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How Not To Do, Part Deux
« on: March 11, 2009, 02:33:09 PM »
Click here:
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for one of the most hilariously purple passages I've ever read!
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 02:35:13 PM »
That's just... gleefully awful.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2009, 02:42:21 PM »
Brain go smush.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 04:38:17 PM »
FWIW, the author, Ron Miller, is described on Amazon as "unfairly talented" by none other than Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 05:11:16 PM »
This totally needs a NSFW tag. Because, seriously, how do you explain laughing until you cry when you should be working? 
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 08:30:40 PM »
Oh my, that is the very same book I picked up once in the bookstore and put back after reading a few paragraphs.  I'm glad I wasn't those particular pages but the names are vaguely familiar.  As is the sentiment.

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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2009, 08:37:51 PM »
You broke my brain.  Why you break my brain? 

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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2009, 05:08:30 PM »
Owww!.  Just damn, and OWWWW!.  What the heck.  If you want bad porn go rent it, sheesh.  That stuff will give you a disease just reading it.  Ack.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2009, 05:17:08 PM »
Yeah. An asocial disease. :D
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2009, 11:12:10 PM »
I work at a cologne and perfume factory, so I have to ask:  How exactly does one have the "fragrance of a Gibbous moon"?
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 01:22:36 AM »
I work at a cologne and perfume factory, so I have to ask:  How exactly does one have the "fragrance of a Gibbous moon"?

Maybe she smells like green cheese? Not exactly a turn on if you ask me.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 12:50:11 PM »
Oh man, you know what that reminded me of? The Eye of Argon.

Now excuse me while I go bleach my brain.

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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2009, 05:18:59 PM »
I work at a cologne and perfume factory, so I have to ask:  How exactly does one have the "fragrance of a Gibbous moon"?

Maybe the folks who are making those "Eau de Star Trek" fragrances could do something with that.
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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2009, 03:55:29 AM »
I work at a cologne and perfume factory, so I have to ask:  How exactly does one have the "fragrance of a Gibbous moon"?

Why do I have visions of tuna swimming by....

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Re: How Not To Do, Part Deux
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2009, 02:02:35 AM »
I work at a cologne and perfume factory, so I have to ask:  How exactly does one have the "fragrance of a Gibbous moon"?

Perhaps synesthesia? "A neurological condition in which the brain interprets one set of sensory input in terms of a different one; i.e., 'smelling' shapes, 'tasting' sounds, 'seeing' scents, etc."

It would certainly explain the... florid... prose of the rest of the exerpt. However, given that many cases of the phenomenon are almost as unique as handwriting, we still don't know what a "Gibbous moon" would smell like. Though a highly unpleasant image involving a man named Gibb is fighting its way into my conscious thoughts, despite my fervent resistance... :D
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