And besides, we already had a theremin playing actuary who went to MIT and a Gothic etiquette expert and a witty British woman teaching in Cairo and Bangkok and a Jamaican woman who was the child of a diplomat and a scientist, grew up in London and became an expert in computers and martial arts.

Lori helped build the rovers and is a noted participant of Dog in Elk.

Emilyn was (is?) a NYT writer, right?

erinaceous put words in the dictionary.

jengod was on jeopardy.

This place is like MAGIC.

amych,

that's some good shit.

I wonder what his wife thinks. I wonder if he is back in AA.

The first lead carpenter I worked under claimed to be 30; to have parachuted into Panama and watched most of his comrades get shot out of the sky and then spent days hiding in the mud waiting for rescue; to be a LifeFlight pilot; to be friends with some country star and have met Reba McEntire; and on and on and on.

All lies, even his age. He was 27 and had a heart attack on the job site, and I started talking to the other guy (small company) and it was bullshit, every bit. I just didn't expect to be lied to. I'm less gullible now, but I still take most of what people tell me at face value.

Oh, SNAP. So freaking busted. That is a thing of beauty.

There should be a pulitzer for tweets like this.

Oh, man. That actor is FUCKED.

This place is like MAGIC.

I'm thinking weremonkey had an inferiority complex. Sorry you're not as awesome as the rest of us, dude.

smonster, so wait, the heart attack at 27 part WASN"T the lie? Weird. :)

Buffistas is set up so that you believe weirder stories. Cause our weird stories are true.(although I wish mine were sexier than "spent six hours in up-ended wheelchair," and "cut cornea reading Sunday funnies" but then, the self-loathing demons are out in force lately) So I wasn't really pissed at Gus till he came around again wanting a second bite of the apple. You tricked me, had your lame little yucks, but you don't get to pretend we know each other in a healthy way...fuck off.

smonster, so wait, the heart attack at 27 part WASN"T the lie? Weird. :)

He definitely got really pale and clammy and went to the hospital, and the company owner laid off me and the other employee because the lead carpenter had had a heart attack. I went to work for another company but ran into the company owner several months later at the hardware store. They eventually forced him to quit because they found out he was using the company cell for 900 number calls and "storing" company equipment at his house. Did I mention he also collected guns and carried one in the van? That part is true.

Okay, this is fierce...something.

Someone gave me a link to another pseudicide story, this one in the LA Weekly. I decide to peek at the comments, but I just got this far:

To quote TvTropes, the site that linked me here, and probably others: "This woman mind raped [Audrey] for two years." For two years, this woman was emotionally strung along, having her life played with like a puppet in this sick woman's hands.

It's not going to get richer for me today, that's for sure.

It's not going to get richer for me today, that's for sure.

Wow. Taste the irony.