I don't think I ever lurked, because I didn't know it was a thing. Now I have to find my first post.
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - May 21, 2025 6:19:43 am PDT #7328 of 7345
Our wings are not tired.
msbelle - May 21, 2025 6:40:08 am PDT #7329 of 7345
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
We have this discussion enough that I put the date of my first post in my bio or whatever.
Trudy Booth - May 21, 2025 6:55:56 am PDT #7330 of 7345
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
^ This is when I wish we had a Like button.
msbelle - May 21, 2025 7:05:18 am PDT #7331 of 7345
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Heart
lisah - May 21, 2025 7:49:31 am PDT #7332 of 7345
Punishingly Intricate
I was definitely around in the Salon days but have no idea when I first posted!
Trudy Booth - May 21, 2025 8:25:20 am PDT #7333 of 7345
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The first time I was on jury duty it was a week long criminal trial involving gun possession. I was relieved because I'd just done my Backpack Europe thing, had no job, hadn't seen local news in several months, and was prime pickins to end up on some month long sequestered Jersey mob trial jury.
The second time was a civil trial that took two weeks and it was great because my job (which I hated) paid my full salary and it ate no vacation time. The Manhattan courts are close enough to Chinatown that we had fantastic cheap lunches every day and the weather was particularly lovely. We gave the dude in the car accident almost as much as we legally could on the logic of "What if this spinal injury causes further complications down the road and he needs more care?" so that felt good. It was long enough that I was excused from jury duty for something like eight years.
Trudy Booth - May 21, 2025 10:02:43 am PDT #7334 of 7345
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Things my old ass self has been pondering lately:
When photocopiers heated up and kept jamming and you had to let them cool down
When a cup of yogurt was 8 oz in a little waxed paper cup
Getting up to change the channel (misplaced our volume remote for two days - brutal)
-t - May 21, 2025 12:33:34 pm PDT #7335 of 7345
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
When a cup of yogurt was 8 oz in a little waxed paper cup
This is not ringing any bells for me. Yogurt has always been in plastic or glass or made by me and then maybe in anything
Getting up to change the channel
Yeah, but we only had 4 channels so it wasn't so important. My dad, at one point, had a sort of wired remote, a mechanical sort of thing with a cable connecting it to the TV. It seemed very fancy
Laura - May 21, 2025 12:35:16 pm PDT #7336 of 7345
Our wings are not tired.
As a kid we only had NBC as a local station, so there wasn't any changing channels.
Jessica - May 21, 2025 12:54:07 pm PDT #7337 of 7345
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was trying to think if I even know where the buttons ARE on my current TV, and then I realized "changing the channel" isn't a thing I can even do anymore since we only have streaming! (Even our broadcast TV, when we had it, was through YouTubeTV.)