I was going for the emotion, not the exact dialogue.

Notice he didn't have it in carryon.

I had a summer job for a book distributor once, where the job was to strip off covers for returns. It literally (pun!) gave me nightmares.

I worked for Waldenbooks for six years, and every month, we weeded the shelves for returns. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks (those larger than the pocket paperbacks) got sent back to the warehouse to be sold to remainder houses, and the pocket paperbacks were all stripped, the covers scanned and sent to the warehouse and the books thrown into the dumpster. We couldn't even take them home in case we would sell them at the used bookstore (that happened once a few years before at another store, and the employee, assistant managers, and manager were all fired as a result).

Even worse was when the first store I worked at closed down, and we had to strip ALL of the paperbacks in the store--at least 4,000 of them were to be trashed. We had to go through hoops to get permission to send them off to the recycling plant instead of directly to the garbage.

...[T]he first store I worked at closed down, and we had to strip ALL of the paperbacks in the store--at least 4,000 of them ...

They ought to film this and show it every Halloween.

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That would have broken me.

Can't they give them to libraries or something, or ship them somewhere? So many trees killed for naught. There oughta be a law.

and now for my Meara:

There already appears to be a song about Evangeline Lilly

OMG I totally forgot, there already is a song called Evangeline! An awesome one at that.

if you have that much need to be self-flagellated there are easier ways to go about it

Yeah, like being Spike and picking a fight with S6 Buffy being Wes and picking a fight with S1 Faith being Jayne and picking a fight with Mal

Snicker Bitch must DIE!

Did anyone else think that Not!Sawyer's ConWife was Snicker Bitch for a second? This was in the first scene, when I was alternately saying "It's Anya!" "No, it's Shannon!" over & over.

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Did anyone else think that Not!Sawyer's ConWife was Snicker Bitch for a second? This was in the first scene, when I was alternately saying "It's Anya!" "No, it's Shannon!" over & over.

No. All het males have an automatic breast diameter/depth sensor that immediately identified ConWife as someone new.

Sad, but true.

Oh god, Sawyer. It makes me so hot when you're an asshole. (I also said this aloud. My mother said "Regina. SERIOUSLY. I'm worried.")

Heeeeee from Regina's LJ.

In the "why wasn't the book wet?" department, Sawyer's been reading it for several episodes. It's had sufficient time to dry off. Granted, it still doesn't look like it's been in the ocean, but hey.

And I don't think Sawyer actually has the inhalers. Kate already made an offer to trade for them. If Shannon actually dies, they become valueless. There's no reason to horde them.

In the "why wasn't the book wet?" department, Sawyer's been reading it for several episodes. It's had sufficient time to dry off. Granted, it still doesn't look like it's been in the ocean, but hey.

I don't think anyone said "why doesn't it look wet?"

Books that have been soaking wet do not look nice and flat and smooth.

I was idly LJ surfing, and just came across this Watch'n'Post style entry of an unapologetically drooly fangirl, which made me laugh and laugh. The bits about the hazard of watching the show with her dad are particularly priceless.

Ha, she's one of my closest LJ friends. Really sweet, smart girl, but I have to skip her fangirly entries because I can't stand the drooly stuff. I wanted to scream after the pilot aired and every second poster on the episode thread at TWoP thought it would be fun to list the five characters they'd most like to have sex with, and even this week's thread there annoyed me with all the "Charlie can lick imaginary peanut butter off me" and "Sayid can tie me up anytime."

I love this thread, though -- lots of great points. Like Beverly, I am just reading and nodding. I especially like all the Sawyer=Faith analysis.