, but once you see the potential of a new scheme you'll be chaffing at the bit to get started. A highly profitable period is forecast by today's aspect between Venus and Pluto."}, {"response": 177, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (01:28)", "body": "Boy, that sounds pretty awful for us, huh Terry? Have a feeling this isn't going to be our week!"}, {"response": 178, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (08:20)", "body": "No, actually I have to streamline my tasks at work. That's a good one. You've got to take care of the good, the bad and the ugly. Gotta run to a dentist appt. now."}, {"response": 179, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (11:29)", "body": "Good think one can talk with one's FINGERS in here!"}, {"response": 180, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (22:11)", "body": "here's mine from that last place wer posted: GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Week of August 13, 1998 The Nyanja tribe of Malawi has a proverb which roughly translated reads, \"If you should find the residents of a place frying their eyes, fry yours also.\" I guess that makes sense in some cases, especially if the eye-fryers have the power to make you so happy and rich that you don't mind being as blind as they are. But I'd like to offer you a healthier alternative which will be just as effective for your needs this week, and far less costly. It's this Moroccan proverb: \"If you find the residents of a place worshipping a donkey, bring the beast some grass.\" OK, like this is so helpful. lemme try the other place *grin*"}, {"response": 181, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (22:12)", "body": "oh, hello! they were the same places. hmmmmm....."}, {"response": 182, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (22:17)", "body": "from microsoft internet start You may feel overwhelmed today with lots of things happening but no clear place to start. Papers may pile up in your inbox at work, or you may receive a lot of bills at once and may wonder how you're going to handle all your expenses. It's important to take it easy and get organized first -- which may not be as simple as it sounds! Take note of how much you're making at work and where the money is being spent. Some of your expenses may surprise and dismay you -- it may be time to cut back on some luxuries okay now, this is more like my life (well, the overflowing in-box would be)"}, {"response": 183, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (23:38)", "body": "Tuesday's: This is one of those peculiar days when the planets are not making any major aspects and where little is happening to your sign. The only thing to do under these circumstances is to stick closely to your usual routine and avoid starting anything important. Just do what you have to do, and take it easy."}, {"response": 184, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (01:36)", "body": "What are you, Wolf?"}, {"response": 185, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (11:40)", "body": "Yep, please include the *sign* when you post a horrorificscope."}, {"response": 186, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (13:09)", "body": "did in #180 (gemini)"}, {"response": 187, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (14:00)", "body": "Sorry, Wolf - my mistake."}, {"response": 188, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (17:52)", "body": "The sign, boss. The sign."}, {"response": 189, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (23:31)", "body": "am i missing something here? ok, next time i post the twin's horrorscope, i'll make sure you all know it's for da looney twins! *grin*"}, {"response": 190, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (02:00)", "body": "Say what?"}, {"response": 191, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (08:45)", "body": "Sag... Others may shrug at your personal triumph, but that doesn't mean you can't celebrate quietly. Just save your loud self-congratulations for something that will be better received. Your intense inward focus may puzzle co-workers and friends. Don't worry about it -- sometime they confuse you, too. Explore your moods before you try to express them to someone else. A philosophical question may distract you all day if you don't address it directly."}, {"response": 192, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (09:22)", "body": "Hmm....that's deep. Are you in a deep mood today, Terry? All I'm concentrating on is trying to do something RIGHT for a change."}, {"response": 193, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (11:15)", "body": "I'm immersed in deep thoughts. By the way, Riette, do you have a video camcorder?"}, {"response": 194, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (11:35)", "body": "THAT'S your deep thought? Whether I have a video camera or not? No, no, no, YES. I believe I do."}, {"response": 195, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (12:08)", "body": "Can you send me a video of you in your art studio that I could put up on our website? Mostly deep thoughts about mission, purpose, I think ratthing got me started this morning when I read his post."}, {"response": 196, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (14:14)", "body": "While I'm sorry about the two of you feeling a bit down today, it is comforting to know we have men here who show all the signs of non-jerkiness. Only people with not-too-big egos ever doubt themselves/what they are doing/where they're going. I find it attractive in the sense that it's such a human thing to do. It shows that you care about what you are, and how you're getting on with your life and the people in it. It's when you stop caring that you should get really really worried. The important th ng is not only to listen to oneself, but also to the people who love you. Ask them too what they think, where they think you're going, whether what you're doing is worth while - I think that often the people who love us are better able to see the good in what we do than we can ourselves. It's funny, you know. When I read your and Wer's, and Ray's, and Wolf's and Autumn's, and everyone elses posts, I always think: wow, these people have done so much, have achieved so much, their path ahead is so well lit and certain. Why is it not the same with me? And then there comes a post like Ray's this morning, and I realize with a smile: we probably all think the same thing about each other! It's just nice to find out every once in a while. \ufffdBIG HUG\ufffd As far as the video is concerned - I'll do it, but you will be mega dissappointed, I'm sure, so be warned. My 'studio' is VERY VERY MESSY, and will shatter every romantic view everyone has ever had about artists' studios. Mine contains books, my hi-fi, more books, two pianos, the computer, pictures, vandalized canvasses - stuff like that. Nothing of the white and smart look, and I stand my canvasses on a stool, not necessarily the easel - but that's the way I like it, and I'm not changing it. So if it s not what you had in mind, I'll save you the trouble. Also, can I just send you the original little cassette? Because if I convert it onto video, it'll be PAL VHS, and I know you use NTSCH or whatever in America. Is that a problem?"}, {"response": 197, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (14:29)", "body": "Sure. Wow, that's great. Send the little casette and I'll convert it to VHS and play it on the website. Be sureto fill it with lots of talk and/or music or sounds but the sound tracks the big part of the videos we run. Wow, you'll do it, that's terrific. No limits on content, Riette."}, {"response": 198, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (16:36)", "body": "For you, anything."}, {"response": 199, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Aug 19, 1998 (20:52)", "body": "i think it's awfully sweet of you to do that. i would be afraid if your studio was all crisp and white."}, {"response": 200, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 20, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "Be afraid anyway, Wolf.....be VERY afraid!!! You'll think me a real pig when you see my studio. If you guys want, I could also do you one of Z\ufffdrich when I have a bit more time. It's really pretty."}, {"response": 201, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (12:19)", "body": "InfoSpace Horoscopes Sagittarius Today is a great time to strike up conversation with somebody you don't know. A stranger on the bus or a friendly face at the corner store may turn out to be your next best friend. That person you always see on your way to work or wherever it is that you go may be impressed by your outgoing, eccentric nature, so turn on the charm. It seems that many are listening to what you have to say, and you feel perfectly assured. This is a great day to communicate, so plan to make speeches and presentations. Hmm, first thing when I came to work I was heavy into communicating with everyone on my project today. Anyone out here I don't know yet? If there is, let's talk!"}, {"response": 202, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct  5, 1998 (17:13)", "body": "InfoSpace Horoscopes Sagittarius A day for drama and action. You may discover something new today which you will want to know more about. Alternately, you could meet a person in an unlikely way, a person who will soon become vital to your life. Don't pass up any opportunities to get out and meet people. Attend all parties, particularly dinner parties, and speak up at meetings. Sagittarius is the true pioneer of the zodiac, and you will be no exception. Those dreams you've been harboring for a while could be just about ready to come true - if you have the guts to try, that is."}, {"response": 203, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (11:34)", "body": "I think I must be a severely handicapped Sagittarius..."}, {"response": 204, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (13:22)", "body": "Cancer's for today: The two themes that are likely to be important in the short-term future are those of children and having a good time. We hope that these two are compatible."}, {"response": 205, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Oct 25, 1998 (01:16)", "body": "Mostly, but not ALWAYS!"}, {"response": 206, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (11:31)", "body": "short-future? maybe halloween??"}, {"response": 207, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (13:27)", "body": "not sure...gotta work Halloween, anyway... Today's: You're in the mood for fun and adventure, but those close to home won't appreciate your apparently selfish actions. A money worry may emerge today which will do little to encourage domestic harmony. Very little can be resolved, so wait until this stellar influence passes."}, {"response": 208, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (23:34)", "body": "Today's for Cancer... Lofty values have no place in today's rather disappointing stars. You may feel you have been let down by colleagues who do not share your ideals. Perhaps you're feeling moody and distrustful...however, there is probably a good reason for this."}, {"response": 209, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  4, 1998 (13:18)", "body": "Today's for Cancer: The Full Moon could make you feel tense and it could also bring you an unexpected expense which, when you come to think of it, is probably only to be expected. The best thing to do today is to jog along as usual and don't get caught up in anyone else's bad mood."}, {"response": 210, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (14:04)", "body": "Cancer's for Friday the 13th... Many of your convictions have gone through profound changes since Jupiter went retrograde. Today, the giant planet resumes its direct course and you can take stock of the situation. A lot of confusion will now be resolved and you may feel that your luck improves as your mind clears."}, {"response": 211, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (00:13)", "body": "Cancer's for Thanksgiving: There could be good things going on in connection with work or business today. Other people may come up with money-making schemes that are worth investigating. This may lead to some kind of working partnership that will stand the test of time. This may not affect you directly, but could, for example, apply to your partner. And for Friday: Neptune's entry into one of the deepest and most secret areas of your horoscope emphasises parts of your complex mind that you scarcely knew existed. Many of you may have psychic or spiritual experiences in the coming months."}, {"response": 212, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (12:53)", "body": "Gemini for this beautiful Thanksgiving Day (according to the Times): Make calls in the morning; reach out for family and friends. You bring happiness into other people's lives. Wherever you are, be the lead player. Others look to you for different ways to solve problems. Tonight: Head cheerleader!"}, {"response": 213, "author": "TIM", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (22:46)", "body": "Whew! sounds like someone is going to a party!!"}, {"response": 214, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (22:56)", "body": "must've been another gemini, cuz it sure wasn't me! (although my daughter did some cheerleading tonight, only she's an aries)"}, {"response": 215, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (11:54)", "body": "Cancer's today: Close emotional links will flourish now as Venus, planet of love, enters your horoscopic area of partnerships. If you're in any doubt about your relationship then this is the time to show your affection in no uncertain terms. In more practical concerns Venus adds goodwill in business dealings, while the next few weeks could see the transformation of a rival in commerce or love to an ally and friend. Those who are single may find the man or woman of their dreams."}, {"response": 216, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (23:26)", "body": "Cancer's today: Your financial fortunes may look uncertain, but an unexpected event could easily make good the losses you have experienced. Keep your head and be prepared to act quickly to benefit from any financial opportunity."}, {"response": 217, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (10:01)", "body": "Cancer's today: A sudden declaration of love is not unlikely today. Emotions are very close to the surface, and no matter how you repress them, they are still likely to bubble over into the many areas of your life. Apart from the physical aspect, you'll experience deep spiritual desire."}, {"response": 218, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "Now, that sounds interesting!!"}, {"response": 219, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:33)", "body": "what's your sign, pt?"}, {"response": 220, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (17:07)", "body": "Cancer"}, {"response": 221, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (20:40)", "body": "Let's have some Aries mumbo jumbo!"}, {"response": 222, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (11:45)", "body": "you'd have to talk to my sisters..."}, {"response": 223, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:49)", "body": "Your sisters are both Aries? Are they twins?"}, {"response": 224, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:51)", "body": "yep...with different birthdays noless..."}, {"response": 225, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:54)", "body": "Born near midnight, were they?"}, {"response": 226, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (13:00)", "body": "yep...3 to 4 days earlier, and they would have different zodiac signs, as well!"}, {"response": 227, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (13:12)", "body": "If they really followed the Zodiac, that would not have made much difference, since both would have been on the cusp."}, {"response": 228, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (13:19)", "body": "yeah, but it still would have been cool to tell people..."}, {"response": 229, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (13:32)", "body": "That is true. I'll bet that twins with different birthdays get plenty of comment"}, {"response": 230, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Dec 20, 1998 (00:11)", "body": "yes indeedy"}, {"response": 231, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (22:20)", "body": "yeah, but their poor mother! stacey, my daughter is an aries too!"}, {"response": 232, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (17:18)", "body": "ahhh, you poor dear. It must be trying having a daughter who is ALWAYS right!"}, {"response": 233, "author": "PT", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:25)", "body": "Aren't they all, sooner or later?"}, {"response": 234, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:25)", "body": "I have TWO daughters who think they are always right, yet only ONE is an Aries...how do you account for that? :-) (The other is a Taurus)"}, {"response": 235, "author": "jgross", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:25)", "body": "taurus daughters bull their way into the clear into the front of everyone's attention and that's where it feels right to them. i like 'em for it. they're pretty funny with 'emselves. characters."}, {"response": 236, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:25)", "body": "Autumn, is your Aries daughter the oldest? Just wondering if she's showing her astrologically impaired baby sister the way?!?!"}, {"response": 237, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Dec 28, 1998 (12:05)", "body": "all i know is my aries daughter is a go-getter. she is a mother-hen, bossy, and so sweet that it's unbelievable. my son, the gemini, is shy, has problems doing one thing at a time (typical of us) and butts heads with me (another gemini); however, my kids do fine together. which explains why my daughter and i are close and my son and i are not. AND why my daughter and son are close. now my husband is like a fish out of water--he's a pisces."}, {"response": 238, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jan 12, 1999 (23:53)", "body": "CANCER (June 21-July 22) Week of January 7, 1999 The ancient Greek word klimax had several meanings. My favorite: a ladder to heaven by which a dreamer's soul arrived at an erotic tryst with a divine being who imparted precious secrets. I bring this up, Cancerian, because I believe the fates will bestow the gift of a klimax on you this week. I hope you'll keep a pen and notebook by your bed so you can scribble down a record of your electrifying rendezvous right after it occurs. I swear it'll become a metaphorical talisman for you, the symbol of a new chapter in your mythic quest for intriguing love."}, {"response": 239, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (05:07)", "body": "Wer, tell us about how wonderful it is to have twins for sisters. You seem so vague about it.... \ufffdBIG SMILE\ufffd"}, {"response": 240, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (10:28)", "body": "hehe... have you been to Terry's new horoscope topic in spirit and/or porch? In spirit it's http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/porch/43"}, {"response": 241, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (10:31)", "body": "duh, no it's not, like I said in SPIRIT it's http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/spirit/43"}, {"response": 242, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb  1, 2000 (00:31)", "body": "Woo hoo, the new server rocks!"}, {"response": 243, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb  1, 2000 (00:31)", "body": "Mark this day, Jan 31st 2000 as the birthday for the new server. What sign does that make it?"}, {"response": 244, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Feb  1, 2000 (12:46)", "body": "wow... freaking me out... I clicked in here and saw kitchen_manager posts... I thought WER was back... no such luck, they are from January of 1999... Lemme see Paul, does that make the new server a Capricorn? Or would it be a Piceis, Piecis, Peices? (How in the FU\ufffdK do you spell that word???)"}, {"response": 245, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Feb  1, 2000 (23:01)", "body": "He's been reading some of the same books I have...scary!!!"}, {"response": 246, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb  2, 2000 (11:32)", "body": "who/ WER or Paul?"}, {"response": 247, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb  2, 2000 (13:14)", "body": "*grin* ...not saying."}, {"response": 248, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb  2, 2000 (13:37)", "body": "... then you've said a mouthful... *return grin*"}, {"response": 249, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb  2, 2000 (15:31)", "body": "*big happy grin*"}, {"response": 250, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, Feb  3, 2000 (09:28)", "body": "Any horrorscopes?"}, {"response": 251, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Feb  3, 2000 (13:41)", "body": "My 'scope says, there's a dark beer awaiting me at superstar's office in Frankfurt, well - you'd guess it's a very unhip bar, but it's my home away from home. And: that beer'll be used to wash down something that proprietor cooked up..."}, {"response": 252, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb  3, 2000 (15:28)", "body": "No horrorscopes here except for the fact that anyone logged onto Spring can delete my entire copnference...other than that...! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 11, "subject": "What didn't you wear today?", "response_count": 228, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr  5, 1998 (19:40)", "body": "Hey--me neither!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:33)", "body": "panties!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (17:49)", "body": "today i wore a rather nice slim fit black top, which makes me look even wider than i actually am (which is surprisingly wide, actually), and a boring pair of beige jeans. and i had bad hair. good job my foxy babe interest wasn't around :)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (19:04)", "body": "no Mike... what DIDN'T you wear today. panties."}, {"response": 7, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (19:10)", "body": "argh. i must learn to read english. i thought WERs post was a bit strange. my first foot in this conf and it was a wrong one. that'll teach me not to use the intro topic :) Today I didn't wear high heeled shoes, but only because I've run out of new ones."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "A tux."}, {"response": 9, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "Acrylic, nylon or polyester."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (10:00)", "body": "um... panties. and no hat either."}, {"response": 12, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (15:09)", "body": "Haven't worn a hat or gloves for a month."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (09:56)", "body": "awwww, WER. You look GOOD in the Liquid Latex! Just too hot in the kitchen for all that?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (11:22)", "body": "Swim trunks."}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (16:33)", "body": "oooh! Chaps and Liquid Latex! there's the look!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 10, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "Anything with buttons."}, {"response": 22, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Apr 11, 1998 (01:01)", "body": "I'm more of a zipper gal...."}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 12, 1998 (00:47)", "body": "My pinstripe suit."}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "a wetsuit"}, {"response": 27, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (21:31)", "body": "My Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it..."}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "a wearable computer like they had on 60 Minutes Sunday."}, {"response": 29, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:20)", "body": "riding gear"}, {"response": 32, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (15:15)", "body": "anything to make me feel any better than absolutely crap :("}, {"response": 33, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (17:31)", "body": "no slip, bustier, or garters....."}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:37)", "body": "(are you feeling better today, Mike?)"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:49)", "body": "cellophane......"}, {"response": 37, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:30)", "body": "no duct tape, mucilage, or nothing lacy. today was kinky."}, {"response": 38, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (17:28)", "body": "do tell...."}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:28)", "body": "ooooh! Mike!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:05)", "body": "dinner..."}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "oh, but instead of embarrassing myself that way, I was flirting back to the waiter who was flirting with my daughter. Throwing out these big toothy grins. Guess what? Yeah. Big old leaf of lettuce stuck in my tooth. Why is it no one tells you those things?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (11:25)", "body": "tar and feathers"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (23:46)", "body": "dark socks (true about any day)."}, {"response": 46, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (11:32)", "body": "the catsuit"}, {"response": 48, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "high heels."}, {"response": 49, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (01:05)", "body": "panties!"}, {"response": 50, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (13:36)", "body": "vicky's secrect under my work clothes....or a bottle of ketchup"}, {"response": 51, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (19:14)", "body": "a brain. a bloody brain. or any guts. arghhhhhh. will i regret today for the rest of my life???"}, {"response": 52, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (22:29)", "body": "maybe not....."}, {"response": 54, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "The Jewel of the Ocean."}, {"response": 55, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (13:01)", "body": "that's, uh, the heart of the ocean? dog collar and leash....."}, {"response": 57, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (12:54)", "body": "nothin' camoflauged!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "nailpolish, makeup or my nipple ring"}, {"response": 60, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (13:07)", "body": "superwoman getup......."}, {"response": 62, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (18:10)", "body": "nah, it didn't match what i DID wear *grin*"}, {"response": 63, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (22:45)", "body": "A shellsuit/windsuit!"}, {"response": 64, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (19:06)", "body": "black lipstick...."}, {"response": 65, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (20:45)", "body": "Makeup of any kind."}, {"response": 66, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 25, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "ankle ring"}, {"response": 67, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 26, 1998 (12:36)", "body": "Jewelry of any kind."}, {"response": 68, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 26, 1998 (13:14)", "body": "koolaid mustache"}, {"response": 69, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (22:01)", "body": "a girdle, just let it all hang out"}, {"response": 71, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (17:25)", "body": "oooo wer! my cyndi lauper outfit (oh, and no condom)"}, {"response": 73, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:14)", "body": "and did anybody notice? *heehee* no madonna pointy bras today"}, {"response": 75, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (22:01)", "body": "toga"}, {"response": 76, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May  1, 1998 (17:17)", "body": "yeah!!!! didn't have to wear stockings!!! Teacher planning day... throw dress code protocol to the wind. WOO WOO! I look like a slob! *huge grin*"}, {"response": 77, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, May  1, 1998 (19:47)", "body": "gotta luv it! btw, i didn't wear stockings either ;)"}, {"response": 79, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:44)", "body": "get those stockings back on. *schwooooooooon*...."}, {"response": 80, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:52)", "body": "OK, so which one of us are you shwoonin' over? *grin* my freudian slip *wink wink*"}, {"response": 81, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:03)", "body": "*grin* i'm a ladies man only ;)"}, {"response": 82, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (21:31)", "body": "duncecap"}, {"response": 84, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:49)", "body": "didja hafta dislocate your shoulder to get outta it?"}, {"response": 86, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (00:04)", "body": "LOL!!"}, {"response": 87, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (10:03)", "body": "you animal!!! *gasp!*"}, {"response": 88, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (15:20)", "body": "LOL, thought Wolf was calling Mike a duncecap for schwoonin'!"}, {"response": 89, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (20:02)", "body": "*giggle* paperclip outfit"}, {"response": 91, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May  5, 1998 (09:52)", "body": "my heart on my sleeve"}, {"response": 92, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May  5, 1998 (19:18)", "body": "toe tags..."}, {"response": 93, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "that's morbid wolf!"}, {"response": 94, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "today, I am not wearing the distinct smell of my workplace"}, {"response": 95, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (19:23)", "body": "no nun habit today"}, {"response": 96, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:54)", "body": "dogtags"}, {"response": 97, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:00)", "body": "I didn't wear luggage tags, either... and tomorrow I shan't be wearing my beard, as I shaved it off again today."}, {"response": 98, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:47)", "body": "tutu"}, {"response": 99, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:11)", "body": "Auntie Em"}, {"response": 100, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:17)", "body": "(i'm glad about that one)"}, {"response": 101, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (21:36)", "body": "double bed"}, {"response": 102, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:18)", "body": "This topic is beginning to frighten me more than BodMods! (i LIKE it!) No corset, no sorceror's cap, no thong, no silver lame, no Band-Aids, no fresh fruit, no 'detachable penis', no toliet paper on my shoe, no shoes, no hair ribbons, no fake eyelashes, no fish hooks or gummy worms, no natural fur, no perfume, no honey, whipped cream or tabasco sauce, no glitter lipstick, no combat boots or galoshes, no chains, whips or leather, no toe shoes. Today, as the four others preceeding, it's just been a robe, a headache and a fever (and right now, a smile!)"}, {"response": 103, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (20:12)", "body": "today i did not wear flippers."}, {"response": 104, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (00:17)", "body": "no fur huh, Stacey? *sigh*"}, {"response": 105, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "only in the places it's supposed to be... *laugh*"}, {"response": 106, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "who decides where it is supposed to be?"}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (12:53)", "body": "plaster of Paris"}, {"response": 108, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (01:10)", "body": "today, I plan not to wear staples..."}, {"response": 109, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, May 17, 1998 (23:45)", "body": "Deodorant or a fresh change of clothes (wound up spending the night out of town)"}, {"response": 110, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (18:23)", "body": "unintentional or was he too hot to pass up? *smile*"}, {"response": 111, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (13:09)", "body": "rambo gear"}, {"response": 112, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (02:37)", "body": "moral fibre"}, {"response": 113, "author": "jgross", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (03:33)", "body": "my cat on my head. birthmark (oh yeah, there it is...thought it had done gone, there, fer a sec)"}, {"response": 114, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "*laugh* no pantyhose, trouser socks, makeup or uncomfortable shoes (twas Field Day!!!!) shorts and tennis shoes all around!"}, {"response": 115, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (04:34)", "body": "(top and bottom, Stacey? didja get pictures?!?!?) a sheet of music so you'll know what I mean"}, {"response": 116, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (10:03)", "body": "(enter stacey R: she has a studious look on her face, as if attempting to correlate this last response with something she may have said before. She continues to ponder but finally succumbs to the complexion of the utterly confused) huh?"}, {"response": 117, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (11:29)", "body": "shorts and tennis shoes all around... top and bottom? didja get pictures?!?!?"}, {"response": 118, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "Ah ha! The humor escaped me but now that I've grasped a visual... *laugh* ahem. no. I did not."}, {"response": 119, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (00:44)", "body": "a transmitter"}, {"response": 120, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May 23, 1998 (11:08)", "body": "no bell bottoms"}, {"response": 121, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sat, May 23, 1998 (12:32)", "body": "(hi, elke)"}, {"response": 122, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (01:22)", "body": "abaayah (hi nick, send me a note, huh?)"}, {"response": 123, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (01:46)", "body": "I looked up the word 'abaayah' in my Arabic/English dictionary. Abaayah n. 1. a sack of unrelaxed rain taken furtively from Lake Pontchartrain 2. a cropped photograph of Fred & Ethel Mertz taken unassumingly from Lake Superior 3. an aspect of leadership munched on by Eli Whitney while he was getting a thorough rubdown by a tribe of Wampanoags right beside Walden Pond"}, {"response": 124, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (05:11)", "body": "*lol*"}, {"response": 125, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (10:20)", "body": "Ooh, I was wrong then, WOlf--not Bosnia, but Saudi?"}, {"response": 126, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (10:44)", "body": "ooooh, good guess Autumn."}, {"response": 127, "author": "CotC", "date": "Mon, Jun  1, 1998 (16:39)", "body": "Today, I have not yet worn anything secreted by WER."}, {"response": 128, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jun  1, 1998 (23:09)", "body": "by any definition..."}, {"response": 129, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun  2, 1998 (04:46)", "body": "euwww! that's so gross!! lemme see, no itsy bitsy teeny tiney yellow polka-dot bikini (yeah, it was red!)"}, {"response": 130, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun  2, 1998 (10:03)", "body": "can't wait for the news footage!!!"}, {"response": 131, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun  2, 1998 (12:01)", "body": "it won't be pretty..."}, {"response": 132, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (02:55)", "body": "didn't wear my hair today . . . it fell off in the night"}, {"response": 133, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (05:03)", "body": "belly dancer getup"}, {"response": 134, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (08:28)", "body": "ha-ha!!"}, {"response": 135, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (09:56)", "body": "The little vial of mercury WER gave me. I can't find the damned thing today. I hope wne of the dogs didn't eat it..."}, {"response": 136, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (09:57)", "body": "The little vial of mercury WER gave me. I can't find the damned thing today. I hope one of the dogs didn't eat it..."}, {"response": 137, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (10:54)", "body": "eskimo snow suit"}, {"response": 138, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (00:18)", "body": "text editor"}, {"response": 139, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (14:16)", "body": "Stapler?"}, {"response": 140, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "three-hole punch"}, {"response": 141, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (16:13)", "body": "sounds good!!"}, {"response": 142, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "pasties"}, {"response": 143, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (00:59)", "body": "did the glue finally wear off? (if so, they probably fell off under the couch...)"}, {"response": 144, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:07)", "body": "I doubt it, we just looked underneath and they didn't turn up. Just a bunch of rotting strawberry caps."}, {"response": 145, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (08:30)", "body": "gogo boots and hot pants (btw, the strawberry caps were yummy, thank goodness canines have strong stomachs)"}, {"response": 146, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "any of Riette's paintings..."}, {"response": 147, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:00)", "body": "I saw that, Kitchen Man!!! an apron . . ."}, {"response": 148, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:38)", "body": "slip of any type"}, {"response": 149, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:39)", "body": "not even one of the tongue?"}, {"response": 150, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:41)", "body": "nope, not even that (sorry to disappoint you)"}, {"response": 151, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:44)", "body": "the day's not over... *crossing fingers*"}, {"response": 152, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:47)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 153, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:51)", "body": "hey, you checked out http://www.spring.net/~spew/genxstory/indeX.html yet?"}, {"response": 154, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:52)", "body": "no, but i understand there's a new chapter in the works...."}, {"response": 155, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:54)", "body": "yeah, and tomorrow the X-Files movie is being released..."}, {"response": 156, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (00:58)", "body": "that would be today over here, huh? (It's 7:30 A.M.) Oh, that David!!! Gotta go, good talkin' with ya!! missing all my buds over here...."}, {"response": 157, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (02:30)", "body": "Sunglasses. Destroyed by little hands."}, {"response": 158, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (01:22)", "body": "tiara....."}, {"response": 159, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (01:55)", "body": "wedding ring!!! Dropped it down the loo and 7:00 in the morning. Mr. C. is trying to fish it out, and mad as a bull . . . think I'll go back to do some more and more serious apologizing."}, {"response": 160, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (02:53)", "body": "good excuse to buy a new set *giggle*"}, {"response": 161, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (07:40)", "body": "ha-ha! But not for me, I'm afraid. I didn't choose a matching pair to start with . . . and I don't think I'm going to get him to buy a new one after dropping thirteen South African diamonds into the loo. Still, the crisis has now been faced and conquered. But he's still quite mad, and it's the wrong time of the month, so I can't even take the easy option to make it up to him! Think I'll glue the ring to my finger from now on."}, {"response": 162, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (09:38)", "body": "*rotflmbo*"}, {"response": 163, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (13:02)", "body": "Are you married, Wolf? Or do wolves not breed in captivity . . .?"