Juh-law-pee is how I learned it, too.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
DebetEsse - Dec 12, 2003 11:05:46 am PST #236 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Polgara - Dec 12, 2003 1:42:41 pm PST #237 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Remember Jim's stepfather Jonesy? For some reason I always thought it was John-ess-y, until my sister corrected me years later. D'oh!
Vortex - Dec 12, 2003 7:46:26 pm PST #238 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I remember Jim! *sigh*. You guys are making me want to drive over to my parents' house and get them right now.
Sugarfreak - Dec 13, 2003 3:01:55 pm PST #239 of 10002
How, how, how is the Da Vinci Code science fiction???
sarameg - Dec 13, 2003 5:08:33 pm PST #240 of 10002
I have a question: thoughts on Patricia Reilly Griff? Just bought a couple mom had on her wishlist (Picture of Hollis Woods and Lily's Crossing.) Want to know if I should read them NOW before I give them to her. I'll probably get to read them eventually, but.... the box of xmas books for mom & dad? Is big. And has at least 4 I want to read in the next (checks calendar) 11 days. Shit.
Kat - Dec 13, 2003 5:18:52 pm PST #241 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I adore Picture of Hollis Woods. I would definitely read it. It might take you all of 45 minutes to an hour. It's incredibly quick.
sarameg - Dec 13, 2003 5:28:53 pm PST #242 of 10002
Great (heh.) I'm going to be carrying a few plane/present books, I think. Got a 2 hour layover in Dallas...
In my family, it is perfectly legit to read the books before gifting them. There's also a tradition, when Xmas is in LC, in which you read everyone else's gifts first, before you leave. Then you read yours, but don't have to send them back for the other's to read, because they read them before they wrapped them! We're slightly insane.
flea - Dec 15, 2003 4:19:12 am PST #243 of 10002
information libertarian
This is completely logical. As is giving one's husband books he will enjoy but so will you. It's NOT a Homer Simpson gift if he likes it too. Nuh Uh.
sj - Dec 15, 2003 6:04:11 pm PST #244 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone read A Girl's Guide to Vampires? I was just at the bookstore and it caught my attention. I have only read the first chapter so far.
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2003 6:39:23 pm PST #245 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I read it. Not as funny as it ought to be, IMHO. It doesn't help that she's basing it on a really freaky vampire canon. (Not just not the Jossverse, but not the Stokerverse either. A weird romance-novel canon with Carpathians.)