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11-13-2006, 08:53 PM
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Okay, it sounds oh so much less ominous now....
Pop Quiz: name the book that the powder Ever So Much More So comes from. Good luck. Answer after this word from our sponsors...
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11-14-2006, 03:46 AM
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Heh. This one.
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11-14-2006, 03:51 AM
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Did you look that up, or did you really know that? It's important to me.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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11-14-2006, 05:47 PM
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OH MY GOD I LOVED THAT BOOK!! I had completely forgotten about it! Everyone gets rhyming aphasia -- and the forty-foot-tall ragweed -- okay I have to go put a copy on my wish list right now this second.
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11-14-2006, 06:30 PM
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Has anyone read the sequel Centerburg Tales as well?
I have a special fondness for turn of the century America. The days of transition from horses to cars, barbershop quartets, the whole Music Man/River City mystique. Probably my favorite Homer Price story is still the doughnut machine. It combines the best of the endless-machine genre (gotta wonder if the Lucy Show chocolate assembly line had this in mind), the friends-from-crisis genre, the kid-knows-more-than-the-adults genre, and the "how many times can the author up the stakes" genre. At the Mall of America Krispy Kreme there's a visual assembly line for the doughnuts, but even that can't compare to the elegant simplicity of the Homer Price story.
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11-14-2006, 07:12 PM
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I read all of them. All these years later, nearly every one of the names and situations is as familiar as if I'd read it... oh, last week. I could probably have drawn the doughnut machine from memory and still got it about 90% right. Super-Duper. That record in the jukebox. "Labor-saving devices" -- hee.
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11-14-2006, 08:14 PM
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"All of them"? There are only two. That would be "both of them," right? At least Wikipedia says two, and I trust them almost implicitly.
Along with being a great author Robert McCloskey is a favorite children's book illustrator of mine, up there with Mercer Mayer. Anyone remember the story of the guy who lost his head, so he tried replacing it with a carrot, parsnip, pumpkin, etc. before carving a new one out of wood?
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11-14-2006, 08:19 PM
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Oh, and I hope you enjoy my new Kataan probe avatar. I found it someplace and knew I had to use it eventually. I did write the fiver, after all.
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11-15-2006, 10:38 AM
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11-15-2006, 12:21 PM
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Scooter! Where ya been?
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11-15-2006, 09:01 PM
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He was backstage grooming his three felt hairs. Too bad Gonzo stole all the conditioner.
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11-16-2006, 02:31 AM
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Oh, and how are you liking that? I intend to go back for my master's one of these years, and I always appreciate input.
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Oh yeah, I would definitely stay on campus. It'd be kinda fun to be a TA, I'd think. Having my own office (figuratively speaking, of course
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Um....
Signed fivers?
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