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1) Les Savy Fav's first album being reissued. :ohttp://wizardishungry.com/m.gif

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yea, I clicked on Pitchfork to laff at their Tony Allen dum dum

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

2) Interns have never heard 'Control', 'Nasty Girl' or 'Pleasure Principle' before; refer to Janet as "old".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

3) Watching baseball games where the managers & coaches are players I watched while a wee barren git.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

4) "baby" sister being legal drinking age

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

5) Meeting people born after 1990.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

5 otm - i spent last week staffing a camp for high schoolers, some of whom were born in 1992! people born that late are supposed to be small babies!

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

6. my cousin (born in 1992) is into kurt cobain as a retro thing

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

7. THE 90S COLORING BOOK

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

8. I JUST TURNED 30 ;_;

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I GOT ONE MONTH LEFT BRO. HELP.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

i turn 30 in november. suicide pact, anyone?

― Jonas Bronck (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

don't kill yourself for turning 30, 31 is AWESOME. after that find a length of rope and an exposed ceiling beam.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

i was more anxious about turning 29, for some reason. after that freak-out, 30 was smooth sailing.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

25 soon :(

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

oh, boo hoo.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

i can barely remember 25. almost everything before 27 is a blur, i'm unsure if something happened when i was 18 or 24 or what.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

i 30 at end of October. it's looming.

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

5b) 16 year old who likes Hanatarash and Takako Minekawa messaging me on last.fm

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

4) "baby" sister being legal drinking age

OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

If 31 is awesome, then fuck 32.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

NOTHING MAKES ME FEEL OLD

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

people born in the '80s

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

throwing out all those 1984-94 indie-rock magazines before I moved.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no THAT WILL BE ME (in a few weeks)!

9) Your older sister is turning FORTY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

10) thinking about buying cream for my eyes so I don't seem tired all the time

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

11) NOSE HAIR

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

1a) The reish of Spoon's 1st and Pavement's THIRD

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

WTF MORBS YOU BETTER NOT HAVE THROWN OUT CONFLICT!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

haha, I just bought some eye cream actually. boots botanics

I also got a 19" flat panel monitor so I'm not staring at a tiny screen all the time, maybe that will help

wow, I'll be 29 before the end of the year. eek. see, I figure eventually I should move to NYC because people don't get old there as fast as they do in DC, right?

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

haha i "bought" some eye cream awhile back too ye gods. shit works btw.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only one in this bitch w/ gray temples, BTW?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yes sir, Mr. Jameson, sir.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

The GIS for "spider slayer" blows.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

i have eye cream and i'm 24, so i don't know if that counts. unless 24 is old. u_u

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

c on eyes

― nazi bikini (harbl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh whatever gray temples rule. what i wouldnt give for a little distinguished gray up in this piece

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

i got this amazing skin lotion (caudalie, apparently made from grape seed polyphenols) as a free sample when i ordered from sephora. i looked it up on the site and it was like 60 bucks!

― Jonas Bronck (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

remembering that this month is ten years from when i started high school

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

OH SHIT ME TOO DAMYO

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

stenc, I saved a few Konflicks (maybe I'll bring one to the ballgame).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

32 was a lost year in almost every sense. 33, feh.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ me leaving high school 11 years ago ;_;

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

A decade ago I lost something important.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Something you can only have once.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

It was a bittersweet parting.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

oh cryptic

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tamma.com.mx/data/phoo/2005_07_29/gameboy.jpg

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

I think I still know where mine is, you want it?

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

lol at daver becoming hal jordan

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

YR KID STARTING SECOND GRADE

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Your knees sound like a bowl of Rice Krispies when you stand up, move, etc.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

TS: RECEDERS vs THINNING

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

fuck one green lantern!

http://members.aol.com/PaulEC2/reed3.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

dec 2007 will be my 10 year anniversary of being friends with ian and jer!

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Having three nieces! Still feeling like the '90s were just yesterday. q_q

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

getting all "spiritual"/alternative-healing. and thinking: it works though. see.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

change my first cosign answer to BABY SISTER GETTING MARRIED WTF

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

! ! !

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

the answer is to only hang out with people older than you

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

GERITOL BRODOWN

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

every single part of me no longer works.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

I try that Dom, but then something insane happens like younger cousins having kids and best friends getting engaged.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is eye cream

― Lmaoborghini (eman), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

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― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

don't kill yourself for turning 30, 31 is AWESOME. after that find a length of rope and an exposed ceiling beam.
-- otto midnight (effyouto...) (webmail), August 2nd, 2006 10:14 AM. (later) (admin) (userip)

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i was more anxious about turning 29, for some reason. after that freak-out, 30 was smooth sailing.
-- lauren (warmleatherett...) (webmail), August 2nd, 2006 10:25 AM. (later) (admin) (userip)

OTM

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

jon, i have some eye creme if you wanna try it out. it was recommended by my aunt who is not too far from 50 and looks late 30s... but i think part of that is also because she didn't have any kids to age her.

