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quimby
quimby
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I cannot think of anyone less likely than Bing Crosby to be besieging anything. "Yare" means "quick, brisk", or "easily handled, manageable". A boat description which can apply in very different worlds. (I'd rather be on Bing's than Odysseus'...)
DazTheSlug
DazTheSlug
May 2019
1:34pm, 28 May 2019
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Bing Crosby wasn't in The Philadelphia Story - I think it was Katherine Hepburn that used the word yare
DazTheSlug
DazTheSlug
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HBUgdY9UNw
GregP
GregP
May 2019
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I enjoyed 'Body of Proof' - shame they killed it off after three seasons (the first and last of which were short).
McGoohan
McGoohan
May 2019
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So Bing Crosby and Katherine Hepburn made a movie about spreadable cheese?

Fascinating. We should probably have been discussing this on the relevant thread however.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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In other news, I went down the library and obtained the hardback of The Overstory. This runs to 'only' 500 pages, albeit with a tiny font size. Maybe the hardback is missing the ending?

I'm not sure whether or not I'll read it yet, but the main task is done: i.e. preventing another library user getting their hands on it.
Diogenes
Diogenes
May 2019
2:08pm, 28 May 2019
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Yes, lets take all the 'good' books out of the libraries so the plebs can't get their hands on them.
McGoohan
McGoohan
May 2019
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I don't want anyone dirtying it, that's for sure.

It did occur to me as I almost put my shoulder out lugging the massive thing back to work that there's a certain irony in a book about Saving the Trees that probably takes a good two elms to make one copy...
Diogenes
Diogenes
May 2019
2:32pm, 28 May 2019
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I expect the books in the library smell funny, but better than the ones in the charity shops.
Chrisull
Chrisull
May 2019
3:26pm, 28 May 2019
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re: Overstory - I read it in less time (3 weeks) than it took me to read the Leopard (1 and a half months) :-). Sometimes page length doesn't tell the whole story.

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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
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One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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