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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2006, 11:48:07 PM »
Unlike EUOL, I can take three kids (2 of them toddlers) on a trip to the grocery store and survive...and even have it be successful.

One of my super powers is the ability to organize. This helps a great deal when one is a mom. But it also means I am in a constant state of dismay at the clutter my children create.

My super weakness is brownies. Set a pan of brownies in front of me and I will do anything you say. Especially if they're gooey. Also sappy movies. Put them together and I become completely useless.
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2006, 09:52:38 AM »
I can change red traffic lights green, just by staring at them.
I can eat my weight in ding-dongs
I can do an oil painting with my butt.

also, my superweakness involves root beer, goldfish crackers, and beef jerky

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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2006, 05:40:24 PM »
I'm not even going to ask about that last one. :-X
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2006, 10:00:07 PM »
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goldfish crackers


Which flavor? I prefer Original or Parmesean, but have recently discovered Pizza.
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2006, 10:29:23 PM »
Pizza are great, but they're hard to find.  I like parmesean myself.  

Mmmm...I haven't bought goldfish crackers in so LONG...
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« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2006, 11:25:05 PM »
Pizza, obviously...
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2006, 09:27:51 AM »
There are no *bad* flavors of goldfish crackers

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« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2006, 11:27:17 AM »
I personally do not like original. They're only good as soup crackers. And I don't eat soup very often.

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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2006, 03:55:56 PM »
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There are no *bad* flavors of goldfish crackers



I agree.  Pretzel fish are especially tasty as well.  
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2006, 11:57:00 PM »
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I personally do not like original. They're only good as soup crackers.

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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2006, 12:53:37 PM »
Sorry to bring the thread back on topic, but I haven't been able to read the article until now.

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I have often said that my super-weakness is my ability to find things in grocery stores. It's ridiculous. I can spend hours wandering up and down aisles, looking for such elusive items as ketchup, or peanut butter. Is it near the tomatoes or the French fries? The bread or the canned goods? The answer, generally, is neither.

I once lost a friend in the grocery store and had to call her cell phone in order to locate her. Such is the extent of my super-weakness.

Heh. I'm that friend. Ah, MsFish, I miss our doomed grocery store adventures. It was like her superpower would rub off on me whenever we went together. We've even lost ourselves within a couple of aisles of each other, where we are circling around and always out of eyesight of the other, and you don't feel like yelling out as if one of you was a two-year-old. This seems to have happened more than once.

Granted, it has always been in Wal-Mart. Which is a very large grocery store and seems to affect the brain.

I blame the conglomerate franchise.
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #26 on: January 13, 2006, 12:49:47 PM »
Ah, the dangers of having a columnist for a friend!!  I admit, I'm the one who calls too much. ;)

Good column, Fish!

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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2006, 07:25:56 PM »
Oh jeez.  I knew that comment was going to give everyone a complex.  You're the third person to decide they must be that person, even though I SAID it's not anyone who'll read the column.  The person it is doesn't even know what TWG is.  
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2006, 09:16:46 PM »
yeah yeah, I know its me... :)
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Re: column: Geek Girl #5
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2006, 08:59:24 AM »
no! no! it's me!