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02/20/2006: Rock-A-Dile Red!

Congratulations to Rock-A-Dile Red, the latest Kool-Aid flavor to be reviewed, for being so insanely good that I finished an entire pitcher of it mere hours after snapping the pics. A combination of real life and technical difficulties precluded me from finishing a “real” article this weekend, so enjoy the Kool-Aid for now. Will have a new Cereal Prize Project update this week, and a new article or two next weekend.

It’s been a while since we’ve done a formal survey. Let’s do a formal survey. What was the best day of your life?

Posted by Matt. E-mail me!

Discussion Thread: 129 comments

Best day of my life… easy. Day I graduated High School. Hated that fucking place.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/20/2006 11:04 PM EST

The day I learned I’d have to pay an un-Godly amount of money to fix the severely screwed-up brakes in my car so that driving wouldn’t result in my death. Wait - that day was today! Also: that’s not good, but rather, bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 02/20/2006 11:26 PM EST

All i can think about right now was that evening three years ago when i took my current boyfriends virginity (seriously girls..if you ever have the chance to be a guys ‘first’ do it…its hot) … Oh and the day i found "Nightmare on Elm Street" (on DVD) in a discount bin for $6.99 …thats a was a pretty freakn’ awesome day too.

Chestnuts roasted by Nichole @ 02/20/2006 11:36 PM EST

Hard to pick a best, but I’d also be hard pressed to pick a worst too so I guess that’s not a bad thing. I did have a great trip at Disneyland once…Fun and friends and goofy candids and all of that. That was probably the most fun day I’ve ever had.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/20/2006 11:42 PM EST

I got on the Kool-aid kick myself a number of months ago. I forgot how much I loved the stuff. Kool-aid reminds me of summer’s when I was around 6, 7, 8. That and fond memories of my aunt and uncle’s old house. Kool-aid was the staple drink of choice when I was at their place.

Best day of my life? Day I got my first Nintendo, Christmas Day 1988. Second best, college graduation…except for the "Holy shit, what do I do now?" part. Third? The day I landed my first lead role in my second high school play.

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 02/20/2006 11:44 PM EST

Any of the days that I have just slept on the beach after eating beefaroni and capri suns, building a sand castle out of those plastic molds, trying to catch sand fiddlers and knowing that when the sun goes down I’ll be eating any type of shell fish imaginable.

Can’t pick just one!

PS: Just got back from advanced screenings of Running Scared and Failure to Launch. I have to recommend both. Running Scared is wildly under rated right now and really good, not at all what I expected. And Failure to Launch was one of the best date movies that I have seen in a while. Go so both!

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 02/21/2006 1:27 AM EST

You bastard. You always make me very, very thirsty for Kool-Aid.

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 02/21/2006 1:57 AM EST

Day I moved to Manhattan from central New Jersey. I half unpacked, set up my television, and watched A New Hope.

Chestnuts roasted by GadgetMouse @ 02/21/2006 1:59 AM EST

I was going to say the day Super Mario Bros. came out in theatres everywhere–but seriously, who am I kidding?

Last year I did find a canister of Rock-A-Dile Red at this obscure "Mom and Pop" shop.. that was a pretty amazing day.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 02/21/2006 2:23 AM EST

Damn, I just recently said "this is the best day of my life" but now I can’t remember when or why.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 02/21/2006 2:35 AM EST

Not sure. I can think of some candidates though…

The first time I had sex well
The day I got my N64 (realease day morning)
The day Episode 1 came out
The day I got my SNES
The day I saw Tenacious D live and managed to buy a Cap n’ Coke at the bar despite being 16
The day I beat any Zelda game for the first time is always memorable

Chestnuts roasted by Grumbles @ 02/21/2006 3:01 AM EST

Last year I spent New Year’s Eve rining in 2005 at Pleasure Island in Orlando. That was the best night of my life. That counts. I said it counts.

Chestnuts roasted by M.Fireball @ 02/21/2006 6:39 AM EST

I miss Rockadile. Heck, I miss most of the character flavors that have been covered so far. We’ve still got some Bluedini and Incrediberry at home somewhere, but at this point it’s more a museum piece than Kool-Aid I can drink with a clean conscience.

As far as best day of my life goes…my easy choice happened back in high school. In South Carolina - a big deal for someone who’d never really left Michigan before - we not only kicked ass at a robotics competition but I spent the night hanging out with one of my friends who I had a major crush on. Of course, things fell apart after that, but I didn’t know that that was coming…

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 02/21/2006 7:26 AM EST

Has to be the first time I went to Disney World at the age of 8, and got Donatello’s autograph… and the rides and all that. Disney World is a big deal when you’re 8.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 02/21/2006 7:48 AM EST

I’ve got to say the day I got married. Althought I think I revoke my man rights by saying it, so I’ll have to think of something else. Ummm… The day I won a medal in track was pretty cool. And I saw an awesome concert once featuring The Four Tops, Ronnie Spector, and Jay and the Americans. (My body is 25 but my musical tastes are 50.) I’ll keep you posted as events warrant.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 02/21/2006 9:25 AM EST

Nothing really stands out as best day ever. A couple fridays ago was good because it was the 2 hour season finale of Arrested Development. I haven’t lived a sad life, I just never marked anything down as the best day ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 02/21/2006 9:47 AM EST

The day after my last day of being a nanny was the best day of my life. That job was so stressful that I had an upset stomach every morning for the final two weeks.

Rockadile=Nectar of the gods.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 02/21/2006 9:58 AM EST

The best day of my life? I have 2.

-When the doctor told me I didn’t have worms anymore

-When I found a penny.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/21/2006 10:02 AM EST

Best day in my life had to be while on a beach in a small town just north of Florinopolis, Brazil. Gorgeous white sand beach with crystal blue water in front of me, mountains on both sides of the beach, sitting under an umbrella while drinking a cold beer. Then turning to my friend and saying, "You realize we’re getting paid for this right now?". Thank you paid vacation time.

