Bookworms Unite! discussion

Totally agree Dustin!

Ditto*

Kyle, Holly, and Janie- you're totally awesome, you all know I love you!!!

We love you, too, bro! You're totally awesome yourself!!

Kyle wrote: "We love you, too, bro! You're totally awesome yourself!!"

Aww, thank you, Kyle!!!

Dustin wrote: "Kyle wrote: "We love you, too, bro! You're totally awesome yourself!!"

Aww, thank you, Kyle!!!"

:)

My slow as molasses laptop! GrrrrRR!

I don't rant'n rave too much any more; seems very few things are worth getting worked up over. But...

Bleep bleep bleepity bleep Time Warner Cable bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep lazy coworkers bleep bleep bleeping bleep bleep PS3 Network bleeeeeeeeeeeeep George Clooney!!!

I feel better...

:-)

Glad you got it out of your system, Squire.=:)

Dustin wrote: "My slow as molasses laptop! GrrrrRR!"

I know the feeling, bro.

Kyle wrote: "Dustin wrote: "My slow as molasses laptop! GrrrrRR!"

I know the feeling, bro."

Yeah. Thankfully Tanya's laptop was available, and much faster!

Dustin wrote: "Kyle wrote: "Dustin wrote: "My slow as molasses laptop! GrrrrRR!"

I know the feeling, bro."

Yeah. Thankfully Tanya's laptop was available, and much faster!"

Amen to that!

YES!!

OUI!!

I know that most people here aren't sports and/or basketball fans, but I have a basketball rant.

I can't believe that the Miami Heat won back to back championships!!!!!! I really dislike that team. I think the San Antonio Spurs deserved it so much more!!!!!

I don't like the Heat, but I do like Pat Riley. I grew up with him stalking the sidelines as coach of the Lakers.

He's always been about game 5 in a series. The first four, he lets the chips fall where they may. But game 5--if you win that game, you most likely win the series. San Antonio won game 5, so I was hoping they'd win it all. And they had their chance! But blew it.

I'm a Boston Red Sox fan, and also fan of the Bruins. I've been to a few Baseball games at Fenway Park.

Yeah, Pat Riley's pretty cool.

Holly wrote: "I know that most people here aren't sports and/or basketball fans, but I have a basketball rant.

I can't believe that the Miami Heat won back to back championships!!!!!! I really dislike that team..."

I'm sorry that your favorite team didn't win, Holly..

Thanks Dustin. It's a bummer, but oh well.

Time to get ready for next year......let's go Bulls!! Lol

Baseball is that the game where they are all cheating bastards, that the regulators of the game, refuse to do anything about, Larry Bonds et al but than again you Americans with the win at all costs mentality, just don't know the meaning of fair play in sport. That would never be allowed in CRICKET.

Cat amongst the pigeons

Sean

We Americans what???

Wow....

I think he was saying that there aren't enough cheaters in Cricket...or something like that.

Cheating bastards???

No, he said Baseball was full of cheating bastards.

Lol Squire

He wishes there were more in the sport of Cricket.

Hmmmm..........

*scratching head*

Sean wrote: "Baseball is that the game where they are all cheating bastards, that the regulators of the game, refuse to do anything about, Larry Bonds et al but than again you Americans with the win at all cost..."

Wow... where is this even coming from??

Someone ranting about the Heat wining the NBA championship, I think.

I was trying to express in a IRONIC way, that American sport is being completely ruined due to an over emphasis on financial reward and a win at any cost attitude, i.e. Lance Armstrong. I actually love Baseball, I used to stay up all Sunday Night to watch the only game of the week that was shown on British television.

Money does talk in sports, no argument there, Sean. Not like in the old days when people played sports because they had a passion for it, and didn't make a ton of money.

It has become corrupt in certain areas. Hey, I love the BBC. Best sitcoms ever on that station.

I want my team to win the World Series this year. It's been awhile since the Red Sox brought it home.

Wait a minute. I thought you were talking about cheating at cricket...or Jiminey Cricket cheating at...something..or other...



What was the middle one?

American Baseball. Cute 'facepalm' baby.

Squire wrote: "Wait a minute. I thought you were talking about cheating at cricket...or Jiminey Cricket cheating at...something..or other...



What was the middle one?" Can't you follow a simple argument or understand irony, when cheating is discovered in cricket, as just happened in a match fixing scandal involving Pakistan the guilty are banned for LIFE no individual sportsman is bigger than the sport.

Now that I like: 'No individual sportsman is bigger than the sport' It's so different here in America.

Sigh...another Brit with no sense of humor. "What was the middle one?" is a classic line from the movie "A Fish Called Wanda." Kevin Kline's addled-brained hitman was always being given a choice between two alternatives. His response always was "What was the middle one?"

Besides, sports are nothing but entertainment these days. If some one wants to walk around with shrivelled gonads just to have a Home Record, I say: "Here you go, you're in the record book. Oh, but I'll take those, thank you!" The NFL was entertaining for 3 weeks last season when the substitute refs around; I tuned out when they left.

What do you mean another Brit with no sense of humour, please!! When you start being a bit more witty, make me smile, then you can criticise!! Think of something original yourself!!

Ooh...ooh...like an original rant on cheating in professional sports?

Let's check what the Hong Kong Book of Kung-Fu has to say. Hmmm...

Do not fret over the loss of one of your senses, another will be amplified to make up for the loss.

DO fret if the loss of a sense of humor is compensated with an inflated sense of self-importance.

WOW!

GrrrrRR! I'm so flipping irritated right now!! I just dropped by the Song of Ice and Fire group, and stumbled on a pretty significant spoiler! (view spoiler)[I now know who Reek is!!! Some people really need to learn to be more considerate and hide/mark all spoiler!! (hide spoiler)]

Sorry to hear that Dustin. I try to stay away from threads based on books I'm reading until I finish it. Not that I'm always successful.

Squire wrote: "Ooh...ooh...like an original rant on cheating in professional sports?

Let's check what the Hong Kong Book of Kung-Fu has to say. Hmmm...

Do not fret over the loss of one of your senses, another ..." Gosh that hurts, but from the same book 'Let man with no shoes, weep for man with no feet.'

Yeah, you're right. The man with a sense of humor should weep for the man without one. Kinda like not going into a battle of wits against an unarmed man.

I shouldn't do it, I know. But in the words of Stephen King, "To those readers who think I didn't know any better, I assert I did...but the temption was simply too great to resist."

Squire wrote: "Yeah, you're right. The man with a sense of humor should weep for the man without one. Kinda like not going into a battle of wits against an unarmed man.

I shouldn't do it, I know. But in the word..." You twisted that one round nicely, obviously as a member of a Nation that could come up with George Bush and Sarah Palin as leading political thinkers you will always have a head start over us lesser peoples where the meaning of comedy is concerned.

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Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

I know. Shhh. I know...You're just getting started.

And don't sell yourself short over there. You have your great modern intellectuals...uh...well...I mean...well...

You know, you gave the world the chip! Such a contibution to international cuisine can't be ingnored!

Squire wrote: "

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

I know. Shhh. I know...You're just getting started.

And don't sell yourself short over there. You have your great modern intellectuals...uh...well...I mean..." Is that why Gordon Ramsey is teaching you how to cook! By the way your overuse of sarcasm is not wit, it is simply the first line of attack, by any class room bully, and as for me being self-centred I have not once, unlike yourself Oh Enlightened One, elevated my intellect or any other character trait, above anyone else.

Down boys. Cool heads prevail.