My pleasure! I had some very similar experiences; glad to spread the joy.

Better not let it talk to Cyclops or it will fly itself into the sun.

Once I was reading a book in a hot tub, only to see a spider crawling towards me immediately above the water line. I instinctively swatted it away, forgetting that I was already using the swatting hand to hold a book.

The book splashed in the water as I moved my hand, but the book in question was American Assassin. In my mind, making it unreadable was an improvement rather than spoilage.

Yes.

In case you’re unaware, bash.org appears to be kaput, but both https://qdb.lol/ and https://bash-org-archive.com/ exist in case you want to relive the old days.

Neither appears to have their own search function, but I was able to search at least qdb.lol using the site: operator in DDG.

https://qdb.lol/quote/244321

I’m surprised that no app I’ve ever used has censored hunter2 as an Easter egg.

edit: Correct typo.

https://youtu.be/FhJh1oJo0uc

I heard this story from a third party, so I can’t prove it’s true, but supposedly the head of IT security at a previous job met his wife when she compromised his home network to get his attention.

Yes, and often the post I made doesn’t show for me, even after refreshing. I have to back out of and re-enter the thread to see my post.

Funny - it’s one of the few shows I was allowed to watch.

I can’t find the exact quote, but you very nearly quoted Lisa Simpson here.

edit: Still can’t find the exact quote, but it’s from S20E17, “The Good, The Sad and The Drugly.”

Is that the room you go to to practice dog sled racing?

Not sure if it’s what the previous commenter meant, but Onn is a brand owned by Walmart.

I, too, like Yahtzee.

A decade to a decade and a half ago, I setup an “as it happens” Google Alert for my first and last name. As a result, every once in a while I get an email about someone with my name who’s doing much better than I am.

According to the now defunct bash.org, they look like little Darth Vaders.

I once saw a horror movie that had scary, weird, subtle things in the foreground. For example, the main one I remember was early in the movie, when it was still keeping the viewer in suspense about whether anything supernatural was happening; in that scene the camera panned across an area and the silhouette of a ghost was right up front, but easy to miss. It’s the only movie I can recall doing that; I was watching the movie with my then-girlfriend and she didn’t even see it until I rewound to show her.

I can’t remember the name of the movie, I’ll have to ask my now-wife, but it was quite good.

edit: Actually managed to remember on my own. It was The Awakening.

That is a wonderful movie, but there’s at least one jump scare that I can recall (when the old lady opens the cabinet near the end) and it’s been at least a decade since I saw it.

Agreed on every other point, though.

Side note: As I write this, my toddler is laying beside me and started breathing deeply, reminding me of the “stop breathing!” scene, which was fantastically done. I should watch that movie again.

I don’t drink coffee, so maybe I’m too tired to count properly, but don’t most people only have five fingers per hand?

I can tell you that buggering is not how you become a parent.

HTML is more traditional than \n?