# The confessional. Come one! Come All. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168 "2000-04-15T03:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/81 "2000-04-17T16:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by missbunny: > > When I was in junior high and high school and had to write book reports or research papers, I used to make up certain of the supporting material (quotes, sources, etc.) and then write fake bibliographies to back everything up - fake titles, authors, dates of publication - everything. Not one teacher ever noticed or called me on it. (I wasn’t brave enough to try this in college.) > > \*\* I used to do that, too! Or if I had to have a certain number of references for a paper, I’d just throw stuff in my bibliography that clearly had nothing to do with my topic. Like I wrote a paper comparing Thomas Hardy and Tim O’Brien (my teacher knew I loved O’Brien, and told me I’d like Hardy, too, but I hate the bastard–that’s a confession in itself) and I needed six sources for it; I believe my “works cited” page included Greasy Lake by TC Boyle, an article on Rick Moody in Poets and Writers, and a book on birds of Southeast America. If the teacher noticed, she didn’t say anything. * * * “I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/82 "2000-04-17T16:30:00Z")
I - ahem - I like to watch tractor pulling on Eurosport… Don’t hate me, please ? Norman ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/83 "2000-04-17T16:38:00Z")
I don’t wear underwear in the summer. I hate fried chicken - or any meat that still has bones in it (including ribs). I also talk to myself (and my alter egos) - outloud. On the weekends when I have my 5 month old son all day, it is the only adult conversation I have. I sing in the car, but don’t qualify it as a confession. I freely admit that I sing in the car. I see many other people singing in their cars. I find it sad that people are embarrassed to admit that they sing. I even will sing weird little songs to my son that I compose - in front other people. _The Highlander_ is my favorite movie, though I don’t think that qualifies as a confession. And other than the movie I just mentioned, I am movie illiterate, which _does_ qualify as a confession. I hate to be licked by dogs. I cannot fall asleep unless my feet are clean. I love being single. I have only had one “normal” (traditional) relationship - and it was abusive. I’ll stick to my harem (or I guess, because I am female, that would be a "him"em) from now on. ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/84 "2000-04-17T16:42:00Z")
I don’t wear underwear in the summer. I hate fried chicken - or any meat that still has bones in it (including ribs). I also talk to myself (and my alter egos) - aloud. On the weekends when I have my 5 month-old son all day, it is the only adult conversation I have. I sing in the car, but don’t qualify it as a confession. I freely admit that I sing in the car. I see many other people singing in their cars. I find it sad that people are embarrassed to admit that they sing. I even will sing weird little songs to my son that I compose - in front other people. _The Highlander_ is my favorite movie, though I don’t think that qualifies as a confession. And other than the movie I just mentioned, I am movie illiterate, which _does_ qualify as a confession. I hate to be licked by dogs. I cannot fall asleep unless my feet are clean. I love being single. I have only had one “normal” (traditional) relationship - and it was abusive. I’ll stick to my harem (or I guess, because I am female, that would be a "him"em) from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/85 "2000-04-17T16:45:00Z")
Having already confessed my romance novel addiction on another thread, I’ll have to now tell you my real shame. I like The Thong Song. I sing it all the time. Dumps like a truck, truck, truck The guys say what, what, what Move that butt, butt, butt Thong, tha, thong thong thong. ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/86 "2000-04-17T16:51:00Z")
ooops! Sorry for the double post (hiccough). ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/87 "2000-04-17T20:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Mullinator: > \*\*My wife and I are addicted to Dr. Mario on the 8-bit Nintendo. > > If it were an a Olympic event, we would surely win medals. We play at the toughest levels. The computer is no challenge to us. No one has ever beaten either of us. > > \*\* OH! MY! **GAWD!** ME too! And no one has ever known what I was talking about until now! LOL. I no longer have a Nintendo but I have a similar game on cd-rom that I play constantly. (No music – god, I miss that “chill” tune, lol) Ok, since this is starting to get really, really sick… ## I really like the Gap’s “Are you a Jean or a Khaki?” campaign. I mean I like it almost to the point of (gulp) _actually going into a GAP store!_ I think the commercials are really well done and one of the boys in the “khaki” side of the print ad is just ADORABLE! (Looks like his nickname would be “Scooter.” I’ve got him all figured out, lol.) “You guys are outta your league…You’re looking at a woman who has her own harpoon!” ---
**Author:** ![Greyson3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greyson3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greyson3)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/88 "2000-04-17T22:24:00Z")
I like the songs “Turkey in the Straw” and “Entry of the Gladiators”. I hated “The Matrix”. Not to keen on ham, either. I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die. I don’t know what “felching” is. * * * “I believe every word that man just said, because it’s exactly what I wanted to hear.” -Space Ghost ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/89 "2000-04-17T22:51:00Z")
When I’m alongeI sing along loudly and off key with the chorus of Bloodhound Gang’s song “Bad Touch”. You want a disgusting web site go to their web site(I won’t put up the URL. It’s that bad.). Oh, yeah, I ate a whole bag of potato chips and dip yesterday. Keith * * * “I’m tired of being an object of ridicule. I wanna be a figure of fear, respect, and SEX!” -Radar O’Reilly ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/90 "2000-04-17T23:13:00Z")
I was watching Narrow Escapes on Discovery last Saturday and I almost (not quite) cried when they managed to save the dog off of the sinking boat. Of course, at the time I had a fever of 106.5 and was seriously delusional, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/91 "2000-04-17T23:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Shirley Ujest: > \*\* Gov. Wallace is rolling in his grave, to be sure.\*\* OK , another confession…I have no idea who that is. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/92 "2000-04-17T23:37:00Z")
