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random. interesting. incomprehensible to others who just don't see the light.

my example: whaling history! traveling the world, horrible living conditions, great literature, contact with people who had never met europeans...whaling is so cool, people just don't realize how sexy it is because they just think whales are big and boring.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

i don't think whales are boring! big, yes.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:56 (twenty years ago)

there is much nautical reminiscing in Maine. I am very interested in DIET - what to eat. Everyone else is bored withit

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:43 (twenty years ago)

ugly buildings, '50s-'70s

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

aegean history & ancient civilizations.
pornography.
clark ashton smith, bomba the jungle boy, robert e howard, various other fantastical esoterica
being a jerk.

people understand record collecting, i think.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

I collect Moog Records

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:01 (twenty years ago)

i understand that. are there any specifically you're looking for?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

flying saucers, aliens, monsters

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

cryptozoology, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, fortean thought.

and genuine science too, especially evolutionary biology.

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

the history of cults (primarily in america), the wackier the better.

secret societies too.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

christian folk LPs from the '70s, esp. from california and canada

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Old teen magazines, especially the romantic teen love novels ("The boy from class 9B") and the tests ("What kind of a best friend are you?", "Are you a romantic or do you think love's yecchy?", etc) in them. Actually, I do have a few friends who share this obsession. One of them used to live in this student flat, and we once found a whole stack of early nineties teen mags in her cupboard. Such a treasure!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:58 (twenty years ago)

New teen mags are fun to read too, but they don't carry the same sort nostalgia as those from the era you were a teen yourself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Maps, metro systems (and maps thereof natch), London history & architecture, desolate areas in cities, run-down seaside towns.

Actually I know a couple of people understand at least some of these.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 08:05 (twenty years ago)

I collect Metro/subway/tube maps of the world, too. The spare room is plastered with them.

"whaling is so cool, people just don't realize how sexy it is because they just think whales are big and boring. "

I don't think whales are big and boring, which is precisely why I don't think killing them is cool...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:04 (twenty years ago)

You don't think whales are big?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, whaling is definitely uncool because whales are one of the most interesting (and fairly mysterious, still) animals on the planet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:16 (twenty years ago)

contact with people who had never met europeans...

Oh have you met the Europeans? Such lovely people.

― Merryweather (scarlet), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Mickey Spillane

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure Maria thinks killing whales is cool either. It's just that the effort people used to go to kill them produced some cool side effects. I wouldn't say I was obsessed with whaling history, but I do have a penchant for books with pictures of ships on them, particularly ones to do with whaling, penal transportation, eighteenth-century exploration, slaving, etc.
I also deliberately seek out holiday destinations where I can see dolphins and/or whales.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:11 (twenty years ago)

ILX

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

Maps, metro systems (and maps thereof natch), London history & architecture, desolate areas in cities, run-down seaside towns.

Errr... Robster, half of ILX share these obsessive interests!

Mine, past and present... Freemasons, linguistics, pirates, cemetaries, Napoleonic Sea Captains...

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't say I was obsessed with whaling history, but I do have a penchant for books with pictures of ships on them, particularly ones to do with whaling, penal transportation, eighteenth-century exploration, slaving, etc.

"penal transportation"

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Robster, half of ILX share these obsessive interests!

Yes, I was about to chime in with "but I love those too!"

(how many copies of Metro Maps Of The World do we all own between us?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I've never quite understood this fascination with public transport routes that seems to be common among males. Could you tell me a bit more about what makes it so interesting?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

ha-HEM! I'm hardly male.

I don't know. They're just fascinating. Like any kind of maps are fascinating, but transport maps are even more fascinating because they are like the veins of a city.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Ah, sorry. I've never quite understood the fascination with maps either, except with imaginary maps, maps where you can fill the blank spots with your imagination, "here be dragons" and all.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh I know half of ILX does, I was talking about teh real worldz innit ;)

Maps are fascinating both in different types of information they convey, the myriad ways of conveying that information and just cos they're so darned pretty (to my mind).

