Down and out in the Magic Kingdom
which is new. But you can still get from manybooks
and it was good.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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.
beth b - Dec 06, 2005 7:11:01 pm PST #8194 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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?
Gris - Dec 06, 2005 8:54:03 pm PST #8203 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! Those (plus the Barsoom series A Princess of Mars and so forth, which i've been meaning to read for forever) should keep me in always-in-my-pocket reading material for quite a while.