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* Die! Die! Die! "Hip Hop". LIVE BAMBOLEOI ! ! ! ! ! - 1 messages, 1 author
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* NYT book review podcast on Ayn Rand - 4 messages, 4 authors
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* An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam by Peter Kreeft. -
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TOPIC: Die! Die! Die! "Hip Hop". LIVE BAMBOLEOI ! ! ! ! !
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/d2d7130710b38b83?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Oct 31 2009 10:32 pm
From: Just Me
On Oct 31, 5:18 pm, "Androcles" <Headmas...@Hogwarts.physics_p> wrote:
> *plonk*
Ahhh. There's another! Looks like my regular Friday night dose of
Tequila has also the surprising hidden property to double for a fool-
killer, a drip-drier, a square detector. No sooner do I drink it down
and begin to spray, than every cucuracha in sight is sent scurrying
for their kill-file holes. Or as in this case, it's like the Slim
Whitman music from Mars Attacks! Their green poop filled heads
explode and go . . .
> *plonk*
Heh-heh. Smashing, what?
Without the tequila it might have taken weeks to be rid of this
particularly aggravating Usenet wormhole to dink-think Hell.
> Do not reply to this generic message . . .
Do not? HAH!
Do not reply?
Oh, the unnameable arrogance of some of these pricks, that one such as
this should flatter himself to suppose a post like THIS to be a
"reply" to such a dork personally? Hah!
Dig it! This is an article on the subject of dink-think eradication.
This is a scientific disquisition on the sound wave properties of the
word, "plonk", where it is shown and proven by flawless mathematical
logic to be one and the same with the sound of green snot exploding
from an arrogant twit's head!
Now, although I ran out of Tequila last night, I still have the magic
formula that came of it (like the little white worm which comes with
the bottle) that works to bring the brain-deadniks, squares, nit-wits
and twits crawling on all six out of the woodwork. So let's just see
if it'll work again, the magic invocation . . .
DIE hiphop. DIE! DIE! DIE!
I got my net and my can of Raid handy. :-)
DEATH to the fascist HIP HOP bug that inhabits the panties of the
people! !
--
JM http://doo-dads.blogspot.com
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TOPIC: NYT book review podcast on Ayn Rand
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/448beaac281290a1?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 1 2009 5:28 am
From: Stratum101
On Oct 30, 8:26 pm, Marko Amnell <marko.amn...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> The extent of my estrangement from the whole
> North American mindset was also brought home
> to me by the conversations I've recently had
> with a woman who has taught at MIT for many years.
> OK, MIT is hardly typical of America, but talking
> to her I realized that American politics and
> culture have become purely abstract subjects
> to me -- at a personal, existential level they
> are meaningless. Life Kafka, I see Amerika
> through the eyes of a European.- Hide quoted text -
>
When you're alone and reading in a public place,
say a casual, self-service eatery like McDonald's,
do people interrupt you to ask what you're
reading? Or worse, try to engage you
in conversation about *what* you're
reading?
It's a common occurrence in Texas, a place
of uncommonly gregarious residents some of
whom possess more money than brains
and it's one of the few things that brings
out my neuroses.
The social rule in Texas is that two strangers
passing each other must speak rather than
merely acknowledging each other with
eye contact and a nod. I'm from California,
where the rule is, a nod is all that's required
unless a large spider is crawling up the other
guy's side. (Except for the wolf
spider, there are no large spiders in
coastal California.) It's about the same in touristy
parts of Europe partly no doubt for the same
reason it applies in California. California
is an extremely diverse region
where the odds are that strangers
don't speak the same language.
In my experience, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
London and Paris are all places where
strangers are not spontaneously
chatty. Nor am I.
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 1 2009 1:21 pm
From: "Marko Amnell"
"Stratum101" <j.collier@cross-comp.com> wrote:
> When you're alone and reading in a public place,
> say a casual, self-service eatery like McDonald's,
> do people interrupt you to ask what you're
> reading? Or worse, try to engage you
> in conversation about *what* you're
> reading?
No, but when I'm reading certain kinds of
books in a coffee shop, other patrons will
surreptitiously glance at the cover of the
book I'm reading. Women did this a lot when
I was reading _Sex and Sensuality in the
Ancient World_ by Giulia Sissa, but I
thought that was a good thing...
It's actually a very interesting book. I had
always thought that Foucault's emphasis on
homosexuality in the ancient world was
overdone, and influenced by his own sexual
orientation. Sissa shows that heterosexuality
was indeed central in ancient Greece and Rome.
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 1 2009 1:42 pm
From: "Don Phillipson"
"Stratum101" <j.collier@cross-comp.com> wrote in message
news:3a8c5b49-61e2-46a6-a9b1-a5af0051a66c@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> When you're alone and reading in a public place,
> say a casual, self-service eatery like McDonald's,
> do people interrupt you to ask what you're
> reading? Or worse, try to engage you
> in conversation about *what* you're
> reading?
Why read or eat in "casual, self-service eateries like
McDonald's"? Is there nowhere else?
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 1 2009 3:12 pm
From: Patok
Don Phillipson wrote:
> "Stratum101" <j.collier@cross-comp.com> wrote in message
> news:3a8c5b49-61e2-46a6-a9b1-a5af0051a66c@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
>> When you're alone and reading in a public place,
>> say a casual, self-service eatery like McDonald's,
>> do people interrupt you to ask what you're
>> reading? Or worse, try to engage you
>> in conversation about *what* you're
>> reading?
>
> Why read or eat in "casual, self-service eateries like
> McDonald's"? Is there nowhere else?
Because it is cheaper? And because there's no annoying waiters
bothering you?
--
You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
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TOPIC: An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam by Peter
Kreeft.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/414ac87dc55ab6d4?hl=en
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Date: Mon, Nov 2 2009 12:07 am
From: Steve Hayes
I recently received a message from Amazon:
=== begin quote ===
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated That Hideous
Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) by C.S. Lewis have also purchased An
Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam by Peter Kreeft.
For this reason, you might like to know that An Ocean Full of Angels: The
Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam will be released on November 14, 2009. ===
end quote ===
I'm wondering how they could have bought it if it hasn't been released
yet. Did they all buy preprelease copies, or was there a previous edition?
If anyone has bought it, how does it compare with "That hideous strength"?
--
Steve Hayes
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/litmain.htm
http://www.goodreads.com/hayesstw
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Methodius
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