Today’s Completely Context-Free Statement Which Will Make No Sense to Any Of You Now But Will Later, If You Remember It, Which You Probably Won’t

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1. Keri says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:03 pm

   You’re making ghee! Cool!
2. jp says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:05 pm

   Wow. When was the last time you cleaned the windows?

   …

   Thank you! I’ll be here till Thursday! Tip your wait staff!
3. Rembrant says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:10 pm

   I bet it’s about that TSSPTICTYA thingy.
4. KevinQ says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:17 pm

   You just added egg whites to your batch of wine in the basement?

   K
5. Andrew Hackard says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:18 pm

   John’s the new head coach at Tennessee. Or he’s following Leno on NBC. Or…no, too soon for Haiti.
6. Sihaya says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:22 pm

   Ohh, been visited by a Piffany, have you?
7. Penny says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:38 pm

   consider it remembered… will wait for “the other shoe to drop”
8. Christopher Turkel says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:40 pm

   Clariton is really doing wonders for you, isn’t it?
9. Zannah says:
   January 13, 2010 at 1:41 pm

   Heh. “a Piffany.” I’m going to have to remember that. Thanks for the chuckle, Sihaya.
10. Zannah says:
    January 13, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Also, I’m with you, Rembrandt (@3). My official guess is that it’s something to do with TSSPTICTYA. Curiosity piqued.
11. Mary Arrr says:
    January 13, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    Is “It’s been a clarifying couple of days” similar to “my, that’s a brave fashion choice”?
12. Xopher says:
    January 13, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Either TSSPTICTYA or…dire news about SGU. I hope it’s the former, because I would have to mope significantly otherwise.
13. Jeff Hentosz says:
    January 13, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    Yeah … I hate prepping for a colonoscopy, too.
14. tommyrocks says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Big fan. Just finished “Agent to the Stars” & am now reading Maus because of it.

    Hate to show my sign, but “TSSPTICTYA”?

    My work’s firewall has blocked this site until the beginning of this year, so am now a daily reader, but am unsure what the short hand above stands for.

    Thanks much!
15. Harry Connolly says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    In a good way, I hope.
16. EarBucket says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    TSSPTICTYA
17. Susan Reader says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    But in a good way, I hope…
18. Dave H says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    See? I told you doing that rain dance backwards would make a difference.
19. The Gray Area says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    (music begins playing) On a clear day, you can see forever…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vn2i9Vnyas

    I’ll try to remember.
20. Mac says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    New shampoo?
21. steve says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    The next super secret project obviously involves large quantities of butter.
22. MJBUtah says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Oooh, did you have Lasik too? I had it done last thursday and my life is a LOT clearer.
23. ben says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    nod is as good as a wink, say-no-more.
24. Tully says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Cooking with butter again?
25. Vicki says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    I’m thinking TSSPTICTYA too

    #14 tommyrocks

    Scalzi has been tormenting us for a while with references to his “The Super Sekret Project That I Can’t Tell You About.”
26. eviljwinter says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    Typo: “Know” with a k means someone possesses information about something, or “knows” it.

    You want “Now” with no k, meaning “at the present moment”

    You wanted us to be blunt and not pussyfoot around.

    (And now I shall go in the other room and smugly write “alright” over and over again on expensive stationary with a fountain pen, giggling that Scalzi can’t do a damn thing about it.)
27. Bearpaw says:
    January 13, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    Rembrant et al:

    I think you mean TSSPTHCTUA.
28. Captain Button says:
    January 13, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Piffany and her duct tape can make anything better.
29. GL2418 says:
    January 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Looks like some got his free sample of Proactiv in the mail.
30. GL2418 says:
    January 13, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    SomeONE that is. Grrrr
31. JASONMITCHELL says:
    January 13, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    my guess – done (at least w/ 1st draft) of TSSPTICTYA

    as in:

    “that TSSPTICTYA is done isn’t it?”
    response,
    “it is.”
32. Marko Kloos says:
    January 13, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    See? I told you those Stridex pads would take care of that problem.
33. georgmi says:
    January 13, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    A comment here about Noxzema would be both unfashionably late and also horribly dated, wouldn’t it?
34. John Scalzi says:
    January 13, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    I’m more concerned with everyone’s fascination with acne. I have a number of physical issues, to be sure, but at age 40, acne isn’t one of them.
35. melendwyr says:
    January 13, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    You’re running antioxidant-rich fluids through your fermenting alcoholic beverages?

    All is now clear.
36. Captain Button says:
    January 13, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    Just so long as the clearness is not the kind produced by a certain religion.
37. Kelley says:
    January 13, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    Clarity is almost always the best thing. But you’ve made me think of Winston Churchill: “I am always ready to learn, although I do not always enjoy being taught…”
38. Rembrant says:
    January 13, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    Bearpaw @ 27 Nope. I had to go back to find the ref and cut and pasted it so I am pretty sure it is correct.
39. The Pathetic Earthling says:
    January 13, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    The tripartite HBO-Scalzi-Boll talks breakdown again?
40. Sihaya says:
    January 13, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    Zannah, thankyou. Captain Button figured out the reference – Piffany is a character from Aaron Williams’s comic, “Nodwick.” She is the kindest, nicest, best-est cleric in the universe.
41. Stephen says:
    January 13, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    Sihaya, I somehow doubt that was what Captain Button was referring to at all.

    I took it as a reference to LRH’s followers, instead.

    Though thank you for pointing out Nodwick. Looks interesting.
42. Stephen says:
    January 13, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    Opps – sorry, Sihaya. I think I was reading the wrong Captain Button comment.
43. Greg M. says:
    January 13, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    So what do we think this mysterious project actually *is*?? A pilot? A film adaptation of Old Man’s War for some major production company? Because either one of those would be *awesome.*

    Or maybe John’s going to, like, *promise* to shoot a movie of Old Man’s War, but we get to the theatre, and it’s like a three-hour documentary about his cats.

    The horror… the horror…
44. Laura Resnick says:
    January 13, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    @ Mary Arrr, #11:

    Or: “Such a difficult color, green.”
45. Captain Button says:
    January 13, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    He is working on giving his cats hands so they can post their own damn pictures to the Interwebs.

    What could possibly go wrong?
46. Edd T says:
    January 14, 2010 at 6:02 am

    ghee making you are?
    clear certainly not.
    explain please judge not my size for it matters not.
    Just like miticlorians an jar jar.
47. Sihaya says:
    January 14, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    Stephen @#42: Sorry, I should have referenced which one of the Cap’s posts I was answering (#28). Yes, I can see how that seemed utterly Dadaist.
48. GL2418 says:
    January 14, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    @ Edd T
    It would seem that size matters not, but Midichlorian count does. So what he said was true from a certain point of view.

    I have no explanation for Jar Jar.
49. Naomi says:
    January 25, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Was this related to today’s announcement?
50. John Scalzi says:
    January 25, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    Actually no.

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