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Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25468]

Sun, 24 January 2010 20:29

Maren
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Not One of My Better Sundays

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25469 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Sun, 24 January 2010 20:47

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Well here's hoping that Monday is an improvement.

There were a couple from 2005. There was one from 2003.
Oh fie! In the old farmhouse (which is occupied, in case you were wondering) I know there are piles of "there could be very interesting articles in those newspapers" from 1973. YES. They look a little worse for wear. I'm sure they would make fascinating reading. (I remind myself of this pile every time I start to worry that *I* am hoarding.)

And I suppose you’re going to expect me to learn to conduct, I said, unmollified.†† I do not want to learn to conduct, I said. I have never wanted to learn to conduct.
Can anyone else hear the sounds of impending doom here?? Wink

Conducting as an aspiration passed me by, slick as an unyaktraxed person on ice.
*snork*

I would like to write novels like me which outsell Edward Sparklyface and Harry Potter together.
<3

But I have no desire to learn to conduct touches of method ringing. I said.
So you say....

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25470 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Sun, 24 January 2010 20:52

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I would like to write novels like me which outsell Edward Sparklyface and Harry Potter together.

That would be awesome, but they'd probably beg you to make a movie and change it all up. THEN AGAIN, if you outsold (typo: outsouled) them, they'd probably give you more creative control. So this might work out after all.

Smooshes!

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25472 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Sun, 24 January 2010 22:30

libby.gorman
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And I suppose you’re going to expect me to learn to conduct, I said, unmollified.†† I do not want to learn to conduct, I said. I have never wanted to learn to conduct. Conducting as an aspiration passed me by, slick as an unyaktraxed person on ice.

How does one learn to conduct in bell ringing? In choral conducting, apparently, the conductor-to-be spends a lot of time in front of the mirror practicing beat patterns. It sounds like it could be an amusing process, at least!

Libby

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25473 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Sun, 24 January 2010 22:42

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Perhaps you need one of these in which to carry Steve Coleman. Be sure and lay it prominently in Niall's field of view.

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25475 is a reply to message #25469 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 01:11

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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 02:47

Well here's hoping that Monday is an improvement.

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And I suppose you’re going to expect me to learn to conduct, I said, unmollified.†† I do not want to learn to conduct, I said. I have never wanted to learn to conduct.
Can anyone else hear the sounds of impending doom here?? Wink

But I have no desire to learn to conduct touches of method ringing. I said.
So you say....

Yeppers, I hear the sound of doom. Robin protests too much to be taken seriously. Wink

If she really didn't want to conduct, she would just say "NO!". Wink

[Updated on: Mon, 25 January 2010 01:12]

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25477 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 03:04

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They will cry to go out if their bowels are troubling them, but they throw up in silence. This is perhaps partly because vomiting is not covered adequately in the standard housetraining module, but also, I assume, because it happens too fast.

All the dogs I've had have wanted to get sick at the exact spot peristalsis reverses itself. Attempts to get them to move, say, the three steps needed to hit the tile floor rather than the carpet, are met by digging in their feet and pulling back hard. Running for the door wouldn't seem to be an option.

There were a couple from 2005. There was one from 2003. That magazine has been through two house moves.

I have a stack of unread New Yorkers dating from the mid-eighties that have been through three house moves. But they live in a closet in my bookroom. The piled-up magazines in the living room only go back a year or two. Smile

You are not alone.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25479 is a reply to message #25477 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 05:28

b_twin_1
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Diane in MN wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 03:04

[Attempts to get them to move, say, the three steps needed to hit the tile floor rather than the carpet, are met by digging in their feet and pulling back hard. Running for the door wouldn't seem to be an option.

Hence the advantage of smaller dogs....! I managed to prevent an upchuck tragedy on the *only white carpet in the house* by grabbing Belle's collar and (I think) lifted her bodily onto safer territory. (The not-really-digested-sickeningly-rotten-rabbit landed with a small whump on the floor... eeewwww)
*shudders*

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25480 is a reply to message #25479 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 05:35

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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 10:28

I managed to prevent an upchuck tragedy on the *only white carpet in the house* by grabbing Belle's collar and (I think) lifted her bodily onto safer territory.