}, {"response": 164, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (13:49)", "body": "she's married with two girls..."}, {"response": 165, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 20, 1998 (16:56)", "body": "Amazing! So Autumn, Wolf and I have six girls between us!! Now THAT'S what I call girl power!!"}, {"response": 166, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "oh, no...new supergroup... SpringGirls..."}, {"response": 167, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:33)", "body": "ha-ha! And that is how it should be, seeing as this is a whole new world by itself, in which the inhabitants are called Spring Sapiens . . ."}, {"response": 168, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (16:55)", "body": "Spring sapien, eh?"}, {"response": 169, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "well, you know, there's nothing else to do in these darned cages, wish folks weren't always watching! (and that would be one girl and one boy *wink*) --spring sapiens? interesting...."}, {"response": 170, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:15)", "body": "oops...*blush*...ooops..."}, {"response": 171, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:24)", "body": "What? No, don't worry, you did nothing wrong. In a virtual community one has to use bookmarks for doing what you've just tried . . ."}, {"response": 172, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (22:58)", "body": "it's ok, wer, really."}, {"response": 173, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (16:54)", "body": "braces . . . actually I never have, but couldn't think of anything else."}, {"response": 174, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:07)", "body": "thigh master....."}, {"response": 175, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:11)", "body": "the scent of another woman... (what's wrong, Wolf, he won't be over 'till tonight?)"}, {"response": 176, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:14)", "body": "*sheepish grin* (darn those fangs!)"}, {"response": 177, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:17)", "body": "hehe..."}, {"response": 178, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:53)", "body": "war paint"}, {"response": 179, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:29)", "body": "mud body mask"}, {"response": 180, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:54)", "body": "yard art"}, {"response": 181, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:04)", "body": "manners - had a cherry stone spitting competition with Isa and Elza. Isa got me right between the eyes - it hurts!"}, {"response": 182, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:06)", "body": "B brought me home a whole 2 1/2 lbs of native Washington cherries... the yellowish, orangish, sweet ones!!! So I haven't been wearing anything that is too difficult to take off in my quick runs to the toilet!!!"}, {"response": 183, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:19)", "body": "alright, we got the trots action going on at Stacey's house! now you know how i felt in the desert a couple of days. (don't forget the Wet Ones and an open window)..... i didn't wear, uh, lemme see, what haven't i got on, oh, my tutu....."}, {"response": 184, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:24)", "body": "ha-ha!! I wore everything, but actually remembered to brush the knots out of my hair and discovered that it's actually straight and blond, not curly and brownish!!!!! Great and damn it!! I guess if I should have a bath with Chris now, I'd also say, 'What d'ya mean if you pull your finger out I'll sink?'"}, {"response": 185, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:51)", "body": "conservative nail polish......oh, wait, no conservative anything!"}, {"response": 186, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "conservatives or liberals..."}, {"response": 187, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "oh my, wer *grin*"}, {"response": 188, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "yep, nothing but libertarians, socialists, and anarchists in my wardrobe!"}, {"response": 189, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "well, as long as the colors don't clash too much, and you have matching shoes!"}, {"response": 190, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "and plenty of whigs!!!"}, {"response": 191, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "nice touch! (hate to see your closet, though)"}, {"response": 192, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "(me, too, actually, but the skeletons are helpful and have an eye for design...)"}, {"response": 193, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:53)", "body": "But they'll make even better firewood."}, {"response": 194, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (18:20)", "body": "decoupage...."}, {"response": 195, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (02:32)", "body": "what tha fu\ufffdk?!"}, {"response": 196, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (19:19)", "body": "riette: you know what i'm talking about! anyway, i posted that after i finished varnishing my bird house and didn't get any on me!"}, {"response": 197, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (02:14)", "body": "HA-HA!!! Shoo, ya ugly birds, don't poop on that painting now!"}, {"response": 198, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (15:13)", "body": "riding gear and whip"}, {"response": 199, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (21:32)", "body": "*shucks*, oh, me neither (had to oil the leather, y'know)"}, {"response": 200, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (02:14)", "body": "Plaster cast!!!!!! Yahoooooo!!!! Thinking whether to burn or bury it."}, {"response": 201, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (02:35)", "body": "Paint it up and put it in your next exhibit..."}, {"response": 202, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (04:37)", "body": "Great idea, muffin!!! That's EXACTLY what I'm going to do!"}, {"response": 203, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (07:04)", "body": "Whoopeee, Riette."}, {"response": 204, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (11:21)", "body": "I'll send a pic once it's finished - if I manage it successfully, that is . . ."}, {"response": 205, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (23:01)", "body": "decolletage"}, {"response": 206, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (01:06)", "body": "(I hope it didn't fall off somewhere...)"}, {"response": 207, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (01:49)", "body": "ha-ha - would be even more appropriate. The broken healing remains of a broken arm. Booh-hoo!! No, I'm just talking crap here. So far today I'm not wearing a sense of humour - kids buggered around all night, so I'm not feeling terribly amiable this morning. Specially as I've actually been sleeping the past 3 nights. \ufffdGROWL\ufffd"}, {"response": 208, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (02:35)", "body": "Why, those buggers!"}, {"response": 209, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (06:03)", "body": "a-line mini-dress"}, {"response": 210, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (08:27)", "body": "You mean you wore your ball gown instead?"}, {"response": 211, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (09:23)", "body": "just my little glass slippers and nothing else. nekkid slipper wearer. that's me."}, {"response": 212, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (13:39)", "body": "That thought sends all KINDS of pictures into my head, Cindegrella!"}, {"response": 213, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Aug  4, 1998 (22:42)", "body": "no wet paint, just dry stuff in the \"right\" places.... mike, now you know why you're so darned unhappy, the gals are jealous cuz you look better than they do wearing slippers and nothing else *grin* (hope things are going well) riette: where have you been girl? (i've been in Ohio, woohoo)"}, {"response": 214, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "in England..."}, {"response": 215, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (14:04)", "body": "Ohio? What's in Ohio? Did ya have a good time? We missed you."}, {"response": 216, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (20:50)", "body": "well, if you call figuring out quantitative techniques, pricing/cost analysis, and all sorts of ratios fun, then ok. Ohio is the home of the air museum. They have the Wright Bros plane on display along with every other plane in Air Force history. I was at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton. Only two weeks so didn't do much. How was England? Did you see mike?"}, {"response": 217, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (20:50)", "body": "(that's so sweet that you all missed lil ole me, figured no one would notice i was gone :( )"}, {"response": 218, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (01:51)", "body": "Of course we missed you!!! Pssh, what a thing for you to doubt! England was beautiful, restful and lonely - I insisted on the last bit! I didn't see Mike, because I was too far North and he was too far South. But I saw two other Mikes to make up for it!"}, {"response": 219, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (23:46)", "body": "Union Jack (or anything soiled by the Queen Mum...)"}, {"response": 220, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Nov  1, 1998 (21:05)", "body": "um, spikey collar...."}, {"response": 221, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (14:06)", "body": "a tampon (or any other feminine hygiene product, actually)"}, {"response": 222, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (15:37)", "body": "toupee"}, {"response": 223, "author": "Austinfood", "date": "Fri, Nov 13, 1998 (15:52)", "body": "me either!!!"}, {"response": 224, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (05:08)", "body": "You did however wear a strange name. Are we to call you Austinfood or Anonymous?"}, {"response": 225, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (10:34)", "body": "neither...I was trying to get the posters on austin.food newsgroup to give us a try by providing them with an anonymous log in... how'd you know it was me?"}, {"response": 226, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (11:57)", "body": "It's the handwriting that gave you away..."}, {"response": 227, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (12:58)", "body": "dammit"}, {"response": 228, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (13:12)", "body": "i didn't wear one of those dammits either!"}, {"response": 229, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (13:20)", "body": "of course not..."}, {"response": 230, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr 17, 1999 (16:17)", "body": "well I didn't wear well today"}, {"response": 231, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Apr 18, 1999 (21:36)", "body": "today, either and I really don't think I will tomorrw, as well..."}, {"response": 232, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 19, 1999 (09:28)", "body": "on Friday the basball game was snowed out, so I didn't wear my ball hat. on Saturday it was 22 degrees so I didn't wear my sandals. yesterday it was 72 degrees!!!! so I didn't wear any sleeves!!!"}, {"response": 233, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (00:03)", "body": "camouflage"}, {"response": 234, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (02:23)", "body": "but I didn't see you..."}, {"response": 235, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (11:36)", "body": "were you looking to the right or left?"}, {"response": 236, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (14:56)", "body": "good question"}, {"response": 237, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Aug  3, 1999 (12:59)", "body": "a sharp stick in my eye"}, {"response": 238, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Aug  3, 1999 (13:02)", "body": "Need one? You can have mine..."}, {"response": 239, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Aug  3, 1999 (13:05)", "body": "*chuckle* No, thanks, I've got to make it through at least one day without something of mine hurting..."}, {"response": 240, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Aug  3, 1999 (13:07)", "body": "So, you're doing alright today, son?"}, {"response": 241, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug  3, 1999 (13:07)", "body": "No interchanging of sharp sticks, please. One earns the ones he has - and I am happy that one of the Three Whatevers does not have one this morning!"}, {"response": 242, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Aug  4, 1999 (11:34)", "body": "Yeah, whatever!"}, {"response": 243, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (05:39)", "body": "Darn, where's my stick! Gotta go to the grocer, cain't do widdout ma stick!"}, {"response": 244, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (00:31)", "body": "and don't forget my fishsticks!"}, {"response": 245, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Nov 24, 2001 (23:20)", "body": "*laugh* it's been so loooooong since i've come in here and this topic really could make me laugh. so, lemme think a sec...... today i didn't wear the leftover turkey dressing (sorry to disappoint you out there)"}, {"response": 246, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 25, 2001 (19:33)", "body": "Shoes. At least any regular type of shoe, my rubber slip ons and my AndOnes (basketball warmups)."}, {"response": 247, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Nov 25, 2001 (21:22)", "body": "AndOnes? never heard of 'em today i didn't wear the christmas lights, they went up without a hitch."}, {"response": 248, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 25, 2001 (22:49)", "body": "They're hot on the hoops courts."}, {"response": 249, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul 21, 2005 (12:14)", "body": "let's see, i'm not wearing my endangered species tag today.....oh noooooo!"}, {"response": 250, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 22, 2005 (14:32)", "body": "Not wearing warm clothes."}, {"response": 251, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Oct 18, 2005 (13:28)", "body": "no ski masks or muckalucks (or however you spell those stupid boots)"}, {"response": 252, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Oct 19, 2005 (10:17)", "body": "like i said over in today's topic of the same name....these two aren't linked? and as i stated over there....no pirate attire"}, {"response": 253, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Nov 14, 2005 (20:23)", "body": "much to the relief of my neighbors, i didn't wear my leiderhosen today..."}, {"response": 254, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Nov 16, 2005 (20:10)", "body": "didn't wear my leather today...."}, {"response": 255, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 17, 2005 (17:48)", "body": "my swim trunks. Too cold. But the day isn't over yet. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 12, "subject": "A Sampling of My Snail Mail", "response_count": 81, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 12, 1998 (00:48)", "body": "As you've read, Lizabeth's sweetie Steve is having quadruple bypass surgery this Monday, April 20th. Both Steve and Lizabeth freelance; the though of six weeks imposed unemployment can be - at the very least - daunting, in the best of circumstances. When I last spoke with Lizabeth, she told me their insurance won't cover all of the costs involved in this surgery, which only makes the financial situation more grim. In one of the most admirable traditions of the WELL, I'm asking anyone who wants to - and who is able - to help defray some of these costs by sending a contribution to: Steve Glaser PO Box 6266 Chammpaign, IL 61826 Thanks for helping."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (15:31)", "body": "wow...this is a cool topic. if our postie ever recovers from whatever it is that's keeping him from our door, expect stuff from me..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (17:33)", "body": "an invitation to an orgy......"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:33)", "body": "will let 'em know *heehee*"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:39)", "body": "I've been getting strange email. User names I have never heard of asking for pictures/phone numbers and sex. I'm not sure how I got myself involved in this but I'm not all that fond of it."}, {"response": 12, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:34)", "body": "Dear Mr Mike Griggs Thank you for yoru enquiry on the 14 Apr 1998. Please find enclosed the literature that you have requested. If you would like any further brochures, please contact Customer Services on 01792-515020 Yours sincerely Roland (UK) Limited Encs. MOTHER KYBDS.SYNTHS. FREE CD"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (20:46)", "body": "Roland Ltd. That's Williams (wer's) British affiliate, ya know."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:30)", "body": "Not to mention the Chanson..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:29)", "body": "a sampling of my snail mail... \"You owe ....\" \"Please remit with payment of...\" \"We have not received payment as of ...\" and to quote a well-known man... sheesh!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:07)", "body": ""}, {"response": 19, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:28)", "body": "I got a recipe chain letter, if you can imagine that. \"Please send the first person on the list a recipe, add your name to the end of the list, and mail to six friends...\" sheesh is right!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (01:06)", "body": "in snail mail???"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (13:38)", "body": "hate those. did it have a ps where somebody didn't respond and they died a week later from getting their head chopped off? (believe it or not, i got one of those a long time ago)"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (17:35)", "body": "did you respond???"}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (18:38)", "body": "heck no...."}, {"response": 24, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (19:16)", "body": "hah. we've got an 85 pound (umm, *3, /2 for dollars) bill for a central heating engineer we never asked for and who never arrived. nice one :)"}, {"response": 25, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:44)", "body": "Mike, I believe if you don't resolve that one, heads actually will roll.... Wolf, LOL, no implied threat for non-compliance (not even death by chocolate!)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:56)", "body": "what? no death by chocolate? rats!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (13:11)", "body": "The New World Book of Rolands Dear William, I have exciting news for you and all Rolands! Though we are probably not related, I want to tell you about extensive work done throughout the world on a project relating the the distinguished Roland name. What might be the oldest facts about Rolands in North America have been discovered. Now, an astounding new book, \"THE NEW WORLD BOOK OF ROLANDS,\" is about to be published for you - and it features Rolands that date back to 1656..."}, {"response": 28, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (20:42)", "body": "hey! i've seen similar book offers here! actually had someone call and ask if we were related to them!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (09:42)", "body": "I've actually found distant relatives through the internet -- 2nd cousins, aunts, etc."}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (11:59)", "body": "Same here. They all live in Wisconsin and Minnesota."}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "all mine are in California!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (19:07)", "body": "can't find mine :( Oh, that's right, they're in a whole other country! (planet, probably)"}, {"response": 33, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "this morning i was mister popular. i got a replacement hard disk for a computer system i'm building, a summary of my tax status for the last tax year, a letter asking me why i hadn't paid the council tax for our house, and a letter from the most most most most most most most most most important friend in the WHOLE WORLD!!!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (12:15)", "body": "A letter from Clare?"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "no joke! you are popular today!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (19:40)", "body": "not from Claire, unfortunately. although a letter from her would be rather weird, seeing as we've never met ;) maybe she's seen some of my old modelling shots and is desperately trying to find out my address ;))"}, {"response": 37, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (20:57)", "body": "yeah, she stumbled into the spring and saw how the drooling you were doing so she bumped your e-address against one of the search engines, got your address and wrote. but seeing your old modeling portfolios would be interesting, hmmmm."}, {"response": 39, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (17:23)", "body": "some of my flicky pics here , Wolf"}, {"response": 40, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:17)", "body": "Loved the photos, Mike! If you could get a sneer thing going, you would look just like one of those guys in the Calvin Klein ads. I especially liked the conversion story. Having an awakened sense of spirituality really enriches life, don't you think?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:40)", "body": "yeah, mike, those photos don't look anything like the image i had in my mind. you could pass for a CK model *grin*"}, {"response": 42, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (16:55)", "body": "pics of MIKE???? Gotta get off the telnet and find a full color browser!!!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:47)", "body": "*blush* what did you expect? thick glasses and bad hair? even pretty people use the net ;))"}, {"response": 44, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:53)", "body": "no way!! yeah, I expected suspenders, nerdy glasses, and one of those pocket protector things *laugh*"}, {"response": 45, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:05)", "body": "maybe we should have a personal pics topic?"}, {"response": 46, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:07)", "body": "hmmmm..."}, {"response": 47, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (10:04)", "body": "the only scanned picture of me is one just before the summit on Gray's Peak. I'm fully clothed... sorry."}, {"response": 49, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May  5, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "where'd you hide the camera!?!?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (12:34)", "body": "This came to my house, but it was addressed to WER: Dear William, I am back in Austin, you remember Chairman MacLaughlin, who lived in research Pointe Apartments? Let's get to gether and have a big party For XDAY Here in Austin!!! Miles chairman@customnet.net (the above is verbatim)... He also included his phone #, but I'll email that to ya, WER."}, {"response": 52, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (12:35)", "body": "Oh, yeah, there was a business reply envelope for Wired magazine and a dollar, but I guess I'll have to drop those off in person :-)"}, {"response": 53, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:24)", "body": "i got somethin' in the mail inviting me to participate in a singles club for men. hmmmm.....wonder why....."}, {"response": 54, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:16)", "body": "you'd be the hit of the parties..."}, {"response": 55, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:56)", "body": "Til they discover she's a wolf-woman. Then she'll become the trophy on the wall!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "hahahaha!!! probably a bunch of smelley old rednecks who don't know how to treat a woman (nevermind a wolf)"}, {"response": 57, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:09)", "body": "Can't have been rednecks - I sleep with one, and he sure KNOWS how to treat a woman . . . not so sure about a wolf though. No, must have been a bunch of smelly hillbillies pretending to be rednecks pretending to be single. Or something like that!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:17)", "body": "probably, i dunno, they said i wouldn't see too much!"}, {"response": 59, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "smelly hillbillies?!?!?"}, {"response": 60, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:45)", "body": "knew that'd get your attention. actually, we got smelly rednecks here, and dudes who drive big trucks with big hats and big belt buckles, spittin tabacky everywhere. my kind of men *sticking finger in throat in that valley girl way to indicate grossed-out-edness*"}, {"response": 61, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:26)", "body": "That sounds exactly like the kind of place where I had my first exhibition . . . ghwoaaglsh!"}, {"response": 62, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:57)", "body": "HOL!!!"}, {"response": 63, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:56)", "body": "ha-ha! And our Afrikaans listeners will enjoy that particular response even more, as it means 'arsehole'!!! Wolf, where did the name of this topic come from?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (18:37)", "body": "i dunno, think wer made it up. you get the meaning of \"snail mail\" right?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (02:04)", "body": "wrong"}, {"response": 66, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (11:36)", "body": "ok, snail mail means the post, you know, almost like the pony express (except i think they were a bit quicker) as opposed to email which is as fast as those little bits and stuff can carry off the binary codes (and depending on the speed you logged in at)"}, {"response": 67, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (18:52)", "body": "huh? Don't think that ever managed to hit Namibia - too exotic."}, {"response": 68, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (21:53)", "body": "ok, the mail man, surely you have those! the regular mail that you have to put a stamp on. (maybe they had the zebra express there?)"}, {"response": 69, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:35)", "body": "oh, THAT! Yes, we had the donkey chart super duper express mail. In fact, Mum phoned yesterday to let me know that a birthday card dated with the year 1980 had arrived. And all that time I thought Grandma had forgotten my seventh birthday!"}, {"response": 70, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:39)", "body": "LOL!!!"}, {"response": 71, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (02:45)", "body": "HOL!"}, {"response": 72, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (07:26)", "body": "The Swiss postal service motto: Absolutely, positively delivered within 18 years!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (11:21)", "body": "well, i could possibly see it taking that long in Africa, especially if delivered by foot!"}, {"response": 74, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (15:14)", "body": "BARE FOOT, that is!"}, {"response": 75, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (23:11)", "body": "right!"}, {"response": 76, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (14:27)", "body": "I still prefer snail mail. Nothing like coming home to a happy, handwritten card from someone... I am less fond of the bills..."}, {"response": 77, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (17:18)", "body": "I too like snail mail, but I'm appalling at writing to people. It's just such a chore!"}, {"response": 78, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (20:36)", "body": "I like to scan a handwritten letter and send it as an attachment to my sister so my mom can get a nice, handwritten letter, even though it comes off my sisters printer."}, {"response": 79, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (00:11)", "body": "i was getting ready to say, who in the heck handwrites letters anymore? (well, ok, i do sometimes). even my family sends form letters with my name written in. i hate those things. what, one size fits all?"}, {"response": 80, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (02:28)", "body": "ha-ha!! Mum hates my handwritten letters, she says my handwriting is bad. So I don't write anymore, we just e-mail - so much easier. But she still paints me birthday cards - I love that about her. She's a really caring person, and a wonderful painter."}, {"response": 81, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (15:42)", "body": "I still hand write letters... I prefer homemade cards..."}, {"response": 82, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (01:49)", "body": "Stacey, did you see? Wer is a Leonardo fan nowadays . . ."}, {"response": 83, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (02:59)", "body": "nope...Zoe is... only got two cards in the mail for my birthday... one from my cousin, and one from Robin's biological grandmother... odd combo, no?"}, {"response": 84, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (05:22)", "body": "VERY. Sorry, but I'm laughing, and I don't know if I should. Robin's biological grandmother?! How bizarre! Today's your birthday??? HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (05:22)", "body": "Oh, and tell Zoe she has good taste in men."}, {"response": 86, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (05:44)", "body": "as you again, but it's actually wer (how's this for bizarre?) No, it was in June, but thanks!!!"}, {"response": 87, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (11:25)", "body": "It's her biological grandmother, as opposed to her adroid grandmother. Important distinction."}, {"response": 88, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (12:08)", "body": "\ufffdrotflmto\ufffd"}, {"response": 89, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "er, I meant android..."}, {"response": 90, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (15:04)", "body": "Not going to tell you what I meant . . . \ufffdBig smile\ufffd"}, {"response": 91, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jan  7, 1999 (13:20)", "body": "from The Red Penn... UPDATES The Socialist Party of Pennsylvania at its last state convention voiced its oppostion to the impeachment of President Clinton. Cheating on his wife, and even lying under oath is simply not a high crime or misdemeanor worthy of impeachment. We object to the right-wing's attempt to destroy Clinton at any cost because he is not one of them. -- We in the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania have protested in the past the U.S. military attacks on Iraq, and we will continue to do so. These are not genuine cases of self-defense. It is hypocritical of the U.S. to demand Iraq to give up its weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. is armed to the teeth. No good and much harm will come from these attacks on Iraq. -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has turned down Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial. A Pennsylvania state court has also turned down Lisa Lambert's appeal. They are both being railroaded. It is up to the federal courts now to bring justice. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 13, "subject": "pick up lines guaranteed to work", "response_count": 70, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (00:23)", "body": "Y'all look like you're too young for this crowd."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:29)", "body": "\"Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?\""}, {"response": 4, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (18:19)", "body": "Oh, baby!!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (00:02)", "body": "You \"certify\" that line worked, Mike?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (15:16)", "body": "hhe :) no - see the next topic on :)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:39)", "body": "great line Mike. It's got me all worked up. *laugh*"}, {"response": 9, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:39)", "body": "blunt or sharp, as long as it's shaped right, wer. just taking a leaf out of your book old boy ;)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (21:17)", "body": "wer wrote that one himself!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:07)", "body": "*laugh* will we include photos?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (11:26)", "body": "...hmmmm..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (01:06)", "body": "black and white o?? (i meant ok??)"}, {"response": 18, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (13:40)", "body": "yeah, we could do like Madonna and include our \"fantasies\". Half a page would take care of mine. *giggle*"}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (13:42)", "body": "(and the above would also take care of my response to the genx story topic)"}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (17:36)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (09:43)", "body": "ewww."}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (00:10)", "body": "from http://www.getgirls.com/gdbk2.htm You can attract more single women than you can handle for love, sex, and romance just by simply using the art of body language. Step by step I will guide you in the usage of successful body language using the following methods: How To Use Body Language To Attract Single Women Develop a graceful, arrogant sort of walk. A walk that is free and easy with fluid movements. This kind of walk transmits a sexual message which will turn a woman's head. When leaning against a wall or whatever, thrust your hips forward, with your legs apart. This position also transmits a sexual message. While you are standing or especially when leaning, hook your thumbs in your belt just above your pockets and point your fingers down toward the genital area. Because of the fingers pointing toward the genital area, this sends out a sexual message to a woman and you will be amazed at how many women pick up this signal. When talking to a single woman, let your eyes linger on her throat and her breasts. Also, while talking to her, wet your lips with your tongue. By using these two techniques, she usually will feel rather uneasy and excited. In conclusion, try these methods of attracting attention from single women and see if they work for you. They have worked successfully for a lot of men I know. Remember, the more techniques you use to attract a woman, the more women you're going to be picking up and that's the name of the game. . . . and there's more . . ."}, {"response": 26, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (00:38)", "body": "(wow)... what woman could fail to be excited by a guy licking his lips and leering at her breasts? (aka, the \"beavis\" technique)..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (02:07)", "body": "Ooops, forgot, I meant to put this in the pickup lines guaranteed *not* to work topic."}, {"response": 28, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (17:43)", "body": "*LOL*"}, {"response": 30, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:17)", "body": "LOL!! Has it worked? good one, nick!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:20)", "body": "LOL!! Funny how the author equates \"uneasy\" with \"excited\"! Most people associate uneasy with, say, weirdo, freakazoid, pervert, nut job....sounds like the co-dependent's guide for picking up women!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:41)", "body": "LOL!!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (14:42)", "body": "Is there a mirror in your pants? I can see myself in them."}, {"response": 34, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:48)", "body": "*LOL**** :))))) very nice :)"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:55)", "body": "you would get slapped once she figured out the line!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:07)", "body": "yeah, wrong topic terry ;)"}, {"response": 37, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:09)", "body": "don't tell me you tried that once!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (23:14)", "body": "Ooops, wrong topic again."}, {"response": 39, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "*lol*"}, {"response": 40, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (11:54)", "body": "get a grip, Walhus!!! Blimey, you're supposed to be running the joint and you can't get it right! ;))"}, {"response": 41, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (10:05)", "body": "s'ok Paul. BTW if you're 'running the joint' post anywhere you damn well please!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (02:45)", "body": "Did you know I was the solitary winner of PowerBall?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (16:36)", "body": "so that settles it. YOU buy the plane ticket to Colorado! *smile*"}, {"response": 45, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, May 29, 1998 (02:24)", "body": ""}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 30, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "lemme guess... foot stompin, right?"}, {"response": 47, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, May 30, 1998 (01:58)", "body": "No, amusing myself . . ."}, {"response": 48, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:34)", "body": "Here's a pick-up line that once worked for me: 'What's for breakfeast, honey?'"}, {"response": 49, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:49)", "body": "only worked once, huh?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (08:01)", "body": "Didn't get to try it again, but it worked so well he asked me to marry him."}, {"response": 51, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (10:07)", "body": "Hmmm... it didn't have quite the same result with me. The response was \"hash browns and eggs please.\" I think."}, {"response": 52, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (10:47)", "body": "Ha-HA! You mean you gave him a hangover with it? Not bad either. So GO FOR IT, people! And what was your best pick-up line, Stacey? Or did you just pick Mr. B. up with body language?"}, {"response": 53, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (12:24)", "body": "The night I met Mr. B, he was the only guy who DIDN'T ask for my number but gave me his. We talked of marathon running, rollerblading, cycling and hiking. Whe n I called him back (some ten days later) we set a 'date' to go hiking. I thought we were just happy friends for months, until he after he ran the last nine miles of my first marathon with me... and planted one of the most passionate (yet tenative) kisses on me! So I'm not sure who picked up who. but the first words we said to each other were, \"hi.\""}, {"response": 54, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (14:24)", "body": "Lord, that's romantic! And that name . . . Brandon. Hmm-mm. With me it was just the oppossite. Mr. C. was the first guy I just jumped into bed with mindlessly, and by very very far the oldest (and I never did it with guys less than ten years older . . . a principle thing); it was just that he had the oozing intellect, the greying temples, the unhandsome rough appearance and all that - next day he had to fly back to Switzerland, and we didn't see each other for nine months. It thought it all so insane that he seemed to like me too that I figured it just HAD to be right. But if something like that were to happen to me today, I'd give it a hell of a lot more thought! And if my girls should ever get up to crap like that, I'll beat the $hit out of them."}, {"response": 55, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (15:29)", "body": "great use of the dollar sign!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (15:59)", "body": "Think the webmasters will be fooled by it?"}, {"response": 57, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (16:08)", "body": "nope. but it was certainly ingenuity at its finest and you avoid any inappropriate 'French.'"}, {"response": 58, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (16:57)", "body": "bowing myself into lumbago-oblivion"}, {"response": 59, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (16:53)", "body": "According to the Austin American Statesman, this beats talking about the weather at picnics: Did you know that there are 25 tomatoes in each 40-ounce bottle of Heinz ketchup? (Then again, maybe it doesn't.)"