04/30/2004: Happy Day.
Yeah yeah, been a blah week here, sorry. Had some stuff that needed to be taken care of. Next week'll be better, I pwowmiwse. Meantime, let's get another survey going. What was the best day of your life?
Discussion Thread: 140 comments
Today!!! First post, woo hoo!
Posted by
Y2JB78 @ 04/30/2004 2:26 PM EDT
Finding X-E.
*sniff*
Posted by
AtomicPunk @ 04/30/2004 2:27 PM EDT
i would have to say right now only because i convinced a co-worker to go to times square with me and get some cold stone creamery ice cream. it is so delicious right now on this beautiful new york day!!! i am sure i have a better one but cannot think right now. 
Posted by
jessica_76 @ 04/30/2004 2:28 PM EDT
Getting the fourth (fifth? sixth?)post in this blog.
Seriously though, it would be the day I received Beast Machines Tankor and TFTM in the mail, and discovered a long-buried passion. I giggled like a little girl all through the movie.
That would have to be the day that my best friend threw me my 15th birthday party- it was a surprise Luau party and it was awesome. I was in my first year of high school and all my friends from middle school were at the rival school. They all showed up, and people I hadn't seen since elementary school were there too. It was awesome. My best friend rocks!
Posted by
Rainbowfeet @ 04/30/2004 2:41 PM EDT
Well, to be perfectally honest I probably cannot relate it here at this time. Would not be proper. But it involved a beautiful girl, a bottle of wine, and the boundless beauty that is nature.
or the time that I found the toyfare listed 45 dollar Roboto for 4 bucks at Toys r Us.
Yeah, that was good too.
Posted by
Spooky @ 04/30/2004 2:43 PM EDT
Too many to mention, and choosing one seems like it belittles the others. Still, let's go with the most recent one…April 3rd, 2004.
I finally got the balls up to tell the girl I've had a crush on for months how I feel about her.
Admittedly, it wasn't quite what I had intended to say - it ended up being more along the lines of "You're really important to me, and I'm glad that we're friends." Still, that's a pretty major event for little old sociophobic me.
And yes, I am in high school - a junior, if anyone cares.
Posted by
The ORIGINAL Paul @ 04/30/2004 2:44 PM EDT
probably the weekend of my prom wayy back in 98' went to a place called allens acres in the hamptons and just partied with like 40 friends.
Posted by
mikey @ 04/30/2004 2:44 PM EDT
Drat! A-Punk beat me to the shmaltz! Uhh, let me think. Well, this more cynical, but it'll work for me. The day I graduated high school. Ha-ha! I hated school, so I was very happy to be done with it. Think I'll follow jessica's example and get some ice cream as soon as I cash my paycheck. mmmmmmmmm…… Rocky Road….. drooooooooool….
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/30/2004 2:45 PM EDT
The best day of my life was seeing Paul McCartney in concert a couple years ago. No, really.
Posted by
B-Dawg @ 04/30/2004 2:45 PM EDT
fucked if i know…
Posted by
kujfykf @ 04/30/2004 2:46 PM EDT
ps. for those of you who are serious about your best day being the day you received a toy- thats just really sad.
Posted by
mikey @ 04/30/2004 2:46 PM EDT
This is sort of off topic, but I had something brought up to me the other day. Did anyone else have Mexican Pizzas at their school? They were the best tasting things in the world and it seems like you can no longer find them anywhere in the real world.
I mean, yes, I know you can get similar named things at Taco Bell. The thing is that they taste nothing like my gov't issued low grade school food.
*sigh* how I miss the Mexican Pizza.
Posted by
mindsuckr @ 04/30/2004 2:57 PM EDT
I've Had many "best days," but one that sticks out in my mind would be the day I recieved my car-1998 Red VW New Beetle.
I had finished High School All Region Choir tryouts, and I didn't make it. I was pretty bummed, not to mention tired–the tryouts were an all day event.
Anyway, my parents had gotten the car while I was gone and had it waiting for me. It was pretty awesome.
Posted by
Cameron @ 04/30/2004 3:00 PM EDT
The day I found a ghostbusters pencil in the school hallway, free for the taking!
Or…the day I met my girlfriend yay!
Posted by
Cobra Soldier #18 @ 04/30/2004 3:04 PM EDT
The day I found the Ultimate warrior dress up review at wrestlecrap.com. I've been hooked on X-E ever since. (Yeah I don't have much goin on)
Posted by
Fucko The Clown @ 04/30/2004 3:06 PM EDT
The last day of seventh grade. I was being slightly snarkier than everyone else about this video my Christian Ed teacher had made us watch. He took me out into the hall to lecture me and goes into how I'd been a bad Christian in class *all* year (I'm Jewish), and he sure hoped for my sake I could turn around by next year or my *grades* would be in trouble (straight A's, even in his class; it drove him insane).
He had me sitting in a little plastic chair. He was kneeling in front of me, his soft white underbelly totally exposed. I had a long history of abrupt kicks towards the sensitive places. He was leaving for another school.
And still, he had absolutely no idea.
Oh, the way his eyes bugged out.
I take joy from all the wrong things. (Oh, and the day I got my own computer was pretty good, too.)
Posted by
Goz @ 04/30/2004 3:19 PM EDT
Ooh…best day? That's a humdinger! I know the best year of my life : 1995 baby! 1995 was sweeeet.
Posted by
Kristal @ 04/30/2004 3:25 PM EDT
The day I got my new Z… so like a year ago.