Chestnuts roasted by guttercar @ 02/21/2006 10:18 AM EST

when i found my rhythm

Chestnuts roasted by ImTheDarkcyde @ 02/21/2006 10:35 AM EST

Wow Geoff did you really have fun watching the Arrested finale? The episodes were excellent of course but I found it to be depressing as hell because of the circumstances…I was literally bummed out the whole weekend.
Grumbles, if I saw the D it would be up there in my top days…back in my angsty years I saw Hole and got up on stage which was very exciting at the time.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/21/2006 10:50 AM EST

It’s hard to choose THE BEST day of your life, I feel like I’ve had some pretty good ones … mine would probably be my eighteenth birthday because I rode a camel in Morocco and then we ran down the shore of the Mediterranian like hooligans late at night.

Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 02/21/2006 11:06 AM EST

My first day of work at the slaughterhouse.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 02/21/2006 12:01 PM EST

And oh my god, I just realized that I have a doppelganger in the previous blog posting. I need a new name! AGH!

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 02/21/2006 12:08 PM EST

I believe I’ve answered this before here on the X, and so I’ll give the same answer.
When my sister came home from the hospital after three months recovering from her near-fatal car wreck. They said it would take at least three years before she’d recover enough to leave. Nobody told her that. That’s a Taurus for you.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/21/2006 12:08 PM EST

1) Isn’t ol’ Rock-A-Dile a crocodile, not a dinosaur? Is he the brother of the choco-dile?
2) I like how he’s got a tie and a collar. I feel that it really deepens his character and makes him more than just one-dimentional.
3) I loved Rock-A-Dile Red. I’d sell my sole for a glass right now (you know, like the sole of my shoe).
4) Best day of my life? When I met Natalie Portman. O.k., maybe not really the best, but it was awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/21/2006 12:12 PM EST

He most certainly is a croc, but I like him better as a dino and was hoping nobody would notice. It very well may be my favorite Kool-Aid flavor in terms of taste and taste alone.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/21/2006 12:19 PM EST

Probably the day my high school got completely trashed before homecoming. That was so friggin funny.

I used to just eat the powder in kool aid anyone else do that?

Chestnuts roasted by Suren @ 02/21/2006 12:22 PM EST

I can’t really think of the best time in my life. Probably too long ago. Anyway my Purplesaurus-Rex still hasn’t come yet grrr…. I was hoping to get it after I saw the another kool-aid majesty reviewed today. Anyway Rock-a-dile made me thirsty for some good kool-aid. What should I make: Black Cherry, Sharkleberry Fin, Tropical Punch or something else? I have almost every current kool-aid flavor, since I’m a kool-aid collecter.

Chestnuts roasted by Ghoul-aid Man @ 02/21/2006 12:23 PM EST

There are so many good "red" Kool-Aid flavors. Maybe I should bust out some of the current batch of "red" flavors to see if anything is similar to give me a Rock-A-Dile contact high. Or I guess I could try some Kool-Aid alchemy. To the laboratory!

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/21/2006 12:26 PM EST

The Legend of Zelda is 20 years old today…here’s a link to a retrospective…

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?...ager.offset=0&cId=3148112

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 02/21/2006 12:32 PM EST

A good day that springs swiftly to mind occurred last August. I (accompanied by a lady-friend) attended an all-day heavy-metal music festival in Bellefontaine, Ohio. The bands were, for the most part, enjoyable. I got blitzed on dollar beers, I chatted with one of the vocalists from 3 Inches of Blood while standing in line to use the pisser, and to cap it all off, my lady-friend and I (both heavily inebriated) broke into a hotel pool and skinny-dipped at 4 in the morning. Ah, memories…

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 02/21/2006 12:40 PM EST

**squee4242**: I felt the same way as you. I was bummed out after the show ended, but those 2 hours were great. It was like losing a close friend, I just try to remember the good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 02/21/2006 12:47 PM EST

Ghoul-aid Man - You gotta make Tropical Punch! It’s my favorite, so have some for me… though I might have some in the kitchen I cold make. Not sure.

No one day stands out to me as being the best day of my life. I’m sure there are times when I just had a great day and everything went my way (infact I remember one of those not THAT long ago, but it really wasn’t a "stand out" as to being the absolute best) but really, every day is pretty much the same and never really that great. Sad, I know. So, I’ll have to go with the option of - it hasn’t happened yet.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 02/21/2006 1:48 PM EST

Ok, you all have to help me on this. As I was reading the Kool-Aid review, my eyes meandered across the words "Island Twist." Immediately my brain was assaulted with images of Kool-Aid Man on some kind of desert Island with a lone palm tree and an X-marks-the-spot contest of some kind.

Please. What do these visions mean? And why do I think Purplesaurus Rex had a surf board? I’m so confused…

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 02/21/2006 1:57 PM EST

I had Ulcerative Colitis, and had to have my entire large intestine removed during my 1st year of university. The day I was FINALLY released from the hospital (after 29 very sick, horrible days) was a pretty damn good day.

Due to the illness, I was determined to ‘live life to the fullest’ and so I saved my money and counted down for 321 days until myself, my boyfriend and 2 others took the Greyhound to DISNEYWORLD for March Break…That day at Disneyworld made me feel so alive and happy…we could only afford to spend ONE day at ONE park, so we went to the Magic Kingdom for one of the best days of my life.

Worst day? When I found out on my 23rd birthday that I now have Crohn’s Disease in my one remaining bowel. Ouch.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/21/2006 2:27 PM EST

LOL Geoff it really was an emotional roller coaster, wasn’t it? I laughed, I cried, etc etc.
A few other great day submissions…in high school we took a trip to Hawaii (band geek alert) and I remember getting off the plane (which was a relief in itself since I hate flying and haven’t since this trip) and smelling the air and seeing all these flowers and smiling people and really feeling like I was in paradise. The fact that I was about to spend an unsupervised week in Hawaii with all my best friends and then sweetheart probably contributed a bit too. Another geeky admission would have to be the day I met the cast from Carnivale. Or the day last June when I got my prosh chihuahua puppy…the day itself wasn’t special but he is just the apple of my eye so the day I got him definitely deserves mention in the great days hall of fame.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/21/2006 2:35 PM EST

I think I remember this survey before too, might have been a snt tangent.
Best day of my life still, the day I divorced. It was just a regular monday and after work I went to the courthouse and the amazing judge signed a peice of paper. That signiture was freakin’ expensive too. Well worth it though.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 02/21/2006 3:12 PM EST

off topic-but i am supposed to be reading about surveys in my class and i go to your website to goof off and what do i find?? MORE SURVEYS! I’ll take that as a hint.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 02/21/2006 3:29 PM EST

mmmmm….. No better current flavor than Tropical Punch Kool-aid! Its one of my favorite beverages besides Surge soda. Oh why did they take Surge away? *cries* How do they make Tropical Punch Kool-Aid taste so good? That should be the next survey question.