}, {"response": 60, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:13)", "body": "why, did you say ketchup? there are at least 25 different ways to use ketchup. wanna see?"}, {"response": 61, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "why, yes, yes I do..."}, {"response": 62, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:38)", "body": "Then lift your arm."}, {"response": 63, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:49)", "body": "this high enough?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:59)", "body": "\ufffdsquirt\ufffd!!!! How does that feel?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:30)", "body": "good job, riette!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:38)", "body": "I think it needs some relish to go with it..."}, {"response": 67, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (02:18)", "body": "Oh, we relish it, alright, oh creature from the planet of red armpits!"}, {"response": 68, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (14:28)", "body": "do you prefer sweet or dill?"}, {"response": 69, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (17:20)", "body": "Dill - don't like sweet things so much, they remind me too much of the way I am not."}, {"response": 70, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Mar 16, 1999 (11:04)", "body": "\"I'm new to the Spring, that's, like, I'm here since a week or two, can you help me please?\""}, {"response": 71, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (00:04)", "body": "I want you!!!!"}, {"response": 72, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (11:36)", "body": "gosh Autumn... I'm flattered. *grin*"}, {"response": 73, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (14:57)", "body": "that's worked on me, but never for me, Autumn..."}, {"response": 74, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (13:00)", "body": "Haha, which one, the newbie or the less subtle one... ?"}, {"response": 75, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (14:33)", "body": "You're all turning me on!"}, {"response": 76, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (15:01)", "body": "that's because we're breathing and virtually well-endowed... (or would that be web-endowed?) ps- and knowing that you're turned on is making it hard for me to respond... well, in type anyway..."}, {"response": 77, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, May  7, 1999 (19:29)", "body": "!!"}, {"response": 78, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  8, 1999 (00:39)", "body": "come on and grab a hold of something and run with it, Alexander, 'cause you know you want to..."}, {"response": 79, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, May  8, 1999 (06:18)", "body": "OK! So I'll snatch that cheese sandwich and RUN!!!!!"}, {"response": 80, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (15:18)", "body": "Is that what you call it over there?! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 14, "subject": "pick up lines guaranteed to fail", "response_count": 41, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "Ooooh, you're getting me hot! (what can I say, I'm easy, always have been...)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "At least a week!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:30)", "body": "\"Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?\""}, {"response": 8, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (21:46)", "body": "why is it 13 inches?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:15)", "body": "oh, poor baby, just needs a little workin' out *wink*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:15)", "body": "-that is, if we're talking the same definition of flacid-flabby?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "*lol*, if that were the case, stay the hell away from me! *blush*"}, {"response": 15, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:30)", "body": "you mean, that wasn't you?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:37)", "body": "they were definately not the focus of the movie! (Now that would be sad, trying to pick up a gal with her husband right there, please tell me you never did that!)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:47)", "body": "speechless (sorry)"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:54)", "body": "yup! me, too, hate it when i'm stumped and then half an hour later a good come back pops into my mind...."}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (23:03)", "body": "*lol*"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:40)", "body": "wow. I can't be incommunicato for more than a day and all hell breaks loose!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (09:43)", "body": "LOL!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (09:55)", "body": "nice, wer, nice :)"}, {"response": 29, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (18:27)", "body": "excuse me, but your, uh, epidermis is showing."}, {"response": 31, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (17:26)", "body": "HAH!!! you remind me of my father"}, {"response": 32, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (02:41)", "body": "Wanna chat one-on-one in my virtual pad, The Fine Line Between Pain & Disfigurement?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (02:43)", "body": "Could you help me adjust my butt plug, please?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 22, 1998 (16:37)", "body": "ugh! (LOL!)"}, {"response": 35, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (16:56)", "body": "Hey, hon, want to come back to my kitchen so's I can butter your muffin?"}, {"response": 36, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:15)", "body": "pardon me, do you have any catsup?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:28)", "body": "nope, just Grey Poupon..."}, {"response": 38, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:41)", "body": "No, you'll just sigh again."}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:50)", "body": "There's a saying that every sigh is a kiss that you've missed..."}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:02)", "body": "Ooh . . . didn't know that. Well, given our position here it isn't exactly hard to miss, muffin! Can't even blow you a kiss - it'll probably end up somewhere in Holland. THE GERMANS ARE OUT OF THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HIP-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:32)", "body": "(i guess no one wants to kiss this lil wolfie, lack of sighs in my life)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:40)", "body": "aw, I think you've just temporarily misplaced them..."}, {"response": 43, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (02:20)", "body": "Sigh not, just go out there and kiss yer lover - you might end up doing alot more, and can return with a 'wow' or a groan."}, {"response": 44, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (11:23)", "body": "*grin*"}, {"response": 45, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (15:17)", "body": "Or a grin for that matter!!! Which is alot more than I can say for myself right now - haven't had it for days and days, because Mr. C. has his birthday (a very round one) tomorrow, and has been acting strangely all week. Very, very, very grumpy - has started calling me words like 'girl' and 'child' . . . that really worries me."}, {"response": 46, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "eeeek that doesn't sound great :/ *beamz*"}, {"response": 47, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (18:31)", "body": "Not at all, and if he keeps it up, I'm going to tell him to go reciprocate himself somewhere - that'll drive the images of 'child' and 'girl' out of his head! No, actually, I'll probably be sympathetic. He only acts like this once a year (normally he's grumpy with everyone but me), so I don't think it's too much to ask of me to be sympathetic once a year."}, {"response": 48, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "especially when he does it once a month, huh? (or does he?!?)"}, {"response": 49, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:30)", "body": "More like ALL THE TIME!"}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (23:51)", "body": "Excuse me, but would you help me remember how it feels to boink someone I don't know?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (23:52)", "body": "Did you know that with a little help, that dish can have \"special\" sauce?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "jgross", "date": "Fri, Oct 30, 1998 (00:25)", "body": "Can I get this door for you? [it's to the ladies room, which has room for one person, and the door's stuck, and you keep pulling, and the door comes off by the hinges---the woman on toilet looks at you like huhhhhhhhhh!---and you say: are you doing anything after you get done?]"}, {"response": 53, "author": "osceola", "date": "Fri, Oct 30, 1998 (12:43)", "body": "Don't know if this one fits the topic, but it happened to me twice. On two different occasions, women have told me I remind them of their father. One, after telling me that, didn't speak to me again for the rest of the semester. The other and I had a really good summer fling. Score: 50%"}, {"response": 54, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Nov  1, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "LOL!!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Nov  5, 1998 (01:58)", "body": "That's a good one, George! If only one could tell which women mean it as a compliment, and which ones don't, hey? But fifty fifty is good - there is still the element of surprise in play. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 15, "subject": "Care and feeding of pet peeves", "response_count": 54, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (11:27)", "body": "oh, thanks, wer! not taking the shopping cart to the appropriate location when it's right next to the spot you parked in...."}, {"response": 3, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:30)", "body": "How did I know that was gonna be Wolf's?!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (12:37)", "body": "Asking me for bread when I'm not the oven guy."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 19, 1998 (13:11)", "body": "yeah, that gets my goat too."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (04:36)", "body": "asking me a question about how I feel or why I did something, and then getting mad at me for my answer. if you don't want to know, don't ask the damned question!!!!!!!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, May 26, 1998 (06:29)", "body": "YEAH!!!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (08:01)", "body": "having to hear about my friends' or my wife's friends' vaginal discharges when I wasn't the cause..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:40)", "body": "oh, that's totally disgusting!! Do people really discuss that sort of thing?!?! Gee, what a turn-on that must be . . . Now if I were you, I'd claim to be able to read and interpret vaginal discharges in the same way as dreams or the lines on a person't hands, and make a load of money with this new 21st century future telling technique."}, {"response": 10, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:43)", "body": "I can already count the money..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "Want me to paint you a picture to hang in your Vaginal Discharge Reading Practice? I'll use lots of different colours so none of the women will feel their discharges discriminated against."}, {"response": 12, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (10:07)", "body": "something like that..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (16:57)", "body": "thanks for all the disgusting visuals guys! yuck!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:26)", "body": "What's yuck? Life is yuck! That's why I like it."}, {"response": 15, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:27)", "body": "Just for the record - I DON'T make that kind of pictures!!!!!!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (22:37)", "body": "at least, not yet..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "you guys are gross!! euuuuwwwwww"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (16:56)", "body": "you already knew that, and you came back anyway, so..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (16:59)", "body": "No, Wer, nevva, evva! Actually, hell, I can just throw up on a nice white canvas and frame it. I'll call it 'Secretions from the black lagoon'. But as yet the closest I've come is a painting of lovers trying out position spank-me-roll-me-pin-me-blow-me . . ."}, {"response": 20, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:10)", "body": "wer, don't think we've ever covered that topic before.... riette, i think that would actually sell (both of 'em)"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:13)", "body": "what's with the \"we\", Wolf? and I know they would sell..."}, {"response": 22, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:16)", "body": "OK, I'VE never covered that topic before (better?)"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "oh, but you've wanted to..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:29)", "body": "you know me too well *wink* so how in the heck have ya been?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:15)", "body": "aloof... have you gotten rehydrated yet?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:31)", "body": "yes!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:12)", "body": "Does that mean you had a camel for lunch?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:14)", "body": "*chuckle* well, sorta...."}, {"response": 29, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:28)", "body": "HMMM . . . a sorta camel must be an interesting thing. Is it sorta hairy, sorta humpy or sorta snotty as a proper one?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:58)", "body": "well, they had these things called camel packs....."}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:58)", "body": "Camel packs???? You're a smoker? ha-ha! A smoking wolf!!! That says everything about the day and age we live in!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (18:42)", "body": "well, actually, tabacky, (just kiddin', am not a spittin' wolf) no, a camel pack is a contraption (wer will like that word) that you wear like a back pack and it holds water. a drinking tube comes from the water pack and is connected to the front of the gear with velcro so you can walk and suck."}, {"response": 33, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (02:06)", "body": "Why would one want to walk and suck if you can lie down and suck? The water, that is!!!! Can't you lie on your tummy with the thing on your back, and still suck?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (02:07)", "body": "Gee, that sounded ambiguous! Some of us suck, no matter WHAT we do!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (11:38)", "body": "*giggle* i suppose you can suck anyway you want (well, except, maybe, upside down, i think gravity has something to do with it)"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (18:54)", "body": "That's what one has a HOL for! could not resist!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (14:32)", "body": "if you suck hard enough, it even works upside down!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (17:22)", "body": "Ha-ha, there speaks experience!"}, {"response": 39, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (00:12)", "body": "another pet peeve, people who think too highly of themselves."}, {"response": 40, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (00:23)", "body": "does this mean you don't love me anymore?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (00:24)", "body": "HAH! (you wish)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Feb 19, 1999 (14:17)", "body": "\"I hate it when people accidentally or intentionally hurt you and then think its no big deal and then say 'sorry' without even feeling sorry. They say 'sorry' just to dimiss the issue. The word for 'sorry' should have been something like 'asdajkdpiorhwepoicjwekmfgdfgig' - so big and hard to pronounce so that people would be more careful not to hurt you rather than have to go through the trouble of pronouncing that terribly long word.\" -Sandrace Samuel"}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Feb 23, 1999 (12:28)", "body": "amen."}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (02:35)", "body": "hey, girl!"}, {"response": 45, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (02:56)", "body": "hey!"}, {"response": 46, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar  1, 1999 (12:54)", "body": ""}, {"response": 47, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (00:05)", "body": "Flaky people drive me crazy."}, {"response": 48, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (11:37)", "body": "what if they're buttery and flaky?"}, {"response": 49, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (13:11)", "body": "(Or crunchy-flaky?)"}, {"response": 50, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (14:34)", "body": "Intolerable!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (14:57)", "body": "even with the right fruit and/or layer of cheese?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (15:16)", "body": "clotted cream??"}, {"response": 53, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (20:34)", "body": "specialty paste?"}, {"response": 54, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (21:27)", "body": "eeeeuuuuwwwww!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May  7, 1999 (01:18)", "body": "mutton? genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 16, "subject": "Formatting the GenX Storybook", "response_count": 16, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (16:28)", "body": "Interesting *rubs chin* And what shall the topic be? Like \"Reality Bites\"? Or maybe, \"Reality Bytes\"? *heehee*"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (10:33)", "body": "Virtuality Bytes....."}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (17:31)", "body": "Great idea, wer...."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (00:07)", "body": "how about \"bite me???\""}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (12:41)", "body": "oops. i posted my response in pick up lines that work. sorry."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (12:02)", "body": "LOL!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (23:53)", "body": "Once upon a time..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "(i dunno... rather partial to- \"there once was a man from nantuckett...\")..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (08:44)", "body": "who wandered around in his shellsuit and a bucket!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (16:27)", "body": "Chapter 1 can now be found at http://www.spring.net/~spew/chap1.html"}, {"response": 17, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (11:41)", "body": "Feel free to cut and paste anything from Communique 23 , but I guess you already thought of that, didn't you, WER? :-)"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (11:58)", "body": "who, me?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (20:16)", "body": "okay, to change between characters and/or to indicate time loss, use <center><hr width=\"33%\"></center> which will look like and, I've started Chapter Two, so we can continue with the first person's part of the story... remember, Chapter One is at http://www.spring.net/~spew/chap1.html once I can use the computer at work, I'll add an index page and the formatted page for Chapter Two"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (11:30)", "body": "Okay, Chapter 1 can now be found at http://www.spring.net/~spew/genxstory/chap1.html and Chapter 2 at, yep, you guessed it, http://www.spring.net/~spew/genxstory/chap2.html"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (14:15)", "body": "The indeX is up!!!!! It's at http://www.spring.net/~spew/genxstory/indeX.html it's kinda graphic intensive, let me know what you think... may have a title, also...how's Primordial Streams of Consciousness Spring.Net's GenX Storybook: An Historical Perspective"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:08)", "body": "Chapter 1 is finished, we will pick up with Tommy Calico in jail in Chapter 3... genx slacker heaven | Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 17, "subject": "Chapter 1 of the GenX Storybook", "response_count": 44, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (01:13)", "body": "\u00b6:Once upon a time"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (01:14)", "body": "it was that I found myself down at"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (12:52)", "body": "the unemployment line repeating that silly man from Nantucket limerick over and over in my head. Some days, I just can't get a grip without those first three or four cups of coffee."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (13:04)", "body": "after i got my check, hitched a lift to a local casino."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (13:21)", "body": "Damn, I've got to get out of this rut, especially since their coffee rivals"}, {"response": 6, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (22:53)", "body": "the swill they sell in college vending machines. So clutching my money, I tip my hat to the truck driver kind enough to drop me at the front door of the Cherokee Casino. I know I should be morally outraged at contributing to the corruption of our native brothers, but between the caffeine and the nicotine, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (19:11)", "body": "Now I need some chocolate!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr 25, 1998 (00:46)", "body": "In fact, I'd kill for a double mochaccino and a bag of M&M's. Actually did once, too, though I'm none to proud of that period of my life."}, {"response": 9, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (21:29)", "body": "But I digress."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (21:59)", "body": "Found a phone booth and flipped through the yellow pages. Funny how easy it is to get turned down for job interviews. Now where did I put my pen?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (01:00)", "body": "I'll bet I left it in my jacket back at"}, {"response": 12, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:30)", "body": "Sal's. Damn! Now I gotta make another trip back to that freak show they call a hair salon. Well, I'm just going to have to rip the page out that I need and let the next poor bastard worry about what happened to BOWLING - BRAKE. \u00b6"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:43)", "body": "(LOL!!)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (16:20)", "body": "\u00b6Atop the mesa, the fireflies had just begun their dance amongst the sage as the last of the orange in tonight's sunset was fading into purple with the gathering dusk."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:00)", "body": "Further down the rocky canyon, a grey wolf howled at the setting of the sun, just as his father had done, and his father before him. As the last trace of purple disappeared from the sky, another wolf returned his plaintive call. Night had fallen on the mesa."}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:06)", "body": "\u00b6Looking into the sky, it was hard to distinguish the constellations, because out here away from all the lights of the city, there were just too many stars."}, {"response": 17, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "It was as if God had just splattered the sky with a burning paintbrush and the fire had died out, leaving the embers to glow where there once had been flame. The stars were so dazzling it hurt to look at them after a while, yet one was reluctant to look away, for fear of missing some important message communicated from the heavens."}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "It appeared to be a perfect night for the scheduled meteor shower."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (01:03)", "body": "Now, if those winds won't start. The ones that whistle over this mesa, inspiring a loneliness that is only enhanced by the howls of the wolves. The ones that chill your bones so that the cold echoes around in the emptiness inside of you. God, if Yannice had only come along."}, {"response": 20, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, May 17, 1998 (23:51)", "body": "Unfortunately, Yannice had to stay home and wash her hair."}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (01:03)", "body": "Well, enough of the melodrama, got to finish getting this gear set up or I'll never"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (21:04)", "body": "get it done. Damn, but I hate government contracts."}, {"response": 23, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (22:12)", "body": "All that's left is to complete DD Form 1351-2 and DA Form 191 in triplicate, and this gig's up."}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (22:53)", "body": "Yeah, right. I wish. Unfortunately, that's all that'll be left to finish once I get back to the office on Monday and it ain't Monday. \u00b6Wonder why I can't concentrate on this run. I mean, I've done this a thousand times, awake, asleep, depressed, horny, it's never mattered before. Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe Yannice is right and I need to retire, leave this shit to the fresh meat."}, {"response": 25, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May 21, 1998 (23:49)", "body": "But then what? Sit around eating coffee cake and watching Jerry Springer all day? That's not my scene. Maybe the time has come to think about a new career field...we could open a little shop and sell things to the tourists, like winsome figurines and gourmet salsa."}, {"response": 26, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May 31, 1998 (03:27)", "body": "Yeah right. Clumsy me in a gift shop."}, {"response": 27, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jun  1, 1998 (22:43)", "body": "Still, it's worth mentioning to Yannice. Think I'll call her up right now on my new cell phone. It's ringing...."}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (03:02)", "body": "Yannice picks up. Why aren't you home yet?!?! Here I slave away in the kitchen all day, cooking your supper, cleaning behind your fat arse, and what do I get? WHAT do I get for it?! Nothing - no thanks, no 'sorry I'm late honey', no nothing! You're over at Sal's bumping pelvises with that little slut again, aren't you. AREN'T you, you freak pervert?!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (15:55)", "body": "\u00b6Calico."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:31)", "body": "Stoopid Bitch! Makes retirement seem like a fate worse than execution in Calcutta. Ah well, better be making my way to . . ."}, {"response": 31, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:51)", "body": "Calico ..."}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (08:07)", "body": "I must have some kind of mild concussion, what with the bitch's constant tantrums and all. This weird word keep popping up in my head . . . CALICO?! Must be a place . . . I ought to know, but I don't. Wonder if I should go there now. But what will I do once I get there? Am I a secret agent? Then why isn't my name Bond? Then again, what if it's the name of a sandwich spread. Shit, I need to sit down or I'm gonna pass out. Perhaps it'll all come back to me . . . ah, that's better. Now:"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (21:21)", "body": "WHERE THE HELL IS THE MESA?! AND, WHY IS IT DAYLIGHT?!?!?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (06:55)", "body": "Should it be night? And what in the hell is the mesa? Damn this concussion."}, {"response": 35, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (22:49)", "body": "Am I suffering from amnesia? And if I were, would I even know what amnesia is? Or would I just not be able to account for the last few days? Maybe I should just call 911. Thankfully THEY'LL know where the hell I am, even if I don't. This cell phone is really paying for itself!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (00:27)", "body": "That's odd. It was here a minute ago, or was that days ago?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (02:32)", "body": "Oh damn, THAT's what's been giving me this feeling of having something stuck up my arse."}, {"response": 38, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jun  7, 1998 (22:20)", "body": "Calico...calico...what could it mean?? Is it my cat?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (07:35)", "body": "Yes, yes, it must be Tommy. Tommy?! Shit. It could be a town - sounds like it could be in Texas. I'll go have a look on the map."}, {"response": 40, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (20:06)", "body": "Wait a minute. MY name's Tommy! Tommy Calico! Eureka, I've recovered my memory!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (02:19)", "body": "Thank God for that!! And that's my car standing right there. Great! Let me just find my keys, and I'll be off to head quarters to pick up that plane ticket to Paris. Just hope I won't be too late. Oh, fu\ufffdk! The keys are still in the ignition, the doors still locked!! What'll I do??"}, {"response": 42, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (13:39)", "body": "Good thing I renewed my AAA membership last month. I'll just call them from my handy-dandy cell phone, and then I'll bid this Godforsaken mesa adieu."}, {"response": 43, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 12, 1998 (15:15)", "body": "'Hello, Hello? Yes, this is Tommy Calico speaking - is this the AAA? . . . It is? Good! Do you think you could . . . or wait, it's okay, I've just spotted a policeman; he'll be able to help me, I'm sure. Yeah. Bye.' Looks like my luck's changing. Finally. 'Officer! Yes, you there. I was wondering if you could help me - see, I've locked my keys in my car.' Wonder what he's staring at - my face dirty or something? 'May I see your driver's licence, Sir?' 'Sure, but it's in the car . . . ' 'Passport, identity card?' 'Sure.' What does he want with it? 'Here you go.' 'Hmm. Tommy Calico, hey? Some nerve you've got walking around in open daylight, and asking for assistence from a police officer. Thought you wouldn't be recognized with that beard, did you?' 'What in the hell . .. ' 'Tommy Calico, you are under arrest. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law.' 'WHAT?? What have I done?!'6"}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:02)", "body": "End of Chapter 1 genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 18, "subject": "How many licks does it take", "response_count": 30, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, May 29, 1998 (02:25)", "body": "??????"}, {"response": 2, "author": "CotC", "date": "Mon, Jun  1, 1998 (16:35)", "body": "23 I don't. Anything but eat a Reese's. Not like I used to. Put on my Space Ghost costume and interviewed celebrity has-beens."}, {"response": 3, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (08:31)", "body": "Any other names you go by, Space Ghost Journalist?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (11:33)", "body": "He's got a ton of 'em..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (14:02)", "body": "Stacey says you know him - should I be afraid of him? Or isn't he as scary as you?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (14:21)", "body": "Thomas can appear more normal at times, and more people view him as harmless so he actually is more socially acceptable than I"}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (17:33)", "body": "Oh, how very dissapointing. Still, there's time . . ."}, {"response": 8, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (10:09)", "body": "He said I can appear more normal at times . Also, I seem to be better at keeping a low profile than our dear, sweet WER (being physically somewhat lower of a person probably doesn't hurt)."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (00:19)", "body": "yeah, and people will actually do stuff with him out in public and everything..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:36)", "body": "aw, da poor poor wer...is ya feelin' a might sorry fer yerself? aw, c'mere, lemme take care of dat right now *smack* You back to yourself yet? to answer the topic, i dunno....not into licking, can't stand the suspense so i just bite!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:14)", "body": "closer than I've been in awhile...thanks, I think, especially if I can get those punctures to heal..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:00)", "body": "I like licking after having bitten . . ."}, {"response": 13, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:33)", "body": "nothin' like lickin' a wound you inflicted on someone else *grin*"}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:16)", "body": "Especially if that person asks for it . . . (here I should add a smile to avoid causing offence, so \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmile!)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (19:02)", "body": "don't think you offended anyone, Riette!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:29)", "body": "How reassuring. Here, let me lick you in a gesture of friendship."}, {"response": 17, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:58)", "body": "hey, watch it now...."}, {"response": 18, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (06:00)", "body": "ha-ha!, You silly woman, I wouldn't lick you there if my life depended on it!!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (18:44)", "body": "*blush*"}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (02:08)", "body": "You're getting me worried!!!!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (11:39)", "body": "nothing to worry about here, well, except for that twitch i seem to have developed...."}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (18:56)", "body": "you too?"}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (21:55)", "body": "haha!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:38)", "body": "So how many licks does it take, Wolf? I mean of all people you should know . . ."}, {"response": 25, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:44)", "body": "like i said before, can't stand the suspense so i usually bite, then lick my lips!"}, {"response": 26, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (02:48)", "body": "oh, yes, I forgot!!! Vamp girl! uh-oh, little girlies are peering over my shoulder, and in case they're little geniusses , and not telling me about it, I really don't want them to see all this . . . So sweet dreams - if you're planning on going to bed at any point."}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (02:52)", "body": "g'night"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "I can assume then, that you did get some sleep at some point. The days are awfully long when one can't sleep, aren't they?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (13:30)", "body": "something like that..."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (13:56)", "body": "You're so vague today! All these somethings and maybes. Ah well. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 19, "subject": "Chapter 2 of the GenX Storybook", "response_count": 34, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun  4, 1998 (21:25)", "body": "You see, it all started seventeen days ago."}, {"response": 2, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (06:59)", "body": "I was sitting in front of the TV, drinking my Bud, smoking a cigar, watching the Six Million Dollar Man, and copying his moves, thinking what a good kitchen appliance he would make. . . . relaxing, one might call it. And as I was sitting there - relaxing - with the TV going ta-ta-ta-ta-ta and beep-beep-beep, the phone suddenly rang. It was"}, {"response": 3, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jun  5, 1998 (22:56)", "body": "a wrong number. A girl calling for someone named Stephanie. But she had a real nice voice, so I decided, what the hell? I'm going to have some fun with her. So I tell her Stephanie's not home and ask who's calling, and her voice purrs, \"This is Rhiannon.\" And I said, \"No shit, like the witch in the Stevie Nicks song?\" and she gives this low laugh and says, \"You got it, music man.\" We spend the next 45 minutes"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (00:29)", "body": "babbling like two incoherent school girls at a Spice Girls concert."}, {"response": 5, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (02:35)", "body": "Just as I was about to say goodbye, she asked me to come over to her place, so we could talk some more. I said, 'sure', and she gave me her address. I wiped the drool from my mouth and went through to the kitchen where the missus was pottering about. I'd have to get past her first. So I said,"}, {"response": 6, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (06:39)", "body": "\"Eronga smoka smoke.\" She gave me 3 leaflets, then pointed me toward the open window. One swift kick later and I was flyin' with the squirrels. I would like to tell you about these treetops on my way down. Uncle Hugh was almost done putting Christmas ornaments on them for the 4th of July. I landed in this great big scarecrow patch of musty mustaches. A little bounce and there it was, yes indeedy, the spring was back in my walk. Let's see here, Rhiannon, now uh, she's up thisaway on Slop Tremolo Avenue. As I recall, Vulnie Poomp used to live on this street until he turned into Carl Gustav Jung. Well looky there, #12108, just as goofy as any other house on the block. Wonder if she's still on the phone talkin' to me. \"Hey, Rhiannon, call me back and come down here. Someone's at your front door. Me.\" Arf arf went the dog. That's just what happened. I was emotionally devastated by how gently, how illiterately, how teasingly the door opened."}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (07:03)", "body": "I gulped. She came out - a mountain of a gal with hair colour straight from the bottle, thighs like rolling waves, nipples you could dial a phone with. Yeah, I thought, this is no ordinary woman - this is a TEN. The kind of woman that would keep me warm in winter, and provide shade in summer. A woman who had the potential to revive my ravaged, ragged soul. So I said, 'Didn't Vulnie Poomp use to live in this street?'"}, {"response": 8, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (07:42)", "body": "Before she had a chance to answer, I stuck a phone on each breast. Then she really answered. Twice. Then she called me back. So I got on her back. Then she wanted me to massage her head. So I got down and gave her head. I pulled back, saying, \"Rhiannon, I'm exhausted. Can we....\" Her right hand spiritedly embraced the back of my head and pressed it toward her in the middle of \"we\". I continued on. A most nourishing rhythm started up from that corner of the universe. It seemed to evolve not unhesitantly but still somehow eloquently into a goofy grin hyper-real damn fool GREAT idea. Can I tell ya, at times I was just a blur."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun  6, 1998 (10:07)", "body": "At others, the entire universe was. Never, and I mean this like a can of peas, never have I enjoyed being vocal with the locals."}, {"response": 10, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jun  7, 1998 (22:25)", "body": "Now I know what Vulnie--I mean Carl--meant by collective unconscious."}, {"response": 11, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (07:37)", "body": "And, boy, did I collect! When we were done, she whispered:"}, {"response": 12, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (12:44)", "body": "\"Let's move product.\" I looked up and there she was, Fleener Talkington, wearing only a cashmere sweater, leather capri pants, and a two-week-old loaf of bread on her head. She was what you would call a grown woman. Futuristic men in close proximity to her would collapse to the floor like turnip-shaped puppets and participate in costume changes with unpestered but temperamental giraffes. She had worldwide sales totalling $174 million last year, yet this year she's only been able to pull in 63 cents. She had that look on her face like she needed my advice and motioned for me to follow her into a stone room that had been built into a heavy, windowless enclosure used to precisely float living rooms into dining rooms without disturbing in the least anyone's impure experience of pure fright. Rhiannon watched woozily from atop the kettledrum. A shoe-fetishist was swinging from the ceiling, an ex-chauffeur of C.G. Jung who knew how crude and jerky was Freud's left foot movements. Not hesitating a moment longer, I told Fleener, \"Take me to Nancy, France and I'll show you 3 yodelers who can get your head right for the next 32 years.