Complaint Department discussion

1) While I have lived in San Francisco, I have never been to Muir Woods.

2) While I lived in Lubbock, I visited Carlsbad Caverns three times.

3) While I lived on Crystal Lake, I visited Sleeping Bear Dunes twice.

I don't know anything about any of these places! I closed my eyes and jabbed a finger at the screen and it landed on:

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Did you visit Treasure Island, though?

Roger wrote: "Did you visit Treasure Island, though?"

"Spoilers." ;)

*pouting* I wanted to pick #1. Roger wanna trade? :)

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3 I suppose

These are three of my favorite nature preservations to visit.

3) Is true, while living for brief couple months on the beautiful south shore of Crystal Lake I visited Sleeping Bears Dunes twice, I've been back a couple of times as well and I was there on one occasion before I lived on Crystal Lake.

2) While I have been to Carlsbad Caverns, in southern New Mexico, four times in my life, 3 of those visits occurred while I lived in Lubbock Texas. so this is true.

1) False. I have been to Muir Woods and once was while I was a wee little lad and living in San Francisco. Muir Woods is where the charter for the United Nations was singed
among all those beautiful ancient trees. It was supposed to remind us humans of our place in the world as caretakers, because we should know better than to let something like that ever happen again. Not sure if the lesson was learned, we're still killing each other.

Roger, you win!

Wayhay! Bruce Dern tried to save the forests, though: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

1) I learned to drive (a bit anyway) when I was 9–10

2) I almost fell from the rear seat of a car when I was 4

3) I first drove a farm tractor when I was 11

Ah, Silent Running, a film I loved as a kid but now realize has so many flaws/plot holes you can drive a tractor through them...

I'll go with #3, I'm thinking it was younger.

(I still like Silent Running)

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Hahaha, Rick – you are correct for the wrong reason. 3 is the lie, my best friend at school was son of a Cotswold farmer and he had more sense than to let me drive the tractor.

1) My father showed me how to drive on the private airport roads at Lagos when I was 9–10; and 2) on the way to the Butlins holiday camp at Pwllheli when I was four, the back door of the Austin my father had borrowed from a friend, fell open and only by reaching behind him from the steering wheel did he manage to prevent me from falling out on a nasty bend on Devil's Corner in mid-Wales.

Two of these Sci-Fi Fanboy stories are true, the other isn't.

1) I am such a Joss Whedon fanboy that I was all but peeing myself when the series Firefly premiered. I've been a loyal Browncoat ever since! I've even bought 5 sets of the DVDs (I keep giving them away to friends, they all got hooked as well). 

2) When I was 14 I forced my father to go with me to the first showing on opening day of a new movie called Star Wars. I had read the book about 6 months previosuly and I was sooooo excited. I saw the movie ten times that summer, I even sat through it twice with my mother.

3) When a weird, gothic sci-fi British TV series about the moon being torn out of Earth's orbit and hurled into outer space premiered, I was mesmerized and glued to the TV. Unfortunately I was unable to finish the episode as my father had purchased tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball. I didn't have a choice. I was overjoyed to discover that the episode re-aired the next week right before the second episode. I was hooked on Space: 1999 from the very beginning. 

2) I think this is a lie, or a part of it anyway :-)

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Had I been given a choice I would hav skipped The Harlem Globetrotters for Space: 1999 but I wasn't give a choice. Still it was a fun basketball game, even if there was never any doubt who would win. All true.

As it was a couple years later when I picked up a paperback book called Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker while visiting relatives on Christmas vacation in Florida in December 1976. I read the book rather quickly and my anticipation was only increased by the coverage of the incoming film in Starlog magazine. So in May 1977, I was already sold by the fanboy press that this was THE movie of the year, no the decade, no the Century!

Years later when Firefly premiered, I didn't even watch it. See I didn't like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel, the un-slain vampire, so cowboys-in-space Firefly wasn't even on my radar. A good friend of mine asked his dad for the DVD set for Xmas the year that it was released so naturally his dad bought him a Star Trek tie. I knew I was never going to hear the end of it, so I went out and bought him the DVDs. He decided I had to watch them with him since I gifted them to him. Great, I though, I can't get away from this can I? So we watched it. I enjoyed the premiere, but I wasn't hooked until the end of the second episode, The Train Job when Mal kicks Niska's man into the engine. WTF?!?! "Did he just...?" After that it just got better and better and I bought my own set of DVDs, then gave them to another friend and bought another set which I gave away, etc, etc. I'm on my fifth set right now and looking for someone who's going to get it when I finally break down and buy the Bluray set. "You can't take this guy from me." wait.. No .. "You can't take the sky from me." 

So, Absinthe Wins!

1. I have a weakness for fancy all natural soap
2. I have a weakness for anthologies
3. I have a weakness for mmorpgs

I'm going to pick #2, while you may enjoy anthologies, you don't seem to read that many of them for claiming to have a "weakness" of them. But then our definitions of having a weakness could be very different. So I may to wrong.

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Obviously 3

Rick wrote: "I'm going to pick #2, while you may enjoy anthologies, you don't seem to read that many of them for claiming to have a "weakness" of them. But then our definitions of having a weakness could be ver..."

