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17 | 21.52% |
| Okay, you can post weird sex stuff from sci fi, well-played! |
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47 | 59.49% |
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Sid Vicious posted:The shopkeeper from the haunted mask was splayed by Colin Fox and I used to board my horse at his farm The horse? The very one?
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Nov 12, 2018 16:37
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Dapper_Swindler posted:lots of gilded/progressive age kids books had weird body/existentialist/weird horror elements in them.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:11
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trickybiscuits posted:And he kills the lost boys who get too old to be fun. poo poo's messed up does he? i forgot about that. i assumed they were all dead or some poo poo?
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Nov 12, 2018 18:17
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SniperWoreConverse posted:this is 100% real there was a thread about buying $10,000 ripped up jeans and artisanally ducttaped ratty sneakers Whenever I see things like this I always want to know how to get in on this sort of scam.
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Nov 13, 2018 02:39
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raton posted:The horse? That was someone else's horse and it was an earlier farm we boarded at where it was
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Nov 13, 2018 03:00
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every part of the phantom tollbooth is ridiculous and also awesome
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Nov 13, 2018 03:42
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free hubcaps posted:every part of the phantom tollbooth is ridiculous and also awesome *Jumps to conclusions* *Has to swim back*
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Nov 13, 2018 03:52
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One of the later Narnia books gives a little backstory on the White Witch. She's about to be defeated in a battle in the place she originally comes from, and uses a powerful sorcery called the Deplorable Word to destroy everyone but herself and make the place uninhabitable. As a kid I found the idea fascinating and horrifying but once I got a little older I realized it was a cool allegory, better than most others in the series.
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Nov 13, 2018 04:53
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free hubcaps posted:every part of the phantom tollbooth is ridiculous and also awesome God, that might be my favourite childhood book. There was really nothing about it that didn’t tickle me. SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
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Nov 13, 2018 06:26
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Legit stopped paying any kind of attention in any class for days just to plow through phantom toll booth. It's one of those kinds of books.
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Nov 13, 2018 08:02
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I feel I could have been a much more successful man if I were born a century earlier
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Nov 13, 2018 09:02
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CPL593H posted:Whenever I see things like this I always want to know how to get in on this sort of scam. The only time I ever read YLLS was that time period in the early 2010s when literally like half of everyone posting pictures of themselves were wearing ridiculous knee length crotch drop pants and had topknots, male or female
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Nov 13, 2018 09:16
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Nov 17, 2018 18:04
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big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving ANKY on hoverbed then hosed
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Nov 17, 2018 18:09
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Steven Kellogg's Paul Bunyan book has this one part out of nowhere where they're crossing a desert and are attacked by giant snakes and tarantulas, and all it says is something like "those Texas varmints sure were a problem!" Like there's people being killed by giant loving spiders right there on the page and it just never comes up again. Rest of the book was boring, I wanted to read more about whatever the hell that was.
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Nov 18, 2018 05:24
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Love the weird poo poo. I'd love to usher in more pro-phantom tollbooth chat, if possible: “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.” "Expect everything... and the unexpected never happens"
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Nov 18, 2018 05:51
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when we read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 5th grade we ate "turkish delight" in class one day it was red jello with whipped cream I liked it snack eater fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Nov 21, 2018 22:41
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In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe the Ice Queen tempts a boy using turkish delight. This does not make sense as turkish delight is loving foul and nobody in their right mind would eat that poo poo, ever, and if they say they do they're lying
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Nov 22, 2018 16:44
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snack eater posted:when we read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 5th grade we ate "turkish delight" in class one day That reminds me of home economics around the same time, where our teacher insisted that banana splits were made with whipped cream from a can, as normal people can't afford vanilla ice cream. No chocolate, either, so it was a cream-sprayed banana on a plate, good stuff.
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Nov 24, 2018 10:32
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Songbearer posted:In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe the Ice Queen tempts a boy using turkish delight. This does not make sense as turkish delight is loving foul and nobody in their right mind would eat that poo poo, ever, and if they say they do they're lying i like turkish delight...
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Nov 24, 2018 11:02
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I thought Turkish delight was a polite way of saying sodomy.
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Nov 24, 2018 11:07
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I'd say I've probably eaten about 300 Big Turks in my life, and I don't mean Turkish dicks anally (i do)
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Nov 24, 2018 12:44
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skasion posted:He had a good illustrator Okay, this is literally the guy who did the art for Final Fantasy 3/6.
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Nov 24, 2018 13:53
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THE BAR posted:That reminds me of home economics around the same time, where our teacher insisted that banana splits were made with whipped cream from a can, as normal people can't afford vanilla ice cream. No chocolate, either, so it was a cream-sprayed banana on a plate, good stuff. Homeless ec? Farley Drexel Hatcher probably should've been in treatment for his pica.
