I think I've drawn the line at stereo instructions.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Barb - Sep 06, 2008 7:38:26 am PDT #7314 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Gadget_Girl - Sep 06, 2008 7:40:09 am PDT #7315 of 28404
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I think I've drawn the line at stereo instructions.
Nope, I've gone down that road.
I have read cereal boxes, assembly instructions, automotive catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and the occasional MSDS.
This is me.
Strix - Sep 06, 2008 7:41:46 am PDT #7316 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read instructions on tampon boxes and enemas while in other people's bathrooms.
There are magazines and books in my bathroom.
Amy - Sep 06, 2008 7:43:02 am PDT #7317 of 28404
Because books.
Yeah, I've read stereo instructions in a pinch. Owner's manuals if I wind up in the car (horrors!) without a book.
I think I might actually draw the line at enema instructions, though.
Ginger - Sep 06, 2008 7:43:32 am PDT #7318 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Assembly instructions can be rather soothing if you have no intent to actually assemble something.
P.M. Marc - Sep 06, 2008 8:32:17 am PDT #7319 of 28404
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ginger is me. I get twitchy if I don't have text.
Connie Neil - Sep 06, 2008 9:27:13 am PDT #7320 of 28404
brillig
automotive catalogs
Catalogs are like a window into a totally different world! All those arcane things that apparently mean something to other people, and they come in odd variants. Whole industries for things I never suspected, it's like looking behind a door and finding the world of the gnomes or something.
juliana - Sep 06, 2008 9:55:35 am PDT #7321 of 28404
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I do remember finding it pretty difficult to give a shit about Aeneas after he'd left Dido in the lurch and she'd topped herself.
I get pissed at Dido, because she's so damn lovestruck that she more or less abandons her people and the construction of her city to moon after Aeneas, and instead of a) hunting him down or b) picking herself back up after he fucks off, she lies to her sister and tosses herself on top of a pyre. That is not leadership, woman! Way to give female rulers a bad name!
I, too, need to read. I've read some truly awful books just because they were the only thing in the house I was visiting.
Jars - Sep 06, 2008 10:01:17 am PDT #7322 of 28404
That is not leadership, woman!
I remember thinking that Aeneas was better off away from the crazy burny lady. Poor old Carthage though.
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2008 10:06:52 am PDT #7323 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I, too, need to read. I've read some truly awful books just because they were the only thing in the house I was visiting.
This is how I got into The Babysitters Club.