Posted by
Wills @ 04/30/2004 3:28 PM EDT
I'm with Kristal 1995 was the best year of my life. But the best day of my life so far (theres two of em) 10/15/01 and 04/15/03 the day my children were born.
Damn I'm such a sentimental sot.
Posted by
OldSchooler @ 04/30/2004 3:50 PM EDT
lot's of best days here, though the two most promenent are, April 28th, 2004, got to see not only the b-side playerz, but also Toots and the Maytels (REGGE LEGENDS ALL!) and skanked like a madman. and the other best day was January 7th, 2003. The first time I got to change my daughters diaper. oh yea, she was born the same day…damn that daiper was rank, what'd she eat in there?
Posted by
brandon @ 04/30/2004 3:52 PM EDT
New Year's Day, this year. The day I finally beat my cocaine addiction. Seriously. Bad stuff.
Posted by
Clean Myke @ 04/30/2004 3:55 PM EDT
I don't know… probably the day I got my first car. I still have it. 1989 Tuarus baby!
OldSchooler, our kids have close birthday days. Mine are 10/12/98, 4/25/01 (also, my 26th birthday, natch) and 3/31/03. Our last ones are only 2 weeks apart. Hooray for coincidence!
Besides all of that sentimentality, the best day of my life would have to be I finally fit back into my size 8 jeans. Yay, me!
Posted by
trajeal @ 04/30/2004 4:09 PM EDT
Any day that contains any combination of the following: little people, robots, robots piloted by little people, Pac-Man, Spider-Man, chocolate, early George Carlin, MST3K, Lynda Carter, South Park, monkeys, Monkees, Nick Danger, Benny Hill, Amalgam Comics, licorice jellybeans, pizza, paper airplanes, Green Lantern, Issac Asimov, Big Macs, that song about the drunken Scotsman and his kilt, Lava Lamps, Zero bars, Dr. Demento, origami, and TeleVision. Not a complete list, but what the hey.
(strikes dramatic anime' pose)
COMBINATION, GO!
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/30/2004 4:44 PM EDT
The day I told my in-laws that I wore white tube socks to my wedding. The expressions on there faces when they really looked at the wedding photos was priceless.
Posted by
Wenthral @ 04/30/2004 4:57 PM EDT
I don't know about a single day, but the summer before my last semester at college was without a doubt the most fun I ever had in my life, I don't think that I was low once that whole summer. Which is saying alot since I need to take meds to keep me level (stupid chemical imbalances)
Posted by
oldschool @ 04/30/2004 4:57 PM EDT
I was 16 back in '95 and somehow I stumbled my way into this local LA GothPunk band called Frankenstein (Old School GothPunk. Think like, The Cramps or 45 Grave). I played sax (Baritone) and ended up playing one show with them. I'm sure I sucked, but it was still the coolest damn thing…. Almost cooler is that I found the band is still around. I need to write them and say "j0!"
Posted by
JasonA @ 04/30/2004 4:58 PM EDT
3 months and 4 days ago. Had a threesome and everyone was sober.
Posted by
Zacwax @ 04/30/2004 5:21 PM EDT
Why my favorite day would have to be May 1st 2004, not only will it be Communist labour day (kill a commie for your mommy) but also the day matt will post the newest part of the chiasaga. Then I'll be so happy i'll do cartwheels, which is hard because I'm a heavy guy.
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/30/2004 5:45 PM EDT
One day in the summer of 95; I was 15. I got my first PC and touched a girl *down there* for the first time - in the same freaking day!
Posted by
max j @ 04/30/2004 5:54 PM EDT
Oh and I'm married to her now. She rocks.
Posted by
max j @ 04/30/2004 5:58 PM EDT
Still waiting for it. Although surely not to stay such for the rest of my life, the day I decided to quit school was probably the best one so far, but also the scariest.
"ps. for those of you who are serious about your best day being the day you received a toy- thats just really sad."
Come on dude, there was a movie ABOUT toys as well. Don't sell my best day short, yo.
"Oh and I'm married to her now. She rocks."
After that last comment… I hope she doesn't read the X-E blog. Whoo lawd!
oh son of a.. I lost my post.. Im not typing it again.. lets just say it wasnt today.. and it was something about my girlfriend and another something about a Sex Pistols concert..
Posted by
Toxicity- @ 04/30/2004 6:40 PM EDT
The day i found out about Mr.T cereal
Posted by
Nigel @ 04/30/2004 6:48 PM EDT
The day Mr. T touched me *down there*.
Posted by
Kristal @ 04/30/2004 6:55 PM EDT
The day I learned the conclusion to the chia pet/Cobra saga.
Posted by
Brendan Small @ 04/30/2004 7:28 PM EDT
As cliched as it sounds, it was the day I first set eyes on my husband. Who knew that the guy across the room with the gorgeous eyes would be the person I'd marry.
Posted by
Brite @ 04/30/2004 7:59 PM EDT
I know it was a shitty day for just about everyone else in the country, but I had a great day on 9/11, personally. Had the day off from work, stayed home laughing and playing with my girlfriend, bought the new TMBG CD that came out that day (John Linnell: "Our new album was released on September 11th, this is part of our "Good Luck" strategy…"), and when I finally came home and turned on the TV, my first thought was the same as everyone else's… but my second thought was "Let's see that election-stealing motherfucker weasel his way out of THIS one." What a wonderful feeling of hope for the future! Too bad it hasn't come to anything but grief and misery.