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

maps are just... I don't know. They're amazing. Yes, they're pretty. But also, they are symbols of amazing places, both far-off and familiar. They are a great fuel to my imagination, reading maps and trying to imagine what the place looks like.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Twitching insect-man Jandek.

― Nicholas Passant, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

revolving doors, neglected industrial buildings, museums (fake or genuine)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Jake Thackray

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

not sure about transport maps, but satelite image maps I could stare at for hours.

I have hundreds of obsessive interests, none of which I can be arsed mentioning on here because I've told you about them before dozens of times.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

"penal transportation"

Sorry. Obviously I meant Pernod transportation.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

I've never quite understood this fascination with public transport routes that seems to be common among males.

*cough*

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Penile Transplantation?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Childrens Film Foundation movies

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Ehhh, ILE.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Celebrity trivia (I feel that I'm slacking though, I need to brush up on this)
Celebrity porn (I need to brush off on this. har har)
Message boards (ILX has been a constant, but also celebrity candid picture boards)
English language (Yes, I realize I'm not as good as I think I am at it...)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Nick, what are you doing on ILX? You're too good for here.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

i collect buckets. plastic ones.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

G, today finds me exquisitely humbled. I guess it'll probably pass.

― Nicholas Passant, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Nick is my obsessive interest. Hi Nick! (Not really.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

i collect 2L coke bottles with a little residue of flat undrunk coke inside.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I collect empty wine bottles.

Good lord, it's Nick!

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh. Hi, Nick.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Gosh, hello there Nick

(hey, I thought I may as well join in with the ex-Sinister chorus)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

DJing, dance music and everything associated.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Damn Rachel.. I thought at last I had a little reciprocation..

Hello one and all, btw. Should I be concerned that you've managed to greet me more swiftly than if I'd just walked into a room full of you and waved?

― Nicholas Passant, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Wait, are you the Nick that I've recently met, who watches Chinese Pop Videos when we're trying to rehearse, or have I mistaken you for another Sinister Nick?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

It was Chinese football in fact, but yes, I am that man. I'm sorry I didn't come out and say hello - had gone half deaf and couldn't speak without sounding like I was trapped down a well.

― Nicholas Passant, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Lordy, what's Passant doing here -- slumming?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

If you walked into the room and waved, I probably wouldn't recognise you anyway.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

bugger off nick.

(is this better?)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I would probaby ask G who the pointy-nosed man in the nice jacket was. Substitute attributes at will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Greetings, nice to make your internet acquaintance, then!

(And it's just as well you didn't come out, as your housemate was attempting to pimp you!)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Who the pox is Nick?

PS Sorry, Nick.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

First she loads me up on crack to keep me quiet while you rehearsed, and then she tries to pimp me. My housemate's the best.

― Nicholas Passant, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

She promised us all snogs and everything! ;-)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

(Though this was promised in a rather Lisa Simpson sleepover party sort of way.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

To answer the thread topic, I just can't seem to work up the energy to have obsessive interests in anything.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I am obsessed with mollusks.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Rise & fall of ancient empires
Gory folk songs (I know there are a few people around here who have this one)
Regency romance novels
Soviet Art

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

RJG

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

pre-1950s etiquette and hygeine books
vintage menstural products and devices

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Lighting - as in the lighting of a particular room. I like to have as many different light sources in a room in possible so as to better "sculpt" my environment with different combinations. My wife gets angry with this and just turns on the main overhead light.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

BLARGH! Overhead lights make me mad.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I collect ephemera related to the 1950 Jules Dassin Noir Night and the City.

