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    Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 7:11am
Oh you know, nothing too scandalous...



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Originally posted by Taighobyrne Taighobyrne wrote:

I Googled if cocaine is vegan. Turns out there's a whiff of debate.

I think it's pretty cut and dried. I can sniff out your evasiveness. 
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Originally posted by Jennk Jennk wrote:

Nothing too crazy this time, but my google search probably thinks I'm having an affair. I drew RomCom and wrote a torn between two partners story.

Although I didn't have Historical Fiction, I wanted to ground my story with actual events and stay true to the time period, spring 2001, I'd chosen. I googled:

- Music listening devices in early 2001 (fun fact: the first iPod came out later that year, so the answer was a CD Walkman. Anyone remember those?)
- Drive times and routes from Houston to Chicago
- Storms or hurricances off the Texas coast (what season)
- People magazine covers in May/June 2001
- If the Houston Astros sucked in the 1990s 

I found my old CD walkman this past summer and I used it as a prop in a play I was in. And I really used it and the accompanying CD case. Most performances I was jamming to Prince, Metallica, or P!nk. LOL
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Originally posted by jennifer.quail jennifer.quail wrote:

Originally posted by Random Random wrote:

Originally posted by taaaylor taaaylor wrote:


My childhood is historical fiction oh no 😂😭 The pain of 28. I was watching a youtube video recently of people only like 5 years younger than me being very confused by an idiom because they forgot that people used to pay with physical cash and I dissolved into grave dust


Did you really just say 'the pain of 28'?  Really?  REALLY?

Stand by for actual pain.

Seriously. As soon as my back stops hurting I'm coming over there.

I turned 28 in 1986. Do I win? What do I get?
(Don't say "Depends.")
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Originally posted by jennifer.quail jennifer.quail wrote:

Seriously. As soon as my back stops hurting I'm coming over there.

I remember 28.  Of course, the Charleston was all the craze in those days.  Sometimes we would go on a toot down at the juice joint, and Edna would really cut a rug!  She was the cat's pajamas - really knew her onions, you know?
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Originally posted by Random Random wrote:

Originally posted by taaaylor taaaylor wrote:


My childhood is historical fiction oh no 😂😭 The pain of 28. I was watching a youtube video recently of people only like 5 years younger than me being very confused by an idiom because they forgot that people used to pay with physical cash and I dissolved into grave dust


Did you really just say 'the pain of 28'?  Really?  REALLY?

Stand by for actual pain.

Seriously. As soon as my back stops hurting I'm coming over there.
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Can't believe I just clicked on this entertaining thread with taaaylor's "the pain of 28" -- my friend, you are never going to live that one down, and how to flush a person down the toilet OMG!

My search was boring in comparison, hacking techniques, which yielded SQL injection which I did not end up using. 
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Originally posted by ZoeLou ZoeLou wrote:

My searches this round have been fairly mundane, but I'm still waiting for a knock on my door after 100 word micro:

"How to get rid of body"
"Can you flush cat down toilet"
"Can you flush person down toilet"

... "How to unclog toilet"

(Honestly though, there's no way NYCM can assign me horror + flushing something down a toilet and NOT expect my mind to go to some weird places.) Ermm

They actually begged for that one.

Most interesting thing I googled was probably "how to make tea with a samovar." Now ask me if anyone actually makes tea with a samovar in my final story. 

....So can you flush a person down the toilet? Asking for a friend.
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Originally posted by Jennk Jennk wrote:

But yes, the generational tech divide is significant. My kids are 18 & 20. They had several years before smart phones and social media altered their universe, but they talk about the kids born just a couple of years later. Anyway, I digress...

My favourite real life example of the tech divide:

More years ago than I care to remember, I took my preschoolers to see the local church Christmas display, which had scenes from the Christmas story. Realised on the way that they had no clue what the Christmas story is (we're pretty secular) so thought I should fill them in. 
I got as far as Joseph and Mary getting to Bethlehem to find there was no room at the inn before the questions started:

'Why didn't they book on the internet?'

'There wasn't any internet back then. In fact, there weren't even any computers.'

<pause>

'They could have phoned.'

'They didn't have phones either.'

<longer pause>

'So how did people talk to each other?'

'How are you talking to me now?'

<extended pause>

'...oh!'

Bless 'em. Nowadays they ask much harder questions and I don't have all the answers.Confused
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Originally posted by leolegras leolegras wrote:

Originally posted by iBenj iBenj wrote:

Originally posted by leolegras leolegras wrote:

How to say "I need to take a sh**" in Old English. LOL

...and?? How does one say "I need to take a sh**" in Old English?

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