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Which means it is now your responsibility to make it a busy night and force all the "normals" to read through 300 posts in the morning.
What are we doing tonight brain?
The same thing we do every night!^^^^^
Two conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. You can't tell me that's a coincidence.
*GASP!*
We were going to have rabbit for dinner tonight, but wound up with squirrel instead. It was a game changer.
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Squirrel is way to tough and stringy IMO.
Also, I like how you're finally admitting that I'm the brains of this pair.Which means it is now your responsibility to make it a busy night and force all the "normals" to read through 300 posts in the morning.What are we doing tonight brain?
The same thing we do every night!
^^^^^
If you dig deep enough into that show you find out Pinky was the real genius. but no I don't think you need much digging for us...
Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
Jane Eyre. I ended up having to read it 3 times. teacher in middle school high school and college all had it as assigned reading at least by college I remembered enough to get a C without reading it front to cover just quickly glancing through it. It's soo dull.
Never read it.Jane Eyre. I ended up having to read it 3 times. teacher in middle school high school and college all had it as assigned reading at least by college I remembered enough to get a C without reading it front to cover just quickly glancing through it. It's soo dull.Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
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Nonsense. Larry was the truly smart one.If you dig deep enough into that show you find out Pinky was the real genius. but no I don't think you need much digging for us...Also, I like how you're finally admitting that I'm the brains of this pair.Which means it is now your responsibility to make it a busy night and force all the "normals" to read through 300 posts in the morning.What are we doing tonight brain?
The same thing we do every night!
^^^^^
Pinhead larry?
Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
Wuthering Heights.
Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
Wuthering Heights.
LMAO your's is by the same author as mine. That is hilarious.
No, just Larry. As in "Pinky and the Brain and Larry". You know, the title of the show.Pinhead larry?Nonsense. Larry was the truly smart one.If you dig deep enough into that show you find out Pinky was the real genius. but no I don't think you need much digging for us...Also, I like how you're finally admitting that I'm the brains of this pair.Which means it is now your responsibility to make it a busy night and force all the "normals" to read through 300 posts in the morning.What are we doing tonight brain?
The same thing we do every night!
^^^^^
I don't remember a Larry... I remember Elmira. Which was a pretty desperate bid to keep the show going IMO.
LMAO your's is by the same author as mine. That is hilarious.Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
Wuthering Heights.
??? Paul Zindel was a 120+-year-old Emily Bronte?
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Oh your right how about that. They both wrote books that people hate.
??? Paul Zindel was a 120+-year-old Emily Bronte?LMAO your's is by the same author as mine. That is hilarious.Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
Wuthering Heights.
IS their 2 books called Wuthering Heights? because google says it's Emily bronte.
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I see the confusion now. My comment about the same author was towards the book Wuthering Heights. which was apparently written by The writer of Jane eyres sister. I was not commenting on The Pigman.
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I thought "Larry" referred to "and Daryl and Daryl".
Enjoy.I don't remember a Larry... I remember Elmira. Which was a pretty desperate bid to keep the show going IMO.No, just Larry. As in "Pinky and the Brain and Larry". You know, the title of the show.Pinhead larry?Nonsense. Larry was the truly smart one.If you dig deep enough into that show you find out Pinky was the real genius. but no I don't think you need much digging for us...Also, I like how you're finally admitting that I'm the brains of this pair.Which means it is now your responsibility to make it a busy night and force all the "normals" to read through 300 posts in the morning.What are we doing tonight brain?
The same thing we do every night!
^^^^^
Old cartoons got so weird... I guess they are still weird. It interesting that they are doing a 3 stooges reference when I'm sure most kids didn't know who they were at the time. I watched this way before I ever watched an episode of the 3 stooges. I guess probably for the parents.
Here's a good rendition of the Pinky and the Brain theme song.
Huh... unexpected. not bad tho. Reminds me of Richard Cheese.
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We did WW1 and WW2 in school. WW2 is such a central part of our national mythology that it couldn't very well have been missed out.
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I'm pretty excited, today is the last day for frost, from here on out (until October) it's 60s in the morning and 70s-80s-90s during the day.
F%@# yes!
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Dutch books are so incredibly boring. Or at least, Dutch "literature." It's either World War 2 stuff, or colonialism. Oh, and sex. As Woran said, it's all very boring and actively turns kids off reading. Everything's mopey and depressing, because the subject matter is depressing.I have to disagree with that, though here, visit to Auschwitz camp museum is often part of late elementary/high school curriculum for those close enough for it to be a reasonable one-day trip. Isolating kids from monstrosity of the war is worse than exposing them to it, because it brings unhealthy glorification later on.
Oh, we get the wars covered extensively in history classes. Most school organise trips to auschwitz or the ann frank house.
