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		<title>By: Wendy</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19576/comment-page-2#comment-104030</link>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Julia, I completely agree.  Anyone who quotes Nick Hornby (or John Cusack for that matter) is pretty great.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Julia, I completely agree.  Anyone who quotes Nick Hornby (or John Cusack for that matter) is pretty great.</p>
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		<title>By: theums</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19576/comment-page-2#comment-104005</link>
		<dc:creator>theums</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1) ColecoVision Donkey Kong...used to be able to get to the kill screen with ONE man. Screen would go black..game over...the best thing was when Mom would yell to &quot;share&quot; the Colecovision with my brother...OK...2 Player Donkey Kong it is.

2)The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas (in one sitting...not a terribly long book though)

3)It&#039;s Sunday...so Roast Beef Sandwiches and Potato Salad

4)Accidently NARC&#039;d out the local record store when another &quot;music fan&quot; asked for a good place to get &quot;imports&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1) ColecoVision Donkey Kong&#8230;used to be able to get to the kill screen with ONE man. Screen would go black..game over&#8230;the best thing was when Mom would yell to &#8220;share&#8221; the Colecovision with my brother&#8230;OK&#8230;2 Player Donkey Kong it is.</p>
<p>2)The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas (in one sitting&#8230;not a terribly long book though)</p>
<p>3)It&#8217;s Sunday&#8230;so Roast Beef Sandwiches and Potato Salad</p>
<p>4)Accidently NARC&#8217;d out the local record store when another &#8220;music fan&#8221; asked for a good place to get &#8220;imports&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Kieran</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kieran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1.  My best friend and I love Mario Bros. 3 on Super Mario All Stars.  We have trained for years to be able to beat all of the levels, all the way through.  I recently did it all by myself, something I&#039;ve never been able to do.  It might have been the proudest moment of my life.  Is that sad?

2. Empire of Blue Water, by Stephen Talty.  It&#039;s a spectacular biography of Capt. Henry Morgan.  Great for all you fellow pirates out there.  Aargh.

3. Today, anything I want!  On weekdays, it&#039;s chicken strips.  Every day.  Oh, college food, how I won&#039;t miss thee.

4.  I am in a leadership organization, and last year there were some serious tensions going on between a few of the girls involved.  It was all under the surface, but it had been simmering for some time.  After the head of the organization sent out an e-mail saying that she would like to speak with some of the girls.  One of them accidentally replied all when she was venting to her friend about the situation...and the head of the organization.  Needless to say, the next meeting was not all that fun.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.  My best friend and I love Mario Bros. 3 on Super Mario All Stars.  We have trained for years to be able to beat all of the levels, all the way through.  I recently did it all by myself, something I&#8217;ve never been able to do.  It might have been the proudest moment of my life.  Is that sad?</p>
<p>2. Empire of Blue Water, by Stephen Talty.  It&#8217;s a spectacular biography of Capt. Henry Morgan.  Great for all you fellow pirates out there.  Aargh.</p>
<p>3. Today, anything I want!  On weekdays, it&#8217;s chicken strips.  Every day.  Oh, college food, how I won&#8217;t miss thee.</p>
<p>4.  I am in a leadership organization, and last year there were some serious tensions going on between a few of the girls involved.  It was all under the surface, but it had been simmering for some time.  After the head of the organization sent out an e-mail saying that she would like to speak with some of the girls.  One of them accidentally replied all when she was venting to her friend about the situation&#8230;and the head of the organization.  Needless to say, the next meeting was not all that fun.</p>
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		<title>By: Julia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wendy, Yes that is a High Fidelity quote and it makes me love D-Town just a little for putting it up there.

1. My sister and I once beat the Simpsons arcade game in an afternoon. I don&#039;t think it took too many quarters either.