Chestnuts roasted by Ghoul-Aid Man @ 02/21/2006 3:51 PM EST

How about *future* best day of my life, when Firefly is put back on the air…
*sniff*

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 02/21/2006 4:35 PM EST

Didn’t Rock-a-dile kinda sing in a Elvis-ish kind of manner?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/21/2006 4:52 PM EST

I agree with Jessica Marie!! Firefly DESERVES to be on the air.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/21/2006 4:57 PM EST

Basically Halloween and Christmas of every year.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 02/21/2006 5:45 PM EST

Guess my best day was today! I found out I only have six months to live. Time to go kill some credit cards!

Chestnuts roasted by Hammered @ 02/21/2006 5:57 PM EST

i need some Sharkleberry fin.

Chestnuts roasted by stretch armstrong. @ 02/21/2006 6:16 PM EST

i need some Sharkleberry fin.

Chestnuts roasted by stretch armstrong. @ 02/21/2006 6:16 PM EST

i need some Sharkleberry fin.

Chestnuts roasted by stretch armstrong. @ 02/21/2006 6:16 PM EST

I always think of Sir-Chomps-A-Lot as a dino, but I’m pretty sure he was a croc, too. Micro Ravioli just isn’t the same without the toothy icon adorning the can.

Other notable good days in the life of Mystie include Otakon ‘98, Orgy concert, and I wasn’t going to include this but since those before me are getting away with a little lewdness, the day I bought my first vibrator.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/21/2006 6:23 PM EST

Not sure about best day, but one time I found a $20 bill on the ground at my school and picked it up. Spent it at a comic convention being held that week.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 02/21/2006 7:04 PM EST

Cheesey and unoriginal, but it definitly was my wedding day. Everything was great…except the 4 hour long traffic jam on the way home. We were so hungry, MickyD’s was our first official meal as a married couple. I keep on threatening that it will be every aniversary meal, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 02/21/2006 7:20 PM EST

Ooh I found a $20 on the way to school once too, and thought it was a huge amount of money and was amazed that someone could be so flush that they could just lose a $20 dollar bill like that. That was a good day too….if I recall correctly it was the rare and magical "Snow Cone Day" and we went buck wild.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/21/2006 7:30 PM EST

I have quite a few, and I can’t narrow it down.

1 & 2) The day I first got Nintendo and Nintendo 64–both Christmases, by the bye. Super Mario Bros. (and later, Super Mario 64) changed my life.

3) The final real "movie night" at my house in high school, during my more social days. Movie nights were never about the movies, which ran in the background of the obnoxious banter. They always consisted of at least one late-night trip to a 24-hour grocery store for comfort food. The movie was A Better Place. The food was fried chicken, tater balls, zwieback baby toast, and little cheese wheels. The night ended with my carpet stained with sharpie. For a bunch of guys who don’t drink, we sure could trash a place.

4) In my freshman year of college, I woke up at 8am on the only Saturday I stayed at school, and I started walking aimlessly. Seven hours later, I came back, exhausted but happy.

Other notes: Nichole: is it really hot for a girl to take a guy’s virginity? I would imagine, unless the guy is really comfortable with himself, that the whole thing would be awkward on his part.

And look at my Peeps collection! 29 containers of Peepy goodness.

http://x5a.xanga.com/0e4b701a7843537738663/b25894762.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/21/2006 7:44 PM EST

mtrox have you eaten one of the Peeps chocolate eggs yet? The chocolate isn’t fantastic or anything, but the Peep tastes extra fluffy and yummy from being completely sealed in. I found a lot of Peeps toys at Big Lots that I’m saving for a later article I got… lesse… sunglasses, wind up, sidewalk chalk, squeak toy, bracelet, speedy sponges, yo-yo, stampers, and the Peeps Egg Decorating Kit from Dollar General.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/21/2006 7:51 PM EST

Mystie:

I haven’t had any of the choco-egg Peeps yet. I kind of like it more just knowing that there’s one in there. Sort of an "In Case of Emergency, Break Egg" kind of thing. Of course, with 211 (and counting) individual Peeps of varying flavors, colors, and shapes, when will that emergency be?

And I have to say…I prefer my Peeps extra hard and stale. *ducks the flying tomatoes*

May I also say, because I don’t think I ever have, that I love your site. I read every new article, and I just went through and reread a whole bunch of them when I was on a hunt for Peeps articles for my own site. As such, I anxiously await your Peep-toy article.

I vaguely remember the Scary Crayon guy popping up on this blog and saying he had V-Day decoration-Peeps and that he was going to write an article utilizing them someday. Looking forward to that too.

Uh…sorry for the tangent from the topic at hand, of course. I think I may pick #3 as my favorite.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/21/2006 8:10 PM EST

Best day of my life? Easy. Getting hitched. Going on six years now, with a daughter to prove it!

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 02/21/2006 8:21 PM EST

I just remembered a couple of others. The first day I played Nights on Saturn and the first day I played Mario 64. Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye are up there, too. Generally just awesome "days" were those spent watching SNICK, eating Big Foot pizza, and playing Mega Man X at my friend’s house. More recently, the first day my brother and I found out that we had the Nick GAS channel.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 02/21/2006 8:33 PM EST

Stretch, there was a website a while ago that I ordered 20 packets of Sharkleberry Fin off of. They were from Britain but once I posted the link here, the Sharkleberry soon disappeared. Hmmm…. I wonder what happened there. Did Matt or another X-E member buy the whole inventory and forced them to stop selling them? Probably….
You might find some on ebay. Keep looking, you’ll probably find some.
No I’m not selling off any of my Sharkleberry Packets, unless Matt wants to do some trading…..

