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remmers
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What Is Special?
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Dec 4 05:56 UTC 1994 |
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a Frank."
"To be or not to be, that is the credenza."
"My wooden doggie is scrunched against the wall."
It is these and other great quotes that make literature special.
What is special to you?
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alfee
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response 1 of 21:
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Dec 4 06:11 UTC 1994 |
Being able to read these and other great quotes is special to me. Being
literate, in fact, is very, very special to me.
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chelsea
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response 2 of 21:
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Dec 4 11:40 UTC 1994 |
Remmers will tell of how may times I've stood in Borders, arms outstretched,
turning round-and-round, remarking on how amazing it all is. I mean,
all of those books use the same words. The only difference, from one
to any other, is the *order* of those words. To which remmers always says...
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remmers
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response 3 of 21:
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Dec 4 13:51 UTC 1994 |
...this is very true. Shakespeare is remembered today because he wrote
"To be or not to be" and not "Not or be be to to".
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carl
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response 4 of 21:
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Dec 4 15:17 UTC 1994 |
Okay. Repeat this mantra many, many times. (preferrably aloud)
Owwha taj ur kieyam.
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lee
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response 5 of 21:
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May 22 19:36 UTC 1997 |
say what?
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remmers
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response 6 of 21:
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May 23 10:36 UTC 1997 |
You may need to say it a few more times.
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lee
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response 7 of 21:
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May 23 22:35 UTC 1997 |
one little two little three little special things
four little five little six little special things
seven little eight little nine little special things
ten little special things... uh...
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i
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response 8 of 21:
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Apr 11 01:05 UTC 1998 |
Ten little Beanie Toys!
This items is hereby official and sanctimoniously dedicated to the
superfluous enumeration of excessive and indenumerable so-called-Beanie
personae within or without your exclusive, indecipherable, and really
squishy personal posession, actual, virtual, or pseudohyperpolysyllablically
conceptualized.
Jaspar Jellyfish
Besty Buzzard
Randy Roadkill
one Nerf brick for throwing at the TV that we found all over the house
after a black lab named Leonardo White chewed it to pieces one night.
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snowth
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response 9 of 21:
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Apr 11 02:10 UTC 1998 |
A green eggplant named Zoe. That's about it for me.
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orinoco
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response 10 of 21:
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Apr 11 04:28 UTC 1998 |
Elmer the Crab, Oscar II the Squeaky Guard Lobster, and an unnamed Tree Frog
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i
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response 11 of 21:
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Apr 19 17:25 UTC 1998 |
Sorry, but we named the tree frog Dart B. Poison II at our spring equinox
fertility fest this year.
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orinoco
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response 12 of 21:
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Apr 19 23:12 UTC 1998 |
Ah. And are the equinoxes breeding more rapidly as a result?
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i
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response 13 of 21:
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Apr 20 02:21 UTC 1998 |
Unfortunately no. The other fertility fest attendees (esp. those who
sampled our wide variety of punches) have reported generally reported
excellent results. But no matter how spirited the revelry, we just
couldn't get the two equinoxes together. (*ONLY* two - they're
*critically* endangered!)
We have several study groups at work on the matter and hope for better
results when we try again in about 5 monthes.
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lee
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response 14 of 21:
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Apr 21 02:12 UTC 1998 |
Rainbow sherbert makes good punch
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orinoco
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response 15 of 21:
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Apr 21 02:54 UTC 1998 |
Well no wonder you're having trouble, if you're trying to breed _two_
equinoxes together. That's like trying to breed two hens with no rooster!
For goodness sake, get one of them solstices into the next attempt.
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snowth
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response 16 of 21:
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Apr 22 02:00 UTC 1998 |
You have a *problem* with same equinox mating? Hmmm?
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i
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response 17 of 21:
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Apr 22 22:21 UTC 1998 |
Watch out! He may be some sort of heterophile, with all sorts of anti-
social behavior problems. He could turn violent at any time.
Or he may just want the fertility fest held 3 months sooner than planned
for personal reasons.... :)
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orinoco
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response 18 of 21:
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Apr 23 17:50 UTC 1998 |
Mating is one thing, but expecting offspring from the pairing...
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julian81
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response 19 of 21:
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Mar 30 13:48 UTC 2000 |
whats this?????
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orinoco
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response 20 of 21:
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Mar 30 14:22 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, what's up with the delay? Several equinoxes have come and gone - I
demand a progress report!
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i
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response 21 of 21:
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Apr 1 02:02 UTC 2000 |
Re #19: "this" is a pronoun or a proverb or something like that
Re #20: You can find all the details of problems (lots) and progress
(little) on the web. I forget the URL, but "Thangorodrim"
and "chromodynamism" in any decent search engine will pull it
right up. In brief, one of the two equinoxes has a frigidity
problem, the other a fertility problem. We need to renew our
grant at a higher funding level to get more researchers, more
scientific equipment, and a better brand of vodka in the punch.
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