Archive - Oct 2009

<+el-Rayese> i think that u are all underground gothic people who worship the devil may u all burn in hell and 1000 homos fuck u up ur arseholes im livin the truth so suck on that hisory is going to come back around to haunt you's see keep on ur racist ways and zionist views ps has anyone called up india yet to check on there mobile account lol

A lady of traditional manners and decorum who spares her husband the protracted suffering that ensues in divorce, and spares the children the shame and disorientation of being shuttled between two broken homes.

I recall reading somewhere that the anti-aging industry, feeding the chimeric hope that women may grasp onto a few more years of youth, is larger than the budgets of all the world's defence forces combined. Whether this be true or not I don't know, but newsagents aren't stocked with hundreds of magazines advertising to women the benefits of the military. So women everywhere should take note of the release of the first new photo of Jaycee Dugard, a woman who was abducted at age 11, and held in captivity for 18 years.

<+Warren1984> Prometheanstardust why don't you become a plumber
<+Warren1984> Prometheanstardust would make a great plumber
<@Tigger_> why is that Warren1984?
<+Warren1984> dunno, he seems to be good at tradesmen's work
<+PrometheanStardust> You're insane, Warren1984
<@Tigger_> when did PrometheanStardust ever talk about tradesmen's work?
<+Warren1984> he didn't but I can visualise him as a plumber
<+Warren1984> Tigger why don't you own your own lolly shop

Here is a critic's list of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die": http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/1001+Books+You+Must+Read+Before+You+Die or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die

And of those 1001, I have read 144 of them, as follows:

The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #46 Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories - Leigh Brackett
Penguin Classics The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gollancz Science Fiction Masterworks #16 The Dispossessed - Ursula K. leGuin
Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
Elric the Stealer of Souls - Michael Moorcock

I had wanted to also get Bloods A Rover by James Ellroy, but not one bookstore in Melbourne city centre had it!

With the advent of high-speed trains, rail travel in Europe has become so popular that some intercity flight routes are being cancelled.

Why would you fly from London to Paris, for example, and tackle Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle airport check ins plus security when you can catch a high-speed train that lands you right in the centre of town?

Now about 90 per cent of people travel by Eurostar between these two cities.

And there's no longer any flights on the Paris-Brussels route. Many now also go by train between London and Brussels.

To arms men!