# I Have Seen the Future (warning: very much blah-blah-blah) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2004, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232 "2004-09-13T11:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/61 "2004-09-14T23:23:23Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > I’d rather hear you tell her how yummy she looks in that dress, than have you tell me how yummy I look in that dress… :eek: > > How’s them apples, **angel pants**? **vunderbob** you don’t look yummy in that dress. You look scrumptious! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/62 "2004-09-14T23:41:17Z")
no, **swampy** , it’s not **vunderbob** in the dress, it’s **welby** … only it wasn’t a dress, it was a tablecloth. For the record, I don’t wear dresses unless I’m forced to by the occasion. Further for the record, we get our kitchen cabinets a week from Friday. YAAAY! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/63 "2004-09-14T23:48:46Z")
**Angel Pants!** Man, I don’t know what the problem was with the guy who owned this credit card before I buried him in the woods, but really, how big of a wuss was he? Seriously, it seems that I’ve assumed the identity of an abject coward. Exgineer is going to grow some stones, and I mean right effin now. Ladies, I will buy you any and all refreshments you may need to keep your blood sugar up long enough to sit through a movie. I’ll be buying them at Cumberland Farms and stuffing them into the pockets of my trenchcoat, because I don’t believe I should have to pay $20 for an eight ounce packet of Jujubees. Just make sure you reach into the right pockets. There’s some stuff in the trenchcoat that you don’t want to know about. Then I’ll take you back to my place, strip you down, tie you up, and show you the true meaning of the word “movie.” In the alternative, I’ll just revert to being a wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/64 "2004-09-15T00:27:00Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > no, **swampy** , it’s not **vunderbob** in the dress, it’s **welby** … only it wasn’t a dress, it was a tablecloth. > > For the record, I don’t wear dresses unless I’m forced to by the occasion. > > Further for the record, we get our kitchen cabinets a week from Friday. YAAAY! I miss **welby** too, but come on: The guy paints himself green and uses a tablecloth (rated for outside use) as a poncho, and then goes out in _public_ and whacks other people, similarly dressed, with a foam-rubber sword. You just _have_ to point and snicker. **This is like rat bait. He _has_ to come out and fight this.** ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/65 "2004-09-15T00:44:57Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > I miss **welby** too, but come on: > > The guy paints himself green and uses a tablecloth (rated for outside use) as a poncho, and then goes out in _public_ and whacks other people, similarly dressed, with a foam-rubber sword. hey. Hey. HEY! I do not do this. But the VunderKind **does** … > [@Exgineer](#): > > You just _have_ to point and snicker. You can bet your ass that I do. On to other things. I took it upon myself to go hunting on UrsineSteal for music by the _Arrogant Worms_. I actually knew two of their titles from listening to Dr. Demento, namely _Cows with Guns_ and _The Scotsman Song_, but I never knew who made the recordings, until now. All of their stuff was a hoot, even _The War of 1812_. However, the songwriters never learned their history from South Park, because we 'mercans kicked Limey and Canuck ass in that war. We always kick ass, even when we lost in 'Nam. I know we kicked ass there, 'cuz I watched John Wayne in _The Green Berets_, and he kicked ass. So there. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/66 "2004-09-15T11:57:58Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Ladies, I will buy you any and all refreshments you may need to keep your blood sugar up long enough to sit through a movie. I’ll be buying them at Cumberland Farms and stuffing them into the pockets of my trenchcoat, because I don’t believe I should have to pay $20 for an eight ounce packet of Jujubees. Just make sure you reach into the right pockets. There’s some stuff in the trenchcoat that you don’t want to know about. > > Then I’ll take you back to my place, strip you down, tie you up, and show you the true meaning of the word “movie.” Yuck. Jujubees are in the same category as popcorn and licorice. And if you think I’m rooting through the trenchoat pockets of some strange man in a darkened movie theater, well, you’re… well, that might be fun. Are there Junior Mints and Sno-Caps in there? What time does the movie start? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/67 "2004-09-15T11:58:40Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Ladies, I will buy you any and all refreshments you may need to keep your blood sugar up long enough to sit through a movie. I’ll be buying them at Cumberland Farms and stuffing them into the pockets of my trenchcoat, because I don’t believe I should have to pay $20 for an eight ounce packet of Jujubees. Just make sure you reach into the right pockets. There’s some stuff in the trenchcoat that you don’t want to know about. > > Then I’ll take you back to my place, strip you down, tie you up, and show you the true meaning of the word “movie.” Yuck. Jujubees are in the same category as popcorn and licorice. And if you think I’m rooting through the trenchoat pockets of some strange man in a darkened movie theater, well, you’re… well, that might be fun. Are there Junior Mints and Sno-Caps in there? What time does the movie start? