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  Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-15 10:18 -0700
    Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-15 17:23 +0000
      Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-15 10:41 -0700
        Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-15 18:02 +0000
      Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-16 08:51 -0400
        Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-16 15:03 +0000
        Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 17:12 -0700
          Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-17 10:15 -0400
            Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-17 07:27 -0700
              Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-17 12:30 -0400
              Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:40 -0400
            Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-17 16:12 +0000
            Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-09-18 16:46 -0400
    Re: Speaking of "young adult" books Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-16 00:46 +0000
    Re: Speaking of "young adult" books dmoorman <dmoorman4@comcast.net> - 2015-09-16 23:56 -0500

#79877 — Speaking of "young adult" books

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#79878

On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
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Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
book after reading the first few pages?  : )

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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#79879

In article <d5r2grF6s7iU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
> >><http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-15
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> 
> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
> book after reading the first few pages?  : )

You don't need my, or anyone else's, permission for that.

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#79880

On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <d5r2grF6s7iU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>
>> >><http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-15
>> >584-1442155744-8.png>
>> 
>> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
>> book after reading the first few pages?  : )
>
> You don't need my, or anyone else's, permission for that.

Is that a "no"?  : )

I don't need anyone's permission to read them either, yet it was
offered. ; ) 

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#79890

On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-15584-1442155744-8.png>
>
> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
> book after reading the first few pages?  : )

You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot 
rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.

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#79892

On 2015-09-16, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-15584-1442155744-8.png>
>>
>> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
>> book after reading the first few pages?  : )
>
> You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot 
> rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.

Figures.

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#79893

In article <ROydnREeUMlX-GTInZ2dnUU7-YnOydjZ@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-1
> >> 5584-1442155744-8.png>
> >
> > Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
> > book after reading the first few pages?  : )
> 
> You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot 
> rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.
> 

"It was a dark and stormy night," opening sentence of /Paul Clifford/,
a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night>

The writing department of San Jose State University has held the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982. Participants submit opening
sentences to imaginary novels.

Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock and who recently died, won in 2000
with this gem:

"The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a
crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors, their rocky elbows
slipping off land's end, their bulbous, craggy noses thrust into the
thick foam of the North Sea like bearded old men falling asleep in
their pints."

Garrison Spik won in 2008 with this opening line:

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and
like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their
bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through
manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"


Just setting the record straight. Back to your regular trolling. :)

-- 
Jim Gibson

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#79895

On 2015-09-16 20:12, Jim Gibson wrote:
> In article <ROydnREeUMlX-GTInZ2dnUU7-YnOydjZ@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-1
>>>> 5584-1442155744-8.png>
>>>
>>> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
>>> book after reading the first few pages?  : )
>>
>> You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot
>> rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.
>>
>
> "It was a dark and stormy night," opening sentence of /Paul Clifford/,
> a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night>
>
> The writing department of San Jose State University has held the
> Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982. Participants submit opening
> sentences to imaginary novels.
>
> Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock and who recently died, won in 2000
> with this gem:
>
> "The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a
> crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors, their rocky elbows
> slipping off land's end, their bulbous, craggy noses thrust into the
> thick foam of the North Sea like bearded old men falling asleep in
> their pints."

Horrid.

>
> Garrison Spik won in 2008 with this opening line:
>
> "Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and
> like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their
> bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through
> manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"

Really horrid.

I hope those awards were very tongue in cheek.

>
>
> Just setting the record straight. Back to your regular trolling. :)

If the intended humour was over your head then I guess you should 
consult an audiologist for a whoosh test.

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#79896

In article <U5ydnbgThOqTVmfInZ2dnUU7-LudnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> I hope those awards were very tongue in cheek.

The more horrid the entry, the better chance of winning the award.

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#79898

On 2015-09-17 10:27, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <U5ydnbgThOqTVmfInZ2dnUU7-LudnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> I hope those awards were very tongue in cheek.
>
> The more horrid the entry, the better chance of winning the award.

I am relieved.

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#79899

In article <170920150727312406%michelle@michelle.org>,
 Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <U5ydnbgThOqTVmfInZ2dnUU7-LudnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I hope those awards were very tongue in cheek.
> 
> The more horrid the entry, the better chance of winning the award.

"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she 
was beautiful. And Brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the 
Beatles. And me." 

Should've won for sure. Yech.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#79897

On 2015-09-17, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

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> I hope those awards were very tongue in cheek.
>
>>
>>
>> Just setting the record straight. Back to your regular trolling. :)
>
> If the intended humour was over your head then I guess you should 
> consult an audiologist for a whoosh test.

Oh, the irony.

*plonk*


-- 
Today is Setting Orange, the 41st day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181
                  I don't have an attitude problem.
    If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.

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#79908

On 9/17/15 10:15 a, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2015-09-16 20:12, Jim Gibson wrote:
>> In article <ROydnREeUMlX-GTInZ2dnUU7-YnOydjZ@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
>> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-09-15 13:23, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2015-09-15, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>>>> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-1
>>>>> 5584-1442155744-8.png>
>>>>
>>>> Do we also have your permissions to decide not to read the rest of a
>>>> book after reading the first few pages?  : )
>>>
>>> You committed from the first "It was a dark and rainy night.  A shot
>>> rang out.  A woman screamed." and have to finish.  It's the code.
>>
>> "It was a dark and stormy night," opening sentence of /Paul Clifford/,
>> a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night>
>>
>> The writing department of San Jose State University has held the
>> Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982. Participants submit opening
>> sentences to imaginary novels.
>>
>> Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock and who recently died, won in 2000
>> with this gem:
>>
>> "The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a
>> crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors, their rocky elbows
>> slipping off land's end, their bulbous, craggy noses thrust into the
>> thick foam of the North Sea like bearded old men falling asleep in
>> their pints."
>
> Horrid.
>
NO! NO! NO! Exquisite!!!
 >
>> Garrison Spik won in 2008 with this opening line:
>>
>> "Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and
>> like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their
>> bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through
>> manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"
>
> Really horrid.
>
Truly Exquisite! As the t-shirt says, "All I needed to know about life, 
I learned from romance novels."

*<:-D

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#79884

In message <150920151018135706%michelle@michelle.org> 
  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-15584-1442155744-8.png>

Nice sign (and I recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children).

-- 
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all
the time might start to think.

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#79894

On Sep 15, 2015, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article<150920151018135706%michelle@michelle.org>):

> <http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-09/13/10/enhanced/webdr06/enhance
> d-15584-1442155744-8.png>

I like it!

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