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[apocalypsos]

Whee! I figured out how to check my email through my cell phone! (Took me long enough.) Now, if I want to check LJ replies at work and not have the Glorified Optimist pounce on my back and yap like a rabid lap dog 'cause I'm using work computers to do it, I can.

*snerk* I'm such an unapologetic LJ addict.

So, you know, kill time with this post. Tell me something I don't know. Or, hey, do what they were doing on Ron and Fez last night and ask about some TV show, book, or movie that you remember bits of, but not the name of it. Hell, there's lots of people on my friends list. Somebody's got to know what it is.

Example: When I first got into reading romance novels, there was this one that I really liked that was about a witch who married a duke without actually telling him she as a witch. She was really bad at magic (not that it stopped her from doing it) and she had an aunt named Mary (which I only remember because in the end, the duke and the witch had a pile of kids and all of the girls were named some version of Mary). The duke had totally white hair, about halfway through the book he finds out he's got a mentally handicapped brother he never knew about, and every time the duke and the witch had sex, rose petals fell from the ceiling. Sheesh ... all this, and I still can't remember the writer or the title.

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[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've got one!

When I was a kid, I read a book about a girl who gets a magical calendar where whatever she writes down on the calendar will come true. There's a memorable part where she ends up being in two places at once because she writes down two different events at the same time.

Another part I remember is that she writes down "I get a call from the President" or something and then the president of the PTA calls her. See, she didn't specify which president.

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book, but I remember that I really enjoyed it.

taking you up on it

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

may i ask you again if you know the (approximate) words denis quaid uses in "tdat" to describe the oversweetening of the ocean due to the melting of the polar caps? especially, if a word like "oversweetening" is used?


ps: i'd also like that witch-duke-book.

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

Here's something you may not know: there's a new Big Bang theory (I almost wrote "Big Gang Theory") that states that the next universe could start anywhere at anytime. Yeah. The next Big Bang could be under your desk.

And here's something else you may not know: the complete Gidget collection was released on DVD early this month and you can get it on Amazon.com for like $20. Is there a better bargain in this or any other universe?

And here's another something you may not know--a poem by e.e.cummings:

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

[thornsilver]

When I first got into reading romance novels, there was this one that I really liked that was about a witch who married a duke without actually telling him she as a witch. She was really bad at magic (not that it stopped her from doing it) and she had an aunt named Mary (which I only remember because in the end, the duke and the witch had a pile of kids and all of the girls were named some version of Mary). The duke had totally white hair, about halfway through the book he finds out he's got a mentally handicapped brother he never knew about, and every time the duke and the witch had sex, rose petals fell from the ceiling. Sheesh ... all this, and I still can't remember the writer or the title.

That's probably the work of psychological defense mechanism called "repression". Now, if you only forgot about the thing with the rose petals. :P

[snellios.livejournal.com]

did you ever get your freeipod?

is it this one?

[feath.livejournal.com]

http://www.jillbarnett.com/hiband/bewitching2.html

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

All I could think of with the rose petals during sex was, "Pff! Pff! Damn petals keep falling in my mouth!"

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

did you know:
Due to the high incidence of accidents involving red cars, Brazil and Equador prohibit drivers from owning them, possibly because red objects appear closer than they may actually be.

Yellow
Bright lemon yellow is the most luminous of all colours and the most fatiguing if viewed for long periods of time.
The most cheerful if seen at a glance
Couples fight more and babies cry more in lemon-coloured rooms.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

There was a book my 5th grade teacher started to read to our class (she always read a chapter of a book to us right after lunch, and I was introduced to many fantastic things this way) but never got to finish because the school year ended. It had a traveling family, of magicians I think, and they met a man who cleaned his teeth with a bowie knife. That's really all I can remember about it, because we only got 1/3 of the way in and it's been well over ten years since I was in the fifth grade.

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

I think I know that book! It had a mule train in it, and they were going to California during the gold rush. And the viewpoint character was an older girl--maybe 11? But I don't remember the name or author.

This sentence is gramatically correct.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

John, while Al had had 'had', had had 'had had'.

Not a lot of people know that.

