Topic: 500,000 POSTS (Read 49341 times)

bk · « **on:** September 22, 2008, 12:09:06 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were piquant, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they've decided to go back and read each and every one of the 500,000 posts and they'll be home directly after that.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:10:16 AM »

And the word of the day is: ARCHIPELAGO!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:12:14 AM »

And now - Dino at the piano.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:12:27 AM »

Awaiting book quotes.

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:16:53 AM »

Welcome twelve GUESTS.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:21:04 AM »

NYTIMES

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Sitcoms’ Burden: Too Few Taboos
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The humor in “Worst Week” is rooted in a ceaseless and escalating cascade of embarrassing mishaps that pile upon its Seth Rogen-ish hero, Sam (Kyle Bornheimer), when he and his girlfriend try to tell her disapproving parents that she is pregnant. It would be churlish to reveal Sam’s ordeals in detail, but nudity, vomit and urine flow freely.
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DR Jane, I suggest you not let Sherlock watch.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #6 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:25:12 AM »

RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY CENTRAL

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NBC jokes: Todd Palin has sex with daughters

'Saturday Night Live' skit suggests Sarah's husband guilty of incest
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What ever would they think of A Modest Proposal?

der Brucer

Druxy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:32:16 AM »

The Emmy Show wasn't much, but Ricky Gervais and Don Rickles were a definite treat.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:37:48 AM »

Topic of the Day: "The End."

George · « **Reply #9 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:38:35 AM »

So, has any book ever actually ended with "The End" or is just used in the movies?

Druxy · « **Reply #10 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:39:40 AM »

I read Mickey Spillane's I, THE JURY when it first came out.

I was really too young to be reading that kind of trash.

In fact, I don't think my parents even knew I had a copy of the book.

The one line that I've always remembered, though this may be a paraphrase is:

"She hooked her thumbs in her panties and pulled them down."

For a pre-teenager back in the early 1950s, that was pretty damn hot.

George · « **Reply #11 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:42:03 AM »

And on that note (e-flat), I'm going to bed. Good night, Der Brucer and Druxy...and guests.

But before I go, Happy Birthday to mrkdl73, whose last of 38 posts was at 6:27:14 am on January 07, 2005.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #12 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:47:11 AM »

TOD

Rex Stout "GAMBIT" (A Nero Wolfe mystery)

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"Mr. Wolfe is in the middle of a fit. It's complicated. There's a fireplace in the front room, but it's never lit because he hates open fires. He says they stullify mental processes. But it's lit now, because he's using it. He's seated in front of it, on a chair too small for him, tearing sheets out of a book and burning them. The book is the new edition, the third edition, of Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published by the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachussets. He considers it subversive because it threatens the integrity of the English language...."

Then at the end of chapter one, Archie says to Wolfe,

"You knew you were going to burn it when you bought it. Otherwise you would have ordered leather."

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #13 on:** September 22, 2008, 12:49:23 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on September 22, 2008, 12:39:40 AM

I read Mickey Spillane's I, THE JURY when it first came out.

I was really too young to be reading that kind of trash.

In fact, I don't think my parents even knew I had a copy of the book.

The one line that I've always remembered, though this may be a paraphrase is:

"She hooked her thumbs in her panties and pulled them down."

For a pre-teenager back in the early 1950s, that was pretty damn hot.

Isn't that the one where he is fascinated watching the blood spill out of the bullet hole in her naked belly?

der Brucer

Not that I ever read such trash

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** September 22, 2008, 01:20:26 AM »

Quote from: George on September 22, 2008, 12:38:35 AM

So, has any book ever actually ended with "The End" or is just used in the movies?

Skammen on you - did you not read Kritzer Time - yes or no?

singdaw · « **Reply #15 on:** September 22, 2008, 01:58:16 AM »

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

singdaw · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2008, 02:01:43 AM »

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #17 on:** September 22, 2008, 02:04:37 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 22, 2008, 01:58:16 AM

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"...the period was so far like the present period..."

This is Dickens - periods are few and far between.

der Brucer

I guess he wrote before the invention of the semicolon.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #18 on:** September 22, 2008, 02:11:56 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 22, 2008, 02:01:43 AM

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

Get your sources right!

der Brucer

singdaw · « **Reply #19 on:** September 22, 2008, 03:13:12 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 22, 2008, 02:11:56 AM

Get your sources right!

At least you didn't say "straight"!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 22, 2008, 05:34:59 AM »

Good morning, all! Most of my day will be spent attending an orchestra reading of the complete score to the Kern-Hammerstein MUSIC IN THE AIR, which Encores! will be presenting in the spring. Around 9 am, I will walk down to Clinton Studios on West 55th Street. On the way back, I'll stop at the pharmacy to pick up some meds.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 22, 2008, 05:36:25 AM »

"I'm too young to die"
Milady de Winter in Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires

Ben · « **Reply #22 on:** September 22, 2008, 05:50:00 AM »

Morning all.

Much work to do at work and then I'm going to a reception to honor our President who is retiring after 21 years at the Foundation Center.

Ben · « **Reply #23 on:** September 22, 2008, 05:55:58 AM »

It's not a novel but I don't care (I don't care, what they may think of me). It's my quote at the end of my posting page.

"I believe in the theatre; I believe in beauty in the theatre; I believe that in the theatre lies one of the roads back to sanity. I want to give the people the chance to dream again"

Ivor Novello from The Proscenium (a play from 1933)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 22, 2008, 05:58:08 AM »

`and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Ginny · « **Reply #25 on:** September 22, 2008, 06:21:33 AM »

Monday morning greetings! It's a quiet week in ~~Lake Wobegon~~ my cubicle - no meetings or programs. Sounds like a good time to start cleaning out.

Ginny · « **Reply #26 on:** September 22, 2008, 06:22:42 AM »

TOD:

"Surprise must have stormed all over her face before she thought to rearrange it for human inspection." - Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

singdaw · « **Reply #27 on:** September 22, 2008, 06:34:25 AM »

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

-Dr. Seuss

singdaw · « **Reply #28 on:** September 22, 2008, 06:34:54 AM »

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

-also Dr. Seuss

singdaw · « **Reply #29 on:** September 22, 2008, 06:37:15 AM »

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

-A.A. Milne

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