What I was like in real life in 1999

May 12, 2005

According to two different people from a newsgroup where I was then a regular.  You might ask, why would I post this?  To whom could this possibly be of interest?  Why now, anyway?  Those are good questions.

Comments

on 2005-05-12 8:14:49.0, tammy commented:

Wow, that scorch woman really nailed it, as they say. Now we just have to get you drinking triple cappuccinos.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 8:52:41.0, ac commented:

It's of interest to me. Though the question is how similar you are now to the Ben Wolfson of 1999. Or even the Ben Wolfson of yesterday.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 8:57:39.0, ben wolfson commented:

At that time I didn't have a trenchcoat or boot-like shoes, but I was coveting a glass pen (those things are expensive!). She was right in general, not so much in particular (except in the particulars wherein she was right).

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 9:27:05.0, Joe Drymala commented:

You sound alarmingly like a good friend of mine from high school, whose name is also Ben. He's now making fancy waves at a fancy law school, and will probably be able to do whatever he wants, including run for public office, though he swears that's a route he has no interest in.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 9:28:07.0, bitchphd commented:

Ok, that second description scares me. And I so do not picture you as the neighborhood pub's Falstaff figure.

I'm gonna stick with my own impressions and ignore what other people say. As usual.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 0:25:51.0, dave zacuto commented:

The second one's not far off, except of course for the inexplicable coffee shop bit.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 0:27:18.0, ben wolfson commented:

Your having had a quintuple espresso that one time makes up for my not drinking coffee.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 14:45:29.0, Matt Weiner commented:

I thought the second one was from someone who knew Wolfson IRL.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 16:16:18.0, dave zacuto commented:

Yeah, that was great.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 19:42:04.0, apostropher commented:

Somehow, I don't think you're a Pisces, Ben.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 20:39:41.0, ben wolfson commented:

That's odd, since I am. Not that I put any weight in such blatant flimflammery.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 20:42:30.0, apostropher commented:

That's odd, since I am.

Hmm.

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 20:49:10.0, apostropher commented:

When was your online persona born?

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and, further, on 2005-05-12 21:33:25.0, dave zacuto commented:

Pisceans are notorious for disbelief in astrology.

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