WHAT IS THE NEW BOOK?
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witnes...@gmail.com
Feb 2, 2009, 2:28:39 PM2/2/09
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Hello everyone,
Sorry for having to get off the call early on Saturday. I enjoyed the
hour of discussion we had prior to my departure, however.
Please let me know what book was chosen for February so that I can get
started! The way I remember it, Boyd was pushing hard for Little
House on the Prairie. Scott was hoping for a Harlequin Romance that
he recently finished, Mike Porter was in the fight for a nice little
book of pro-capitalist poetry authored by President: Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Dave, I believe, was suggesting his favorite
children's book....the children's pop-up book of human anatomy. I'm
good on any of those...however, I have a few suggestions of my own...
(in the children's book genre):
1. "Kathy was so bad her mom stopped loving her"
2. "Garfield gets Feline Leukemia"
3. "Strangers Have the Best Candy"
4. "Babar Meets the Taxidermist"
5. "You are Different and That's Bad"
6. "Daddy Drinks Because You Cry"
7. "The Man in the Moon is Actually Satan"
8. "Pop Goes the Hampster, and other Great Microwave Games"
9. "How to Make a Plastic Bag Space Helmet"
10. "Fun Four Letter Words to Learn and Share"
11. "How to Become the Dominant Military Power in Your Elementary
School"
12. "Dad's New Wife Timothy"
13. "The Boy Who Died by Eating All His Vegetables"
14. "Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I CAN DO IT Book"
15. "Timmy's the Wrong Color to Be Your Friend"
16. "Little Hands, Big Toasters"
17. "Mommy's Got a New Baby to Love"
18. "All Dogs Go To Hell"
19. "Pat Went Splat: Don't Forget Your Seatbelt"
20. "Fatherhood: A Guide for the Adolescent"
Sorry for having to get off the call early on Saturday. I enjoyed the
hour of discussion we had prior to my departure, however.
Please let me know what book was chosen for February so that I can get
started! The way I remember it, Boyd was pushing hard for Little
House on the Prairie. Scott was hoping for a Harlequin Romance that
he recently finished, Mike Porter was in the fight for a nice little
book of pro-capitalist poetry authored by President: Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Dave, I believe, was suggesting his favorite
children's book....the children's pop-up book of human anatomy. I'm
good on any of those...however, I have a few suggestions of my own...
(in the children's book genre):
1. "Kathy was so bad her mom stopped loving her"
2. "Garfield gets Feline Leukemia"
3. "Strangers Have the Best Candy"
4. "Babar Meets the Taxidermist"
5. "You are Different and That's Bad"
6. "Daddy Drinks Because You Cry"
7. "The Man in the Moon is Actually Satan"
8. "Pop Goes the Hampster, and other Great Microwave Games"
9. "How to Make a Plastic Bag Space Helmet"
10. "Fun Four Letter Words to Learn and Share"
11. "How to Become the Dominant Military Power in Your Elementary
School"
12. "Dad's New Wife Timothy"
13. "The Boy Who Died by Eating All His Vegetables"
14. "Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I CAN DO IT Book"
15. "Timmy's the Wrong Color to Be Your Friend"
16. "Little Hands, Big Toasters"
17. "Mommy's Got a New Baby to Love"
18. "All Dogs Go To Hell"
19. "Pat Went Splat: Don't Forget Your Seatbelt"
20. "Fatherhood: A Guide for the Adolescent"
MICHAEL PORTER
Feb 2, 2009, 3:05:29 PM2/2/09
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While all of those suggestions are fantastic, I'm wanting to pick up a copy of,
"My sister's boyfriend in buried in the backyard." But, we decided to read "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.
Mike Porter mindofmurph.blogspot.com reaversatemydingo.blogspot.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:28:39 -0800
> Subject: (literary club) WHAT IS THE NEW BOOK?
> From: witnes...@gmail.com
> To: contemplation...@googlegroups.com
"My sister's boyfriend in buried in the backyard." But, we decided to read "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.
