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HungLikeJesus · 11-16-2011, 09:13 AM

Cotillion, do you occasionally have to travel to distant cities and kill people?

Nirvana · 11-16-2011, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I'd love to convert an old caboose into a guest room or something.

There is one for sale down the road from me IM shall I inquire for you?

Spexxvet · 11-16-2011, 10:20 AM

Cotillion, do you masturbate while on the clock?

infinite monkey · 11-16-2011, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

There is one for sale down the road from me IM shall I inquire for you?

Oh I wish. I have no money and no land. I'll let you know after I win the lottery tonight.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Cotillion, do you masturbate while on the clock?

Cotillion, do you like Gladiator movies?

Sundae · 11-16-2011, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Kids' favorites always seem to involve absent parents or dead parents. Especially popular when the parents come back at the end and praise the kids for being so independent and resourceful.

This is the case with almost all classic children's literature. At least one parent is absent.

One of the marked exceptions is the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the family lived a pioneer lifestyle, so it was still a time of great upheaval.

infinite monkey · 11-16-2011, 10:31 AM

I hadn't thought of that. Pippi Longstocking also comes to mind:

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Pippi lives in a small Swedish village, sharing the house she styles "Villa Villekulla" with her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and her horse ("Lilla gubben", "little buddy", in the books, in adaptations usually referred to as "Old Man" or Alfonzo) but no adults or relatives. She befriends the two children living next door: Tommy and Annika Settergren. The three have many adventures. Tommy and Annika's mother, Mrs. Settergren, often disapproves of Pippi's manners and lack of education, but eventually comes to appreciate that Pippi would never put Tommy and Annika in danger, and that Pippi values her friendship with the pair above almost anything in her life. Pippi's two main possessions are a suitcase full of gold coins (which she used to buy her horse) and a large chest of drawers containing various small treasures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking

limey · 11-16-2011, 11:49 AM

I know!!!!! Cotillion is Pippi Longstocking!!!!!!!

infinite monkey · 11-16-2011, 11:51 AM

What a great username that would have been. Rats!

Griff · 11-16-2011, 06:03 PM

I vote inter tube spam merchant.

Gravdigr · 11-16-2011, 06:27 PM

Could your job be described as "slangin"?

DanaC · 11-16-2011, 06:31 PM

My favourite of the kids without parents around type books as a kid, was Homecoming. Followed by Dicey's Song Even now I get a lump in my throat at the second title, though Homecoming was the best of the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming_(novel)

Was published when I was 11, and I think I read it when I was 12.

Heh. I hadn;t realised there were more in the series. I fell off after Dicey's Song.

Clodfobble · 11-16-2011, 07:37 PM

One of my favorites as an adolescent was The Talisman. And yep, kid's mom is dying of cancer so he has to go out into this crazy fantasy world and save her by himself.

Then again, I also loved a lot of Dean Koontz, and his were never about kids.

HungLikeJesus · 11-16-2011, 08:19 PM

Three of my favorite books when I was nine were, Watership Down, The Blue Knight, and Mouthful of Flesh - which I found in the road one day.

kerosene · 11-16-2011, 10:59 PM

My favorite was a Wrinkle in Time. Read it in 4th grade and it freaked me out so much I had to read it again.

Sundae · 11-17-2011, 09:07 AM

You loved Watership Down at none years old?!
Wow. I couldn't get into it until I was an adult.

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	One of my favorites as an adolescent was The Talisman. And yep, kid's mom is dying of cancer so he has to go out into this crazy fantasy world and save her by himself. Then again, I also loved a lot of Dean Koontz, and his were never about kids. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-16-2011, 08:19 PM	#43
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Three of my favorite books when I was nine were, Watership Down, The Blue Knight, and Mouthful of Flesh - which I found in the road one day. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

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kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	My favorite was a Wrinkle in Time. Read it in 4th grade and it freaked me out so much I had to read it again.

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