3. I had beef and barley soup, cornbread and an apple.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wendy, Yes that is a High Fidelity quote and it makes me love D-Town just a little for putting it up there.</p>
<p>1. My sister and I once beat the Simpsons arcade game in an afternoon. I don&#8217;t think it took too many quarters either.</p>
<p>3. I had beef and barley soup, cornbread and an apple.</p>
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		<title>By: bizet</title>
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		<dc:creator>bizet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>4. I sent an email to all my friends and my new boyfriend with a link to some article or another.  My most prim-and-proper( to the outside world) friend accidentally reply-all&#039;d to tell me that she had diarrhea so bad that she thought her &quot;ass was going to explode.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>4. I sent an email to all my friends and my new boyfriend with a link to some article or another.  My most prim-and-proper( to the outside world) friend accidentally reply-all&#8217;d to tell me that she had diarrhea so bad that she thought her &#8220;ass was going to explode.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Ken</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Loki;: The life of Charles Proteus Steinmetz: Jonathan Norton Leonard

General Electric&#039;s resident geuius in the teens-20&#039;s.  Available from Amazon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Loki;: The life of Charles Proteus Steinmetz: Jonathan Norton Leonard</p>
<p>General Electric&#8217;s resident geuius in the teens-20&#8242;s.  Available from Amazon.</p>
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		<title>By: bre</title>
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		<dc:creator>bre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1.  I&#039;ve never been a good gamer...so my accomplishments are being able to get through a game at all.  I&#039;m not bad at Guitar Hero.

2. Jim Morrison...&quot;No One Here Gets Out Alive.&quot;

3. Friday&#039;s lunch was a pretzel from the place at the mall.  I took the day off to go shopping with my daughter.

4.  This is the worst ever.  My sister forwarded an e-mail to me from our other sister.  Who is a religious fanatic.  God talks directly to her, apparently.  She and her husband are missionaries in the Caribbean islands.  Anyway, my sister forwarded this e-mail where the crazy sister is talking about some church leader of theirs who died, and they&#039;re &quot;all going to go to Guyana to pray and bring him back from the dead.  Wouldn&#039;t it be wonderful if the Lord showed us his love by bringing Filbert back?&quot;

So, I reply to my non-crazy sister, &quot;Yeah, and wouldn&#039;t it be nice if the tooth fairy left us $100 bills instead of quarters?&quot;

Except when I replied, it replied to the attachment, and it went to my crazy Filbert-raising sister instead.

I never got a response from her, but I can feel her icy daggers penetrating me at family gatherings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.  I&#8217;ve never been a good gamer&#8230;so my accomplishments are being able to get through a game at all.  I&#8217;m not bad at Guitar Hero.</p>
<p>2. Jim Morrison&#8230;&#8221;No One Here Gets Out Alive.&#8221;</p>
<p>3. Friday&#8217;s lunch was a pretzel from the place at the mall.  I took the day off to go shopping with my daughter.</p>
<p>4.  This is the worst ever.  My sister forwarded an e-mail to me from our other sister.  Who is a religious fanatic.  God talks directly to her, apparently.  She and her husband are missionaries in the Caribbean islands.  Anyway, my sister forwarded this e-mail where the crazy sister is talking about some church leader of theirs who died, and they&#8217;re &#8220;all going to go to Guyana to pray and bring him back from the dead.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if the Lord showed us his love by bringing Filbert back?&#8221;</p>
<p>So, I reply to my non-crazy sister, &#8220;Yeah, and wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if the tooth fairy left us $100 bills instead of quarters?&#8221;</p>
<p>Except when I replied, it replied to the attachment, and it went to my crazy Filbert-raising sister instead.</p>
<p>I never got a response from her, but I can feel her icy daggers penetrating me at family gatherings.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Defeat of Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson Punch Out. First round knockout no less.
I knew it was possible, I was told that it couldn&#039;t be done also. It&#039;s only the people that couldn&#039;t beat him that said that.

youtube.com/watch?v=QYR_acwm0VQ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Defeat of Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson Punch Out. First round knockout no less.<br />
I knew it was possible, I was told that it couldn&#8217;t be done also. It&#8217;s only the people that couldn&#8217;t beat him that said that.</p>
<p>youtube.com/watch?v=QYR_acwm0VQ</p>
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		<title>By: Joanna</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t really play video games but I used to kick serious butt in Tetris.

I prefer fiction thanks. I had to read a bio of U.S. Grant in high school that I actually kind of liked but I forget the name.

