Yeah, the last paragraph in the last one is repeated twice.

Ghosted by Saf @ 10/22/2003 6:47 AM EDT

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Fourth place, my highest ever, what a great day to be alive.

Too bad the Hulkamania Aligator isen’t around to see this.

Ghosted by knappy76 @ 10/22/2003 9:01 AM EDT

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Yeah, the last paragraph in the last one is repeated twice.

Ghosted by rizz @ 10/22/2003 9:45 AM EDT

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FIVE new entries!

hey Matt, have you tried much pumpkin carving this year? it’s a little late for suggestions, but you could try out those jack o’lantern "template" kits of cartoon characters.

Wal*Mart bins = very cheap, plasticky, Halloween fun.

Ghosted by zann @ 10/22/2003 10:34 AM EDT

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Am I the only person that is super sad that Matt did not go to Wildwood this year?

Ghosted by Mindsuckr @ 10/22/2003 11:59 AM EDT

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5 New Entries, 5 New Entries. Matt, you are a workin’ machine! If I had your dedication to….this….I wouldn’t be here typing this instead of trying to volunteer at the music wing at my school. Yeah, I graduated. Halloween is 9 days away. Thanksgiving came and went. 9 times the fun. X-E.

Ghosted by Armagideon Time @ 10/22/2003 12:54 PM EDT

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Who in their right mind would have the courage to eat a gummi tarantula? I’ve seen them in shops and have seemed to me the most revolting edibles. I can’t imagine chewing on a leg, realize it’s supposed to be tarantula, and as your teeth sink into the chewiness you have no problem swallowing after a few bites. Ewww. Now if they had fixed fake tarantula hair to the gummi, like with coconut–man I wouldn’t even be able to look at those things.

SPIDERS ARE SATAN SPAWN! KILL ALL SPIDERS! (this message brought to you by Sam and Frodo)

Those Burger King toys were awesome. I had all but Frankie. The Dracula one I used to take with me all the time as like some sort of little friend I kept in a coffin. I loved how his hands were sculpted to look just like Bela’s.

Ghosted by inkmage @ 10/22/2003 2:34 PM EDT

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Ladies and gentlemen, Matt’s Teeth! Or, more specifically, Matt’s Overbite!

Ghosted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 10/22/2003 2:54 PM EDT

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Pac Man’s on one arm and the little Saturn is on the other. I’m still curious as to if there’s a specific reason behind the planet tattoo?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 10/22/2003 3:29 PM EDT

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b loody hell the site is still rockin’

i dont get to read x-e too often now, since i have a new job. (im no longer the highest paid cleaner in Cambridge) im the poorest computer engineer in the world, but at least its a start on my career. anyway, im glad that x-e is still going strong, and that article about the vomit bag was slappy tastic.

keeeep onnnn bakin’ maaan.

Ghosted by 'tin Man @ 10/22/2003 4:35 PM EDT

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Heh, you were in my area, Matt – and I didn’t even know. Yeah, Salem is fun – and Massachusetts, as a whole, is great…in my unbiased opinion.

And for the record, my mother DID go to college in Salem.

Ghosted by JC @ 10/22/2003 4:56 PM EDT

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In the "can you top this" department; my mom graduated from Salem High a long, long, long, long, long time ago.

Huh huh huh…she’s a baby boomer.
Heh heh m heh heh…Baby boomers are old!

Ghosted by MonsterDog @ 10/22/2003 5:58 PM EDT

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What’s this about you not going to Wildwood this year? What about Fat Daddy? Huh? WHAT ABOUT FAT DADDY’S FEELINGS!?!
BTW the Golden Girls where Rose’s pill addiction is discovered was on last night. She said "hell".

Ghosted by Applesauce @ 10/22/2003 7:41 PM EDT

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Rose: "GET OFF MY DAMN BACK!"