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is eye cream

― Lmaoborghini (eman), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mamashealth.com/skincare/eyecream.asp

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, use butter.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

getting all "spiritual"/alternative-healing. and thinking: it works though.

yeah! I got some homeopathic medicine the other day, it does work. my health plan would pay for acupuncture treatments (re: stress), I'm considering it.. sounds cool

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

i totally want to do acupuncture. but i want to go to old-school chinatown practice where they're really practical and up front about everything and sell me weird herbs.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

starting to feel like kids and family isn't such a bad idea

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

kids & family is a great idea. did you really wanna die alone & unloved??

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

EXACTLY

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 3 August 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

jim it's gotta be better than the TANK at 5am, amirite

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Thursday, 3 August 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

well.... a little

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be thinking of all you old fogeys when I don't go to my 30th highschool reunion next month.

― proto noize dad (lovebug starski), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, don't stay home - just buy a new walker!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

30th high school reunion? dude, you're like my mom's age.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

you're older than my mom!

― nazi bikini (harbl), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad someone a few years older than me showed up at last.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://image60.webshots.com/160/4/39/76/2186439760077897268BbuwNz_ph.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

i was hoping all along you were the real lovebug starski

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, you know, after a few years of this I only JUST checked to confirm that he wasn't actually Lovebug Starski.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I remember going to the first X Games in Providence (Extreme Games, then) with my grandpa, less than a year before he died.

Yesserday I was at X Games 12, 3000 miles and 105,120 hours distant, and I felt really, really, sad.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

12. watching a VHS tape

― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

hah i didn't even buy a dvd player until jan of this year! vhs is awesome! (maybe that is old lady speak)

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Saturday, 5 August 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

my bleeding eye?

a blown vessel maybe (had one before i think) the red goes away but i am way too concerned with it=old

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 5 August 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

everyone at bbq tonight was comparing mortgage rates. i thought they were so adult until i realized they were all my age.

renting forever,
otto

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

dying alone and unloved isn't so bad.

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

My oldest kid is 8 and I have friends whose kids are becoming teenagers. Also, the threads of grey in my hair. And of course, remembering - oh so clearly - my father's bizarre insistence on buying a Betamax instead of a VHS (which he did twice - kind of a crazy thing to do in the mid-80s, by which time it was clear they were never going to catch on...).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

so. tired. gotta. go. support friend's online art-community venture. listen indierock. hipsters, artists.
no fall sleep. no able drink booze.
feeling oldish.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

As a five-year-old, I always detested the B-52's for "Love Shack."

-- Tape Store (theducttapeme...), August 6th, 2006 2:39 PM.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

okay, it was great.
feeling youngerish.
xpost
haha

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Monday, 7 August 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

ear hair muthafuckas

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

proof that five-year-olds really don't know shit!

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

rrrobyn, friends' gallery/arty shit alllllways makes me feel old. then i realize they're all just stuck on themselves. glad you had fun, though!

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Monday, 7 August 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

i turn 30 on saturday

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago)

going abed at 10pm on a Saturday

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Dreamt I had a toddler.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Looking @ myself in the mirror wearing shorts and my work socks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

the concept of "work socks"

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

the concept of "work"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

"socks"

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

"self"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/lupidangame/images/screensZelda/22-04-2006%5B1%5D.PNG

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

hearing a replacements song at the bar and realizing that Ian put it on a mix for me in 97 or 98. awww I got weepy

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

looking at a copy of stink in acadamy and remembering i bought it in tape in 1990/1...but not really thinking about it untill jon got weepy about '97

next....

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

realizing that kids born while the first George Bush was president can now drive with a permit. (or am I one year off?)

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Totally fucked up my knee loading out amps yesterday....

...Hobbling around like an old man today.

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Incessant cracking and creaking of all joints in my body. Also, grey hairs in beard upsetting.

― John Justen, Tiny Fancy Lungdancer. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

not getting stoned at band practice

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

being mad at squirrels for digging up my garden again

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

those signs at the gas station that say anyone born after $DATE can't buy cigarettes

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

not getting stoned at band practice

OTM

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

seatmate at ballgame texting ppl for 7 innings

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Were any of the texts, "lol@oldmetsfan"?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

not getting stoned at band practice
last night, not only did i not even think about getting stoned but i didn't even drink any beer! worse yet, i didn't drink beer for Health Reasons! And i was tired by 11pm!
ohnoes.
but but band practice is fun anyway. (and we have a lot of keyboards now.)

