01/21/2026 8:15:50 PM PST
· 55 of 109 SunkenCiv
to Responsibility2nd; Chickensoup
I don’t have the tail end of today’s, but so far this month, 399 FReepers have posted all the threads, which number about 4000. So, avg of 10 threads per active poster. Quite a number have posted a single thread, or a handful. I’ve done 53 apparently, a bit more than 2 a day. I noticed at least one in triple digits.
Oh wow... I could build some little doodad, wouldn’t be that hard (famous last words), to perhaps count the numnber of topics posted for each nick. Yowsah.
I checked around the larder and found a bunch of the Roast Chicken cups, only expired 11 months ago, so I’m eating one now. This would have been ideal for the tombs of the pharaohs.
I found out about ramen at a local supermarket chain — my first apartment, 5 for a buck sale, all bricks in those days. “Wow! That was great!” By #4 or 5, I was heartily sick of them. But I still like it once in a while. My fave is the Maruchan Roast Chicken flavor, much better than the regular chicken. My second favorite was the chicken & mushroom (pften doctored up with a can of mushrooms, I learned that one at the Escoffier School ๐ผ) but alas, that’s no longer made.
Born Go Pek-Hok on March 5, 1910, in Chiayi, Taiwan (then under Japanese rule), he later adopted the Japanese name Andล Momofuku, where “Momofuku” is the Japanese pronunciation of his given name, Pek-Hok, meaning “100 blessings”. “Andล” is the surname of his Japanese wife, which he took after marrying and becoming a Japanese citizen in 1966.
“Go Pek-Hok” sounds worse somehow, since K sound would run the table from there.
The co-ed setup was already at least a few years old by that time (1970s).
Some earlier population had voted on three proposals — stay one-gender, or co-ed by wing, or co-ed by floor. The wing/floor options were deadlocked, so the fourth and first floors were co-ed by wing, while the 2nd and 3rd were each devoted to one of the genders.
These divisions were not 100% effective in keeping a bunch of young people from, uh, having visitors.
Cross-dressers headed to some bar or other and kept their secrets to themselves.
Besides, on weekends the whole place turned into the Fall of Rome, so no one would likely have noticed. ๐
I've been streaming the post-mission press conference with Crew 11, and the mission commander apparently missed ramen noodles. Oh-kay. Anyway, given my usual interest in things ancient, suddenly I wondered, is there or was there a restaurant called Ramen Empire? Regardless, it's not a new bon mot.