Chestnuts roasted by Ghoul-aid Man @ 02/21/2006 8:44 PM EST

I don’t remember Rock-a-Dile Red at all, which is odd given all the Kool Aid my family consumed throughout my childhood. It’s a shame I don’t, if it’s really as good as everyone seems to say it is.

Best day of my life? I was about 12, my sister was about 11, and our parents took our sister about an hour "up the road" (ie, to the north) to do something or other, leaving the rest of us some money for pizza. We had pizza. We invited friends and fed them pizza. We watched movies. We made a mess. We made a mess that we actually managed to clean up most of before the family came home.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/21/2006 8:46 PM EST

I’m so pissed. I thought Matt wouldn’t get to Rock-a-dile until 2011. I had one packet of this stuff and when Matt first started the kool-aid thing I vowed to wait out my rock-a-dile drinking until he reviewed it. I think I caved by his second review.

Today would’ve been the best day of my life if only I had waited to do Rock-a-dile with X-E.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 02/21/2006 9:34 PM EST

Well, there are a few contenders for best day of my life…

~The day I discovered XE (Not kissing ass. Not only is it great reading, but it inspired my own website)
~The day I got Guitar Hero (Nothing makes me happier than the illusion that I can play "More Than A Feeling")
~Every day someone compliments my artwork

I’m sure there are others, but I can’t be arsed enough to remember stuff. Remembering is hard.

Chestnuts roasted by TE-Ryan @ 02/21/2006 10:16 PM EST

I was addicted to Nick GAS for about a year or so about 1 1/2 years ago, after I found out that the channel existed. I love all the old Nick game shows…wish they’d make a channel with old Nick programming. Something I realized is that many of those shows as fun as heck as they were and as many game shows as there were, they actually would rank as educational television. Hey, maybe that’s why I hold some much of an abundance of weird-ass trivia in my melon.

I worshipped Super Mario Bros. as a kid. I remember that my perception of video games changed the day I played that as my first 2D side-scroller. Holy crap do I love that game! I must have beaten it more than 300 times in my lifetime. I remember playing the freakin’ thing everday for at least a year. Matt, you should try doing a classic videogame review or two.

Chestnuts roasted by Triclyde @ 02/21/2006 10:52 PM EST

I’ve done plenty.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/21/2006 10:55 PM EST

Muppet Baby - They removed your entire large intestine? They can do that?

Potential best days of my life:
1. My first date with my boyfriend
2. Any of the three days of my vacation to Universal Orlando with my mom and my best girl friend
3. Any of the three days I spent on a band trip to Williamsburg in 7th grade
4. Any childhood summer day spent playing in my kiddie pool and eating ice pops
5. My 18th birthday, which was the day I started my volunteer job at an elementary school
6. Any of the times I’ve gone to my great-aunt’s house to decorate her Christmas tree and have lunch

I have a lot of good memories but I really don’t have a specific best day of my life. Although when I see Queen + Paul Rodgers on March 5th, that may just become the best day ever.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 02/21/2006 11:01 PM EST

I’d like to think the best day of my life has yet to happen.

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 02/22/2006 1:47 AM EST

Jazzy- Yup, they can do that. Here I am, SANS large intestine. It had to be done, because my intestine was so diseased and I was very, very ill. I don’t really recommend it, though. It took over a full year to recover.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/22/2006 6:02 AM EST

Best day of my life? Easy. Christmas day. 1985. Optimus Prime.

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 02/22/2006 8:36 AM EST

Not to sound too sappy here, but my wedding day,. For a couple reasons.

1)The night before, my best man & ushers got me plasterd and i was the only one to wake up the next morning feeling fine.

2)I fell down in the middle of the ceremony. I tripped over my wife’s dress.

and 3) When my wife and I entered the reception hall, she had the DJ play the theme from The Simpsons.

Oh, and I fell again during the reception..I was danicng with a bridesmaid and we got too crazy.

Chestnuts roasted by selvig @ 02/22/2006 9:49 AM EST

It’s really hard to come up with an absolute best day ever. I imagine it probably took place on another continent, because I love traveling. I’d say that the day I spent roaming around Edinburgh last December when my family took the bus tour to Loch Ness was the best, but then I’d hate to think that the best day of my life was spent alone.

Then again, I suspect that the best day of my life probably involved a bus trip of some description. Those were always a ton of fun. Or the day after the FFA state entomology contest when a couple of my friends and I spent the entire day lounging around the hotel room, ordering pizza and eventually watching the world premiere of the Fairly Oddparents and Invader Zim. Of course, that day I had to put up with Zac making out with his girlfriend on the next bed, and the Fairly Oddparents went rapidly downhill after that first episode. Hmm.

Ah. I’ve got one. My senior trip. We spent the day at Six Flags, and my friend Tony and I were both trying to hook up with a girl we’d each been interested in for some time. So of course, we battled it out in that most ancient and honorable of contests: fairway games. I’d have to say that the fifteen minutes during which I soundly trounced him three times in a row at the rifle shoot booth despite the fact that he’d spent the last two years in basic training were at least among the top ten quarter hours in my life. I felt like Luke Skywalker. "Don’t worry about it, Tony. We spend our weekends shooting targets half this size in Beggar’s Canyon back home."

Of course, neither of us got the girl, and she ended up sitting with her ex boyfriend all the way home, but by that time we were deeply involved in a twelve-hand penny poker tournament and so didn’t much care. Heh. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/22/2006 10:07 AM EST

Nichole: It’s very possible the problem was just the guy it was with, but I’d actually advise against taking a guy’s virginity. Of course, we were both losing it, so that probably made it suck too. He never really got any better at it tho. Too bad, he was always such a good kisser.

Best days… There are a couple. One is the first time my fiance and I made love. Let me know sex didn’t have to suck.

The other was when we finally moved into our house last July. We had been living in Southern California where a 6-figure income will let you afford a small 2-bedroom apartment with neighbors who steal out of your car in the gated parking, shoot out the window of your car with a BB-gun, and try to steal your packages (and a manager who contends none of those things could possibly have been done by another resident of the building until you have a exceptionally clear video of the prick that lives two doors down robbing your car). Ahem. When we moved back to Ohio, we temporarily stayed with my grandparents in their half-double, which was only slightly bigger than our apartment had been (with twice as many people in it). The "temporarily" turned into 3 months, even though we knew immediately which house we wanted when we checked it out a week after we moved back, but the owners wouldn’t get the heck out for 3 months (and basically told us, screw your offer of exactly what we asked for if you’re unwilling to wait), and my grandpa was offended by the suggestion we maybe rent an apartment instead of continuing to stay with them for those 3 months. So, yeah, we were really ready to move into the house.

