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When I was maybe 10 or 11, one of my friends had one. I don't remember whose it was, but we used to play it down in another friend's cellar. Not because it was supposed to be haunted, but because all of our parents were uber-Catholic and that kind of thing was simply not allowed. Nothing ever happened (unless you count the arguments about which one of us was pushing the planchette), at least, not that we knew about. Turns out, however, that it was another one of my narrow escapes from death - seems that the friend's mom found the ouija board about a year after we got tired of it. Once my friend had denied ownership, his mother was sure that it was me (which it wasn't; although using one wouldn't have been out of character, I wouldn't have spent money on it) and was going to tell my mother. This would have meant death, probably at the stake, and my mother was not one to mercifully strangle heretics first. Fortunately, there was enough doubt in her mind, since the third person involved in the equation was the one who usually got us in trouble, and since it would have been well within his usual MO to store something like that at a house not his own so that his mother wouldn't find it, she decided just to let the matter drop. Hence, I am here to tell the tale, and to remind everyone that ouija boards really can be dangerous.

Granted, when I made the suggestion, you were trying to get more subscriptions, but I'm reasonably sure that you would have gotten laid as a side effect.

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I told him two or three years ago 5 little words that would get him laid, but did he listen?

Because you're a 53-year old CPA from Passaic who's been role-playing this troll since the mid-2000's, and there are people who don't believe that anyone could keep up a ruse this long. Also, when are you changing your avatar to

Anything that is anti-antivaxer is a good thing. Do it!

They won't be able to if you keep abusing language.

Happy birthday! Here is a first aid kit for nurses:

Only things that don't stain get spilled on floors. All colored beverages get spilled on carpet. My kids used to only spill water in the kitchen. Any time they spilled anything else - juice, soda (other than Sprite), fruit punch, milk (not so much for the stain as for the smell), it was on the (wheat-colored, of course) carpet.

I don't know any more. I used to be 5' 7 1/2", but over the past couple of years, I've been told I'm now 5'6" or 5'6 1/2". It's mostly bad posture, though - I'm too young to be actually shrinking but old enough to be well on the way to becoming one of those little old ladies who have their chins firmly embedded in their sternums.

Apparently, they can.

What exactly does that mean?

He had credibility?

Check out garum; also similar fish sauces from southeast Asia that I can't remember the names of. I've read that Lea & Perrins is somehow related to/derived from/inspired by them. (If it mentions this in the video, I apologize - I'm too intent on listening to Scheenee yell at Dr No to look at another video.)

Nobody is too young for an MI.

If you are over 50 and don't have a baseline EKG on file somewhere, this might be the time ask the doc about getting one. Also, glad to hear that you haven't become battery-powered. On topic - I like raw beef, and dislike hazelnuts in any way, shape, or form.

Jumping the megalodon, maybe?

Mazel Tov!

True. It probably would have been more accurate to say that they were used to observing it.

Well, to be fair, both of the interpreters were native speakers who'd immigrated as adults. It's apparently a big deal in eastern Europe, and they were used to celebrating it.

It actually is a thing in other countries...one year at work, the Russian interpreter and the Bosnian interpreter, who were both men, got us pizza. We never got anything from our American male bosses.

I don't know what the numbers mean, but I do know that as people get older, they become far-sighted (if memory serves me, as it so seldom does, the eyeball flattens as we age). This means that near-sighted people become less near-sighted. This also means that one is generally in ones mid 40's before one notices any appreciable difference, although one can have the process begin in the mid 30's. Welcome to middle age.