Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

As a lover of short stories, I wholeheartedly recommend Saki (HH Munro). He has the added advantage of being out of copyright, so very MSE. This is one of my favourites:
http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=24

Good call GDB! Big fan, particularly of the Clovis stories!

lemonjelly wrote: »

Agreed.
Also amazed that there is no Steinbeck on the fiction list too....

Loved his work as well; was one of the key authors we had to study in Higher English IIRC. I tried to visit some of the locations when I visited California.

Can I guide you to this
http://archive.org/details/completeworksofo002824mbp
for O.Henry's works
I was going to find Dorothy Parkers's stories but they may still be in copyright.
This collection may be useful though
http://www.classicshorts.com/author.html
:beer:

lostinrates

What a day. Client issue Delay took an hour and a half. Then was annoying when it happened. Still, all fine now i think.

House wise its amazing! The ceiling in the old kitchen is down and the door way into the new one is cut out, and as i type i can hear them cutting the door way into the temporary one.

Michaels we have that brick dust smell too.

Now like pn in her hotel i am wondering what i shall have for supper.

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

I have never succeeded in selling a car or doing a part ex. Dh has never tried. I tend to run 'em till they are dead, and put too much money into doing that.

But yes. I think its time to consider a part ex. Which, frankly, terrifies me.

The only time I have ever bought a car from a dealer, I haggled for a discount and eventually got one; ..........as long as you take that thing away with you.

[Actually I wanted to keep the 11 year old mini as I was working on a short term deal away from home while looking for a new job - guess which one of us got to drive the replacement car for the next few months, until we went back down to an one car family again. I spent a weekend touching up the old mini and giving it the finest "T" cut and polish in its life time and thus got a very reasonable price for it.]

vivatifosi

Just heard this on Pointless and thought someone might like it:

* What is the easternmost state in the US?
* What is the westernmost state in the US?

Roll over below for answer:

Alaska is both the most eastern and most western as well of course as the most northern.

Sorry, have had to remove hyperlink to Wikipedia entry to Attu Island as I can't make it white.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Now like pn in her hotel i am wondering what i shall have for supper.

I picked up a couple of boxes of cup-a-soups ... and a 6-pack of some low calorie potato snacks.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

As a lover of short stories, I wholeheartedly recommend Saki (HH Munro). He has the added advantage of being out of copyright, so very MSE. This is one of my favourites:
http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=24

Fabulous. I hadn't read that one before.

One I remember from when I was little was this one: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Storyteller.html

And while browsing for it, I came across this, which is another Clovis gem: http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=108

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I picked up a couple of boxes of cup-a-soups ... and a 6-pack of some low calorie potato snacks.

I bought a premade salad, a falafel wrap and a huge bag of expensive cherries. The dogs ars begging for the cherries.:o

PasturesNew

Today I saw a shop of Gollies... took a couple of snaps, but haven't removed them from my camera .... snaps were poor as I was sneakily trying to snap them inside a dark building before I was told off for photographing anything... so no time for settings, just camera out, aim, snap, away.

http://www.gingerpop.co.uk/index.htm

Golly catalogue: http://www.gingerpop.co.uk/Golly_shop_Sept2011.pdf

PasturesNew

Just tried to plot tomorrow's adventure .... to find that the bus will take a non-waiting/direct route of 1 change ... 1 hour 15 minutes. Or, I can hop in the car any time, carry stuff ... and drive to the destination in 17 minutes.

No brainer!

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

"... sat down and used the free wifi ..." No mention of books. Just my prejudices coming to the fore.

To be fair they weren't local. I was impressed enough that they found their way to the library.