It's really only people that make this planet less miraculous.

This is the one game I don't mind just watching other people play.

Saving money is actually better than getting a higher salary. You’re taxed on how much you make, but not how much you save.

I think that people like to sometimes think there is a bit of “cosmic significance” to their love. Like if the universe brought them together in some benevolent way, it means they are soul mates, or destined or what have you. It's the same reason some people read horoscopes.

Oh, just realized I was talking about System Shock 2. Never played the first one, so my earlier anecdote is void for the purposes of this discussion.

Didn’t get to play this until 2000, but it was definitely the scariest game I ever played up to that point.

I set up an archive in my profile if you like the florid friday stuff and dont feel like digging for them.

I’m sorry to hear that it didn’t work out :(

My wife has a job at City Hall that is both stable, close to home, and pays great. She loathes it, and is looking for a way out to find something that she doesn’t hate so much.

Track down an essay by Harlan Ellison called: “How You Stupidly Blew Fifteen Million Dollars A Week, Avoided Having An Adeniod-Shaped Swimming Pool In Your Backyard, Missed The Opportunity To Have A Mutually Destructive Love Affair With Clint Eastwood And/O Raquel Welch, And Otherwise Pissed Me Off”. Yes, that is the…

Did you guys ever find a way to make it work?

The fifth noble truth: “1 cream, 2 sugars.”

I love the Dunkin’ Donuts cup sitting by the shrine. Is it an oblation to Buddha? Or is it a case of: “Dad always loved DD coffee. Let me show my love today. I miss him.”

I had the version of this game they put out on the SNES. Never could beat it, but I loved the challenge.

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It’s from a condition called Phimosis. It’s where your foreskin is connected to the penis by a thin strand of flesh that prevents retraction. It can snap during intercourse, and since erect penises are full of blood, it can be messy.

Oh, if you like that, click my profile and take a stroll through my archived “Florid Friday” posts. They’ll have you laughing way harder than what I said above.

From the way you wrote this, I can only assume you must have been banging James Joyce.. :)

Broken helmet-strap is also an acceptable term.

I think it would be great if you could bloody Yelp’s nose a bit. I’ll root for anyone who can act as the avenging sword for these small businesses being extorted.