My reasoning may be way off. Your percentage of anthologies actually mint be fairly close to mine when, and I've got a fairly liberal definition of anthologies, so I might be way off base on my analysis. I think I might have over thunked it. ;)

Roger you win! Buy why is it "obviously"? I enjoy a good mmorpg, but not nearly as much as a good anthology. And Rick, the reason I don't have that many anthologies on my shelf is because if I let myself, I'd just read anthologies all the time ^^; I do like to treat myself with some fancy soap~ I just got some yesterday at the farmer's market.

Absinthe wrote: "Roger you win! Buy why is it "obviously"? I enjoy a good mmorpg, but not nearly as much as a good anthology. And Rick, the reason I don't have that many anthologies on my shelf is because if I let ..."

LoL! That's actually why I don't read 'more' anthologies. I love short stories, but I found myself spend more time on them than on novels, so I purposely hold myself back. I have to do that with favorite authors too, like Stephen King or that guy, um, what's his name, Roger Kean, other wise I'd have nothing to look forward to). ;)

because I haven't a clue what a mmorpgs is/are… :-))

I blush to be placed with a luminary like Stephen King… How about that great novelist (ahem) of Hollywood subjects, Kip Nolan? His latest is going to press any day soon (or as soon as he can finish writing it).

1) Mulholland Meat is set in 1953 Hollywood

2) Mulholland Meat starts on the eve of the premiere at Grauman's Chinese of The Robe

3) Mulholland Meat's young hero is called Sweet Candy

Wow, Oliver is certainly getting lots of cover work these days. I hope This guy Kip Nolan appreciates the honor and prestige that having an Oliver Frey cover bestows on a book. Of course, having an early "endorsement" from you and a cover from Oliver Frey means I'm going to have to get a copy. I'll shelve it right next to Mississippi Hustler.

Since the first two choices sort of jive, I'm going to pick #3. NO, wait, I just had a flash inspiration.. I'll bet it climaxes on the eve of the premiere of The Robe - so I pick #2.

Is it just me or does the featured character on the front look a bit like James Dean?

I'm picking three then

numero uno

Rick, shoulda stuck with the original thought :) That means kit got it right, the lie is Sweet Candy, when he's called Zeke Candy, a late teen with looks that fall somewhere between (Yes! James Dean (not yet a star in 1953) and Montgomery Clift. Incidentally, the book does open with the radio reporter's commentary from the red carpet as Hollywood royalty streams between the bleachers into Grauman's Chinese for the premiere of "The Robe" on Hollywood Boulevard (such a sleaze of a place, really…)

Take it away, Kit!

There I go, over thinking it again. ;)

lol

1. I've finished packing all my books

2. I've finished packing all my winter clothes

3. I've finished packing all my CDs

Hmmmm… 2

Roger's probably got it, but I'll go with #1 because you can't read while packing, but you need tunes.

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Rick is right... 1 is the lie - too many books and they have to be packed by category because I'm not going to be able to unpack all of them for a while.

2. The first thing I finished packing
3. Most of my music is on my ipod anyway

1) I nearly lost my left eye to Shingles
2) I nearly lost my right leg from a bee sting
3) I nearly lost my life to the flu as a child

2, because three happened to me, and 1 just sort of seems a little out there but not out there enough. Two is out there, but its probably like a hand instead of a leg or something

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3) Nearly happened to me, so I'll back-up Marcie :)

#1 is true, just over a decade ago I had a bad case of shingles in an unusual place. My forehead. I was diagnosed incorrectly with poison ivy and the stuff they gave me turned out to be almost the worst thing possible. A week later another doctor decided that it was shingles and recognized that if another week had gone by I would have lost my left eye. I told that first doctor it wasn't poison ivy, but did he listen?

#3 is true. I was about 6 or 7, and had the whole tunnel vision with everyone being very far away & looking at myself from above out of body experience. This was also when I discovered my allergy to penicillin. Which was, of course, what I was being given to help fight off the infection.

#2 is a lie. Sort of. I did nearly lose leg, after it swelled to about three times it's normal size from ... Ant bites, not a bee sting. I was about 4 or 5 and my mother ran down the street with me, naked, under her arm as my leg was swelling with every step. She got to a neighbor doctor who had an antitoxin which took the emergency away from the reaction.

So, Absinthe wins!

1. My lungs developed early in the womb
2. I was born without fully formed genitalia
3. I was born with an extra finger that was later surgically removed

rick, my son has the same reaction. the tiniest of ants can make that area swell so much.

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Marcie wrote: "rick, my son has the same reaction. the tiniest of ants can make that area swell so much.

Wow, I've never heard of anyone having the same issue, I knew there were others but I've never known any. That was the incident that led to the chain of discovers about my allergies to pretty much all insects.

I'll go with #1, all my nieces had underdeveloped lungs.

neither have i. you'll be the first one also. and yeah. things swell up to double it's size and the area gets red and extremely hot. luckily it hasn't gotten past just being a local reaction. but now i'm thinking what if he gets bit by more than one at one time :/

Uh-oh, 3 then

Roger, you're right

1. Usually the lungs are the last thing to develop, but that was not the case with me. My mom said I used to get the hiccups before I was born

2. I was premature so yes this was true (thankfully hormone cream helped me fully develop as a baby).

3. Did not happen to me though it did happen to one of my friends

1) I am a left-handed writer

2) I am a right-handed writer

3) I can tie my shoelaces using both hands

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