We didn’t go to Wildwood this past summer, and yes, it sucks. My friends are mostly bored with the place, which is understandable since it’s basically turned into a place for high schoolers who can’t afford big vacations or for families full of small children; in either case, not the best scenario for a buncha twenty-somethings. I still love the fuck out of WW, though, and will def go back next year.

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/22/2003 7:43 PM EDT

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Matt, you’re just plain neat

Ghosted by Applesauce @ 10/22/2003 7:52 PM EDT

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I remember Pet Tarantulas. I loved them. But what I’ll never forget is something else that my grandparents brought back for me after returning from a vacation.

First of all, let me explain that I had a pet rat that I loved very much. His name was Sonic (named after the famous hedgehog), and he was the coolest little dude ever. Well anyway, my grandparents return from their vacation (I think it was a cruise or something), and presented me with a large cherry-flavored gummy rodent entitled "Pet Rat." I kept it alive for awhile, but eventually the rat just got too tempting. So I sucked its guts out (I’ll let you believe what you want to believe as to which rat it was that I had eaten).

Ghosted by Nate @ 10/22/2003 7:54 PM EDT

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As do I. Yes, I reside in Wildwood, NJ, year-round, and spent more time than I care to admit this summer hoping to encouter a spiky-reddish-haired 20-something guy wearing sunglasses indoors, schmoozing with Fat Daddy (who is, indeed, still around, though on a different part of the boardwalk), and making fun of the 99 cent stores.

I don’t blame your buddies for not wanting to come here. If Salem is "commercial," Wildwood is the definative tourist trap. This doesn’t bother me. I grew up in the slightly classier "historic" tourist trap to the south, Cape May, so I’m no stranger to gift shops every two blocks. Matt’s complaints about it only being popular with families and high schoolers during the summer is all too true. Some of those "high schoolers who couldn’t afford big vacations" stayed in the apartment two doors down from me and were a total pain. The families who stayed in the hotel next door were more fun; I used to listen to them splash and play in the hotel’s pool (which my kitchen window overlooks).

The "lil’ bed and breakfasts" are mostly in Cape May. There are a few in North Wildwood, but I don’t believe there are any in Wildwood City.

Don’t come here now, BTW. The season is most definately over. There are some hotels still open, but everything on the boardwalk except for one of the arcades (the one with the 25 cent cranes) is closed, as are most everything else in town but a few necessary stores and a couple of local restaurants popular enough to survive the winter. If you wanna come down during the off season, you might want to try February (if we don’t get a blizzard again) or March.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 10/22/2003 9:42 PM EDT

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I meant in the band Godsmack.

Ghosted by Michael @ 10/22/2003 10:24 PM EDT

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Salem is scary, yes. And even Lowell, MA (my birthplace) is scary, with all them crazy Asians everywhere. But nothing can prepare you for the horrors that exist in WV. I’m dead serious, folks. Don’t believe me, come and see for yourself. Mwahahahahahaha

Ghosted by SHANE! @ 10/23/2003 12:06 PM EDT

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Wow, I remember loving those BK Universal Monsters figures, I might have to look for some on eBay. You mentioned not knowing what Taco Bell’s Halloween toys were; interestingly enough, they are figures almost exactly like the BK ones, except they’re generic instead of Universal. I think they have a vampire, werewolf, frankenstein, mummy, and zombie. They each come with a crypt that they rise out of like the BK Dracula did.

Ghosted by Bandini @ 10/23/2003 4:07 AM EDT

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I want to make out with you, Matt. Especially if your mouth is full of Bloody Mouth Minty Mouth Blood. Mmmmm. . . tasty.

Ghosted by megan @ 10/23/2003 2:01 PM EDT

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Matt, you said mine… are you from Southern Pennsylvania? Because from what I understand, that’s Southern PA dialect.

Ghosted by Sheep @ 10/31/2003 1:25 AM EST

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i live in waltham mass, and no mr.big toyland is all gone. it went out like 15 years ago.

Ghosted by my little radio @ 10/22/2004 5:24 PM EDT

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