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I just received my free copy of a book I contributed to. My chapter is the second-shortest one and it's the second-last chapter in the book. I think it didn't really fit the theme and they didn't really know what to do with it...but fuck it, I'm in a book!

Deeply interested.

I should have taken more mini Twix from the candy bowl when I had the chance.

Let the memory of this privation strenghten your resolve to never let propriety stand between you and them ever again.

It's been 18 years since the video games Pokemon Gold and Silver came out, the first Pocket Monsters game in which your character has a cell phone, and yet, in the intervening years since 1999, phone manufacturers still haven't created a phone that will say "Just go talk to that person," to me whenever I try to call someone who's already in my field of vision, the way my character's cell phone in Silver Version would do when I tried to call another trainer who I could see on screen.  So much for "smart" phones, huh, y'all?

If we post in the old thread, does it show up here? If we post here, does it show up in the old thread? Is the old thread closed? Do we now have two divergent RF threads, like a fork in the time line in a Star Trek/ X-Men/ Terminator universe? I'm fine with it being here, but I'm sooo confused.

The third guy in CHUD - the guy who wasn't John Heard or Daniel Stern - was friends with my dad growing up, and they reconnected a few years back.

Today's the kind of day when any activity except sitting in the shade sipping mojitos seems almost masochistic.

The first time I ever had a fig, back when I was a kid, it was right off a tree, in my grandparents' backyard. My grandfather picked it for me. Figs have always been special to me ever since then.

Heresy! The Newton is worthy all on its own!

Your post just made me realize this too. Because I would get John Heard and William Hurt mixed up, except I thought his name was "John Hurt".

What is this Fig Newton abuse?! I mean, it's not like it's coleslaw.

You people need to eat better coleslaw.

Now, I believe that coleslaw is gross, but that's just because cabbage soaked in mayo has no appeal to me. My wife on the other hand loves it and always orders it as a side. A few years ago we went to a local restaurant and she got coleslaw and it came with raisins in it. She found the whole thing terrible unappealing. Now, neither of us can remember which restaurant this was, so, when ever we go to a restaurant and she orders coleslaw, she has to ask the server if it has raisins in it. The server always looks at us in horror and says no. In an effort to make sure that the server doesn't think it is we who are the raisin adding monsters, my wife has to explain the story about one of the local restaurants who adds the raisins, and we just needed to make sure it wasn't this one.


Anyway, I hope this rambling, pointless story about raisins in coleslaw really helps to show all the newbs the kind of hard-hitting, in-depth reporting we are known for at the TIF.