Posted by
G'Tron @ 04/30/2004 8:14 PM EDT
That post looks a little heartless on further reflection… I should point out that it wasn't 'real' to me yet, it was too bizarre to comprehend. Living all the way over on the other coast, it takes time for things like that to really penetrate… but I spent weeks feeling really guilty over feeling so good on that day, and doubly guilty over my hepatitis-tainted blood being unsuited for donating. One day's pleasantries don't make up for a tragedy of that scale, I'll tell you that right fucking now.
Posted by
G'Tron @ 04/30/2004 8:21 PM EDT
I understand, G'Tron. It didn't sink in for a little while. Sometimes getting the day off makes you ignore the implications. I also had a good day. In retrospect, I'm ashamed to have had such a good day.
Posted by
Volkaru @ 04/30/2004 9:40 PM EDT
Hard to say…but I did have one of the best weeks of my life about two weeks ago. Went out to a fancy Easter dinner with the family and had a great time and had an even better time eating ham with them the next night, visited a girlfriend and her awesome grandma, and went on a shopping spree and bought myself a DVD player and the first season set for "The Monkees" (yes, the weird 60s sitcom/video show most of you, including me, probably recall from it's mid-80s MTV revival).
Posted by
starwenn @ 04/30/2004 10:06 PM EDT
Best day ever? Lots of those, but here's the one that sticks in my mind. I remember the day my parents bought my brother and I a NINTENDO! Not just any Nintendo, but the POWER SYSTEM!!! It had the GUN, the POWER PAD, and the triple game cart (SMB, Duckhunt, and World Class Track Meet). My brother and I flipped out!!! I still remember throwing myself on the floor and writhing in delight!
Posted by
SHANE! @ 04/30/2004 11:17 PM EDT
starwenn, do you remember the New Monkees? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092413/ http://www.angelfire.com/80s/newmonkees/index.html
Fun Factoid: Mike Nesmith's son actually auditioned for the group.
Posted by
ME @ 04/30/2004 11:21 PM EDT
Of course The New Monkees, and NKOTB (New Kids for those that missed their hardcore final album), would never expect the next non-sensation would be NBC's "The Guys Next Door!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122348/
http://guysnextdoor.50megs.com/menu.htm
Fun Factoid: Their hand signal would later be used by Diamond Dallas Page, and more recently Jay-Z
NBC tried one again with manufactured rock with "California Dreams" from Peter "Saved by the Bell" Engel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103380/
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9845/cadreams.html
What's that? Go out and get some liquor?! As you command, Computeron.
Posted by
ME @ 04/30/2004 11:33 PM EDT
Sorry. Can't answer that properly in 1000 words or less.
Without going into details, I think EVERY day is the best day of my life.
My wife just now told me that the best day of my life was the day I married her.
Using my theory, I guess that she's right!
Posted by
ibinsomniac @ 04/30/2004 11:35 PM EDT
There are many, but one sticks out in particular: The day I graduated college (Jan. '01) - I was the first in my family to do so. And now, I'm 26 & jobless, so go figure! Trickle-down economics are a wonder. (anyone hiring in the NJ area?)
Posted by
Mugzy. . . @ 05/01/2004 1:02 AM EDT
Don't really have a best day. Best moment is singing/dancing/airbanding Boston "More Than A Feeling" and 54*40 "Lies To Me" at 2:30 a.m. on the radio, in front of my window while dressed up like a shirt ninja. Or doing the same to "Baby Have Some Faith" (54*40 again) a week prior at 5:00 a.m. then making eggs and performing social commentary for myself. Yep. 
Posted by
Tutsuro @ 05/01/2004 1:10 AM EDT
The day me and my friends broke into a warehouse where no one worked anymore. They had a golfcart and a forklift in there and TONS of open space for use to fuck around it. And plenty of fire extinguishers to have fun with. Excellent day.
Posted by
Tim-E @ 05/01/2004 1:23 AM EDT
I made 4,000,000 errors in that last post. I'm half awake. I think you get the idea.
Posted by
Tim-E @ 05/01/2004 1:25 AM EDT
Mugsy- It's a bitch out there!
I'm going to have to think about this question, for sure. BUT, I will give you the most recent best moment of my life. The Patriots winning SuperBowl 36! The whole season was amazing. After it happenned, I flipped out, couldn't control the emotion. I still think I'm high from that win. SuperBowl 38 was incredible too, but there was nothing like the feeling of that first win.
Posted by
G4L @ 05/01/2004 2:47 AM EDT
First off, I'd like to say that Peter Engel should be tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity. There.
Now… bets day of my life? First day I met my girlfriend in person. Yeah, I'm one of those guys that fell for a girl he met online. We talked online and on the phone for six months before meeting each other in New York for the first time the last week of December, 2002. And a couple days at the start of 2003. Awesome? Awesome. It still bugs her that I saw her first in the airport. Neener neener! I'm just glad she didn't kill and rape me like she'd been threatening to for all those months. Whew.
Nothing in my mind stands out as the bona-fide best day of my life…I will say this though, too many of you people have mates. Quit doing that! How do you think it makes us single people feel???
(note: tongue is in cheek; please don't think I'm nuts; just lonely)
Posted by
Mars @ 05/01/2004 3:25 AM EDT
The day I discovered what my purpose in life was. That was the best day of my life!
