# What did you sacrifice today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862 "2005-09-22T11:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/21 "2005-09-22T18:45:36Z")
I sacrificed a whole Chinese buffet and some nice orange cake for someone’s birthday. I sacraficed the early bus to drink my coffee at home this morning. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/22 "2005-09-22T21:03:55Z")
I sacrificed a nectarine and some crushed saltines for breakfast, some popcorn for lunch, and I offered up some albuterol to the pollen gods. Oh, and some beer, elixir of holiness. Later on, I’ll make a burnt offering of part of a steer. Praise Og! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/23 "2005-09-22T21:29:36Z")
I’ve been trying to find a virgin to sacrifice. Well. A virgin’s virginity to sacrifice anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/24 "2005-09-22T23:36:44Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > In approximately 4 hours, I will sacrifice a pint of Guinness. > > Maybe two. It wound up being three (on an empty stomach … woo hoo!). I think I’ve done my part. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/25 "2005-09-22T23:41:19Z")
I sacrificed a little bit of my professional pride. I have an intern who was completely, totally right about a very arguable point today…one which hinged on a large number of very subtle variables involving interpreting the landscape and ecology of a particular area. I guessed one way, he guessed another. We argued about it for over an hour, and eventually, I had to suck it up and admit that he was correct. Man, that stung. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/26 "2005-09-23T00:23:05Z")
My sanity, in music class. (We’re now starting in on basic modern notation. I’ve been reading music since I was four. Aargh.) Also, sleep, because some unspeakably horrid person caused my telephone to ring at 5:30 AM. ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/27 "2005-09-23T06:15:06Z")
Part of my mind and a goodly portion of my temper. No, wait, I LOST those, they weren’t really sacrificied. My bad. I sacrificied grain (popcorn) and salt, and chocolate. I think that will appease the gods for now. No goats. Now, a sheep I could probably swing. Maybe for solstice . . . ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/28 "2005-09-23T07:48:20Z")
A peach martini, cream of zucchini soup and a Boca burger. An Otter Pop. Also, my girlfriend and I uh…celebrated. The goddess is pleased. Very, very pleased 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/29 "2005-09-23T08:07:07Z")
I sacrificed a hooker. Best five bucks I’ve ever spent. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/30 "2005-09-23T08:12:11Z")
The skin off the balls of my feet. I wore (or “broke-in”) some new high heels. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/31 "2005-09-23T08:45:28Z")
I’m going to sacrifice a few million brain cells to appease the beer gods. I do this every day just to keep them happy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/32 "2005-09-23T08:48:39Z")
I sacrificed hundreds of millions of little swimmy things who were very close to me in order to appease nature’s bountiful bosom. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862/33 "2005-09-23T14:28:17Z")
> [@Fern Forest](#): > > I sacrificed hundreds of millions of little swimmy things who were very close to me in order to appease nature’s bountiful bosom. Sea Monkeys? I guess I sacrificed to the dumpling gods. I had a whole dumpling thing going on yesterday, chicken and dumpling soup for lunch and potstickers for dinner (which was probably a mistake since I still can’t chew very well but I figured they qualified as soft food) and then I sacrificed some rice in the form of pudding. Then I was visited by the god of heartburn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-sacrifice-today/322862.md?page=1)