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/68 "2004-09-15T12:13:25Z")
> [@misstee](#): > > When you rule the world, I will get to be an outlaw. I will enjoy every little bit of my buttery popcorn while thinking about how naughty I am by breaking the rules. > > While at the movies one must have popcorn with M&M’s dumped in them. Me too (as outlaw), but my popcorn gets chocolate covered raisins (the chocolatey Brachs kind not the puny Raisinets). Chocolate plus salt plus chewy raisin goodness! I also like licorice, which definitely puts me in a minority of Americans. Note to self: Reason #327 to worship **Misstee** : her penchant for naughtiness! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/69 "2004-09-15T12:18:42Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Me too (as outlaw), but my popcorn gets chocolate covered raisins (the chocolatey Brachs kind not the puny Raisinets). Chocolate plus salt plus chewy raisin goodness! :eek: You would defile good chocolate by mixing it with the Godless RAISINS? ANOTHER HEATHEN! Where will the madness end? I weep for the future… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/70 "2004-09-15T12:26:42Z")
Speaking of licorice, I’ve been sorta kinda seein’ a certain burly man lately. Nuttin’ real serious just lots of fun. Anywho, he likes jelly beans but he doesn’t like licorice so he saves me all the black jelly beans. Ain’t that sweet? Also, just to prove how sweet I am, a few weeks back while killing time in the Minneapolis airport, I wandered into this candy shop that had all kinds of jelly beans. I bought me a bag of just licorice ones and I bought him a bag of assorted jelly beans that were all kinds of flavors except licorice. So, see, he didn’t have to pick the black ones out, he got to eat licorice free jelly beans. Now ain’t I sweet? New **Ex** out of curiosity, what would happen if I stuck my hand in your trench coat while at the movies? Maybe **welby** is missing because he’s been busy shopping cause the new line of fall tablecloths are out. 😃 -swampbear (will we or won’t we get hit by Ivan. Stay tuned for exciting hourly updates!) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/71 "2004-09-15T12:34:41Z")
I happened to catch an ad on TV for the first time this week: Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Kisses. Milk Chocolate - feh. However, I might even model that dress for **Swampy** for a bunch o’ the dark stuff… I don’t pay much attention to TV, 'xept for Stargate in all of its forms, and the home improvement shows that have the construction babes. That ad could actually be old news. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/72 "2004-09-15T12:49:27Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > :eek: You would defile good chocolate by mixing it with the Godless RAISINS? > ANOTHER HEATHEN! > > Where will the madness end? I weep for the future… In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m kind of into defiling. Anyone needs to be defiled, you just let me know. Ladies first, of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/73 "2004-09-15T13:11:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Speaking of licorice, I’ve been sorta kinda seein’ a certain burly man lately. Nuttin’ real serious just lots of fun. Anywho, he likes jelly beans but he doesn’t like licorice so he saves me all the black jelly beans. Ain’t that sweet? > > Also, just to prove how sweet I am, a few weeks back while killing time in the Minneapolis airport, I wandered into this candy shop that had all kinds of jelly beans. I bought me a bag of just licorice ones and I bought him a bag of assorted jelly beans that were all kinds of flavors except licorice. So, see, he didn’t have to pick the black ones out, he got to eat licorice free jelly beans. Now ain’t I sweet? > > New **Ex** out of curiosity, what would happen if I stuck my hand in your trench coat while at the movies? > > Maybe **welby** is missing because he’s been busy shopping cause the new line of fall tablecloths are out. 😃 > > -swampbear (will we or won’t we get hit by Ivan. Stay tuned for exciting hourly updates!) I loves me some black jellybeans! (Sorry, **merrily** ) They are the best! swampy, my bro sent me the latest computer models an only one has Ivan going into north Jawjah. One of them has it actually curling around and going back into the gulf! :eek: So far, all the yummies discussed are fine wit me. **bibby** , you must open yourself up to new taste sensations! There’s a great big world of heathen carbs out there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/74 "2004-09-15T13:14:48Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > **Angel Pants!** > Man, I don’t know what the problem was with the guy who owned this credit card before I buried him in the woods, but really, how big of a wuss was he? Seriously, it seems that I’ve assumed the identity of an abject coward. Exgineer is going to grow some stones, and I mean right effin now. > > Ladies, I will buy you any and all refreshments you may need to keep your blood sugar up long enough to sit through a movie. I’ll be buying them at Cumberland Farms and stuffing them into the pockets of my trenchcoat, because I don’t believe I should have to pay $20 for an eight ounce packet of Jujubees. Just make sure you reach into the right pockets. There’s some stuff in the trenchcoat that you don’t want to know about. > > Then I’ll take you back to my place, strip you down, tie you up, and show you the true meaning of the word “movie.” > > In the alternative, I’ll just revert to being a wuss. 😃 You are sooooooooooo dead, **not-the-ex** ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/75 "2004-09-15T14:57:09Z")
