Huh. The Brick Moon
Which IIRC is one of the first (if not the first) look at the possibility of putting people in earth orbit.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Dec 06, 2005 7:07:35 pm PST #8193 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
beth b - Dec 06, 2005 7:11:01 pm PST #8194 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Down and out in the Magic Kingdom
which is new. But you can still get from manybooks
and it was good.
dcp - Dec 06, 2005 7:11:58 pm PST #8195 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Plunkett of Tammany Hall
Plunkitt with an "i" actually. First edition 1905.
"A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics...."
Chapter One: Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft.
Hee.
tommyrot - Dec 06, 2005 7:14:46 pm PST #8196 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ooh - they have 45 titles by Jules Verne (although many are in French).
brenda m - Dec 06, 2005 7:17:24 pm PST #8197 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Thanks for the correction, and I'm so chuffed that someone else knows that book! My best friend and I love it but I find no one generally has hear of him.
Full name is George Washington Plunkitt, btw.
Now that I think about it, my Plunkitt fangirliness has a lot to do with why I like Mayor Daley so much...
dcp - Dec 06, 2005 7:38:15 pm PST #8198 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
but I find no one generally has heard of him
Yeah, I only heard about him because I have the same last name, spelled with the more conventional -ett ending.
Betsy HP - Dec 06, 2005 7:43:40 pm PST #8199 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Um, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Prisoner of Zenda.
And TSP is anti-Semitic as HELL, very embarrassing. Let us all pretend the last chapter doesn't exist.
Typo Boy - Dec 06, 2005 8:15:51 pm PST #8200 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Mrs. Warrens Profession OK -play, but also published.
Ooh - Kidnapped and The Black Arrow, Three Musketeers
Hmm - love 20,000 leagues under the sea when I was 11. I wonder If I'd enjoy it today. Don't remember it well enough to rec or not.
Umm - hate to confess- Mary Poppins One really horribly racist chapter you want will want to skip though - the one where she takes the kids to visit four racist stereotypes representing four directions. If you can get past that - Mary Poppins in the book was really a very sinister figure.
Another childhood book At the Back of the North Wind. Have not read it as an adult, so don't know if it as a great a weepy for grownups as for kids. [On edit - a really sickly sentimentallity - but there is a lot of good goth stuff hidden under the treacle.]
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass still holds up for me as an adult, as does Wind in the Willows
beth b - Dec 06, 2005 8:22:00 pm PST #8201 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok, if you haven't watched Ed Stone is Dead
really the first Episode was Very funny
Ed is dead, but he shouldn't be. Nigal, the grim reaper goofed - so Ed gets his life, but not his life force back.
Nigal is also an a True Buffy fan. as in , he berates Ed for his empty buffyless lfe.
sj - Dec 06, 2005 8:24:42 pm PST #8202 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ed Stone is Dead
I can't find a listing for it. Where/when does it air?