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He keeps us all entertained!

Too true. Maybe I ought to change my Quotable of the Day.

I like that one! Stephen R. Donaldson wrote a book called "This Day All Gods Die." For some reason I just love the title of it. Hmm. Now I'm going to have to buy the Gap series and reread them. They're a bit of a rough read, but totally worth it.

The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story (1990),
The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge (1991),
The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises (1992),
The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Disorder (1993),
and The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die (1994).

w00t!

It's been a while since I've read Xanth, but I do enjoy it. Hee, hee. The Color of Her Panties. Who other than Piers Anthony would name a book that? Good memories.

I haven't been reading as much as I used to for pretty much the same reasons. There is a Barnes and Noble two hours away, so every once in a while I'll get some new books, but not often.

I change my quotes fairly often, so that might be some of the confusion. As for Piers Anthony and Terry Pratchett (discworld reference), their wonderful (in my opinion) fantasy authors. The one I have as of now is from "Reaper's Gale" by Steven Erikson.

BTW, thanks. I'm glad you like the quote.

It's one of my favorite past times and I forget that not everyone knows what I'm talking about. I tend to insert both of my feet down my throat in that regard.

Not challenging enough? Now that hurts. I'm kind of curious to see what responses I get to that one though.

You are on a roll today. In reply... I wasn't alive for watergate, because if I recall correctly, that'd be *eons* ago I won't even reply to the dating comment :raises eyebrow: I like where I'm working and I don't lie well at all, so that kills the government internship.

On momentous occasions my synapses do fire and I don't think that qualifies as one, so please forgive the lack of original thought.

It depends on the day and the person as to whether one fires or whether they all fire. Right now with about 3 1/2 hours of really poor sleep, I'm lucky to fire anything off, synapses or witty comments. I've definitely worked at worse places for worse wages, have a tendency to shock people, hence the lack of prospective dates, and when I said don't lie well, I meant I was bad at it when I did try so I just gave up on that. I'm in serious need of coffee, but I'm afraid I'll meet it when it comes back up. However, trying to come up with replies to your posts has been the highlight of my day, because it makes me have to think. Very few people make me question why I think or act the way I do. That's not a bad thing, it's actually good. It's pulling me out of a rut of unoriginal thinking, that I hadn't realized I was in until now.

Not really. I have the start of the flu and seem to be beating it for the time being. Although, it does sound better telling people I was out drinking until the wee hours of the morning. As for religious, that depends upon your definition of religious. I've done some carpentry, worked as a lifeguard, cleaned houses, worked as a housekeeper and night audit in a motel, and served food, did dishes, and cleaned rooms at a guest ranch. As for shocking people, well, you'd have to know me to understand that one. I only make jokes about bondage, having actually hit myself with a horse whip kills any use of whips in any manner.


I more of a whiskey drinker than anything though. If I do drink beer it's generally dark beer or malt beverages. I've never had rumplemintz or tequila and seeing as how I only weigh 105, that much alcohol would probably kill me.

I tend to be more vocal online because I have never and most likely won't meet any of the people on here barring chance encounters. I'm more reserved in person until I really get to know some one really well. Yes, this is the honest truth, so don't scoff.

She's got you there, Ripp! I do understand what you're getting at though with the "big brother watching you" though.

I like qlue's taste in books! I haven't heard anyone mention "The Neverending Story" in a long time.

I love the Chronilces of Narnia! They were some of the first fantasy books I ever read. "The Neverending Story" movie was pretty cute.

Was vaguely disturbing the term you were looking for?

Similar thing here. Not so much with nonfiction though. It has to be something that I'm really interested in for me to keep at it. One of my friends in Montana has a library of about 3000 books. Mostly sci-fi and fantasy, but some thrillers, war stories, nonfiction, etc. I read alot of them in my early teens before I was able to afford my own.

There's nothing wrong with that. If it interests you, then you're more likely to learn from it. My brother and one of my sisters are the same way with reading. They had to find something that could hold their interest or they got (and still get) frustrated with it. We ended up homeschooling mostly for that reason. They needed the one-on-one learning, rather than group learning and that helped them out quite a bit once they did that.

I don't know the laws in Australia, but in most of the US as long as you comply with state and federal laws you can teach yourself at home. Here we have to get a GED (General Education Diploma), which you can take an adult education center or college/university. We can take our college/university SAT's and such at the same places. If we needed help we got help from a tutor or a friend.