These Japanese snacks are actually called “Sea Otter Boogers” and apparently are quite tasty treats made of candied black beans. They’re yours for only about $6, of course, you have to speak Japanese to order them.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Feb 26, 2009 6:07:01 am PST #8351 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Calli - Feb 26, 2009 6:10:09 am PST #8352 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I spent loads of time on BBSs in the mid-90s. I don't remember what I was doing, but I remember it seeming fun at the time.
Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2009 6:20:27 am PST #8353 of 30000
brillig
I've got saved emails from back in the 90s, so I was online. I think I was mostly on email lists and a couple of text based sites. I did it at work, evil me, because we couldn't tie up the phone line at home.
My grandfathers were farmers. One of them got run over and killed in front of his house by one of the first cars in Greene County.
javachik - Feb 26, 2009 6:24:15 am PST #8354 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
CompuServe, then AOL, beginning in 1993. On my $3,400 PowerMac 7100 with its awesome 8 MB RAM and 32 MB hd.
AOL name = javachik.
tommyrot - Feb 26, 2009 6:24:57 am PST #8355 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some awesome pictures of people in costumes: Carnival Venice 2009
This is my fave: [link] She (he?) looks like a fancily-decorated upside-down light bulb.
![[link]](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m275/jogi21/random/CarnivalVenice2009_D2B1/ballooncarnival.jpg){kind=link}
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2009 6:31:53 am PST #8356 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was also internetting from university, between '87 and '90--that was usenet. rec.arts.sf.written and soc.culture.african.american.moderated FTW. Such times...
Hey, tommy's hamster link led me to this. I'm sad to say I can't hear it. I do feel old. There go my dreams of passing for 25.
Anyone (ever) watch any Graham Norton? I think I'm addicted. He's so rude but sweet. He has Gerard Depardieu on the episode that showed last night, and that guy is such a doll. The show before had Dustin Hoffman and his wife, who looks eerily young--they've been together 30 years and she looks 35.
Jessica - Feb 26, 2009 6:36:15 am PST #8357 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was online in 1992 doing exactly what I'm doing now, only instead of an online forum for Buffy fans who almost never talk about Buffy, it was a Prodigy bulletin board for 90210 fans who almost never talked about 90210.
Emily - Feb 26, 2009 6:43:44 am PST #8358 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It took me several days to find out my father was in the hospital in '96 because my boyfriend spent all his time on the computer.
tommyrot - Feb 26, 2009 6:45:54 am PST #8359 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hey, tommy's hamster link led me to this. I'm sad to say I can't hear it. I do feel old. There go my dreams of passing for 25.
Ha! That link locked up my browser, so I don't have to feel old....
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2009 6:46:36 am PST #8360 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It crashed Opera, but it worked in Firefox just fine.