It all started after seeing the movie and being obsessed and realizing there was no DVD of it. While waiting to see it again, to get my fix, I started going on ebay and buying things, lobby cards, foreign lobby cards, old magazine articles, newspaper clippings, press photos, press kits, etc. Nothing cost more then a couple of bucks. I even bought a 1980s yugoslavian poster for the movie. 7 bucks with 14 bucks shipping or something. Finally, of course, the film came out on DVD,

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=274

but I'm still buying the crap. It all sits in a pile untill I can find enough crappy antique frames and have the money to frame it all and put it up in a giant shrine on my bedroom wall.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

BLARGH! Overhead lights make me mad.

Overhead lights cause my entire body to disappear in the shade cast by my oversized proboscis.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I collect ephemera related to the 1950 Jules Dassin Noir Night and the City.

I do this for the film Giant.

And I hate overhead lights.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

-books on the history of technology/James Burke
-fiddling with the audio/video settings of any tv we're about to watch a flick on. i have been known to use the phrase "proper black" before.
-archaic/anachronistic slang

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I once told a fellow student in spy school that I was obsessed by Kaliningrad. She thought this a bit strange. She was from the country next door, and had actually been to the mysterious and fascinating city of Kaliningrad. She said it was not very nice.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

My dad does business there, and when he returns he is covered in soot.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

1. bonobos (and pretty much all animal species that construct strange societies, including man)
2. the poetry and music of Rod McKuen
3. Indian film and film music (okay, I know I'm not technically alone there)
4. animal rights (around here, my views are closest to Calum's, yipes strange bedfellows argh)
5. the philosophy of George Clinton

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Greetings, nice to make your internet acquaintance, then!
(And it's just as well you didn't come out, as your housemate was attempting to pimp you!)
-- Ah! The Feinbos! (masonicboo...), January 10th, 2006 2:14 PM. (kate) (later) (link)

nick deciding to coming out there and then would have totally destroyed the pimping efforts, yeah...

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

dv i think you win the thread.

and i do not like whaling because yay whale death, i like whaling because it was pretty fascinating in the nineteenth century. it is boring now, as well as environmentally dangerous.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

religious tracts.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

If ilx doesn't count, then typography and page design. I get strange looks when I start giving critiques of menus. Understandable I guess.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

4. animal rights (around here, my views are closest to Calum's, yipes strange bedfellows argh)

Hey, I'm with you on this, though I guess I could be more vocal about it. It's just that I've had too many arguments on the subject, I'm a bit tired of speaking out.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to think up something really interesting to impress ally with.
since she thinks ILX is "typical."
maybe if i said, "gloryholes?"

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kpl.gov/teen/images/BuzzworthyBooks/thumbsup_lg.gif

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I get strange looks when I start giving critiques of menus.

I didn't look at you strangely, especially as I'd been thinking the exact same thing before you came to the table!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Overhead lights cause my entire body to disappear in the shade cast by my oversized proboscis.

Unfortunate. Still, at least you don't have to clean your shoes very often.

I have no obsessions. Keen interests, sure. I think this is why I never did a doctorate in anything.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

The closest I can come to an arcane obsessive interest is drumloops.

― Dan (Check Out The Hi-Hat On That One) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I think I have an obsession with people getting "fewer" and "less" mixed up. If an obsession is something that makes you correct every single instance of a mistake in a knee-jerk manner, even if the person to whom you are listening does not really know you well enough to react favourably to your interjection of "you mean fewer people", then yes, I am obsessed with that.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Hah Mark oh yeah

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

XP: But at least several people here not only understand that particular tick but have in fact POSTED about it in the past (me, for one). Granted the thread title's a little unhelpful -- is it very likely that there's ANY item or topic in the world that doesn't interest at least a few people? -- but except for maybe whaling and the Christian folk LPs, we could do regular ILX shout-outs on the rest of these. Dig deeper! Start divulging the TRULY freakish stuff!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of a single interest of mine, obsessive or not, that I can't think of at least 20 other people on ILX who would also be interested in that topic. I have nothing freakish to offer. :\

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Ally, did you and I just have a mind-meld w/r/t this thread?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Kind of yeah. I mean some of these interests are really unusual, like the whaling thing or the ancient feminine hygiene products thing, but I dunno, I feel weird posting about my borderline obsessive interests that have like 7 threads already on ILX. It's kind of annoying me because boy do I know a lot about my retarded annoying interests!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

# your obsessive interests that nobody understands! (89 new answers)
# What is the history of pegging? (5 new answers)

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I must also express a fondness of maps (particularly those that show where I live in Ye Olden Dayes). Also slightly obsessed with my teenage self.

