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[Simona]

Urgh! A threesome with Judas, Herod and Hitler?!?
Ghastly!
And not an inch of space for MY books anyway....

[Andy]

Ok..... you've got me..... I found a duplicate on my Shelves & will donate ONE of them to my local charity shop.....

PS I do donate my relatives's books to charities (for them).... can't be having too many hoarders in one family..... mind thats prolly how I got the duplicate... :D

[Simona]

Lol!

[Mark]

Your only allowed to give books away, if you are getting other books in return as in a barter system. Otherwise shame, SHAME! SHAME!.

:) ;)

[Simona]

*goes hiding UNDER the bookshelf*

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I've moved so many times over the years that I have learned about book hoarding the hard way.

Now I have two book cases. One is permanents. Books I read over and over and over again. Contains favourite one off books, my Mary Renault's, Kerry Greenwood's, Ben Aaronovitch's. The other is full of books that will be read once and then go to a) the Salvation Army b) the Australian Red Cross or c) by left in a public place with a note on saying 'Free Book'.

[Simona]

Love all three methods but expecially the last one. What a nice surprise for the finder!
Mine were really old paperbacks in bad condition..some still from my mother ( who during her long illness read only awful bestsellers) and my father, who when young read wagonloads of war fiction...all of them quite crumbly. Not in condition to be gifted, kept just for sentiment toward my parents.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Well done Simona! It is so cathartic to get rid of all the old smelly paperbacks. Once you start, as long as you stay tough, it leaves you with this weird mixed feeling of sadness and relief.

I felt like I'd actually cleansed my life. I still feel it a couple days later.
I was standing in front of my last bookcases last night before bed, looking at them and feeling really good about things. Like I got a monkey off my back. Like it was a fresh new beginning.
Like you, Simona, I had heaps that were hand me downs from Dad. His old paperbacks ended up my old paperbacks because he had a book cleanse and I couldn't stand to see them thrown out.

I'm not a hoarder with any other objects, it was only with books, so it feels like I actually beat my obsession with book hoarding.

Now that I have only a few bookcases full of beautiful, clean, good condition books I plan on using the 'book in, book out' principal.

[Simona]

I don't have space for any more bookcase in the house..so I have to keep my books a fixed quantity.
It's also for this that I often opt for digital books..

[Jane]

Mark wrote: "Your only allowed to give books away, if you are getting other books in return as in a barter system. Otherwise shame, SHAME! SHAME!.

:) ;)"

Nope, don't agree. I give ones I didn't like that much or that I know I won't reread to library so other may get pleasure from reading them. I weed several times a year.

[Simona]

I receive a newsletter from a freebies site (ereaderIQ) and I solemny swear that today among the suggested books there was: "ZOMBIES VS ALIENS VS VAMPIRES VS DINOSAURS".
There are no words.

[Andy]

So... how much did the book cost? 142 to go.... :D

[happy]

Well the eclipse is over - we had 93% eclipse were I live (Northern Utah) - to see the total eclipse, one had to drive about 150 miles north. At it's height, here it was like someone was trying to light a room with a 40 watt bulb instead of a 100 watts. The sun also cast some unusual shadows through the trees.

[Simona]

@Andy: $0,99!! Actually quite a bargain with all that crowd....

[Andy]

happy wrote: "Well the eclipse is over - we had 93% eclipse were I live (Northern Utah) - to see the total eclipse, one had to drive about 150 miles north. At it's height, here it was like someone was trying to ..."

There quite an experience Happy, I think some folk "chase" them after having experienced one.

We had one a few years back now (1999) & I (along with thousands more) stood on a cliff top & watched the darkness/dusk rush towards us across the sea which was quite something..... what struck me was the total silence as all the animals/birds went silent as it fell dark which made it earily quiet in seconds felt by everyone in the crowd to many a gasp & then the eruption of sound (birds squawking & rushing from their roosts) as it suddenly became bright again. Quite spectacular really!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Simona wrote: "I receive a newsletter from a freebies site (ereaderIQ) and I solemny swear that today among the suggested books there was: "ZOMBIES VS ALIENS VS VAMPIRES VS DINOSAURS".
There are no words."


What the....?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have never had such an experience as you with Eclipses, Andy.
I saw my first when I was in school. Thought it was over rated and wouldn't chase another one. :-D Got a bit bored with it all. No shadows coming across the sea where I was.

[happy]

A LOT of people from around here took that 150 mile drive! Quite a few of the members in my church let right after services yesterday for points north or northeast. The people with rooms to rent made a killing! Supposedly the Motel 6 in Jackson got $900 a night over the weekend. My parents went up, but Dad's wife has family in Idaho and they stayed with them. According to the radio this morning I-15 and I-84 was bumper to bumper at the Utah - Idaho line, almost like rush hour in Salt Lake had moved 75 miles north :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Wow. That's insane! Hahaha.

[May]

We stepped outside the office w our "glasses". It was only 60% eclipse here, but still incredible to watch!!!

[Gretchen]

It was cloudy and raining. We didn't get to see anything in Minnesota. My girls were disappointed they didn't get to use their eclipse glasses. We watched the NASA live stream. Not quite the same.

[happy]

Here are some pics of people watching the eclipse from one of the local papers - including a gentleman from Australia who got married for the occasion:)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...

[Andy]

Terri wrote: "I have never had such an experience as you with Eclipses, Andy.
I saw my first when I was in school. Thought it was over rated and wouldn't chase another one. :-D Got a bit bored with it all. No sh..."

