I can’t find my ICQ number, but I have a recovery email from a Geocities email address in 2001 so I’m guessing it’s early.
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I know I got ICQ in '98 or '99 at the latest, but have no idea about my number. Was really popular in my college dorm.
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I just received my local government’s wastewater (sewer) Winter 2026 Newsletter.
Exciting times, to be certain.
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This means that they publish at least two such newsletters per year. Worst case scenario, we’re looking at four, one per season. And, naturally, everyone from editor down to the humblest reporter receives a municipal salary which likely exceeds the earnings of most real reporters.
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Do they have a swimsuit edition? 
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Shouldn’t this be in the “what are you reading?” Thread?
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It may come as a surprise to you, but this would be disingenuous on my part.
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How was the sudoku?
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Spoiler: Dorf is not on the list. Bad list 
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PORTAL!? That game tanked on the shelves… it took us (the store I used to work at) years and a 35% discount to finally sell the only copy we ever got.
That’s… that’s probably a bad list.
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Also I felt like Sniper Elite was missing from that list. Not that I’ve played it but as far as I know it’s an adaptation and at least one reviewer, whose opinions have led me to good games in the past, likes it a lot (Tom Vasel)
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I trued to play it once. I think @MichaelCule was there. I remember nothing else about it.
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Or, at the local councils I’'ve known, they have to do it as well as their real job for no extra money.
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Unless we’re talking about the computer game… Oh wait! There was a board game version wasn’t there? We played it a couple of times at THIRSTY MEEPLES in Oxford. I didn’t fall totally in love with it but it was acceptable as a distraction. The computer game was fun right up to the point when I found a puzzle I didn’t have the co-ordination to solve.
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We played it at a Handycon I think.
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They clearly have never met a penguin with a hangover.
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Yes, I associate drug penguin with nice today, bad tomorrow.
Come back to drug penguin to push bad tomorrow to tomorrow tomorrow.
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So wait…Do-ra-tu-gu Pe-n-gi-n? Why is tu in there? Where’s the gu? @benkyo, 'splain please? I think I would have expected Do-ra-gu Pe-n-gu-i-n.
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Since it is late in Japan and Benkyo might be asleep, I can try and answer: I think that’s a chiisai tsu, which indicates a slight pause or hold of the following consonant. It is romanised as a double consonant: “Doraggu Pengin”.
As for why it is “Pengin” and not something else, I don’t know. My English pronunciation of the end of penguin is something like “gwin”, so it may just be that an approximation was needed anyway and that’s the one that has ended up being used.
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