# a **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850 "2003-01-25T12:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 208
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4141 "2003-03-08T18:28:48Z")
**T** hought perhaps it should be Drucker and 4th! ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4142 "2003-03-08T18:30:41Z")
**U** mm, brain is working in slow motion today…is that a reference we should know? Or are we talking Green Acres/Petticoat Junction (like duh…). ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4143 "2003-03-08T18:48:00Z")
**V** ery likely you do, **Watcher** : “At 4th and Drucker he turns left. At Drucker and 4th he turns right. He crosses MacArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building (ooh - my nose). - Nick Danger Third Eye” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4144 "2003-03-08T18:50:19Z")
**W** hoops, now I’ve warned koeeoaddi I’m closing in and the race is on! ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4145 "2003-03-08T19:04:16Z")
**X** -Files can now list this case as solved. Thanks **koeeoaddi** , I couldn’t get my mind past Drucker’s General Store and Sam Drucker. Still stuck in 60’s television land. Do not attempt to adust your television set. We are controlling transmission… ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4146 "2003-03-08T19:38:11Z")
**Y** ou are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! I can’t get Rod Serlings voice out of my head! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4147 "2003-03-08T20:12:23Z")
**Z** e end (of the alphabet) is nigh! **A** nd so we begin again. **B** eg everyone’s pardon for my disappearance – had to go help my SIL pack her mother’s apartment, then had my tap class. **C** an post for a while now, though – anyone around? ( **D** oggone it, why _shouldn’t_ we treat this as our own little chat room?) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4148 "2003-03-08T20:14:42Z")
**E** xiting news, all! **F** ive posts will catch me up to Kat! **G** uess what I’m doing before I take my shower? **H** eck, it doesn’t count as post-padding if you do several letters in one post, right? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4149 "2003-03-08T20:16:35Z")
**I** ’m thinking now that should be “exciting,” not “exiting.” **J** ust so doggone strange to use “exciting” properly, for an “e,” and not the cheesy “x” move we’ve all done more than once. **K** indness of strangers, I’ve always depended on. ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4150 "2003-03-08T20:19:01Z")
**L** ove to read your posts **Twicks** , padding or not. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4151 "2003-03-08T20:23:15Z")
**M** any thanks, **Watcher,** it’s always nice to be appreciated. **N** otice you’ve changed your location – ashamed of our fair city? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4152 "2003-03-08T20:25:01Z")
**O** migod, I’ve completely forgotten how to code. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4153 "2003-03-08T20:28:31Z")
**P** erhaps you should look it up ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4154 "2003-03-08T20:29:01Z")
**P** hiladelphia still rules, but last week (or was it the week before) I got caught up in the spirit of witty 60’s references. Or maybe it was the Firsesign Theater quotes that keep coming up. Way to go - 84 pages! No stopping us now… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4155 "2003-03-08T20:38:05Z")
**Q** uickly we move ahead. **R** eally quickly. **S** ometimes you just have to blather though. **T** here’s time to stop and smell the roses. **U** gly and beautiful, dangerous and health-giving, roses remind us of the paradoxes of life. **V** itality istelf is a paradox. **W** hen something is born, it begins to die in some sense; or is it that every birth is also a death? **X** -rays show is that life and death are entwined deep in the structure of every living thing. **Y** outh is just a phase… **Z** ed! It’s Zed, not Zee! **A** ll you folks at Toronto radio station Z103.5 get that through your heads! **B** ecause it’s really grating to hear it in the fitness club when I work out. **C** ould you try to be Canadian in your _station-ID_ at least? **D** amn. **E** ven my friends think I’m turning into an aging eccentric. **F** ortunately, I’m fighting for inner youngness. **G** rumbling about trivia like this is just a way of letting off steam. **H** owever, there is a ‘ha-ha-only-serious’ side to it… **I** do feel myself getting older. **J** ustifiably, too: I turn _40_ this summer. **K** arma, I think, is the reason why my life has turned out as it did. **L** ike many, I tended to act out of fear, not courage or love. **M** ore than once I didn’t overcome my fear and ask someone out when I had the chance. **N** ow it’s too late. **O** ur society is fixated on youth; being forty is a significant barrier to romance. **P** erhaps I’m wrong, but I just don’t see a chance that any woman would be interested in me now… **Q** uite disturbing, it is. **R** eally disturbing. **S** hould I shut up now? [sub] **T** here–I just dropped it in at the right time… :)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4156 "2003-03-08T20:39:49Z")
**Q** uiet, **Smeghead** – remember I’m the Supreme Judge and Executioner of this thread! **R** ight-o, **Watcher** , nothing like a Firesign Theater reference to warm this middle-aged heart. **S** anta Barbara, they were from, where I lived in the mid seventies – I saw them perform live once, funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4157 "2003-03-08T20:41:26Z")
**T** hink you’ll come to the next Philly doper gathering? I wanted to go to the Imax trip, but it turned out to come right in the middle of a work crisis (which happened right when my bf’s mother died, not to be a downer or anything). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4158 "2003-03-08T20:42:41Z")
**U** ndoubtedly not something to be proud of – but I’m now the top poster in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4159 "2003-03-08T20:45:31Z")
**V** ery interesting post, **sunspace** , **w** hich I just noticed, being caught up in my own little solipsistic trip ther for a moment. **X** stacy is still possible after the age of 40 – I’m 48, my bf is 55 and bald. Who’da thunk? **Y** ou want details? ---
**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4160 "2003-03-08T20:56:22Z")
**Z** e accomplishment is admirable **Twicks** , we are all very proud. We suspected that the 47 in your name might be an age reference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=209)