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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.

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.

So far, I've never thrown out any of my stripped books or advance reader copies. However, if that time comes, I'll probably do what I do with the stripped mags I have and rip them apart first before disposing of them so you can't tell they were strips.You never know who's out there. I know our receiving manager has poked people away from the dumpster before.

I can't even remember if I've made it to "the Knights who say 'Nee'," since we bought the DVD.

I hear those words and return these words to you. My ex slept through Life of Brian the first two times we saw it. I married her and we were together for fifteen years, so the Python sleepage wasn't held against her, and Brian is pretty much what passes for religion in my life (don't get me started -- "people called Romanes, they go, the 'ouse", shit, too late). Nonetheless, Python is so pervasive in remotely fannish circles, it always shocks me when someone I know from fandom isn't prepared to quote chapter and verse at the slightest provocation. Python is ::grits teeth:: slipping further into the past, so sometimes younger people aren't quite so fanatical, but often they still are, or the ones who will talk to me anyway, which is probably a self-selecting sample there.

Waldenbooks had the same policy when I worked there.

At least we got the district manager to agree to them being sent to a recycling plant instead of directly to the dumpster.

Jeez, I've been reading these all the book-stripping posts and thinking, "Well at least they're recycled." Man, am I naive.