\""}, {"response": 13, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (14:33)", "body": "'Really?' Fleener asked. 'What are their names?' And Rhiannon giggled that gutteral tapdance-giggle of hers. I had to smile. So I answered: 'They're called Liebe, Hass and Akzeptiere - they are brothers, their surname is Nichts. They are originally from Switzerland, of course - like any yodler has to be if he wants to be taken seriously.' 'You're shittin' me, aren't you?' 'Absolutely,' I smiled. Then"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (16:55)", "body": "the anticipated soap delivery arrived."}, {"response": 15, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (17:09)", "body": "It did, and so did the police. I was arrested on the spot for soap smuggling, using telephones as instruments of indecent conduct, and for slander - after all I did accuse that trio of yodlers of being Swiss."}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (17:30)", "body": "The French can be so touchy about those things!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jun  9, 1998 (17:46)", "body": "I mean, they're probably still pi$$ed off about Euro Disney."}, {"response": 18, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (20:10)", "body": "They were hoping for an amusement park with a mime theme, but the big mouse said no deal. Now they're all striking and rioting and drinking champagne from Champagne."}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (02:22)", "body": "ha-ha! But it's true - Euro Disney stinks!!!! I hate Disney land and Disney product anyway, because I hate capitalism, but Euro Disney is bloody badly organised on top of everything! It's the pits!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:53)", "body": "Anyway, and besides the point (well, actually, betwixt and between the point but that is usually so difficult to explain), Lady Macbeth stood, removed a piece of parchement from her bosom and addressed the officers present. \"They met me in the day of success; and I have learn'd by the perfect'st report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burn'd in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanish'd. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the King, who all-hail'd me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, King that shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promis'd thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.\" \u00b6Having finished reading, she turned and addressed me, \"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis'd. Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst hightly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou 'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;' and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal.\""}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (00:43)", "body": "I wish I could get it through to her that I absolutely hate it when she does that."}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (01:46)", "body": "Hell, why shouldn't I? \"STOP that, bitch!\""}, {"response": 23, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (13:58)", "body": "That's when things got really crazy and out of hand."}, {"response": 24, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:08)", "body": "Well, next thing you know, Donna and Markie come tearin' out of the bayou, wailing about 'gators and snakes."}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (02:47)", "body": "And that that is definitely not what it takes to love them."}, {"response": 26, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (23:52)", "body": "The situation is really beginning to get desperate now. Think, dammit, think!! Then it comes to me."}, {"response": 27, "author": "jgross", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (22:09)", "body": "I just decided to go ahead and ask her before Markie could, \"Lady Macbeth, are your bosoms okay? Do they have any more parchments down in there among them? Any that deal with snakes or gators or bayous or Donna? Could you read the one on Donna? I wonder if she got good press coverage in 1587 Louisiana among the Creole newspaper columnists. I wonder if she could save me from becoming a teenage space alien wacked on too much snotty scrog. So, like, what's yer parchment got on her?\""}, {"response": 28, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (22:42)", "body": "Lady Macbeth shot me a dirty look and said, \"Whither speakest thou of yon parchment?\""}, {"response": 29, "author": "jgross", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (17:56)", "body": "\"Lady McBreast, please excuse my humble incapacities and physical inadequacies and inexperience, but don't you have anymore parchments down in there among your enlarged mammary glands, similar to the one you read from only this year not much too long ago, my dear dear senora? Here, would you like this, it's an extra janitor workshirt I had lyin' around.....yeah, it's yours now....I think it'll just barely fit you, and Melvin was a really big guy before he died.\""}, {"response": 30, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:53)", "body": "\"We can just rip Melvin's name patch off it, and sew this 'Macbeth' one on in its place...there, perfect! Go on, try it on! It even has a pocket.\""}, {"response": 31, "author": "jgross", "date": "Sat, Sep 12, 1998 (11:54)", "body": "\"Ah, as well formed in every member and joynt, and as perfyte in every poynt. Now what maner of passetyme wyll ye devyse whyle that we folke dothe tary this wyse?\" saith Lady M. \"Lady Macbreath, um, well, we were gonna meet Fleener---but now I cain't find her or Donna or Markie or even where the bayou went to,\" I said with my voice. \"Goddis mercy, this is she, that I have sought so, have you sought me?\" \"No, I wasn't looking for you, Lady M., I was trying to find Rhiannon. Wazzup, there, knucklehead?\" so said Fleener as she dismounted offa one of Mark McGwire's foul balls just before it hit at our feet. \"Nuthin' up. Where's Rhiannon?\" I said, as if to remind her of something---I forget what, now. \"Why, know ye it not? Like a wounde she fewsters well in Scotland, is it not a quaynt thinge, there happonde to her a straunge Scotsman. Markie Donna doodle gator, good happe is not hastie the later, so loe, now is it even snakes that come without a Bayou vibrator, content thee, knucklehead, for ther ys no remedy yf yow be plesyd, than I must consent gladly.\" \"Fleener, is this for real?\" I wondered over to her aloud, for Fleener had lived with Lady M. through much of the 13th century, a time that went soft and slow and very much in the know, and a time when Lady M. took up the hobby of photography and snapped Fleener before Fleener snapped back. \"She's sleepwalking again, isn't it easy to tell?\" said Fleener in a creepy whisper, punctuated by a scruffy smile (as she thought how waggish and droll the notion of Rhiannon holed up in Scotland right now, when she's supposed to be.....) \"There you are, Rhiannon, and not alone, I see. Hey, Markie, Donna!\""}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:21)", "body": ""}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:37)", "body": "(please explain...)"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:18)", "body": "A logo break. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 2, "subject": "genXer intros", "response_count": 20, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:30)", "body": "In honor of Gena's return yesterday and in memorium for the spirit (still alive and in the flesh somewhere) of Melissa Marie Petrek: Item 1 26-MAY-94 17:54 Paul (terry) Introductions Introductions 126 responses selected of 126 total 1:1) Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) 26-MAY-94 18:16 hello! i'm your self-confessed baby-buster conference host, melissa marie. being that i'm editor (dictator)-in-chief of a literary magazine that caters to the gen-x crowd, i thought we youngsters should have out own digs on the spring. feel free to add topics galore! - - - - - 1:2) Melina C. Larson (melina) 27-MAY-94 14:03 Now, in the original conception, genx meant people born in the 1960's. But I was born 1/11/70, and I feel I'm qualified. What's your magazine? - - - - - 1:3) Holly Iles (holly) 28-MAY-94 16:04 It's io isn't it? is that something to do with the illuminati? has anyone been to illuminati on-line? does anyone here play illuminati? - - - - - 1:4) Melina C. Larson (melina) 31-MAY-94 11:08 Holly! Stop it! I _do_ play Illuminati. (!) - - - - - 1:5) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 12:33 oh god, stop it? me? I'm not doing anything! You're the one who's doing it. It's not my fault you're a copycat! nyah nyah... heh heh... you don't *really* play illuminati do you? Alex and I rarely get a chance to play because we don't know anyone down here who plays. - - - - - 1:6) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 12:34 Melina, will you marry me? hee hee hee... We're perfect for each other. Of course, there is that thing about sharing...we would always be fighting over who's turn it is to play with all the toys! - - - - - 1:7) Melina C. Larson (melina) 31-MAY-94 15:10 Well, we'd just have to share and share alike. Play nicely together... Yeah, me and Ethan have a copy of the game and play it frequently with our pals. The fun part is the way the conspiracies are so frequently plausible. Oh, and making up your own groups. - - - - - 1:8) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 15:26 Confession: I've only played once but I want to play some more more more! - - - - - 1:9) Stephanie Brail (spice) 22-JUL-94 18:31 Hi, I've played Illuminati once but I mean to play it more.... Anyway, I hate introducing myself...sufficed to say that I'm a 20-something and I fit several (not all) demographic patterns for people in my age group. I live in LA (by accident) and I work at home as a writer. (Or, I play at home and attempt to get paid for it.) That's all for now.... - - - - - 1:10) melissa marie (suprnaut) 27-JUL-94 18:20 welcome to the Spring, stephanie! scout around the genx conference and post away to your heart's content! - - - - - 1:11) sez me (kate) 03-AUG-94 17:53 I am _not_ a genx, that's a nice new word, I come to you from the tail end of the boom. I am a SPY. - - - - - 1:12) RoboHO (holly) 04-AUG-94 20:51 spy shmy you are DYING to KNOW what we are saying! i think that as an open loving community we can welcome a few boomers openly. We've put up with terry haven't we (just a playful jab)? he's an admitted boomer himself. - - - - - 1:13) onward (terry) 04-AUG-94 22:28 I cop. - - - - - 1:14) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 05-AUG-94 1:20 ... and not merely a boomer, but a policeman. - - - - - 1:15) I haven't decided (melina) 05-AUG-94 8:03 Bah-doom-pah. - - - - - 1:16) RoboHO (holly) 05-AUG-94 12:10 no, someone else is the policeman. oh, ha ha, I get it. bleh. - - - - - 1:17) I haven't decided (melina) 05-AUG-94 12:13 yeah, it was pretty wretched. - - - - - 1:18) sez me (kate) 05-AUG-94 17:43 spy shmy you are DYING to KNOW what we are saying! Naah, I just think y'all are so, you know, _adorable_. Cute! [smirk] - - - - - 1:19) RoboHO (holly) 05-AUG-94 23:31 *raspberry* cute, I hate cute. bunnies are cute. babies are cute. girls you name muffin are cute. cute gives me the heebies. *raspberry* - - - - - 1:20) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 05-AUG-94 23:54 i'm a tail end boomer too. wanna make something of it? - - - - - 1:21) I haven't decided (melina) 06-AUG-94 8:59 We should arrange some kind of battle. Tug of War maybe? boomers vs. xers. Let's settle this question once and for all! - - - - - 1:22) RoboHO (holly) 06-AUG-94 13:25 Nah, we don't wanna disrespect our elders by making them wallow weakly in the mud. muhaha :-P :-b, - - - - - 1:23) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 06-AUG-94 18:34 Wait a minute! I used to love mud wrestling. Don't knock it till you've tried it. - - - - - 1:24) RoboHO (holly) 07-AUG-94 0:30 Who said I hadn't tried it? - - - - - 1:25) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 07-AUG-94 20:13 Alriiight! I'm glad you have. You've gone up a notch in my already high appreciation for ya, holly. - - - - - 1:26) RoboHO (holly) 08-AUG-94 19:39 You should know well enough by now that I like messy. Anything messy is good, as long as it's not sticky. I hate sticky. - - - - - 1:27) RoboHO (holly) 08-AUG-94 19:39 Although, slimey is good as long as it doesn't go sticky. - - - - - 1:28) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 08-AUG-94 21:40 Hmmm! Whatever could you mean? - - - - - 1:29) RoboHO (holly)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (11:16)", "body": "Bay City, Michigan..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (15:05)", "body": "1965. Earliest memory is lying down for a nap in my parents' room and watching a new show called \"Sesame Street\" on their little black-and-white TV."}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (15:10)", "body": "Funny wer, never fancied you for a country boy! And Dr. U--home of that 70's icon, the Bay City Rollers? (Saturday night, Saturday night...)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (18:55)", "body": "yanking my then baby brother up over the bars of his crib on a Saturday morning, carrying him to the living room and sitting him down with a box of Cheerios while we scrambled into my Barbie sleeping bag to watch cartoons..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (03:14)", "body": "I always found hillbillies irresistible! Stacey, was it Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote? They were our favorites, along with Mr. Peabody & Sherman."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (18:24)", "body": "Bullwinkle!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Mar  6, 1998 (17:37)", "body": "Never liked Rocky & Bullwinkle. How about Penelope Pitstop and the Mountie? Ooh, I've got it, the droolworthy Speed Racer?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (03:45)", "body": "bullwinkle absolutely rules... (oh, and tennessee tuxedo-chiefly, of course, because of the unrelentingly cool \"man with all the answers\", phineas j. whoopy; underdog; fractured fairytales; mr. peabody; tutor the turtle (\"be what you is/ not what you is not/ them that does this/ is the happiest lot\"); and the inspiring, incomparable commander mcbragg (a great irishman, needless to say))... (but bullwinkle definitely rules)... watched speed racer, of course... but the racer x thing was so depressing (had similar problems with gilligan's island)... first (solid) memory is of the beatles, doing \"all my loving\" (\"close your eyes and i'll kiss you/ tomorrow i'll miss you/ remember i'll always be true...\") on the sullivan show... and the next day, of all my 3 and 4 year old friends and i pretending to be the beatles... had a hell of an argument settling on how to replicate the hair... finally settled on wearing dish towels on our heads (and looked tres chic, i must say)..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (19:04)", "body": "LOL!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (19:35)", "body": "Do you remember which Beatle you did the dish towel impersonation of? I realize this is digging back."}, {"response": 16, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (23:25)", "body": "most of my friends wanted to be ringo... because of the name, i guess, and because he played the drums... i pretended to be paul (of course)... mainly because it seemed like he was the main singer (and john simply seemed too fat... four year old logic, what can i say?)..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (01:35)", "body": "Sounds like you were already showing signs of greatness."}, {"response": 18, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:39)", "body": "it's the commander mcbragg gene... deep in the race, i suppose..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (21:55)", "body": "1968, first memory was seeing the golden gate bridge through the windshied of my parents car....."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:30)", "body": "hey Wolf! glad to see you back!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:44)", "body": "thanks! *smile* fixin' to leave again though *frown*"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "never a bad thing to hang out in the real world!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:05)", "body": "My earliest memory is from 1977. I was three, and walking with my granddad through one of the cattle camps, where I saw a bull licking the backside of a cow - it was that time of the year, I now realize. Anyway, so I asked Granddad what he was doing. And he answered: 'Oh, he's just drinking his morning coffee.' I found that a very impressive answer, as anyone else would have said, 'Nothing - now SHUT your eyes!'."}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:12)", "body": "Oh, and another great answer of his I remember, concerned the fat wife of the neigbouring farmer. I was six. We (him, Sonja and me) had been for a quick visit on the way to town where we were going to buy some supplies. After they had said goodbye to us at the gate, and were walking away, Sonja asked: 'Why is the lady so fat?' And he answered: 'Because she eats with both ends.' Which I didn't believe, and this I told him. Then he pointed at her wobbling rear as they were walking along the path to the house, and said, 'Look, she's chewing on a toffee right now!' Never doubted his fantastic answers again. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 20, "subject": "Chapter 3 of the GenX Storybook", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:12)", "body": "Where's my lawyer?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:18)", "body": "'Boy, are you confused, my friend. Here I am; here, take off the sunglasses, maybe you'll see me better. See? It's me, Bill. Now, the only reason you ever come to see me, Calico, is because your old lady wants a divorce and wants to sue you - which you deserve - or because you want to borrow my car. So which is it, pal? Because you can forget about the car.'"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:23)", "body": "\"See you? You came to get me outta here! I'm in jail!!!\""}, {"response": 4, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (02:34)", "body": "'Well now, that's a different matter altogether, isn't it? Why didn't you say so; I thought these bars were to keep animals out. But if that's your predicament, then of course I shall get you out. Now where did I leave that chain saw . . . Officer! Eh yes, I'm trying to get my friend out - could you please fetch my chain saw from the boot of my car? It is parked just outside the building - here are my keys.'"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (13:01)", "body": "\"Hehe, just kidding! I crack myself up sometimes! Sorry, Officer. Now,Tommy, tell me how you got here.\""}, {"response": 6, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (07:22)", "body": "\"I was in bed with Snow White, or I mean the employee who's Snow White at Euro Disney. Her lips, Bill, were blistering cold and she wore jet black hair in her armpits. I kept telling her that her throat gave off a nagging sense of macho posturing. She told me that was because the Peruvian village she grew up in would give off puffs of smoke from the 17th century. I accepted that just like I accepted the long stare I was quietly receiving from her belly button. A pigeon landed on my left thigh when she gave me a hit off the laughing gas. There was this serum drooling off the pigeon's beak onto my little dangling participle. It started to ache like a black-eyed pee. And I don't mean to downplay, by saying all this, the full extent of the lean and tilt and plumly fetching pleading sweep of her breasts. They would reduce me to the baby I truly am, and my lips imported in from my first year of life this incredible nursing suckling action I couldn't really let go of, and didn't want to. Then I couldn't stop laughing. She turned to get a fingerful of peanut butter from the jar, and her butt cheeks started laughing. The pigeon laughed, Bill, even the goddam pigeon. At that point I would say I was getting down there into imbecile territory, I was REALLY confused. That's when I thought I heard her asking me stuff. Stuff like, 'Tommy, are you willing to pay for this?' 'Do you have something for me to remember you by, say like $100?' There were a few more, and to every one I couldn't stop laughing and saying what I thought she wanted to hear. That's when she pulled out the tape recorder, and about a half dozen whinnying no-necks burst outta the closet door. They cuffed me, read me my rights, and read the whole third act from King Lear, and then combed all my nose hairs in the same direction, and brought me here. All I ask of you, Bill, is that you don't look so down on me because of all this that you refuse to give me those long piggy-back rides in the backyard in the mornings and take me to the candy store in the afternoons. Bill, are you.....? Bill!! Wake up!!\" \""}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:48)", "body": "\"Huh?? Did you say something, pal? I'm sorry, I was just staring at a girl - see her? That one over there. This is going to sound ridiculous, but . . . but doesn't she somehow remind you of . . . well, Snow White - but with black hair under the armpits? How very odd. Oh no, look the hair is only under one armpit - isn't that a sign for the South African Women Freemason Corps?'"}, {"response": 8, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (10:09)", "body": "\"I thought it was the all-seeing pyramid tattooed above there, well, you know... What? Are we going to get me outta here or not?\""}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (13:24)", "body": "\"Depends . . . \""}, {"response": 10, "author": "jgross5", "date": "Mon, Jun 22, 1998 (10:19)", "body": "\"Listen Bill, could you ask the jailer to come over here. Tell him there's something wrong with my eye. Tell him my left eye is bleeding.\" \"Okay.\" The way Bill walks, his shoes touch the floor in the same way your tongue might lick the top of a wet mushroom in the woods. He lets how young he is be his outfit. Murderous impulses of the unconscious were removed from him when as a child he was punished by being sent to bed. He scopes out every tense scene for wine, women and desire, even when they're not there.....he still finds them.....quite easily. So as he was walking to the jailer, he'd pop his mouth with his fingers to perfect counterpoint to the other rhythms going on in his head. On his way back, with jailer in tow, he'd scrunch up into a ball to avoid being price-marked, then suddenly jum up into some amazing tangle-legged leaps, only to fall to the floor on his chest like a young innocent at play. His body was so charged with white heat, he could reveal truths about many sorts of love. He is as we see him, a wild-haired cleansing spirit whose heartbeat prowls the twisty corridors of the psyche and drops like snow on our pulse and sway and lilt and swing. And there they are, the two of them, standing at the holding cell where Tommy now faced the jailer. \"Your eye is bleeding? What the.....?!!\" exclaims the jailer \"What? What do you see?\" asks Tommy. \"Why, your eyes, they're both bright green and they're both spinning!\" \"Yes....and your name....?\" \"My name is Jean-Claude.\" \"Good, Jean-Claude. My name is Tommy Calico. Do you like Nancy in autumn?\" \"I like Nancy in autumn.\" \"Good, Jean-Claude. My name is Tommy Calico. You will remove that name from all your paper files and all your computer files, and you will release me. Do you like Nancy in autumn?\" \"I like Nancy in autumn. Right this way, Tommy.\" \"Good, Jean-Claude. Do you like Nancy in autumn?\" \"I like Nancy in autumn. Tommy Calico is removed from all our records now. You are free to go. And I'm sorry for the inconvenience.\" \"Good, Jean-Claude. Do you like Nancy in autumn?\" \"I like Nancy in autumn. Bye now, Tommy.\" \"What did you need me for?\" asked Bill when they got outside. Tommy said, \"Do you like Nancy in autumn, Bill?\" Bill said, \"I don't like Nancy and she doesn't like me, any time of the year.\" \"Well that's not very nice.\" \"I like Nice, but not Nancy. Want to go to Nice? Really, I just want to go home.\" \"Yeah, I think I'll stay away from Nancy for quite a while, and Euro Disney. But I really like autumn, Bill.\" \"Well so do I. A lot better'n I like summer.\" \"Yeah, I like autumn more and more all the time.\""}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 23, 1998 (00:37)", "body": "\"Especially in the spring...\""}, {"response": 12, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (13:57)", "body": "\"I know! The flowers bloom, the grass is green, and"}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:12)", "body": "the air smells like the earth.\" \"Hell, you're quite a poet, Bill, I didn't know you had it in you,\" needled Tommy. \"Listen, are we going to Nice or what?\" asked Bill impatiently."}, {"response": 14, "author": "jgross", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (23:21)", "body": "\"But the thing is, and I just remembered this, Nice is so girl-fueled. Next week more than a thousand of them will be released from prison. And the other thing is, I know most of them. But there's still one more other thing is, they used to tell me, \"Tommy, you're so wrong, you're right.\" But now I hear the word is, they say this about me, \"We cain't wait to have a laugh with you with our five knuckle chuckles and beaned up polkas and long hind legs and deathfall grinch probes!\" \"Sounds like you're one big inside joke with that prison population,\" Bill chips in.\" \"Learn, forget, re-learn, slap a ham. Ho-boy. I got it, waddaya say we catch the next flight out to Baltimore?\" \"Baltimore! Now yer talkin', Tommy. Let's get after it. Never had anything but surefire great times there. It's just like My Lai.\" \"I know. What about your tender testicle?\" \"Joanie 4 and Jackie 4 ever fixed it. C'mon let's go. We should hurry: the airport closes in 50 years.\""}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "Tommy and Bill headed up I-95 and finally arrived at BWI. When they approached the AirFrance counter, a bored ticket clerk wearing a blue polyester vest asked, \"Ou allez-vous?\" Bill chipped in, \"A Nice. 2 billets, s'il vous plait.\" Tommy and Bill paid for the tickets, put on their berets, and prepared to board."}, {"response": 16, "author": "jgross", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (00:15)", "body": "Once on the jet, a voice came over the PA system, \"This is your captain. My name is Hook, what's yours? Our route will not take us near Halifax, so I am presently opening the release valves for the fuel. Of course I'm very sorry to have to do this, to come between you and your destination and to save your dismal expendable lives, but I might lose my job if I don't do it. You may disembark from the plane at your own convenience within, say, the next fraction of a second. Thank you for flying AirFrance nowhere. Please, if you will, enjoy Baltimore for the rest of your lives or longer. You may tell me your names as you deboard. I'm the guy at the door without the right hand. I used to be a Boy Scout and attempted to write a poem to get a merit badge. I enjoy watching Don Knotts try on voodoo glow skulls.....and what, pray tell, are your hobbies? Well, jot them on a piece of paper, why don't you, and toss them into my hat on your way out, alright?\""}, {"response": 17, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:57)", "body": "(Don Knotts? voodoo glow skulls? Where do you think this stuff up, Jim??) Tommy and Bill got busy with their pencils before they disembarked the airliner. \"What did you write down?\" queried Bill. \"Why, spelunking,\" replied Tommy. \"And you?\" Bill gave Tommy a knowing look. \"Body choir, of course!\" he responded."}, {"response": 18, "author": "jgross", "date": "Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (14:13)", "body": "(Autumn, I don't think anymore. It got too hard to do. I read Edith Wharton novels, and in \"The Age of Arrogance\" there was that scene in Paris where Ellen and Newland were unaware of each other being in a crowd that was watching Don Knotts try on some choirbodied and spelunked voodoo glow skulls---so I just transplanted that very symbolic and key scene onto AirFrance, where it didn't fly) genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 21, "subject": "That constructive criticism thang", "response_count": 33, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "or you may address your praise to Stacey (for any number of tangental items) and your 'critique' (obvious 'criticism euphemism') to Paul and WER! *smile* just kidding. I can take it!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (17:57)", "body": "kinda sums it up doesn't it, guys and gals?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:28)", "body": "Yes, it does. Gals do good things, and guys do . . . well, guy-things."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (22:38)", "body": "thus the apple thing..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (09:56)", "body": "anyway, what do ya'll who come in thru the web think of the new look?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:02)", "body": "It defies thinking! If you could see how swollen my hands are from all the applauding, you'd grow and ego bigger than that of Bill Clinton!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:15)", "body": "that wouldn't be the first thing that I would want bigger than Bill's... (btw, I do appreciate the compliments, Riette)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:02)", "body": "And here's another: I'm sure yours are all bugger than Bills anyway."}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:03)", "body": "ha-ha!!!! I blame the way that came out on my broken arm!! Correction: And here's another: I'm sure yours are all bigger than Bill's anyway."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (11:19)", "body": "LOL! i like the look, well, except for some of the html code that keeps showing up"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (13:18)", "body": "on the main conf page, the code is intentional... especially since most of it is wrong... but, it will probably go when I sign the conf up for the Generation X List Web Ring..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (18:10)", "body": "i'll say it again, luvs the puppy!!! he's so cute, lets me scratch your little itty bitty ears, aw...."}, {"response": 13, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:18)", "body": "Pull back your tongue Wolf, you CAN'T have him!!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:11)", "body": "*yipe yipe yipe* wolf tucks her tail between her legs and immediately moves into a submissive position (ie, belly up with that sad look in her eyes)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:46)", "body": "(it's about time...)"}, {"response": 16, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:47)", "body": "you were waiting for it, heh?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (00:31)", "body": "you in that particular position? oh, yeah!..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (00:37)", "body": "oh please, i'm not your type..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (02:00)", "body": "alive and willing? lemme guess, the first but not the second?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:31)", "body": "Hopefully the first!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:59)", "body": "hahaha!!!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (01:57)", "body": "Love the lines, Wer!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (02:05)", "body": "thanks..."}, {"response": 24, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:14)", "body": "This whole place has undergone a metamorphasis since last week! Are you the one responsible for the new search engine options, wer?? By the way, the customized hotlist page is a nice touch!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (01:41)", "body": "Do you find it therapeutic doing these things, Wer? I mean, the stuff you do here is so creative - does it help with your depression too?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (02:52)", "body": "Terry(?) did the search page, I put in the choice on the main page... probably so, Riette, thus the criticism topics and all the questions in porch, if I do something everyone likes it gives me a sense of acceptance, I suppose... not being very artistic myself, I seem to have a knack for layout and design, and enjoy doing it (whatever the current motivation for it may be)..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (04:29)", "body": "Having a knack for layout and design IS artistic, silly! And the motivation is the fact that doing something you do well is satisfying, is it not? I know what you mean by that sense of acceptance thing though; only I've never been able to admit that to myself as freely as you do. In fact, I've NEVER done that, but your saying it helped me understand something I've been struggling with too. I've realized that that 'wanting to be accepted' in at least that one area of life has become a bit of a nasty c rcle with me. I get unbelievably depressed every time I finish a painting. The reason: I feel I HAVE to produce something better, something MORE striking, MORE over the top next time. At first I thought it was healthy ambission - but ambission is not suppose to depress one. So it must be that acceptance thing. The plain fact is that I'm $hit scared somebody will DISLIKE one of my paintings - which is, of course, BOUND to happen at some point. God, why must we be such silly buggers, hey??"}, {"response": 28, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (05:00)", "body": "'cause we're screwed?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (06:01)", "body": "How right you are."}, {"response": 30, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "golly, riette and wer, you two sound like me, maybe we're all related (triplets, then, i suppose). everytime i write a new poem and post it, i'm always afraid that someone will find it utterly silly. but why should we let other people's opinions mean so much when the stuff we do (whether it be graphic layouts, paintings, or poetry) is wholly personal and meaningful to us? if i touch somebody with a poem, that is all i need. i love the layouts you've done, wer and how you've incorporated one of riette's works into the main page. it brings interest instead of just all those words (which can be overwhelming). i know i hate bringing up a website and all i see are lots and lots of tiny words on the main page of the site. maybe we can break down the front page of the spring somehow without overdoing it?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (15:46)", "body": "hey, that sounds a great idea!!! Wolf, where can I go to read your poems? Is there a special topic in your conference, or should I go to your homepage?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (16:05)", "body": "if you click on the paw at the poetry conference, you will go straight to my poem archive at my site. thanks for the interest!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (02:12)", "body": "Thank you - can't wait to read them. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 22, "subject": "The ultimate genx theme song...", "response_count": 21, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (17:05)", "body": "Need to think about that one . . . give it some time."}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:29)", "body": "\"Conjunction Junction\" by School House Rock"}, {"response": 3, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:06)", "body": "'Fly up to the moon' - Black."}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (08:08)", "body": "gotta vote for SchoolHouse Rock! I'll listen to the tape on my way to work as a show of alliance (and to sing along!)"}, {"response": 5, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:20)", "body": "Never heard it - what kind of music is it? Pop? Rock? Techno? (\ufffdhudderrrr. . .)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:10)", "body": "More like Saturday morning cartoon singsong animation from the 70s and early 80s... intentionally catchy tunage to get through an educational message. (wow, SHR is HARD to explain, it's always been a stardard to which other educational 'programs' were compared to for me!)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:15)", "body": "hey, didn't they do \"the bill\"?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:48)", "body": "yep..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:50)", "body": "saw that thing the other day and about fell out...."}, {"response": 10, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:32)", "body": "\ufffdListening, trying to make sense, developing a nervous twitch\ufffd"}, {"response": 11, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (00:45)", "body": "It's musical cartoons about educational stuff, like how a bill becomes a law, and how grammar works (\"Conjunction junction, what's your function?\" is my all-time personal favorite). It's the kind of stuff you'd see on \"Sesame Street\" now, except at the time it was ground-breaking."}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:31)", "body": "OH, I see. I adore Sesame Street when I was young."}, {"response": 13, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:32)", "body": "D@mn! My typing is appaling with this half broken front paw . . . only another two weeks, and the plaster will come off. Thank God. No more balcony jumping in the near future I hope!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Apr 18, 1999 (15:28)", "body": "I wonder if Alexander knows about this topic...hmmm..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (00:07)", "body": "Is he a gen-Xer? I have no idea. He's so hip!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (14:59)", "body": "don't know about that, but he is a music guy..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (14:35)", "body": "Then he's hep!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  6, 1999 (15:02)", "body": "what is it with you and sax, Autumn?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (15:19)", "body": "I watch far too much TV..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (17:16)", "body": "and therefore, too much sax or not enough sax?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (23:17)", "body": "The sax is the thing. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 23, "subject": "spank-me-roll-me-pin-me-blow-me...", "response_count": 21, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (22:04)", "body": "a couple of those sound worth commenting on!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (22:05)", "body": "still a pretty big fan of the nibbles and licks..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:12)", "body": "especially upon the neck..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:07)", "body": "and then the middle section . . ."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (08:09)", "body": "oooh, all tingly in the neck region WER. Thanks!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:59)", "body": "you're quite welcome, my dear..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:21)", "body": "Go on, Wer, spank-her-roll-her-pin-her-bow-her!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:23)", "body": "By the way, I'm getting a scanner soon. Shall I try and scan in the picture to decorate the topic?? Will give you something to lust after . . ."}, {"response": 9, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:11)", "body": "'bow' me?!?! 'fraid I'm unfamiliar with the typo!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:50)", "body": "you know, Stace, stand straight up with your arms stretched out above your head now, imagine that your ankles are being tied to your wrists behind you..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (00:57)", "body": "i prefer to do the tying, thank you very much! now... assume the position! *laugh*"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (02:01)", "body": "any in particular, or our old standby?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:34)", "body": "Your old standby? Standing by and watching the other simulate?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (08:39)", "body": "stand by others and make 'em nervous!