Oh, and click my name for a link to more about that little f-er who used to live next to us in SoCal.

Chestnuts roasted by mags @ 02/22/2006 12:10 PM EST

The best day of my life began at 12AM, July 16th, 2005.

Yes, that’s the day that HP6 came out, but that’s not the only reason. I saw almost all of my favorite people that day, went to Six Flags for free, squirted total strangers with water, rode a million roller coasters, ran around in the rain with my best friend, and ate awesome Chinese food.

Oh yeah and read HP6.

Chestnuts roasted by Sami @ 02/22/2006 12:16 PM EST

Jazzy, I, too, hoped Queen + Paul Rogers would be the best day ever. If you are there for Paul, it may just be. If you are there for Queen, however, don’t count on it. Grump. There is no good reason for anyone to have to suffer through "I’m In Love With My Car."

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 02/22/2006 12:21 PM EST

Little Brother had to have a temporary colostomy a few years ago, and I think he the only person I will ever know who had fun with it. The Good attitude helped a lot with the recovery and reversal surgery, but in the meantime, we were regaled with how quick spaghetti makes it to the bag after eating. One time during this period, we were in Barnes & Noble and he got a funny look on his face, fished out a handful of dollars, and pulled me to the side. "There’s a Wal-Mart across the street, I need you to get a roll of duct tape." "Duct tape? What happened?" He got this wicked grin on his face, "I had a small blowout. I’ll be waiting in the Men’s Room." I hustled there and back like crazy. Meanwhile, he was entertaining himself with how he should handle his situation with other customers going in and out. I got back before he emptied his bag three feet above the toilet, with appropriate grunts and groans. Divurticulitus, an untapped resource for poop jokes.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/22/2006 12:29 PM EST

Kingklash- Your little bro had one, too? Well, I am glad he had fun with it…I had "the bag" for a year, before I could get the small intestine hook up inside. Let me tell you, when you’re a 21 year old chick living in a dorm at university with those VERY public bathrooms, "the bag" is NOT very fun. Thank God my boyfriend was cool with it, as was my roomate. They both wanted to watch me change it all the time, and marvelled at the small intestine poking out of my belly. I also had a "blow out"…during my anthropolgy final exam! The prof let me go back to the dorms and do what I had to do, though. (thank god)

Another Best day- Seeing the ROLLING STONES this summer with my best friend in Moncton, New Brunswick. It was a great day, with 4 other great bands as opening acts (including the Tragically Hip and Our Lady Peace). We were front row for the Stones, and Mick swivelled his hips 20 feet from me! Wonderful. What a great day.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/22/2006 12:47 PM EST

I just got back from Target with a plethora of post-valentine junk food at ridiculiously cheap prices 14 cents for a box of Laffy Taffy with cards, 16 cents for a bag of Gummi Hearts. Ahh Life is good, mmm gummi hearts…..

Chestnuts roasted by Xenophobe @ 02/22/2006 1:27 PM EST

Ghoul-aid Man: I forgot to mention, you should pick up a bottle of Vault. It’s the spiritual successor to Surge, and the taste is pretty similar. It seems to me that the citrus flavor is a bit sharper, and that Surge was a bit darker and sweeter, but then again that might just be nostalgia speaking.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/22/2006 1:35 PM EST

Oh, I’ve got another one: So when I was in first grade my aunt said that I could have the money for either a pair of Nike Pumps, or a Nintendo, both were around $100-150 back in those days (like 19-20 years ago). So I chose the Nintendo. I remember buying it and my mom and dad got me the first TMNT game for it. I was worthless from there out.

My theory is: If I had bought the Pumps, I would be an awesome athlete and probably be in the NBA or something. Instead I bought the Nintendo and am now just pretty good a Mario Bros.

Good choice? I think so.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 02/22/2006 2:01 PM EST

One of my best days was when 5 of my friends and I took a road trip to New Jersey a couple years ago for a weekend music fest. That Saturday was just perfect. We woke up, went to the store, bought enough beer to fill up the tub, and had beer for breakfast. Then we took the rest with us to the Stone Pony and proceeded to drink and watch several kick ass bands and socialize. The weather was awesome, the bands were awesome, my friends were awesome…of course, all of that could have been the beer, but everytime I feel like bleh, thinking about that day instantly makes me smile.

Chestnuts roasted by violetdied @ 02/22/2006 2:09 PM EST

Jedoc, yeah I’ve had some Vault, it tastes just like Surge with a few minor differences but it doesn’t have the same color. Vault has kind of a Mountain Dewish color whereas Surge had a darker green to it. Close enough for me!
That reminds me, I should probably crack open my other Vault bottle. Anyone see it in 2 litter or 12 packs?

Chestnuts roasted by Ghoul-Aid Man @ 02/22/2006 2:27 PM EST

Best day of my life? I can’t think of any specific day that stands out enough to be considered THE best. I’m not sure if this is good or bad.

I’ll just say that the dinosaur Matt was thinking of when he said "Bart Simpson ripoff" was Robbie, who WASN’T a Bart ripoff. And Dinosaurs aired on ABC, not NBC. Please tell me I’m not the first to post this…..

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/22/2006 3:04 PM EST

A pretty good day was when I got the Motorola FRS radios I won from Surge in the mail. I tried the sugar-free Vault and it had a good citrus flavor with an orange-y aftertaste. Surge tasted more like Rondo (The Thirst Crusher) but I’ll have to try regular V to give a more qualified opinion. mmm… A can of Rondo and a bag of Granny Goose potato chips, Godzilla on the TV and you have my childhood Saturday afternoons in Hayward, California.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/22/2006 4:35 PM EST

I also found Vault yesterday, and I have to say…I like it. Not the greatest drink Coke ever made, but I like it. I’ve never tired Surge, yet I would drink it if Vault is indeed a 90% Reincarnation of it.

