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Happy Birthday, Fred!

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Actually, It will end. He was diagnosed several years ago, so he outlined the entire 12th (and final) book, and his wife will finish it for him. It won't be the same, but we will get to find out what Jordan had planned for his characters.

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http://www.uksfbooknews.net/2007/09/17/rip-wheel-of-time-author-robert-jordan/print/ Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series, passed away yesterday afternoon. He had been struggling for the past few years with a rare form of cancer. I loved his books (even if they were incredibly long, and...

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Dear Bob, Why am I living with this guy? How can someone be such a huge douchebag? This is from a conversation earlier tonight, with him, my other housemate, and another male friend. This is as close as I can remember to what he actually said, using as little paraphrase as possible. (in a proud voic...

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Dear You,

Please try not to stress out too much. This sucks, but it's not your fault, and no one there feels any resentment towards you.

Your friend.

Dear You,

Why do I always fall for the crazy ones?!

Me

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It's now 6:40 in the morning... I've been up since noon. Crazy as it may seem, this is actually entirely voluntary. At 9 this morning, clubs can reserve rooms to use during the year, on a first come first serve basis, so we (we being the Anime club) camped out. We had someone here at 7:40am yesterda...

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**Eriador, I'm not offended that you thought I lied. EL is the moderator and he took offense where there was none, but rules are rules so next time I "lie" just call it a contradiction. I have not read all your posts but from what I've seen, you are very intelligent and back up your thoug...

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heehee, silly Canadians.

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I haven't read her stuff in years... actually never, cause I had "A Wrinkle in Time" read to me by my mom when I was very young. Some of the best memories of my life are from the car trips when my mom would read those books, or others (such as the Narnia series). It's in large part because...

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I actually really like the commercials in general. Obviously, some of there are better than others, but the whole concept is really funny... but like I said in my first post, I wish they had the original actors. They can just pull it off better than the guys in those previews.

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Thought this was a cool thread, and Eri has been complaining about the slowness of the forums, so...

*bump*

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_%28TV_series%29

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I6GuL7f0zIw

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I'm speechless... I can't believe they're actually making a show out of this. If they had the original actors, I'd probably actually watch it, but I don't know.

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Dear Bob,

I think I finally found my social group here.

Yay!

Hope all is well,

-Ethan

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Happy Birthday, Jazz!

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This is one of the coolest things I've seen on YouTube.

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True, but the original post at least implied that the reading was done for pleasure.

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... But what does it do?

That's the beauty of it! It doesn't do anything!

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I think I read a little faster than average, and I learned to read at a fairly young age. I don't know what kind of method my parents used, but I definitely do the whole "read several words at a time" thing. As far as forcing yourself to read faster goes, I had a teacher in high school who...

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I'm with the guy on this one. I enjoy all of the books in the series, but Xenocide is definitely at the bottom of the list.

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I was pleasantly surprised by this movie (which wasn't hard, considering I went in expecting complete garbage). It wasn't amazing, but definitely worthwhile, and had some really funny parts. "I like boys now". One thing I would have liked to see is more screen time for the side characters....

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Happy Birthday, John

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What I don't get is the people who "care so much about Harry Potter", and are so excited about it that they can't wait a few more days, but for some reason decide not to financially support it by buying it legally. (And I do realize that some people will still buy the actual book after dow...

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^HAHAHAHAHA

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*bump* cause I think this is a good thread, and Pweb has been slow lately. I recently picked up Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, mostly because I am a huge Terry Pratchett fan. First of all, I would highly recomend this book to anyone who enjoys Pratchett. He is one of the few authors ...

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What's it say?

If I was ever going to get a tattoo, it would have to be something extremely meaningful for me, probably something connected to my family.

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I'm going to add a couple to my previous list of how to annoy a linguist:

5. Claim that animals communicate, therefore animals have language.

6. Trying to assert that a word means something based on its etymology. Words mean whatever we use them to mean, people!

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The most efficient way to annoy a linguist... 1. Claiming that women talk more than men 2. Saying anything about the number of words Eskimos have for snow 3. Upon learning that you are a linguistics major: "So, how many languages do you know?" 4. Claiming that splitting infinitives and end...

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so very lonely...

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Hi, my name is Ethan, and I am a lurker.

I do post every once in a while (mostly in Dear Bob), but I check the site at least once a day.

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Hey Bob, it's been a while. Actually, it's been a while since I've posted here at all (though I have been lurking). I don't really have anything specific to talk about, I just haven't done any introspection lately, and this seems as good a place as any to do it. Life has been pretty good. I was home...

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I didn't like the homecoming series very much (I don't remember exactly why), but if he's got religious themes, so what? The guy can write about whatever he wants to write about, if you don't like it, don't buy it. If everyone wrote to be as neutral and non-offensive and all-inclusive as possible, t...

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Dear Bob, I just have to get through exams, and I will have spent an entire year away at college. Neither of my 2 older brothers have done that. One of them went for half year, then moved back to the local college. As long as I can remember, they have always been stronger, smarter, and more outgoing...

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Confession: when I have to make a phone-call, it doesn't matter who it's to, it could be to a friend I've known for years, it will often take me 10 minutes or so of staring at the phone before I actually force myself to dial... and then I'm saying under my breath "don't pick up, don't pick up&q...

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Call my friends to share some wine Share some laughs and last goodbyes My photographs of these years Will make me laugh through the tears ... I will not leave this pulse alone Though it may take the long way home I will not wait until the end For my applause for you my friend "Changeless",...

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Last paper of the year due in 9 and 1/2 hours... worth 15% of my final grade...and I still have 3 pages to write... and yet I'm still managing to procrastinate.

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