― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
No no no, a Fox sitcom!
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think it should be one in the movie. Last scene, Matos rips off the mask, "WA-HA! I am secretly a monkey!", and then Chris looks straight at the camera and delivers a zinger.
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
Because MY mother was engaged to the real-life father that that sitcom was about.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
korean
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I should really get back to work, sorry.
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The Klondike Bars all melted!" I cried when we opened the cooler. "So has all the ice!"
"I fucking told you not to put the cooler in the trunk," my mother scolded.
"That's never fucking happened before!" Chris swore.
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Suddenly, Chris beamed. "Man!" he said. "I must be the best fucking driver in the world! Anyone else would have gotten into in accident, but I avoided all those cars [that were headed straight at me because I was stupid enough to make a wrong turn on a fucking one-way residential street], and none of us got hurt." He concluded cockily: "I'm a great fucking driver."
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
matos, you deserve all the happiness that life can bring.
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
(I should be working - shout at me if you see me post again)
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
shared geekiness=glue to male bonding
sports most common, but 'culture' does as well
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eve, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
all-time
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
"Big trubs! Purry Dubs!"
― brotha george lynch hung (how's life), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
still classic
― Roz, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
"Big trubs! Purry Dubs!" still goes through my head on a regular basis.
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
"You know, you're wasting electricity by turning the lights on and off when you leave the room, because it takes more power to do that than if you just left the light on all the time."
I remember a teacher in my elementary school saying the same thing back in the 80s. Was this a widespread myth at some point?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 09:58 (nine years ago) link
The idea probably comes from fluorescent lights, which do need a brief power spike to excite the plasma. The integral of this power spike is probably negligible. Turning on and off frequently could more quickly bring about a failure mode, though.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think this was only ever true of the type of lights they had in institutional buildings... classrooms, hospitals, etc.
my gf does tell me not to turn the TV off if I'm going to turn it on again w/in 30 minutes but i'm prett skeptical.
anyway i had forgotten this thread. good times. where is matos now?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
i think so. i definetely used to think this. it's called lazy justifications for laziness syndrome, probably (http://rebelzen.com/2008/09/10-reasons-why-being-a-lazy-dude-is-actually-a-good-thing/ NUMBER 1, in a way)
― Ludo, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link