I spent too much of my preteen and adolescent years on forums. Mostly AOL Message boards, at least to start with. For those of you who weren’t there at the time… well, you didn’t miss much. Twitter and Tumblr are basically the same thing, just faster, and there are tons of forums still around. The way people talk hasn’t changed that much.
I wasn't allowed in chat room circa '96, so of course I was in ALL of them. I really, truly do wonder what became of some interesting folks I ran across, and sometimes I search their AOL screen names just to see if perhaps they continued using them into the social media era.
Anyway, one particular girl's signature was: "My prayers to god and my prayers to Joe Pesci are answered at the same fifty-percent rate."
I was SCANDALIZED, and had many hostile preteen/early teen theological arguments with her *until* I got a private message asking to meet up. (She claimed to be the iconic "14/f/Cali," which should really be a song title.) I declined immediately, which--in hindsight--probably broke some 47-year old father of three's heart.
Oh, wow, I am a sucker for these types of posts.
I wasn't allowed in chat room circa '96, so of course I was in ALL of them. I really, truly do wonder what became of some interesting folks I ran across, and sometimes I search their AOL screen names just to see if perhaps they continued using them into the social media era.
Anyway, one particular girl's signature was: "My prayers to god and my prayers to Joe Pesci are answered at the same fifty-percent rate."
I was SCANDALIZED, and had many hostile preteen/early teen theological arguments with her *until* I got a private message asking to meet up. (She claimed to be the iconic "14/f/Cali," which should really be a song title.) I declined immediately, which--in hindsight--probably broke some 47-year old father of three's heart.