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    Holy-Moly, I never knew what GORP stood for. I...

    Holy-Moly, I never knew what GORP stood for. I oughtta start a Great Acronym Thread.

    Also, are you effing kidding me!? Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups didn’t make the cut!? Blasphemy.

    Yes, well, so...
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    If ya dig around there might be some raisins left.

    If ya dig around there might be some raisins left.
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    Haha! If the game of golf is a metaphor for...

    Haha!

    If the game of golf is a metaphor for life, then my name must be Mulligan.

    Speaking of metaphors for life, I think Danik’s earlier posting of the Que Será Será song fits well. I mean we...
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    Nice. I think I like that version better. Music...

    Nice. I think I like that version better. Music has got to be the most collaborative of any art form. I’m thinking of people getting together with their instruments and putting something together,...
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    George Washington Hayduke

    He’s a bit of a lug nut, but he’s our lug nut. Sergeant George Washington Hayduke, former Green Beret, has recently returned for Vietnam and is looking for his purpose in life when he falls in with a...
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    Oh man! That tune was hugely popular back in the...

    Oh man! That tune was hugely popular back in the day. It was a little before my time, but I can remember my mother singing along with it when it came on the radio. Her repertoire was that one, a few...
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    Already I’m straying from the script. This one is a form not a device. It’s from the book I just finished, Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham:



    This haiku was written by one of the main...
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    Oh yeah, Deaver’s book is going swimmingly so far. I’m 3 or 4 chapters in and already I’ve learned a few things about the tribulations a quadriplegic endures day in and day out. It’s smoothly written...
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    The Great Metaphor Thread

    Similes make me smile and I never metaphor I didn't like. All allegories are welcome; allusion, analogy, and alliteration too. Oh heck, any old literary device is fair game for this thread.

    My...
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    Just now starting The Bone Collector, by Jeffrey...

    Just now starting The Bone Collector, by Jeffrey Deaver.

    The book I just finished, Twilight Territory, is a stand-out novel. It takes place over about a ten-year period of Vietnam’s history from...
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    Yup, people have strong opinions about religion...

    Yup, people have strong opinions about religion and faith. (And Sancho has a knack for stating the obvious.)

    I’ve been reading Twilight Territory, which is set in the 1940s in Vietnam. I’m taking...
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    So I downloaded The Bone Collector on my kindle....

    So I downloaded The Bone Collector on my kindle. I’m looking forward to starting it. Twilight Territory has been fascinating, mainly from a historical standpoint. Also it’s good to see this slice of...
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    Good pic’s. I could almost smell the stink.

    Have you read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle? It’s set in the early 1900s in the stockyards and meat packing plants of south-side Chicago. Sinclair...
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    ...meanwhile, in a neighborhood just west of the...

    ...meanwhile, in a neighborhood just west of the Bowery, several of the boys who'd recently immigrated from Sicily, were hatching out a scheme for a new stream of revenue.

    This stuff just writes...
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    Haha, go figure... and then Carrie went home and...

    Haha, go figure... and then Carrie went home and began to sharpen her axe...
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    Do you reckon those guys use egg-beaters? Those...

    Do you reckon those guys use egg-beaters? Those are the only pedals I can keep mud free on my mountain bike.
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    Nice set of posts, Poppin. I can speak with some...

    Nice set of posts, Poppin. I can speak with some authority on “spaniel-like dependence.” Over the years the Señora and I have burned through a dozen or so Springer Spaniels. We have three now. These...
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    All in all I thought Maggie was a pretty flat...

    All in all I thought Maggie was a pretty flat character. As you said It’s a short book. So there’s not too much room to delve into her psyche, but I found myself wondering if Crane was capable of...
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    Call BR-549, ask for Junior. I’ll check out...

    Call BR-549, ask for Junior.

    I’ll check out Deaver. I haven’t read anything by him.
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    That was worth it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but...

    That was worth it.
    Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like the big difference between cyclo-cross and mountain biking is cyclo-crossers run more. Those guys are adept at dismounting, hoisting the...
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    Also she'd run out of options. "Ruined" then...

    Also she'd run out of options. "Ruined" then dumped by Pete (schmuck). Her drunken mom playing the victim and throwing her out. The girl had no where to go. But more importantly I think she felt the...
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    I used to love to listen to Phil Rizzuto call a...

    I used to love to listen to Phil Rizzuto call a game. He didn’t have a super strong accent, but just enough around the edges so that you know you’re listening to a Yankees game. And whereas Phil...
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    Man! It’s time to dust off the bike and true up...

    Man! It’s time to dust off the bike and true up the wheels. (I’m a fair-weather rider)

    Cyclo-cross is a tough sport, eh? Think we should break the news to those guys in Marin County, bombing down...
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    So, bounty, I’m hoping you got something to say...

    So, bounty, I’m hoping you got something to say about Paris-Nice.
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    I wish I could find an article I read a few years...

    I wish I could find an article I read a few years back in The New Yorker (I think). It was all about American accents and regionalisms. There was an old man who’d been collecting samples of people’s...
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