Okay, and, a book? I tend to remember everything or nothing. Although there was one involving a magic carwash, Father Christmas, and eight pence in small change that I never can remember properly. Oh, and one in which a little old lady and her pet dog were revealed to be burglars.

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

Rose petals? Huh. Sorry, I don't think I ever read that one.

But hey, I'd love to have someone tell me the title of the following book. I think it was "young adult" or suchlike, probably from the '60s or early '70s, but possibly earlier. It was set around 1100, and centered around a 13-15 year old girl who was distantly related to Eleanor d'Aquitaine. I remember that the girl had eyes that looked green or blue, depending on what she wore (and I remember that mostly because mine were similar) and that her Great Aunt or Great Grandmother or whatever Eleanor invited her to court where the girl had adventures of some sort.

Anyway, the book ignited my interest in Eleanor d'Aquitaine, so I'm forever grateful to it for that, but for the life of me I can't remember its title, or the author, or whether or not it was actually any good.

[azurelunatic]

Another one by the same author is "By the great horn spoon!"

Am Amazoning now.

Mr. Mysterious & Company, Sid Fleischman.

[azurelunatic]

Ta-da! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688149227/qid=1093455121/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-9463654-8546334?v=glance&s=books

[snowpiratess.livejournal.com]

A book... I think its a 19th century classic, but all I can remember is a bitchy, conniving woman driving the entire plot, and the chapter title "How to live well on nothing a year".

Useless facts... The first smiley was used in 1982 in Carnegie Mellon University. And I was born in the same year as AOL, 9 days before Keira Knightley.

Shaun of the Dead RULES. Icon love!

Re: taking you up on it

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

desalination? As in the freshwater from the melting ice was diluting the sea water, with a net effect of desalination?

I don't remember the exact phrasing either, but I think that this was how they explained it.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Here's something you may not know: there's a new Big Bang theory (I almost wrote "Big Gang Theory") that states that the next universe could start anywhere at anytime. Yeah. The next Big Bang could be under your desk.

Isn't there also a school of thought that says this already occurs pretty much constantly, and the only reason we don't notice is because each new universe expands in a dimensional set orthogonal to our own. IIRC, it has something to do with the spontaneous creation & destruction of quarks and antiquarks in the quantum foam.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's totally it!

The LJ genie strikes again. Neat!

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

The red car thing has repercussions in the US, too. At least for guys, your insurance costs are higher if his vehicle is registered as being "red", no matter what shade it is. As far as insurance goes, there's no difference between cherry red, also known as the "WARNING! WARNING! I HAVE A SMALL PENIS!" color, and maroon, which is the color of my car.

Just as yellow rooms cause the most irritability and annoyance in their occupants, pink rooms cause the most general happiness.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

There's a book I read more than a decade ago, possibly young adult, where the entire story was set in a meta-universe of games. The main characters originated in a fully realized world that was literally a game of chess, and the "chesspieces" had special powers based on what type they were. The protagonists escape their world just as one of the kings is killed and the game ends, taking their world with it. They travelled through several other gameworlds, including a world based on Chutes and Ladders, one based on Monopoly, and one based on Chinese Checkers (I think) before reappearing in the Chess world, which had reset to the beginning of a new game/history.

cheap X-men ripoff, but still...

[gramaraye.livejournal.com]

i remember reading some books when i was a teen, about some psychic kids who all had "silver" eyes. see... their moms had been given some kind of experimental drug while pregnant, and all the kids turned out with powers. seemed like they formed a club or something.

[ktmobile.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a book about some kids shrinking and going inside some person's body to explore around. It wasn't the Magic School Bus, it was a novel. I just remember they got into several situations where a normal bodily reaction would put them in harm's way and they would have to escape somehow. I think they might have been with an older person like a scientist friend (like Doc from Back to the Future). *shrug*

Re: cheap X-men ripoff, but still...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

The Girl With Silver Eyes. I actually own a copy! And I wouldn't say it has anything do to with the X-Men, any more than any other wish-fulfilment kids' book about having mysterious powers. :)

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! Amazon just sold another copy to another satisfied customer!

Re: cheap X-men ripoff, but still...

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I own a copy, too. My mom found it in some warehouse or dollar store or something when I was a kid and bought it for me because she bought me every book she could find that was about a Katie.