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▫ Oct 6 2006, 15:35 Post #141

Okay. If you wanna talk books. I got this book from a lady friend of mine quite a few years ago for Valentine's Day. I read it every year around Valentine's day to kind of honor our friendship and because it's so damn hilarious... especially the beginning. it's titled Post Office by william Borkowski. It's written in first person and it's just an absolutely hilarious account of a guy who winds up working for the US postal service. the first two chapters had me laughing so hard out loud... and tha'ts when I worked downtown and took the train to work. People were staring at me like I was crazy. It's a great and quick read and you'd probably like it. If you knew anyone who works for the US postal service, you'd appreciate it even more.

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 15:59 Post #142

There's a book by Bill Bryson where he visits all the tourist stop Down Under. He's a funny guy and the book is really entertaining. Actually, I've read all his books and they're all good.

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 16:03 Post #143

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

Okay. If you wanna talk books. I got this book from a lady friend of mine quite a few years ago for Valentine's Day. I read it every year around Valentine's day to kind of honor our friendship and because it's so damn hilarious... especially the beginning. it's titled Post Office by william Borkowski. It's written in first person and it's just an absolutely hilarious account of a guy who winds up working for the US postal service. the first two chapters had me laughing so hard out loud... and tha'ts when I worked downtown and took the train to work. People were staring at me like I was crazy. It's a great and quick read and you'd probably like it. If you knew anyone who works for the US postal service, you'd appreciate it even more.

I shall check that out too. I'm always on the lookout for books that don't suck.

Talking about Seinfeld before got me thinking of a book series called Letters from a nut. This guy named Ted L. Nancy (who is Jerry Seinfeld but he never admits it) writes these outlandish real letters to compnaies and then shows the actual responses he got. He writes to Coca Cola and asks if it is OK if ne names his new diet soda, Ciet Doke. I can't do it justice here, but the letters and then responses are pricless.

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 16:20 Post #144

QUOTE(Gnappster)

I shall check that out too. I'm always on the lookout for books that don't suck.

Talking about Seinfeld before got me thinking of a book series called Letters from a nut. This guy named Ted L. Nancy (who is Jerry Seinfeld but he never admits it) writes these outlandish real letters to compnaies and then shows the actual responses he got. He writes to Coca Cola and asks if it is OK if ne names his new diet soda, Ciet Doke. I can't do it justice here, but the letters and then responses are pricless.

That I've GOT to see. How do we know it's Jerry??

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 16:23 Post #145

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

That I've GOT to see. How do we know it's Jerry??

If you look it up online there is lots of compelling evidence, plus Seinfeld does the introduction to the book, and no one has ever met the real Ted L. Nancy. Plus if you read it you could totally see him doing it.
I stumbled upon the book in the lunchroom at a place I used to work at, and laughed out loud while readng it. I've bought a couple of others from the series too. Some are better than others but the first is my fav.

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 16:33 Post #146

QUOTE(Gnappster)

If you look it up online there is lots of compelling evidence, plus Seinfeld does the introduction to the book, and no one has ever met the real Ted L. Nancy. Plus if you read it you could totally see him doing it.
I stumbled upon the book in the lunchroom at a place I used to work at, and laughed out loud while readng it. I've bought a couple of others from the series too. Some are better than others but the first is my fav.

I love that my wife is a teacher. I get to screw around at the bookstore quite often... and check out other hot teachers

I'll look for it at out next trip. I just wrote it down so I remember.

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▫ Oct 6 2006, 22:27 Post #147

QUOTE(Gnappster)

It is! It's not really full of any over the top drama. Just a good book to sit down and read a chapter or two of everyday. It's pretty crazy when he's cycling through some pretty harsh desert terrain where if his bike broke down and he couldn't fix it, he would be really screwed. He had to carry upwards of 24 liters of water with him between towns or outposts and at times that was barely enough. And he met up with some dudes in the outback hunting and they invited him to go along for a couple weeks to drink beer and shoot things. Great book, I might read it again. I think it's something a lot of people dream of doing, just picking up and leaving, no job, no superficial worries, just ride your bike from place to place and just take it all in.
K, now I've REALLY gone off the movie topic.

It is the dream of every man to drop everything and just go...

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▫ Oct 7 2006, 05:19 Post #148

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

I love that my wife is a teacher. I get to screw around at the bookstore quite often... and check out other hot teachers

I'll look for it at out next trip. I just wrote it down so I remember.

did u use your palm pilot?

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▫ Oct 7 2006, 05:41 Post #149

QUOTE(Gnappster)

did u use your palm pilot?