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (08:48)", "body": "Oooohh! Think you can make me nervous?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:08)", "body": "yep...all I gotta do is call you from Switzerland..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (06:14)", "body": "Yeah? But would you have the nerve to call me from Switzerland . . . ?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (12:58)", "body": "if I told you that, then it won't be as big a surprise when I do..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (13:54)", "body": "That's a defenite no!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "(actually, by the time I can get to Switzerland, you'll already be living in Australia...)"}, {"response": 21, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (15:38)", "body": "Oh, God, I hope so! I'll be even further away, and nobody would have to be scared of me anymore . . . genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 24, "subject": "I want more!!!", "response_count": 36, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:13)", "body": "ha-ha, How inventive you are! I'd like an extra finger just above my backside. One that can zoom in and out like a radia antenna. That way I wouldn't have to practically climb through the roof every time I start itching there in public. My little finger would just slowly zoom out of its hiding place and do a quick, invisible job. I'd also be able to give someone the finger if they pi$$ed me off without offending the person. Not to mention the extra, secret pleasure in bed! I'd feel like I were cheating on poor Chris though!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (08:10)", "body": "roflmao! (still thinking about my choices!)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (11:02)", "body": "let me guess...an extra heart so you could have more endurance, stamina, and an even higher metabolism... your response is a beautiful thing, Riette..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:25)", "body": "Thank you, Wer, but believe me, it isn't!!!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (00:48)", "body": "More brain power--I feel like all the filing cabinet drawers upstairs are filled to overflowing."}, {"response": 6, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:35)", "body": "Mine have been since I was five - learning how to read just took up all the intelligence there might have been at birth . . . !"}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (05:05)", "body": "I'd also like a tail that can fall off and grow back, like that of a lizard. Then I could really play hard to get!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (11:44)", "body": "above or below the aforementioned finger?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (12:23)", "body": "I was thinking more of the sort of tail that sits in the back of the neck area. That way I'd also be able to spank myself when Chris isn't in a kinky mood . . ."}, {"response": 10, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug 15, 1998 (23:29)", "body": "nobody touches my tail *growl*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (01:10)", "body": "at least, not LIKE that..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (01:34)", "body": "Awe, Wolfie, and I was going to ask you if I could wear you around my neck as a fancy scarf at my next vernisage. You know . . . art on the go. And I was hoping you'd howl loudly every time I pulled on your tail for that audio-visual effect."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (19:52)", "body": "My body parts suit me just fine at this point but I'd love for B to grow another tongue nearer to his nether regions..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (19:53)", "body": "(the extra dick outta his face just didn't seem appropriate...)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (23:57)", "body": "((today, anyway...))"}, {"response": 16, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:03)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:05)", "body": "and, what would you be willing to grow where for him if Sir Brandon could fulfill your request?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:35)", "body": "In your most profound intuition, what would you imagine the 'request' would be?!?!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:38)", "body": "I have a couple of generalized guesses, but I don't know if those are based on my likes or not, as I don't know what he prefers..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:43)", "body": "lemme hear 'em!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:49)", "body": "a second set of arms and hands at the hips could prove wildly functional, as could a second set of breasts located just below the shoulder blades... (in the right mood, true \"vagina dentata\" could prove quite the bonus, as well)"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:53)", "body": "*laugh* you might have similar tastes!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:10)", "body": "'tis but one true way to find out, no?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "have you two go at it?!?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:38)", "body": "is he willing?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:50)", "body": "hmmm... (visions of Chasing Amy floating about in my head. I dunno. If some random person asked him that question, the answer would be a resounding NO, nope. No, thank you. But deep seated desires... Honestly I think he'd find the situation uncomfortable (maybe not literally) if only because I don't think he likes to share me, well, physically anyway. Only in the last year has he developed a very subtle jealous side..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "TIM", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (12:32)", "body": "There is nothing subtle about jealousy. It's ugly no matter how you look at it. It probably causes more misery than anything else in a relationship except lack of communication."}, {"response": 28, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (14:41)", "body": "and a lot of times, those two go hand in hand..."}, {"response": 29, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (02:53)", "body": "I think I'm a little jealous. I don't like it when women come on to my husband. I was nasty to one woman who did that once."}, {"response": 30, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (02:53)", "body": "The way I look at it is, each person is their own entity. They will do whatever they want, no matter what. Getting upset over a maybe, only hurts you. If he wishes to be faithful, he will be faithful, you just have to decide what you will do if he is unfaithful. Once you have made the decision, shelve it. Forget about it until he is unfaithful. If that happens, pull out your plan and put it into action. Don't change it. You made the plan when you were calm and rational, don't change it when you are upset and angry."}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (02:53)", "body": "That's not how my head works. Once we were at a function, and this woman from work, who openly fancies my husband, grabbed him by the ar$e. So I grabber her by the ar$e, and told her to let go."}, {"response": 32, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (02:53)", "body": "That's not jealousy, its protecting your assets. Sorry, couldn't resist."}, {"response": 33, "author": "TIM", "date": "Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (02:53)", "body": ""}, {"response": 34, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (01:12)", "body": "and did she have a nice ar$e?"}, {"response": 35, "author": "jgross", "date": "Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (01:12)", "body": "yes, all up and down the line and with me and Riette grabbing her that's how the orgy began"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (01:12)", "body": "ha-ha!!!! j I'm sure her ar$e was very nice, Wer - for a 45 year old's anyway! OOH, I'm such a bitch! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 25, "subject": "Name the puppy!", "response_count": 68, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (19:06)", "body": "You got a pic? Can't pick a name without seeing the face!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (19:08)", "body": "doh! you guys are talking about the lil feller runnin all over the screen, huh? what about Max?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:13)", "body": "Chester."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Charlotte", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:17)", "body": "Ok. I wanna know how y'all got that cute little Scottie to prance around at the bottom of my screen. That is tooooo cute! He even has a shadow!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "Charlotte", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:20)", "body": "I love naming things! What kind of puppy? What color? How old? Male? Female?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "Charlotte", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:28)", "body": "Sorry, Riette. I thought you wanted us to name YOUR puppy. :) (I feel so stupid.) How about \"Scooter\"?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:09)", "body": "Charlotte, I thought the same thing, only I thought it was wer's puppy *smile* but now that you mention the type of puppy he is, maybe we could call him scotty......."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:59)", "body": "If he's a scot, how about Angus?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:38)", "body": "He's not a scot! No Yankee kan create a scot!! He's a cyber yankee. But I can't come up with a name."}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:09)", "body": "can you come down with a name?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "how about inja? oh, btw, a belated welcome, Charlotte! Glad you stopped by..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "Charlotte", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "OOps. I been detected. :) Have no business here, having been born in '45, but can't resist a topic called \"name the puppy!\". :)"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "I, as one of the hosts, grant you every right to be here... (not that you need my permission, you understand, just trying to make it official and all...)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "i second the motion!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "and as another of the hosts, Stacey has now made it even more official! so, respond away, and not just in this topic!!!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (06:18)", "body": "Oops, and I never even asked! INJA, Wer? Like in NINJA, but without the N? Sounds a bit strange, don't you think? Why don't you tell us what the E in William E. Roland stands for - perhaps that could become the little darling's name."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:02)", "body": "inja, according to my English to Zulu dictionary is dog... we are not naming the dog Eugene!!!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:03)", "body": "ooo, inja sounds cool (hey wer! gotta minute?)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:14)", "body": "yep, what's up?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "OOOHH, you've been studying, hey?! I almost forgot! Thought you'd made a typing mistake, and wanted to call our poor little baby Ninja the superdog! Ha-ya! You know, I had forgotten the word for 'dog'. Well, suppose that's what will happen if one doesn't use it. Depressing. But what if he should learn zulu some point, and find out we named him 'dog'. I mean, would you like people to call you, 'dog'? My favourite zulu name, though I don't know that many, is Mzila."}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (11:05)", "body": "there are worse names, i suppose..... (are you from Africa, riette?)"}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (13:58)", "body": "Yep. Namibia - that's on the south west coast, between South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Angola. Beautiful place."}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (14:03)", "body": "cool!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (14:11)", "body": "Actually, it's very, very, very hot there - it's a desert, you see."}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (14:14)", "body": "cool!"}, {"response": 26, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (14:17)", "body": "TOTALLY, especially if you're into lots of animals and lots and lots of huge pink sanddunes. I bought a flat there a couple of years ago, so any time any of you guys want to go and see Africa, just let me know - I can provide some free accommodation there. You'll never want to come back."}, {"response": 27, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (14:52)", "body": "hmmm, never been to Africa, and i am into animals.....hmmm....safari anyone?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (15:49)", "body": "I can see it now, we'll all go to Namibia (coincidentally of course) the same time Mike and Riette show up over here..."}, {"response": 29, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (16:35)", "body": "it could only be coinkydink....."}, {"response": 30, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:43)", "body": "Looks like we're going to have a quiet, romantic little holiday, Mikey."}, {"response": 31, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (00:53)", "body": "This dog doesn't look like he has enough dignity for a name like Inja or Chester. He looks like one of those slobbery, scrappy dogs that people name Jethro or Whitey. (BTW, Riette, your homeland sounds beautiful...)"}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:36)", "body": "Thank you, Autumn, I've always been very proud of it. I think you're right about the puppy - he is a bit of a pavement special, isn't he? No offence, WER! Jethro is great!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (00:14)", "body": "well, what about buddy, or sparky or something? he's just so darned cute!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul  7, 1998 (02:30)", "body": "Or how about T-bone?"}, {"response": 35, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (06:05)", "body": "D.O.G."}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (08:29)", "body": "Dirty Old Gilbert?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (13:52)", "body": "probably closer to Damned Obnoxious Gif..."}, {"response": 38, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (13:57)", "body": "ha-ha! thought you were at the party, Wer."}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (17:06)", "body": "working tonight, baby!!! (maybe afterwards...)"}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (02:03)", "body": "\ufffdsulk\ufffd"}, {"response": 41, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (02:51)", "body": "oh, yeah, you've lived and been places I can only dream about visiting, and you're sulking 'cause I went to a party I only knew one person at?"}, {"response": 42, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (05:14)", "body": "yes 'Cos if all of us were there, we'd have so much fun."}, {"response": 43, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (09:55)", "body": "too true! we have have have have have to have a get-together. We HAVE to :-))"}, {"response": 44, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (12:09)", "body": "I agree. So when are you coming to visit me, redneck?"}, {"response": 45, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (14:08)", "body": "moi? me no redneck. confused"}, {"response": 46, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (16:33)", "body": "The Afrikaners all call the English 'rooinekke', which means 'rednecks'. But it's not a form of insult though. I won't call you it again though - sorry. My English friends always call me 'Voortrekker Skat', if that makes you feel better."}, {"response": 47, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (17:01)", "body": "hehe...we use the term \"redneck\" to describe someone who...probably comes from Texas :)"}, {"response": 48, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (00:55)", "body": "well, actually there be differences between rednecks, kickers, hicks, cowboys, goatropers, farmboys... although all of those terms do apply to a lot of Texans..."}, {"response": 49, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (02:05)", "body": "Not VERY nice names - makes them sound like a bunch of savages!"}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (08:30)", "body": "and your point would be?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (10:04)", "body": "No idea. Must there be a point to ALL speculation?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (00:01)", "body": "I still like hillbillies the best!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (01:32)", "body": "attempting to stay out of trouble this time, Autumn? if there is absolutely no point, Riette, then why do something?"}, {"response": 54, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:21)", "body": "Because it's pointless, of course. I don't see any point in doing only things that have some sort of deeper meaning or point. I like doing things for no reason at all, even though I might regret it afterwards. Maybe I'm shallow. I just find the idea of everything 'leading' somewhere, and there being a point to everything and anything totally boring and predictable. Sorry, didn't mean that question to sound hostile or to make trouble."}, {"response": 55, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (16:49)", "body": "I know...my \"point\" was that even if you just do it for fun, then there's a point... didn't say anything about deeper meanings, etcetera..."}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (02:18)", "body": "Okay, then I'm with you. 'Cos the point is that not everything has a point, and I don't search for it either. And you did imply it . . . BOOH!"}, {"response": 57, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (02:19)", "body": "Did I manage to frighten you? You still haven't rung me from Switzerland, you know. . . ."}, {"response": 58, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (08:40)", "body": "I told you that by the time I could probably get to do that, you'd be living in Australia..."}, {"response": 59, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (09:12)", "body": "Or not. We're having huge doubts about Australia - would mean that Chris would earn a third of what he earns here; though we'd have a house etc., trips to Europe, Africa or America would be a non-occurrence. Right now I don't think I could cope with not seeing my siblings for years at a time, or not being able to visit Africa or Europe. This strains the Walton marriage, as you can imagine. He wants to go, I'm not so sure."}, {"response": 60, "author": "Nan11", "date": "Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (19:00)", "body": "Not to get off-topic here but I've been thinking about the dog :-) He reminds me of Barney Rubble in that episode where Fred hypnotizes him and he thinks he's a dog. The Flintstones--how's that for GenX? ;-D So, I would like to say Barney...but that may have obnoxious purple dinosaur connotations...whaddya think?"}, {"response": 61, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (22:36)", "body": "How about Dino, then?"}, {"response": 62, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (04:56)", "body": "Dino the Dog! That's great."}, {"response": 63, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Oct 10, 1998 (00:43)", "body": "Have we ever actually settled on a name for the puppy?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (16:58)", "body": "not unless he's royalty and has 15 first names!"}, {"response": 65, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (03:43)", "body": "Sonja here: Which puppy?"}, {"response": 66, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:38)", "body": "the little guy at the bottom of the screen..."}, {"response": 67, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (22:11)", "body": "idn't he just the kewtsest puppsie wuppsie you ever did see?"}, {"response": 68, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (13:52)", "body": "runnin' around on the screen and yearnin' to be free genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 26, "subject": "Old Farts and Upstarts: Managing across the generations", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (03:19)", "body": "(as posted to the Generation X Discussion List) Subj: New Member Date: 98-06-30 06:07:29 EDT From: TrainMag@AOL.COM (Bob Filipczak) Sender: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) Reply-to: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) To: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM I've been lurking here for about a week and I must say: Jesus, Mary and Joseph you people generate a lot of e-mail. Which is why, of course, I joined. I'm not going to pretend I haven't got an agenda. I do. Up till recently I was a business journalist for a trade magazine that went out to corporate trainers. Along the way, I got to do some very cool stories. The only one that put me on the charts, however, was a little piece called \"It's Just a Job: Generation X at Work\" in April 1994. It got mentioned in a lot of national newspapers and got me a bit of attention. Anyway...now I've got this book deal; after four years of talking about writing the book I now actually have to deliver the bugger. True to my disciplined writing habits, the book is due Sept. 15th. So that's where you come in, if you're willing. The book is called, tentatively, \"Old Farts and Upstarts: Managing across the generations\" and there are three co-authors: me, the GenX representative, Claire Raines, the Boomer rep and Ron Zemke, the GI Joe Gen spokesperson. So, since you all seem verbally active and more than a little fun to follow, I could just lurk here and pick up tidbits and, more importantly, ambiance.... Or I could throw out questions over the next two months, quizzing, survey and generally making a pest of myself in order to get this book done and move on to more important things. I choose the latter. So if any of you have some stories about working with Boomers, either positive or negative, or with the GI Joe Generation (55+) that you'd like to share, please send them my way. We can keep this private of make it more public (my preference) since people usually have strong opinions about their work and how they are managed. For the record: I'm pro-union, pro dog castration (Twas such a good idea, I thought, that I got myself a vasectomy), and currently pro-stituting my skills for a regional brokerage firm in Minneapolis. I'm on my second marriage, I've got two big dogs that drag me around the neighborhood and I'm a serious writer of fiction. My poetry should never be left in an open container and I ride a moped to work every morning until the snow flies. Finally, the reason I got attention for the 94 article is, I think, because it was the first piece in the popular media to portray our generation in a positive light. I myself am 36, so I'm right on the cusp, but have always identified with this group and will continue to do so. If any of you wants an e-mail copy of the article I wrote four years ago (edited by Boomers, you can tell), e-mail me a message privately and I'll send it to you. Thanks. Lagduf \"You live and you learn, or you don't live long.\" --Lazarus Long --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the command (without quotes) \"SIGNOFF GEN-X\" to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. If you have questions about the list, write to: GEN-X-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gen-X: Where you can touch anywhere you want and not have it hurt."}, {"response": 2, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:43)", "body": "Does all that mean we have to stop being vulgar now?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (12:02)", "body": "yeah, how much of our conversations will be included in the study?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (13:11)", "body": "don't even know if he'll show up, I just invited him... and, I don't think we always have a choice with the vulgar..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (14:03)", "body": "(response number one to the above post) Subj: Re: New Member Date: 98-06-30 12:40:19 EDT From: nlarge@indiana.edu (Nathan Large) Sender: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) Reply-to: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) To: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bob Filipczak wrote: I'm not going to pretend I haven't got an agenda. I do. Up till recently I was a business journalist for a trade magazine that went out to corporate trainers. Along the way, I got to do some very cool stories. The only one that put me on the charts, however, was a little piece called \"It's Just a Job: Generation X at Work\" in April 1994. It got mentioned in a lot of national newspapers and got me a bit of attention. <genx cliche> DANGER, Will Robinson, DANGER! </genx cliche off> Seriously, just this paragraph set off little blinking alarm lights all over my mental space. \"Business Journalist\"? \"Trade Magazine\"? \"Corporate trainers\"?!?! So that's where you come in, if you're willing. The book is called, tentatively, \"Old Farts and Upstarts: Managing across the generations\" and there are three co-authors: me, the GenX representative, Claire Raines, the Boomer rep and Ron Zemke, the GI Joe Gen spokesperson. The warning lights are still blinking full-strength. Can you see your co-authors, or do you just have to talk to the boxes they're in? So, since you all seem verbally active and more than a little fun to follow, I could just lurk here and pick up tidbits and, more importantly, ambiance.... This would be preferred... Or I could throw out questions over the next two months, quizzing, survey and generally making a pest of myself in order to get this book done and move on to more important things. I choose the latter. I think you'll find that we reject the latter. Frequently. Ever study anthropology? One of the recurring themes is that a 'culture' reacts negatively to outsiders barging about, asking questions, and getting into everything without showing respect for their society and traditions. A mailing list, particularly one like this one, may not be quite so complex, but there are traditions and a 'society'. The more appropriate, and frankly, more successful, method of observation would be the former, to join the society, learn from within, and observe without making your presence obvious. Even if you are already part of a society, self-examination isn't pleasant at times. Besides, if you just give us questionairres and surveys, we might just LIE. Ever notice how the first wave of 'Gen-X' articles was full of total bullshit? Folks on a deadline, accepting whatever they were told by some skater-slacker-noseringed-20something, and printing the greatest misinformation campaign of the decade. The sad thing is, the conformist mass of teens bought into it... and the joke backfired. For the record: I'm pro-union, pro dog castration (Twas such a good idea, I thought, that I got myself a vasectomy), and currently pro-stituting my skills for a regional brokerage firm in Minneapolis. I'm on my second marriage, I've got two big dogs that drag me around the neighborhood and I'm a serious writer of fiction. My poetry should never be left in an open container and I ride a moped to work every morning until the snow flies. I'd stick to the fiction, myself, but that's my reading preference. As soon as I started working, nonfiction reading became too much work - I can't read anything factual without taking it apart and examining the arguments and questioning the data. Finally, the reason I got attention for the 94 article is, I think, because it was the first piece in the popular media to portray our generation in a positive light. I myself am 36, so I'm right on the cusp, but have always identified with this group and will continue to do so. If any of you wants an e-mail copy of the article I wrote four years ago (edited by Boomers, you can tell), e-mail me a message privately and I'll send it to you. Positive lights are good, when appropriate. My beef is with the phrase 'portray our generation'. To accurately do that, without pulling out the Little Boxes, you have to go into some significant details. Apologies for the sarcasm above if unwarranted, but the phrases 'corporate trainers' and 'trade magazine' just don't scream \"Complex, insightful analysis\" to me. Nathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the command (without quotes) \"SIGNOFF GEN-X\" to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. If you have questions about the list, write to: GEN-X-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gen-X: Where you can touch anywhere you want and not have it hurt."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (14:31)", "body": "I am gathering this is all about gathering 'the feel' and has absolutely nothing WHATSOEVER to do with rephrasing, repeating or reprinting our conversations. As long as this is true, heck... we are an open forum to say the least. Just nowhere else do I want to read myself in any character... I would not feel comfortable here anymore if I thought that might happen."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (14:35)", "body": "hmmm...like I said, don't even know if he'll show..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (14:35)", "body": "(this would be the second response...) Subj: Re: New Member Date: 98-06-30 14:04:02 EDT From: scp2cm@surrey.ac.uk (Mr Christopher D Martin) Sender: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) Reply-to: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM (Generation X Discussion List) To: GEN-X@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Nathan replied On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bob Filipczak wrote: Finally, the reason I got attention for the 94 article is, I think, because it was the first piece in the popular media to portray our generation in a positive light. I myself am 36, so I'm right on the cusp, but have always identified with this group and will continue to do so. If any of you wants an e-mail copy of the article I wrote four years ago (edited by Boomers, you can tell), e-mail me a message privately and I'll send it to you. Positive lights are good, when appropriate. My beef is with the phrase 'portray our generation'. To accurately do that, without pulling out the Little Boxes, you have to go into some significant details. Apologies for the sarcasm above if unwarranted, but the phrases 'corporate trainers' and 'trade magazine' just don't scream \"Complex, insightful analysis\" to me. Agreed. And remember that the internal heterogeneity of the group that you are - trying to - categorise, may be as strong, or stronger, than the differences between it, and others. I don't mind answering question; as long as I get to ask them to. Can I ask you about the validity of using a group of self-selected individuals who are members of a single specific type of community - with a perverse relationship to the wider community that is or isn't Gen X - and with an age-range that spans at least three of the categories of which Gen X is one: do you think we're representative. I'd argue for a definition of Gen-x based on membership of this list. Let the sample be the population. chris dm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the command (without quotes) \"SIGNOFF GEN-X\" to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. If you have questions about the list, write to: GEN-X-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gen-X: Where you can touch anywhere you want and not have it hurt."}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (06:21)", "body": "WHAT A BORE! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 27, "subject": "A synonym for \"synonym\"", "response_count": 49, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (14:04)", "body": "slimabup"}, {"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (22:39)", "body": "pareilism"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:06)", "body": "simsim"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:25)", "body": "equivalism"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "identicanym"}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:29)", "body": "(aside: here's your domain name list, Terry...)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (04:58)", "body": "seSAMEy"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (12:33)", "body": "rogche"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (12:34)", "body": "thesaurunym"}, {"response": 10, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (13:32)", "body": "anti-anti"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "autumnism"}, {"response": 12, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "Did you see that, Autumn? Sounds like a compliment to me!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (09:16)", "body": "rietteonym"}, {"response": 14, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (10:48)", "body": "Afraid that's a contradiction in terms, Terrilym."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (22:07)", "body": "Anyone check out the visual theasaurus I mentioned earlier in the topic? It's pretty awesome."}, {"response": 16, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (22:24)", "body": "Not in this topic, Terry--maybe it was porch??"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (00:23)", "body": "Must have been."}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "'twas!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (02:04)", "body": "'tis!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (08:51)", "body": "'tshallbe!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (09:08)", "body": "similarium"}, {"response": 22, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (09:31)", "body": "Sounds like a fish bowl, that one!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "nymosym"}, {"response": 24, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:20)", "body": "ha-ha! sameolthing"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:21)", "body": "syn"}, {"response": 26, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:29)", "body": "nym"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (14:13)", "body": "ymn"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (14:37)", "body": "yum!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (15:00)", "body": "verbachum likenism matchieonym"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (15:32)", "body": "sim&ms"}, {"response": 31, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (23:44)", "body": "my vote so far is for the matchieonym... (hiya, Stace!) alternarealitynym"}, {"response": 32, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (23:45)", "body": "alternagram"}, {"response": 33, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "twin"}, {"response": 34, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "(hiya WER!)"}, {"response": 35, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "\"similarium\" sounds like a place where synonyms live!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "kinda like a definition co-op?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (06:17)", "body": "Yes, and then of course there are oppolariums, homolariums, you name it!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (23:30)", "body": "Do we have a consensus on a suitable synonym yet, or we gonna accept all of the above as synonyms for \"synonym\"?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (23:49)", "body": "They're all valid! Let's enter them in the Thesaurus. Which brings up an interesting question...what's another word for Thesaurus?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (09:47)", "body": "hmmm..."}, {"response": 41, "author": "PT", "date": "Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:23)", "body": "Lexicon?"}, {"response": 42, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (22:59)", "body": "I think of that as a synonym for dictionary."}, {"response": 43, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:52)", "body": "I will have to look it up. I did not think it was as generic as \"dictionary\"."}, {"response": 44, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "Well, Autumn, we are both right. Lexicon is a synonym for dictionary and thesaurus. In fact, the second definition of thesaurus, is dictionary."}, {"response": 45, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "That is surprising! The type of thesaurus I've always used doesn't give definitions, other than a \"shared meaning element.\" Pretty vague and not what I would rely on to get the nuance of a word, myself."}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "that's true, for true nuance I usually rely on Jim..."}, {"response": 47, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Dec 28, 1998 (12:09)", "body": "me, too!"}, {"response": 48, "author": "jgross", "date": "Mon, Dec 28, 1998 (21:16)", "body": "I've got an idea. Not the only meaning, but one meaning for 'lexicon' listed in this dictionary I'm looking at, says, \"the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject\". Let's say the subject is 'synonym'. Then 'lexicon' could be listed as part of a vocabulary of 'synonym'. Let's say the subject is 'paint'. Then 'brush' could be listed as part of a vocabulary of 'paint'. But 'brush' is not a synonym for 'paint'. 'Vocabulary' is different from 'synonym', although words in a vocabulary could be synonyms. Looks, with this particular meaning, like synonyms are a kind of vocabulary. Maybe synonyms are a kind of lexicon, like maybe antonyms are a kind of lexicon. I would look at it like 'lexicon' is too general a word to fit into a list of synonyms for synonym, similar to how the word vocabulary would be too general for fitting on that list, like how astronomy is too general to fit on a list of synonyms for solar system. But that's looking at only one meaning of lexicon. And this is only one person's viewpoint. Please recall, my viewpoint is a cough of steam rising in the mist of (mis)de(mean)or."}, {"response": 49, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Dec 29, 1998 (10:33)", "body": "thank you for clearing that up for all of us, jim, we knew we could count on you! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 28, "subject": "Why do you keep coming back?", "response_count": 148, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (14:12)", "body": "eye-hand coordination -- 55% learn new words -- 25% better than methadone -- 15% safe sex -- 5%"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (17:34)", "body": "I asked, and I received!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (17:44)", "body": "Some of these could be quotable in a publicity flyer for the spring, but notice she didn't say better than sex?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (18:44)", "body": "it certainly has its moments!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (22:09)", "body": "LOL! You are too much, Stacey! I would have to say 100% socialization, comraderie, whatever. Let's just say I enjoy the intercourse..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (05:26)", "body": "More great quotes."}, {"response": 7, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (14:28)", "body": "addicted....BTW, I AM BACK!! Anyone miss me??? aw, not even just a little?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (14:44)", "body": "I miss you a *lot*! And I'm missig Riette, since she went on her trip. I notice the main screen lists the number of logins but it says \"web hits\" instead. I wonder if we can change that, I wonder who wrote cool piece of Yapp code. Wer? Kaylene? Or maybe I just never noticed it before."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (16:27)", "body": "I did it...the variable in the instructions is defined as a \"read only web variable\"...so I figured it just counted web hits... and it does increment that way at least some of the time...I was the only one on at a certain time yesterday, and it did in fact count my page hits...will re-word it later..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (16:38)", "body": "Cool. Yeah, I'm glad you discovered it and it would be great if you could re-word it to say \"logins\"! ... if that in fact is what it counts. I'm really glad someone else is learning the system and getting a fresh mind on things!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "oh, and hiya, Wolf!!!