Got lucky to be sure, it was more about the darkness rushing in & the sites, sounds (lack of) & the animals/birds reactions - the actual blocking out the sun bit was a bit..... oh yeah is that it?? It was the rest of it which was a real rush & almost mystical if you like

[Jane]

In upstate NY where I live, too much cloud cover to see anything, but I thought outside it did dim a little at one point. I did watch on television--2 hours without ads--so I got somewhat of a feel but I'm sure seeing it in person was spectacular.

[Andy]

A sad passing that occurred the other day that I thought to mention as he was a great slapstick comedian from my childhood up there with the greats alongside Norman Wisdom, laurel & hardy, Abbot & Costello, Buster Keaton...... we watched a lot of slapstick as kids in the 70's :)

A small tribute I found to Jerry lewis who always made me laugh as a child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkUa-...

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I was more saddened by the death of Sir Bruce Forsyth.

The Generation Game was a major part of my TV watching as a child. His cries of "Nice to see you. To see you... NICE!" and "Give us a twirl" still remain in my vocabulary.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I was sad to hear of Jerry Lewis passing too. Growing up in the eighties his old movies were a part of my childhood too.
Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. What a duo.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I am probably one of the few people in the world who didn't find Jerry Lewis funny. But then, I find very few American comedians funny. My funny bone has English DNA.

[Ace]

We've been watching our Blackadder DVDs Margaret, I find Rowan Atkinson equally funny and annoying. But, I loved English comedy more growing up.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I loved Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder had some wonderful episodes, but dear gods... I LOATHE Mr Bean.

[Ace]

Not the Nine O'clock News was so good.
Yes, some of the Blackadder episodes could have been better written. I have left the room to have a ciggie out the back a few times, " oh no, it's ok honey, no need to pause it".

[Andy]

Margaret wrote: "I am probably one of the few people in the world who didn't find Jerry Lewis funny. But then, I find very few American comedians funny. My funny bone has English DNA."

I the same wrt American comedians....... Its the slapstick bit that I remember him for & he was great for kids & as Terri mentioned was a great duo with Dean martin

[Ace]

My dad and I used to watch Jerry Lewis movies on TV. He doesn't speak much English but he used to crack up during the film.

[Jane]

Margaret wrote: "I am probably one of the few people in the world who didn't find Jerry Lewis funny. But then, I find very few American comedians funny. My funny bone has English DNA."

I'm American but I found Jerry Lewis annoying. I don't like slapstick anyway, excepting maybe the Marx Bros.

[Mark]

https://thenudge.com/features/tube-fa...


not sure where to post this but I found it interesting.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

It is interesting, Mark. I've used a number of those stations when visiting.

Aldgate is probably the creepiest station I have visited. I really don't want to use it again if I don't have to.

Bank is horribly confusing with all the exits and entrances. I got lost in there for about 15 minutes until a nice TFL worker helped me find the exit I needed.

They missed the best fact about Russell Square. It was the setting for a low budget horror movie in the 1970s starring Donald Pleasance about a tribe of cannibals living in the Underground. Can't remember the name, but it became a cult classic.

[Alice]

I never liked Jerry Lewis. But there are some American TV comedies that I never tire of watching: Friends, Two and a Half Man, Night Court (no longer available).

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Alice wrote: "I never liked Jerry Lewis. But there are some American TV comedies that I never tire of watching: Friends, Two and a Half Man, Night Court (no longer available)."

I did like Night Court. :D

[Alice]

It seems not many people know about Night Court :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I couldn't watch a Jerry Lewis movie now. As an adult his slapstick holds no appeal, but as a small child I didn't have my adult cynicism. My brother and I liked all the face pulling silliness.
He is a part of my childhood. The very young childhood. Jerry Lewis, Doctor Dolittle, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Great Race.
Those are the movies of my childhood.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh, and Herbie the Love Bug.

I couldn't sit through any of these movies now. They are for kids. :)

[Andy]

Terri wrote: "I couldn't watch a Jerry Lewis movie now. As an adult his slapstick holds no appeal, but as a small child I didn't have my adult cynicism. My brother and I liked all the face pulling silliness.
He..."

I watched CCBB this last year jus gone & its still quite watchable whilst The Great Race is jus shear class..... I'll raise yer Bedknobs & Broomsticks :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bedknobs and Broomsticks I never saw. Or at least don't remember.
What about Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady? I was probably a little older for these two though.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Actually, come to think of it, I could probably watch The great Race again. Not sure about CCBB. Maybe I would give it a go if it were on.

[Andy]

B&B was more for the "boys" maybe - it was the one where the animals had the football match with "bad" animals vs "good" ones :) was brilliant..... in fact here yer go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQ-_...

Off to bed, ttfn

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh yeah! I remember that now. That is another one to add to those kids movies that I watched.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Oh, and Herbie the Love Bug.

I couldn't sit through any of these movies now. They are for kids. :)"

Bugger that! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is still one of my favourite movies. Along with Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and Disney's animated version of Robin Hood.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Haha. :-D
I think I need to watch CCBB again. I always remember it fondly from my childhood. Maybe that child is still in me somewhere and I'd still enjoy it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I have the theme song sung by Alvin & the Chipmunks on my iTunes. When the boss hears it, he knows it's time to steer clear of me. I am cross and stressed and that, plus 'Remember Your're A Womble' are two of my anti-stress tunes.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That's funny. I don't have anti stress tunes. Only anti stress food. :)