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    Today, 04:53 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread What’cha Reading? in General Literature
    Oh man, as far as female antagonists go I’ll put Kathy Bates’ Annie Wilkes on a level plane with Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over The...
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    Yesterday, 11:51 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Hahaha. I expressly said — no rakes! I bet'cha try to stand in the peddles on that thing and it'll result in an immediate face plant. Talk...
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    Yesterday, 02:41 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread What’cha Reading? in General Literature
    Well hi-de-ho I finished The Big Sleep. What a gas. Lotsa twists and turns in this one and I do believe I’ve figured out where the Coen Brothers got...
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    Yesterday, 02:38 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread The Great Metaphor Thread in General Literature
    Here’s a few from my latest read, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, a hard-boiled Philip Marlowe detective novel from the ‘30s:
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    Yesterday, 02:34 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Now that I’m back up to speed unicycling, I’m thinking of growing a handlebar mustacheo, donning a bowler and buying a high-wheel bike, a...
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    05-08-2024, 01:21 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread What’cha Reading? in General Literature
    Ya know, I’ve never watched any of that stuff. I haven’t caught the super-hero bug and the special effects in TV sci-fi has always seemed a little...
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    05-07-2024, 10:54 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Bah, while it’s not quite like riding a bike, I did find my balance fairly quickly. The muscle memory was still there, sort of. The comedy came from...
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    05-06-2024, 09:52 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Speaking of cycling, I did a strange thing the other day — I bought a unicycle. What hoot. I built one years ago out of spare parts and managed to...
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    05-06-2024, 09:44 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread What’cha Reading? in General Literature
    Finished Stephen King’s 11/22/63. If you could go back in time and change something, would you? If you could pick a historical event to change,...
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    04-28-2024, 04:01 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread movie to book and book to movie in General Literature
    M*A*S*H the movie was way better than the book it was inspired by, IMHO.
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    04-28-2024, 03:51 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread What’cha Reading? in General Literature
    I’m having an exceptional reading year thus far. I’ve managed to get ahold of some good ones. Just finished The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami ...
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    04-27-2024, 12:52 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread The Great Metaphor Thread in General Literature
    Haha! I like ‘em all. And that second one kinda has a metaphor within a simile, eh? I mean the vegetarian is fishing the caterpillar out of the...
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    04-24-2024, 11:21 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread The Great Metaphor Thread in General Literature
    A most excellent Grateful Dead simile: Found today in a story in The Atlantic by Tommy Tomlinson: Why a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard I loved...
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    04-20-2024, 04:30 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Haha! I’m gonna need one of those book bags. I actually met John Waters once, sounds like something he’d say. Hey, have you read The Boys In The...
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    04-19-2024, 10:45 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Naw, man,not pretentious, you did the work. But hey, you gotta research degree!? Holy moly. Now it seems like I'm the guy at a dinner party,...
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    04-18-2024, 04:21 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    No way, man. Newman was the MVP. I remember a good article in Outside Magazine about the benefits of an impact workout. The writer looked at...
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    04-17-2024, 06:58 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Oh yeah, I'm a big believer in swimming for health and flexibility. Evidently so is Kramer: I can't say that I recommend swimming in the East...
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    04-17-2024, 09:43 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Dem bums! I got on an elevator the other day with guy who was wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers ball cap. Another guy takes a look at the ‘B’ on his cap and...
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    04-16-2024, 11:05 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread The Great Metaphor Thread in General Literature
    I like this metaphor from my current read, The Moor’s Account: The context is this: a young man is speaking with his father about his future....
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    04-16-2024, 10:32 AM
    Sancho replied to a thread Westerns (literary genre) in General Literature
    I think by the 70s the cop shows had pretty much subsumed the cowboy shows. Both genres more or less followed the same formula. Movies too. The man...
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    04-15-2024, 01:58 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    Also, bounty, bah-hahahaha, I gotta get one of those bed covers!
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    04-15-2024, 01:55 PM
    Sancho replied to a thread From The Sports Desk in General Literature
    I found this from The Atlantic. It’s concerning the physiological limitations of the human body and the demands for ever more speed in major league...
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Name: Gilliatt Gurgle, married with one son. Interest in books and reading began the day my mother and I discovered my Grandfather's WW I footlocker. Inside was a treasure of numerous novels and books of poetry.
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