Comments on: Who Are You?

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:27:56 +0000

No, Jim F., I understood. It’s just that I’m always expressing myself muddledly.

By: AS

AS — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:52:17 +0000

Jim F.:
I will admit that my aspertame habit finds its roots in my high school years, when I would with regularity steal my father’s Diet Dew in order to fuel all-night homework sessions. I believe that he now hides his stash in his car, or various crevices in the garage, in an effort to staunch the flow to my younger sister. But when you really want something, you always find it.

By: AS

AS — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:42:28 +0000

Rosalynde:
I’m not sure if your sister and Kingsley have ever actually met, though they have published together (I don’t think that either of them was aware of the fact).
Kingsley:
I can’t wait for the aspartame-induced revelry. The Diet Coke here, though occasionally, and delectably, served in glass bottles, has a strange metallic aftertaste. I suppose that the necessary use of “metallic” in describing a beverage should turn me off to its consumption, but, alas, I’m hooked.

By: Jim F.

Jim F. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:15:54 +0000

Kingsley, you misunderstand. It isn’t the beverage that is given by aliens, it is the aspertame. If I could get real sugar in mine, I’d be drinking seven or eight a day. As it is, I stick to one corn-syrup sweetened drink a day. I’ve not made the descent to aspertame.

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:01:55 +0000

1 beverage, that is, not alien. My alien intake is still quite high.

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:59:22 +0000

All I will say about JS is, in the midst of my struggle to quit aspertame-laden beverages, he bought me a twelver as a gift.

In all fairness, however, he didn’t know I had shakily climbed onto the wagon.

I’m touched by your disappointment, and am with you 100% re the aliens. I’ve actually managed to slow my intake to 1 per day (that’s down from 8 to 10, no small feat).

By: Jim F.

Jim F. — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:45:36 +0000

Kingsley, since you are not only a feminist, but a roof-sitter and a diet Mountain Dew drinker, your comments don’t really constitute a thread-jack (assuming that there is really such a thing). It is difficult to imagine a thread-jack when the topic is “Who are you?” Preface everything with “I’m the guy who ___” and fill in the blank.

I’m the guy who is extremely disappointed to hear that you and AS are willing to subject your taste buds to aspertame. (Is that the bad influence of JS?) It was bad enough when the soft drink companies adulterated their products with corn syrup instead of sugar, but the move to aspertame was unconscionable. DON’T BE SEDUCED! It’s part of a plot by aliens to ruin our sensory faculties.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:08:28 +0000

Bottom out.

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:08:19 +0000

AS, come home!

I just found out that the Chevron has diversified its fountain drinks to include Diet Mountain Dew and Diet Coke with Lime!!

And let me say, lest I be accused of threadjacking, that I consider myself a feminist.

By: Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:06:22 +0000

I’ve seen your apartment, Kingsley. ON your roof, ON your room, or even IN your room: They’re equally accurate, given the recent repairs that your landlord has done to keep the rain out. In other words, that duct-tape must sag at least partly into your bedroom when your bottom settles upon it, true? Bottom on, bottom in.