Posted by
Ballerina Dancer @ 05/01/2004 3:57 AM EDT
when the chis pet story finally comes to an end my life will be complete, and it will be the best day of my life. Who knows what will happen? I will spread the wonders of the chia pet story with the world!!!!
That or the day I had my first orgasm…muahahahaha
Posted by
heeloyd @ 05/01/2004 5:03 AM EDT
sorry if that disturbed some of you, but im sure youve seen far more disturbing images on this site, like the ice cream machine in the game room that time forgot…>:O
Posted by
heeloyd @ 05/01/2004 5:04 AM EDT
Hmmm. I have a very short term memory unless something triggers it so this is pretty hard. I know one of the best days of my life will be when I get my black belt in July (as long as I pass the test!) oh and there was a day a couple weeks ago when I was shopping that I realized I'd gone from size 6 to size 4.
Posted by
Gabbylicious @ 05/01/2004 11:17 AM EDT
still waiting
Posted by
naturekid @ 05/01/2004 12:13 PM EDT
the day i learned to cry like a man.
Posted by
babydick @ 05/01/2004 12:17 PM EDT
My best day? The first time i saw my chopper all put together after paint. My shittiest day? The very next day when i wrecked it. Sonsabitch!!
Posted by
Jason @ 05/01/2004 1:14 PM EDT
I sense a disturbance, as if the voices of a handful of chia seeds cried out as they were mixed with mud and plastered on a wet clay pot, then suddenly silenced.
Posted by
kingklash @ 05/01/2004 3:09 PM EDT
All I will saw is that it involved a two-day pass to Disneyland, a hotel room close to the park, and several hallucinogens that I was a neophyte with. I still can't look at a crescent moon without it triggering some interesting memories of the Chesire Cat.
Winning a contest on UGO back in November! Still haven't got anything yet 
Posted by
Bizzar @ 05/01/2004 4:58 PM EDT
I won two Motorola FRS radios in a Surge scratch-off contest.
Posted by
kingklash @ 05/01/2004 6:30 PM EDT
Here's a question for Matt. What was your best day ever?
Posted by
Heathtown @ 05/01/2004 8:21 PM EDT
For me it was at the zoo, when i saw this chick admiring the pandas.Yep, I got laid.
Just kidding. I'd have to say that one of the best days of my life was Christmas of '88, when I received my NES. 'Nuff said.
Posted by
Nate @ 05/01/2004 9:27 PM EDT
Oh yeah. I also got the first ever micro-machine playset and a Dino Rider. 'Nuff said.
Posted by
Nate @ 05/01/2004 9:29 PM EDT
SHANE!-Ours had the light gun and power pad too, as well as the 3-in-1 cartridge. And I don't care ewhat anybody says about the power pad. I fucking loved it, and so did my friends.
Posted by
Nate @ 05/01/2004 9:38 PM EDT
I have two days I want to share with every one that were great. first one was when I was 7 years old, well I just turned 7 I wnt and ate at a big boys and then went to toys are us, my brother and sister were pressuring me to buy The legend of zelda,but I am like "no" because one game crossed my mind, it was …..Blater Master and to this day it is my fav game of all time, I stayed up and played the game trying to find level 4 *sheds a tear* what I wouldn't do to go back into the glorius 80's. second moment was in 97 I started my Insane 250 nes game collection. me and my father would stay up all night every weekend door trying ot beat arkanoid, now my father lives in indiana remarried and never talks to me or anything, I hate life sometimes. >:( well being a 22 male is a bitch but I am still a kid at heart and wil remain like that until I get sick of it, which will be never happen.
Posted by
Scott Zettee @ 05/01/2004 9:49 PM EDT
Yeah, man. The POWER PAD rocked. When we first got it, we lived in an apartment, ABOVE SOMEONE ELSE. The guy that lived underneath us worked nights and slept during the day, so we could only use it at night when he was at work. And back then, my bed time was early, so I barely got to use the thing. But I'll never forget it.
ALso, isn't amazing how many people have ORIGINAL NES units that STILL WORK. In fact, I'd like to know. How many of you have a working NES????
Posted by
SHANE! @ 05/01/2004 11:09 PM EDT
I love how many different ways King has come up with to not-so-subtly remind Matt about the Chia Plot.
Posted by
Gabbylicious @ 05/01/2004 11:10 PM EDT
Hey, Matt C. Just wanted to let you know that the Peanut Butter Boppers TV commercial link on the main page DOESN'T work.
Posted by
Death by Stereo @ 05/02/2004 4:26 AM EDT
I have a working NES too ^_^ I fixed it last year with a new connector from ebay! wewt! Dragon warrior series was my fav…the first one is so hard though!
Posted by
heeloyd @ 05/02/2004 4:39 AM EDT
I have a working NES…I beat Super Mario 1, 2, and 3, so now I've moved on to the greatest game ever…Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! I've beaten it a few times already but it never gets old…fighting Tyson is one of the scariest gaming experiences because you've gotta be perfect or he'll kill you. I used to have another NES but I broke it throwing the controller at it when I got mad
Posted by
Kappin @ 05/02/2004 11:17 AM EDT
My NES still works perfectly. My original Legend of Zelda's battery still works, too. It's kind of amazing.
Posted by
Orin @ 05/02/2004 5:50 PM EDT
I still have a working NES. That thing is fucking indestructible.
Oh, and the best day of my life was the day I married my dear, sweet husband. Not only did I have a lovely ceremony and one of the best parties I'd ever been to, but I lost my virginity that night… yay. Worth the wait.