Honey Mustard Pear-Vodka pork with rice (necessity is the mother of invention. It&#039;s pretty good actually)

Heh heh...I was on the receiving end of several &quot;reply to all&quot; emails at college. I went to a _very_ conservative Christian Liberal Arts College in the south east (props if you can guess where). No language of any kind was tolerated (there is a famous example of the dean of men giving a lecture on why wuss is a &quot;bad word&quot;). Nor was badmouthing the school or anything about it. Yes some of the rules sucked but over all the school&#039;s ok. Anyway, whenever a campus-wide email was sent out it was sent to N_athan U_ll (null). One email was informing the campus of a skating night close to finals. A student hit the &quot;reply to all&quot; button saying something along the lines of &quot;Yeh, right before finals. What d*ck head planed that?&quot; no asterisk. Another time at the same college, a work related  email was sent to all the girls where I worked. Somehow it got sent to a guy as well. The email was innocuous (girls only outing or something like that) but the guy replied to all intentionally this time and included some very nasty things to say about girls in general as well as the suggestion that we check between his legs and realize that he is not a girl and that he&#039;d not want to go to a stupid &quot;c*nt party&quot; anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t really play video games but I used to kick serious butt in Tetris.</p>
<p>I prefer fiction thanks. I had to read a bio of U.S. Grant in high school that I actually kind of liked but I forget the name.</p>
<p>Honey Mustard Pear-Vodka pork with rice (necessity is the mother of invention. It&#8217;s pretty good actually)</p>
<p>Heh heh&#8230;I was on the receiving end of several &#8220;reply to all&#8221; emails at college. I went to a _very_ conservative Christian Liberal Arts College in the south east (props if you can guess where). No language of any kind was tolerated (there is a famous example of the dean of men giving a lecture on why wuss is a &#8220;bad word&#8221;). Nor was badmouthing the school or anything about it. Yes some of the rules sucked but over all the school&#8217;s ok. Anyway, whenever a campus-wide email was sent out it was sent to N_athan U_ll (null). One email was informing the campus of a skating night close to finals. A student hit the &#8220;reply to all&#8221; button saying something along the lines of &#8220;Yeh, right before finals. What d*ck head planed that?&#8221; no asterisk. Another time at the same college, a work related  email was sent to all the girls where I worked. Somehow it got sent to a guy as well. The email was innocuous (girls only outing or something like that) but the guy replied to all intentionally this time and included some very nasty things to say about girls in general as well as the suggestion that we check between his legs and realize that he is not a girl and that he&#8217;d not want to go to a stupid &#8220;c*nt party&#8221; anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Lorelei</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lorelei</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1.  We had an Atari when it first came out (yes, I&#039;m that old).  No one in the house could get past level 3 on Frogger and I (the youngest at the time) beat the game.  I was 12, but games and arcades were new then.

2.  I&#039;m partial to Poe, but I started reading him in the 3rd grade.  Hmm, I wonder if that explains why I&#039;m so warped?  

3.  Skipped it today.  I&#039;m home alone during the week and I don&#039;t see the point of cooking for just me.

4.  Wasn&#039;t e-mail, it was cell.  My nephew (28) was goofing around and put on one of his sister&#039;s bras.  We snapped pics with our cells and I accidentally sent it to everyone.  He about died of embarrassment when all the texts came in!  If you want, I&#039;ll send you a copy   lmfao</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.  We had an Atari when it first came out (yes, I&#8217;m that old).  No one in the house could get past level 3 on Frogger and I (the youngest at the time) beat the game.  I was 12, but games and arcades were new then.</p>
<p>2.  I&#8217;m partial to Poe, but I started reading him in the 3rd grade.  Hmm, I wonder if that explains why I&#8217;m so warped?  </p>
<p>3.  Skipped it today.  I&#8217;m home alone during the week and I don&#8217;t see the point of cooking for just me.</p>
<p>4.  Wasn&#8217;t e-mail, it was cell.  My nephew (28) was goofing around and put on one of his sister&#8217;s bras.  We snapped pics with our cells and I accidentally sent it to everyone.  He about died of embarrassment when all the texts came in!  If you want, I&#8217;ll send you a copy   lmfao</p>
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