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Proclivities

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Alexandra

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Loved this line, injecting a bit of humor into the middle of really suspenseful scene from "Gates of Evangeline" I move through the house, turning on light after light until my home is a model of wasteful energy consumption.
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ScottFromWyoming

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haresfur wrote: There's a story about the start of the Manhattan project where one of the physicists at the University of Chicago came home and told his wife a vague story about them having to move to Tennessee for a while. She went to the library and checked out a book on the State and saw that the last few people to check it out were wives of physicists. Good thing the Japanese weren't watching.
That's pretty funny. I do remember just opening books at random and seeing who had checked them out.
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haresfur

Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:  
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Oct 9, 2015 - 2:47am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:For your information it wasn't Little Billy the Quadriplegic Orphan at all! I was over at a friend's house and there it was by the front door so he'd remember to take it back to the library.  Small towns. Remember when you could look at the little card and find out who else had checked out a book? Now you have to go door to door and just ask them. There's a story about the start of the Manhattan project where one of the physicists at the University of Chicago came home and told his wife a vague story about them having to move to Tennessee for a while. She went to the library and checked out a book on the State and saw that the last few people to check it out were wives of physicists. Good thing the Japanese weren't watching.
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ScottFromWyoming

Location: Powell Gender:  
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Oct 8, 2015 - 10:26pm |
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bokey wrote: It was Little Billy the quadriplegic orphans last wish to read that book.When he placed the hold online,the doctors and nurses all broke out in tears over his obvious joy about finding the book of his dreams.Don't worry about it though,he passed away the day before you returned it.Some say from a broken heart.His last words were "FU SFW".
For your information it wasn't Little Billy the Quadriplegic Orphan at all! I was over at a friend's house and there it was by the front door so he'd remember to take it back to the library.  Small towns. Remember when you could look at the little card and find out who else had checked out a book? Now you have to go door to door and just ask them.
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ScottFromWyoming

Location: Powell Gender:  
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Oct 7, 2015 - 9:07am |
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bokey wrote: It was Little Billy the quadriplegic orphans last wish to read that book.When he placed the hold online,the doctors and nurses all broke out in tears over his obvious joy about finding the book of his dreams.Don't worry about it though,he passed away the day before you returned it.Some say from a broken heart.His last words were "FU SFW".
God if I only had a nickel...
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bokey

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Oct 7, 2015 - 9:06am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:If you want to read a modern book with a similar but much longer time span, the new Neal Stephenson book Seveneves is totally science-geeky but looks like it deals with some similar concepts. And a lot more. I checked it out from the library and only had to renew it once. Okay I didn't renew it since someone else had put a hold on it; I just kept it an extra week and will have to pay some ungodly fine. 85¢ maybe. It was Little Billy the quadriplegic orphans last wish to read that book.When he placed the hold online,the doctors and nurses all broke out in tears over his obvious joy about finding the book of his dreams.Don't worry about it though,he passed away the day before you returned it.Some say from a broken heart.His last words were "FU SFW".
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ScottFromWyoming

Location: Powell Gender:  
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Oct 7, 2015 - 8:59am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:Miscreant!  I was only following n4ku's sage advice.
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Red_Dragon

Location: Gilead 
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Oct 7, 2015 - 8:57am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:If you want to read a modern book with a similar but much longer time span, the new Neal Stephenson book Seveneves is totally science-geeky but looks like it deals with some similar concepts. And a lot more. I checked it out from the library and only had to renew it once. Okay I didn't renew it since someone else had put a hold on it; I just kept it an extra week and will have to pay some ungodly fine. 85¢ maybe. Miscreant!
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ScottFromWyoming

Location: Powell Gender:  
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Oct 7, 2015 - 8:20am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:When I was a lad of about ten, I read a science-fiction book. The story was about a future earth in the throes of an ice-age. The surviving humans had built cities below the ice and isolated themselves from one another. A group of dissidents in one of the cities, operating illegal communication equipment made contact with another city. When they were discovered, the city's leaders banished them to the surface. They were given vehicles designed for traversing the ice, and a limited quantity of supplies. Don't recall how things turned out for them.
For the life of me, I cannot recall the author or title of this book. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
If you want to read a modern book with a similar but much longer time span, the new Neal Stephenson book Seveneves is totally science-geeky but looks like it deals with some similar concepts. And a lot more. I checked it out from the library and only had to renew it once. Okay I didn't renew it since someone else had put a hold on it; I just kept it an extra week and will have to pay some ungodly fine. 85¢ maybe.
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Red_Dragon

Location: Gilead 
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Oct 7, 2015 - 6:00am |
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Proclivities wrote:Is it Time Of The Great Freeze? I remember seeing the book around in the '70s; I never read it but some friends of mine probably did. That's it. Thanks!
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Proclivities

Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:  
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Oct 7, 2015 - 5:55am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:When I was a lad of about ten, I read a science-fiction book. The story was about a future earth in the throes of an ice-age. The surviving humans had built cities below the ice and isolated themselves from one another. A group of dissidents in one of the cities, operating illegal communication equipment made contact with another city. When they were discovered, the city's leaders banished them to the surface. They were given vehicles designed for traversing the ice, and a limited quantity of supplies. Don't recall how things turned out for them.
For the life of me, I cannot recall the author or title of this book. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
Is it Time Of The Great Freeze? I remember seeing the book around in the '70s; I never read it but some friends of mine probably did.
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meower

Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:  
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Oct 7, 2015 - 4:58am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:When I was a lad of about ten, I read a science-fiction book. The story was about a future earth in the throes of an ice-age. The surviving humans had built cities below the ice and isolated themselves from one another. A group of dissidents in one of the cities, operating illegal communication equipment made contact with another city. When they were discovered, the city's leaders banished them to the surface. They were given vehicles designed for traversing the ice, and a limited quantity of supplies. Don't recall how things turned out for them.
For the life of me, I cannot recall the author or title of this book. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
you should ask maryt she always helped me remember Sci Fi
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Red_Dragon

Location: Gilead 
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Oct 7, 2015 - 4:56am |
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When I was a lad of about ten, I read a science-fiction book. The story was about a future earth in the throes of an ice-age. The surviving humans had built cities below the ice and isolated themselves from one another. A group of dissidents in one of the cities, operating illegal communication equipment made contact with another city. When they were discovered, the city's leaders banished them to the surface. They were given vehicles designed for traversing the ice, and a limited quantity of supplies. Don't recall how things turned out for them.
For the life of me, I cannot recall the author or title of this book. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
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R_P

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Oct 1, 2014 - 5:16pm |
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Antigone wrote:Guy's last name was Montag, not Monday! Same diff...
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Prodigal_SOB

Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:  
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Oct 1, 2014 - 4:48pm |
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Antigone wrote: Guy's last name was Montag, not Monday!
Well it is for the illiterate.
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Antigone

Location: A house, in a Virginian Valley Gender:  
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Oct 1, 2014 - 4:28pm |
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RichardPrins wrote: Guy's last name was Montag, not Monday!
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haresfur

Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:  
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Oct 1, 2014 - 4:14pm |
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RichardPrins wrote:
What, no lengthy extract so I don't have to read the whole thing?
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ScottN

Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:  
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Oct 1, 2014 - 1:26pm |
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RichardPrins wrote: Thank you for providing this helpful information. This will prove invaluable to the hundreds of millions of adults who have not read a book since High School. Evidently they get their news from ESPN and their literature from billboards.
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R_P

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Oct 1, 2014 - 12:13pm |
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