And living without a large intestine…Ouch. I’m getting nauseous just thinking about it.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/22/2006 6:45 PM EST

Invader Norbert: lol. It’s not so bad- NOW. I am reconnected inside and am basically back to normal. Still a few problems, but MUCH better than when I still had the intestine and was very very sick.

I have never tried Surge…or Vault…or Rondo. Stupid Quebec.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/22/2006 7:47 PM EST

I just remembered what may very possibly have been the best day of my life, from the weekend last October that my friend Tim, who is from FREAKING AUSTRALIA, was visiting. Here’s an outline, and I think by the end you’ll see why it was the best day ever:

-I had to take a sign language midterm, so I dropped Tim and the boyfriend off at a mall close to my school

-Midterm went great, went and picked up the guys to drag them along to *another* project for sign language class, this time a visit to the Deaf school homecoming. I felt really stupid because I was only in ASL I and could only introduce myself and talk about breakfast, but it was still a nice day and we had fun. The boyfriend almost whistled for someone’s service dog (the school has a blind department), which was amusing.

-Puttered around St. Augustine, went in an old military memorabilia store (I found it boring but the guys loved it).

-On the way back we made a detour to go to a HUGE fireworks store. Fireworks aren’t allowed in Australia so Tim bought a huge pile of them to blow up at our house later.

-Picked up my best friend Sabrina and brought her to the house to begin our… dun dun dun… Halloween party! The four of us proceeded to string up an impressive display of fake cobwebs, light the living room with blacklights, set out MANY bowls of candy on the dining table, and turn on some obnoxious gothy music.

-We then blew up fireworks (some of which fell over and nearly killed us all), chased each other irresponsibly while dangerously close to said fireworks, played Eternal Darkness, and watched Team America: World Police. We ate steak, because Sabrina’s mom had been conned into buying a zillion cases of meat and sent us some for the party, and gorged ourselves on candy and Mountain Dew Pitch Black II. Sabrina crashed over and Tim went to a motel down the street.

So yeah… I think that may very well be the best day ever, just because it managed to contain more awesomeness than one day should be allowed to contain.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 02/22/2006 8:03 PM EST

I get more Vault than anyone would ever want. I work for on campus and everytime we host a special event Coke gives us all the Vault we want to get it out in the student’s hands. I have to say, it’s good, but even better when it’s free, especially when around 50 cases are free.

I don’t get to take ‘em all home, but by the end of an event, nobody want’s to because they’ve drank like 20 of them during the event.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 02/22/2006 10:12 PM EST

FRIGGIN’ POGS ARE BACK!

I’ve waited for this for long. You guys better not screw it up. Go out there and buy a pack right today!

http://www.funrise.com/pog/

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 02/22/2006 10:22 PM EST

Ooh, we’re still talking best days. I was so excited I didn’t bother to check where I was posting.

My best day?
Here ya go, in case you missed it the first time: http://www.funrise.com/pog/

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 02/22/2006 10:24 PM EST

I liked Pogs, but these look too "hip." I miss the goofy, brown, furry potato-man, and the cheap clip-art non-name-brand pogs. Pass.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/22/2006 10:35 PM EST

I’m ashamed to admit it, but a large amount of my Pogs had Power Rangers on them. I would go to the local comic book shop just to get them. Plus the standard 8Ball and skull style ones and throwing star shaped slammers.

I don’t know if I see them making a huge comeback, but if they do, hey, I know just the place to get a ton of cheap old Pog goodies.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/22/2006 10:59 PM EST

I had a ton of Pogs…That was years ago, though…Had a holographic slammer, too…it was pretty cool…

I can’t see this catching on again, though..

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 02/22/2006 11:12 PM EST

hey Muppet Baby and kingklash’s bro: word up for young people with fucked up diseases!!

I always had fun showing off my dialysis tube, or one of my two Hickman catheters in my chest…

I also had a hernia in high school, and my stoner friends would always say, "Dude, your hernia screen prob. needs to be scraped by now!! We’d get so baked off it!!" It’s always fun when your friends are accepting about crazy medical shit.

Some people I know would get really freaked out when I would tell them about what I was going through, with all my machines and bags of fluid and solutions. Like just hearing about it was painful for them.

When my then-g/f was a senior in college, for her BFA senior art project she did a photo essay type thing where she took pics of me at the doctors office, and coming out of surgery, and hooked up to my machines. It actually made people cry when they would look at the photos, and I was all like, "Yeah, uh, I was sick…it hurt…yes, thank you, I feel all better now…"

O.K. I ‘m done rambling now.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 02/23/2006 1:16 AM EST

I noticed that the new set of He-Man DVDs are out now (Season 1, Volume 2). I got Volume 1 when it first came out and I haven’t even finished that yet! There are so many episodes. I’d better get crackin’.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/23/2006 1:18 AM EST

It’s been a while since people here talked about corporate logos but this went on YouTube today. I have no idea how anyone could get it–it’s the logo public television used before there was a PBS. This was before 1971, and well before the VCR!

The music sounds Russian.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/23/2006 2:32 AM EST

The VCR isn’t the first format of video recording though.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 02/23/2006 6:18 AM EST

Mystie:

I, too, had lots and lots of Power Ranger pogs.

My favorite Pogs were the non-branded ones though. I spent many a Saturday night digging through the gigantic bins at the local craft store to pick out just the right ones with silly pictures and foil (which I would, of course, lose the next day in an intense game of fourth-grade pogging).

