The Mother Of All Coincidences?

[Hal_Briston]

Well, this zombie thread was closed, but picunurse got in the last word:

@picunurse

I’d hate to think my Hero Hal would post something not quite original,
but when I got the M&Ms e-mail 5 years ago it included your “response” to it, as well.
The reason I’m so sure of this is, the woman who shared my office thought it was so funny, she printed several copies of it, and one ended up in a box of my stuff. I just looked at it when your post sounded soooo familar.
Huh?

Bwuh? You mean you’re looking at a printout from five years ago containing the response that I wrote 20 months ago?

If that’s the case, then either we’re looking at a major timestamp issue, the mother of all coincidences, or your network printer is linked to a timespace wormhole.

I did some searching, and found that someone included my post in their blog, but I couldn’t find anything predating January '04. Either way, I assure what I wrote was straight outta mine own brain. I’m really curious if what you have is an actual word-for-word copy, though.