I can’t believe I’m admitting this…please don’t hate me: I _ **like** _ Jar Jar Binks… Sheesh. That wasn’t as hard as I thought. Bo ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/93 "2000-04-17T23:44:00Z")
I hate cheesecake but _love_ those frozen burritos from 7-11. I dip them into the sour cream carton and eat them with my hands. I dye my hair dark brown. I plan on getting a nose job in July. I still read the Zanth books by Piers Anthony. ::ugh:: * * * My kids brighten up our home. They never turn the lights off. - **A Wallyism** ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/94 "2000-04-18T00:05:00Z")
Rosethorn: Have you tried melted butter and salt? Yummy. missbunny: I once made up the book I was supposed to have read. I got a B IIRC. Angkins: Gov George Wallace was a two-faced, do-anything-for-a-vote politician from Alafreakinbama. In his first campaign he decried the evils of the black man. He’s the guy who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama when segregation began. The general of the Alabama Army Nasty Guard was there to enforce the rule of the federal government fortunately. Several elections later he was singing a new tune when civil rights issues became somewhat more popular. **I** still haven’t figured out what LOL stands for. I know there’s a guide around here somewhere, but I’m too lazy to look for it. ---
**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/95 "2000-04-18T02:41:00Z")
Okay, I own cds by the spice girls, shania twain, and monica. I just bought a dvd even though I don’t have a player. I only watch nature shows if possible, and I always cry while watching Emergency Vets on Animal Planet. I lick the inside of microwave popcorn bags when I am done if no one is looking. I was addicted to Dr. Mario and [Tetris](http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/) too. I have become a compulsive email checker. I check my email more often than my email program checks my email accounts. I collect Eeyore stuff. I enjoy romance novels occasionally (and see nothing shameful about it), and I love the horror genre. Stephen King Rocks!! (and I see nothing shameful about that either, so 😛 ) * * * Rather, I was in the position of a spore which, having finally accepted its destiny as a fungus, still wonders if it might produce penicillin. –Ayi Kwei Armah ---
**Author:** ![Kiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@Kiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiva)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/96 "2000-04-18T04:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Shirley Ujest: > \*\* And there is a problem with this? Sometimes this is the only way I get through the day. > \*\* Well, when I was eleven, I was informed coldly by my friends that we were too _mature_ to play pretend anymore. I’ve been in the Pretend closet ever since. I hosted fake cooking shows when I was little too. In fact, on the rare occasion that I attempt to cook something, even now I carry on the _chef_ monologue. Sometimes with a French accent. “Now I mix zee cooked macaroni with zee prepackaged cheese-like sauce” I LOVE uncooked cake-mix pudding! White cake mix tastes the best, though. Chocolate is too rich. Judy, I always check doors several times. Windows and stoves, too, even though I know I’ve checked them a million times before. It’s a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Maybe you should look into it. Lots of information on the internet. Ooh, ooh, here’s another one: I really, really adored that Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante commercial that everyone else seemed to hate. It’s never on anymore, though. ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/97 "2000-04-18T04:39:00Z")
Milossarian, I’ve seen the first Highlander movie (only the first one; I understand people have actually died from the sequels), and it must be a guy movie, 'cause I didn’t get it. Perhaps it was lingering annoyance that Sean Connery is in a movie called “The Highlander,” yet does not _play_ the Highlander. Or that the sound was is so ineptly done that every time the leading lady walks across the set it sounds like an approaching buffalo. I will grant that, in the early scenes, the Kurgan wears what was undoubtedly the coolest hat in the history of the movies. Now the TV show! That was something else, and I love it to pieces. And, of course, in Adrian Paul they found someone who was every bit as unintelligible as Christopher Lambert, but several hundred times better looking. * * * ## Catrandom Go to a vet that’s also a taxidermist. Either way, you’ll get your cat back. _Sig courtesy of the amazing WallyM7_ ---
**Author:** ![GuyShyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@GuyShyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyShyGirl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/98 "2000-04-18T05:36:00Z")
I own and occasionally listen to the New Kids On The Block Greatest Hits album. I bought a GameBoy color just so I could play Pokemon. I have conversations in my mind with the guy I like. Then I usually run away when I have an opportunity to actually talk to him. My favorite movies are Steel Magnolias, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Forrest Gump. I watch at least 45 minutes of my \*Nsync videos every day. ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/99 "2000-04-18T15:52:00Z")
OK, since everyone else is 'fessing up… I read Star Trek novels, too. I especially enjoy the ST:New Frontier stories, and wouldn’t mind seeing THOSE come to a screen near me. I’m also a fan of conspiracy theories. Not that I believe, them, mind you; it’s just that the better ones reveal a certain… creativity and lateral thinking that I find entertaining. I also like the ones that make you think for a bit and re-examine your assumptions, even though they’re a crock. (saying this now before I go start a thread in GD) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168/100 "2000-04-18T16:45:00Z")
I have at least three Barry Manilow tapes in my truck at all times. Quite the odd sight, seeing me driving down the road, windows down, sangin’ my little heart out with Barry. And, I went to see him in concert last year. _sob_ * * * I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like me. —Stuart Smalley [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confessional-come-one-come-all/16168.md?page=6)