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/23/2006 7:34 AM EST

Dude, we’re sponsored by Pepsi (which I don’t mind), but all we ever got was a bunch of free Pepsi Vanilla shirts they threw out on a table outside the bookstore. I just spent 150 bucks on regalia and "printing" fees, but I’ve got a free Pepsi Vanilla shirt….great.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 02/23/2006 8:05 AM EST

Pogs are back?! Dear. God. No. I still have all of mine, as well as my dozens of slammers (my favorite being the then-timely OJ Slammer)

And my college has Coke machines everywhere (which explains how I found Vault), but no free crap from them. But then again, I’m just a 2nd semester Freshman

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/23/2006 10:45 AM EST

I thought of another.
A couple years ago, when I was living in Seattle. I woke up to about 3 inches of snow, which is a big deal there. So I decided to walk to the coffee shop instead of driving. Whe I got there I realized everyone was walking. After a few hours the snow was almost a foot deep. So A bunch of us went up a steep street and sledded down. For hours. There were little kids and full grown adults there, and everyone was in a good mood. When we got done sledding we all walked to a neighborhood bar and hung out with more happy snowed in people. When I woke up the next day it was nearly gone. Looking back, I can’t believe how lighthearted and glad everyone was that day. It was like we were all kids again.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 02/23/2006 12:17 PM EST

I have a big tube of POGs, consisting of both my and my nephew’s collections. I am still on the hunt for one cap with a Jolly Roger, 8 ball, Yin-Yang, Ace of Spades, and possibly a Black Widow on it, my own idea of a Ultimate POG. I even have a Holographic slammer off of a "Hawaiian Slammers" video. Don’t you hate it when something as simple and fun as POGs get assimilated into a marketing fad?

Little Brother like to show off his three bellybuttons, the extras are from the install/uninstall surgeries. "Please, nobody here at Golden Corral wants to hear about when you had to use a bag. Or ‘Phantom Rectum’ either."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2006 1:33 PM EST

"Phantom Rectum" sounds like a high school punk trio. There’s a local group who plays at the miniature golf course on Friday nights called "The Ska Skank Redemption," which in my mind totally excuses their music.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/23/2006 1:43 PM EST

One of the best days of my life: today. Got a root canal this morning and it wasn’t half as bad as I suspected. Now I’m free from all of the anticipation.

Score.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 02/23/2006 1:59 PM EST

I know this makes me sound immature, but kingklash Phantom Rectum is the funniest phrase of the day.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 02/23/2006 2:28 PM EST

Phantom Rectum is when those with a bag still try to go poop. Everything’s still working like it’s supposed to, but it’s all sound and fury, to paraphrase The Monarch. Little Brother says it was a wierd feeling.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2006 2:53 PM EST

You know, I kind of wish I had taken some pictures of "the bag" and the stoma (end of small intestine that pokes out of your belly)so I could show them to people and help them understand more about colostomies and ileostomies.

Yeah, it’s weird not to officially do "number 2" for over a year…just doing the bag stuff instead. Glad I am back to normal!

Kidneyboy: I was wondering when I’d get a shout out from my fellow organ-loser! :) How old were you when you had your surgery? And I agree- most people were fine with it- some were even more fine with it than I was!

kb: That day sounds amazing. Of course, I am used to snow, snow days and sledding here in the Great White North, but STILL, nothing beats a great snow day like that.

"ska skank redemption"- The Stephen King fan inside of me is loving it! Anyone read "Cell" yet? I ordered it and it hasn’t arrived!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/23/2006 4:01 PM EST

I am glad POGS are making a comeback…if they really catch on again, I am going to have to try and find my old collection.

Maybe pogs will be a game I can actually beat my students at.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/23/2006 4:41 PM EST

Since we’re talking soda today, Target had a 3 for $8 sale on Jones Soda. Got Green Apple, Black Cherry, and Strawberry Lime.

Also went to a Dollar General store today and I saw Castle Greyskull there for $15. Probably from the short-lived cartoon revival, but it did look kinda old also.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 02/23/2006 4:54 PM EST

My greatest day…hmmm…maybe the Christmas morning in 1986 (I was 6 years old), when my estranged Mother showed up a week before and spent Christmas with my Dad and I.

Here’s a great tip for any parents out there: I woke up at, like, 4am that Christmas morning,WAY to earily like most kids, and I went into the living room. My NES was up and running Donkey Kong JR (which was my must have game that year) right there on the TV ready to play. I sat down and played it for several hours, which gave the folks lots of extra time to sleep. Plus, seeing DKJR’s demo mode first thing Christmas morning is such a strong picture in my head, it easily ranks high in my top 3 favorite Christmas memories of all time. So next Christmas Eve, leave the video game they wanted the most out where they can get it first thing in the morning. The kids will love it, and you can sleep in a little! It’s a flawless plan!

Hmmm…then I guess my other greatest day of all time was when I went to see the first TMNT movie in the theater. My Dad saw an ad in the paper for a special midnite screening on the Thursday before the official Friday opening. My Dad was too cool for letting me stay up untill, like, 3am to see that movie. Plus going to school the next day and bragging to all my friends who still hadn’t seen it was a pretty awesome day too!

Chestnuts roasted by Antenna Villain @ 02/23/2006 5:19 PM EST

when i bought the first season of johnny quest on dvd.ok that’s just one of many good day adventrues.

Chestnuts roasted by Michael MDc @ 02/23/2006 8:28 PM EST

Antenna Villain: Wow- your Christmas moment ranks way up there- sounds as good as the morning my brother and I came out to a POPPLES TENT set up right there in the living room!

I just saw Little Pete from "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" in a commercial for Wendy’s…I don’t know if I should feel sorry for him, or happy that he got a gig

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/23/2006 9:52 PM EST

Today was a good day. I went into the salon with a picture of Nicole Kidman from Batman Forever and went "make my hair like this!" and they actually got it pretty darn close. I also found out that the reason my hair rejected my dying it blood red last year and instead went strawberry pink was because I use Pantene. Weird, huh?

Hey, has anyone else noticed that there’s a lot of poop-talking going on…. and no Darth Poop?!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/23/2006 9:58 PM EST

The best day of my life was the day I got to take my son Robby home from the hospital after he was born. The day after he was born he had the stroke and I thought the day would never come that I could bring him home. The second best days of my life is everyday since Robbys been born!I still can’t belive this is my life, its just too much fun, X-E adds to the fun

Check my name for pic of Robby…I havent showed him off here yet!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 02/23/2006 10:35 PM EST

Ha! That kid’s mighty cute.

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 02/23/2006 11:05 PM EST

Well, the bad news is that Darth Poop was forced to hunt down Bizarro Darth Poop and stage a final duel for the sake of the moniker. After a high-budget, scenery-chewing battle royale across three counties, the two found themselves grappling at the top of a cliff armed only with the tweezers from a Swiss Army knife. Just when it looked like all was lost, Poop lashed out with the seemingly-useless plastic toothpick from the same knife. In a million-to-one fluke, the toothpick jabbed deep into Bizarro Poop’s carotid nerve cluster, disorienting him and causing him to flinch violently backwards. As he windmilled on the very edge of the cliff, he managed to snag the front of Poop’s shirt with the tweezers, and they both went over together, and were lost in the swirling mist of the picturesque waterfall below.