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (22:26)", "body": "sure, too late now *grin* hiya wer!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (14:31)", "body": "oh, well..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (14:52)", "body": "specifically, it is \"the number of Yapp hits today from the www\" added a who is logged on via telnet, also... however, I can't get any switches to work with who, and I've found out when AOL crashes and I'm telnetting in, I doesn't log me out..."}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (16:24)", "body": "never mind, those log ins go away with time..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (18:42)", "body": "Yeah it resets daily doesn't it?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (18:58)", "body": "yes, but the time is off..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (05:32)", "body": "I keep coming back hoping we'll grow as a community, I love it when new folks show up. Rollerblade postering service is plastering all the bulletin boards in town with Spring flyers. If you see one, give me some feedback on how to make them better, they're reprints of the Spring main page."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (05:34)", "body": "Rollerblade should read Motorblade. http://www.spring.net/~motorblade"}, {"response": 20, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (12:30)", "body": "I keep coming back, because I can't stay away. I love it here."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (17:43)", "body": "I love it that you're here."}, {"response": 22, "author": "Ann", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (00:42)", "body": "I love it that you love it that we're here."}, {"response": 23, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (01:46)", "body": "Hi, Ann. Are you new here? If so, since when have you been coming? Or do you just tend to go to other conferences? I don't love being away, but I love coming back without it occurring to me for a moment that anyone will have noticed, and then finding that they did. It is peculiar, but lovely."}, {"response": 24, "author": "CotC", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (12:14)", "body": "What the hell else have I got to do?..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "Ann", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (15:52)", "body": "Hi, Ann. Are you new here? } I've been around since Pemberley moved here."}, {"response": 26, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (16:17)", "body": "Hey, I'm logging on from the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (16:59)", "body": "Hey, whatcha doin' there?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "Hi, WER!!!! Having a good time?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:47)", "body": "get out and play in the sand WER... get some sea water up yer nose for me!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (22:30)", "body": "the aquarium? you on vacation? do they have a dolphin/whale display?????"}, {"response": 31, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug  7, 1998 (01:52)", "body": "Not to mention the ape display to make him feel more at home. (I can't help it if you posted that photo, Wer, so don't frown so hard at me!) So can you give us a recipe for tastier sandcakes?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "MEC", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (21:54)", "body": "Girls just wanna have fun!!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "and we are oh so glad that you do!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (02:01)", "body": "Mec, who are you? Are you new, or do you just go to the other conferences mostly? Whatever the case, glad you're here!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:05)", "body": "Howdy MEC!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:13)", "body": "Nice to have you here so regularly again, Stacey!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:18)", "body": "oh I'm just on another spring binge... *grin* thanks Ree-head! I go back to my 'real job' tomorrow but it has been kinda fun to have such regular access to a working computer. And I can just keep a telnet link open all the time. When I'm printing, or downloading, or slacking off, I can just stop in! Wandered by the art conference yesterday (through a browser so I could see all the groovy pics!) and it looks REALLY great! I love the new wallpaper (guess it's not so new anymore but it sure was something I hadn't seen before!)"}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (13:38)", "body": "Ree Head the art goddess sure rocks, doesn't she?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (13:47)", "body": "yep... I just made it to the gallery in all its colorful glory!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (02:00)", "body": "Thanks, you two. I think the whole spring is rocking at the moment. Oh, and I heard from Mike Griggs yesterday as well. He'll be back in a fortnight or so - going on holiday, the lucky bugger!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:06)", "body": "Yep, I heard from him too, he emailed me using a friends account."}, {"response": 42, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:24)", "body": "Same here. It's a disgrace how we let his Babes conference stagnate...."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:48)", "body": "Shall we pump it up a bit before he gets back?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (11:49)", "body": "Yes, but what with? I don't know any babes! I don't really look at women like that, if you know what I mean..."}, {"response": 45, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (13:01)", "body": "Ask a man friend and then tell us what he says then."}, {"response": 46, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (14:55)", "body": "My husband is my only close man friend, and he says he finds Claudia Schiffer ugly - but that's only because he has weird taste in women anyway. He couldn't think of any famous babes either; says he never thinks of other women as babes. Probably trying to play safe with my temper, as I'm having my period! ha-ha!!!"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (17:04)", "body": "Playing it safe, good strategy."}, {"response": 48, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (22:18)", "body": "ok, well the dudes seem to like shania twain, should we add her?"}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:12)", "body": "Add her, she looks very sexy in the picture I saw of here today in the concert section of the paper."}, {"response": 50, "author": "nan", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:19)", "body": "Terry, dear...where's her head? ;-)"}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:26)", "body": "Boy I messed that one up Nan, they have real intricate puzzle like coding on http://www.mercurynashville.com/mercury_nashville/artists/new_shania/shania_home.html You'll just have to go there to see it properly assembled."}, {"response": 52, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (01:29)", "body": "There's a woman with reason to be vain!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (21:43)", "body": "ok, lemme see if i can add her..."}, {"response": 54, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (02:18)", "body": "Shoot her first!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (09:18)", "body": ""}, {"response": 56, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (12:10)", "body": "Are you coming back, muffin?"}, {"response": 57, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (12:48)", "body": "as soon as it is safe..."}, {"response": 58, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (01:53)", "body": "But it IS safe! Don't you miss us too?"}, {"response": 59, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (08:37)", "body": "when my head is (relatively) safe, silly!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (13:26)", "body": "\ufffdkiss\ufffd"}, {"response": 61, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (21:50)", "body": "*hug* you're head is safe with us!"}, {"response": 62, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (22:51)", "body": "ah, but you all aren't safe with it..."}, {"response": 63, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "Let us be the judges of that."}, {"response": 64, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "please stay with us, wer, we miss your face around here....."}, {"response": 65, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep  1, 1998 (01:45)", "body": "Yep, stick around please."}, {"response": 66, "author": "isis", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (21:58)", "body": "hey kitchenmanager i would like to meet you and get to know you...so stick around or i will be upset....you don't want to miss meeting a real italian woman now do you....??"}, {"response": 67, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (23:34)", "body": "with an offer like that, how can I refuse? can you cook? and just cause I'm not talking doesn't mean I'm not watching..."}, {"response": 68, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "?????? Good to see you back, Wer!"}, {"response": 69, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (01:58)", "body": "??????"}, {"response": 70, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (02:43)", "body": "What, ??????????"}, {"response": 71, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "exactly!!! (I think...)"}, {"response": 72, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (12:07)", "body": "possibly!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "isis", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (22:31)", "body": "sorta like when you don't smoke cigarettes for awhile you start shaking and eating more than ususal,,,,what's it called,,oh yeah,,,WITHDRAWALS......"}, {"response": 74, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (23:13)", "body": "have NO idea what you're talking about now..."}, {"response": 75, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (00:08)", "body": "How's it going tobacco-wise, wer?"}, {"response": 76, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (00:40)", "body": "worse than ever...are you over your summer binge yet?"}, {"response": 77, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (01:39)", "body": "How does one start smoking? I mean, did you the first time just pick up a cigarette, and it was great? How long does it take to get used to? No, I don't want to start! I've just always wondered how it's done."}, {"response": 78, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (02:31)", "body": "it takes about three days to quit getting sick... as to the rest, ?"}, {"response": 79, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (04:30)", "body": "ha-ha!!! And what happens then? Then you're a smoker? Does it taste nice after that?"}, {"response": 80, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (04:56)", "body": "depends on the person... depends on the person... depends on what you're smoking..."}, {"response": 81, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (06:01)", "body": "I see!"}, {"response": 82, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "so you don't smoke for the flavor, you just do it cuz of some psychosomatic need to bring on your own death in short order?"}, {"response": 83, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (16:59)", "body": "that's one of my biggest \"reasons,\" yes"}, {"response": 84, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "Puffing away almost daily, here...can't help it, the weather's been too good. If it gets cold or humid I can't stand it. Damn El Nino!!! #@$%&!!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (02:10)", "body": "ha-ha!! hilarious business!"}, {"response": 86, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (10:29)", "body": "well, i'm having food problems. yes, can you believe it? if i just look at something yummy i gain five pounds. this must be the reason cuz it ain't going away and i work out 3 times a week and drink a ton of water. oh, wait! doh! *bangs hand against forehead* it's my old age. yes. snuck up on me again."}, {"response": 87, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (03:03)", "body": "Wolf, I have always been a firm believer that one can't do much about the way one is put together. I am just the same. Although I never put on weight (I am not small sized though, more sort of medium), excercise changes NOTHING about the way I am put together. I don't acquire more shapely legs - they always just look the way they look, and that's that. I even see it with my girls. Isa, the eldest is probably one of the most active children you'll ever see - constantly jumping and running and climbing; yet her legs already look just the same as mine! The little one sits around all day, sipping on a milk bottle and pestering me to carry her, yet she has these incredibly sporty little legs, and when they run (lazy as she is!)m Isa (with over a year's age advantage, plus ALOT fitter) has BIG trouble keeping up with the little bugger. Unfair, hey? I say, stop giving yourself a hard time. Keep fit by doing things you enjoy - whether that be working out in the gym, or going for long walks or whatever - don't suffer unneccessarily."}, {"response": 88, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (16:11)", "body": "tis true....my kids are different too. my son is tall and lanky, really long-limbed, small boned, much too fair for a boy and my daughter is stocky, tough little girl, small boned but more athletic in build....and yes, i see my husband and me in both of them. we can pick out the feet, hands, ears, noses, etc. etc."}, {"response": 89, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (02:24)", "body": "Apart from Isa's legs, my kids have absolutely NOTHING of me in their looks. Isa looks just like her dad, and Elza looks kind of Swedish with her white hair and blue eyes (Chris has very dark hair!). I once had tea with a Swedish guy in Namibia - about nine months before she was born!!! - and now I keep thinking: perhaps getting pregnant is easier than one thinks!!!"}, {"response": 90, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (11:37)", "body": "hahaha!"}, {"response": 91, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "I am swearing off tea this instant. Back to espresso!"}, {"response": 92, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (01:34)", "body": "Yuksies!"}, {"response": 93, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Sep 12, 1998 (23:21)", "body": "i much rather take tea....tried cappucinno and, though it smelled good, tasted much differently. why is it that coffee smells better than it tastes?"}, {"response": 94, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (03:56)", "body": "That's just what I say! I just find it awfully bitter, even though I love the smell of coffee. Whereas I've not yet found a tea that doesn't taste better than it smells! My favourite is South African Rooibos."}, {"response": 95, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (10:54)", "body": "not all coffees are bitter, in fact I prefer the less acidic types..."}, {"response": 96, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Sep 14, 1998 (11:56)", "body": "do tell us non-coffee drinkers the best tasting, non-bitter coffee...."}, {"response": 97, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (22:32)", "body": "kona blend--from Hawaii. What do you think, wer?"}, {"response": 98, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (22:57)", "body": "Kona was the first one that came to my mind... I need to check on some other choices tomorrow... definately stay away from Arabicas, however!"}, {"response": 99, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (01:04)", "body": "I keep coming back because I'm infatuated with the \"last 50\" feature. I use it all the time now. Being able to see all these lets you see what the login patterns are, like Riette logging in at night, etc. and you can quickly find what interests you the most. I had to put it on the main page. I'd like to see a last 100, a last 500 page also. That would be awesome! Or maybe a page where you could specify the number of last responses to see. Theoretically you could even call up all the responses for the last month, or year, or since the beginning of the Spring. In descending order! You're talking coffee? Kona, Arabicas... The little demitasse I had at Lil' Italy was a great capoff to a great meal. That brione . . . hey, I'll finish this in the restaurant conference in the Italian restaurant topic."}, {"response": 100, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "I love it when you get so excited about technology - it's terribly sweet!"}, {"response": 101, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "it's printing in reverse now, Terry... have to get Kaylene to write the one to let you choose a number in a response box... you'd have to fix the \"future\" dates in order for the last month, etcetera calls to work..."}, {"response": 102, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (13:36)", "body": "That rocks! Kaylene has a routine already that can be run to fix future dates. Call me this weekend and I'll get you set up on access. Awesome!!!"}, {"response": 103, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (17:28)", "body": "ok, where can i try this kona stuff? do they sell it on the mainland? (ok, here in the bayous or anywhere close?)"}, {"response": 104, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Sep 18, 1998 (17:34)", "body": "You can buy it at any gourmet-style coffee place. It's VERY expensive (because those mules have to schlepp it down mountains with 20,000 foot altitude), so look for the little sample packages that only makes a couple pots."}, {"response": 105, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (08:43)", "body": "But if you fly to Hawaii, it's cheap, cheap, cheap! While you're there would ya pick up some macadamia nuts for me?!?"}, {"response": 106, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "You've been to Hawaii lately?!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (14:34)", "body": "unfortunately never."}, {"response": 108, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (01:54)", "body": "Same here. Anybody been to Hawaii?"}, {"response": 109, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (13:45)", "body": "nope. one of my coworkers went in april. she said it was great!!"}, {"response": 110, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (14:53)", "body": "Never."}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (00:18)", "body": "Nope, never been. Ah, to lay on the beach in Maui and live in a grass hut."}, {"response": 112, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "in a grass skirt?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (05:40)", "body": "eating grass?"}, {"response": 114, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (08:08)", "body": "eating poi (not as yummy as it sounds)"}, {"response": 115, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Oct  3, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "smoking grass."}, {"response": 116, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct  3, 1998 (05:58)", "body": "ha-ha! You're starting to remind of AB FAB's Patsy!"}, {"response": 117, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (16:33)", "body": "What a compliment, sweetie, dahling!"}, {"response": 118, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Oct 13, 1998 (20:52)", "body": "OK....where's ree-head???? am getting worried about her...."}, {"response": 119, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (10:03)", "body": "did she have a holiday to go on?"}, {"response": 120, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (10:39)", "body": "That's what I'm thinking, she may be traveling."}, {"response": 121, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (13:10)", "body": "When was her sister due to visit?"}, {"response": 122, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (13:19)", "body": "by george! I think he's got it!"}, {"response": 123, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (13:33)", "body": "I hope it's curable..."}, {"response": 124, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (13:35)", "body": "Actually, I believe it's degenerative."}, {"response": 125, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (15:37)", "body": "i thought she was already there (when riette created a topic for her)....hmmmmm"}, {"response": 126, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (18:19)", "body": "give her a call if you like: (international access stuff) 041 382 1064"}, {"response": 127, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (14:06)", "body": "Sonja here: I arrived on Tuesday morning. I wanted to come on earlier, but we had alot of catching up to do. Travelling only consists of day trips this time, I'm afraid - she has too much work. She created a topic about me??? I dread to discover the contents!! I let her out of my sight for a year, and she just goes wild - I don't know!"}, {"response": 128, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (04:32)", "body": "guess that means you'll have to keep coming back to check on her when you get back to the states, huh?"}, {"response": 129, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (10:14)", "body": "See, Sonja, we already know what a *wild and crazy* gal you are!"}, {"response": 130, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:02)", "body": "Hi, guys. I'm back too. I almost feel like I should ask for permission to come back, though - I feel so bad about having just taken off like that and stuff. I am truly sorry."}, {"response": 131, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:29)", "body": "does this mean that you need another spanking, Mistress?"}, {"response": 132, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:31)", "body": "Man, that's what I call a WARM welcome! I should dissappear more often!"}, {"response": 133, "author": "sonja", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:13)", "body": "Is this treatment not for first-timers then?"}, {"response": 134, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:17)", "body": "Sure, first timers get equal treatment."}, {"response": 135, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:25)", "body": "Yep, so grab your ankles..."}, {"response": 136, "author": "sonja", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (14:57)", "body": "LOL! I was thinking we could do it the other way around, perhaps?"}, {"response": 137, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (15:20)", "body": "So you want special treatment? OK, in your case, you can have it."}, {"response": 138, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (01:48)", "body": "Thank you, sir. Grab your ankles now!"}, {"response": 139, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (01:52)", "body": "(Must warn you though, Terry. The girl's got killer biceps....so be careful with that special treatment!)"}, {"response": 140, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (08:35)", "body": "Hey, that's my special treatment, and mine only! Only I do the ordering! Back off, girl!"}, {"response": 141, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (15:49)", "body": "Should've never let you on here."}, {"response": 142, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (05:16)", "body": "Too late now, isn't it?"}, {"response": 143, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (05:36)", "body": "It's going to be ok, Ree!"}, {"response": 144, "author": "sonja", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "Yes, it's going to be okay, Ree!"}, {"response": 145, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (22:36)", "body": "She's back! Does this mean the Bronte conference is alive again? Item 63 entered Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (17:07) by Amy Wolf (amy2) I'm baaaccckk... Hi fellow Bronte fans -- it's me, Amy, your hostess, returned after many months of being away. Truth to tell, I couldn't find this Board until Mick kindly gave me the new URL. I think part of the confusion was that I had changed my e-mail address. So please check in & let me know you're still there! I hope we can continue your excellent discussions on the Bronte's lives & works. 1 new of 1 response total. Long live the Bronte sisters!!!"}, {"response": 146, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (03:39)", "body": "Hee haw!!! LONG LIVE THE BRONTES!!!!!"}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (07:51)", "body": "Topic 63 of 63: 'I'm baaaccckk...' Resp 2 of 2: Mick Armitage (Mick1) Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:25) 1 lines Hi Amy, - Nice to see something stirring on this conference once again: when I re-discovered it, at its new URL, it was looking like a long-deserted ghost town! Now all we need is everybody else . . . Now, he's back. I hope Amy does a mail to the bronte ulist (list of folks who've visited the Bronte Sisters Conference with their emails, available to every host)."}, {"response": 148, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Oct 18, 2005 (13:38)", "body": "i'm back, sure miss this conf. *HUGS* genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 3, "subject": "drugs", "response_count": 24, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (15:20)", "body": "Tried 'em all (except the intravenous ones). The only ones I still indulge in from time to time are tobacco and alcohol (and we didn't even consider those drugs in the 80s!) The only one I ever really think about is psilicybin mushrooms, but I'd never act on it now because I am a Good Example."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (18:56)", "body": "unfortunately as a teacher, I have been bitten by the 'good example' bug as well. Self-imposed but strong nonetheless."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (07:30)", "body": "There is a war, on, uh, some drugs."}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (03:15)", "body": "Yeah, I'm a Law Abiding Citizen now in addition to being a Good Example."}, {"response": 7, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (18:25)", "body": "yeah. that sucks. you got DOUBLE responsibility. whoa. heavy. think i need a smoke, this is hurtin' my brain."}, {"response": 8, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Mar  6, 1998 (17:41)", "body": "Do a few hits for me, OK?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (18:00)", "body": "my first experience with drugs was aged (i think) seventeen (yup, i'm sure now), when a friend and I decided to go and get stoned. it was comically funny, since neither of us knew how to skin up. total abortion - it didn't happen. then, once he'd learned how (I never did...), we sat down and did it...it was fun. i remember one time doing about two or three *big* joints in a row, and being absolutely and totally stuffed afterwards...i wandered around like a zombie. i thought it was pretty funny at the time! then i started to get bored of it, and i saw how it was really wasting some of the people i was with. so i stopped. haven't smoked any since, except passively. i'm not a big fan...can't be good for you."}, {"response": 10, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (22:09)", "body": "Some of my \"burnout\" friends have really turned out strangely, Mike, you're smart to go the passive route!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (09:55)", "body": "there is certainly a limit to what a body can take before substances begin altering the mind on a permanent basis, but i believe every adult should be free to do what he/she pleases with the one body he/she has been given. (he/she... i made the population sound hermaphroditic !)"}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (15:03)", "body": "There's probably a drug for it!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "lung cancer."}, {"response": 16, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 10, 1998 (14:03)", "body": "bite your tongue..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "sorry."}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (20:14)", "body": "my only drug is chocolate.....thank God!!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "you know it.... Hi wer!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:30)", "body": "(it's Fat Albert!)"}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:23)", "body": "my bad. I thought I read some soul in there."}, {"response": 27, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:19)", "body": "*laugh* okay, okay, I'll listen more carefully next time!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:21)", "body": "Where I grew up there were no drugs. But when I was twelve, I asked the boys on the farm to teach me how to smoke, because I thought it was cool. What I didn't know was that 'smoking' to them, was a piece of paper in which you rolled a mixture of tobacco and cow crap. So they rolled me one, and I took a LONG suck at it. It was the most disgusting experience of my entire life. I was sick for three days (the memory of that taste LITERALLY made me sick), and I've never touched a thing since, I never ever ever ever want to smoke again either. As far as alcohol is concerned, hell, who hasn't ever got drunk? It's fun, but I HATE the hangover afterwards, so I only do it when I'm feeling really courageous."}, {"response": 29, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (18:03)", "body": "I must be getting old as I'm starting to get hangovers :-)"}, {"response": 30, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (23:59)", "body": "What is the drinking age where you two live?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (05:08)", "body": "18"}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:17)", "body": "Probalby same here, but I often see much younger kids stoned on the streets at night. I find it rather sad. Mike, so you think I'm old, huh? I've always had hangovers, even when I don't get drunk, but just a bit tipsy."}, {"response": 33, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:17)", "body": "Damn! Probably. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 4, "subject": "sex or . . .", "response_count": 145, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:33)", "body": "118 responses selected of 118 total 2:1) Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) 31-MAY-94 23:15 Allegedly, nothing is better than sex with the perfect person, but you may beg to differ. What (if anything) would be better than sex to *you* right now? I'll start the ball rolling: Great sex for a month or a PowerMac upgrade? - - - - - 2:2) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 13:36 great sex for a month or a PowerMac upgrade? I don't have a mac but want one really bad but never bad enough to give up great sex for a month. Nope, uh-uh, no, no way, no, uh-uh. I would give up the chance to have a mac for 1 year if I could get someone to take care of the kids so we could go and have an all-weekender at a bed and breakfast in Gruene. Make that two years. - - - - - 2:3) Mikey Z (suprnaut) 01-JUN-94 18:17 great sex with a truly intelligent person or lunch with fabio/madonna? - - - - - 2:4) Terry (terry) 01-JUN-94 19:10 number one - - - - - 2:5) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:46 ditto...number one...number two is truly number two! peee-yoooo! - - - - - 2:6) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:47 great sex with a truly wonderful person or winning $10 million at the lottery? - - - - - 2:7) Ben Cohen (bcj) 03-JUN-94 1:36 are you kidding? - - - - - 2:8) Holly Iles (holly) 03-JUN-94 11:17 NO, of course not. Well? - - - - - 2:9) melissa marie (suprnaut) 03-JUN-94 16:22 okay, i'll bite. the lottery. - - - - - 2:10) Sweetie Pi (holly) 04-JUN-94 12:01 Me too. Definitely the lottery. Don't tell Alex....oh hell, he'd prolly say the lottery too! - - - - - 2:11) melissa marie (suprnaut) 04-JUN-94 18:46 okay. great sex for one night or a night out with an old friend you haven't seen in a long time? (see? this could get harder ...) - - - - - 2:12) Sweetie Pi (holly) 04-JUN-94 23:33 A night out with an old friend I haven't seen in a long time. Specifically my best friend who has estranged herself from me. :( - - - - - 2:13) Jeffrey P. McManus (jeffreyp) 06-JUN-94 23:41 Mediocre-yet-vaguely-satisfying sex that only lasts a few hours, or an entire freezer full of Jell-O pudding pops? - - - - - 2:14) melissa marie (suprnaut) 06-JUN-94 23:50 make the pudding pops chocolate, and i'll say hell yeah! really bad, boring sex, or doing the work you brought home from the office? - - - - - 2:15) Holly D. Iles (holly) 07-JUN-94 10:47 Doing the work I brought home from the office. Eegats. - - - - - 2:16) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-JUN-94 2:38 absolutely terrific sex or seeing the season finale of \"melrose place?\" - - - - - 2:17) Holly D. Iles (holly) 21-JUN-94 13:49 absolutely terrific sex with reruns in the future. of both...heh An all expense paid trip around the world or one perfect day with the love of your life? - - - - - 2:18) melissa marie (suprnaut) 21-JUN-94 21:40 i'll take the trip, thanks, being that i have no love of my life at the moment! really strange, bizarre sex or being abducted by friendly aliens for an afternoon? - - - - - 2:19) Holly D. Iles (holly) 21-JUN-94 22:05 aliens...there's still the potential for strange bizarre sex anyway! (physical compatibility permitting, of course). But definitely checking out the aliens! Sex with the Sun god, Apollo, or to become for one day your favority fictional heroine? Oh sorry, for you guys... Sex with Venus or to become your favorite fictional hero. - - - - - 2:20) Terry (terry) 22-JUN-94 0:14 Venus - - - - - 2:21) Holly D. Iles (holly) 22-JUN-94 13:20 dawg-uh! - - - - - 2:22) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 22-JUN-94 17:00 ...or PowerMac upgrade? well... why split hairs when you can have BOTH? ...or lottery? I am ashamed to admit lottery. ...or night w/old friend? sex. ...or pudding pops? Provided the sex is mediocre, pudding pops, which cannot be mediocre by definition. ...or become fictional character? I notice the query for men does NOT have the single-day qualifier, so I pick character. I would enjoy being Bertie Wooster enormously. If the qualifier is implied, Venus. What I want to know is: sex, which may or may not be good, or pleasant ongoing flirtation which can be relied on to brighten the day for years? I have chosen both at different times and think they balance. - - - - - 2:23) Holly D. Iles (holly) 22-JUN-94 17:10 oh, flirtation. Most definitely flirtation. You can do so much more with flirtation than you can the simplistic act of copulation. mmmm...to stare deeply into the eyes of a dark stranger from across the room. To subtly cop a feel on some cute pert little toosh at a crowded dinner party. To stand very very very close without touching and NOT looking at each other. To quietly sneak away before that person can realize you've gone and leave them wondering,\"Who was she anyway?\" fun fun fun. makes me wiggle in my seat just to think of it. - - - - - 2:24) Holly D. Iles (holly) 22-JUN-94 17:11 hours of sensual dancing, just the two of you on the deck of a yacht in the starlit oceans of the carribean or talking endlessly until the break of dawn under the stars snuggled close in one sleeping bag? - - - "}, {"response": 3, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (03:19)", "body": "Maybe it's a woman thang, but I thought the point of really incredible sex was savoring the memory of it afterwards (for many years to come! I have some I'm counting on seeing me through when I'm in a nursing home!) I would never pick the meal; food is such a fleeting thing. I don't object to flavorful meal, but I truly regard food as sustenance. This keeps my attitude towards food healthy."}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (18:28)", "body": "gotta love those memories!!!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Mar  6, 1998 (17:44)", "body": "Hmmm, I guess my point is that the two are diametrically opposed: sex is enjoyable for the moment, but best savored over time; food is savored for the moment, but leaves no lasting impression. The company and conversation really make the meal (and the sex too!)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Mar  7, 1998 (00:51)", "body": "Ok, how about: one sexual fantasy fulfilled or a one hour, unlimited tab shopping spree at the store of your choice?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Mar  7, 1998 (23:42)", "body": "Oh the sex, shopping is such a bore."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (02:32)", "body": "I like you more and more, Autumn..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  8, 1998 (20:53)", "body": "Really, Autumn's stock just shot up!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (12:13)", "body": "Ah, it's not the sex part--I've awakened the typical male response to shopping! Therein lies the high esteem...My sentiments are decidedly anti-genx about material things, I'm quite the minimalist, actually..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (23:30)", "body": "I don't mind shopping, when I have money..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (23:31)", "body": "you are the king? thought you were the gester *grin*"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (23:44)", "body": "uhhh, make that jester *blush*"}, {"response": 16, "author": "LushLips", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (01:19)", "body": "hiya"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (08:54)", "body": "Welcome Fran, first time poster?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (23:26)", "body": "Hiya, LushLips!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (23:27)", "body": "oh wer, your titles get more and more interesting! *grin*"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (23:32)", "body": "Shall we? I'll meet you there..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Mar 11, 1998 (23:33)", "body": "k...."}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (19:11)", "body": "hey 13... *smile* alright, shopping is out. Can anyone think of ANYTHING better than great sex (as there are infinitely better things than bad sex) with a cherished one (souly OR superficially!) ??? C'mon Paul... seven unadulterated hours with a T-1 connection?? Autumn... bottomless supply of the darkest, richest chocolate??? --- nick, wolf and WER... I think I couldn't even come close to tempting you away from the pleasures of the flesh! (maybe tempt you WITH the pleasures of the flesh...)"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (19:38)", "body": "Hey I get the T-1 all the time. Nothing new."}, {"response": 24, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (00:28)", "body": "i dunno... it depends upon one's perspective, perhaps... and upon one's definitions... first, what exactly is a \"cherished one\"? ) (does this necessarily imply love?)... and second- not to sound like the attorneys of a certain cheap arkansas slut- but how does one define \"sex\"? (sigh) (i'm not making sense)... it's like... well, \"consummation\" (or self-abuse, for you ditto-heads) is great and all... but after awhile... well, you know what i mean... the lustre wears off, a little... unless it is accompanied by real depth of feeling, or love or whatever... otherwise, it's just another fun thing to do... like playing basketball, maybe... hmmm, it's like, basketball (when you're hitting, and everything's ON)... or run-of-the-mill sex... well, that's no contest, really (because the feeling of letting loose, and just turning 'round and heading upcourt 'cause you just KNOW... well, that's pretty damn sublime)... also, \"goosebump moments\"... moments where you feel \"beauty\", whatever the hell that really is, just wash over you or whatever... like reading the last few pages of \"gatsby\" or \"you can't go home again\"... hearing beethoven's ninth for the first time... reading yeats or auden or keats late at night, something you've read maybe a hundred times before, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, it becomes ALIVE to you, and you're like on fire from it, filled with the poet's intellectual energy and passion and euphoria... (hundreds of other things)... these are superior to \"average\" sex, too (must confess i've never experienced what i would term \"bad\" sex, though... perhaps that is a uniquely female phenomenon...though, um, not unique to any i personally \"know\"... let's be clear on that)... HOWEVER... if it is indeed experienced with one you love... yeah, you're right... nothing's close... that being said, though... indisputably (to me) the holiest aspect of it isn't really sex, per se, at all... it is the, uh, kiss... think the most sublime aspect of human experience (yes, even more sublime than a perfectly executed jump shot) is the act of kissing the woman (or person or whatever) that you love..