Mindsuckr, that is really weird. The teachers at my school had a party and they got like all these pizzas. There was Mexican pizza. My friends were telling me how good it was(the snuck the left overs from the last party) so I tried to steal some, to no avail.
Maybe next time.
Posted by
Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/02/2004 8:27 PM EDT
Aug. 4, 2004, the day I got Married, and then Aug 5, 2005, the day that we officially collected on the "I bet you won't be married for more than a year" bets. We made a load that day.
Good lord, was I asleep when I wrote that?
2000 and 2001
and I have just been struck by my wife, who reminds me it was Aug. 12th, hmm, I'm in trouble now.
Posted by
Ghalidrim (again) @ 05/02/2004 8:41 PM EDT
Tough Q about best day. A few instances come to mind.
For some reason I can clearly remember the day we were at the Pennsylvania state fair and I tried a Gyros for the first time. I love those damn things.
I don't know if it was the best day of my life, but it led to the best time in my life, thus far of course. I was a senior in high school. I was accepted to the school of my choice. I was free of my past and free of the future. The next months of high school were a blast cause I didnt care and just fucked around. That summer was even better. Never been freer, can't wait to go back there someday.
PS- I also have a working NES. I am actually sitting in the spot where we used to play it when we first got it. I vividly remember that night. Never forget it thats for sure. It also began my unhealthy obsession with Castlevania.
Posted by
Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/02/2004 8:58 PM EDT
The day I finally got my Sega Megadrive (or to everyone NOT living in the UK, The Genesis). Since all I had played on before was a Commadore 64 and the classic Atari 2600, I thought the Megadrive was pretty damn cool.
I remember plugging it in for the first time and thinking "Sonic the Hedgehog rocks!!!" But then came RoadRash and Sonic was cast out onto the tarmac with the rest of his pathetic kin….
Posted by
Beer makes you fart @ 05/02/2004 9:34 PM EDT
Matt, have you ever reviewed the third Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I know there was talk when the remake came out, and the originals review. You've seen the third one, at least? Wow, was that ever bad. I think monkeys w/ the d.t.s wrote that script. Oh, and the ever so popular fight scene between Benny and Leatherface, w/ the chainsaw cheerleading squad. I swear, that thing was doing the Wave. "Firecracker, firecracker, shish-boom-bah! Pound him in the head w/ a rock! Rah, rah, rah!"
I would have sworn that one of the mediums for kingklash's Best! Day! Ever! would have had something to do w/ the Duck coming back.
Posted by
trajeal @ 05/02/2004 9:44 PM EDT
Totally off topic, but I was watching Transformers the movie today, and wondered. Do you think Arcee was pulling double duty with Hotrod and Springer? Because you know she kinda acts like she's going for springer at the begining, but then she seems like she's going for Hotrod. Eitherway, without Elita One, or the other fembots around, she seems to be like smurfette, maybe she was with all of em. This brings about the whole concept of transformers sexuality, and why the hell they needed a masculine and a feminine in the first place, seeing as they only seem to reproduce via building fresh recruits. And what did Alpha Trion Transform into anyway?
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 05/02/2004 10:08 PM EDT
When I found out I wouldn't be going to my private Catholic school anymore. While I was eating cookie dough ice cream.
And then, a few hours later, I beat Final Fantasy 3. The first game I ever beat without my brother's help.
BEST DAY EVER.
Posted by
Lucky Cat @ 05/02/2004 10:29 PM EDT
That would have to be the day I found out I would be graduating early unstead of a semester late, got a call from GamePro offering me a job, and became permanently immune from being trapped in the "friend zone".
Oh, wait…..
Posted by
Night_Trekker @ 05/03/2004 1:24 AM EDT
Trippy-Those are damn good questions. I mean, why the hell did they need different genders. They're machines. And it is true that they had never shown what Alpha Trion turned into. However, I'm wondering if there was a toy ever made. Perhaps that will show us what he transformed into.
Posted by
Nate @ 05/03/2004 2:24 AM EDT
SHANE!- I happen to have a working NES. It rocks.
Posted by
Nate @ 05/03/2004 2:25 AM EDT
January 3, 1998. Proposed to my then-girlfriend, and she accepted.
We never did end up getting married (seems fate had other ideas for us), but on that day, I was higher than I'd ever been in my life.
Though the way things are going, September 2, 2003 is a strong contender (met the girl I'm still with and may well be with for life), but the day itself was crashingly dull save for that one (seemingly insignificant at the time) event.
The day I had the most fun - Some friends of mine showed up at my door at about 1 am. I was a sophmore in highschool, and we used to sneak out all of the time. This time they brought along a ride. I lived on a golf course and they had swiped one of the golf carts and came by to pick me up. We spent the whole night driving all over the golf course doing crazy stuff. We even went back to the storage area and got a couple more carts so we each had one. Eventually, they would start to over heat and smoke, so we would have to go back for another one. Finally, at about 5 am, the lights went on in a house we drove by and we freaked and brought the golf carts back.
I left for vacation the next day and when I got back, my friends told me the police had gone door to door trying to figure out who we were. luckily we got away scott-free, and the golf carts are now locked in a high security underground bunker over night. God, that was a good time.
Posted by
Stilewalker @ 05/03/2004 9:11 AM EDT
The best day in my life is the day my mom told me that an E-Mail I had sent to my stepdad had made him cry in happiness. We had a rough time while I was growing up, and that day we made peace.