Its more that the literature books often show subject matter and trauma which is too complicated emotionally for the average teenager.Processing a story about PTSD (which wasnt a thing back when the books were written), is a tough cookie when you're 14. And you HAVE to read literature. If you live in a big city, you can probably find a lot of different books. But if you live in the middle of nowhere like me, the library only has the 'best' and most known works.
I've linked to the summary of what is concidered the best dutch book (angles engeneering the war and events so that a messed up kid can be born to bring the 10 commandments to heaven? Fun.)
Another highly rated book (that I did read myself), is De donkere kamer van Damokles. Or, the darkroom of damocles. Which is about a sigarmerchant encountering and helping a resistance fighter who looks just like him, but is just better and handsomer then he is.
The story has three layers. One is that is an exciting story about things happening during the war. The second is a layer about trauma and identity crisis as the doubleganger never existed and the main character may or may not have been a double spy for the nazis.
And then a third layer which is filosophical, and questions what reality is anyway and how our perception warps it.
Then you add a nice sprinkle of the author working trough having had a stillborn kid in the story.
Not something that makes you happy about reading. Or life in general as a kid.
Another highly regarded work (and therefor you can could some teacher wil try and have you read it) is Hersenschimmen. You could roughly translate that as brain phantasms? Which is a book about a man suffering from dementia. The man gets worse and worse during the story. From forgetting and mixing people, to forgetting his wife has died and getting lost during a walk. When he's lucid he's afraid and ashamed. He is institutionalized and when lucid notices he's tied to a bed.
Sentences get more fragmented and it ends with a few blank pages.
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Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
The Fountainhead. Hands down the worst thing I've ever had to read, and that list includes such...happy...stories as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Beloved, and Gentlehands.
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' is not a cheery, feelgood romp, for sure, but it's a decent work of littrachur...
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Yay! Our pavers arrived! Our pergola footings have been drilled in (apparently the new thing is drilling) And our gas and electric lines have been tested and inspected. All that's left is filling in the big damn hole.
Hopefully by tomorrow I can start building.
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So, it was entertaining to watch the facial reactions of the school board after they spent 20 minutes congratulating themselves on how great the online learning was going, only to then have my letter read aloud. But of course it was read along with 9 other letters and so got lost in the noise.
Nothing'll come of it. But at least I feel like my voice was heard, even if only for a moment.
Because I'm the driver, my official position is "supervisor".
Basically I stand around while people do their thing until I can dump my truck full of rocks and then drive back to the shop and fill my truck with another load of rocks and drive it back to the job site and wait until I can dump my load of rocks.
Which is fine for today but otherwise I'm a man of action so I can't wait until I can start building something.
It says something about the collective trauma of our nation that Harry Mulisch his book, De ontdekking van de hemel (the discovery of heaven) is rated as the best dutch literary book. You can bet nearly every kid has read it somewhere in their high school carreer (or pretended to and watched the movie instead).
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa...?
Dutch books are so incredibly boring. Or at least, Dutch "literature." It's either World War 2 stuff, or colonialism. Oh, and sex.
One of my favorite porn stars from the 70s is dutch. She is a fascinating woman with a very non american view of sex which made her more interesting, even when she was speaking about her work long after she retired. I even see it in non sexual works like Ragnarok on Netflix.
I've read GRRM's work until the fourth book. That one was just a mess and I didn't want to continue anymore. By then I'd also heard more and more about Martin himself and he just seems like a huge prick, and I started boycotting him. He doesn't write because he likes the story, but because he likes the sound of his own voice. That's what's started to bother me more and more about book 4: it felt more like rambling than an actual story. Things just happen because. He also writes on a DOS computer without internet access, and sends it to his editor by floppy disk. At some point you stop being quirky and just literally disappear up your own ass from pretentiousness.
While I don't think he is a huge prick(and lets not get insulting here, folks) he is *very* much set in his ways, his preferred time period(late 80s/early 90s) and expects the reader to kind of follow along. I personally think he needs someone to work with to rein him in, similar to a lot of his Wild Cards stuff.
Never read it.Jane Eyre. I ended up having to read it 3 times. teacher in middle school high school and college all had it as assigned reading at least by college I remembered enough to get a C without reading it front to cover just quickly glancing through it. It's soo dull.Since yesterday we had a literary question, here's a new one: Was there a book you had to read for school that you absolutely hated? If so, what was it?
Personally, in high school I had to read "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I don't remember much about it(yes, I googled the author), I just know that I hated it so much that when the semester was over and I knew that I wouldn't need it again, I gathered a bunch of sticks in the back yard, built a fire in the grill, and threw the book on top to burn it into nothingness.
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** spoiler omitted **
....whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?