Oh, and Hello to Nicholas up there too.

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

joel gion

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I am getting perilously close to my goal of attending a baseball game in ever major league city.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

It's funny, because several people have now cited Maria's obsession with whaling as being genuinely strange to them, whereas I find it completely normal and understandable (and I even share it, a little bit). But I would kill Kingfish for the fiddling thing.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

RHODESIA I read two books about it.

― andy ---, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

pretty much everything outside of sleeping

― no bones, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I am keen on insyping through baulflorid schmingles.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

N, the diary - can we still hope?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

My dad does business there, and when he returns he is covered in soot.

they have business in Kaliningrad?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I also have a colection of transit route maps going.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

dv i think you win the thread.

nobody ever understands.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

You win the quirk-off.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Vicar, Mister Monkey appreciates your obsession. If you like you could talk to him about it. It could be, like, a little support group.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

It used to called Konigsberg! And it's part of Russia now, even though it never was in the past and doesn't have a land link to it. Come on guys, this is fascinating stuff, what's your problem?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

subways, definitely, especially the Johnston Underground font
fonts, yum. I told somebody at work the name of a font today and she said "that's creepy that you knew that"
David Goodis, underrated writer
Wales
memorial photographs

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

fonts, yum. I told somebody at work the name of a font today and she said "that's creepy that you knew that"

which font was it?

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

stupid old Arial Bold. Then she started talking about the lack of "little lines" on the characters and I said "right, it's sans serif" and she looked at me as if I were cray-zee

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

nobody understands!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Except us designers. Creme of the nerd crop!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

stupid old Arial Bold. Then she started talking about the lack of "little lines" on the characters and I said "right, it's sans serif" and she looked at me as if I were cray-zee

chicks, man.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Come on guys, this is fascinating stuff, what's your problem?

I TOTALLY emphasize with DV's obsession with Konigsberg / Kaliningrad - hence my posting on this thread: Kaliningrad

It all started when I ran across a math problem called the Seven Bridges Of Konigsberg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) you should really freak her out and talk about double-spacing.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

nah, she already makes fun of me 'cause I can spell. Ah don't want no trouble, sir

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

my coworker worships me because i showed her how to remove all the hyperlinks from a word document at one time.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

"that's creepy that you knew that"
I would take issue with this person. Why on earth is that creepy? I would have said it was mad that you knew that. I'm always amazed at the things people know. One of the things I love about where I work is that even if people don't share your particular obsession, they understand what it's like to have an obsession, so they generally just marvel at the diversity of information people choose to store.
I'm reading a great book at the moment about book collectors. It's John Baxter's A Pound of Paper and he has a lot of great stuff about book obsessives in it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Creepy is what creepy does.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Jake Thackray
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...) (webmail), January 10th, 2006 11:50 AM.

I can understand that, have you seen the musical Sister Josephine kicks the habit?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Bloody hell, what's creepy about knowing about fonts?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

She promised us all snogs and everything! ;-)
-- Ah! The Feinbos

It's true. I was mildly shocked, and then I remembered that I too pimp my male housemates.

Old magazines to me. I have piles of them, some going back as far as 1957. I have Italian fashion catalogues from the 70's and once paid £6.00 for a 1986 copy of Sounds.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Ah! That reminds me of my one obsession that NO ONE gets.

Country Life.

Oh god, I love it. I read it obsessively, and find myself quoting it far too often, to the complete horror of my friends. (Except for the rare occasions when they admit that it is good for architectural pr0n, especially when they have island castles with helipads for sale.)

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

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