I think he did, but disturbingly thats what he calls his hand before he makes love to it

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▫ Oct 7 2006, 11:11 Post #150

anybody see the new tv show FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS , to me it was a take from , varsity blues , remember the titans , and the movie friday night lites ... it looks to be stupid to me

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▫ Oct 7 2006, 15:29 Post #151

QUOTE(ddd35)

anybody see the new tv show FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS , to me it was a take from , varsity blues , remember the titans , and the movie friday night lites ... it looks to be stupid to me

varsity blues was a good movie, remember the titans was a great movie. Friday night lights was a horrible wast of time. It had the typical premise of a school sports movie but totally blew it. i didn't care about the coach, the team, or the players. It's like they made an outline for the movie and made sure to touch on each point of the outline without ever caring about trying to get the viewer engaged in the story. It was complete shit! if you want a good movie with the same basic idea, then you should watch remember the titans, hoosiers, coach carter, or something like that. But please don't waste your time on that movie

now for the TV series. It could be good. I'm sure a completely different group of people are in charge of the creative ideas for the TV show as compared to the movie, but the movie jaded me so much that I just don't care.

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▫ Oct 7 2006, 15:32 Post #152

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

varsity blues was a good movie, remember the titans was a great movie. Friday night lights was a horrible wast of time. It had the typical premise of a school sports movie but totally blew it. i didn't care about the coach, the team, or the players. It's like they made an outline for the movie and made sure to touch on each point of the outline without ever caring about trying to get the viewer engaged in the story. It was complete shit! if you want a good movie with the same basic idea, then you should watch remember the titans, hoosiers, coach carter, or something like that. But please don't waste your time on that movie

now for the TV series. It could be good. I'm sure a completely different group of people are in charge of the creative ideas for the TV show as compared to the movie, but the movie jaded me so much that I just don't care.

wow, I got pretty passionate about that. Didn't mean to.

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▫ Oct 8 2006, 20:22 Post #153

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

wow, I got pretty passionate about that. Didn't mean to.

Id say so !! LOL

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▫ Oct 9 2006, 04:50 Post #154

QUOTE(ddd35)

anybody see the new tv show FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS , to me it was a take from , varsity blues , remember the titans , and the movie friday night lites ... it looks to be stupid to me

Saw the movie but never heard of the TV show

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▫ Oct 10 2006, 15:32 Post #155

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Saw the movie but never heard of the TV show

I've never seen either. Besides syndicated shows I don't watch much TV. I was flipping through the major networks the other day and I didn't recognize any of the shows that were on. I know shows like Lost and Prison Break among others are supposed to be great shows but I've never seen them and honestly have no idea what they are about. Now add Friday Night Lights to that list, well I think I have an idea what this is about at least.
Well that's about it for my post, I don't think I added anything constructive to here, which seems to be in character for me.

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▫ Oct 10 2006, 20:04 Post #156

I just saw the movie Departed. It was pretty F-in' good. I won't say anything else about the movie, though, cuz I hate when people do that when a movie first comes out. at least give people a chance to see the fuckin' movie before you go and ruin it for 'em.

Anyway, at the risk of sounding gay, which I'm sure I've never done before around here, I will say that Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are two really good actors. Even Marky Mark did a great job and he had some hilarious lines in the movie. and teh lesbian scene was hot as hell

Actually, there is no lesbian scene. but it'd be awesome if there were.

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▫ Oct 10 2006, 20:15 Post #157

QUOTE(Bobaloo)

I just saw the movie Departed. It was pretty F-in' good. I won't say anything else about the movie, though, cuz I hate when people do that when a movie first comes out. at least give people a chance to see the fuckin' movie before you go and ruin it for 'em.

Anyway, at the risk of sounding gay, which I'm sure I've never done before around here, I will say that Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are two really good actors. Even Marky Mark did a great job and he had some hilarious lines in the movie. and teh lesbian scene was hot as hell
Actually, there is no lesbian scene. but it'd be awesome if there were.

pretty much all the guys in that movie are "heart throb" actors but I dig most of the movies they are in nonetheless, they're good actors. and that movie looks pretty decent. I was going to go see it tonight, until I learned there was no lesbian scene.

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▫ Oct 10 2006, 20:24 Post #158

QUOTE(Gnappster)

pretty much all the guys in that movie are "heart throb" actors but I dig most of the movies they are in nonetheless, they're good actors. and that movie looks pretty decent. I was going to go see it tonight, until I learned there was no lesbian scene.

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▫ Oct 11 2006, 05:59 Post #159

QUOTE(Gnappster)

I've never seen either. Besides syndicated shows I don't watch much TV. I was flipping through the major networks the other day and I didn't recognize any of the shows that were on. I know shows like Lost and Prison Break among others are supposed to be great shows but I've never seen them and honestly have no idea what they are about. Now add Friday Night Lights to that list, well I think I have an idea what this is about at least.
Well that's about it for my post, I don't think I added anything constructive to here, which seems to be in character for me.

I like you do not watch much TV despite popular belief, but you much watch LOST. get it on DVD, it is 1 million times better than the crap network TV usually spews out

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▫ Oct 11 2006, 15:11 Post #160

QUOTE(bondiguy)

I like you do not watch much TV despite popular belief, but you much watch LOST. get it on DVD, it is 1 million times better than the crap network TV usually spews out

it looked interesting but I figured there wasn't much point to watching it without any background on the show as each episode seems to be a continuation from the previous.
But if it gets one of these, maybe I'll check it out on DVD.

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