A couple of others from the early 2000s - A Treasure’s Trove (solved and treasures found) and The Whistle Pig (I don’t think its been found). There used to be a site to discuss these and many other armchair treasure hunts, but it’s been taken offline - maybe something on wayback machine for tweleve.org (intentional…

The only car better than my Tacoma was my 4Runner that I gave to my son when he started driving. Welcome Molly & Wylene. *low chanting from the woods, “One of us. One of us”

Ugh - stop calling him that.

The neck on that guy! That’s a good looking hunter.

Needs more eye-patch

Ahem, I believe that should be written as “Spoke Truth to Power _TM“

“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”

Within one minute of finding out the whistleblower is a woman, himself will pull out the “Nasty” card.

“Your father wanted to name you Spud,” my mom verified, “and that’s about as far as that got.”

Meta can be all right.  The two video games I play discuss the current meta (flavor-of-the-month ship fitting or loadouts).  But to say it in a work setting, ugh.

One of my groups at the office is in charge of the accounting metadata!  Not the data - that’s the job for accountants, but the metadata.

I never thought I’d be able to bring this product up among normal people- Gorilla Snot. “Gorilla-Snot is comprised of long, nanoparticle molecular structures that link and cross-link together to form strong bonds between particulates, soils and aggregates.” 

Too bad he’s the younger son, otherwise “The First Pancake” would be a good insult.

The future is unadorned

Last year I discovered that my sons (one a recent college graduate, one midway through college) didn’t know how to address envelopes.  God, I’m such a failure.

He is as convincing as Progressive Flo’s sister - “cycling is my passion”

I was thinking BF (“He has also apologized to the LGBTQ+ community”)

I lived next door in E.C. but worked across from the Columbia mall when the Grateful Dead came by in 2003. The handwringing and pearl clutching in the days before the concert was hilarious.

well, my first thought was “that’s rude” when I read “that’s because manufactures make very little effort to represent the bulk of human women “ 

“That is excellent point, sir. I’ll take it under advisement” - said no ump ever.