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

I've quit doing anything except drinking and smoking cigarettes.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Are there multiple keyboardists in your band rrrobyn? I almost started a band once with another keyboard player; this was in the peak of my gearmongering, between the 2 of us and all that Rhodes and Farfisa etc we had almost a literal TON of gear.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

see the happy face emoticon 2 thread.
we only have small/light keyboards (except for the wicked noise organ but that's not moving anywhere), balanced by heavy amps.

― Wuffy the cat-rescuing dog (superultramarinated), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

i am keyboard person (sixtrak and moog, latter not actually mine) but richard just got this casiotone, which he might play sometimes even though he's mainly drums and sometimes guitar. it is possible that if i actually practice, i could play some drums OR drum machine and he could keyboard. multi-instrumentalists!

there is a montreal band called Unireverse and they are ALL KEYBOARDS (plus tapes and things), and they are good.
xpost

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

That Casiotone looks so kickass!

MORE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL OLD:

When you start settling for the organ/piano sounds on Alesis/etc keyboards because your back says "no" to hauling the Farfisas Wurlitzers et al anywhere.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

hah.

Cheap-o Yamaha SY-22 has suprisingly good basic combo organ sound that can be nicer w/ tweaking.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

i love the hammond sound on my ROLAND JUNO 60!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

when i purchase cigarettes, and the person at the till requests ID, and upon inspection goes, "Oh - yeah, you're WAY older" -- :(

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Aja is driving age now, isn't she?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 August 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

i want this.

― Ari El-Pincus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

(xp) he has been for some time

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

OMG electroland. the close-ups are great. i want that too.
maybe not the disembodied hand.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

My high school newspaper adviser asked a bunch of us to come back to hang out and impart wisdom to the current staff. The alumni went around in a circle talking about what we did during our tenure on staff. I started

"Well 01-02 I was a staff writer mainly. When 9/11 happened we put out an Extra issue and I designed the double-page-spread on that--"

From the back of the room:

"I was in like 4th grade when that happened!"

fuck you little girl. fuck you.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

I was ten years out of high school, so no. Fuck you, little man.

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

(<3)

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

"M'am, we reserve the right to refuse to impart wisdom to anyone. My alumni, myself, and my high school newspaper adviser will not tolerate your hate speech on our property. I'd rather not call the principal, but if you insist on continuing to disturb our discussion I will. Please leave."

― craig sager (eman), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

Interviewing undergrad applicants and realizing they were born after Nevermind came out and that they don't really remember 9/11

― caek, Friday, 19 December 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

My dick doesn't work after just 4 or 5 pints of beer

― how pretty of me (wanko ergo sum), Saturday, 20 December 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

I wanted to make some mnemonic flashcards so I went to a large stationery shop and asked if they had index cards, then realised from the look I was getting that there's no reason for anyone born in the Microsoft Office era to have any idea what an index card is.

also it will make someone feel old that I have felt free to post such a dull post on noize borad instead of pretending I wanted index cards to make sleeves for a series of 3" cd-rs featuring the sound of my fridge and the output of a perl script plugged into 37 big muffs and an akai headrush

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 10 September 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago)

they didn't know what an index card was in a stationary store? that's kinda crazy. i don't care how old you are. they still sell them everywhere.

― scott seward, Monday, 10 September 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago)

yeah that sounds really weird to me. everyone knows what index cards are!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago)

they didn't have any! once I finally found an over-30 shop assistant to ask. and they weren't even on the computer at Argos (UK catalogue shop which sells everything, or used to). I bought some overpriced "blank wedding placecards" instead which I am going to cut along the fold and then write really small on I guess.

I'll probably go into a corner shop tomorrow and fall over a giant pile of index card packs for a tenth of the price.

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago)

i always feel hopelessly old when i order mr. pibb in a drive thru and realize mr pibb has been pibb xtra for so long that the person working drive thru thinks i'm some weirdo that likes to anthropomorphize soft drinks. still not calling it pibb xtra.

― balls, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago)

wait waht

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago)

PiBB XTRA, what the shit is that

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago)

what the shit is Pibb anything?

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago)

it's a clone of Dr Pepper

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago)

Pibb Xtra has xtra cinnamon flavor, something I didn'threalize was present in the orignal formula.

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago)

A brief Lexis-Nexis search reveals that "Pibb Xtra" has been mentioned 69 times in news media since August 2001. "Mr. Pibb"? 514 times.

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago)

I'm amazed that stationary stores still exist

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago)

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