Thumped Book Club (3 Viewers)

[jane]

Soundth good to me. What sort of hat should we use?

 

[Psychotic no 2]

Soundth good to me. What sort of hat should we use?

Gah, don't taunt me...your fur one, obviously.

 

[jane]

Gah, don't taunt me...your fur one, obviously.

My fur what?


Anyway, I wouldn't want you to develop a feeling of fashion inadequacy. Besides, bringing that hat out in summer is about as appropriate as wearing white to a wedding when you aren't the bride.

 

[Ed]

i assume this is that green/weird fur hat, summer, winter, whatever, it's always appropriate

 

[LMD64]

My fur what?


Anyway, I wouldn't want you to develop a feeling of fashion inadequacy. Besides, bringing that hat out in summer is about as appropriate as wearing white to a wedding when you aren't the bride.

or if you WERE the bride and you had engaged in pre-marital sex. won't be making this on friday, sorry to say, but i'll be making my way to Berlin, via Vienna and Warsaw, wuhooo!

give us a good buke to read for de trayin jourdney, wouldja missus?

 

[jane]

or if you WERE the bride and you had engaged in pre-marital sex. won't be making this on friday, sorry to say, but i'll be making my way to Berlin, via Vienna and Warsaw, wuhooo!

give us a good buke to read for de trayin jourdney, wouldja missus?

Hm, how about Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad? It's about Twain's own journey on a cruise ship full of obnoxious Americans who genuinely believe that shouting loudly in English is the same as speaking French. It's not a new phenomenon, oh no siree. I love reading books about travelling when I'm travelling, though not ones about the places I'm going.

Twain also hails some wit-bordering-on-invective at what he calls 'The Old Travelers', the equivalent of today's -spent-a-year-getting-pissed-inSydney-and-am-therefore-better-than-you' boring returned 'adventurers', who behave as Imperial conquers discovering unknown lands:

"They will not let you know anything. They sneer at your most inoffensive suggestions; they laugh unfeelingly at your treasured dreams of foreign lands; they brand the statements of your traveled aunts and uncles as the stupidest absurdities; they deride your most trusted authors and demolish the fair images they have set up for your willing worship with the pitiless ferocity of the fanatic iconoclast! But still I love the Old Travelers. I love them for their ability to bore, for their delightful asinine vanity, for their luxuriant fertility of imagination, for their startling, their brilliant, their overwhelming mendacity!"

Wait, that sounds a bit more like Thumped. On occasion, anyway...

I still haven't finished the damn book. I'm kind of saving the rest of it for my next holiday, which, at this stage, looks like never.

And yes, it is indeed a tragedy when a bride wears white to represent virtues she does not possess. One must be ever chaste and prudent. As for the groom, if he does not despise the sin of onanism, he is no fit keeper for a lady.

 

[MDR]

And yes, it is indeed a tragedy when a bride wears white

Especially if spaghetti bolognese is the wedding dish - mama mia!

 

[the bongo]

Especially if spaghetti bolognese isa the wedding dish - mama mia!

 

[jane]

Especially if spaghetti bolognese isa the wedding dish - mama mia!

Ahem, it's "Mamma mia!"

Two 'm's.

White is also bad when weddings are used as occasions to rekindle family feuds, as they inevitably are.

No arrests? Success!

 

[MDR]

Mamma has three 'm's.

 

[Psychotic no 2]

Alright, enough shiting on. How about as many of us as possible meet up this Thursday evening, after work, say sixish, in the Lord Edward pub and pick a book out of the hat. It won't take long. Anyone?

 

[Super Dexta]

i would, except what i do in college is basically like a book club anyway. and i'm in cork. but the real question is, how many books are you going to fit in a hat?

 

[Psychotic no 2]

i would, except what i do in college is basically like a book club anyway. and i'm in cork. but the real question is, how many books are you going to fit in a hat?

There's always someone isn't there. Have you seen Jane's hat?

 

[jane]

There's always someone isn't there. Have you seen Jane's hat?

My hat is flattered to be the subject of such admiration.

I'm not sure yet about Thursday. I can do it, but I'm just not sure what time. And anyway, I'm not essential to the book-picking. Nose-picking, yes, but book-picking, no.

 

[Psychotic no 2]

My hat is flattered to be the subject of such admiration.

I'm not sure yet about Thursday. I can do it, but I'm just not sure what time. And anyway, I'm not essential to the book-picking. Nose-picking, yes, but book-picking, no.

If people who can't make it want to post their book nominations here so they can be included in the draw too that's cool, isn't it? Coraline has already given me her nomination cos she's on holliers for the next few weeks.

Spot picking, now that's where it's at.

 

[jane]

Okee doke. I've got a meeting at around 5:30, which shouldn't last more than an hour. I can head up to the Eddie afterward for a swift one.

Keep yer fingers off me spot.

 

[Rimbaud]

I would if i could but i can`t.

 

[Rimbaud]

Keep yer fingers off me spot.

ahem..i was replying to the topic of book trading not the above.I swear.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Will there be spot prizes? As greasy food as possible all week for me I think.

 

[jane]

Will there be spot prizes? As greasy food as possible all week for me I think.

Yes, for the winner of the pageant, there will be a contract from Newbridge Silver (just like Miss Ireland), and a bag carefully stained with the grease of a battered sausage.