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I'm leaving my bookstore job, so this is your chance to let me know if'n you want something for not any money. (Hence the secrecy.) I'll do my best to find it and send it to you, so e-mail me stat! okay, bye

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I don't know why I registered-usered this, so could a moderator fix that for me? Thanks!

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

for reals?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

for reals, yo

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Time for a "Books we have recently purloined" thread, I guess.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 30 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

I need a copy of Twentieth Century American Poetry ed. by Gioia. That shit's expensive.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Monday, 30 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

(I removed the registered users thingy.)

I have no clue what I would want! Heavens!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 30 January 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

I want books! Death of the Heart + anything short I guess?

What a time to be alive.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Is this for real?! Im always looking at that 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' book...

― Michelle Hajdini, Monday, 30 January 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

There isn't anything I'd have you steal from Jamie for me. There aren't enough small bookshops able to make a go of things, no matter how difficult the owners are. This is seriously not cool.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd like a copy of "Steal this book".
Well, not really.
I feel immensely clever right now.

― ¯\(º_o)/¯ (Øystein), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realise it was a small bookshop :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

oo, drama

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

... i don't know why i said that.

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I understand your angst, Jaq. Not to rationalize, but boss-lady more than deserves anything she gets, and you won't know unless you work for her-or not, as I saw her slap a customer during my first month there. So there you go.

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Let us collectively punish this boss person to whom heinous attributes have been attributed, and (purely incidentally) let us profit pleasantly from her punishment, which (of course) has no connection to our desire for justice in this, an obvious case of utter horribleness and depravity, justly deserving of our getting free books at her expense. Yeah!

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

As it happens, I know your “boss lady” very well, and I am well aware of how difficult and painful she can be to deal with: insulting, vindictive, sometimes violent (she even slapped me once). I am also very familiar (as you no doubt are, as well, since she tells everyone) with her history of mental illness and the harrowing life she led for many years as a result of it. She created one of the best book stores in town while fighting her own demons as well as bad business partners, the scorn of anyone who came across her on a bad day, the occasional lazy, incompetent, or dishonest (ahem) employee, and customers who often deserved far more than a slapping (we are talking about Capitol Hill, after all). I am also very much aware of her kindness, generosity, love, and loyalty toward those who have managed to see beyond her often terrifying demeanor, occasional raving, and intensely manic energy. She helped pull me out of the darkest emotional hole I have ever been in, a process she brought to a perfect finish by helping me write the personal ad that led to my meeting Jaq (and which she predictably claimed to have totally written herself).

So go ahead: steal her books, enjoy your piddlyshit little revenge which you’ve somehow convinced yourself is a defense of righteousness and good. But don’t think for a moment that it will have any effect on her or actually mean anything. And you might want to keep in mind that your “boss lady” is the most vengeful person I have ever met, and if she should ever find out what you’re doing, I know exactly what the first thought to come into her head will be (because I heard her say it many times about others): “I have her Social Security number.”

― moriarty (moriarty), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 04:18 (twenty years ago)

You mistake integrity for angst. That's most original.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

But... but... we all had our pitchforks and torches at the ready and were just waiting for someone brighter than us to yell, "Kill the monster!" so we could all rush forward and grab some books and, um, wreak justice and all.

This is all very distressing - and expensive. Torches don't come cheap, you know.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

I would post something, but I have this giant beam of wood lodged in my eye, making the thread difficult to read. Maybe others are having this problem?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Crikey, is as much as I'll venture.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Steady there, Matt.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I know, it doesn't do to be hasty.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Brilliant, let's riot. I think I speak for everyone here when I say, let's do it naked and covered in cooking fat.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Is Bobby Zamora coming?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that reminds me - Zamora's resurrection reflects well on the judgement of Glenn Hoddle, who scouted him for ages, brought him to WHL for a low fee, then was fired before Zamora was briskly sold.

Hm - I have a feeling that I am not convincing people here. But I mean it!

― the bellefox, Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

When you're sat in row Z and the ball hits your head, that's Zamora.

I don't think the Spurs manager at the time (Santini?) wanted him to go, but West Ham wouldn't sell Defoe without getting a striker in return. It was the last day of the transfer window.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

(what store are we talking about?)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Tottenham Hotstore! Bargain players for West Ham United.

― the bellefox, Monday, 6 February 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I like how The Pinefox and Mikey G have become The Diffusion Police on this thread.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Or do I mean defusion? Or something else entirely?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I have just eaten two egg custards in quick succession.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I usually eat my egg custards in Bognor Regis, near the train station, sitting on a bench, looking at the... I always forget what.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Last night I cooked jacket potatoes for an hour, scooped out the potato, mashed it up with spring onion, mustard, butter and pepper. Back in the oven for a while and served with quorn sausages and steamed baby corgettes. Lovely.

Then me and Mrs Mikey G watched Life on Mars which is silly and entertaining.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Last night me and Mister Monkey realised (after watching Life on Mars, which we both love) that we have no money and will not be buying anything this year that does not relate to one of the many expensive weddings we must attend. And so I will be buying NO NEW BOOKS. I propose to make a list later today of all the books I will be reading foe the rest of this year. If any of them turn out to be in your To Read pile, we could read them together!

What fun!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I should have got egg custards this morning, instead of biscuits.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Life on Mars is tremendous, but last night's was the worst episode yet: too formulaic and standard-issue.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Last night's Life on Mars didn't have the quality gags of early episodes such as meeting Marc Bolan in a nightclub and saying, "look, just drive carefully, OK?"

Did football really used to cost 35 pence to get in?

Last one next week!

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I had great fun singing the old Double Diamond jingle to Mister Monkey, who is that critical two years younger than me and so doesn't remember anything before Star Wars at all.

What is a brown split though?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I guessed it was the Northern equivalent to the more London-centric light and bitter (half a bitter in a pint glass, topped up with a bottle of light ale, yum). I could be badly wrong.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

the speech at the end about football made me want to vomit.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Really? It was a little corny, sure, but I'm not sure I'd go that far. I don't think there's any harm in reminding people about Hillsborough periodically.

My favourite thing about the programme is how Sam would always read people the new version of their rights, and the 1973 guys would say "that's not how it goes", just in case you thought that absolutely everything was better nowadays.

Tim, you could well be right. I am afraid to google the term "brown split" and find out.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

no harm in it, but the length and pomposity of the speech made me expect violins to start swelling up as sam was bathed in a spotlight.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

It was a crass speech, but, yeah, Hillsborough was the idea. Weirdly, he was speaking as if this was something terrible far in the future and that it was inevitable. In fact, the Ibrox disaster would still have been fresh in the mind. 1971. 66 dead.

Still, I guess the programme isn't a documentary.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

What????

etc.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Mikey, I think that Bolan gag was one of the weakest. It appealed to me when Michael J. Fox did it and I was 12. The footy speeches were quite poor too. And here am I, a great lover of the programme.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Is the Bolan gag from one of the Back to the Future films? I did think it wasn't original.

Incidentally I drove past the spot on Barnes Common recently.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

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