**Puggy** it’s almost time for the 11 AM Ivan update. The big worry here is flooding. We will get rain and the river and cricks are already at or near flood stage. :eek: Right now it could go anywhere’s from round Mobile to Appalachicola. Dang I wish it’d make up it’s mind. And there’s another one forming up! GRRRRRRRRRRRR I just know before this is all over with I’ll be making the 30 mile one way trip back and forth to work. I just know. I wonder if the real **angel pants** has figured out the new **Ex** yet. If new **Ex** asks why the heck they have all these new kitchen appliances, she’ll know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/76 "2004-09-15T16:09:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > New **Ex** out of curiosity, what would happen if I stuck my hand in your trench coat while at the movies? You’d get a box of Sno-Caps, a battery operated something or other, or a poke in the beezer, depending on what you grabbed. The kitchen appliances were a major factor in my identity assumption decision, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/77 "2004-09-15T16:15:57Z")
At Ikea I once bought some wonderful dark chocolate m&m’s with licorice flavoured candy coating. For those I would root around in anybody’s trench coat. Though it wouldn’t really be neccessary for you guys to bait your pockets, because friends root around in each other’s pockets-- that’s what friends are for ya know? Chocolate covered raisins I always thought would be nasty, but then I actually tried them and they’re not bad at all it turns out. They definitely rank above jujubees and black jellybeans. Cause black jelly beans are not licorice. I know licorice. Licorice is a friend of mine, and black jellybeans are not licorice. Last I read, that wicked hurricane was headed for New Orleans. Is that going to leave most of our MMPers in the clear? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/78 "2004-09-15T16:52:09Z")
**Swampy** , the time is sneaking up on 1 PM. What’s Ivan doing? Talk about an appropriate handle, considering the rain past, present, and near future… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/79 "2004-09-15T17:16:28Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > So far, all the yummies discussed are fine wit me. **bibby** , you must open yourself up to new taste sensations! There’s a great big world of heathen carbs out there. 😉 I love chocolate in all forms (except white chocolate); I just don’t like licorice or raisins or popcorn. I don’t care for stuff like Jujubees and jelly beans. I’d rather have Junior Mints or Sno-Caps. Or nachos or jalepeno poppers. Now those are _goooood!_ Yes, I know all too well that world of heatheny carby goodness. That’s why I was on a diet. I was very, very good for a long, long time, and lost lots and lots of weight, but have since stalled and need to get back on my diet. And that involves cutting the heatheny carby goodness from my diet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232/80 "2004-09-15T17:39:09Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > **Susan**! I wanna know about those snickerdoodle muffins (which sounds a bit dirty if you read that with my mind)! Whaddaya mean you don’t lurk in this thread like some people you could mention? What is this career of which you speak? I just wanted to see you beg - I’m evil that way. Recipe for Snickerdoodle muffins (and many other kinds of muffins) can be found at [Cooking Light BB](http://community.cookinglight.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60229) . We’re a bit muffin obsessed over at that board - we usually have a monthly muffin thread. And just so you don’t get too confused - over there I go by the clever handle of…susan\_foster. Hey - at least when I go from board to board, I don’t have to work too hard to remember my handle! Those brain cells can get some extra use elsewhere. Oh - and for my own input on the recipe - I used regular butter instead of light, and there is way too much topping listed for the recipe - I’ll go with 2 tsp of sugar and 1/4 tsp of cinnamon next time. I’m flashing cleavage again - 2 days in a row! And no - no pictures. I might post a picture when I get copies from my brother’s wedding. No extraordinary cleavage, but I was told I looked mighty purty that day. I had a picture taken at his second reception that I look alright in. Unfortunately, I was wearing a strapless dress, and the picture is shoulders up, so I look like I am nude at the reception! Now, I’m all about being the center of attention, but I have to draw the line somewhere! Susan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-warning-very-much-blah-blah-blah/264232.md?page=5)