Okay, so somewhere along the way, probably in a random English class, I came across "Invictus," the poem that Timothy McVeigh decided to use as his final words. I really, really liked the thing, and now I won't really be able to say that I like it without people assuming I'm a terrorist.

Thanks a lot, ass.

Anything like that ever happen to you?

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

Answers

Not to me, and certainly not so...uhh...evil...but to my friend Meg.

She dressed up for Halloween as an angel who got her wings torn off...she tore holes in the back of her shirt and put blood and feathers (ripped from a boa in Ragstock) on her shoulderblades...she can do this really funky thing with her shoulderblades where they stick out...she basically looks like a gargoyle. Or, in this case, an angel who got her wings torn off.

She's never seen Dogma, and people kept asking if she was trying to be them. It was an original idea, but now they think it was a copy.

Oh, one thing that happened to me, I guess...I used to write "May the fork be with you" on plastic forks and give them to people for graduation presents....then Mystery Men came out, and the Blue Rajah said that, and now people think I copied. Rawr.

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

dude! i totally hear you on this one. it is (was?) my *favorite* poem, introduced to me by my sophomore english teacher.

-- Anonymous, June 12, 2001

I'd never heard of the thing until they started reading it on MSNBC right after the execution... and I really like it. I felt kind of creepy about liking it at first, naturally, but oh well.

-- Anonymous, June 18, 2001

My name is Tim. Just after the Oklahoma City Bombing I was in a store where the clerk told me that she had just had a baby boy and was going to name him Timothy, but because of the bombing she didn't want to anymore.

Very strange to have a name that you've had all your life suddenly be associated with something horrible.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2001

I feel the same way, Tim. For a long time after the bombing I'd cringe everytime someone mentioned him just because of the name thing. "Great, I'm synonymous with a mass murderer. As if people didn't already have enough reasons to dislike me and avoid me like the plague..."

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001