April 3, 2006
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EDIT ADD:
I made it! I called with my answer to the Starbucks
Crossword puzzle and made it within the first 20 minutes (and hopefully the first
750 people). My answer was correct, (I
just know, they didn’t confirm it or anything) and I should be getting a call
tomorrow between 10AM and 3PM CST with further instructions…a tie-breaker
puzzle. (Dum, dum, dum!) I can’t wait. Mucho kudos to my Dad and Uncle Lee who
helped out.
Wow.
Work is so much funner while listening to iTunes all day!
AND I’m getting to listen to a whole album’s worth of music. Seriously, Mike
and used to joke around because I’d never make it past track 2 or 3 of any
given CD. He’d say “Did you hear that song (insert song name here) on that cool
new album?” Nope—I never did, only the first song or two…but now, I hear the
whole thing! So fun…and it ironically keeps me more focused on what I’m doing
at work than not listening. So fun…(Yes, I know that funner is not a word).
So I was in the University Bookstore at APU getting some
stuff for my new classes at Cal State LA, and my eyes spied some candy near the
register (whoever started putting stuff by the registers at supermarkets was a genius). Not only did I desire some
candy already, but here was a new twist on one of my favorites: Sour Mentos! I had never seen these
before! Fantastic!Fast-forward about 30 minutes later (after I chomped the
Skittles I bought as well), and they were the grossest thing I have
tasted in a long time. The only candies that rank higher in the grossness
factor are the Harry Potter Jelly Bellies (that really taste like salt,
boogers, and vomit, among other flavors) and misc. spicy/salty Mexican candy
things—that honestly, can’t be called candy.I’m not sure how to describe them exactly, except that they
tasted old. Really old. And I’m pretty sure they were from another country, and
must have been shipped here on a slowly moving boat, or perhaps a drifting raft
carried them to US shores. I’m not sure. They were pretty much tasteless, and
when I did get a hint of flavor it was bitter—like eating handfuls of
pepper–just plain wrong. They tasted nothing like Green Apple, Watermelon, or
Lemon—or anything else for that matter. Except poop. Maybe they tasted like
poop. Yep. That’s what it was. That’s it ladies and gentlemen! If you want to
experience the taste of poop without actually having to eat it, try new Sour
Mentos!(mentos jingle here)
Comments (13)
I’m sure they were shipped here from another country on a very slow boat if you bought them from the bookstore. Don’t trust the bookstore.
Did you buy CDs? Where’s my SNL?
Fa la, fa la, Nestle Tollhouse
YUCKYYYYYYY! So did you just eat one?! Did you take them back and ask for a refund or at least some other candy?? Thanks for the warning!! 4 Words…NO BOOKSTORE CANDY…EVER!!
Oh yeah, Stromboli at the caf on Thursday. Fajitas on Friday. (“My fajitas!”)
Translation: You’ll see Reinenbach on Thursday, and I will quote a lot of Friends on Friday.
Funner actually is a word. It’s in the dictionary. Ule and I had this ongoing debate over whether or not it is a word. I’m with you–funner is NOT A WORD!! Anybody who uses it doesn’t speak English properly if you ask me, but it is in the dictionary. Our litle debate got so serious I actually consulted some friends/family with advanced degrees in English. I got varied opinions. Our little debated has never really been resolved and it’s somewhat of a private joke between us.
Thanks for the heads up on sour mentos. I probably would not have tried them anyway since I really don’t like sour. Sweet is much better, not sour.
I don’t know what dictionary you’re using…my dictionary doesn’t have Funner in it…
I vote for funner NOT being a word, also. And Daniel, despite the fact that you said they were so gross, it still sounds like you still ate the whole pack. Hmmmmm.
) Word on the Gap sweatshirt – how fitting.
……I did eat the whole pack………..
…I have nothing to say for myself…
Well is admissions still hiring then? You can put in a good word for me!!!
The amount of money people make there is a fortune to me!!! I don’t have a family to support, like you.
Nice work on the crossword.
Oh my gosh, if you win free coffee for life… there are just no words to finish that sentence. I hope you win.
So did you see that APU is doing a bring your kids to work day? You need to bring your kids. There’s so many single and childless (not in a bad, depressing way…) women in that office, you might just find some babysitters… since Christy’s run through the other with putting Noah to bed still didn’t convince me that I can do it.
You’ve got to cut down on all that poop taste testing. I’m sure that kind of stuff can’t be very good for you and reading about it, well let say, it didn’t make me delirously happy. In fact I think I’m feeling rather nauseous : (] !!!
they probably sat in the back of the store in some box that was rained on and then sat in the sun all summer and possibly grew mold that attracted some little teeny mice and probably one big fat rat which then nexted near the moldy box in the back of the stormy sunny storage room until the overstock ran out and some poor sloopy overstudied student worker decided to bring out the moldy box that the mice and rats dance happily on night after night until the student worker tore it apart to stock the shelf so that YOOOU lucky YOOOUUUU could buy it!
dontchahateit when you know you shouldn’t be eating sugar and you buy it anyway and then it turns out to taste sooo poopish?