― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
I think one Chinese Brother got arrested for stealing (or summat) and the townspeople planned to excute him:
1) They tried to drown him (or the one they THOUGHT was him, but the fifth Chinese Brother could hold his breath underwater for eons);
2) They tried to behead him (but the fourth Chinese bro had a steel ring round his neck);
3) They tried to burn him, but the third Chinese bro couldn't be burned;
4) They tried to hang him, but they couldn't handle that, either.
...so they didn't catch on and he was let go. Lesson for today? If you're going to become a criminal, have superpowers.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
(a book i took to heart during my days in the overcrouded public school system because it was about alphabet letters being all smooshed together or something}
I hated the book about Ping the duck that had to get onto a boat otherwise his ass would get paddled and turn RED RED REDit was very melancholy...
― Cordelia, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
I had all the lion, the witch and the wardrobe books. Are those the narnia ones or do I just have a horrible memory?
What was The Westing Game about? I remember having read it, but can't remember anything about it really.
I liked Tikki Tikki Tembo too!
(From "The Elephant's Child":)"'Rash and inexperienced traveller, we must now devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the armor-plated upper deck' (And by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile) 'will permanently vitiate your future career'.
This is the way all Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk."
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
was there a scary dramatised bbc version of it btw? or did i have a vivid imagination for cheap sets?
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
Has The Little Engine that Could been mentioned yet?Ramona Quimby books?
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
Bagthorpe Saga, anyone? Three Investigators/Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Bobbsey Twins/Trixie Belden? The Witch Mountain books? _Make Way For Ducklings_? _Blueberries For Sal_?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
Blueberries for Sal - I read that one just the other day.
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
Having read this whole thread I still refuse to believe a classic folk tale can have gone unread by all. Eg: sleeping beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, etc.
Surely?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
I liked Stormy more, I admit. Danger and doom!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
"we've lost her", moaned her Mother as they sorted through the trash/ "BUT I'm back again!" said Norah with a monumental crash
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Gale, Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
I have a great book by Italo Calvino where he collected all these Italian oral folk tales passed down the ages around fires and what have you. Some really funny, witty little proverbs. Fabulous book, full of spells and death and travels and marriages and theft... and farting.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-westing-game-a-tribute-to-labor-that-became-a-dark-comedy-of-american-capitalism
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 June 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
i love The Westing Game.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
I never read those Wimpy Kid books (too old) and my kids didn't read them, either. I honestly probably resented the idea of books designed for kids that don't like the read; I volunteered for years in the elementary school library, and I noticed that the kids that read those books *only* read those books. But my nephew wrote a fan letter to Jeff Kinney *four years ago,* and he actually, finally just now wrote him back! It's a long letter, too!
Four years ago my son, aged 7, wrote a letter to his favourite author, Jeff Kinney @wimpykid . We mailed it off and he checked the mailbox every day, hoping for a reply. He's must get a lot of fan mail, I said.Eventually my son stopped checking.Yesterday, look what arrived?😲 pic.twitter.com/rwuWRAOCaU— Dr Eleanor Limprecht (@TheNeedtoRead) June 7, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link