Snikky Bombos

Wednesday, Aug. 04, 2004 - 9:38 a.m.

I went into Pagan Chat for the first time in ages late last night; and somebody requested a chance to IM me. Because of my issue with the Problem Person and his gaggle of blindly loyal minions, my settings are on 'allow only' and maybe there are around a dozen people at any given time who can IM me.

I switched them on, and who to my wondering eyes should appear but Joe Helmsorig.

When I first logged on to AOL back at the beginning of 1996, I spent time over in a chat area known as the Grassy Knoll. I'd heard about the existence of this area from late night talk show host Art Bell. I'd been listening to Art Bell for a couple of years, and I frequently sent him faxes, most of which he actually read on the air.

So I logged on and went over to that area -- and when one of those people saw my AOL screen name, -- Brin In SF -- he asked 'Are you the Brin-Marie in San Francisco who sends faxes to Art Bell?'... and that was Joe.

At the time I began talking with Joe, he had been stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. And, like me, he was Pagan. When he was out in the field for maneuvers and away from his computer, he and I would write, as in snailmail, the old fashioned way.

One night in Pagan Chat, we were talking about likes and dislikes. In his haste, Joe wrote something that was obviously meant to be 'skinny bimbos', but instead what came out was 'i prefer a woman with curves. i never did like snikky bombos.'

For some reason, 'Snikky Bombos' strikes me as one of the two funniest typos I have ever seen; my other favorite was done over a decade ago on one of the science fiction newsgroups on FidoNet, where the person making the post was chiding other people for misspelling Anne McCaffrey's last name, but then went on to declare that his favorite work of hers was 'Dragonsdong'.

Anyway, it was nice to see Joe again.

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Kitscuf began her volunteer work at the cat shelter yesterday.

She's determined to find homes for all of the four-footed feline residents there.

Go, girl!

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My goal this week is to finally deal with that weird pile of magazines that are lurking beneath my music workstation.

Wish me luck! :-)

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