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[Moogle]

yeah, pretty short, but sounds neat none the less.
Lookin forward to the stones movie bio?

[DeathDude]

Definitely will check out the Led Zepplin book if I can find it around here.

Nah prob not, hadn't heard they were making a movie bio about them. Band movie experiences and such don't always work out and always the comparison drawn to one of the first and best with Spinal Tap.

[Aristharus]

Uhh, I doubt anyone's comparing real band movie bios with Spinal Tap.. It's a slightly different thing, anyway..

EDIT: Ok, back to the topic, or something..

I just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, again. At the moment I'm reading Mötley Crüe's The Dirt and some book of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories the name of which I can't remember now.. Probably something like The Festival and Other Stories... I think it had The Festival

Man, did I save myself with the Lovecraft... You're all reading these classic novels and I mention Fear and Loathing, which includes for example using all the drugs known to man and puking all over the place and The Dirt, which includes.. using most of the drugs known to man and for example Ozzy drinking his own pee and snorting ants..

Edited by Aristharus, 09 May 2006 - 06:39 AM.

[A. J. Raffles]

Sinke, on May 9 2006, 12:29 AM, said:

So far, people imagined abandonware fans as nerd-like beings. But after this post, people will find us like aunties and Oprah-addicts.

Thanks a lot.

I do have a life outside these forums, you know. And it just so happens that I study English literature. Methinks if I can put up with your discussing films without getting sarcastic about it, you can put up with my discussing books.

[Aristharus]

A. J. Raffles, on May 9 2006, 07:34 AM, said:

Sinke, on May 9 2006, 12:29 AM, said:

So far, people imagined abandonware fans as nerd-like beings. But after this post, people will find us like aunties and Oprah-addicts.

Thanks a lot.

I do have a life outside these forums, you know. And it just so happens that I study English literature. Methinks if I can put up with your discussing films without getting sarcastic about it, you can put up with my discussing books.

Uhmm.. You sure he meant your postings? I thought he meant his own post about Humphrey Bogart. I can't see how that comment would've attacked you.. He's allowed to be sarcastic about his own readings, isn't he?

[A. J. Raffles]

Hmm, maybe I misread it after a bad night of dreaming about dictionary prefaces (don't ask). But somehow the association "auntie" seemed a lot more plausible to me in connection with Jane Austen than with a Humphrey Bogart biography (the more obvious association with that one would be "film geek", I'd say). It might have been clearer if he had put the Bogart sentence first, though...

... oh, all right, I apologise for snapping at you, Sinke. But it did seem a lot like an insult.

[Aristharus]

I agree that the Bogie biography didn't feel that auntie-like, it confused me at first, too, but as it wasn't a direct reply to anything more auntie-like I read it again..

[Tom Henrik]

Sinke, on May 9 2006, 12:29 AM, said:

So far, people imagined abandonware fans as nerd-like beings. But after this post, people will find us like aunties and Oprah-addicts.

Actually, we are freeware fans

[Sinke]

My, Raffles, are you easy to insult.



I thought my post was quite obvious joke, do you really mean that I find book-readers or computer-games fans aunties? I'm sorry if I insulted anyone, but since I'm studying drama, I guess I am one of the biggest aunties in here.

My post was completely sarcastic to everyone, including myself. It was not evil sarcasm, rather an attempt to make few people laugh.

I mean.... "Reloaded Book Club"     Sounds pretty auntie.

Ok, we are freeware fans. But this site's older sister is abandonware and.... yeah, you know what I mean.

[BeefontheBone]

So long as we keep the discussion above the level of Richard and Judy's "book club" (and without getting as filthy as in The Book Club, however awesome that show was) I reckon we'll be doing OK.

[A. J. Raffles]

Sarcasm has an odd tendency to transmit very badly from a post someone makes on an internet forum to a complete stranger reading it. How am I supposed to tell what you mean? I don't even know you. OK, I now know you use the word "auntie" in a way that's completely different from the way I would use it (I can't see anything "auntie"-like about drama, so I suspect we must mean different things by it), but that wasn't clear from your first post.

[taikara]

In Raffles' defense, it didn't transmit very positively to me when I read it last night, either.

The anties and Oprah thing did come off as an insult, imho, probably because we had just been talking about Sense and Sensibility - which I wouldn't call hugely appealing to most people nowadays, though it is an excellent book.

For example - contextually, if we had been talking about The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, it would have seemed a bit more ironic than insulting.

There are all kinds of books AND book clubs out there, and "anties" and "Oprah-addicts" are terms that wouldn't apply to all of them, and do happen to sound very negative.

[Sinke]

Ok,ok. It was meant to be funny, sorry.  Lapsus calami Internetis.

I have seen computer game encyclopedia the other day. Quite expensive, but really nicely done, with tons of pitures and very high quality of paper. Maybe if I sell my underwear at E-bay, I will buy it and review it here.

[Moogle]

*shrugs*
Not that theres anything bad with aunties and oprah addicts tho...
But I dunno, didn't seem too negative when I read it, but then again...

[Sinke]

Okay you won.

I am an auntie.  

You can put that on the main page.