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First thing that popped to my mind: Princess Leia from Episode IV.

You aren't really a fan of them if you don't call them by their proper name, "Cracker Jack" -- no S.

For me, it's all about the hot dogs. Ballparks are the only place I love a good dawg. The high volume they go through practically guarantees freshness, and the whole ballgame experience adds so much to it. Add a beer and I'm all set.

Fudgy but cakey texture. And no nuts. Ever.

We've had a few over the years.

One memorable event was a Thanksgiving in the mid-1980s sometime, I forget exactly when. The turkey had been in the oven for about an hour when the heating element blew out spectacularly. We couldn't get a replacement that day, of course, so we ended up running our turkey across the street to our friends' house -- then we had to run across the street again every little while to check its progress, do the basting, etc. What a crazy day.

A few years later my mom was hosting a gathering at our house. She was making coffee in a large urn percolator. She'd just filled the percolator with water, placed the perc basket with coffee grounds into the perc body, and lifted the whole thing to move it from the sink to the stove area when the handles gave way. Water and coffee grounds splashed EVERYwhere, and she shouted to me to run upstairs for some towels. I sprinted up the stairs two at a time but missed the last stair and sprained my ankle hideously, spent the next several weeks limping around in pain.

Coffee never did get made!

I miss Koko Crunch. Best cereal ever.

What's Koko Crunch? It's what the ears are made of....

I share a great deal on my myspace page - and I sometimes pay the price for it. However, lunatics aside, I refuse to change the way I live my life because if I do, they win. And that's unacceptable.

I don't have a blog per se...but on this & other forums I have always used my first name - which ironically people thought was not my real name (which is Mary). Now I just use the beginning of my full name....m for mary, e for elizabeth, and the first few letters of my last name. I guess I never worried about anyone gaining too much info, because the info is out there anyway...somewhere in the cyber world. I've never felt that anything I've written (or will write if I ever have a real blog) is something I wouldn't share with anyone. I am who I am...take it or leave it!
As far as strangers recognizing you out in the 'real' world...well...that's happened to me offline...I've had people come up to me & introduce themselves because they were a friend of a friend...etc....so it can happen online or off.
Just be true to yourself.

When I first moved to SF, I had a guy come up to me and say "Oh hey, you're Kitchenbeard!"

"ummm. yeah, have we met?"

"Oh no... you're just ojne a friend of a friend's buddylist."

It creeped me out sufficiently that I immediately went back and got rid of a lot private stuff on my blog and began seriously filtering what I talked about. That being said, I put my face on it all the time and assume I'll eventually get recognized again.