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Stilewalker @ 05/03/2004 9:13 AM EDT
Probably the best day of my life was losing my virginity to the girl I loved. I was one of those strict Southern Christians that was told to wait to marriage, so when I gave up on that shit, it really meant a lot to share it with someone I was head-over-heels for. It was also one of the scariest days of my life.
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Nachokhaki @ 05/03/2004 10:12 AM EDT
Best day? I think one of my best days was the day I closed on my first house - I was so proud! I was only 29, and a secretary (ok ok, administrative assistant *ugh*), and I did it all by myself!
MAN did I feel good! Big girl!
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Gretchen @ 05/03/2004 10:27 AM EDT
When the doctor told me I didn't have worms anymore, it was the happiest day of my life.
The day Matt reviews "Mac and Me" would probably beat that, though.
Probably the only athletically-related one anybody's gonna post, but my best day was just over two years ago, on the last day of the Division III Swimming and Diving National Championships my senior year, when I swum my last college race ever. (And, to be honest, my last "real" race ever… I can do Masters, but it's not the same.) It was, as I said, the last day of the meet, and the day of my best event, the mile. (1,650 yards.) Not sure how many of you have ever swum that for time, but trust me, it is a loooooong-ass race; my best time going into it was 15 minutes, 53 seconds. Well, of every Division III swimmer in the nation, I was seeded, I believe, #6 going into it… in a fog I wandered through the day, meditated, rested, warmed up, and sat with my teammates waiting for the evening session to begin, kicked off by my event. Finally the time came, they called us up to the blocks and announced us all by name… I heard my family and teammates screaming, along with the hundreds of other people packed into the pool area… and I dove in, went to my happy place, and emerged from the water a quarter of an hour later, semi-comatose, with a time of 15:43.76. Not only did I annihilate my former best time by 10 seconds, I also set two school records (for the mile and the 1000), inspired the rest of my team to have a great night, and placed 4th overall in the event, the highest place I'd ever gotten in that meet. Hell of a way to end a career, I'll tell you that.
Of course, that was only half the happiness of the day- that night, we had a massive "We can finally drink again!" celebration in our hotel, with tons of alumni present and coach wandering the halls bellowing at us to keep it down, dammit, not everyone in the hotel wanted to be awake at 3 in the morning! Didn't matter; nothing in the world could dampen our spirits. I had been dancing around a sort of are we/aren't we? relationship with this fellow swimmer since the team Christmas party earlier that year, but that evening we talked, drank, and finally kissed and made it official. Being rather shy and inexperienced at the time (didn't really start drinking till senior year, so no drunken hookups for me… *sigh*, all those wasted opportunities), I didn't manage to convince her to stay the night (which, to be honest, would've been kinda hard to do with other people passed out in both beds), but even so… it just felt so RIGHT at the time, after the constant tension and emotions of earlier. Amazing day, amazing night. Best of my life so far, and I know the girl who took my virginity would be somewhat offended by that statement, but… so be it. Occasionally, just occasionally, some things are even better than sex.
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The Lucky One @ 05/03/2004 11:42 AM EDT
I'm savoring the emotion from the Duck's return (it qualifies as my happiest online moment). I also have a working NES. Supposedly Alpha Trion was so old, he came from a time when Cybertronians had no need to TransForm yet, or so implied. Yesterday, it's been five years since my Ma had her first heart attack, and as we were going to see her at the cardiac care center down in Lawton the next day (five years ago today), that was when we had those tornados rampaging all over the place. Not a happy day, but one of the oddest I ever had.
Posted by
kingklash @ 05/03/2004 11:46 AM EDT
I forgot to mention - not only is Texas Chainsaw Massacre III bad, it stars Viggo Mortenson. Hee!
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trajeal @ 05/03/2004 1:04 PM EDT
The greatest day of my life was when I finally passed the Silver dollar I swallowed, waddled over to the local Dairy Queen, bought myself a Dilly Bar and then threw a quarter in the Dig Dug machine.
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Sean @ 05/03/2004 1:23 PM EDT
It would have been when I wa 6 ('86), and my Dad took me over to the christmas tree, and said "There's no Santa Clause…You were a mistake and we hate you". Oh, wait. Okay okay…
When I looked at the free kittens at a pet shop and played with one, and she purred and snuggled me. Then I put her back in the cage because I wasn't going to get one, but then she got on her hind legs and put her paws on the cage bars and meowed everytime I was near. And, she didn't purr or meow for anyone else! So I HAD to take her! She's been a joy ever since.
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Jackie Crow @ 05/03/2004 1:36 PM EDT
Off the topic - speaking of game consoles? How many of you (sans myself) have a working Turbo Graphic 16 still? When I got Bonk's adventure and beat Slaughterhouse - that was damn fun!
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Mugzy. . . @ 05/03/2004 2:05 PM EDT
this is probably the dubmest best day thats gonna be posted but the best day of my life was a month ago when I figured out that I wanna be a history teacher. When your in college and you finally figure out what you wanna shoot for it actually puts some kinda meaning in your life and for me that was just huge. I wish I coulda said somethin weird or funny so my post might be more entertaining but then I'd just be lying.
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Tim @ 05/03/2004 2:07 PM EDT
The Wierdest thing… it was like 5 years ago today, and I remember it because all these tornados hit Oklahoma City, and I was in Nebraska.
Anyway, I ended up making out with this girl who was engaged to be married– she had only kissed 1 guy in her life–her fiance' and as stuff like that went, he'd only touched her boobs outside her shirt.