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (01:59)", "body": "sure you could, Stacey, but I don't have the time to spare right now... besides, I thought chocolate was a pleasure of the flesh... sorry to kill the theory, Nick, but I have had bad sex and it is definitely not any fun... and, I think any touch at the appropriate time is as good as a kiss... (but then again maybe I'm just a considerate smoker...)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:09)", "body": "are you saying the fundamental things apply (as time goes by)?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:14)", "body": "sure, why not? (why do I smell a trap?)"}, {"response": 28, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:20)", "body": "lol... no trap... you know, dooley wilson... \"casablanca\"... (\"a kiss is just a kiss/ a sigh is just a sigh/ the fundamental things apply\"...etc...)"}, {"response": 29, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:28)", "body": "Gotta go take a nap... Ya'll have fun now, ya here..."}, {"response": 30, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (02:34)", "body": "lol... g'night, wer... (hope you get a day off soon)..."}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (10:12)", "body": "wishing everyone the luck o' the Irish! (some of you apparently already have it!) and nick, that was extrememly well stated."}, {"response": 32, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (22:36)", "body": "Nick, it seemed to me that the those things you cited as superior to great sex were borne of an epiphany of sorts...not something you can control happening. I kind of looked at the question like something you could actively choose to do instead of sex (like eat bon-bons and drink espresso), that would have a predictable outcome (like a migraine). And by the way, I'd rather have a pap smear than bad sex."}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (23:20)", "body": "Those could be considered synonymous, you know..."}, {"response": 34, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (02:45)", "body": "examples cited were compared to \"run-of-the-mill\" sex... i agree that sex with someone you love is the highest experience (with kissing stipulation duly noted)... am frankly curious re: notion of \"bad sex\"... from the perspective of a woman, perhaps i can understand... can envision certain scenarios where she might consider the experience \"lacking\" (so to speak)... for a guy, though, i don't really understand the idea of it... (being construed as \"bad\", i mean)... mediocre, lackluster, perfunctory, whatever, that i can imagine... seems like the elements required for the experience to be judged so by a man are so readily apparent (beforehand) as to preclude things altogether... (i mean, you don't have to sleep with cher if you don't really want to)..."}, {"response": 35, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (13:18)", "body": "Yeah, I didn't know guys could have bad sex either..."}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (18:37)", "body": "i guess it is a general consensus then -- no sex is better than bad sex!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (10:43)", "body": "and great sex is better than most everything!"}, {"response": 39, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (15:00)", "body": "Amen!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (10:13)", "body": "Ok...really great, wondermous sex with someone new or really great, wondermous sex with someone you already know and are comfortable with?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (13:23)", "body": "(think a lie may be in order here)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (00:52)", "body": "(okay, then, answer this: what is the largest number of people it is comfortable to participate in group sex with?)"}, {"response": 43, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (01:09)", "body": "(ONE) (constitutionally unable to desire/comprehend more than one woman at a time... don't understand the attraction- can you?)"}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (01:15)", "body": "(think a lie may be in order here) (who said all of them had to be women?)"}, {"response": 45, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (01:44)", "body": "(ummm.....) (com-PLETELY dumbfounded)"}, {"response": 46, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (13:30)", "body": "*wide-eyed* I think i prefer those visuals to remain in fantasy land... (great sex with someone new is possible. on a different plane. the just physical. adds an element of excitment. but, i do prefer the extra strong accompanying emotional bonds)"}, {"response": 47, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (19:33)", "body": "It's a hard call, but I'll pick sex with someone I already know. But kissing someone new beats kissing the same-old same-old any day."}, {"response": 49, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Mar 25, 1998 (23:56)", "body": "Mmmmmmm...hey, I felt you slip me that tongue!"}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Mar 26, 1998 (01:50)", "body": "and I didn't notice you minding, either... (despite your words...)"}, {"response": 51, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Mar 30, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "hmmm, must've read my body language....."}, {"response": 52, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Mar 30, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "Well, Stacey is an excellent instructor... I'd ask for a repeat performance, but I'm no longer a new person, huh?"}, {"response": 54, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr  4, 1998 (04:20)", "body": "Just curious, you know..."}, {"response": 55, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Apr  4, 1998 (23:29)", "body": "(*giggle*) Not sure I know the difference!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Apr  5, 1998 (00:57)", "body": "Want a demonstration or definitions?"}, {"response": 57, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr  5, 1998 (19:33)", "body": "If you have a scanner a demo will be fine! If not I'll settle for an explanation distinguishing between the two..."}, {"response": 58, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:26)", "body": "any short courses available in that subject? y'know the hands on weekenders?"}, {"response": 60, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (19:03)", "body": "which do you prefer?"}, {"response": 61, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (00:00)", "body": "both are nice, I guess it depends on the other person and their relative skill, and their level of interest and/or preference..."}, {"response": 62, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (09:55)", "body": "(love the new name WER!)"}, {"response": 63, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (14:57)", "body": "Thanks, I guess?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (01:14)", "body": "okay, sex on top or sex on bottom?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (15:35)", "body": "sex or an hour with your favourite cuddly toy?"}, {"response": 67, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:00)", "body": "Bottom. I'm lazy. No toys."}, {"response": 68, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:12)", "body": "I know it's been done already, but i want to hear your views: Sex or a top-class meal with your best friend."}, {"response": 70, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (17:42)", "body": "ok, i wonder if there's anything i can post that won't elicit that response from WER? :)"}, {"response": 71, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (18:18)", "body": "I doubt it!! I'll take the dinner."}, {"response": 72, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (19:15)", "body": "Sex or a squeeze of my green, three-eyed alien who goes \"ooooooooooooooo\" when you squeeze him. My mind is already made up, btw."}, {"response": 74, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (21:44)", "body": "aha, knew i'd find you somewhere *wink*"}, {"response": 75, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (21:58)", "body": "didn't know you wanted me THAT bad *wink-wink*"}, {"response": 76, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:00)", "body": "*LOL*"}, {"response": 77, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (15:06)", "body": "git :-)"}, {"response": 78, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:32)", "body": "Mike, the green alien thing is scaring me!"}, {"response": 80, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (14:12)", "body": "And, actually, Mike all of those are very dependant upon my frame of mind at the time. But, in general, I'd hafta say sex. Okay, extended or multiple orgasms?"}, {"response": 81, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:04)", "body": "never gone multiple. but i'm a guy. extended....that brings back memories. i remember a difficult in walking once."}, {"response": 83, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:10)", "body": "Here we go again--need clarification on extended vs. multiple. I am really getting the impression that I am sexually sheltered! That green alien thing went totally over my head!"}, {"response": 84, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (01:27)", "body": "Multiple--orgasms one after another, with very little or no time between Extended--continuous, really long orgasm (up to an hour at times) (btw, it's really fun from the guy's side to facillitate alternating those two types in the same \"session\"...)"}, {"response": 85, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (01:47)", "body": "Okay, how about educational sex or an informative day on the Spring?"}, {"response": 86, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:25)", "body": "aw man... let's go back to the orgasms! extended or multiple depends on which type of orgasm I'm having in the first place. There's the wave kind. You know, that super flushed hot warm feeling that washes over you and makes everything tingly but you never really lose control. There's the super shudder. Usually doesn't last as long as the wave. Stronger and shorter. And then there's the all out, out o control, don't stop and don't wake me up orgasm! Waves are usually extended (usually best right before bed!) I'd rather have multiples of the others though -- doesn't usually happen with the last one though 'cause all my energy is gone with the first one!"}, {"response": 87, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (20:58)", "body": "gee, Stacey, thanks for explaining all that *wink* God! That's the most sex education I've gotten in my whole life! *giggle*"}, {"response": 88, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (00:36)", "body": "Hey, I enjoyed it... Hang on, then, I'm sure there will be more to follow..."}, {"response": 89, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (01:04)", "body": "(done yet???)"}, {"response": 90, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (19:03)", "body": "virtual blushing from this direction ;) I think i'll leave further investigation into all that to some future wife :)"}, {"response": 91, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (00:52)", "body": "almost done now, Stacey...why for you ask? okay, sex one more time with the one you love or sex never again?"}, {"response": 92, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (17:24)", "body": "Hahaha!"}, {"response": 93, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (19:31)", "body": "am confused by that, wer."}, {"response": 94, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "One last time with your favored loved one and then never again or just never again..."}, {"response": 95, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (17:02)", "body": "ahh :)) How about this. Technolust: Sex or a 21\" monitor?"}, {"response": 97, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:10)", "body": "oh but you should know, huh? what about if that's never happened?"}, {"response": 98, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:59)", "body": "Well, I have been told that alot... If what's never happened?"}, {"response": 99, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "had sex with the one you love....and what about this, what if you only had sex with one person in your whole life?"}, {"response": 100, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:04)", "body": "You know what they say about guys with big monitors, Mike--they're overcompensating..... Wolf, interesting query! I think the question applies as long as you have been in love. You didn't ever have to have sex to find this quite a conundrum. I'd pick one more time (what have I got to lose?)"}, {"response": 102, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "Performance anxiety has never been a problem for me."}, {"response": 103, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "always wet and willing and satisfied afterwards, huh? lucky, lucky, lucky"}, {"response": 104, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (00:45)", "body": "It's all in my state of mind. If I'm interested, my body follows my lead...but if I'm not, it's just not going to happen."}, {"response": 105, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (16:52)", "body": "lucky. lucky. lucky. .\u007f *grin*"}, {"response": 106, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (21:56)", "body": "gotta say it too, lucky, lucky, lucky!!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (22:31)", "body": "Sounds as if you should be sharing more of your horizontal secrets, Autumn... inquiring minds want to know, I want to watch...I meant, I want to know!"}, {"response": 108, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (16:05)", "body": "Don't know a good thing when I've got it, I guess! What I am so--er--lucky about? (Other than being married to a great guy, yadda yadda yadda). I mean, what exactly is \"the problem\" we're discussing??"}, {"response": 109, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:47)", "body": "probably we're all envious because you don't have, uh, problems in that area. as for myself, think that would be more than anybody would want to know (I've got a good man, too)"}, {"response": 110, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "actually I was calling myself 'lucky, lucky, lucky' *grin*"}, {"response": 111, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (15:16)", "body": "Oh, join the club, girlfriend! (*wink wink*)"}, {"response": 112, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (23:31)", "body": "cool, I'm like watching and listening in at the same time!!!"}, {"response": 113, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May  5, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "nothing beats a few 'stretching' exercises BEFORE you get out of bed in the morning!"}, {"response": 114, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (13:31)", "body": "okay, sex or a really great workout? (and I love it when you share, Stacey...)"}, {"response": 115, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:51)", "body": "LOL!!"}, {"response": 116, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, May  8, 1998 (18:56)", "body": "A workout?? Good grief! I'd rather have a pap smear than work out..."}, {"response": 117, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, May  8, 1998 (23:17)", "body": "i'd rather work out than have one of those!"}, {"response": 118, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (00:39)", "body": "I have my very own speculum..."}, {"response": 119, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (10:32)", "body": "you would! gross!!"}, {"response": 120, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (21:08)", "body": "work out for me....fitness freak n all that"}, {"response": 121, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, May 10, 1998 (22:28)", "body": "Why do I suspect it's decorated and sitting on your coffee table as an objet d'art?"}, {"response": 122, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:05)", "body": "back to the original question WER... sex of course! Although I'm not opposed to getting a workout in during sex! And for Wolf and Autumn... give me spandex ANYday! I'd even wear a thong before going in for the annual pap!"}, {"response": 123, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (00:12)", "body": "(actually, it's at work, Autumn...)"}, {"response": 124, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (21:06)", "body": "Don't tell me you use it for stuffing turkeys...."}, {"response": 125, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:19)", "body": "nope, they're not on the menu"}, {"response": 126, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (18:48)", "body": "Is it just a conversation-piece?"}, {"response": 127, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (18:56)", "body": "something like that..."}, {"response": 128, "author": "Cid", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (21:15)", "body": "Hey,I'm new so let me catch up on what your topics are on k?"}, {"response": 129, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (21:42)", "body": "No problem! Welcome, we're glad to have you here!"}, {"response": 130, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (09:49)", "body": "Welcome cid. Some popular conferences here are food restaurants philosophy porch genx sex When you get caught up, your conference list feature lets you see what's new every time you come back and log in."}, {"response": 131, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May 14, 1998 (20:11)", "body": "Hey Cid, glad to have you here!"}, {"response": 132, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (12:48)", "body": "sex or philosophy? better yet, sex or the foreknowledge of the time and place of your death?"}, {"response": 133, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (17:57)", "body": "ignorance is bliss... gimme the raw pleasure!"}, {"response": 134, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (00:34)", "body": "oh, you're just saying that..."}, {"response": 135, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, May 17, 1998 (23:42)", "body": "Naaah, I'm with Stacey...some things are best left a mystery."}, {"response": 136, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (18:22)", "body": "what the hell good would it do you to know where and when you were going to die? Do you have some irrational hope that you could avert the situation? Or think that you could somehow prepare yourself for what will still essentially be the unknown?"}, {"response": 137, "author": "jgross", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (05:31)", "body": "I'd find out how much time I have to live. Last week I had a precognitive dream that I would die tomorrow in a bulky kiddy car....a kiddy car wreck victim....just another fatal statistic. Probably should be my last post, then. Sure didn't want it to end like this. If only you knew how much I loved you all. My cadaver will slobber over the memories. I just wish you could come with me. No I don't. I don't. I do not wish that."}, {"response": 138, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, May 20, 1998 (16:20)", "body": "Leplep... please id yourself!"}, {"response": 139, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:18)", "body": "no, not a bulky kiddie car! The horror...I can't watch....*peeking between the fingers*...well, is he dead yet? (and to answer the topic, sex, definately)"}, {"response": 140, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:26)", "body": "not sex defiantly? okay, sex with chocolate flavored massage oil or sex with coffee flavored massage oil? (must say, personally, I would want one flavor on one person, one on the other, and try and make the perfect mochaccino!)"}, {"response": 141, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:46)", "body": "I hate those flavoured massage oils - they remind me of flavoured condoms, at I hate those too. I like the smell and feel of my husband's skin; he has a really rough, hard skin, and it smells warm - wouldn't want to trade that for the smell of coffee (yuk!) or chocolate, it's too artificial."}, {"response": 142, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (08:06)", "body": "I second the 'original scent' motion! Gotta love those pheremones!"}, {"response": 143, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:22)", "body": "me, too! nothin' beats that just got outta the shower smell of my hubby, too bad no one has bottled that up and sold it (and i don't mean eau de toilette, either)"}, {"response": 144, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (05:58)", "body": "Absolutely! We girls are just so practical. They don't even have to bottle the smell either - one can just lure one's man into the shower . . . much more romantic."}, {"response": 145, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (20:03)", "body": "or into the brandnew jacuzzi bathtub!!! (i love this new house!)"}, {"response": 146, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "oh i'm so jealous! it's too easy to lure my man in the shower, well, if we ever make it there ;)"}, {"response": 147, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:15)", "body": "Jacuzzi!!?!?!?! Why in the he\ufffd\ufffd do you come here at all, Stacey??? I'd never get out again!"}, {"response": 148, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (08:38)", "body": "less fun when Brandon is out of town... as he is yet again! (lived in this house for 12 days and he's been here 3 1/2 of those.)"}, {"response": 149, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (08:47)", "body": "Sorry to hear that. What does he do then, that he has to be away so often?"}, {"response": 150, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (14:22)", "body": "he's an acoustical engineer... that really explains nothing. He has the rare trait (in engineers) that allows him to also be extremely sociable as well as technical. So all the 'business dealings' go much more smoothly with him along... he doesn't have the stigma of 'SALESMAN' but he can relate to people beyond the technical realm. The travel goes in spurts. He will be home for nearly a whole month after this. Last August, he was home 6 1/2 days out of the whole month but last October, he was gone for only 72 hours. *sigh*"}, {"response": 151, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:47)", "body": "Hmm, that's the unfortunate thing about living with a nice person, huh? But it's great that he's so good with people - it's not often that people in that line of work can actually take care of anything un-technical, so it's actually a positive pain in the arse. Luckily Chris is such an old blockhead, no-one ever sends him on conferences or stuff like that. If a conference or talk gets too boring for him, which happens alot, he gets up and walks out. When he has to give a speech, he stands there with a big, ugly, black scowl on his face, frightening people. None of that English diplomacy to be found in him. Once we had these people over; they were boring as hell - Swiss musicians. By about eight he had enough, so he said, 'Come, Skat, let's go to bed, the people want to go home.' And that's exactly what he did!!! No wonder it took him so long to find a wife, the old grump. And it says alot that I was the one who fell in love with him . . . . Ha-ha!!"}, {"response": 152, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (23:55)", "body": "I'll have to remember that line for future reference!"}, {"response": 153, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (04:28)", "body": "ha-ha! Perhaps I shouldn't have shared . . ."}, {"response": 154, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (04:11)", "body": "well, now that all of that is over... sex with your favorite comic book character? or sex with your favorite cartoon character? (and, yes, I know that those can be synonymous...)"}, {"response": 155, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (04:55)", "body": "Johnny Bravo, HERE I come!"}, {"response": 156, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (08:06)", "body": "Jumps into his 3d Cherry comic book."}, {"response": 157, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "Geez, that's a tough one...I'm torn between Tintin and Speed Racer..."}, {"response": 158, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (02:03)", "body": "ha-ha!!!"}, {"response": 159, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (13:49)", "body": "hee-hee!!! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 5, "subject": "Embarassing Things I Did in the '80s", "response_count": 32, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:36)", "body": "Item 3 31-MAY-94 23:19 Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) Embarrassing Things I Did in the '80s Admit it -- you too wore parachute pants to the Video Bar in Deep Ellum, bought a Naked Eyes cassette and went to A Flock of Seagulls concert. What's the cheesiest, most decadent, trend-hopping things you did in th '80s? 40 responses selected of 40 total 3:1) Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) 31-MAY-94 23:21 Okay, I, um ... (fidget) ... I (clearing throat) .. went to the Starck Club, ritually. I drove with my friends from Austin all the way to Dallas almost every weekend with hopes of seeing Grace Jones on the dancefloor in her vinyl mini-bra. - - - - - 3:2) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 13:37 At the ripe old age of 14 years old I moved in to an apartment with a 25 year old man and drove a motorcycle around town in parachute pants. Does that count? And believe me, I am very embarassed about it. - - - - - 3:3) Mikey Z (suprnaut) 01-JUN-94 18:19 i keep thinking about what i paid for those goddam parachute pants. suckers cost to high heaven when they first came out ... in the '80s, me and my roommate threw a party \"celebrating\" rosarita's refrie beans (remember that commercial?). everyone was forced to dress in gag costumes picked up from the local goodwill. - - - - - 3:4) Ben Cohen (bcj) 01-JUN-94 21:59 I used to wear Vans, those checkerboard-patterned shoes, and OP shorts to high school everyday. Actually, they were really comfortable. Whatever happened to surf fashion, anyway? - - - - - 3:5) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:50 Where did you go to high school Ben? Anyway, yeah I remember Vans. Oh, another truly embarassing thing, I dated this guy who was really cool and I liked him a lot but one day he came over to my house and he had gotten a mohawk (something I had no clue he was gonna do). My mother answered the door and I was walking up behind her. I just barely got a glimpse of Houston before my mother slammed the door in his face and turned around and slapped me. I was soo humiliated. - - - - - 3:6) Melina C. Larson (melina) 02-JUN-94 9:24 She slapped _you_ because a friend of yours got a mohawk? Life is so unfair. I didn't go to a Flock of Seagulls concert, but I did go to a Missing Persons concert. Is that close enough? - - - - - 3:7) Holly Iles (holly) 02-JUN-94 13:15 Yeah, my mother used to have problems with everything I did. We didn't get along very well. She was really whacked out of her gourd. Trust me on this one. - - - - - 3:8) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-JUN-94 17:35 ooo! just thought of a new one -- remember those cans of hairspray that spurted out glistening pieces of glittery stuff? only girls used the stuff -- it came in red, green, gold and silver. maybe blue, i forget. me and my girlfriends would actually wear this stuff out to concerts and stuff. we must have looked idiotic. - - - - - 3:9) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-JUN-94 2:39 oh -- also, i was one of the first girls in my class to get a \"spike\" haircut. in retrospect, it must have looked ridiculous. - - - - - 3:10) Holly D. Iles (holly) 21-JUN-94 13:50 I wore four inch heels with spandex pants and matching shirt with black lipstick and at least an inch of makeup...all in black...my poor mother. - - - - - 3:11) melissa marie (suprnaut) 21-JUN-94 21:42 holly, i've never even met you, and i must confess that the above visual image seems nigh to impossible! well, i did a really embarrassing thing that was *very* '80s - i drove a bronze camaro during my senior year in high school -- with an eight-track tape deck installed! - - - - - 3:12) Holly D. Iles (holly) 21-JUN-94 22:06 I was a rather wild teen....I've mellowed unbelievably to my old high school buds. - - - - - 3:13) Ben Cohen (bcj) 22-JUN-94 16:43 James Garner drove a bronze camaro in The Rockford Files. He was cool. - - - - - 3:14) Holly D. Iles (holly) 22-JUN-94 17:12 Yeah, Jim was COOL! Anyone seen Maverick yet? - - - - - 3:15) melissa marie (suprnaut) 22-JUN-94 17:20 nope, but i'd like to, just to ogle mel gibson (yum!). speaking of 80's stuff, i also had a crush on roger taylor, the drummer from queen. how embarrassing is *that* folks? - - - - - 3:16) luna (luna) 22-JUN-94 17:47 i must admit an irrepressible urge to dance to late 70's disco music, and glam rockers like prince really tweak the old adolescent hormones. :) - - - - - 3:17) Ray Thibodeaux (raythi) 22-JUN-94 20:00 one of the most embarrasing 80s moments was running to catch up to a girl I had a crush on and it was so windy that day I bent my head down not looking where I was going and pow! ran into a lightpole...luckily she didn't see me. I had blood on my forehead--had to get 8 stitches, 6 inside--and couldn't explain to my friends how I got the stitches. The girl is long gone but the scar is still there. Ah, love... - - - - - 3:18) Holly D. Iles (holly) 23-JUN-94 0:16 r Roger Taylor? That's nothing. I actually had a crush on...Oh god...this IS embarassing...Sean Cassidy...a do run run run a do run run...hehkkkk. Pete Townsen"}, {"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "I think I avoided a lot of that overtly campy stuff, like wearing polo shirts with the collar sticking up or having a bi-level haircut, but I do seem to recall having a headband--the kind you wear across your forehead--and thinking I looked HOT in it."}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (18:57)", "body": "as i remember... it was 'foxy.'"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (07:32)", "body": "Jimi Hendrix helped out headbands. Let's see, who else popularized headbands?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (21:48)", "body": "Of course, Pat Benatar! Come one folks, let's hear that embarassing tale that you're keeping in the closet! Do tell!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (22:18)", "body": "Olivia Newton-John with the get physical thing.... yeah, i did the preppy collar thing, no bi-level haircuts, but i did have the feathered short hair, i was hot (laugh) and a geeky nerd no matter how i dressed!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar  5, 1998 (03:22)", "body": "The thing I guess I'm really most embarrassed about--and this is not really a \"genX\" kind of situation--is hitchhiking with my girlfriend to the roller rink when we were 15 with a butcher knife for protection. It comes more under the heading of \"Stupidest thing\" than \"Most embarrassing.\""}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:02)", "body": "at least you had protection, got too wild, you could always cut it off *grin*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:12)", "body": "You know it, girlfriend!! :-)"}, {"response": 12, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (19:06)", "body": "hey, i wore a shellsuit. top and bottoms. shite."}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:38)", "body": "Shellsuit? Please enlighten me, I am clueless..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:52)", "body": "isn't a shellsuit one of those all in one polyester getups? i had one in the 4th grade, that was, what? late 70's?? (BTW, mine was bright orange)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (23:09)", "body": "I bet you looked smashing in your class photo, Wolf!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (12:52)", "body": "do have a pic of it, looking way cool (not!) in a long-sleeved striped shirt that didn't match no how (and the orange thing was short-sleeved)...hey, mom dressed me funny-at best, she tried, look what she had to work with!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (18:41)", "body": "you didn't have shellsuits???? They were a big late eighties/early nineties thing. Made from crinkly nylon, and cut the same as normal tracksuits...lovely things, truly lovely."}, {"response": 18, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (20:38)", "body": "you talkin' about those wind suit deals? you know, the separate top and bottom that goes swish swish everytime you move? yeah, we have those. thought you were working on a liesure suit!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (11:55)", "body": "yup, a \"wind suit\" if you like :)) v. v. v. embarrassing."}, {"response": 20, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (19:04)", "body": "hey, i loved mine. didn't have anything else to wear, you could always throw that thing on *grin*"}, {"response": 21, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (09:47)", "body": "not any more, thankfully :)"}, {"response": 22, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (18:25)", "body": "i dunno, still popular over here (but i don't own one anymore)"}, {"response": 23, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (21:23)", "body": "My daughter has one and thinks she looks so cool in it because she hung a troll off the zipper."}, {"response": 24, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (21:56)", "body": "how sweet! *lol*"}, {"response": 25, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (19:32)", "body": "tell her that when she's 18 ;)"}, {"response": 27, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "LOL!!! Good one! Make sure you put a hit counter on the site!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "LOL!!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:06)", "body": "By then the topic will be called \"Embarrassing things I did in the 90s\"!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:37)", "body": "you got that, autumn!"}, {"response": 31, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:23)", "body": "i've been thinking about that sort of thing just recently. what will I look back on from this decade of my life and just think \"oh NO....did I *really* do that???\""}, {"response": 32, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:35)", "body": "Yup, you're a work in progress, Mike...the motive and opportunity to do embarrassing things decreases once you get past, say, 25."}, {"response": 33, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:42)", "body": "my housemate yesterday described me as having a \"problem with ever being embarrassed\", which apparently is why I don't take chances with things. hmm...need to see a psych, which is a bit scary."}, {"response": 34, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:49)", "body": "yeah, but one thing about being over, say 25, is that you're more in tune to yourself so if you do something embarrassing, you can laugh!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Oct 18, 2005 (13:32)", "body": "hey, do you gals remember prairie skirts and shirts? my mom stayed up all night to make the outfit for christmas. i was the HAPPIEST girl on the planet! and now they're back!! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 6, "subject": "First jobs from hell and beyond", "response_count": 16, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (04:38)", "body": "Item 4 31-MAY-94 23:24 Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) First Jobs From Hell and Beyond Burger slinging, clerking at Dad's office, scrubbing the fleas off mutts at the corner vets (whoever said the work ethic was dead?) What was your very first job, and what was it like? 27 responses selected of 27 total 4:1) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 13:38 My very first job that actually paid regularly was at the sonic on Stassney. - - - - - 4:2) Ben Cohen (bcj) 01-JUN-94 22:01 Mine was at the Orange Julius in Barton Creek Mall. I was a dashing figure in my brown and orange polyester vest and hat. - - - - - 4:3) Terry (terry) 01-JUN-94 23:23 The Algonquin Golf Course in Clayton, MO. a suburb of St. Louis. It was good exercise but boring to sit around waiting in the shack. - - - - - 4:4) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:51 hey Terry (terry), Alex is from Independence, MO. Wonder if y'all know any of the same ppl? hmmm, it's a long shot but it could happen. - - - - - 4:5) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:51 Have you ever gone to Omega Kega? - - - - - 4:6) Terry (terry) 02-JUN-94 0:01 Nope, I grew up around St. Louis and Chautauqua, Illinois. Independence was a ways off. Went there once on a school field trip. - - - - - 4:7) Holly Iles (holly) 02-JUN-94 0:18 ll oh well, knew it to be a long shot. - - - - - 4:8) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-JUN-94 17:37 first job was clerking in a hospital, and it really sucked. i had to wear white polyester pants and tops, even though i was *not* a certified medical worker. there was this sleazy lab technician (married) who used to come on to me in the cafeteria line. it was hellish. - - - - - 4:9) Holly Iles (holly) 03-JUN-94 1:12 oh god, polyester white pants...it >must poor thing. - - - - - 4:10) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-JUN-94 2:40 one of my mom's friends got me the job -- needless to say, it didn't pay jack shit. - - - - - 4:11) Clay Colwell (eris) 29-JUN-94 15:43 First 3 jobs -- cashier at a Tom Thumb (when was the last time you saw a 15-year-old working the cash register [*not* a laser scanner, but an honest-to-Gawd keypad]?), file clerk in Accts Rcvable at Seton Hospital, and pizza architect at Conan's (do they still treat their help like crap?). - - - - - 4:12) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-JUN-94 18:15 never had the priviledge in working in food service, clay. that was one thing my parents drew the line at. i did, however, take a second job at this miserable place called \"nutrisystem\" (weight loss center). My job was to sit behind the receptionist's desk and mind the non-ringing phone. Oh - and look cute and pleasant. - - - - - 4:13) Holly D. Iles (holly) 29-JUN-94 21:05 Is that place (nutrisystem) as big a joke as I think it is? - - - - - 4:14) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-JUL-94 19:07 you betcha. i couldn't believe the amount of $$$ people spent joining a program that taught them how to eat right! - - - - - 4:15) Sean Simmons (seans) 22-JUL-94 0:16 My first job was at Round Table Pizza and lasted five weeks. I got fired for being too slow at 'painting' pizzas. Imagine that, rejected by a pizza parlor. To this day it still doesn't bother me. - - - - - 4:16) I haven't decided (melina) 22-JUL-94 8:48 My very first job was working for the Park District of Urbana, Illinois. I worked in Busey Woods, mostly maintaining the trails -- which involved trundling a wheelbarrow full of wood chips deep into the forest coz there was no way that a truck could get back there, dumping it out in a big mud puddle, raking it out, then trundling all the way back for more. Also had to cut back excessive plant growth that was threatening to overrun the trails. Also had to pick up litter. Also had to build little wooden footbridges and such things. This was the summer of 1986. I was sixteen. Two good things came of this job: (1) I got a free pool pass (2) I met my mate, who was a frequent visitor to these woods. - - - - - 4:17) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 06-AUG-94 0:10 My first job was at Dunkin' Donuts in New York. I was a \"baker's assistant\" which meant tht I got to scrape the icing off the floors dump the stale donuts and coffee grounds into our bee-infested dumpster while getting stung repeatedly. I lasted one month and quit when I cound distinguish between my nose and the welts on my face from the beestings. - - - - - 4:18) I haven't decided (melina) 06-AUG-94 9:00 well, that's worse than mine for sure. I didn't get stung once. Sunburned, maybe. - - - - - 4:19) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-AUG-94 17:22 yeesh, howard ... my condolences. - - - - - 4:20) brassman (brassman) (brassman) 31-AUG-94 3:12 humm very first job was ..um..working with my dad and my brother in law. My dad was a painting contractor and so when I was in high skool I would work with him during the summers ometimes- it sucked- esp cuz I dont get along with my dad and my sister eventually divorced my brother in law;) So al in all a pretty lame entry into the working world. - - - - - 4:21) Stefan Smagula (smag) 10-FEB-95 14:23 My first job"}, {"response": 2, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (15:40)", "body": "Actually, it wasn't my first job that sucked, but my last one (1992). I worked for a family of antique postcard dealers. The only heat source was a woodstove that they fed with--no lie--the garbage they brought from home. The air quality hit an all-time low when they started throwing disposable diapers in it. We used to drive into the parking lot and look up and see black smoke belching out of the chimney. *shudder* Reminded me of a concentration camp."