1601

“Do not confuse the twilight of the morning with the kinky ass of the pig?”

1602

Don’t try to interpret it! Don’t try to translate it into your fancy elitist east-coast Ivy-league Freud-trauma-led doublespeak! Just read it, and let its wisdom permeate you.

1603

It’s Rimbo, Tankero. I don’t think the possibility of him turning it into fancy elitist, east-coast, Ivy-league anything should be your greatest worry.

1604

That saying is awesome. I’m totally going to use it (probably at inappropriate times) when I take my trip to Guatemala in November.

1605

Be careful though. The variating idiomatic definitions of its components might lead to unintended consequences.

1606

I have no idea what this means but it sounds deep and manly.

1607

The only words that I didn’t know were “crespo” and “marrana”… do those 2 words mean different things in different regions? (I speak Castellano del norte de Espana, and know precious little about Central American slang)

Does that phrase mean “I want to have anal sex with you” in some dialects? Which, come to think of it, would be pretty funny too. In an “I’m about to get beaten to a pulp” kind of way.

1608

Rimbo translated it. The 2 phrases you’re told to not confuse sound almost the same when spoken. It’s a play on words.

1609

Woooooooo! Primus is coming to my town in July for what appears to be a warmup show before they head to Connecticut for the Gathering of the Vibes festival.

And they’re bringing Gogol Bordello and some band I’ve never heard of (Heloise and the Savoir Faire) with them.

1610

Given the disposition of the verbs, you’ll never be propositioning anyone, but you might get them to snatch the pork away from you…

1611

My office still uses 1996 ICQ (Beta) for instant messages.

1612

Finding a disc here at work reminded me of the worst game-related crime I’ve ever seen – someone making their husband get rid of old PC games he never played. Fortunately I overheard this and got to go through the collection before they TOSSED IT OUT.

Alpha Centauri
Age of Wonders 1
Age of Wonders 2
Red Alert 2
Baldur’s Gate 2
Master of Orion 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Luckily I was here to give all these games a good home.

1613

I still remember my original ICQ user number and password.

1614

I hate it when a single eyebrow hair stands straight up.

1615

Rimbo so old school, his ICQ number is 4.

1616

My ICQ number is 41521423. I also remembered the password, so I am now logged into ICQ for the first time since probably '99. Surprised that Pidgin bothers to support it.

1617

Ha! Now THAT would be something.

Actually it was in the 7-digit range. The very, very, very low 7-digit range. Like within 100,000 of being in the 6-digit range.

1618

ICQ and AIM merged.

1619

I had a seven-digit ICQ number. My Ultima-Online-addicted friend had a six-digit one.

1620

Wikipedia tells me ICQ got sold earlier this year.