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Jane R
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The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle
Small girl finds out where clean (unstarched) hankies come from.
[ 29. October 2011, 11:08: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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And while we're on Beatrix Potter...
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Truancy, trespass, damage to property, theft, gluttony. ASBO rabbit rampage.
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Jahlove
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Windows for Dummies
Learn to use a bloated OS for just $29.99. Nah. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Like Googling. But lots of real big print books. Brilliant !
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Foundation
Psychohistorian Hari Seldon foretells everything (depending on sufficient critical mass).
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sioni Sais
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Wisden's Cricketers Almanack
Names and stuff. Important match reports. See you next year.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Aravis
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The Secret Garden:
Sulky orphan girl gets hunchbacked boy to walk in garden.
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Dafyd
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The Secret Agent
Recruiting one's brother-in-law for a terrorist bomb plot is unwise.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Pickwick Papers
Spirited old buffer has adventures, goes to prison, gets out.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Peter Pan
Boys never become men; girls are female stereotypes.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Howard's End
Middle-class bint gets up duff by rough. Sister gets farm.
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Banner Lady
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
is about the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Ariston
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
I'm on a boat!
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Lyda*Rose
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
America discovered sex in 1969- but only heterosexual sex.
[ 31. October 2011, 08:59: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ten people go into wood, encounter more than teddy bears.
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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Song of Solomon
A list of bizarre erotic similes represents The Church somehow.
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
Andrew Knoll
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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The Twilight Saga
Crap. Seriously, do yourself a favour and read Dracula instead.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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Dracula (Review #2)
Women, remain submissive waifs or you'll become murderous undead hussies.
[courtesy Kate Beaton]
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
Andrew Knoll
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote:
Originally posted by Belisarius:
or you'll become murderous undead hussies.
Really? Where can I sign up for this programme?
[ 31. October 2011, 17:37: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Revelation
You should have been with me on this trip man....
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Chelley
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Exodus
I'm hungry, are we nearly there yet, moan moan moan!
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"I love old things, they make me feel sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Tale of positive sex and power becomes Manson's diabolic handbook.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Oliver Twist
Improbably genteel foundling related to all the other good characters.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Old Moore's Almanac
Plant tomato seedlings widdershins. Black Bess for the 3.30 Aintree.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Guinness Book of World Records
Documented glamor in being or doing the strange.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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Revelation (Review #2)
Spoiler Alert: The Mark of the Beast is Nero Caesar.
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
Andrew Knoll
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck confirms his own unredeemed nature: he helps Jim escape.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck confirms his own unredeemed nature: he helps Jim escape.
#2: Reprobate has moral epiphany. Goes to Hell anyway.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Phone Book
Large cast of characters, not much plot, invites audience participation.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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The Cat in the Hat
Kids left alone. Home invasion. Struggle between Good and Bad.
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Jahlove
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Terry
Bad-boy biker takes one spill too many. Girlfriend laments lyrically.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Up the Down Staircase: A Sale of Two Titties and SIlly Ass Marner
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Titus Andronicus
Rape, murder and mayhem in Ancient Rome. Nearly everyone dies.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Up the Down Staircase: A Sale of Two Titties and SIlly Ass Marner
How is that a review?
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Even more so than I was before
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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That actually is a line from the book-- two high school girls griping about thier reading list.
I laughed. It's kind of a in-joke, though.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Cottontail
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to win friends and influence people.
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"I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence."
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Mein Kampf
How to win friends and beat them into total submission.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Big Russ: the late journalist summarizes his father's life and exploits.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Up the Down Staircase: A Sale of Two Titties and SIlly Ass Marner
How is that a review?
A Sale of Two Titties and Silly Ass Marner comprise the most memorable lines in the book. Have you not read it nor seen the film? Unlikely.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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The United States Budget
Pork, compounded by political interest.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Gone With The wind
Self-absorbed, witless southern woman's husband no longer gives a damn.
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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
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MSHB
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quote:
Originally posted by Banner Lady:
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
is about the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
or...
Rome wasn't bust in a day.
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MSHB: Member of the Shire Hobbit Brigade
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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The very hungry caterpillar
Munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, pause.... butterfly!
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"I love old things, they make me feel sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Green Eggs and Ham
Sam's critical review of a chromatically diverse breakfast.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Hedgehog
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Gone With The Wind (Review #3)
Scarlett gets Rhett, loses Rhett. Repeat. And again. And again.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Penny S
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The Iliad.
Alpha male sulks, loses friend, takes vicious revenge, makes restitution
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