Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

Xander ,'Get It Done'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 8:43:52 am PST #2104 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I loved Encyclopedia Brown. I wanted to be him. And have what's-her-name for a girlfriend....

I think my fave was when he had a submarine! Yep, he bought a captured Japanese midget sub at an auction. (Although I remember thinking at the time that his method of winning the auction would never work.)


DavidS - Nov 18, 2008 8:43:53 am PST #2105 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm also a big Sinbad and Me fan. One of the select books I reread constantly in my childhood.


DavidS - Nov 18, 2008 8:44:32 am PST #2106 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think my fave was when he had a submarine! Yep, he bought a captured Japanese midget sub at an auction.

You're confusing him with Danny Dunn.


tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 8:45:40 am PST #2107 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Really? I don't even remember Danny Dunn. Or I guess I do.


DavidS - Nov 18, 2008 8:46:30 am PST #2108 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Ooh, I had this one Midnight, Champion Bucking Horse.


DavidS - Nov 18, 2008 8:48:01 am PST #2109 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The Danny Dunn series.

Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor is the one with the personal sub.

Of course, nothing was better than Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators. I desperately wanted an abandoned trailer in a junk yard for a clubhouse, and a chauffeur on call.


P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2008 8:48:20 am PST #2110 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Man, I loved that one, Hec.


DavidS - Nov 18, 2008 8:49:46 am PST #2111 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Man, I loved that one, Hec.

Midnight? Yeah, that was a great book. Ain't a rider can't be throwed, ain't a horse that can't be rode. Except one.


P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2008 8:52:56 am PST #2112 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I had a fondness for the it. I had all the classic horse books as a kid.


aurelia - Nov 18, 2008 8:53:15 am PST #2113 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Infinity bookcase -- neat looking idea... but practically, how do you get at the books in the middle?!

To me it looks like there are no backs to the bookcase, so the middle is actually looking at the back of the books placed from the outside. I think. Now I'm confused.

It looks that way to me, too. Everything is only one book deep.