This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 21: You Have to Understand, I'm a Woman of Zest

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And so it shall be.

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 20: Stone Age Love and Strange Sounds Too

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Beautiful!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago)

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― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I just got a package of Spongebob Twinkies! And a VHS of the new trailer!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I need a nephew or something.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

It'll be all 20 or 30 somethings at the Spongebob film, surely??

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I've always wondered, what are twinkies?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I could be a Big Brother!
OMG Twinkies are gross!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

So anyways, talking about schedules at work, I think I've figured out that I have to avoid ILX first thing in the morning. Morning is when I have the most energy and get the most stuff done, but if I get on ILX right away I end up spending like 3 hours just ILXing and using up my precious morning energy. So my new plan is to save ILXing for the afternoon.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

They're yellow spongecake (hence the tie-in) with some sort of cream-like filling.

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― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Now I want a twinkie.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

You bastard!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I got a whole box!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Choosy women choose Zest! or is it Crest? Or is it twinkies?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Twinkies aren't vegetarian because they contain, get this, BEEF FAT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I could fight crime!
ihttp://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/images/aquaman5.jpg

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

ILX kills the rest of the morning for me when I need it (as I have to do a lot of stuff first in my work day).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

and fight creme, too!

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Ach!
Choking on golden sponginess!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

BEEF FAT!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Nothing says "dessert cake" like BEEF FAT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

When I was little I wasn't allowed hostess products because of the BEEF FAT, and all the chemicals too. (My veggie hippie parents said so) So when I got to junior high and could buy food at the snack stand I gorged myself on those cupcakes. Now the sight of them makes me fairly quesy.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I still want a twinkie, beef fat or no.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago)

You bastards!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

KING DONS, BITCHEZ!

http://theimaginaryworld.com/ikk30.jpg

and the Twinkie FAQ...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

The other day there was a sign that read "We now have lo-carbs products" in front of the Hostess Thrift Shop Bakery Outlet.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

but were they FOIL-WRAPPED?

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

The greatest thing about Twinkies is that THEY'RE SICKENINGLY SWEET! Especially after the THIRD ONE!
Which I only ate, because Luna can't be here to eat it.
I could put it in the mail.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Someone needs to stop me.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

MAIL ME A TWINKIE.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I too gorged because the tasty snacks were the forbidden fruit ! Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, Devil Dogs, even the weird Sno Cakes - right down the gullet! Followed by Charleston Chew, Kit kat, Milky Way and a bottle of Dr. Pepper.
But never, for some reason, twinkies.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

So dizzy.
Room spinning.
Must eat more Twi
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― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

This coworker gave me a LOW CARB chocolate candy the other day. I looked at the 'nutritional' info. I said, "Um, this is really high in fat." She replied, "You can't go both LOW carb and LOW fat - it's really unhealthy." But I pointed out the fat content per serving: 130 fat calories! And these are teeny tiny pieces! And she was like, "Um, yeah, that's a lot."

< / end stupid story >

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Also, I thought it was funny when I walked by Burger King the other day and they had a big sign in the window about their new Low Carb menu. Who goes to BK who wants to be healthy?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I peeled the Spongebob sticker off the last Twinkie, the one I'm going to mail to Luna (sorry, I ruined all the stickers by waiting until after I'd opened the package to pull them off), and the date on the cellophane says OCT 15. I don't know what that means!
Is it getting really warm in here?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Twinkies don't go bad. Like, ever.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Only because "going bad" indicates that they began as something other than bad.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Good point. There is no clear way for me to win this argument, so I'll go back to pining for a Twinkie.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I first had twinkies on my first night in the US. Staying in a dodgy hotel in Chinatown, I walked up The Bowery until I came to a (what do Americans call a corner shop, a grocer, a newsagent?). It sold twinkies. They were to be my dinner. They were pretty horrible, if only because biting into one, my teeth started giving off a high pitched note.

BUT I ATE A TWINKIE. This was one of the most urgent & key things I've ever done.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago)

After all the comic ads, I had to try a Twinkie my first time in the States too. It appeared to belong in the bathroom: you could wash yourself with the sponge, and use the filling as shaving cream. My impression was that this would be a better use than eating the horrible things.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

During my last year of High School, I was into having personality quirks, because I was a giant nerd. I used to carry Hostess Fruit Pies around. "Just in case the robots turn against us."
What a pretentious dick I was. No wonder I'm a lonely and miserable jackass now.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Huck, I always have a problem equating the sweet and funny person with the depressive self-deprecator. What's up, G?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I just got a really annoying email from some dude telling me that the project I'm doing for him (WHICH IS HIS JOB, BTW) is being done "wrong" and if I would please "make it more clear." The best part? He called me Karen in the e-mail. He gets a big fat "Eat My FCKK" sandwich.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

You could do like Patrick (American Psycho) Bateman and use this coworker's arrogance regarding your name and role to lure him to a grisly death.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

And just before you deliver the final blow, you can tell him: "You have to understand..."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

When I was at the boardwalk this summer, I had a deep-fried Oreo (only one bite, though, because a whole thing would have made me ill). I could have tried a deep-fried Twinkie, but I wanted the Oreo. It tasted like a chocolate zeppoli.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, "twinkie" is such a fun little word. I can't stop saying it in my head. Twinkie twinkie twinkie twink-ee. Hee hee. TWINKIE. eeheeeheeheee (I'm obviously beyond insanity.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

It's up there with 'cooter' on the list of fun words to say.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Hucklebuck, don't be hard on yourself. Just consider this: Rilke used to ostentatiously carry a red rose through the streets in his youth. And he turned out OK.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

http://i.xanga.com/aZn_sEduCtReSs/twinkie.jpg

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

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This is the guy who is always creepy with the innuendos and is always trying to get his hands on me. I stopped talking to him and he noticed. I guess I should just go back to not talking to him.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Laser Beam Death stare in his direction every time he walks by.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Obv. you guys wouldn't really know, but do you think I'm intimidating? The intern just jumped when I said something to her. "Here's your new notebook."

note: this isn't the dumb-as-fuck intern who condescends me all fucking day long.