Well– we didn't stop there with me, no sir! She wanted to make out with someone else so that she'd have meaning to her life, and so that she wouldn't go to her grave only having kissed 1 guy.
Well–to her her credit, she didn't want to do it after she was married, and this was about a month before, and boy–what a great time!
We did everything… Upside Down, Right side up, with food, with blindfolds, etc. Everything–except that I didn't go all the way to home plate with her… I told her that if she had waited this long, her husband deserved to have her first. But man– I saw, touched, and tasted EVERYTHING. We got together about 5 more times before the wedding. I've never seen her since, but whoo! She was hot and ready to try anything!
She eventually sent me an invitation, but I didn't feel right going so I sent her a camera and some film (no, not of us!).
I don't know if that was the best day of my life, but it was the first that came up in my mind.
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The Return of Long Duck Dong @ 05/03/2004 3:57 PM EDT
A few to choose from.
I think it would be either when I flew to NY and met Chris Kattan and Conan O'brien!
Or
When David Bowie's guitarist gave me his guitar pick.
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Jenner @ 05/03/2004 4:01 PM EDT
Of course, re-discovering the show Sliders in 2004 is high up there too!
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Jenner @ 05/03/2004 4:02 PM EDT
The day I helped my girlfriend get off of H.
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Phil @ 05/03/2004 4:12 PM EDT
Wow, T.R.O.L.D.D., nice to know there was more than one set of twisters going on that day. Did she send you pics of the honeymoon?
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kingklash @ 05/03/2004 4:42 PM EDT
Sean-It would've been even more hilarious had you passed a quarter, the very quarter that you happened to pop into the Dig Dug machine. Of course, you could've been implying that you used the silver dollar to buy the Dill Bar, which is also quite funny. Thanks a lot, Sean. Now you've put crazy ideas into my head.
Dammit Matt! When is a new article coming! Please tell me you're busy working on the exciting conclusion of Cobra Chia Plot!
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Nate @ 05/03/2004 9:23 PM EDT
Winning the Mattel He-Man contest with Fearless Photog. Because I'm Nathan Bitner.
today will be my last sad day, because it is my last night on earth. i wish i could have found happiness
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complete sadness @ 05/04/2004 1:49 AM EDT
man…a couple people have mentioned removing drugs from theirs, or their loved ones lives…I gotta say I'm jonseing for a new article, I don't care at this point if it's chiaplot (if it isn't it'd be one of my favorite things ever, kinda like the song of the cebu')
Posted by
brandon @ 05/04/2004 9:08 AM EDT
You mean a song about a boy and his 3 cebu? A sick cebu, a sad cebu, and a mute cebu?
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a piece of milk @ 05/04/2004 11:14 AM EDT
Oh, and also a hippo.
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a piece of milk @ 05/04/2004 11:15 AM EDT
Little did Complete Sadness know, happiness was in the sofa cushions, along with some stale Cheetos, $3.78 in change, the remote, and that little girl from the Tommy Lee Jones western.
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kingklash @ 05/04/2004 11:32 AM EDT
but is the canno wood, or alumininumumumumum?
Posted by
brandon @ 05/04/2004 12:04 PM EDT
When I paid off all my library fines.
Posted by
Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/04/2004 4:55 PM EDT
When Matt used to post more than one article every two weeks…
Posted by
Wistful in Wichita @ 05/04/2004 5:03 PM EDT
Crap… withdrawal setting in… getting the sweats for a new article… chewing on balls of toilet paper to fight the craving… failing miserably
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Nachokhaki @ 05/04/2004 5:22 PM EDT
One's coming, one's coming.
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Matt @ 05/04/2004 5:23 PM EDT
Wow! I just went and re-read that… King Klash, I didn't know you were from Oklahoma. That tornado totally destroyed that little town just on the south side of it. Sad, man.
Separately, I haven't heard from the gal I spent those 6 days with, but my buddy is cousins with the guy she married. One night he and I got drunk in San Diego and I ended up telling him all about it… bad move, believe me. I had no idea they were related at the time.
Still–maybe I am getting my comeuppance now b/c my girlfriend of 18 months just told me 2 things on Sunday–nearly making Sunday night the WORST NIGHT OF MY LIFE. 1) She's been seeing another guy behind my back.
2) She's 2 weeks late on her cycle (no, not unicycle! The other one!)
Wierd. I'm not quite sure what to do, and I honestly don't know who to turn to. God, are you there? Its me, Margaret (only, I substitute my name for Margaret's).
Wierd. Hmmmm… Wistful in Wichita, do you remember the Tornado's 5 years ago?
Posted by
The Return of Long Duck Dong @ 05/04/2004 5:33 PM EDT
Damn, that's major shit! I'd be losing my shit!
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Nachokhaki @ 05/04/2004 5:47 PM EDT
If you look on a map, and check the path of the supercell, my little burg of Anadarko got skirted pretty close. In fact, I saw one of the twisters as my sister and her family, with me in tow, were in the town of Apache on our way to Lawton. From our angle, with the sun at our backs, and ’cause tornados drop from the edge of storms, it looked like a steam plume with attitude. Had some good stories to tell Ma at the hospital. But the OKC radar images on the news made the cell look like The Paisley From Outer Space. As for your female trouble, as I said before, this is a Quantum Universe, on some paralell Earth, she's dancing naked in the town square with your head on a stick. That's why you're supossed to try to lead a decent life, somewhen else, you are the most evil you could possibly be. And riding a unicycle.
