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30 December 2010

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I really, really like the smell of red onions and when I lived alone would bite into a small one, raw, to wake me up in the morning. Better then coffee.

post by: The Whelk at: 12:22 | 23 comments

That's your secret shame. I thought you were going to share mine with the internet, making it no longer secret. Whew.

posted by rainbaby 30 December | 12:58

You're not very good at keeping secrets, are you?

posted by jouke 30 December | 14:09

I love MTV's My Sweet 16. And I just ate a small bit of pig skin/fat. It was good.

posted by youngergirl44 30 December | 14:25

If they're good, I will eat all the French fries. I will eat the French fries until they're gone. I will eat all the French fries even if the kitchen served me twice as many as usual. If you don't help me eat all the French fries, I will eat them even if I'm full, even if all that's left is hard little scrids and scrads of overcooked fries. I WILL EAT ALL THE FRENCH FRIES.

posted by Elsa 30 December | 15:31

In 1988 I borrowed $200 from a friend and then he moved and I never found his forwarding address and then I moved a thousand miles away and one thing led to another and I still owe the guy $200 and it EATS AT ME and I can't find him online and all of our mutual friends are dead (seriously) and it makes me feel like a deadbeat.

posted by BitterOldPunk 30 December | 16:39

Is today the day to reveal my secret shame?
No, today is not that day.
When that day comes, I will let you know.

posted by DarkForest 30 December | 16:51

We not only own, but occasionally re-watch, freely and intentionally, Down Periscope.

posted by galadriel 30 December | 17:12

Starting every year in September, I eat candy corn nonstop for three months. I eat pretzels with the candy corn, because they cut the sweetness and that allows me to eat more candy corn.

This is shameful, but it is unfortunately not a secret. People at work buy me candy corn in the fall. They are enablers, and as nurses they should really know better.

posted by jeoc 30 December | 18:21

Real Housewives. Atlanta, New York (my favourite), Orange County, New Jersey. I know it's all hokey and staged but I can't get enough of it.

posted by Senyar 30 December | 18:50

When the last episode of Buffy aired I was on travel for work. I ordered a steak from room service and ate it sitting in bed, alone in the dark, while watching and sobbing.

(I wasn't even a huge fan...I stopped watching around the "Riley season" and came back for the last one.)

posted by JoanArkham 30 December | 19:12

When the last episode of Buffy aired I was on travel for work. I ordered a steak from room service and ate it sitting in bed, alone in the dark, while watching and sobbing.

I took over the common *big* TV in the dorm commons and brought snacks for the 5 other Buffy fans all crying into hankies and shit.

posted by The Whelk 30 December | 19:43

For Whelk: "The old man said that biting into a raw onion was like a sexual experience." -Jean Shepherd.

For Galadriel: according to friend of mine who was in the US Navy on a sub, Down Periscope is one of the most accurate submarine movies ever made.

posted by plinth 30 December | 20:56

Cotton candy. Whenever I possibly can. As much as available.

posted by Kangaroo 30 December | 21:56

I have sooooo many secret shames.

Not only do I read Harlequin romances (thank you, Kindle app...), I may in fact be attempting to write one.

What would my poststructuralist literary theory professors think of that one?

posted by Madamina 30 December | 23:46

I'm 31 years old and still refuse to eat eggs like a goddamn grown-up. I pretty much only like them in omelette or breakfast taco form.

posted by ufez 30 December | 23:53

BitterOldPunk, you can send that $200 to me, and I'll do a little incantation absolving you of all your deadbeat feelings.

My secret shame is that I am the kind of person who would tell a stranger to send me $200.

posted by amyms 31 December | 01:00

BOP, I owe someone £200 from 25 years ago and have no idea how to trace them.

posted by Senyar 31 December | 08:26

the New York Prees still owes me like 50 bucks.

posted by The Whelk 31 December | 10:15

I sometimes wish for a blackhead or pimple just so I can pop it.

posted by rmless2 31 December | 13:47

Ok. I do not have a smart phone, or even unlimited texting.

I saw "Black Swan" today, and probably spent $2 on text messages on top of ticket price. I enjoyed it, and am going to check The Whelk's older thread now.

To my possible shame, I did not find the director character particularly out of line or abusive, because he was right.

posted by rainbaby 31 December | 15:23

I really like that stupid tv show about those chicks auditioning for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

posted by JanetLand 31 December | 15:49

When walking, I love passing everyone and feeling a bit smug because I walk faster and am, therefore, superior.

posted by dg 31 December | 18:35

I really like that stupid tv show about those chicks auditioning for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

I am intrigued. I have never heard of this show. I will have to find it.

When walking, I love passing everyone and feeling a bit smug because I walk faster and am, therefore, superior.

haha, I laughed.

posted by LoriFLA 01 January | 12:33

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