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Hmm. People are going about seeing if they can find the earliest USENET postings of theirs that Google has.

The earliest I found for me was Oct 17, 1992. Given that most folks on my f-list have found stuff they wrote from the eighties or earlier, I'm a net-newbie, but I knew that. It's here, a sort of "hi" introductory post on alt.horror.cthulhu.

You'll notice, of course, that I had the name "Xiphias Gladius" back then -- I'd been using it for three or four years by that point. You'll also note that the PIP news-posting software didn't have a text editor that allowed you to back up to edit previous lines.

So, youngsters: if you think us old-timers are giving you a hard time about your lack of capitalization, poor grammar, or poor spelling, remember, WE did all that stuff at least REASONABLY correctly, without a backspace key. (Well, fine. I had a backspace key -- but once I hit the end of the line and hit return -- yeah, we didn't have word-wrap on that machine, either -- it was All Over.)

Sounds like it would be gross, but it surprisingly isn't.

So, I'm making up an additional pot of chicken soup. I boiled the chicken longer than I usually do, and left the bones in longer.

I refrigerated it overnight in order to skim off the fat (once the fat is refrigerated, it comes off VERY easily).

And the bones appear to have formed gelatin. It's dissolving well into the re-heated soup, and is just adding body. It's actually really good. This may be the best chicken soup I've ever made.