So obviously neither of them are actually dead, but Darth Poop can’t show up again until it is both dramatic and convenient from a narrative perspective. Have patience.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/23/2006 11:18 PM EST

The greatest day was the day I found my Intellivision Box in the attic when cleaning out my garage recently. Oh yes, it works, barely. You will have to excuse me now, I need to get back to snafu, burger time and microsurgeon. Peace!

Chestnuts roasted by Xenophobe @ 02/23/2006 11:19 PM EST

1 - Christmas 1983, when I got my Atari 2600, along with Pac-Man, Combat, Q*Bert and Donkey Kong.

2 - 1995, when I met Austin St. John. Fortunately he didn’t act like Jason, the red power ranger in person

3 - same year as #2, my first buzz - Crown Royal! LOL

Chestnuts roasted by BuddyBlue76 @ 02/24/2006 3:46 AM EST

Ryane -
This root canal *was* my first cavity, plus I have an irrational fear of needles, so I was also really nervous. You’re right though, it wasn’t so bad. I have to get my crown in 2 weeks - and they are *really* expensive - I think mine works out to over $800, but luckily my husband keeps a job he hates because the health/dental insurance is so good.

Good to know that someone else survived a root canal.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 02/24/2006 9:34 AM EST

Neopets cereal. Has anyone seen these yet?

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 02/24/2006 11:45 AM EST

Jessica Marie - Ohhhh ok, that explains the even more nervousness! I can totally see why you would’ve been antsy. I wish I would’ve known before (that is if you posted about it before) that you were having one - I could’ve told you not to worry. Oh man, 800? My root canal alone was close to 1000. Ugh. but I had a really awesome hot Doc that was only 2 days older than me, so, it kinda made up for it. You’ll have to let me know how the crown goes.

Julie! I was just about to go get a bowl of that cereal right now! I admit it, I’m a complete addict of Neopets and can’t tear myself away from that site. But the cereal, it’s pretty good. At first, it reminds me of Cookie Crisp when you first eat it, but then there’s a slight berry kinda flavor that takes over. It’s not sickening or anything. It’s pretty yummy. I think I’m on my 3rd box.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 02/24/2006 12:01 PM EST

First of all: Hubb-hubba, Mystie!
Secondly, we all thought Holmes died at those falls, but he showed up later and never offered any explanation about his survival. "It’s a common misconception." he says. Cheeky monkey.
MEANWHILE….
A obscured figure heaves itself onto the mist-shrouded shore at the base of the falls. Barely managing to prop himself up, he coughs once, twice, then brings up a lungful of water. "That could’ve been the end of something big." he rasps out, "I think I have a trout in my pocket!"
"And here I thought you were just glad to see me." says the man standing at the edge of the water….
(camera slowly pans up from the shore to the falls, while the credits roll and "Driver’s Seat" by Sniff’n the Tears plays.)
Darth Poop will return in:
Live And Let Poop.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/24/2006 12:19 PM EST

Jedoc, oh my God, that was like the funniest thing I’ve seen/read/heard all day!

Jessica Marie - I had a root canal done a few months ago, and wow was that a piece of cake! I was soooo nervous because of all the bad rap it gets, but it turned out to be just like getting a cavity filled, for a longer period of time. Did they do a crown or do you have to go back for that? I don’t have mine yet - they are apparently way expensive. :/

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 02/24/2006 12:53 PM EST

Nice job on the adorable progeny, IHAQ. What a cutie!
Come on now, doesn’t anyone have any best day stories that were so prurient or personal they were too shy to post them before? I know there’s gotta be someone else holding back on "this one time, at band camp," stories.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/24/2006 7:42 PM EST

I’ve fashioned about a thousand stories like that over my lifetime, squee, but I certainly wouldn’t consider the days upon which they fell to be the "best" of anything. Perhaps if Matt decides to run a survey of "most regrettable day" or "day most likely to make the saints weep" or "day that was most distinctly shaped by controlled substances"…

Speaking of good days, tomorrow is shaping up to be a winner. I’ll be heading to Cincinnati to see Nine Inch Nails in concert. This is one of the heavies. This is one of the concerts that I promised myself I would see before I die way back when I first started going to concerts. Say…how’s that for a survey topic? Name five bands that you hope to see before you die. I’ll start:

1) Nine Inch Nails (taken care of)
2) Rage Against the Machine (barring a small miracle, this one probably won’t happen)
3) AC/DC (guitars + cannons + chruch bells = FUN!)
4) Tool (I’ve heard that a Tool concert is the closest thing to a fully-conscious dream that one can experience)
5) Clutch (even though I’ve seen ‘em at least eleven times, I’m always looking forward to my next Clutch show)

Your turn.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 02/24/2006 9:02 PM EST

I’ll bite. It pains me to leave Elliott Smith, my absolute favorite, off the list. However, he’s dead. I’m also not including bands I’ve already seen nor bands that have broken up.

1) Ben Folds
2) Morrissey
3) Badly Drawn Boy
4) John Williams (conducting his own music)
5) Paul McCartney (would rather see John or George, but…you know)

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/24/2006 9:39 PM EST

Good choices all, mtrox. Speaking of John Williams and the like, I saw Howard Shore about a year or so ago conducting the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. They played pretty much the entire LOTR score. It was amazing.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 02/24/2006 10:43 PM EST

#125

Neopets totally sold out..just like Spongebob.

And since there’s a new blog, no one’s gonna read this

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/25/2006 12:08 PM EST

OH MAN! not this again!

Chestnuts roasted by nickr. @ 02/28/2006 6:44 PM EST

If I order my funny face pancake at IHOP with regular batter not chocolate batter does that make me a food racist?

Chestnuts roasted by Xenophobe @ 03/01/2006 10:30 AM EST

Ohhhh ok, that explains the even more nervousness! I can totally see why you would’ve been antsy.

Chestnuts roasted by john @ 03/17/2006 4:44 PM EST

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