Mike Porter mindofmurph.blogspot.com reaversatemydingo.blogspot.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:28:39 -0800
> Subject: (literary club) WHAT IS THE NEW BOOK?
> From: witnes...@gmail.com
> To: contemplation...@googlegroups.com
David Larkin
Feb 3, 2009, 10:41:12 AM2/3/09
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My bad. I know I said I would send out the update for the selected book.
I have offended my Brethren! ... I should be purged, I should be cast down,
I am not worthy to grovel in their presence. Perhaps after millennia of
slavetude in the salt mines of the Siberian Orchestra (ever tried listening
to more than an hour of it?).. my penance will be accepted.
...
...
(a millennia later...)
In a room filled with burning sconces and incense high atop the Himalayas, a
smallish and bent man in a heavy hooded robe leans a little forward on his
cushion to look closer at me. Speaking to the woman he asks, "what does he
want?"
She reaches up and spins the rune covered rotating pillar piece, the
"speakers queue", and says "Your Holiness, he has but one desire... to
retrieve the book and return to his Brethren"
Looking into the eyes of this beautiful fur clad ambassador, the Old Monk
says "then let him ask."
The ambassador turns to me and looks into my eyes and with a nod at the
runed pole, indicates I should proceed.
I reach up to the pole and like a DJ from the 1980s on a vinyl album
turntable, start my plea "I-I-I-I-I-I want the boooook...."
The old monk, not amused by my antics with the speakers queue, says to the
ambassador "let him ask again.."
Looking over at me with a frown she indicates to me with another frowny
faced nod that perhaps I should do better... lest I spend another millennia
enslaved in the salty Orchestra listening chamber.
Reaching up with a more solemn posture I spin the Queue and speak "I want
the booook...", pausing for just a moment I spin it again... "pleaaaase".
The old monk smiles just a hint and says "the book cannot be obtained so
easily by he who disappointed his brethren".
...
...
Perhaps one day soon I will be able to finish this adventure and actually
obtain this heavily guarded writings by Jules Verne, this 'From the Earth to
the Moon'.
David L
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Subject: (literary club) WHAT IS THE NEW BOOK?
I have offended my Brethren! ... I should be purged, I should be cast down,
I am not worthy to grovel in their presence. Perhaps after millennia of
slavetude in the salt mines of the Siberian Orchestra (ever tried listening
to more than an hour of it?).. my penance will be accepted.
...
...
(a millennia later...)
In a room filled with burning sconces and incense high atop the Himalayas, a
smallish and bent man in a heavy hooded robe leans a little forward on his
cushion to look closer at me. Speaking to the woman he asks, "what does he
want?"
She reaches up and spins the rune covered rotating pillar piece, the
"speakers queue", and says "Your Holiness, he has but one desire... to
retrieve the book and return to his Brethren"
Looking into the eyes of this beautiful fur clad ambassador, the Old Monk
says "then let him ask."
The ambassador turns to me and looks into my eyes and with a nod at the
runed pole, indicates I should proceed.
I reach up to the pole and like a DJ from the 1980s on a vinyl album
turntable, start my plea "I-I-I-I-I-I want the boooook...."
The old monk, not amused by my antics with the speakers queue, says to the
ambassador "let him ask again.."
Looking over at me with a frown she indicates to me with another frowny
faced nod that perhaps I should do better... lest I spend another millennia
enslaved in the salty Orchestra listening chamber.
Reaching up with a more solemn posture I spin the Queue and speak "I want
the booook...", pausing for just a moment I spin it again... "pleaaaase".
The old monk smiles just a hint and says "the book cannot be obtained so
easily by he who disappointed his brethren".
...
...
Perhaps one day soon I will be able to finish this adventure and actually
obtain this heavily guarded writings by Jules Verne, this 'From the Earth to
the Moon'.
David L
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:29 PM
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