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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 4, 2006 20:47:35 GMT -5
I NEED to read WYM.
Oh, and last night there was this show about Secrets and this one guy has people send him postcards with secrets on them for art collages and one said "I steal things from my friends to remind me of how much I love them" and I immediately thought OMGOSH that's what Flan did!
*Scarf, Key, etc...*
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Post by SnicketFires on Mar 4, 2006 21:49:51 GMT -5
The other day I heard someone say "the basic eight" but she was not referring to a group of eight friends.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 7, 2006 20:56:32 GMT -5
In chapter 3 of The Sun Also Rises the characters drink pernod which is imitation absinthe.
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Post by Dante on Mar 11, 2006 3:02:16 GMT -5
Yesterday, or possibly before that, there was a reference to Iago from Othello in a newspaper article I read. Also, on a TV show, a croquet game was set out - although nobody was murdered with a croquet mallet (which wouldn't have been too unusual for this show, actually...).
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 21, 2006 20:58:45 GMT -5
Ha.
My history teacher said "Hope springs eternal" again. Though I have reason to doubt that phrase now.
And in The Sun Also Rises the characters finally ordered the actual absinthe. Several times in fact. Bill kept encouraging Jake to take more drinks. "Waiter, another absinthe for this senor!"
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Post by s on Mar 22, 2006 16:16:55 GMT -5
When ever I see something related to the upcoming movie V for Vendetta, it reminds me of V. in The Basic Eight.
Case in point: Celinra's current username.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 22, 2006 22:15:30 GMT -5
Yay V___!
Whenever I hear students talking about parking wherever they want I always think of V___.
"Flannery, look at me. They're never sure if I'm a teacher or not."
And in english we're talking about Jake's unrequited love for Brett in The Sun Also Rises, and I'm reminded of all those unrequited crushes.
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Post by SnicketFires on Mar 22, 2006 22:22:48 GMT -5
I recently went to NY and visited a restaurant where Pernod, a brand that makes absinthe was served. Our chaperone bought one and shared it with us.
Pictures forthcoming.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 8, 2006 21:06:06 GMT -5
Did you now?
My friend gives me postcards from a bunch of different places she goes on vacation, except they're thankfully nothing like the ones Flan sends to Adam.
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Post by Dante on Apr 10, 2006 14:15:41 GMT -5
From a TV listings magazine:
A Death in the Family: The detective duo become entangled in a sordid and incestuous group of friends...
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 15, 2006 22:43:38 GMT -5
The first post has been modified to include Adverbs. Pictures, from my NY trip, from a restaurant that served Pernod, a brand of absinthe. Absinthe on menu. Pernod on a fence |
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 20, 2006 20:59:23 GMT -5
A song on an album I recently bought is called the Light and the Glass. Funnily enough I purchased that album around the time I purchased Watch Your mouth...
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Post by Antenora on Apr 21, 2006 15:58:27 GMT -5
TB8 coincidence: While out shopping, I saw a book called something like Absinthe: History in a Bottle.
Adverbs coincidences: I saw some magpies at the zoo recently, and someplace I own a children's book called The Snow Queen.
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 21, 2006 20:38:33 GMT -5
In Adverbs, (Obviously) there is a Basic Eight reference about Joe's friend Garth, who went to San Fransisco to see Kate. Kate is mentioned again later in Barely. Handler alludes to Watch Your Mouth in Not Particularly.
One of my favourite books as a child was The Snow Queen.
In a video we watched in my Tourism class, they showed absinthe on the screen for a split second, which sparked a discussion in which I learned my teacher had tried it.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 24, 2006 20:04:52 GMT -5
This one kid in my spanish class is named Rinaldo yet we always call him Joe. It reminds me of Joseph in WYM and Joe at the end of Adverbs.
I kept hearing honking today as I was riding my bike near the town's main road and I kept thinking of Adverbs' summation of this "I am here, I am here."
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