posted 04-14-2001 19:32            

You sort of remind me of Nathan Lane. Although he doesn't have a moustache does he? I think facial hair tends to tickle. Which some may view as a good thing. Me, I'm too ticklish. But you are very definitely a manly man. No doubt about it. Yep.

Tamarind. That stuff reminds me of a Stephen King story about this black "oil slick" in a story called The Raft, if I remember correctly. It oozed across the water, attacked these swimmers and slowly ate them alive. It was made into a movie short in one of his collections but the name escapes me. Something like Tales from the Crypt. Fright Night? I'm getting senile.

Another bad candy I recently came across is from Borneo. A friend of mine brought it back. It smells and tastes like rotten garlic. She gave it to her nephew when he asked for it and it made him cry.

posted 04-14-2001 19:38            

Wasps are pretty nasty. You have to love an insect that can sting you repeatedly and won't die. At least bees use it as a last resort.

You're in good company. Clme screams like a girl and takes off running at the sight of anything that even resembles a bee.

Still, the flying insect that makes me run the fastest is a horsefly. You can hear them coming from a mile away and it's a sure thing if they land on you, you're going to be bitten. Nothing like a big bleeding welt to ruin a lazy float on an inner tube.

-Bex

posted 04-14-2001 19:53            

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Originally posted by Bex:
Another bad candy I recently came across is from Borneo. A friend of mine brought it back. It smells and tastes like rotten garlic. She gave it to her nephew when he asked for it and it made him cry.

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Send me some, and I'll eat it on camera.

posted 04-14-2001 19:55            

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Originally posted by Bex:
You sort of remind me of Nathan Lane.

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And I thought I'd heard 'em all already...

posted 04-14-2001 21:05            

I can see the Dan Akroyd resemblance. You have Cary Elwes eyebrows. The rest are very questionable. Jim Carrey??

The photo of the lightsaber is impressive. It more than makes up for the gay lighter.

I'd send you the candy but my friend is somewhere in the jungles of Borneo again and I have no way to reach her. If she comes out alive, I'll at least ask her what it's called.

posted 04-15-2001 14:05            

...because, really, you don't.

HAW HAW!

posted 04-16-2001 09:49            

Or like a car salesman. Or like Ron Jeremy.

Maybe the Ron Jeremy "look" is what Jimbo is after.

posted 04-16-2001 15:24            

I didn't realize it spawned windows like that until I tried to close the window showing that page. Then I had to click as fast as I could to close them before the windows exponentially reproduced and opened again. And I somehow STILL ended up at some lesbian porn site.

So it wasn't intentional.

I think you should get a medallion like Ron Jeremy's. It would go well with the gay lighter.

posted 04-16-2001 23:28            

Jimbo, my friend has emerged from the jungles of Borneo, so I asked her about that candy. It's called Durian and is made from some noxious Malaysian fruit. Follow the link to see the candy at the bottom. They also make it into a block that looks somewhat like tamarind. Sounds like just your thing.

posted 04-17-2001 15:17            

There's gotta be someplace that carries that freaky candy. Any asian markets in your town? I followed some other links after a Yahoo search. Someone said Durian smells like a gas leak. And the fruits are huge spiky things like medieval weapons. People have supposedly been killed by these things falling off the trees.

Oh and be forewarned, another guy (who loves the fruit), said it tastes good, but you get these smelly burps that bring the smell back up all day after you eat it.