mmm, Python.

"And St. Atilla raised the hand grenade on high, saying 'Oh, Lord, bless this, thine hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny pieces.'"

Thanks, shrift. I should have known that was from MP&tHG. t dies

Also, I'm amused to learn of ita's achilles tendon. I just need to poke her in the soft fleshy palms.

What's the argument behind this? It seems like such a huge waste. Is it just a matter of nobody being willing to store them?

Yeah, it's because of storage issues and the cost of shipping boxloads of mass market books back. Of course, it doesn't always make sense because often we'll have a book due out, strip it, then either a customer asks us to order it, or we'll get it back in as part of a regular shipment. I guess they're cheap enough to produce that they can be disposed of so easily.

More Stephen Colbert, but not on the Daily Show: [link]

More Stephen Colbert, but not on the Daily Show

Ack!

t cries

I should have known that was from MP&tHG.

I was speechless. You aren't adored any less at all, it was just ... surprising.

When I worked at Waldenbooks, if we tried to take home a stripped book and read it, then toss it out at home, we'd be fired. Apparently, some dipshit did that, but instead of tossing it, he sold it at a used book store, and it got traced back to him, causing the publisher to raise holy hell. Waldens cracked down on the practice after that. Same thing (stripping) happens to old issues of magazines, too.

Worst time in working for the company was when I shut down a store, and we had to strip every single massmarket paperback left in the store after it closed. Must have been more than 5000 books. At least we got the district manager to agree to them being sent to a recycling plant instead of directly to the dumpster.

'rubber husbands'

Oh dear. I, oh, my.

JohnSweden, the last 5 times I have tried to watch MP&tHG, I have fallen sound asleep. I know one time I made it to "bring out your dead", once I made it to, "just a flesh wound" and once to "A witch! A witch! It's a fair cop." I can't remember the other two times. It's been years since I've watched it all the way through. I can't even remember if I've made it to "the Knights who say 'Nee'," since we bought the DVD. t ashamed

I am now reading the script for The Holy Grail and snerking mightily:

Soldier #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
Soldier #1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!
Soldier #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
Arthur: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
Soldier #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
Arthur: Please!
Soldier #1: Am I right?
Arthur: I'm not interested!
Soldier #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
Soldier #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.

Right. So not getting any work done now.