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Votes: 11

You have broken my will

Author:

First Incision

Topic:

Diaries

Posted:

Apr 17, 2002

Comments:

In their ongoing attack on my sanity, the editors of Adequacy have re-instated the HyperMints ad. Zikzak edits my entries until I don't even know which thoughts are mine. I think only what the editors want me to think.

Today I purchased caffeinated mints.

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I now know it is personal. The ad no longer even links to a real site. Oddly enough, I find myself sympathizing with LinuxZealot. I would run this "Junkbuster," but I doubt it is available for WindowsXP.

Today, I was purchasing some books in the local medical science bookstore, and there were some devilish little confections for sale in the impulse-buy display. I don't want the mints, but the Adequacy editors compel me to eat the mints. They command me to suckle on this sugary drugged teat.

For $1.60US, I bought half an ounce of Penguin® Red Caffeinated Cinnamons. With it's obvious Soviet imagery (the R in "Red" is backwards), these mints are sure to drive me to a life of sleepless, jittery Communism. Thanks Adequacy. Still, I resist. The tin sits before me, open. The mints are seen, but uneaten. They are smelled but untasten. Temptation swells within me.

	Resist my friend! (5.00 / 1) (#1)
	by Illiterate Bum on Wed Apr 17th, 2002 at 08:12:35 PM PST

	Do not let the sinister editors get to you, friend! Resist the foul temptation that is the caffeinated cinnamon mints! Do not let these devilspawn break your will in this matter! Damn it man, fight, I say, fight! For the good of us all! Today, we will stand up against the foul perversions that the editors of this site would push on us! Today is the day that we will make a stand! Today is the day that we will fight for our intellectual freedom! By and by, is "untasten" a word? ----- "...normal, balanced people do not waste time posting to weblogs." --tkatchev

	untasted (none / 0) (#6)
	by First Incision on Thu Apr 18th, 2002 at 08:20:32 PM PST

	No, it's not a word. I was hepped up on 40oz of Pibb when I wrote that. _ _ Do you suffer from late-night hacking? Ask your doctor about Protonix.

	No, you FOOL! (3.00 / 1) (#2)
	by T Reginald Gibbons on Wed Apr 17th, 2002 at 08:15:39 PM PST

	What have you done?! Penguin mints are an inferior knock-off product produced in the Third World! Without real caffiene crystals, they will only produce an artificial caffiene buzz at best. The shoddy workmanship on the penguin mint has already cost the lives of eight caffienated mint users, all of them young men in the peak of health. The same inferior process that causes penguin mints to be chalky and unsatisfying also introduces dioxins and other impurities into the finished product. These mints are dangerous. You would have been safer buying crack cocaine.

	You got the wrong mints dude (none / 0) (#3)
	by Ben Reid on Wed Apr 17th, 2002 at 08:21:04 PM PST

	Nothing could top the Penguin® Caffeinated Peppermints, at least not if the hype is true ... "Think Barry White on a world tour with Mr. Bungle, doing lunch and leaving the place minty fresh."

	Ah yes :) (none / 0) (#4)
	by nx01 on Wed Apr 17th, 2002 at 09:29:36 PM PST

	Penguin Reds are great. Despite the obvious homosexual communist imagery, the actual mints are wonderful. Cinnamon-y and decently strong (without being chalky like altoids), and they give you a nice little boost to boot. As a side note, the only place I ever found them for sale was in a record store in a godforsaken New Mexico town. Worked out perfectly since I was on a road trip at the time. "Every time I look at the X window system, it's so fucking stupid; and part of me feels responsible for the worst parts of it." -- James Gosling

	Okay I guess, but not great. (none / 0) (#5)
	by Uncanny Vortex on Thu Apr 18th, 2002 at 10:33:16 AM PST

	In my experience, they don't have enough caffeine per mint and are too sugary. However the alternatives aren't too much better. (Visit this bastion of liberalist conspirators for more possibilities; but you knew that already.) -- Uncanny Vortex

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