Stumbling across incriminating things on the Internet

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So I got nostalgic for the Dysfunctional Family Circus, mostly because I stumbled across a website with the phrase "he's tripping his nutsack in a frenzy of dikplay" and was almost reduced to helpless tears of laughter. (For those who don't know, the DFC took captionless Family Circus panels and invited readers to submit captions for them. The editors selected the ones they thought were funny. After Bil Keane politely threatened the webmaster with a copyright infringement and defamation lawsuit, it was halted.) I remembered killing a lot of time on that site, but couldn't remember how much.

At least, not until I did this search.

I still think everything I wrote was funny and I'm perversely proud of the panel where I got four captions accepted (#442), but DAMN. There was a lot of time that I wasted on this site.

I'm afraid to look at Google's Usenet archive. As much time as I spent on AMA, I wasted even MORE time on the Doctor Who and comics newsgroups. And it's all preserved for anyone bored enough to see. *sigh*

What's your favorite/most embarrassing evidence of Internet procrastination? (ILXOR doesn't count.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

my blog. It's knuckle-eatingly poor, but that's my writing for you. Hopefully I'll improve.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 30 December 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I once looked up my first webpage on web.archive.org. Thank heaven I am the only person who knows the address.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

A few things that I've said on rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons.

My feeble attempt to flirt with Andrew Plotkin on rec.games.int-fiction.

The "Internet Pornographer" thing that used to be in my .sig.

This weird conversation that I had with this guy on the sugar list. Luckly, it was all done in email.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't thought of dysfunctional family circus in years! So that's what happened to it...somehow I'm not surprised that Dang was such an enthusiastic contributor.

I'm deeply embarassed by just about everything I wrote on alt.music.alternative. I looked at it awhile back and I was just so damn flip and snotty. Even for me!

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't know DFC was still online somewhere! I'll have to dig into those old ones sometime (I only got into it near when he stopped doing them).

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Tragedy followed after Bil's misguided attempt to answer the question, "How do they cram all of that graham into Golden Grahams?"

Dang Perry is a genius.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)

*looks back on radw*

Oh, Dan! You were (name removed to deter googlers)! I knew you reminded me of somebody, and now I know who. I always liked you there.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

mostly because I stumbled across a website with the phrase "he's tripping his nutsack in a frenzy of dikplay"

the website to which you refer is one I spent far too much time at, regrettably. If it wasn't such a hassle I would get my entire contribution wiped away for eternity..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Aww. Thanks, Christine!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I wrote the drug rant for the Church of the Subgenius way back when. It's online now. It's stupid. Oh well.

― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

NIcole: I really liked "Great," sighed Thel. "He's hypnotizing the kids again. I just wish he could make them do something besides 'Angsty Chicken'."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:19 (twenty-three years ago)

They're all good -- I forgot how much I used to lurve Dysfunctional Family Circus. Bil Keane was bound to shut it down eventually though...

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

FRENZY!!!!!

-- John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjuste...), June 2nd, 2006 12:52 AM. (johnjusten) (link)

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woah! i'm tripping my nutsack in a frenzy of dikplay
-- Dan (Word Connections) Perry (djperry@gmail.com), June 2nd, 2006 6:29 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)

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Suuuuuuuuuure...wordplay. Just don't get caught, Dan. You're at work.
-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 2nd, 2006 8:23 AM. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows) (link)

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Well, there's a mental image I wasn't prepared for this early in the morning...
-- Sara Robinson-Coolidge (sr...), June 2nd, 2006 8:50 AM. (Sara R-C) (link)

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I Love Inscrutability

-- Dan (Google "Dysfunctional Family Circus") Perry (djperry@gmail.com), June 2nd, 2006 9:06 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)

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Googled! Stumbling across incriminating things on the Internet

-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 2nd, 2006 9:12 AM. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows) (tracklink) (link)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

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