Tell me I'm not Crazy.

[Helen's Eidolon]

I was just reading my new copy of The Triumph of the Straight Dope when I came upon a column on stigmata.

This surprised me, as I seriously doubt Cecil would reprint the same column in two books, and it was obviously in an earlier book because I was scarred by it as a child. (the article, not stigmata)

So I looked though the indexes of my old books.

Nothing.

I looked up the article (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_237.html) in the archive and the date was Feb 20, 1998.

Someone please tell me that there was a way for me to have read this 10 years ago and that I'm not fabricating memories.

[Skelji]

You might be crazy. Then again, I might be too.

Now that you mention it, I seem to remember reading about that in either the first or second book. Maybe it's just the power of your suggestion.

[Tir Tinuviel]

Maybe 10 years ago you were looking at a copy of the book through the wrong end of Father Ernetti's Chronovisor?

[Chef Troy]

You probably aren't crazy, but you ARE a big procrastinator. When are you going to get another copy of your writing over to Eutychus for Teemings?

*grin*

[Helen's Eidolon]

Chef Troy... Soon, I swear!

I've resigned myself to it. I'm crazy. None of my friends are surprised.

*laughs* And the fact that this thread got no replies for, like, 10 hours didn't help!

[Simetra]

LaurAnge, you're not crazy.

For some reason, I remember reading that article in the archives and it being much older.

Maybe it's a bout of mass clairvoyance. Maybe if we all hold hands and chant "Eeeny Ooony Wannah". :) (Thousand cool points for whoever gets what that's referencing.)

[Tygr]

Eeeny Ooony Wannah
From a Far Side cartoon, right? Something like slugs worshipping a big salt shaker?

Pleaseplease tell me I'm cool and not a Far Side geek...

[Medea's Child]

Tygr, you are all three, correct, cool, and a Far side geek.

Hehe!

[Simetra]

Originally posted by Medea's Child
Tygr, you are all three, correct, cool, and a Far side geek.

Hehe!

I agree completely. Good job Tygr... <gives him a thousand cool points> :)

((Sorry for the hi-jack LaurAnge))

[Tygr]

Originally posted by Medea's Child
Tygr, you are all three, correct, cool, and a Far side geek.

Hehe!

<Rudolph> She said I'm cool! I'm COOOOOOOOL!</Rudolph>

Okay, okay, so she said I was a geek, too, but THAT I already knew...

Gosh, thanks Simetra. So what can I exchange these for? Will they help me get past the bouncer at the next meeting of the Elite Clique? Do I collect more by following you around the boards and putting up "Me, too!" posts after you? Or place you to the top of my list on the next "Coolest, Neatest, Favoritest, Most Scrum-didley-umtious Poster" thread?

*Sincere apologies for continuing this god-awful hijack LaurAnge, but I jus' GOTTA find our how to get into that club!

[Medea's Child]

Sweetie, if I was part of the Clique, I'd let you in.

I see myself as much more a wandering puppy about the boards than any behind the scenes mover and shaker.

(But you can help me chew on Clique member's shoes while they are at work, if you want.)

And I'm sorry about the hijack too.