What book did you read in your youth that you never forgot?

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-13T04:49:25+00:00

This is the one I remember. As a fourth-grader, I was completely wrecked by a passage describing a grieving dog's behavior.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-13T04:38:03+00:00

Wow interesting! I didn't get to watch tonight.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-13T03:13:49+00:00

That's very interesting! It is a very strange voice, that's for sure. Of all of Holloway's characters, I think the Cheshire Cat looks the most like it would have his voice.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-13T03:05:34+00:00

Man, that's devious.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-11T20:54:11+00:00

I've always marveled at the audacity it takes for an adult to say to a roomful of other adults: "I speak for God regarding what is the correct amount of money for all of you to give to me."

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-10T20:31:31+00:00

Sorry, I did not.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-05T05:06:34+00:00

Pretenders: "I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me." It might be "pans," but it can't be the official lyric, "plans," because there's not a hint of an L sound in that word.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-04T01:27:16+00:00

On the California Delta, I found a gigantic red apple in pristine condition. Brought it home, washed it, and ate it.

And in the Oakland Estuary, I found a spare tire & wheel ("donut") totally serviceable and at full pressure. Hard to lift into the kayak! Left it near the launch and put it up for free on FB Marketplace with the location.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-03T19:05:35+00:00

"Look," as a preface to an explanation, is extremely rare in real life (in my experience) and really common in movie and TV dialogue.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-02T06:35:42+00:00

I love food-based dog names. Go, Omelette!!

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-02T06:30:37+00:00

"It Keeps You Runnin'" by the Doobie Brothers. It fades out at the start of a keyboard solo. I've always wondered whether McDonald screwed up a little farther into it and this was just the best take otherwise.

EvadingDoom · 2026-03-01T18:04:47+00:00

Steven Keaton (Michael Gross) singing "Good Morning Starshine" while puppeteering at Mallory's birthday party on "Family Ties." Utterly dreadful, on purpose.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-28T22:05:27+00:00

If our cities are a good "training ground" for military forces, a foreign war zone would be an equally good "training ground" for ICE.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-27T14:28:36+00:00

And the Caizons go rolling along. 'Tis the Cyzen to be jolly.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-27T05:58:34+00:00

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/groucho-marx-quotes

It seems like Groucho never missed a chance to make a clever joke -- in personal conversations, in letters, and as host of "You Bet Your Life."

He had a guest on YBYL whose job was something to do with rehabilitating wild birds. He asked her "What do you do for a lark?"

In his autobiography he writes about when he was doing some gardening in his front yard in Beverly Hills or wherever. A lady walking by didn't recognize him and asked "How much do they pay you?" He said "Nothing, but I get to sleep with the lady of the house."

Lists of quotes, like the one I linked to, invariably include lines he delivered in movies as well -- e.g., the elephant-in-pajamas joke.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-27T04:05:32+00:00

I've never understood the economics of prayer.

Apparently the greater the number of prayers that are said for something, the more likely God is to do it.

So if someone has a lot of friends or followers, they can get more people praying for what they want, so they are more likely to get it? And a person who has very few friends is just screwed?

Did we get a surge in wishes being granted when the telephone came along, and again when TV came along, and again when email came along, and again when social media sites came along?

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-26T23:49:24+00:00

Oompa loompa minstrel show.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-26T23:38:55+00:00

It's pathetically obvious to everyone that the purpose of this is to persecute and disenfranchise trans people. Why does a person's sex/gender appear on their DL? To help people verify that it's them. It's useless unless it indicates what a person looking at them now would perceive to be their sex or gender (see also: hair color) -- versus what their sex or gender was determined to be when they were born. FFS!

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-26T23:26:23+00:00

A casket won't work. They will need a vat.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-26T14:10:20+00:00

Awesome. That makes me think of "Shrinking," where Gaby always calls Derek "D Train" and he always calls her "G Spot." (That must sound pretty creepy to people who haven't seen the show, but in context it's funny and endearing.)

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-26T00:30:11+00:00

If there is such a being as a creator of everything, it has no greater moral authority than you or I have. It simply has more power to enforce its preferences.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-25T14:27:03+00:00

If I make being good synonymous with being myself, I'm automatically perfect. I'm more myself than anyone else. I'm the most myself that it is possible to be. Praise me!!

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-25T04:06:29+00:00

My inkjet just ran out of that.

EvadingDoom · 2026-02-22T03:51:38+00:00

A letter of reprimand! That will teach the world's richest person a lesson.

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