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (07:35)", "body": "I worked in an auto parts store, parts of it sucked and parts were ok. I learned a lot about parts and got some good exercise scaling up and down 20' high shelves looking for rotors and alternators. The part that sucked most was filling up lead acid batteries, acid is hell on jeans."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (20:16)", "body": "ok, y'all don't jump on me....am still in my first job (besides the time i was a *gulp* secretary part time for a local small town church)......"}, {"response": 5, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:32)", "body": "wow! You are messing up all the statistics!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:47)", "body": "OK, does it count that even though I work for the same \"people\", I am doing a new thing? (like way new, required retraining and stuff)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:21)", "body": "It counts. Same employer, but totally different job, right? Ain't the government wonderful? (by the way, my mother retired last week from her position as our church secretary)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:00)", "body": "good for her! Thanks for backing me up, Autumn."}, {"response": 10, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:22)", "body": "So, where are they sending you off to now? I'm guessing Bosnia, by the sound of things....."}, {"response": 11, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (20:59)", "body": "just overseas, very hot place and that's all i really know. :("}, {"response": 12, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:39)", "body": "Yup, it's Bosnia...they tried to send my husband to Saudi last year for 4 months but I nixed it. The guy they sent instead came back with TB...."}, {"response": 13, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:40)", "body": "Am I cheering you up any, Wolf? (*sheepish grin*)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 21, 1998 (22:54)", "body": "yeah, i feel real good now :{ (watch out with those sheepish grins around a wolf *giggle*)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, May 29, 1999 (06:24)", "body": "My first boss was a clown."}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, May 30, 1999 (14:12)", "body": "were you, by chance, his gorgeous assistant?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, May 31, 1999 (21:24)", "body": "ha-ha!!! genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 7, "subject": "BodMods", "response_count": 121, "posts": [{"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (13:32)", "body": "wouldn't mind a navel ring (on me) but the tongue/nipple/penis stuff is over piercing IMHO. Tattoos can be tasteful, don't like implants (maybe jealousy IS a factor!)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (19:39)", "body": "Hair color is about as radical as I get. To be honest, all that other stuff smacks of self-mutilation, IMHO."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "(he's been working too hard. or at least too much!)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (10:48)", "body": "it doesn't work with me but I thought the statement might help others understand! *smile*"}, {"response": 10, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (10:55)", "body": "I'll check back later this morning. My kids should be arriving soon and I haven't put up the quote for the day yet! Add much fondness to the Alfredo sauce (and mushrooms!) it'll make it taste even better!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (16:48)", "body": "howdy! kids are at gym."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Apr  4, 1998 (23:33)", "body": "What more can I say? I don't think I'm one of those dewy-eyed earth mother types, but there's no way I'd consider implanting a foreign material in my body for cosmetic reasons."}, {"response": 18, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr  5, 1998 (19:36)", "body": "In a word, yes. (I do wear earrings because my ear lobes have no function to perform. However, I need my tongue, nose, etc. for other, more important biological functioning)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr  6, 1998 (16:27)", "body": "nice differentiation!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Apr  7, 1998 (22:19)", "body": "How do you know the tattoo ink doesn't interfere with the way your skin cells function? I would argue that anything introduced into the body has an effect on the way it performs. I personally think men's nipples are very erotic and spitting out an earring would not be my idea of a good time, but to each his own, I guess. I don't consider anything in the latter paragraph mutilation, just vanity. I'll trim my nails but won't polish them (you know what they put in that stuff?? About a zillion carcinogens) And I really feel sorry for women that think men give a damn about their eyebrows...."}, {"response": 23, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (00:33)", "body": "I guess some insecurities are best accepted, and some best empowered. I count anything that can be aroused as performing a biological function--but please keep your tongue out of my ear! (by the way--the red ink allergy, did you find out the hard way??)"}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (09:59)", "body": "LOL! Autumn, I'm not sure about you but ear nibbling is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged), it's when men think jamming their tongue down into your ear is a turn on... yuk! Ever wind up with so much spit in your ear, you felt like you just got out of the swimming pool? (me neither, but the thought has occured to me!)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (15:06)", "body": "Ha ha, sounds like a wet willy!! I must confess the ear has never been an erogenous zone for moi. (But I've got plenty of other orifices, wer!)"}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (09:53)", "body": "do we need an 'acceptable erogenous zones' topic, or should we just include that banter under 'sex'?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (16:30)", "body": "letting it all hang out..."}, {"response": 32, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:10)", "body": "HAHA!! This was hilarious!! did the naval thing, lasted ten minutes....hurt like hell.... refuse to pierce anything else, not so much as i don't like it as to what i'm willing to expose to be pierced....(got two in each ear), not an erotic place for me, no wet willies pleeeeze! feel like there's drool in my ear drum, yuk!! ok, what about implants?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:17)", "body": "you know they do that now, right? hey, what about those guys/gals who get the hooks in their bods? that gives me the creeps!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:26)", "body": "ooooo, wer the vampire *kinky* yeah, like stoned, huh?"}, {"response": 38, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (22:33)", "body": "(way cool!) i'd have to be dead before i'd let anyone shove hooks in my bod...just can't imagine myself being staked to a rack with these hooks and pulleys, *shudder*"}, {"response": 39, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (15:13)", "body": "i've been tempted by a tummy ring for ages, but it's become such a girl-thing in the UK that people would probably question my gender if i did :)) I'm toying with an eyebrow ring at the moment, although i'm unsure. I've been toying with that for about, like, six months now :)"}, {"response": 40, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "what? no nipple piercing? don't do the eyebrow thing, it'll swell. Guys do their navals here, but many more do the nipple(s). Whatever you do, it'll hurt, so prepare yourself."}, {"response": 42, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "*giggle*"}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:34)", "body": "ugh! perish the thought WER!"}, {"response": 45, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:27)", "body": "yeah. i can imagine my face swelling up like a balloon, but it just looks so cool :)"}, {"response": 46, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (17:31)", "body": "well, probably better than your tongue swelling up, can you imagine not being able to shut your mouth and drooling everywhere? oh....wait, you can.....(claire danes?)"}, {"response": 48, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (21:14)", "body": "so you know this from....experience? do you have your tongue pierced wer?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "looked at a few piercing and tat mags last night... some people can take it a bit far for my tastes!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:01)", "body": "woo hoo!! When I was in Richmond last year, I checked out some of those mags and, whew! Some people really have balls (know what i mean?)"}, {"response": 52, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:02)", "body": "woo hoo!! When I was in Richmond last year, I checked out some of those mags and, whew! Some people really have balls (know what i mean?) BTW, Stacey, did you see the stuff involving pearls?"}, {"response": 53, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (21:03)", "body": "(figured I'd say all that stuff again)"}, {"response": 54, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (18:23)", "body": "It bore repeating."}, {"response": 56, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (01:05)", "body": "and it made me nasueous!!!(sP?)"}, {"response": 57, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (19:11)", "body": "claire swooning is a big thing. big story re: claire swooning, actually. i went to the most fashionable club on the South Coast last Friday, and met this absolutely unbelievably amazingly swoonily beautiful girl, who I later realised looked a heck of a lot like Claire Danes. And darn me if I didn't let her leave without getting her phone number. But no, there is more. She was with her two sisters (oo-er;), and I walked past one of them today. Maybe. I wasn't sure at first, then I was kind of sure, then I was certain, and by that time it was too late. Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. This girl has got me, like, all over the place - she keeps popping up in those thought things that I've heard people have. The word for the last five days is: SHIT. :))"}, {"response": 58, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (22:28)", "body": "ok, go back to the club! *grin*"}, {"response": 59, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 22, 1998 (16:24)", "body": "now I'm confused Mike... is this the new woman???"}, {"response": 60, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (18:45)", "body": "no, its not the new woman, who isn't in fact the new woman, just the new one to chase after. it's all a bit confusing, really :) The new woman (blonde n stuff...I must have mentioned her) is called Naomi; the girl I met in the club is called Sophie. There, we can talk names now :)) and yeah, i'm planning on going back to the club this weekend (24 hours to go!) Whether she'll be there or not is a total hit n miss, but i'm going to try and not even think about it....if she's there, bonus, if not...no problem. :))) I'm planning on having a t-shirt printed with I.D.I.O.T. on it :)"}, {"response": 61, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 23, 1998 (20:41)", "body": "my baby girl is Sophia! (know what it feels like to have \"walk all over me\" on a t-shirt, actually, run around with a welcome mat wrapped around my middle)"}, {"response": 62, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 24, 1998 (09:41)", "body": "ouch. good luck Mike!!!"}, {"response": 63, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 27, 1998 (23:04)", "body": "so??????"}, {"response": 64, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (19:35)", "body": "nope"}, {"response": 65, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (20:55)", "body": "nope? nope!? what, you didn't go, she wasn't there? details, give me details!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (17:12)", "body": "i went. she wasn't there. but i still had an AMAZING time. i had the most amazingly good weekend of my life, actually, which was very very cool."}, {"response": 67, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "WHAT? Without this woman you were beating yourself up over? And....??"}, {"response": 68, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:08)", "body": "You're forgetting Naomi, wolf...maybe they're getting to know each other better. Some romances start with a slow simmer, not a rolling boil..."}, {"response": 69, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 29, 1998 (22:38)", "body": "true!"}, {"response": 70, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (16:53)", "body": "and the status MIke????"}, {"response": 71, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (21:58)", "body": "dunno about him, but back on subject....got an email at work concerning nipple piercing. a young man went and had his done. now he's in ICU and they don't know if he's gonna make it. he's got massive body cavity infections as a result. sound's like they did it wrong or he didn't take care of himself after."}, {"response": 73, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (22:44)", "body": "no, he went to a \"body shop.\" (hi wer)"}, {"response": 75, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (22:49)", "body": "not much, thought i scared ya with my email. oh, my naval was done at a recommended body shop."}, {"response": 77, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (22:57)", "body": "yeah. guesso. just kinda mixed up. you been real busy cookin', huh?"}, {"response": 79, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (23:05)", "body": "no worries, mate! (surprised you had so much to say *grin*) are things settled now?"}, {"response": 81, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (23:15)", "body": "well, it's that anoniminity thing, i say stuff i probably wouldn't say face-to-face. OK, i take that back, SOME stuff i WOULD say, as age has loosened me up a bit *grin* my husband catches stuff too. just to prove how silly he's being, i say i'm talking to my boyfriend! he knows better because we have fought over this thing for awhile until he finally got it into his head that there's nothing to freak about."}, {"response": 83, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "gotcha, feel the same way too. have more interesting conversations and learn a lot!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "well, it got moved back a week. now it's next week that i zoom, but we'll see."}, {"response": 86, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 30, 1998 (23:35)", "body": "am sleepy, night!"}, {"response": 88, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May  1, 1998 (17:16)", "body": "way to ge us back on topic wolf!! (response 71!) *smile* WER, I never know if things are going better for you at home or not and Wolf, you always seem so jolly it's hard to imagine too many 'black clouds' in your life (unless I'm reading through the poetry posts). Either way, hugs to you both. and a neck rub (they always make me feel better!)"}, {"response": 89, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, May  1, 1998 (19:46)", "body": "t'anks, i needed that *smile*"}, {"response": 91, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (16:10)", "body": "Aww, geez guys, *group hug*...I want all of you to have happiness and peace in your lives (real & virtual). I think our higher intelligence quotient per capita (!) renders us more empathetic than some of the people in our everyday lives..."}, {"response": 92, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:39)", "body": "my personal tailor (*grin*) had a celtic band tatoo on his arm, and it looks really great. now i'm tempted by that. opinions?"}, {"response": 93, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (19:51)", "body": "depends, does he have a weeny arm? do you have a weeny arm? how big is the tatoo? are there any pics of just your arm out there? help me out here!"}, {"response": 94, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:01)", "body": "not a bad size arm, and getting bigger. not particularly thick (especially from the back), but very well defined. i would say my arms are probably larger than his."}, {"response": 95, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:05)", "body": "how big was the tatoo? in width? (and is it something you'd want Claire to see?)"}, {"response": 96, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:09)", "body": "probably about half an inch wide claire? she'd probably love it ;)"}, {"response": 97, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (20:12)", "body": "get as much info as you can, make an educated decision....(and go to a good place!)"}, {"response": 98, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:19)", "body": "anybody see tattoos and skin on tbs tonight? don't think y'all are gonna catch me in a body shop anytime soon. and they had branding! some gal has a thing for fans (talkin' cool ya off fans) and had a metal press of a box fan. anyway, she had her fan custom made to accomodate branding (they didn't heat up the metal deal and press that in) the brander drew up a template of the box fan then took metal sticks, heated them with a propane lighter and....well, i don't need to go there."}, {"response": 99, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:36)", "body": "gots a question, you know how some folks wear an ornament between the eyes, right at the top of their nose? well, does that bar deal gro all the way through the skin? since the skin is pretty tight there, how do they pierce it?"}, {"response": 100, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "where you be?"}, {"response": 101, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:37)", "body": "oh, i'm 100!! lemme correct my typo: does that bar deal GO all the way through......"}, {"response": 102, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:38)", "body": "hey! you snuck that right in. ok, so i was 101, sorry...."}, {"response": 103, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:39)", "body": "(and actually, most folks wear the \"ornament\" BEHIND their eyes) (as i know too, um, well)..."}, {"response": 104, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:41)", "body": "whatdaya mean \"behind\" the eyes? you talkin' the brow ring?"}, {"response": 105, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:42)", "body": "(never mind)"}, {"response": 106, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "NEVER MIND?????? no way, i gotta know now!"}, {"response": 108, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:46)", "body": "was simply referring to the largely ornamental aspect of human intelligence (and mine, too)..."}, {"response": 109, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:47)", "body": "yowch! guess it's better than the fishhook deal for navals, not to mention all the pulling and tugging to get that darned ball deal in place. felt like he was gonna rip open my tummy-tum"}, {"response": 110, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sun, May  3, 1998 (23:48)", "body": "(nick, you're silly *smile*) (wer, thanks for clearing that up, and do you know this from experience? you gotta a bar between your eyeballs?)"}, {"response": 111, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May  4, 1998 (10:02)", "body": "not unless it grew there within the last four months! (please don't go there WER!)"}, {"response": 113, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May  5, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "no penis piercing either!"}, {"response": 115, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (14:43)", "body": "certainly an interesting idea, if incredibly painful. i'm intrigued as to what it would feel like. Having it done would be evil itself, but afterwards.....am just intrigued. probably more so than about any other piercing, too.....stay tuned, stay scared ';)"}, {"response": 116, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "i'm scared..."}, {"response": 117, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (17:02)", "body": "why for?"}, {"response": 118, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (19:21)", "body": "ok, but if you get the pearls, i'm just gonna fall outta my chair!"}, {"response": 119, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:19)", "body": "if I could but afford them..."}, {"response": 120, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:33)", "body": "now i'm scared *grin*"}, {"response": 121, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:37)", "body": "yeah, yeah, yeah..."}, {"response": 122, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:38)", "body": "*heehee* (nighty-night)"}, {"response": 123, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:44)", "body": "aw, Autumn's on now, too... coulda been a party..."}, {"response": 124, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:49)", "body": "Party on Wolf & wer!!"}, {"response": 125, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (22:51)", "body": "has anyone noticed that our discourse on bodmods has surpassed our discourse on sex or...?"}, {"response": 126, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:15)", "body": "guess they're more controversial! Sex = yes. Bodmods? hmmmm....."}, {"response": 127, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:21)", "body": "guess for super-reading, should combine 'em into the sex or bodmods topic... btw, Hiya, Autumn!"}, {"response": 128, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:22)", "body": "or maybe a sex with modbods topic..."}, {"response": 129, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:23)", "body": "Euuuwwwww!"}, {"response": 130, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May  6, 1998 (23:33)", "body": "Aren't you even a little curious?"}, {"response": 131, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (00:10)", "body": "Nyet."}, {"response": 132, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (13:39)", "body": "so, Mike, which type o' penis piercing intrigues you the most? Apradavya, ampallang, Prince Albert, dydoe, frenum, hafada, reverse Prince Albert, or surface to surface along the shaft (which is similiar to, but placed differently than, a frenum)?"}, {"response": 133, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:53)", "body": "you wrote that chapter in your book too, huh?"}, {"response": 134, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (18:53)", "body": "(which one is the pearls?)"}, {"response": 135, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:09)", "body": "(none of those)"}, {"response": 136, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:10)", "body": "do you know what it's called? (all of \"those\" involve piercing? why?)"}, {"response": 137, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:13)", "body": "don't know it's actual name, I'll see if I can find out... (yes...why what?)"}, {"response": 138, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (19:18)", "body": "what is the purpose? who does it help?"}, {"response": 139, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May  8, 1998 (01:40)", "body": "for general information genxers: http://www.gauntlet.com/ http://www.bodyplay.com/ http://www.bme.freeq.com/ (be prepared...some aspects of these sites are for very mature audiences only)"}, {"response": 140, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, May  8, 1998 (23:18)", "body": "pics?"}, {"response": 141, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (00:40)", "body": "yep..."}, {"response": 142, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, May  9, 1998 (21:18)", "body": "euw! ooo! haven't decided which yet ;)"}, {"response": 143, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "thanks for the sites WER, sure gives me something to think about while I'm home sick!"}, {"response": 144, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, May 11, 1998 (20:07)", "body": "*BEAMZ* stacey"}, {"response": 145, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (00:13)", "body": "tell me when you're done, I've got more where those came from..."}, {"response": 146, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "all hot and bothered with no place to go..."}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (22:43)", "body": "Adelyne will be cruising through Denver in my new Buick in a day or two, hop on and help her drive to Austin!"}, {"response": 148, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:20)", "body": "who's Adelyne?? Man, I'd LOVE to help her drive to Austin but I'd be hard pressed for a ride back I'm sure!"}, {"response": 149, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (23:20)", "body": "there you go, All Miss Hot-N-Bothered"}, {"response": 150, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (12:50)", "body": "you're small enough that I could probably mail you back... (didja notice we responded predominately simultaneously?)"}, {"response": 151, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 15, 1998 (17:58)", "body": "I did not notice... you mean I missed an opportunity to chat with you almost real time???"}, {"response": 152, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "yep, I tried, but I couldn't get ahead of you so'd you'd notice I was on..."}, {"response": 153, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (12:25)", "body": "I'vd just been sitting back and letting the aging process take care of \"Severely Modifying\" my Body. The Wife's pregnancy is pretty Severely Modifying hers, as well..."}, {"response": 154, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 16, 1998 (12:56)", "body": "Hiya, Tommy, long time no nada..."}, {"response": 155, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 27, 1999 (18:08)", "body": "and it's been even longer now..."}, {"response": 156, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Sep 20, 2005 (22:23)", "body": "and even longer. you guys watch taboo on discovery? OMG, the stuff people do. did you see the thing on (MTV?) where the dude wanted a real bullet wound without being shot by a bad guy? yeah, some guy actually does this out of his warehouse/garage. he has one of those big craftsman tool boxes with all different types of ammo and explains what'll happen. he calls the ambulance and they wait outside. then the modifyee sits back in a chair and relaxes while the modifyer shoots him! and then the dummy has the gawl to say \"that MFing hurt!\" what a big fat (although rather skinny) dummy! and we saw a gal at a Mickey D's drive-thru with piercings all over her beautiful face. she was just too pretty to screw up the whole thing, y'know? it wasn't attractive in the least."}, {"response": 157, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Sep 23, 2005 (08:18)", "body": "Uh, I'll pass. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 8, "subject": "Thirtysomething and married with or without children", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (17:04)", "body": "living in sin close more or less and different"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "(if you're doing it right)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (19:43)", "body": "The 30s have been better than the 20s, so far...I'm really settled into my marriage, home, and am very comfortable in my parenting role. These are really good years. In retrospect, I spent my 20s studying, stressing over jobs, and adjusting to being married. I'm much more fulfilled in every way these days."}, {"response": 6, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Mar 25, 1998 (23:59)", "body": "I ain't saying I got it all figured out--more like I'm in the driver's seat, for a change...."}, {"response": 7, "author": "CotC", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (14:07)", "body": "I feel as if I recently fell out of the car."}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:10)", "body": "didja get run over, too?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:58)", "body": "Probably got thrown out!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (01:39)", "body": "http://www.missingkids.com/ genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 9, "subject": "Fortune Cookies", "response_count": 56, "posts": [{"response": 2, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (13:26)", "body": "why should we believe the \"universe\" (or anything) more \"moral\" than us in the first place?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (17:04)", "body": "you got it!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "autumn", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (19:48)", "body": "Mine said \"java script error: random is not a function.\" ???"}, {"response": 8, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Mar 26, 1998 (00:02)", "body": "Man, you get the ruthless ones! I'm glad I can't access it!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Mar 27, 1998 (17:39)", "body": "wow. that one sucks."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar 28, 1998 (21:47)", "body": "Really, grab another fortune, quick."}, {"response": 15, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Apr  4, 1998 (23:35)", "body": "We had chinese takeout tonight and my fortune was \"Charm and courtesy are the hallmark of your personality.\" Very apt, I thought, considering the others in our party got gloom-and-doom (a' la wer) ones."}, {"response": 17, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr  9, 1998 (18:04)", "body": "wow."}, {"response": 19, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Apr 13, 1998 (09:52)", "body": "that doesn't sound any fun!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:26)", "body": "mine says: Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes"}, {"response": 23, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:38)", "body": "who? me?"}, {"response": 25, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Apr 15, 1998 (23:46)", "body": "yeah, well, you won't catch me in a game of poker....didn't we have that discussion some time ago? (gots ta go-am one sleepy gator wrestler)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:36)", "body": "My fortune: High expectations translate to huge letdowns especially around those 'special days.' Woo WOO!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:27)", "body": "turned out very well after a really BAD start!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (10:00)", "body": "\"YOU DON'T BELIEVE MAGIC IS POSSIBLE IN LIVES LIVED WITHIN TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES.\" Geez, does the Fortune-Cookie-Monster need to shout at me? Actually, I don't believe magic is possible in lives lived without traditional boundaries."}, {"response": 30, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (00:16)", "body": "if it doesn't, I'm sure someone else will..."}, {"response": 31, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (07:29)", "body": "my latest read: You are dazed by the ease with which obliteration can be obtained."}, {"response": 32, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:31)", "body": "And do you take fortune cookies seriously, Wer?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:41)", "body": "I dunno, these are kinda fun..."}, {"response": 34, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:51)", "body": "Well, at least they don't say things like, 'Look behind you - that is the person you are going to marry.' And the person turns out to be a dog or your grandmother."}, {"response": 35, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (10:06)", "body": "hehe..."}, {"response": 36, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (16:50)", "body": "the fortune struck me as ironic... I was just commenting (silently within my own head of course) about the ease with which a topic could be 'killed.' hmmmmmmmmm..."}, {"response": 37, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (19:20)", "body": "They don't get killed - they just take breathers. Sometimes for up to a year!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (21:21)", "body": "someone tell me where to find the fortunes again, pleeeeezzzzeeee!! (wer, i know you had it here somewhere, but i'm just too lazy to dig for it)"}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:22)", "body": "http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jhirata/cookie.html"}, {"response": 40, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (04:48)", "body": "I'll also check it out . . . sounds like it could get me laughing."}, {"response": 41, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "you know, that fortune cookie looks like a pair of ill lungs! mine said: your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships hmmmmm...."}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (10:51)", "body": "so, your solitude on the Spring is marred by us, your substandard friends?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (11:15)", "body": "LOL!!! (I have done nothing but seek you guys out, oh, maybe that's the problem)"}, {"response": 44, "author": "riette", "date": "Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (06:59)", "body": "I don't see anyone complaining. Besides, we all probably deserve each other!"}, {"response": 45, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (19:04)", "body": "LOL!!!"}, {"response": 46, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (05:17)", "body": "HOL in your case! Howling Out Loud."}, {"response": 47, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (11:55)", "body": "oh, i like that riette!"}, {"response": 48, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:50)", "body": "LOL"}, {"response": 49, "author": "Nan11", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (13:15)", "body": "I just love fortune cookies. Have you ever heard that you are supposed to tack on the words \"in bed\" at the end of the sentence? Try it...gives the proverb a whole new meaning ;-) I tried it a couple of times and got: \"You still don't know what you do well\" (in bed) and \"You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing\" (in bed):-D See what I mean?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "riette", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (17:29)", "body": "HILARIOUS!!!! I've never actually had fortune cookies - don't think the Swiss are particularly into the kind of fortune that has to do with cookies; they prefer the more concrete meaning of the word . . ."}, {"response": 51, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (18:22)", "body": "yes, i've heard of it and it is so funny when you do!"}, {"response": 52, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "well isn't this one a bummer? you are wasting your youth, your time, and your money because you won't acknowledge your shortcomings (in bed). it's depressing either way :("}, {"response": 53, "author": "Nan11", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (20:24)", "body": "Ouch! Though, I suppose it could be worse...you could be a man getting a fortune about having \"shortcomings\" ;-)"}, {"response": 54, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (20:43)", "body": "so true! and maybe my shortcomings are his fault *oops*"}, {"response": 55, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (22:03)", "body": "I had always heard it put \"in between the sheets\" instead of \"in bed\"... my most memorable one in this fashion was \"be glad for what you have and hope for what you lack (in between the sheets)\""}, {"response": 56, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (22:09)", "body": "LOL!!!"}, {"response": 57, "author": "riette", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (02:28)", "body": "Ha-ha!!!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Sep 28, 1998 (08:42)", "body": "\"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in your life which you should be bringing about yourself.\""}, {"response": 59, "author": "riette", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (02:10)", "body": "A wise thing, and just the thing I realized at some point last week. So I've signed up - in my ripe old age I'm a goin' to university, people!! Starting early next year. I've decided on a basic arts history course to get me into the swing of things, and from there I'll decide what next. I can't say I really have time for this, but I thought it would be a good way to conquer insomnia, and do something useful for a change. Instead of farting around on canvasses when I can't sleep, I'll be able to study something!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (05:24)", "body": "don't think there's anything wrong with practicing your talent, riette. i'm all for going back to school, just don't give up the other things. i'd recommend going slowly to get back into it. look at me--have to laugh, been taking one course a quarter and only have 16 college credits to my name! (what's helped me, though, is the training i've received for work--they actually count towards school)"}, {"response": 61, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (20:08)", "body": "What college Ree?"}, {"response": 62, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (08:22)", "body": "Here in Z\ufffdrich - the ETH, which is supposed to be the best university in Switzerland.....which doesn't say much! I think it's going to be murderous with my painting, and being mother/housewife, but I'm so self-destructive, I could only thrive! I'm just sick of feeling useless, I suppose, sick of painting and painting and painting. I get so fed up with it. I think feeding my brain better will compliment the practical side of my art, and perhaps restore the joy it used to bring me. I defenitely won't g ve it up - it's all I have - I just want to expand enough, and be busy enough so that I won't have time to get depressed anymore. I'm feeling quite bad at the moment, homesick and useless, and all that - but I don't want couselling or anything, I've never been a believer in that stuff. The way for me to conquer sadness is through being so active that all my thougths are dispersed in different directions instead of becoming so utterly concentrated on myself - that's what kills me."}, {"response": 63, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (09:45)", "body": "i'm sorry you're feeling so low, sweety, come get a hug *hugs*"}, {"response": 64, "author": "riette", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (14:24)", "body": "Thank you - feels good."}, {"response": 65, "author": "autumn", "date": "Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (23:28)", "body": "That's terrific, Riette!!! I think you will like the college environment."}, {"response": 66, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (02:12)", "body": "Yes, I think I will. I'm starved for a bit of intellectual input - some days I feel like I cannot communicate with anyone but toddlers anymore, and like I cannot think further than their needs anymore."}, {"response": 67, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (04:04)", "body": "Woo WOO! Congrats Ree-head! Takes nerve and guts (and a bit of masochism!) to go back to school! I've been talking about going back for my Master's for a couple of years now but I think I'm scared I couldn't handle the load. Wolf, I might do something like what you're talking about and take it one class at a time... Certainly not next semester though! Good luck Riette!"}, {"response": 68, "author": "riette", "date": "Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (10:31)", "body": "Thanks, girl."}, {"response": 69, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (00:19)", "body": "Toddlers? There she goes talking about us again!"}, {"response": 70, "author": "riette", "date": "Fri, Oct  2, 1998 (05:57)", "body": "Damn, foiled again! No, actually it is coming here that has made me realize how much I miss talking about OTHER things, even if it is nonsense, but also how much I still have to learn from life AND from books. genx slacker heaven Main Menu"}]}]}