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?
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.
Ghosted 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.
I made 4,000,000 errors in that last post. I’m half awake. I think you get the idea.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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)
The day I discovered what my purpose in life was. That was the best day of my life!
Ghosted 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
Ghosted 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
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 05/01/2004 11:17 AM 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!!
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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
Ghosted by Bizzar @ 05/01/2004 4:58 PM EDT
I won two Motorola FRS radios in a Surge scratch-off contest.
Ghosted by kingklash @ 05/01/2004 6:30 PM EDT
Here’s a question for Matt. What was your best day ever?
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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????
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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!
Ghosted 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
Ghosted 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.
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.
Ghosted 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.
and I have just been struck by my wife, who reminds me it was Aug. 12th, hmm, I’m in trouble now.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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….
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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?
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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…..
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted by Nate @ 05/03/2004 2:24 AM EDT
SHANE!- I happen to have a working NES. It rocks.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted 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.
Ghosted by 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.
Ghosted by 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!
Ghosted by 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.
Ghosted by 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.
Ghosted 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!
Ghosted by 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.
Ghosted by 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.
Ghosted by 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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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.