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2005-06-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2005-06-24 11:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is one of Sammy's bodice-rippers, ain't it?

Thought so. Carry on.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-24 12:17|| 2005-06-24 12:17|| Front Page Top

#2 "The mother of all fourth novels."
-- Kofi Annan, UN Daily

"Reads like an evening with my boyfriend."
-- Andrew Sullivan, Women's Underwear Daily

"It's like, got lots of big words an' stuff. I couldn't finish it."
-- Paris Hilton

"When I served in Vietnam, on a Swift boat, with my band of brothers, in Vietnam--did I mention Vietnam?--we had paperback novels, there in Vietnam, but they weren't as good as this one."
-- John F. Kerry, Congressional Record

"It reads like something written by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the work of one of my biggest . . . hey, whaddaya mean 'shut up,' Nancy? You called me 'blabbermouth!' That's not nice!"
-- Richard Durbin, C-SPAN

"Yeeeaaaaggggghh!"
-- Howard Dean, DNC Reviews

Posted by Mike 2005-06-24 13:08|| 2005-06-24 13:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ROFLMAO! Mike! World Class!

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-24 13:42|| 2005-06-24 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I hear it starts off:

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. . . .

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2005-06-24 20:20|| 2005-06-24 20:20|| Front Page Top

#5 PlanetDan - the Version I got off the internet started off something like "It was late one night, past midnight; too dark to play hockey, or fly a kite..."

Posted by Bodyguard">Bodyguard 2005-06-24 23:06|| 2005-06-24 23:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Please excuse my tardiness R-Burgers, I'm posting from Korea. BIG time difference.

Posted by Bodyguard">Bodyguard 2005-06-24 23:09|| 2005-06-24 23:09|| Front Page Top

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