LawTalkers - Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones!

Originally posted by dtb
Really? You hated that? It was really fucking depressing, but I didn't think it was unreadable the way some of the selections highlighted here are (e.g., The Red Badge of fucking Courage).

I 2 balt. All I remember is a someone getting on a sled, possibly drunk, and seriously getting mangled. I was optimisitic bc I thought there might be sex in it when I picked it up. Total letdown. I am told that I should read that Wharton book on society and the mannered folks of turno f the century NYC, but I feel like it would be like watching an old movie that has been improved on. I have also never read V. Woolf for the same reason (and avoided her in HS and college)

Penske_Account

10-20-2005 03:37 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
But I'm faking it. I know I'm not fast (compared to real runners). Faster than the weekenders? Yeah, but not fast enought to talk smack.

1. It's relative, we are talking smack at each other, not the kenyans.

2. I am not a runner, and but at long distance tris I have been fast enough to talk smack, at least amongst amatuer men or pro women (you might be able to talk smack to second tier pro-women runners if you did more speed work).

ThurgreedMarshall

10-20-2005 03:37 PM

Fucking Hell it's the Book Club

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Why did I just answer this.

I don't know. I was just seeing how much I could get away with.

TM

Hank Chinaski

10-20-2005 03:39 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
1. It's relative, we are talking smack at each other, not the kenyans.

2. I am not a runner, and but at long distance tris I have been fast enough to talk smack, at least amongst amatuer men or pro women (you might be able to talk smack to second tier pro-women runners if you did more speed work).

Coltrane and I are too tall to be good distance guys. Anything over 5'8" doesn't help you move faster. it's just weight to carry.

How tall are you again?

barely_legal

10-20-2005 03:40 PM

Finally...a new poll

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Strange, I havent read most of what is listed. Except of course Cathcer in the Rye and Separate Peace. I remember being thankful that Icould duck a couple of books (the one by the guy who wasnt Melville but was a contemporary, the Pearl Buck book and any Shakepeare - I only had to read one). I was in some advanced independent course of some sort (depsite the Catcher in the Rye debacle) where I got to pick my own books. I was looking for antying that might have some sex in it. I picked Bell Jar, Franny and Zooey, the Awakening (did anyone read this?) and a couple of other repressed. miserable young lady books I cannot recall.

I read the Awakening in high school and used it as the subject of my long essay on the AP exam (I got a 5, b/c I'm fancy). I tried to read Wide Sargasso Sea but it was too painful, even though I love Jane Eyre. I did watch the movie of WSS, but it sucked too. I had to read Franny & Zooey in my college class for people who liked to do drugs. I honestly didn't know that a class called "Altered States" would be filled with people who had done acid a minium of 5 times. I was that sheltered.

Oh, and I read Bell Jar on my own when I was in middle school. Was there sex in that book?

ABBAKiss

10-20-2005 03:40 PM

Fucking Hell it's the Book Club

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't know. I was just seeing how much I could get away with.

TM

Thanks, Boom Boom. What did you have for lunch?

Shape Shifter

10-20-2005 03:40 PM

Finally...a new poll

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Wait just a minute here. TM is black, Boom Boom is black... Brilliant! Why didn't I come up with this?

TM is black?

Penske_Account

10-20-2005 03:40 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
1. I haven't posted like the Yankees are winners in quite some time.

2. When exactly did your PR occur?

3. After meeting you both, I bet Coltrane could whip you with one bleeding nipple tied behind his back.

4. Stop living in the past, man.

TM

1. Posting anything about them is an allusion to some delusion that they are worthy of conversation.

2. The latest? This past weekend jackarse.

3. That's fine, place your bet accordingly, it won't affect the outcome, one way or the other. I have been doubted plenty of times before by people with much better insite than yours.

4. My latest PR was this weekend, stop ASSuming you know whereof you post.

Penske_Account

10-20-2005 03:43 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Coltrane and I are too tall to be good distance guys. Anything over 5'8" doesn't help you move faster. it's just weight to carry.

Bob Kempainen?

paigowprincess

10-20-2005 03:43 PM

Another stupid list

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Speaking of which, are cords still fashionable? Haven't busted 'em out yet this year, and don't want to if they're not, you know, kool and shit.

Of course, 'round here, denim, fleece, and gore-tex are the height of fashion, so I can't really fuck up too badly.

Why are you still trying to look kool and shit? Did you track down the Georgia peach?

Ask me what show I am seeing on New Years.

Hank Chinaski

10-20-2005 03:46 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Bob Kempainen?

Exception proves rule.

dtb	10-20-2005 03:50 PM

Finally...a new poll

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
I somehow totally missed the point of this and thought grand was a phony word bc it had more than one meaning or something (imagine, me, not appreciating phoniness! Oh, the irony!). So I picked a word that similarly seemed overused, misused or abused. I wish I could remember what it was.

Please, please tell me you took the opportunity to school your teacher on the perils of the misuse and abuse of the word "classy".

Alex_de_Large

10-20-2005 03:53 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No. I don't race in fancy races where you get to use a machine or travel through water. I race like men race: with their feet. On pavement. Constant pounding. Tris are for slow ex-marathoners who use the previous two legs as an excuse for their pathetically slow third leg.

Guilty as charged.

Shape Shifter

10-20-2005 03:54 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
1. Posting anything about them is an allusion to some delusion that they are worthy of conversation.

2. The latest? This past weekend jackarse.

3. That's fine, place your bet accordingly, it won't affect the outcome, one way or the other. I have been doubted plenty of times before by people with much better insite than yours.

4. My latest PR was this weekend, stop ASSuming you know whereof you post.

What's your best time in a k race?

Did you just call me Coltrane?

10-20-2005 03:57 PM

Why the Sudden Interest?!?

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Coltrane and I are too tall to be good distance guys. Anything over 5'8" doesn't help you move faster. it's just weight to carry.

How tall are you again?

I have a buddy who is 6'5" and 170. Runs a 2:51 marathon. Drinks like a fish.

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