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

At most you're intimidating in that "He was always such a quiet neighbor" kind of way.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

further note: I'm wearing a slipknot T-shirt that has blood-splatter-as-tie-dye and bright green scrawl that reads: "Die, Intern, Die"

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

i am a nerd to the 5th degree. i am waiting in a line with fellow nerds tonight to buy the new GTA video game. I am a 30 year old nerd.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

but an adorable one.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

But you're a babymaking nerd, which, y'know, puts you in the highest order of nerds, which many aspire but few ever achieve.

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

thanks. wait, i've gotten an email from my fellow 30 year old nerd friend and i am picking him up so we can go nerding together.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Genuine Nerd

http://www.lurid.com/wayne/assets/toby-radloff.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)

With a shirt like that, the bowtie is really superfluous.

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of the nerd in American Splendor. Awww.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)

this is what your eventual baby will look like, science doesn't lie:
http://www.dedigitalerevolutie.nl/images/geekonot.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)

A nerd? If he insists, but Chris is two games away from being the happiest nerd ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Huk, I don't think you're intimidating. It's about time that intern guy gave you some R E S P E C T though. I bet he was doing something he wasn't supposed to, like playing on ILX. ha ha

Chris, I'm all about my nerdiness. When I was little, my mom always repeated these two things to me
1- Isn't it fun to be a girl? And
2- Why be normal?
She even had a button that said "Proud to be a Nerd."
So I'm full of femininity and weirdness (nerdiness).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Are you saying that femininity + weirdness = nerdiness?

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Um, sure, why not? No, not really. I've met lots of weird females who aren't nerds.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, thats because its Toby Radloff the nerd from American Splendor!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

!!!! Hahahaha! I loved the way the guy said "nerd." It was like "nnnnuuuurrd."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Uh, hey, did the rest of the world set your clocks back an hour this weekend? or is it next weekend?

― Huk-l, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Next weekend

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

The heating guy came to do an annual safety check, now the heating and hot water doesn't work :(

Everything in my house keeps breaking down.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

bored

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Hello everyone. I am having one of the days where I'm the stupidest person ever and I can't fucking do shit at all or even read or think straight, let alone get all the dispersed elements of my life together which I have been trying desperately to do, but obviously not hard enough. GUH. I'm sorry I don't come on this thread much and when I do I whine about nothing, but man! Sucks.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm at work but I don't so much feel like it. I forgot my boss was going to be away. Ho hum.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I feel your pain, Casuistry. In this I knew he was going to be gone but damn I'm just plain tired. Two more hours to go, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I just did an equal amount of work in the last 20 minutes as I did all morning. Ha ha, I'm inconsistent!

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I have an hour and 11 minutes left at work today.

I am currently hating on this female coworker - the one who I've had tiffs with in the past about really stupid shit like whose stuff is on the printer... I hate her. HATE HATE HATE her. Our latest stupid fight was over popcorn. One of these days I think we're going to have to take it outside.

I don't mean to complain. I mean, I'm always hating on at least one coworker, so it's really just everyday stuff here.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Hail Sarah, full of hate, the board is with you and also with the fruit of thy loom, Jesus Christ. Blessed art thou among women. For thine is the Kingdom, deliver us some pizza, watch out stomach here it comes!

8 years of catholic school, ladies and gentlemen!

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Also I meant to bring some of the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I made this weekend into work, but I forgot. Bleh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago)

hi jel!

did you get to skip out of work cause the heating man was due to show up?

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Fruit of the Loom! - NOT THE SAFEST FOR WORK

Casu, Someone brought in chocolate chocolate chip cookies today with pumpkin candies on them. What do yours look like?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you tempt me (that's a tM3 ref) with your "not the safest for work", you scamp!

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

They are pumpkin through and through, made with some of that canned pumpkin stuff. They're little puffy blobs, somewhere between a normal cookie and a meringue.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

mmm... puffy blobs...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

If you're wondering what I've been up to this afternoon, read the fax machine thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Dracula with Bela Lug0si is on tonight on TCM. I'm going to wind up scaring myself in my own damn apartment.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry, Jeanne, Bela Lugosi's Dead.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

And yet he sucks.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

It is clearly time for part 22 of this thread.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Listen to them, the children of the night. Vhat sveet music dey make...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I think I've never even seen the whole film, just that one scene. Is it any good?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me, or do you find that womens' screams were much more startling and blood-chilling back in the olden days of movies?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Nowadays women don't scream, they just kick 'em in the nads.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

In movies, I mean.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

And why not in real life too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

You just have to ask nicely enough and it'll come true.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

..and then you'll hear some blood-chilling feminine screams!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 22: "...and then you'll hear some blood-chilling feminine screams!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 22: ...and then you'll hear some blood-chilling feminine screams!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago)

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