{{{{Sparky}}}} Peace to you, your husband, and family.

I love how Marilyn Manson is more famous than Jesus.

I gotta figure that people with an agenda took the quiz. I can't imagine an English speaker with a reading level that would allow him to take the quiz, who didn't have the basic level of knowledge of Jesus required to check off his name on the quiz.

I beliebe Fred Durst's contribution to the English language was "agreeance", not "agreeage". He is a GWB unto himself.

*slaps head* agreeance, yes of course, now I remember. That was him then, okay. Good. Thanks, Nutty.

Oh, and I guess the least-known person I know is Gheorghe Muresan.

Wasn't that surprising? Must be a generational thing--I was in elementary school for Challenger, so it was huge for me.

I remembered Christa McAuliffe, and I was in college (where I hardly knew anything about the outside world). You were in grade school then, Katie? Infant.

Does that count as a costume?

No. That is a coping mechanism.

Victor Zsasz.

Let me guess - middle initial is "P"?

I remember hearing about Fred Durst, seeing him on some MTV thing, going, "So that's Fred Durst," and then going on to something totally other. He doesn't annoy me, doesn't intrigue me, he's just sort of there.

The costumed cats look like perfect minions for Clovis. I'm sure the kinds of retribution they've thought up are amazing.

I remembered Christa McAuliffe, and I was in college (where I hardly knew anything about the outside world). You were in grade school then, Katie? Infant.

Heh. If only. What I was really thinking was that people much younger than me wouldn't remember her name, and the audience for "online survey" is probably pretty young on average.

I can't hate Fred Durst because I love the song he did with Staind:

And you bring me to my knees, again
All this time that I could beg you please, in vain
All the times that I felt insecure, for you
And I leave my burdens at the door

I’m on the outside
I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
’cause inside you’re ugly
Ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All this time that I felt like this wont end
It’s for you
And I taste what I could never have
Was from you
All those times that I tried
My intentions
Full of pride
And I waste more time than anyone

I’m on the outside
I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you’re ugly
Ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times that I cried
All this wastin
It’s all inside
And I feel all this pain
Stuffed it down
It’s back again
And I lie here in bed
All alone
I cant mend but I feel
Tomorrow will be okay

I’m on the outside
I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Inside you’re ugly
Ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

I was ten years old when the Challenger went boom, and in the fifth grade. Apparently, that was the year that all the kindergarteners got the TV for events, and the confusion that broke out when the shuttle launch turned out to be more of a shuttle flambe was enough to shanghai my science teacher from the class.

We didn't find out what had actually happened for another couple of hours, I think.

I think kindergarteners watch events on tape delay, nowadays.

(I do remember being in kindergarten and watching Reagan's first inauguration. Why would this be significant to kindergarteners? I have no idea!)

The rassin' frassin' New York Times wants me to pay them money to read the frickin' editorians online from now on. Arrrrr.

Was that piratical enough? TimesSelect me arse.

Gheorghe Muresan

Former NBA player.

If Adam is gay, why hook up with Naomi Campbell, of all things? That's just crazy.

There's a huge article on Bono's work on debt relief in the Sunday NYT, btw.