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Nov 26, 2018 21:01
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There was a Swedish book series called The Concrete Roses, about a bunch of kids way out of their depths solving crimes. Sounds familiar of course, but where it differs was that it had things like the main character falling down an elevator shaft and essentially flaying his skin off grabbing the wire, and an arsonist being another kid that was trying to frame an abuser and who couldn't sleep unless they burnt something. I still to this day don't know why the parents of the kids didn't move from that neighborhood.
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Nov 27, 2018 05:11
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i have been watching the series of unfortunate events show on netflix(read the books years ago) it really captures the weird loving absurdity and humor of them pretty well. the only issue i have is how the plots are basicaly the same deal for most of the series up until the end. why not just rip off olafs disgues and then bash his head in with a rock.
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Nov 27, 2018 05:54
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because then you couldn't smugly show off your knowledge of words like "defenestration"
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Nov 27, 2018 06:07
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Love You Forever's backstory is so macabre that it sounds like an urban legend. Does kind of explain how over the top and creepy the book is tho!Robert Munsch posted:"I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing. Whatev fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 27, 2018 06:21
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drat I never knew that about him, he's from my city and used to give out the little versions of his books on Halloween and at school events. That's really sad, although it became a staple of every single baby shower ever.
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Nov 27, 2018 06:46
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Two nine-year-olds capable of inducing a dissociative state in a school administrator, making him strip down to his gitch and wander into confrontations with forces he couldn't possibly be expected to control, should probably be arrested for trying to murder their principal.
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Nov 27, 2018 15:26
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Animals talking in books exceot for the odd bit of actual parroting, is ridiculous. Which makes us all sad victims of brainwashing. Little Big Books? More like Little Big Brother books!
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Nov 27, 2018 15:48
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flakeloaf posted:Two nine-year-olds capable of inducing a dissociative state in a school administrator, making him strip down to his gitch and wander into confrontations with forces he couldn't possibly be expected to control, should probably be arrested for trying to murder their principal. TRALALA. The White Dragon posted:because then you couldn't smugly show off your knowledge of words like "defenestration" oh yeah the humor. that poo poo got old fast and i like that kinda humor. "we are going bludgeon you to death, count olad" said Klause "which here means, we are going to take this rock and bash your skull into the structure caves in and you die of severe brain injuries and blood loss you vile villain" "grubleznap" shrieked sunny as she cut olafs tendons with her teeth. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 27, 2018 16:30
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From the same book in the OP (The Hardy Boys Secret of Pirates' Hill), page 31: The detour they had to make took the boys past the farm of their friend Chet Morton. Chet was eighteen, roly-poly, good-natured, and loved to eat. Solving mysteries with the Hardys always gave him the jutters. Despite this, he was a loyal assistant and on more than one occasion had saved them from dangerous predicaments. "Let's stop a minute," Joe suggested, seeing Chet's sister Iola near the swimming pool. Frank grinned knowingly. Joe and Iola dated frequently. He pulled into the driveway. The Boys got out and walked toward the pretty dark-haired girl. "Hi!" she said "Hi, yourself!" Joe said, 'Where's Chet?" Iola pointed into the pool. Their stout friend was under water, wearing flippers and a snorkel. He traveled slowly, the snorkel moving like the periscope of a miniature submarine, "Ahoy!" Joe yelled, as the brothers ran to the water's edge. Chet continued moving about like a walrus. But finally he emerged and removed the face mask and flippers. "Hi, fellows!" he called. "I'm having a hard time learning this business. Can't get down deep enough." "What's the trouble?" Joe asked, "That extra fat you carry around make you too buoyant?" he teased. "Now listen here," said Chet, "just because I know good food when I see it-" He smacked his lips as if imagining he was about to taste something delicious.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:11
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That author was definitely a feeder
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Nov 27, 2018 19:06
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SilvergunSuperman posted:That author was definitely a feeder alot of books from that time painted fats(like me) like that. even rod serling wrote like that.
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Nov 27, 2018 19:26
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I like how the mere mention of food causes him to have prader-willi-esque hallucinations
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Nov 27, 2018 20:21
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Dapper_Swindler posted:alot of books from that time painted fats(like me) like that. even rod serling wrote like that. Good thing we've moved on since th J.K. Rowling posted:"I," said Dudley Dursley, his jowls wobbling with ten years' accumulated blubber, "am fat."
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Nov 27, 2018 21:09
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Whybird posted:Good thing we've moved on since th true. the potter universe is something that could be cool if it was written by someone who wasn't an idiot because gently caress me that new movie was bad.
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Nov 27, 2018 21:18
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Tbh nothing about any individual Hardy Boys book is as ridiculous as how the books got modernized. In the 80s they relaunched the series so the Hardy Boys are now like bad rear end gunslingers working for a secret shadow government to take on world crime, and in the first book of the series just to let you know these books aren’t for pussies, Chet the Fat’s sister gets blown up by a loving car bomb and Joe swears revenge
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Nov 27, 2018 21:27
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A car bomb? Yawn, ain't nuthin gunna compare to Animorphs when it comes to teens facing major stakes
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