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Double Post: A Great Way to Start A New Page.

Bookstores go up in blazes as news of backwards books comes out. It seems people can't handle change, in which case, keep it for yourself.

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So long...etc.

Seriously. Not really carrying the momentum forward here, SS.

New pages should ideally start off with something wildly scandalous that will make people think
that the previous page was a blazing inferno of intellectual intrigue and delight, regardless of
its actual content.

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Steal Compass. Drive North. Disappear.

twitter: @kensocrates

feet of clay
going postal

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Carpe aleae

Art Spiegelman's Maus. It's gonna be a Christmas present for my brother.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

(That is one awe-some book, Waux!) Anyway, as for me...today, i bought;


Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

and

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (A Calvin and Hobbes Collection) by (who else) Bill Watterson

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Bleak House by Dickens...

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for the rest of the day, whenever anyone says the secret word, scream real loud!

Good one Waux

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Mooned on my first and 1000th post.

I know the rest of my family's last trip to the bookstore was to get Harry potter and the Half-Blood prince. This coming cristmas, I'll finally be able to turn to page 606 and read the spoiler (not that I don't know it already).

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In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling

"But you have no weapons! No defenses! NO PLAN!"
"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death?"

He's gonna be overjoyed!

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Doctor Who: Monsters And Villains.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Thud! and 1776

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So long...etc.

and

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

A sudoku collection and a couple of books about Hawaii's bird life (I keep giving mine away).

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vagabond
birds, any birds, anywhere, any time

I got me a signed copy of Neil Gaimans Anasi Boys. I got the girl to go into the window display and get it for me

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A student riding in a train looks up and sees Einstein sitting next to him. Excited he asks, "Excuse me, professor. Does Boston stop at this train?"

Star Wars: Dark Lord - The Rise of Darth Vader. 139 pages into it already and I just got it today.

Got it with a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card one of my aunts got me for Christmas.

Also got Nick Webb's book for Christmas.

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"If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now!"

-- Zaphod Beeblebrox

-- Wrestling is a spectacle all right. But believe it or not, some of the most devoted fans are highly intelligent people

V for Vendizzle as it is known in the rapper communities.

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"Poo" -- Hungry Joe January 7th, 1923

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I have turned a new leaf: everyday from here-on-out I shall make it a point to do some random act of bravery and then run like hell
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Double post. I hate it when that happens.

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I have turned a new leaf: everyday from here-on-out I shall make it a point to do some random act of bravery and then run like hell
http://steampunk.ning.com/profile/VonDarkfaulker

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Five, not four or six, but five Wodehouse-books.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

My, my thats quite a handfull

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Mooned on my first and 1000th post.

Absolutely.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

To be absolutely precise:
Money for Nothing
Summer Lightning
Ukridge
Thank You, Jeeves
Cocktail Time

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

I really ought to get some new notepads for uni, but they're so much cheaper in england. those can be bought from a bookstore so I thought I'd mention it here but I'll probably end up with Tesco Value ones haha.

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Be interested to know what you think of this one.
I have a couple of American friends who can't stand Bill Bryson but I like his books a lot.
I think it probably comes from his none too complimentary comments about the southern States in The Lost Continent.
He is fairly uncomplimentary about Aberdeen in this book and I took him to task on this when I met him at a book signing in Harrogate.
He said he'd had dozens of E-mails and letters on the same subject and promised to revisit some time soon.
Note: If you ever visit Aberdeen, don't come by train from the south as he did - you go through the worst part of the city.

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The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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PTerry - monstrous regiment
C.S.Lewis' the chronicales of Narnia

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Carpe aleae

Yah, I was piqued by this when I was in Borders last week. I decided to burn a gift card for it.

I picked up his Short History of Nearly Everything yesterday from the library. The intro is amusing but the way he describes the Big Bang in the first chapter makes me chuckle at how fanciful it sounds. I immediately think to myself, "And the scientists go on about the Bible...".

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I think his best one is A Walk in the Woods - it's educational (I couldn't even spell Appalachian Trail never mind tell you where it ran before I read it) amusing and a damn good "buddy" type story to boot.

I also liked Down Under / In a Sunburned Country which has given me a great desire to visit Australia as well as an even greater desire to avoid all the snakes, spiders, jellyfish and other nasty beasties there.

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The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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For me mum, but I may very well read it.

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Personally, I believe joblessness is one of the core prerequisites for creativity. - OZ

Impulse buy while we were buying our calendars.


For my office cubicle.


For our kitchen wall.

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She is crazy.

Funny though

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"I'm a trendy tote bag!"


http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail110.html

Hey gonz, I sold one of those Rockwell calanders just yesterday.

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So long...etc.

Cool.

We drove to the Indianapolis Children's Museum last summer and they had a Norman Rockwell exhibit. We just kinda fell in love with all of the art work.

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My last trip:

Collapse by Jared Diamond (almost 200 pages into it already)
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston

And I have a signed copy of Carter's book mentioned above. He came to my town for a book signing. Which brought up the problem "what do you say to an ex-president?" I had nothing planned, but they whipped people through the signing feedlot so fast that all I could get out was a lame "Hello. How are you?" He just said "hi" in return.

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Ed Womack
Get Milked

Mort, Small Gods and The Last Continent

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So long...etc.

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

far side! excellent. and foreword by stephen king? sounds grrrrrrrreat!

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

Jingo and Men at Arms

(Notice a trend here)

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So long...etc.

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"Poo" -- Hungry Joe January 7th, 1923

I got it because it has my all-time favorite Far Side cartoon....

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

I looove this one

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Mooned on my first and 1000th post.