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kingklash @ 05/04/2004 6:01 PM EDT
Peter Engel ( www.imdb.com/name/nm0257137/ ) came to me in a dream and cursed me out for not mentioning his aptly titled show with USA Network called "USA High" ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0118500/ ).
Jeez, USA still has a page up for the 1997 show:
http://www.usanetwork.com/series/usahigh/usahigh.html
Despite Peter Engel's foul language, I will not admit to mainly watching the show, along with "That's My Bush!" and sometimes "She Spies," for Kristen Miller. No, I will not do that.
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ME @ 05/04/2004 7:42 PM EDT
Matt- You said the same thing about updates to your first X-Mas countdown. Oh yeah, and then there was the situation with the last two articles, in which you apoligised for the lack of vids in the Potato Head Kids one, promised vid clips for the next time, and did not fulfill that promise. Really. You said it in the blog for the potato people article. Were you lying!?!
j/k, Matt. I'll bet its tough being a webmaster. So why is it that I want to become one? Oh yeah, because I have things that I feel passionately about too.
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Nate @ 05/04/2004 8:34 PM EDT
Matt- Have you ever read any Jhonen Vasquez comics? I got the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee collections, and they're some of the funniest things I've ever seen. There's something noteworthy in one issue, though, that I took the liberty to scan:
http://www.dkvine.com/webmasters/behonkiss/nukie2.jpg
Jhonen knows his stupid stuff, doesn't he?
Behonkiss-Sweet stuff. Yeah, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac typically appeals to people of our sort, so it doesn't surprise me that a Nukie 2 poster has shown up in Johnny's room.
Personally, I only read it every now and then, but it's good stuff, and I am definitely the sort of person who's into obscurities.
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Nate @ 05/04/2004 8:48 PM EDT
I'm going into withdrawl here
What if something happened to him? What if he's lying in a ditch somewhere? GOD ALMIGHTY, NO!!!! BRING HIM HOME!
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Kristal @ 05/04/2004 9:13 PM EDT
The best day of my life is when ther is an article about various edible Shrek foods such as green popcorn.
Posted by
CasinoRoyale @ 05/04/2004 9:42 PM EDT
Nate, this smear campaign hasn't gone unnoticed. I've got people at your window, waiting to part with bullets. And I have hats.
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Matt @ 05/04/2004 9:49 PM EDT
Behon: that's awesome.
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Matt @ 05/04/2004 9:50 PM EDT
Behonkiss, since you are a fan of Jhonen Vasquez, then you know about Invader Zim: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235923/
Video clips: www.roomwithamoose.com/video.php
Petition: www.petitiononline.com/izlovers/petition.html
Vasquez fan site: www.bunnyofdoom.org/itm/
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ME @ 05/04/2004 10:26 PM EDT
Vasquez's name has reminded me of my comic book collecting days. Matt, if you ever decide to do an X-E book consider Greg Hyland for illustrations. He created the comic book parody "Lethargic Lad" and was an animator on the "Beetlejuice" animated series. www.lethargiclad.com
Greg Hyland's Star Wars LEGO comics: http://www.fbtb.net/greg/gregindex.asp
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ME @ 05/04/2004 10:48 PM EDT
Today could very well be one of the worst days of my life as my Toronto Maple Leafs have once again been eliminated from the playoffs. Not that anyone here watches hockey, I'm sure.
Only a review of a little known McDonald's ad/ET ripoff of a movie could draw me out of my doldrums and feelings of…ah fuck it, just review "Mac and Me"
the day I sprouted my first pube.
Posted by
zombone @ 05/05/2004 8:38 AM EDT
The day my daughter was born. The actual moment was so amazing, I can't even put it in words.
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beSharp @ 05/05/2004 12:33 PM EDT
The day of Wrestlemania 18.. I had an indoor attendance record of nine people, and Hogan came out and I almost cried!!! Really.. I did.. it was also the first night My current girlfriend stopped round my house! Thank you Hogan, Thank you Vince, Thank you Kat!!
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The Ross @ 05/05/2004 8:31 PM EDT
The day my braces finally came off… And my teeth are still not straight!!! Dammit. After two goes. I shoulda sued.
Matt promised to finish the Thundercats first episode parody, and he still hasn't! So that's another broken promise! And I'm not afraid of hats! Hatpins yes, hats no. Hats are fun, fun, fun.
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eminentfreak @ 05/06/2004 12:03 PM EDT
LOL obie-1 kin-o-klash!!! Rescue the seeds of the chiapet! Its a quest! Who will save them? No, not Frack…
Btw Jackie Crow, I also got a little kitty cat, most wonderful year of my life until a bastard ran over her and left her to die alone in the road. If I found him I'd really want to shoot him in the head for murdering my little Sootica… Little babycat that I miss so much *sobs*. Nothing I can do can bring her back though.
Oh well. I suppose now is when I menace Matt with a pretty paisley coloured straw hat… with flowers and a stuffed frog on it. See how you like it, MWA HA HAAAA!!!
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eminentfreak @ 05/06/2004 12:18 PM EDT
Wow I'd never noticed that "Nukie 2" poster, great catch Behonkiss. I <3 love <3 Jhonen Vasquez (as if the handle didn't give it away). The Beetlejuice cartoon is one of my all time favs too, and definitely deserving of the X-E treatment.
I don't think anybody has mentioned it here, but all you Invader Zim fans know that there's a Zim DVD coming out on Tuesday, right?
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