Well, you know how the old rhyme goes for such situations - 'the wasp will pick the sweetest fruit, the skunk will choose the best-cut suit'. Smile

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25481 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 05:41

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Although speaking of friendless, Niall hung around after service ring this morning to snigger.

My word. That's a brave man! Smile

I'm glad that the vacuum cleaner people made it a slightly better day. Some days, one takes what one can get...

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25482 is a reply to message #25481 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 08:14

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AJLR wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 10:41

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Although speaking of friendless, Niall hung around after service ring this morning to snigger.

My word. That's a brave man! Smile

No - I would say that is an exceptionally FOOLISH man - possibly one who has a death wish.... Wink

Did Niall manage to get home under his own steam once you'd finished with him Robin? Or did someone have to CARRY him?

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25483 is a reply to message #25479 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 10:47

Maren
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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 05:28

Diane in MN wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 03:04

Hence the advantage of smaller dogs....!

Exactly. Lola did have the decency to move to the end of the bed and hang off the edge when she needed to throw up at 5 a.m. one morning last week, but I am very grateful for her hoistability as I managed to get her on her seldom-used bed, which can be washed. (Also very grateful that bit of plastic wrapping from the 1/2 lb of expensive organic grass-fed beef[!] that she'd consumed came back up rather than staying in there and causing an obstruction.)

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25495 is a reply to message #25483 ]

Mon, 25 January 2010 21:52

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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 05:28

Diane in MN wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 03:04

[Attempts to get them to move, say, the three steps needed to hit the tile floor rather than the carpet, are met by digging in their feet and pulling back hard. Running for the door wouldn't seem to be an option.

Hence the advantage of smaller dogs....!

Exactly. Lola did have the decency to move to the end of the bed and hang off the edge when she needed to throw up at 5 a.m. one morning last week, but I am very grateful for her hoistability as I managed to get her on her seldom-used bed, which can be washed. (Also very grateful that bit of plastic wrapping from the 1/2 lb of expensive organic grass-fed beef[!] that she'd consumed came back up rather than staying in there and causing an obstruction.)

I am a cat person, but the cats I've owned do have the annoying habit of moving TOWARD carpet to be sick! (And I realize that I have totally messed up the quotation function--I will research using nested quotes before I try it again, sorry!)

Libby

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25500 is a reply to message #25479 ]

Tue, 26 January 2010 00:00

Diane in MN
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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 04:28

Yes. This actually trumps the other advantage of smaller dogs, which is that their equipment is also smaller and weighs a lot less. When you have lugged a fifty-pound wire crate up a set of hotel stairs, this fact tends to occupy a lot of your mind.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25503 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Tue, 26 January 2010 00:37

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I would like to write novels like me which outsell Edward Sparklyface and Harry Potter together.

I think Robin may outsell Edward Sparklyface at my local bookstore. But then, the crone in charge of the children's and young adult sections keeps her entire published body of work on the shelves, and often on special display. In December when I visited to (allegedly) buy books for other people, she had first edition hardcovers of SWORD and HERO with their sparkly silver and gold stickers prominently arrayed. (Of course I bought them.) When she saw me pick them up, she stopped me to make sure that I'd read everything else by Robin.

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Re: Not One of My Better Sundays [message #25512 is a reply to message #25468 ]

Tue, 26 January 2010 12:14

Jeanne Marie
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Steve Coleman is a Ringing God. To those of us over-identified and over-involved with words on a page he’s probably the ringing god. http://www.ringingbooks.co.uk/ I have had his other three books almost from my first lesson in rope-handling because of course I was going to need them all eventually.‡‡ I did not order the fourth. The one which is about conducting. I did not order it because I did not want to learn to conduct.

I ordered it this afternoon. This may explain why I then had to spend several hours lying down.

SNORK!!! HahahaMMMPPPHHH!! *claps hand over mouth*

Enjoy the new Coleman book, Robin! Smile

*smiles sweetly*

And, definitely get that tote bag abigailmm links to...fabulous!! I'm still snickering over it!

Smiles,
JM

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